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clear ferry
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Great 5g coverage in speed between 22 and 32nd street on Manhattan

sage cedar
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Ooh, a friend request from developer_0312 with no mutual anythings...

clear ferry
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Hi, I am stuck on the Cayman Islands and I have to develop a C# app in four hours or I'll get executed by a local terrorist group, please send me $300 as quickly as you can, I've added you on discord because I trust you friend

sage cedar
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C#? No problem. Just set your keyboard half a tone higher.

robust flicker
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I C what you did there.

tidal bronze
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Starlink not working out for ya?

static schooner
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not even banned

clear ferry
scenic slate
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Sorry, where can I ask a question about user and permissions?

static schooner
sage cedar
# clear ferry You mean Db ?

No, raising the decibel will just make it louder, you want to raise the pitch a semi-tone so that the keyboard plays in C# rather than C. Better get on that, you've only got an hour and 20 minutes before your captors kill you.
-# I don't have $300 for you

sage cedar
static schooner
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I'm sad that I can't even ban them

sage cedar
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Tempted to take the request and invite them to this server just so you can 😂

static schooner
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Come over here, my pretty...

iron granite
stuck anchor
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security can become an issue. i can work from anywhere within my country, but working on production systems from abroad is no-no. no use of public wifi. it's either office or home network or via 5g connected to our own radio network. if i got caught working from a cruise ship it would be bsd.

static schooner
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Ok, fine, I'll just live on this cruise ship forever!

primal laurel
stuck anchor
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it all depends on the employers rules... in our case accessing our production systems requires presence in the country or a few secure locations in other countries. some are more paranoid than others.

primal laurel
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That's gonna be funny for all the European companies on AWS with IT in India

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Philips

stuck anchor
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vpn, yes. but in our case even vpn has to be over a controlled network. really paranoid.

weak musk
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We can’t have anything hosted outside of the US.

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And cannot access from outside the US

primal laurel
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We're going to can't have anything hosted inside the US

weak musk
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Probably wise

stuck anchor
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while we are working on pulling even public cloud services out of us controlled providers 😄

primal laurel
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Many years of laziness and ignorance

tidal bronze
tribal scroll
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Hey, I am new to the Home Assistance world. I wonder what the best devices are to connect with Home Assistant? I am thinking about Shelly devices because they are the easiest to connect. Would you recommend some other devices? Thank you.

weak musk
hard rapids
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Man, if there was ever something i regret installing, it's the advanced camera card. They push a new update very 12 hours. It's getting tiresome.

hard rapids
stuck anchor
# tidal bronze Assume you are working on ICBM defense systems? Cool!

it doesn't have to be that fancy to attract state level threat actors. sometimes being a cell phone and internet service provider is enough.
i have even seen a newspaper attacked by someone with that kind of resources. an attack that should have gone completely unnoticed if not for a very suspicious journalist who was the target.

clear ferry
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Yeah, I've fixed military grade stuff across the internet multiple times, but usually if it is military it is airgapped anyway, only reason to leave the house tbh

stuck anchor
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that journalist got attacked because he was one of the people working on wikileaks content before it went public. back when wikileaks actually had real journalists combing through everything and redacting information that could endanger people. someone with really deep pockets wanted to know what was in there before it got released. the base was kept physically airgapped so they could not have succeeded with our copy at least

last cedar
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@lone dagger how is your terrifying crochet coming along?

plucky sparrow
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I have a full disk issue on HA OS. What would be the right channel to ask?

static schooner
weary bone
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Howdy folks!

I want to use home assistant to better my bedtime and wake up routines. Is there a place to post my goals and get suggestions on what devices or automations I need to reach those goals?

young sigil
lone dagger
static schooner
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nonetheless, its darkness continues to grow unabated...

clear ferry
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I was installing a new kitchen hood and the only thing I could think of was ceiling cat

versed dragon
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Hi Team, since the last upgrade HA seems to crash during a reboot. A full poweroff of my Odroid seems to resolve it, where is the best place to ask/debug ?

clear ferry
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I'd suggest getting rid of the odroid

versed dragon
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hehe, it has been stable for a long time

clear ferry
fair pulsar
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I am just noticing this now but what happened to all the extra sensors in the Spotify integration? I saw that they were all removed like a month after they were hyped up in the update notes.

crisp oriole
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Spotify removed them

clear ferry
crisp oriole
clear ferry
robust flicker
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Well shit. Excuse my language but that's what it is. My cousin (lives 300 miles away) just lost his wife to cancer....

clear ferry
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Screw cancer

glacial knot
lone dagger
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Here’s the last update I posted here. I can’t find the image that compares the body to my son’s height, though…

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I thought I had one…

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lol

glacial knot
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And you want to crotchet a Furby body? probsT

weak musk
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I mean who doesn’t, right?

lone dagger
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Yes.

glacial knot
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Nice

lone dagger
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Why wouldn’t I?

