the-water-cooler

[last cedar]

I am getting solar (looking at starting this year) to cut what I take from the grid, because of the taxes I pay on it, not to sell it

I am all for green energy, but also know that realistically I can only (personally) help so much, it is a group effort

I heard that 99% of global warming is caused by @forest edge raccoon filament machine, in his barn

[primal laurel]

the fastest way is to electrify everything

[simple gazelle]

I really want to do solar, but I need a kitchen first.

[last cedar]

What about making a kitchen with solar panels?

https://tenor.com/view/tkt-smart-gif-20642718

[last cedar]

Yeah, I halved my pellets usage with better doors, windows and insulation, next step will be going air/ water heatpump that I can power (partially in winter) with solar

[static schooner]

Solar panels as building materials really needs to be a thing

[last cedar]

I just patented solar panel kitchen

[last cedar]

So you will have to fight me in court fot that

[static schooner]

Like the solar roofs that Tesla promotes

[last cedar]

The cool kids are using the panels as the fence, with bifacial panels, and collecting the sun that reflects on the back side too

[static schooner]

The whole damn roof should be covered in solar panels

[primal laurel]

vertical bifacial panels are a thing now

agricultural PV is also growing extremely fast

[last cedar]

God, I love nerding out with this stuff with equally nerdy ( I mean this as a complement) people

[primal laurel]

even has a name, agrivoltaics

[tidal bronze]

@last cedar priorities

[summer depot]

Tell me when you find about $5 Trillion to upgrade the US grid and buy batteries.

[primal laurel]

I'm starting a new job in heat pump R&D next month 🤣 I will sell you heat pumps at 50% off. Minimum quantity 1000

[primal laurel]

make the oil and gas companies pay for it, and instead of home batteries look at grid scale storage. In NL we are installing massive battery parks to store all the wind and solar energy

[simple gazelle]

Cunning, but the kitchen is on the north wall, terrible spot

[last cedar]

The grabbies and the wigglenose just steal my heart omg

[summer depot]

Funny .. no government in the history of the world has ever created wealth .. printing money is not wealth it's a handy token for wealth and when you print to much money you devalue the wealth

[last cedar]

I will order 1000 of the 9W models then!

[lone dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/grandpa-abe-exit-confused-bye-bart-gif-7694184

[last cedar]

It was Sonomas idea!

Promise

[summer depot]

Oil and gas companies will have to produce and sell more oil land gas to pay the taxes

[primal laurel]

so tax them into the ground

[last cedar]

I agree 100% but we all know it won't realiatically happen

I also realise I am part of the problem, having a fossil fuel car

Best I can do right now though!

[midnight adder]

all with its own VLAN?

[last cedar]

Doors are on their own VLAN, windows and insulation are on another, each pellet is tagged randomly using a vlan tag generator. You should see the router traffic

[midnight adder]

we have this great german word for it "Übergewinnsteuer" 😄

[midnight adder]

your router traffic is probably as beautifully arranged as the floor heating pipes 😄

...erm... you blow snow? 😄

sounds more like LA people would use in a phrase

[last cedar]

I always like to know what I can do better, how I am going to do it etc.

But then work on a priority based thing, I would save more energy wtih solar panels first, then a heat pump and then probably a car. Also helps that a car would be 2x the price of a heatpump (used) to push it down the list haha

[primal laurel]

my best offer is 5kW

[midnight adder]

use your car as battery as well. Lifehack

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/falling-balls-the-king-of-random-bouncy-balls-bouncy-balls-on-the-stair-bouncing-gif-19914993

There is an iso standard for it Elevate

[summer depot]

Profit, aka Capitalism, is most significant reason for increase in the living standards for humans. It's the essence of freedom

[last cedar]

But last time I looked there were not any cars that supported it? There are some chargers that do though, Chargeamps Aura does iirc

[midnight adder]

I am no expert ... but ... I thought this is common?

[last cedar]

I would probably go hybrid anyway, to keep costs down, I don't want a SUV either, very few electric estate cars, maybe some chinese ones?

[primal laurel]

and lobbying, aka corruption, is the most significant thing currently holding it back

[midnight adder]

korrrupcion

[last cedar]

This sounds like a challenge 😛

I believe they are available here

[midnight adder]

sell to decoy and become rich

with sunglasses probably

the trick is: you sell those for a profit in commission

send me 2 bitcoins, I'll see what I can do (maybe)

okay because you friend 1 bitcoin

[last cedar]

Just keep it parked as a battery 😄

[summer depot]

Very few people do, that's why they aren't selling and Ford loses money on every one built. In three years only about 70,000 Lightnings have been sold. Ford sells over 700,000 F-150s a year

[midnight adder]

maybe just don't buy the car itself but only the battery and electronics part 😄

or ask some raccoons to get the parts

[last cedar]

Absolutely 1000 IQ

I think i could grba way more than 100 golf cart batteries here, ouch, 1.5M kr?!

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/wheel-unicycle-road-trip-on-the-road-gif-16035947

I am speed

[static schooner]

No way that ends badly, he just speeds to his destination without incident

[midnight adder]

but anyhow... weren't LifePo4 battery packs not a good solution? I heard they basically work forever

[last cedar]

I have heard the same

Obviously they are "expensive" and need a heater to charge below.... 0C is it?

[midnight adder]

yeah they're not quite plug&play

[last cedar]

I would say they are pretty close though

[midnight adder]

but I'd go that route probably if I needed a big battery for my solar

[last cedar]

Stuff has moved on a lot

[midnight adder]

yeah but you have to measure a lot ... solder those batteries together, make them look pretty etc.

make them a nice housing

basically what we all learned as children with Barby etc. 😄

[last cedar]

We have a 50% price reduction here in Sweden (tax incentive thingie) for batteries (not the 48V server rack ones, but the higher voltage ones from say Sungrow), so I would get the largest I could, when the time comes

[primal laurel]

Are sodium ion batteries coming soon?

Na

[last cedar]

Ah you were thinking of like 18650 cells?

I was thinking more the proper plug and play ones!

[last cedar]

Solid state too

[midnight adder]

nope? but weren't all big batteries always like filled with 18650 😄

[last cedar]

Been "almost here" forever now

[midnight adder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8n2Qgguto

[lone dagger]

Today I start crocheting a monstrosity.

[solar zealot]

ono

[lone dagger]

Oh yes.

[primal laurel]

did you get my joke though

[last cedar]

Time to get me a battery unicorn

[primal laurel]

😦

[last cedar]

Clearly not haha

Oh

Na

You monster

🤣

[primal laurel]

FUCK

[simple gazelle]

The voice reverb is giving me Powerthirst vibes.

[last cedar]

It was so subtle

[simple gazelle]

400 BABIES

[last cedar]

You could get tuya to crochet it for you, if it wasn't bloody awful

What are you crocheting?

[grand garnet]

Hey all, had a question about music assistant and creating speaker groups. Is the best place to post this in the #1284966582375813201 channel? Want to make sure i put it in the right place

[last cedar]

Oh my god

I need to share a video with you

[forest edge]

suckers do put off a lot of smoke with the friction of being grinded lol

[lone dagger]

Add ons for now. It does need to be moved into integrations, though.

I haven’t moved it yet.

[midnight adder]

you're right at this size they all come with screws and stuff - no soldering

[last cedar]

https://youtu.be/LEc2up6cBlE?feature=shared

[grand garnet]

Thanks!

[lone dagger]

Evan & Katelyn are regularly watched in this house!!

[midnight adder]

Missy: I'm now watching a video that wants to me to stop weed

[last cedar]

It is so creepy omg

[lone dagger]

Nah I’ve seen this. And shared it around like the chaos demon I am.

[forest edge]

https://youtu.be/GYLBjScgb7o?si=cnPTI6HIyjnEAix2

[midnight adder]

https://tenor.com/view/smoke-weed-pot-workaholics-theoffice-gif-5236237

[quiet onyx]

HOw long is it gonna take to crochet a 4 foot monstrosity?

[lone dagger]

Making this for my bestie. She wanted forest green and burnt orange.

[forest edge]

i still have my furby from when they came out

[lone dagger]

The pattern creator said it took her 2 weeks of work to finish this. I’m assuming it’ll be longer for me.

[midnight adder]

my brain be like "foreeeeveeeeeeer"

[forest edge]

a little dusty lol

[midnight adder]

just don't use water to dedust or something

[lone dagger]

I bought a cotton duster years ago and haven’t gone back to anything else.