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😆

glacial knot
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Might prefer knitting

red rock
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(while I was tired in the bus back from Poland)

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but I do want to introduce new things like a switch for adding tracks to your library

last cedar
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I just like winding you all up

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I just saw 2 sparrows making babies

static schooner
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if you have video, I'm sure there's a place for it on Pornhub

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or the National Geographic channel

solar zealot
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I feel like ordering a vue 3 but I also would need to order a bunch of probes

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They should just sell some with esphome or add a plug to connect

lone dagger
glacial knot
lone dagger
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No knitting.

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😆

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Knitting is awful.

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Knitters are black magic performers.

peak slate
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I know far too many knitter's

static schooner
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got a lot of sweaters?

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and hats?

peak slate
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No, mostly hats, mittens, and slippers

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And the occasional basket ball holder that didn't felt down as small as they expected

clear ferry
neon kernel
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is this the right place to ask?

silent doveBOT
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The topic of this channel is:

There’s no support here - only chill. Come in, grab a drink, chat with your fellow community members! This is a space to talk to other smart home enthusiasts. If you’re looking for support and unsure where to go, check out https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 - it should help you find where you are going. No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

weak musk
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And don’t cross post

last cedar
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It is actually 16+3 cts

solar zealot
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the choice is either that or another three shelly pro 3em

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i need about 8

last cedar
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Need 8, but want about 300? The home assistant way

solar zealot
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i just looked at how to do the flashing and saw the recommendation for probes to connect

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and i just dont feel it as much anymore

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but more better and cheaper!!!!!!

last cedar
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Mmm, kinda same, but I will have to do it at some point

solar zealot
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like its actually tiny points to connect to

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the soldering tool i use is for pipes

last cedar
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A spider board would be very useful

solar zealot
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ugh someone will need to visit down under again for that

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dont you remember what happend to the last guy we sent therw

clear ferry
hearty palm
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ive had a cool idea for a voice assistant idk how possible it is a small walkie talkie custom esp device that can talk with an retractable antenna back to home assistant

light dock
red rock
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I didn't finish iirc

light dock
red rock
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Oh then that is fixed

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Next release

stable wolf
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ChatGPT and I made some virtual Funko Pops so that I can put on my virtual shelf. Presenting... Home Assistant All-Stars Series 1!

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stable wolf
static schooner
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That looks like some grotesque character from The Last of Us

last cedar
solar zealot
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Very intriguing

dawn badge
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that's pretty nifty

gusty belfry
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Wow WROVER-IB modules are really hard to come by unless I want 650 of them...

gusty belfry
unreal crystal
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I'm just now realizing that

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I've spent $90,000 this year to flesh out my HA

young sigil
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What sensor are you using for that?

unreal crystal
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Should have a $10 electric bill for the foreseeable future. The car might throw that off, but we don't drive that much.

glacial knot
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I wanna see you go 200km/h on the autobahn with that skateboard rooH

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no

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that doesnt' get you from A to B quicker

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and you'll stand still if I unplug the right wires 🤷

simple gazelle
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What superpowers can you get from that? Radon is a pretty rare thing here, though I have vague memories of the 90s they sent a simple detector to every home in Britain so they could map it properly

clear ferry
primal laurel
fathom sparrow
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90k seems steep for solar panels + battery, just trying to make sense of 90K

solar zealot
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That's a weird way of budget allocation

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Food also is a home assistant spending if you use the energy gained from it to work on your smart devices gatosmart

primal laurel
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90k could easily get you off gas completely

unreal crystal
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45k panels and battery, 45k Ioniq 6

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14 kW system

glacial knot
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how big's the battery?

last cedar
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@dawn badge @solar zealot must say it is not my design, but will be one of the first things on my 3d printer when it comes

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Does anyone know what filament you need to make live raccoons when the print is complete?