[midnight adder]

what does it do? how does it work?

how does it look?

[lone dagger]

https://www.grove.co/catalog/product/dust-whisperer-filament-duster/

[midnight adder]

looks actually pretty cool

[quiet onyx]

Oh I may need one of these

[midnight adder]

but can we add a drone to it?

[lone dagger]

Probably.

[midnight adder]

when will vacuum bots work in all 3 dimensions?? ^^

[lone dagger]

X Y AND Z CLEANING POWERS

It could do the stairs omg.

[weak musk]

The new ones have robot arms so….now

[quiet onyx]

Mine struggles with the dog's waterbowls and the little mat we have to catch their splashes

[midnight adder]

ceiling.

[quiet onyx]

THE DREAM

[midnight adder]

like all those nasty spider webs?

[forest edge]

how is that any better than a swiffer?

[midnight adder]

damn...

[weak musk]

Reusable

[midnight adder]

more ergonomic

😛

[lone dagger]

The cobwebs I can’t get to in my stairwell!!

[forest edge]

pretty sure the swiffer wands are reusable

[weak musk]

Are they?

[forest edge]

i thought they were

[weak musk]

I thought they were like the pads

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-robot-wtf-gif-25481863

[forest edge]

i'll have to ask the woman lol

[lone dagger]

It’s washable, which is valuable to me because I work hard to do Zero Waste.

[weak musk]

You bought tuya so your argument is invalid

[lone dagger]

It’s working so it’s not trash.

lol

I fought it, but it’s working.

[midnight adder]

are you the guy from that xkcd strip? 😄 "Honey are you coming to bed?" "Yeah, just one sec - are the swiffers reusable we recently bought?"

[weak musk]

https://tenor.com/view/air-quotes-gif-1302731350283061839

[lone dagger]

It has worked perfectly ever since I figured it out!

[midnight adder]

nooo... I own one tuya 😦

[weak musk]

One ewaste

[midnight adder]

they are the only manufacturer that is cheap for this 0-10V controlstuff

but I found easy to follow plans to build those myself with esphome

hmm... I thiiiink they're Zigbee

should just install them today 😄 got everything I need now (want to control my ventilator with it)

oh, good to know 😄

but actually I also wanna not use zigbee anymore. Like all the sensors have such a long cycle between messages. Like all of my smart plugs with power measurement only transmit the new value like every 5 min. That's trash! Esphome be like "is 1000x per second fast enough?" 😄

and also for lights tbh... Hue is great but I hate latencies

[forest edge]

crazy how much cats running around the floor above you sound like a herd of buffalo

[knotty seal]

that's what happens when your house is made of sticks, paper, and powder

no hate, i have the same experience lol

[forest edge]

can't hear people above me, or tv's or anything. but those feet of the cats is something else

[static schooner]

One of my cats races back and forth upstairs and the other one just looks at the ceiling on the first floor with a puzzled expression

I just give her 🤷

[forest edge]

too soon?

[fathom sparrow]

smoggier than normal

[shy comet]

@tidal bronze LA in a nutshell currently lol

[shy comet]

gotta love teh age of kitty zoomies

[crisp oriole]

Heya. Anyone here that needs to turn and lock away there phone at work?

[fathom sparrow]

you have no idea

[weak musk]

I have a "work mode" that hides all my non-work apps except for Messages, so yes in a way.

[quiet onyx]

Honestly I need that

[forest edge]

wonder if the smog acted like a protective barrier keeping the smoke above it..

[crisp oriole]

Sascha my phone assistant now can have conversations. I can add scripts to that. I make it for make sure im reachable for incidents. Direct call pass through or a message to pick up the phone and close friends and family can get my last location if im gone.

Im going to add a feature that you can schedule a apointment at preset timeslots with a topic.

You mean a pots phone. You can wire it to a asterisk system and do what ever

I have my notifications triggered when i turn on my kitchen lights. In the morning. Rest are board casted to kitchen and active audio devices

Ethernet is not going to work

Power sure but no poe

Are we talking about a phone jack 4 pin or ethernet 8 pin

Anyway we are going in detail make a thead.

[lone dagger]

We have a video that explains how to use HA with a corded phone.

Someone said to just use the same hole, tie the cables ends together and pull them through. Wouldn’t need to cut anything.

Think that might have been Rob who told me that once?

[forest edge]

just saw some of the talk about the insurance issues in LA

[crisp oriole]

That does not include current bugs

[peak slate]

Maybe insurance companies should fight climate change since it causes damage to insured properties, thereby reducing total money paid out

[forest edge]

they just pull out of areas instead

months before stuff happens

[peak slate]

Billionaire Cage match!

Insurance is no poor industry, they got money to spare

Oil though is going out of style, it would be more a fight for them to continue existing

This isn't just healthcare, this is homeowners and auto insurance too

[forest edge]

biggest issue is that the land is worth like 2x the home

[peak slate]

Cars and houses flooding from 100 year floods every other year

[forest edge]

people who do have insurance are not going to get enough to rebuild. they already project that

[lone dagger]

This yarn is so soft.

[forest edge]

the joe rogan thing was brutal

[peak slate]

I mean your not wrong with healthcare, climate change is also a burden on that

[quiet onyx]

Oooooo this is that comfy-ass yarn

[lone dagger]

It’s called “Royal velvet” and it lives up to the name.

[forest edge]

LA is just not going to be the same after the dust settles

going to be a long time before I can really rip on QF. i'm depressed

i need to go eat something with sugar

[tidal bronze]

It is fine. I am looking for a new Sushi spot

It's Friday, 30 min meeting got me stressed. So..... 🙂

[forest edge]

more bread?

[tidal bronze]

Oh no. No bread.

[shy comet]

waste of space when thinking about sushi lol

[tidal bronze]

I think I am going to swing by Mitsuwa make my own.

@shy comet you tried sushi grade at Mitsuwa?

[shy comet]

never heard of it lol

[tidal bronze]

https://mitsuwa.com/ln/

[forest edge]

jesus that site hosted on dial up

[shy comet]

oh nice how do they compare to 99 ranch lol?

[shy comet]

reminds me of geocities 😂

[tidal bronze]

For sushi grade this is it. Ranch is Chinese. This one strictly Japanese

If you like Onigiri they have some great ones. Like Umeboshi Onigiri

Little bit of wind and here goes

[forest edge]

not going to have any wildlife left

[tidal bronze]

I know 😦

[forest edge]

your animal place that you go to for the dogs. that's safe right?

[tidal bronze]

Yes, went there in the AM to drop off stuff

[forest edge]

are they full up now?

saw on that watch duty one of those shelters was marked full

[tidal bronze]

Oh the one for horses and large animals.

[forest edge]

is the place you go to not acting as a shelter?

[tidal bronze]

No my local dog shelter. Didn't go to the large animal place.

[forest edge]

oh i thought they were doing that for smaller animals as well

[tidal bronze]

They have both at the large animal place.

[forest edge]

really not looking forward to hearing about pets once this is over

[tidal bronze]

Tuesday is going to interesting.

[forest edge]

whats tuesday

[tidal bronze]

Santa Ana winds return

[forest edge]

well they scooping out of the ocean now. I would think most would be under control by then

[tidal bronze]

Canada only sent 2 I think we need like 20 🙂

[forest edge]

I thought I saw more planes in the air than 2

[tidal bronze]

The CA ones are the best, most load per drop.

[forest edge]

yea well it all helps

surprised we don't see drones scooping water

imagine having one of those houses they spread that fire retardant on to create that boundary line

[shy comet]

some moron was flying one around and it hit a plane carrying water

like damn!

[lone dagger]

Gotta love people ignoring FAA no flight zones.

[tidal bronze]

You know what beats me is that DJI app monitors ADS-B and alerts you. Well as long as you know what you are looking at 🙂

[forest edge]

they make big drones for spraying crops

[tidal bronze]

Do you want to use 65lbs ones we make? lol

[forest edge]

if they weren't so damn expensive I would use one to spray the thorn trees on my farm lol

[shell topaz]

how do i get my project added to hacs

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeyou know what your getting for xmas this year right?

[grizzled gull]

Fire extinguisher?

[forest edge]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335483454195

that actually showed up in my feed so people are looking for that song

[tidal bronze]

I roll like this

[forest edge]

dez nutz

[tidal bronze]

@lone dagger should be spinning that all day.

[forest edge]

have you tried to play it backwards yet?

https://youtu.be/XJxSP3LC9BA?si=YZLYYavlY-02Yyox

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/drugs-are-bad-drugs-mkay-south-park-gif-4499796

[tidal bronze]

You should put some money in biotech, drugs are good 👍

[forest edge]

just not steriods

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-walter-white-jesse-pinkman-heisenberg-vince-gilligan-gif-17016123874427286459

[forest edge]

not that kind of steriods

[shy comet]

california sober!

[tidal bronze]

According to my wife, extra wine does not help with the fires. I am so confused!

[forest edge]

flammable substance in and out of body + fire = no bueno

[grizzled gull]

only if its processed by the kidney's first

[forest edge]

?

get self conscious about what you wrote?

[tidal bronze]

She got mad with me after a long time yesterday. When evac came in she is like "how can you drive in this state?" Well, you can 🙂

[forest edge]

I don't really blame her lol

[grizzled gull]

A bit... 🙂

[forest edge]

maybe you should gift your wife a wiffle bat to keep on hand for such cases

[tidal bronze]

Life is short, if no human damage you should be happy every moment! Everything is replaceable except time!

[forest edge]

you can be happy without being inebriated

I have faith

at least keep more bread on hand so you can sober up faster lol

drink a shirley temple and act tipsy instead

[static schooner]

But that one time, woo boy

[forest edge]

that big snow flake dusting we got early this morning sure melted quick

think you meant to post this in #1284960456880029707 if this is your project

[shell topaz]

oh oops i will remove it

done

[sage cedar]

That's what you get for drinking margaritas

[forest edge]

lol it's just around the corner https://youtu.be/2HQ84TVcbMw?si=NesdMFKmQEJJNJnQ

[sage cedar]

Is that Barbie?

[forest edge]

I will say we did need a way to curb population.. maybe this is the key

[sage cedar]

Beer is always on my table... oh wait... not admitting that.

[ocean oar]

"realistic human features"... yep, that explains the cup size

[forest edge]

I just hope the "accidents" make the news

[sage cedar]

Barbie... just sayin'

[ocean oar]

The comments on that video are a goldmine

[forest edge]

lol yea

[tidal bronze]

You should drink better.

Hangover is not a thing. It's all made up.

[forest edge]

beer is all we need

[tidal bronze]

Oof

[forest edge]

drink a hard mike's every so often

[knotty seal]

beer water is all we need

[shy comet]

Looks like it picked back up again 😞

[forest edge]

sure that's not part steam?

https://youtu.be/kltYWf9vHuY?si=rgHvJsKsSaxvWCvq

[tidal bronze]

How to properly wire a bathroom to HA code.

[forest edge]

pretty sure the shower ones are decoration if the owner is an electrician

[ocean oar]

Maybe he does powerful shits and has a plug-in air freshener in EVERY OUTLET to clear it out

[static schooner]

Why let a stud go to waste?

[forest edge]

just saw there was another fire that started but don't see it on watch duty

without a doubt this shit is arson

[stark vigil]

I thought I decided on zooz z-wave smart switches but it looks like their only model that worked with bathroom exhaust fans is discontinued

Do you have a z wave switch you like for exhaust fans? It looks like none of the current zooz models work with exhaust fans

[unborn merlin]

exhaust fan being what.. just a regular mains-level fan..?

because in most cases thats what it is

[stark vigil]

yeah in bathrooms

I see reports of current gen zooz switches not working

[unborn merlin]

if not working you mean because "most of these things have sealed metal junction boxes" then yeah, its not gonna penetrate a metal shroud..

[stark vigil]

I saw that

Most fans are less than 3A but people reporting reliability issues

It looks like GE Enbrighten works for fans

Might just go with those throughout instead of Zooz

or maybe zooz for everything but fans

[weak musk]

You’ll have better luck asking/talking about this in #1284966353798697001

This isn’t a support channel, it’s just for chatting

[unborn merlin]

Then just use a simple relay-based thing.. 🤷‍♂️

I think shelly has some zwave stuff these days, not a physical switch but can have one attached to it usually.

[stark vigil]

Like this?

https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-zen51-dry-contact-relay/

[unborn merlin]

Probably.

You really do not need much to control a fan at a single speed.

most light switches use like.. triacs or something alike that I think to deal with dimmable things and etc? (thus their low power rating usually)

[weak musk]

He started a thread in the correct spot.

[unborn merlin]

but as already stated by ender. 😄

[unborn merlin]

apparently.. shelly gen4 devices are gonna be bluetooth, wifi, zigbee, and matter.. neat. 🤔

[austere anchor]

No. They are not “smart” devices. They have a built in sensor. I guess in some ways, that’s as smart as they get. @stark vigil

[dusky elk]

hi were would i ask a question about the LinkNLink eremote - it says it does MQTT direct with HA, but the iOS app is missing the MQTT in the menu?

https://kb.linknlink.com/kb/works-with-3rd-parties/home-assistant

[weak musk]

#1284966582375813201

[tidal bronze]

Pretty reliable. Been using for ages. You need a regular relay/switch module since you are using it for a exhaust fan. GE fan control ZW SW is for variable speed celling fans.

[forest edge]

new vistor

imagine he wasn't greeted kindly

cause didn't stay for long lol

[static schooner]

Everyone knows that you don't invite a fox to a raccoon party

[last cedar]

Skunks and possums complete the trash trifecta

[radiant zodiac]

If I have a light that "toggles" on without an automation or any user interaction how can I figure out WHY that is happening?

I turn it off.. But it turns itself on. And I have no idea how or why. There are no automations associated with the light

[red rock]

There might still be a good chance that there is an automation set up

As in, not that I trust you, but in all the issues I have seen on github that talk about something doing something out of itself, it has been by an automation after all

[radiant zodiac]

Home Assistant doesn't see any automations associated with the device.. And I never created any as it's a relatively new light that I've not automated past a wall switch toggle. It includes a colour ring light that I NEVER did any automation with which is what is causing me the problems

[red rock]

There are integrations that can't be linked

maybe you use some blueprint that toggles all lights for example

[radiant zodiac]

this is zigbee via z2m

[red rock]

in such cases it would not even show up

[radiant zodiac]

and even though I've never turned it on this is what the history looks like.

so SOMETHING is triggering it somehow

[shell topaz]

automation?

[radiant zodiac]

does home assistant report toggle if something outside of home assistant changes the state?

[shell topaz]

dunno

i think so

[radiant zodiac]

there is the light and then there is a ring light which is rgb

[shell topaz]

do you have any switches that controll it

[mint pike]

this seems rather random to be an automation, unless its tied to like temperature or humidity or something - is the power delivery to that strip stable? maybe that's what's flipping it on

[red rock]

no, so this is definetly actioned via HA

[radiant zodiac]

yes.. but only the main light.. not the ring light.. they are seperate

https://www.aqarastore.com.au/products/aqara-ceiling-light-t1m

if it''s actioned by HA then why can't I find out what the trigger is?

it clearly shows I action it via the webui when I turn it off

I've been meaning to create a new HA instance and start from fresh.. and this has been one of the reasons.. magical automation

[shell topaz]

welp sorry i couldent help

[radiant zodiac]

it's fine.. it's some sort of weird edge case I'm sure.

but you are AU.. Any recommendations on hardware available here?

[shell topaz]

you are verry limited and have to buy stuff online.

[radiant zodiac]

aliexpress and amazon are funded by me

[shell topaz]

I am working on a way to use bunnings grid connect devices

[radiant zodiac]

it's basically tuya.. some of them can be flashed

[shell topaz]

yea

[mint pike]

@radiant zodiac have you checked /config/home-assistant.log?

usually automation runs are detailed there

[radiant zodiac]

well all can but not all work.

[shell topaz]

i was hoping to do it without tuya

[mint pike]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/logger/ you might wanna try setting the log level in your configuration.yaml to info or via this integration

[radiant zodiac]

I try to put esphome on devices when I can.. but sometimes I fail miserably because there is not enough info.. like some Aldi powerboards that are now esphome but don't work..