@forest edge what ratio of your filament to pla makes real raccoons?

solar zealot
clear ferry
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The Ioniq 6 looks like someone vaguely described a Porsche 911 and Hyundai went 8ACOSP_bc_nod

last cedar
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Better than hyundai at the scrap yard looking at fucked engines going "omg we need some of this tech in our ice engines" and then doubling the oil change intervals

glacial knot
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oh yea, the modern 911 looks nothing lik ethe old 911

clear ferry
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No need to bring American car design ideas into this @last cedar

last cedar
glacial knot
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I recently saw the EV9 in the wild o.0

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war ship on wheels

last cedar
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They are enormous

clear ferry
solar zealot
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Imagine if Americans would still build Fleetwood like EVs
70 tons, 0-60 maybe downhill

last cedar
clear ferry
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Yes

last cedar
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Is that hell freezing over?!

clear ferry
last cedar
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Mods, can we pin the evidence? ❤️

solar zealot
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Oh did you guys see those new electric concrete mixer trucks. Those are fucking scary to be next to

clear ferry
last cedar
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If it didn't say electric on it, I wouldn't have noticed any difference

unreal crystal
clear ferry
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I tried the ex30 the other day, and the backseat on that is useless unless you are a 140cm contortionist

solar zealot
last cedar
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Sounds scary yeah

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They won't be light either

clear ferry
last cedar
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Can't be hacked if it drops 70% though

glacial knot
unreal crystal
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I should get 30% of 45k back when taxes come around. Reducing by electric bill by $200/month should be a payoff time for the solar system around year 13.

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After that, it's cheddar

clear ferry
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If I wanted to cover my entire roof with solar panels it was $14k last i checked, but it has no value here since power is free and sun above the arctic Circle is less effective

unreal crystal
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Is that just hardware? Installation is expensive.

clear ferry
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Average power price is currently $0.001 per kwh

clear ferry
unreal crystal
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It also counts as diversification. Don't want 100% of savings in the stock market, especially now.

clear ferry
solar zealot
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They just have too much of them

clear ferry
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We actually have to dump power

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Because we have too much

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And there are not enough cables to transfer it to other regions

solar zealot
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Have they talked to you about rerouting it into your basement

clear ferry
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I already have more than I need 😤

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Moved most of my lab into the office

solar zealot
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I thought you never visit such place?

clear ferry
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I don't need to, I have remote access

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And colleagues who cable my servers

primal laurel
clear ferry
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Probably will, but nah

forest edge
primal laurel
stuck anchor
stuck anchor
scenic jasper
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Question about backup would go to Integrations?

solar zealot
scenic jasper
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@stuck anchor There's a card for that. It shows when next bin day is. (If you have the data)

forest edge
stuck anchor
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there is a nice integration that already supports my area. getting notifications isn't enough when i fail to execute. i need robotic garbage bins that can drive themselves out. 😄

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i'm in norway.

clear ferry
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You need a backup for z2m?

scenic jasper
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I find the edit box on discord so tiresome in de support section. Ahy can't they make HOME button work like it works in this field i am typing now. The amount of times i type HOME and don't end up at the start of the line.. so infuriating. Every time it happens is just want to scream.

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@clear ferry Or make your wheeliebin electric and have it drive itself out.

clear ferry
glacial knot
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20HP per gargabe can rooH

clear ferry
scenic jasper
scenic jasper
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amends some text :P

primal laurel
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if these are going downhill loaded they never have to charge because of regenerative breaking haha

solar zealot
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they also do like 6MW charging on them if i recall

primal laurel
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Yeah

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But the mining companies have their own grid

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That 6MW will probably come from a battery

robust flicker
scenic jasper
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Put in a conveyor belt to move it back and forth.

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@primal laurel The mother of all battery fires 🙂

primal laurel
scenic jasper
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6MW Battery charging

primal laurel
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yeah?

scenic jasper
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Yes.

primal laurel
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no

stuck anchor
# robust flicker *just leaves them by the fence 24x7*
  1. cost - the food scrap bin gets fetched biweekly, and the unsorted weekly. but only once per month is included in the monthly renovation fee. if you have your bins out more than that it costs extra. rfid tags on the bins automatically register each time they are hooked on the truck.
  2. optics - if every house were to have 4 bins outside.
  3. space - some side streets don't get serviced and have to bring their bins to a common spot. and that would become quite unwieldy
  4. laziness - walking out to the street with every garbage bag? nope.
robust flicker
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  1. We pay monthly for twice a week pickup, for a max of two cans/bins.
  2. It's a yard, not a trophy. I'm not in an HOA.
  3. I'm not in this situation.
  4. We have a small wheeled wagon to carry the bags out, but our cans have no wheels.
scenic jasper
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@stuck anchor I suggest you move to Birmingham, UK. They just lob garbage bags into the streets. Any day of the week, anywhere you like.