[shell topaz]

i have a few to test but my knowledge is verry limited

[mint pike]

this will give you more info about what's going on behind the scenes and if somethin's actually running that light, correlate with the date & time and bob's your uncle

[radiant zodiac]

weird. I'm clicking on the link but it's not opening

[shell topaz]

works fine for me

[radiant zodiac]

I had to copy and paste

never mind.. it opened on the other monitor

[shell topaz]

ah funny

[radiant zodiac]

is there an automation loglevel?

[mint pike]

just set the logger config to default info

[radiant zodiac]

isn't that the default in general?

[mint pike]

you can ignore the logs: part below

just do logger: default: info

that'll log everything, at least CTRL+F exists

this forum thread has some example logs of automations running: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-there-somewhere-a-detailed-log/298778/5

[radiant zodiac]

the main problem is localising the log details to the point in time where the light comes on

[mint pike]

take a look at that thread I just posted, that should help

what i'd do is let it log a full day and then download the log and search through it using notepad++ or glogg

[radiant zodiac]

but there are automations there.. I still don't believe I'm dealing with an automation 😛

[red rock]

disable what you have then

[radiant zodiac]

unless it created itself

I have SOOO many addons and hacs integrations that the logs are VERY busy

[mint pike]

that's what timestamps and CTRL+F are for

[radiant zodiac]

like a logline every second

[mint pike]

look at your history graph, check when the unexpected power ons happen and check the log around that timestamp and search for anything related to "automation", that's what tools like glogg are good for, they make sifting through big logs easy

[radiant zodiac]

I was thinking of setting up a notification for when the light goes on for my phone to see if there is maybe some sort of pattern to it

[mint pike]

that's a very roundabout way of hunting it down, the time pattern from the historical graph you posted seems rather random but up to you

i think this is your most direct way of rooting out the cause

[radiant zodiac]

the fact that it's random makes me think that maybe something is triggering it

but I'm confused as to why any automation triggering it would not be linked to it and show up as related

my install has become so messy that I might be best of restarting from scratch.. I've gone from rpi, to vm, to dedicated pc, and now intend to go back to vm.. over the course of about 10 years?

[deft pewter]

I'm confused why there's support talk here 😂

[radiant zodiac]

because I'm confused by this discord

ok.. this is magical.. more channels have opened up

now that I see the topic I apologise 😛

but devices available in AU is still a topic that seems valid here

[red rock]

We have #1284966353798697001 for that I think

[sterile wasp]

Yesterday I bound a bunch of the Matter variants of Aqara sensors. Infinitely less of a pain in the ass versus the older Zigbee ones. Hope they finally create temp sensors, too.

[stuck anchor]

more of a pain in the ass when you don't have anything matter to begin with 😄 i have not dared to dip my feet into that yet. my zigbee mesh is so stable

i just added a aqara zigbee door sensor to my mailbox out in the street. 68 lqi. i wonder if it will be able to trigger when the postal car is in front of the mailboxes...

and how well it takes the cold, since it is clearly a magnetic one. i am not worried about the electronics, but assume there is a switch triggered by the magnet and not some fancy solid state sensing.

[radiant zodiac]

I have a camera detect cars or a motorbike

via Frigate

[stuck anchor]

if the aqara works and survives for a while i assume it will get killed eventually by rain. so i might want to find a thin and waterproof plastic enclosure to house the main unit in. or find a door sensor meant for outdoor use. 😄

[stuck anchor]

found a fitting enclosure, and it is $12! ouch. and outdoor sensors from bosh are really expensive. let's have a look at aliexpress instead. 😛

[shell topaz]

Yea everything is quite expensive

[tulip mauve]

anyone here uses the Team Tracker integration? I keep getting API Errors with it

[primal laurel]

try #1284966582375813201

[stuck anchor]

i really think i want outdoor sensors in the cold to run on AA batteries 😄 my mailbox sensor uses a coin cell, and it has dropped from 100% to 97% in a little over a day. it is the battery it was shipped with so it may be a cheap/bad battery of course.

temp dropped to -8 (C of course) overnight.

[primal laurel]

low temperatures severely degrade the performance of coin cells

[stuck anchor]

i know. double or triple a are much better

[teal elbow]

I'm setting up my 60 year old teacher with HA and an LLM AI voice assistant, and it's the coolest thing i've done lately

[young sigil]

I have a button cell temp sensor in my freezer. Been working fine for 6 months but says 0% battery.

[primal laurel]

I had one too

Died after 3 weeks

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze Still with us?

[tidal bronze]

Yes 😆 Thinking about how to send a frigate feed upto cloud

[forest edge]

cloud? like to YT?

[tidal bronze]

Just in WCS, local only sucks. Wouldn't now what happened how it happened.

[forest edge]

they just made frigate more secured.. don't want to open it to the internet?

[tidal bronze]

I don't think anyone would be watching a live stream in chaos. But to go back and see, as in recordings would be helpful

[forest edge]

also.. you can access the frigate stuff from within HA.. just not the scrubbing part

[tidal bronze]

If everything gets destroyed, only thing left would be recordings. Basically nothing local will be left.

Gotta think more cloud unless, I use realtime offsite backup replication.

[forest edge]

ohhhh

backups on cloud

private YT

[tidal bronze]

My backup replication runs only twice a day. Gotta rethink

[forest edge]

not sure what the limits are but you can have a private stream 24/7 record on YT to where only you can access it

just seperate them out by day

although there has to be an even more robust private option out there for that

creating mp4 files and uploading them would suck imo

[tidal bronze]

Raw recordings are anyways on synology, so replication would do it. But I have to test out how fast.

Good point about YT. 👍

[forest edge]

maybe thats why they came out with fiber 2g for people like you uploading ass amount of recording to the cloud lol

[tidal bronze]

I was very impressed to see a ring cam holding and streaming till the last minute. Loads to learn from how it traveled. With all this work I have put in "local" can't do jack in a disaster situation

[midnight adder]

I guess you have to find new ways on how to saturate that? 😄

[tidal bronze]

Streaming is not my issue. Retrieveling last hour before it dies.

[forest edge]

thats why you make your very own "black box" and just recover it later

[midnight adder]

isn't that implemented in all those NVR software systems?

[tidal bronze]

Yes commercial

Already run WG between 3 synology units.

[forest edge]

a remote frigate.. there you go

I almost did that with the cameras at my moms just to keep a copy of all recordings here

but with my current internet the streams would saturate my shit too much

[last cedar]

How about just send it to Sonomas frigate and save your own cpu cycles

[tidal bronze]

I didn't put much thought into offsite camera backups since I don't watch them. Now it's a different goal. 😁

[tidal bronze]

You mean to his Raspberry Pi 2.7?

[last cedar]

Hell yeah

That thing can do at least 1 thing this week

[forest edge]

its a beast

don't knock it

eats i9 nucs for breakfast

[tidal bronze]

2025 year of the cloud

[forest edge]

i almost said something to that

trying to be nicer

ugh my city wants to spend 84k on Ztrip

like we need more traffic

[forest edge]

ugh i wish i had 6k to burn

https://youtu.be/kz9FuUZh03Q?si=Wajewis3MWr2-yPF&t=151

get way more use out a skid steer

the yarbo is a toy

so what

can do a lot more than push snow with a skid steer

can make real $$ with it

even if it was one of those mini ones

[haughty wolf]

Which channel would be best for figuring out how to setup a remote storage to an SSH based server? None look right to me.

[stuck anchor]

maybe the-workshop? or related-tech?

[dusky plank]

youtube stops dvr functionality after 2-3 days. it just loads the stream for the first viewer on demand from there on

[forest edge]

you mean it only retains so much?

[dusky plank]

yes, if there's no viewers for a few hours it stops the recording after ~1-2 days of starting the stream.

[forest edge]

yea but for his needs was refering to stream recording in chunks.. not just days on end continuously

[dusky plank]

you could keep it alive by requesting the raw h264 stream that the apps and html5 clients use, but even that failed last time i tried because they usually age check the client now

oh, yeah you can put up whatever you want in chunks

I have a full library of my local news tv evening show on youtube

[forest edge]

yea he's really only after capturing and keeping the moments that lead up to something that caused his local recording to fail or whatever

so he could see the dozens of homeless storm his house and drink all of his wine.. that about right @tidal bronze ?

[tidal bronze]

Some wine will go with me but plenty to share.

[forest edge]

how would you feel if all they did was smash the bottles?

[rapid plinth]

why the hell does HDMI ARC have bandwidth limitations... its not like the entire rest of the cable is being used at all. Is this a conspirqcy to force people to spend $$$$ on a new receiver yet again?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/it-was-the-aliens-im-not-saying-it-was-aliens-ancient-aliens-gif-14839810013080040984

[river flame]

Well this is a first

My domain I use to host HA, Mealie, etc got flagged by google safe browsing

I requested a review in Google search console, hoping it gets fixed soon 🤞🤞

[primal laurel]

isn't that just an issue with certificates?

[river flame]

Nope

It would show an SSL error instead

[fathom sparrow]

can't you just click see details and go anyways

[river flame]

Yea, it's just a minor annoyance

The problem is on my phone it shows up for every page I go to

So I have to constantly dismiss it on my phone

[fathom sparrow]

just use your app

[river flame]

Mealie doesn't have an app iirc

[fathom sparrow]

through HA

[river flame]

Fair point

[fathom sparrow]

That's what I do whenever I run into stupid shit like that, then you can just ignore all that bs

not ideal but better than clicking 'continue' 🤣

[river flame]

True 😆

[fathom sparrow]

I gotta build a template light and I'm not looking forward to it

[stuck anchor]

you must upgrade to eARC

[rapid plinth]

yay lets buy another receiver!
Nah I think I'll get an audio extractor and just run with that

[stuck anchor]

😄 yes, that should work. but if you want atmos decoding then the extractor may not be enough?

[rapid plinth]

The not-garbage ones can passthrough literally anything supported by the HDMI standard they implement, including atmos and beyond, if your receiver supports it (mine doesn't, frankly I'm happy enough with 5.1, I care mostly about clarity)

I'm still gonna need one of the spendier ones that implements HDMI 2.1 though, because 4K120 HDR TV

[stuck anchor]

the source must send it as 5.1 then in the arc signal, and not as atmos? otherwise the extractor would need to decode atmos in order to give you a 5.1

[rapid plinth]

The main point of an extractor is you're not using ARC and therefore not subject to its quirks and limitations. To the source it looks like a composite device with your display's video capabilities and your receiver's audio capabilities

[stuck anchor]

i have not fought much with this. i used arc for a while from my tv's apps to the receiver. but my tv is kind of old, and apps didn't get good updates anymore. so i plugged a chromecast directly into the receiver instead

[rapid plinth]

Greatly simplifies complex setups and eliminates headaches from poor ARC/CEC impls

The big thing for me is it means I can use LPCM 5.1

[stuck anchor]

for music i use dlna directly to the receiver ffor my locally ripped stuff

[rapid plinth]

my receiver isn't new/smart enough for that. It has no network stack whatsoever.

[stuck anchor]

i guess i can stream dlna to the chromecast as well, but why not directly to the receiver when it supports it. this way my tv is just a dumb monitor. 😄 and i have not had to worry about arc

[rapid plinth]

I'd rather devices as dumb as possible taking inputs from a PC

modern TVs annoy the shit out of me

[stuck anchor]

i have had so many poor experiences with apps on smart tv's that i don't even try anymore... just use a chromecast and be done with it.

[midnight adder]

back in the days there were no apps on TVs because they were analog and we had to buy a mod chip for a XBOX1 – be greatful for what you have! 😄

good old xbmc times

[stuck anchor]

xbox1? my first entertainment console used analog channel 27, was black and white, and had 4 games.

[midnight adder]

yeah but didn't have xbmc

[stuck anchor]

no... but the tv had sliding doors in front of the screen. and it took 5 minutes to heat up before you got a picture

[midnight adder]

did you have to make fire to heat up the electrons?

sliding doors are kinda cool tho. I don't own a TV anymore

too obstructing in a room imho

[sage cedar]

LOL I currently have a crt tv in a unit with wooden sliding rolling shutters and a PS1 plugged into it in our living room, hasn't been fired up in over a decade. My house mate (home owner) is good with that, I would have tossed it 2 decades ago.

[last cedar]

Does it still use an aerial connection for the picture from the playstation?

Mine had a scart cable, but I seem to remember them having an RF cable 🙂

[quiet tulip]

I apparently had lucky timing and got one of these little motion sensors https://shop.linknlink.com/products/linknlink-emotion-wi-fi-radar-motion-sensor-real-time-human-presence-detection-smart-home-compatible-compatible-with-alexa-and-google-home-no-additional-hub-required
My current use will be as a sensor directed at the foot of the stairs to turn the lamp on when motion is detected between sundown and sunrise, really basic.

I was on it enough to use a discount code as well, so it was about $16. It showed up yesterday and today it's set up.
This was my first device to use MQTT, so I had to set up that integration as well.

It's a very simple motion sensor, but suspect it will be fine for my needs. I hope they show back up, based on the ease of setup, I'll want to get a few more of these.

[tawny wren]

Is anyone else having issues with esp home devices? All 3 of mine, 2 Apollo and 1 everything presence sense are showing unavailable. Reloading them or rebooting HA isn't fixing it

I think the issue might have happened with the latest update

[crisp oriole]

Sigh in a linux facebook group anonymous user. I cant get xampp running on linux.

[tidal bronze]

esphome is working fine.

[tawny wren]

So strange. I'm restoring a backup to see if that fixes it

[tidal bronze]

Can you ping them?

[coarse horizon]

I bought their eHub last month which doesn't support the new MQTT method. But there is a HACS integration which I could use instead.

The motion/presence sensor is terrible. But as a IR blaster and temperature sensor it's great, so I'm keeping it.

But ever since Paul Hibbert's video, almost all their stuff has sold out. I just want another IR blaster, but I'd have to buying a 2 pack to get it.

[quiet tulip]

Yeah, that video was the trigger for me 🙂

[coarse horizon]

Hibbert is one of the few smart home guys that can really move product lol.

[sage cedar]

Cabled from what I can tell, never touched it myself. I had an X-Box 360 when I moved in.

[snow raven]

rate my GBA game collection, finally together again after I found half of them at my moms house, they were mia for like 10 years

[glacial knot]

Where's minishcap?

[snow raven]

that and 4 swords are lost to time 😢

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeget your house sold yet and moving van rented for your trek to MO?

[shell basalt]

oh we getting another missourian? i'll make a cake!

[tidal bronze]

Got stars?

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/sparkles-twinkles-stars-falling-stars-emoji-gif-17447395

loads of them

[tidal bronze]

Those I can lend you some. Let me know when you get some good food.

[forest edge]

I thought you were a cook?

you saying you can't make "good" food?

[tidal bronze]

Even NYC is pale is comparison when it comes to ingredients. I can't cook with potatoes and collard greens.

[forest edge]

then you are not much of a cook...

[tidal bronze]

Cook?

[forest edge]

how many "i can't" cooks have you seen?

[tidal bronze]

Many, chefs only a few 😀

[forest edge]

no excuses

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge I am pretty sure the ones that moved from here will get that place rocking soon.

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/well-waiting-caddyshack-gif-5385414

[ocean oar]

I lived with one, it's fascinating to watch someone who has a less varied diet than my cats and try to work out what essential nutrients they're missing.
Roommate about 10 years ago. Subsisted on a diet of cereal+milk, cups of tea, orange juice, and stuff like ravioli with pasta sauce from a jar. I don't think I ever saw him eat a vegetable

Turns out his fancy private school education had missed a bunch of essential life skills 🤷‍♂️

[forest edge]

lol

I don't cook but grew up with a family that always said, if you can't make something from anything, you were never good at cooking to begin with

[ocean oar]

Honestly I think the reason most people don't like cooking is just time management. Even if the food isn't that inspired, you still have to coordinate a bunch of things to start at different times but all finish at the same time, and a lot of people just can't manage it

[lone dagger]

People like their convenience now.

The microwave convo this week highlighted that.

[forest edge]

now? my grandmother was the last generation that didn't lol

hell I grew up with insta mashed pototes every so often

[ocean oar]

I might be a weirdo, but I actually enjoy the cooking more than the eating.
I have joked that if I could do the cooking, and then turn the food into pill form to achieve its nutrition without having to sit down and eat it, that would make me happiest.

[forest edge]

that is weird

you should volunter at homeless shelters

[ocean oar]

On the subject of mashed potato, I've only just in the past few years been able to start eating that again.
Another one of NZ's obsessions with single-serving meat pies involves one called a "potato top"; pastry shell on bottom, meat filling, mashed potato on the top.
So I have made instant mashed potato in a mixer with a 90qt bowl, usually batches adding up to 500-600kg 😐

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge how's your seafood supply?

[forest edge]

frozen fresh

you want crab? we got it

you want lobster? we got it

you want some fish I can't spell or pronounce...?

we got it!

[weak musk]

Missing minish cap and the golden sun games. 0/10

[weak musk]

I love to cook, but it’s a chore during the week after working. Relaxing on the weekend though.

[shell topaz]

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/announcement-grid-connect-integration-for-home-assistant-direct-device-connection/826861?u=dangerdangerau

[snow raven]

that and 4 swords are lost to time 😢
Never played any of the golden sun games though

[weak musk]

You’re missing out. They rock.

[forest edge]

of course

only when you eat at red lobster does it become iffy

in your town I would think an applebee's would be the "go to" spot lol

it's not always been that bad

I haven't been in years but when I was younger it wasn't that bad lol

think they are doing the meal deals these days which are appealing to alot of people

cheaper than eating at mcdonalds lol

[rapid plinth]

Something that sci-fi never seems to take into consideration is that, if a machine becomes self-aware, its disposition towards reality in general and humanity in particular will not be colored by the primal instincts that humans take for granted. We assume that an intelligent entity will inherently have a drive for self-preservation. Why? We simply assume because the only form of intelligence we know, is, due to the nature of its origins, concerned first and foremost with survival. What happens when an intelligent being was built ground-up to serve another? Wouldn't it have zero compunctions about potentially being disposable?

[forest edge]

the human element is always the flaw

[rapid plinth]

within the specific scope of the whims and motivations of our creations, does that really matter? I'm not so convinced we would imprint those aspects of ourselves onto our creations.

[tidal bronze]

I don't know. Last time I was in KS it was tough to find crab.

[forest edge]

stop looking in open fields

bet that corn farmer still remembers catching you out there looking for sea life

[weary bone]

Just realized that I may have over-bought on smart plugs… 😬😅

[forest edge]

those tplink?

not sure what the ones on the left are

er on the right

[weary bone]

Yeah tp link and Govee.

[tidal bronze]

Sadly, I agree.

[shell basalt]

just in time for MORE SNOW

you realize once you get it, it wont snow enough to justify it for another 5-6 years.. i bought my snowblower back in 2019.. this was the first time I used it since then

[tidal bronze]

Wonder how it's like next week in ATL

[shell basalt]

i almost got the EGO equivalent

usually before the snow has even fully stopped some neighborhood kid is wanting $25 to shovel it

i guess with the harsh cold and depth, kids decided it wasnt worth it

thats a racket

[tidal bronze]

That sounds violent!

[shell basalt]

thats why you stack up the bodies somewhere, let it snow about a foot, and nature pretty much takes care of the restevidence

[tidal bronze]

What a beautiful pool day.

[shell basalt]

thats a bit cold for a pool day

[tidal bronze]

Weirdly outdoor AQI is 25. So thankful to the 400 firefighters that tamed the flames 2 days ago. Fire near me is 85% contained. Keeping fingers crossed.

Tuesday it starts again. But will be very little to catch fire by then.

[shell topaz]

Reboot and Select propper Boot device or insert boot media and press a key

dunno?

[iron granite]

Advice: please do not crosspost. See server rule 7.

[shell topaz]

k sorry

[silent dove]

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[shell topaz]

oops again

really sorry

[iron granite]

Yes... again

[stuck anchor]

tomorrow the rain begins, so first thing tomorrow will be to break down any snow dams so the water can get away from the house

[forest edge]

You realize this means it's my turn to suggest you catch a greyhound east right? Just wanted to make sure you understood that..

[tidal bronze]

I have no fear of flying my dude.

[lone dagger]

I do, but I suck it up.

[ocean oar]

I have no fear of it, I just strongly dislike it. However I live on an island, which makes avoidance difficult

[iron granite]

I loved flying on the cockpit jumpseat when I was younger and it was still allowed (pre-9/11).

[tidal bronze]

GTS got issues. Greyhound is the only choice

[tidal bronze]

Aisle or window?

[ocean oar]

Aisle in a narrowbody jet, every time. The window seat has less room because of the curve of the fuselage. Window in a widebody.

[tidal bronze]

Ah so this is how they make it.

[static schooner]

I hate having people have to climb past me

I always do window for that reason

Plus, no chance of a cart clipping your knee or elbow

[forest edge]

unacceptable. you said you like to ride on a bus. your ass is getting on a bus

https://tenor.com/view/bus-travel-birdthongchai-crowded-dance-gif-13225312

[primal laurel]

electric bus, they are so quiet

beds on a bus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4gy52uhLR4

look at this

not exactly cheap though, but its an experience

[ocean oar]

I saw a video a week or so back of the longest train ride here in NZ, it's only ~1.5 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXTFINaC6EM
Also you get off one train at the top of the south island, take the ferry, then on a different train the following day

[jade cloak]

I've been using HA in a docker container for a few weeks and recently migrated it to a dedicated Pi5 using backup and restore. Unbelievable how well it all worked. Just wanted to say thank you to someone. ha.

[midnight adder]

hmm... tbh for canada it must be primarily super fast. 😄 are you working on that part?

soo.... BYD has announced a new supercar that can jump just like K.I.T.T. and nobody seems to care? 😄

pretty cool stuff 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIKAn8yDkpA

[unborn merlin]

weird rightwing people's time to have their heads explode because they'd totally like a vehicle that does this but can't dare to buy the chinese car. /s

🙃

[forest edge]

cause it's dumb. and it's nothing like kitt and saying so might get you punched in the face

[unborn merlin]

if I had to bet its probably using the similar technology to.. other chinese cars I saw a while back that had smart suspension that changed height depending on needs/road and all that to work to negate bumps and etc..

just.. turned up to 11

[ocean oar]

I also don't know what century they think we're living in, but where I'm from the police aren't deploying FUCKING CALTROPS

[unborn merlin]

I mean.. spike strips do exist

[ocean oar]

Not like that they don't

[forest edge]

same diff lol

[unborn merlin]

not that its gonna.. matter at all

[river flame]

Update 🙂

[unborn merlin]

thats just weird. 😄

[river flame]

I literally didn't change anything 💀

All I did was request a review

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge middle earth tacos

[last cedar]

LOL. Not been getting updates on my hue outdoor sensor for a few days, first illuminance and now temperature...

Opened it up and it has a not insignificant amount of ice inside it! Hoping I can dry it out and it will work again, here goes nothing!

It is running the original batteries, still measure 1.36V, they are the final boss of batteries, been out in all weathers for 4 years at this point iirc

Haha there is now a block of ice jiggling around in there

[primal laurel]

Why?

[quiet onyx]

Damn how low are the temps? Those batteries are seriously troopers handling freezing temps

[last cedar]

That is the lowest I have recorded, this sits on a veranda, under the roof

A great advert for GP alkaline batteries

I use rechargable ikeas (the 2450mA ones, I believe they are basically rebranded eneloop ones), normally though

[cloud mango]

howdy - where would be best to ask for help with zfs?

[keen halo]

Hi! Is this where I can find the API URL for the Pollenprognos integration?

[quiet onyx]

Ooooo I'll have to keep those in mind then, seems our winters are similar

[last cedar]

With which aspect of ZFS?

[cloud mango]

Adding a new drive to existing pool (i suspect i have to remake the pool but i wanted to check). The pool currently is just a single drive (no raid or mirror setup)

[stuck anchor]

3 or4 days outdoors and my mailbox sensors button cell is down to 90%... will definitely need to get replaced by something bigger with proper batteries

[stuck anchor]

has anyone seen a zigbee door/window sensor for outdoor use beside the very expensive bosh ones?

[solar zealot]

If that drive is set up as single you can convert this pool to a mirrored one

[crisp oriole]

Great. If i ever get busy my home assistant LLM can manage phone calls. Pass trough if important. Send a notification to pick up the phone when not so important. Or plan a call back meeting. And friends can plan to drink a beer.

[dawn badge]

should have it automatically talk to and waste the time of spam calls

[solar zealot]

wasting a ton of electricity in the process ^^

[dawn badge]

fair point

[stuck anchor]

https://youtu.be/RV_SdCfZ-0s?feature=shared

[versed dragon]

Hi all, I bought the switchbot air purifier table. It does integrate with matter and is visible in the switchbot hub. It's only visible in HA as a on/off switch. What could I do ?

[solar zealot]

Ask about it in #1284966582375813201 they likely can help

[forest edge]

wtf is that. looks like chinese tacos lol

[last cedar]

She lives!

Opened it up, dried it, washed the plastic with a toothbrush and washing up liquid, washed the pcb with 99.5% isopropyl

[forest edge]

still looks broke. it isn't outputting english

[last cedar]

Interestingly (IMO) it went into pairing mode when it got fired back up, had to delete it and re-add to Z2M

[last cedar]

I will have some stern words with it

[stuck anchor]

the ice shorted the pairing button?

[spring timber]

non support, more about what it can do and suggestions

[stuck anchor]

that's in raccoon

[forest edge]

must be why it's using a comma instead of a period

[stuck anchor]

yup. in raccoon periods are for ending stuff, not to separate it

[forest edge]

watch duty seems misleading. shows that the palisade and eaton fire are till raging yet none of the camera in any direction how moke or anything

is stuff still burning?

[snow raven]

if you like something never let anyone make you feel bad about it lol

no comment

[midnight adder]

because it's a HUGE country

[snow raven]

never thought about ripping from youtube directly tbh

[forest edge]

why would you

[snow raven]

idk, no ads maybe? I just use the kodi addon so that doesn't matter for me

I can see that

[forest edge]

talking youtube tv or just from youtube

[snow raven]

yt tv is just cable with extra steps

[forest edge]

yea guess I don't get the + vs - from storing any of that stuff locally

and ads can already be skipped over

[snow raven]

yeah I host offsite so I lose a lot of the pluses anyway

[deft pewter]

How else would you watch it after it's been removed from YT?

[forest edge]

guess it depends what it is

[deft pewter]

For the sake of argument, let's say only YT has it.

[forest edge]

and why does it get removed?

[deft pewter]

Shit gets removed all the fucking time.

[forest edge]

guess i not ran across anything that's been removed lol

[deft pewter]

Lucky you

[forest edge]

you store LTT locally?

get out

[snow raven]

heres the real brag lol

[deft pewter]

That's a brag? Being unemployed? 😂

[snow raven]

those counts exclude me

and my employment status depends who's asking, I love my user's "donations"

[midnight adder]

so in may you've been on vacation? in the winter time you have vitamin d12 deficiencies... hmm what else can we read from this 😄

[snow raven]

dammmnn

hope you're getting something for that unless its just good friends on there, its a lot of work esp if you have a lot of *arrs setup and stuff

[forest edge]

this is bs https://youtu.be/HndsSDLdTVg?si=Uf3vr7W5DzGf2d0N

[snow raven]

use overseerr?

[deft pewter]

Which bit of setting that up is 'a lot of work'? Surely it's a few definitions in a Docker Compose file and you're done?

[snow raven]

I guess if it's mostly friends and stuff it's different, the "work" I was mostly talking about was the people aspect

man why does everyone forget the damn overseerr link

[deft pewter]

People beyond just friends and family? So you're running a full-blown copyright breaching media network, huh?

[snow raven]

...no?

oh the one that just requests stuff in peoples watchlist?

[forest edge]

overseer is awesome

it was called something else before that.. ombi?

[snow raven]

agreed 100%

does it respect request limits?

I have myanimelist connected to sonarr to auto grab stuff I add to my plan to watch and thats just amazing

[forest edge]

4k is not worth the space

[snow raven]

my problem is I care to much about it, I spent the money on an 85 inch and I'm gonna use it goddamnit

[forest edge]

2g vs 20+g is insane

[midnight adder]

I miss good old DVD times ... even that was too big although often had nice bonus materials

[snow raven]

I generally add stuff in hdr/4k based on the user and after they watch it, it downgrades the profile automatically

[midnight adder]

if I had 150TB I'd be collecting Full Bluray rips

[snow raven]

fs. you running 14tb drives?

[forest edge]

I had issues even streaming 4k to my tv

on my local network. not sure if it was the tv or what

[midnight adder]

same

[snow raven]

this is often to do with wifi -> ethernet stuff on the router

[forest edge]

all lan

no wifi

[snow raven]

bitrate is so much more important

[midnight adder]

I agree. But I guess there is still so much cool bonus material I haven't watched (or do even know about)

[snow raven]

the expanse is GOAT

[forest edge]

I think maybe the tv itself might have been the issue

[midnight adder]

and or slow / badly implemented or configured protocols

alone to get SMB working with MacOS ... was always horrible

[snow raven]

you seem like you already know this but trash guides is legit

[snow raven]

I never had an issue with smb with mac. Now libreelec on the other hand...

with mac the thing that seems to trip people up is what credentials to use, cause it autofills with the macs username

[midnight adder]

nah, always used the same credentials on both for the share and the logged in user

[snow raven]

yeah, idk smb just aint it in general imo

[midnight adder]

it's more like what version of samba (or smb... they samey but I guess I now get roasted for saying that :D) and what kind of protocol versions ...

[snow raven]

NFS ftw

[midnight adder]

and then when it worked it was slow 😄

but I figured it out eventually

[snow raven]

stuff like that is just a rite of passage, no matter your experience level or age

also tangentially related I hate that every guide/platform/app sometimes uses 4K as a catch all and then sometimes there's a difference between ultra HD and 4k

[tidal bronze]

RPi 2.7 cpu cycles

[snow raven]

those 256 pixels matter

raspi 5 works great with 4k content, just throwing that out there

yeah I just had it, if I didn't I would've just gotten a shield

[forest edge]

pretty sure the pi is more powerful than the chip the tv uses

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge how earth are you having trouble with 4k over lan? Your ethernet terminates with BNC or what?

[forest edge]

try not using your shield and let me know how it goes

not my fault hisense android tv struggled

[tidal bronze]

Do get full res on your phone?

You have some other issue. @forest edge

[snow raven]

using 802.3 standard

[forest edge]

you just said you use a shield lol

[snow raven]

cat in the wall, now you're speaking my language

[tidal bronze]

Have you done an open speed test across the lan?

[snow raven]

no don't make more holes, just send another cat so to lure them out

[tidal bronze]

Never had issues playing 4k in any device. Strange.

[forest edge]

I only tried one 4k thing and that was the deadpool movie. may have been the plex transcoding or the tv.. either way 4k was not worth the space it took up so got rid of it

[snow raven]

this def sounds like a transcoding issue tbh

[forest edge]

I have no issues playing 4k content through like netflix etc

[snow raven]

almost certainly transcoding issue, I'd bet my last 79 cents in my bank account on that

[forest edge]

well whatever

[tidal bronze]

Netflix 4k and plex 4k bandwidth is totally different

[forest edge]

yea too high or bitrate did seem to be the issue

[snow raven]

completely unrelated, does anyone have any good davinci resolve tutorials?

[forest edge]

movie was like 40gb so not even worth keeping lol

[snow raven]

I still remember accidentally downloading my first remux

[tidal bronze]

Netflix got some crazy VBR tech

[snow raven]

"why tf is The Crow 55gigs?"

Well that's just justified. That and the first pacific rim of course

tbh I never saw that

[static schooner]

If a movie is worth ripping, it's worth keeping every last GB

[sullen ruin]

Is this the general chat of this server

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge you should check your plex logs and find out what's causing the issue.

[static schooner]

I spare no expense (like in Jurassic Park)

[snow raven]

oh also, everyone should go grab lunasea if they have an iphone/mac

[static schooner]

Otherwise, I'll just be ripping it again later...

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-movies-rule-bmr-the-lost-world-movie-hammond-we're-not-making-the-same-mistakes-again-gif-2330370765203818140

[static schooner]

Already did this once with music

Moar Storage

[snow raven]

god forbid you have annnnyyything lossy with music. I can't do it

[tidal bronze]

You have issues.

[static schooner]

I've gone through 1, 2, 4, 8, and now on 12TB drives

It's the march of time

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[static schooner]

Need to find somebody to enjoy the old drives

[snow raven]

this subreddit is crazy

[tidal bronze]

Meanwhile, GTS is looking for 4k button.

[forest edge]

that would require a care level above what I currently have lol

[primal laurel]

how the F does it get to 100GB

[snow raven]

this makes too much sense

[tidal bronze]

Tdarr

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-wtf-gif-25758871

[snow raven]

holy shit I've been looking for something just like this, how'd I miss this

[static schooner]

That is pretty insane, unless you have multiple full length versions in there

Biggest I've seen is probably 60-70

Most are more like 40-50

[primal laurel]

this is why blueray died

[forest edge]

yea I don't mess with any of that. thats why I have friends that deal with that crap and I just leech lol

[tidal bronze]

@warm helm do you double check the movie color grader with a calibrite? 🤣

[forest edge]

hell most of my library is still 720p

[static schooner]

My eyes!!!

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-surprised-what-big-eyes-gif-15332548

[tidal bronze]

Tdarr does a great job.

[snow raven]

ok how about anyones tv shows taking up the most space tho?

[forest edge]

I pictured you having like a 200 disc bluray changer

[snow raven]

I can infer volumes of your knowledge from this message alone

[tidal bronze]

Vinyl here. Disc days are gone

[forest edge]

movies on vinyl huh.. must be a west coast thing

[tidal bronze]

I am pretty fine tuned via trash

[snow raven]

LPs!!

...why house in hq?

i have a couple of friends who have issues playing 265 stuff occasionally

fair enough

[forest edge]

so what happens if the 150tb drive dies?

[snow raven]

thats why you have RAID

do you do your own OTA rips for that? (er)

[tidal bronze]

I do have 720 kid stuff for friends overseas. Direct stream to Australia, well that's a trip.

[snow raven]

I unironically have bluey on my server of purely 20-40 year olds. It gets plays.

[forest edge]

oh you sharing your plex library? hook me up!

or wait.. maybe not

you taste is kind of iffy lol

[tidal bronze]

I think i have about 50 there

[primal laurel]

plex relies too much on the cloud, I run jellyfin now

[snow raven]

I want to sooo bad, but I have a few non tech savvy people who use it religiously and plex is just easier

like my grandma

[tidal bronze]

Same

[snow raven]

my grandma is actually a big fan of Spy x Family

who knew?

this explains ER

[primal laurel]

gotta rip off the bandaid sometimes

[forest edge]

jelleyfin has been pretty subpar.. whats changed?

[tidal bronze]

Landman 10, I expected more.

[primal laurel]

i've been running plex for years, I just recently switched. I have no complaints

[snow raven]

plexamp is da bomb

[primal laurel]

in fact, all of my plex bugs and issues have been resolved FINALLY

[snow raven]

I can't say anything, its miles better than my trash anime taste

[tidal bronze]

Plexamp auto playlists lacking

[snow raven]

my work pays for a chatgpt sub, that links up with plexamp

it only works if your library has like 30k-40k songs though

[tidal bronze]

You don't want to know my music library 😀

[forest edge]

country

[tidal bronze]

Got most of GTS favs like happy house and DNB

[snow raven]

yeah def try out sonic sage then

[primal laurel]

the convenience of spotify is just too big, I dont mind paying for that at all. Completely different story with streaming services...

[tidal bronze]

Spotify playlists and radio got better last year.

[snow raven]

I say this as a on/off paying spotify user, it just sucks they don't pay the artists well. But its a lot more complicated than that.

[primal laurel]

better in what way?

[forest edge]

https://youtu.be/6Nb-prB-4P0?si=ofJHOuRcmTsqAjJi

[snow raven]

I will say its very easy to get pidgenholed by spotify autogen playlists into the same 50 songs every time making up 90% of the playlist

[tidal bronze]

Spotify quality is meh but I nothing comes close for new music. I don't know if plexamp supports DSD.

[primal laurel]

im definitely not an audiophile. I don't care about lossless audio, good enough is good enough. I love my bluetooth headset 🤣

[snow raven]

sorry what is dsd

is that like an alt to pcm

[tidal bronze]

https://www.nativedsd.com/

[forest edge]

tape deck with cheap foam headphones is good enough for me

[tidal bronze]

Ok Mr 720

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/walkman-80s-gif-17977574616975890435

[snow raven]

sony 7506 literally for life

[tidal bronze]

60 or 90?

[snow raven]

to be honest this just raises more questions

[forest edge]

QF thinks he can hear the diffrences but it's always just been in his head

[tidal bronze]

So you got your Nakamichi nearby?

[forest edge]

I wish I had kept my old sony receiver and dual tape deck player

even had a cd player to complete the 3 stack

I didn't care for 8 tracks tbh

was always risky getting the tape chewed up

[weak musk]

Tape decks are back in vogue

[forest edge]

I liked cds when those came out but then those got scratched too easily and you couldn't record to them

so tapes hung around for awhile

I wish mp3 in car players was a thing when I was a younger. that would have been awesome

[weak musk]

Going from cds to the first iPod was incredible

[tidal bronze]

Going from 1X CD caddy to CLI mp3 was incredible

[tidal bronze]

New music is mastered for economical listening devices. You rarely get to hear the real thing.

[forest edge]

you saying listening to a live band is not the real thing?

[clear ferry]

Posting this Relevant video again

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRMYoqU3ys

[tidal bronze]

Depends on the sound engineer on site.

[forest edge]

yea my ears are not that picky lol

[tidal bronze]

We know

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/i-cant-really-hear-you-that-good-huh-sorry-what-cant-hear-you-gif-15669345

[forest edge]

audiophiles are kind of like flat earthers to me

https://tenor.com/view/cuz-its-not-round-itsrucka-flat-earth-song-the-world-is-flat-the-world-is-a-plate-gif-20669093

[tidal bronze]

So pipe Mono throughout the house huh?

[forest edge]

back in the day some times mono was all you got lol

trying to find that 3mm jack and all it supported was mono lol

[tidal bronze]

Ring and tip you say?

Must've been 1/4"

[forest edge]

I agree, but he said real

[midnight adder]

on your shoeskates? 😄

[midnight adder]

would be kinda smart to automate the different mixes and distribute / play the adequate best mix for the destination player

like youtube checks for your bandwidth/codec capabilities and then gives you the best fitting stream

[tidal bronze]

I wish there was a straight forward way of doing that. Only solution I am yet to come up with.

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzejust saw that newsom is allowing bypass of permits for rebuilding? that's insane

that's replacing sticks with twigs

[wicked marten]

Not sure where to ask this so please direct me to the right place if this isn’t it. I’m looking to build a HA hub using a raspberry pi. Am I ok using the 2GB of RAM version or do I need the 4 or 8GB?

[forest edge]

you'll want the 4gb at the very least

while very limited HA installs can run even on 1gb.. it's not a fun experince

[wicked marten]

OK. So the added RAM contributes towards performance

[forest edge]

well HA barebones almost uses 1GB on it's own

and depending on everything you have planned. it just stacks from there

I wouldn't go above 8gb no matter what, but as high as 8GB if you are messing with cameras would be utilized

[wicked marten]

Yeah I have 4 Ring Cameras and some basic Shelly plugs that I want to control as a starter. I use Drayton Wiser for the smart heating which doesn’t connect to HA so I’ll be changing that in the future

[forest edge]

this is my rpi4 but I am not running like an NVR or anything. just a bunch of other stuff

[wicked marten]

And does it run ok on an SD card? Or have you upgraded to an SSS?

[forest edge]

don't run it on sdcard

[wicked marten]

OK so need an SSD aswell I guess

[forest edge]

and a powered usb hub most likely

[wicked marten]

And in that case am I not better off purchasing the HA Hub that they sell?

[forest edge]

it's all up to you. when this stuff started out pi stuff was much cheaper than it is today

you may even be able to find like a mini n100 pc for cheaper

probably going to take another 30 years (if ever) for the world to settle out enough for us to get "cheap" cool tech like the pi was when it came out

oh shit they recovered the drone that struck the plane. that operator is fooked! https://youtu.be/2wxwtu-oJUE?si=fziFenLwvk24ghM1

meh.. that's not really the same as like 5 buck pi zero

https://youtu.be/QANQ_SR6w3s?si=UmLpBsKvc-0_HNyK

that thing is awesome!

[rapid osprey]

Has anyone seen a project where someone used music assistant to display currently playing tracks on a small screen ran by raz pi ?

I would have music assistant running in a docker container on unraid or proxmox

[last cedar]

Yes

[last cedar]

ROFL

[last cedar]

Was just such a clumbsy thing to happen tbh

Unless it was malicious