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It's heaven. Rat heaven.

primal laurel
peak slate
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So my little stray cat colony would love it there

primal laurel
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we have these everywhere. Underground garbage container

stuck anchor
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we have one bin for glass and metal, one for food, one for paper, plastic goes in a plastic bag, and then one bin for the rest.

scenic jasper
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Yeah cats love scratching open bin bags. Used to be a problem here. Especially if it had fish or chicken in it.

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@Stefan See how that goes when they stop collecting. 🙂

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We have one for plastic now. Used to be bags.

primal laurel
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why would they do that

scenic jasper
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8000GBP paycut could be a reason.

primal laurel
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well, then don't do that

scenic jasper
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That's what they would have said in Birmingham last year

stuck anchor
scenic jasper
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@stuck anchor Where a truck comes and just lifts out the entire container?

stuck anchor
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no, pipes all the way underground. your garbage just gets sucked away...

scenic jasper
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I have waited several times behind one. Takes about 5 minutes in total.

stuck anchor
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and hot water loop in the same ditch using energy from the garbage for remote heating

primal laurel
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in the future: full auto, no operator 😂

iron granite
scenic jasper
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Bin empty! Success! Next house 😛

stuck anchor
primal laurel
solar zealot
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It's called a garbage bin for a reason

primal laurel
peak slate
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Security cameras came in clutch

iron granite
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/bin/gone

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/bin/null

scenic jasper
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/bin/laden

weak musk
stuck anchor
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maybe blink the lights in my daughters room until she does it 😄

scenic jasper
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Will just be a disco in there.

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Power off computer / console though. That should kick them into gear

iron granite
weak musk
iron granite
weak musk
robust flicker
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Well. Maintenance was testing the backup generators. And now we have no power in half of the jail. Whee!

glacial knot
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Why does a broken backup lead to power loss?
Can't they just recover with mains?

clear ferry
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Who needs mains when you have backup

primal laurel
robust flicker
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Nah, it's only admin and services that have power issues. All the housing areas are fine lol

robust flicker
glacial knot
robust flicker
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In any event, not my circus, not my monkeys. I'm electronics, not electrical. 🤣

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just sits back and enjoys the show

stuck anchor
robust flicker
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Aaand it just tried to come back on, and the UPS DID NOT like whatever they did. It is screaming like a banshee now. Someone done Fd up lmao

stuck anchor
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i got called in at midnight to be ready for when power returned and they had no plan for how to bring up a whole dc. nobody had thought about dependencies.

robust flicker
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Aaand now it's back on battery. Oops. Back on mains

stuck anchor
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hope the banshee goes away?

robust flicker
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It's a disco! Lights keep going on and off in here! Wheee!

stuck anchor
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play some disco music on your phone to set the mood...

scenic jasper
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Probably hopped up on sugar, artifical flavours and colourants raving

robust flicker
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I should go to lunch. Maybe it'll all burn...

scenic jasper
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That's the spirit. Just block it.

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Bon apetite.

gusty belfry
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man I really need a better temp/humidity sensor. These TH01s suck.

clear ferry
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Aqara go brrrrr

weak musk
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What does it do when it’s warm?

solar zealot
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wrrrrr

iron granite
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Does atxbyea know what warm is?

clear ferry
last cedar
primal laurel
solar zealot
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id have my doubts, thats surely just a big snow blower

weak musk
clear ferry
primal laurel
clear ferry
solar zealot
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an unforseen design flaw

clear ferry
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Flaw?

primal laurel
clear ferry
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That's the fun thing about Norwegians

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My side of the country it is normal to use genitals as adjectives

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And we can call the police for horsecocks without repercussions

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But in the south, that would get you arrested

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So they always think I'm adorable when I'm working down south

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Even though i would be in the HR office daily if I was a southerner

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@stuck anchor can confirm this

frank salmon
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is there any easy way to update python?

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Doesnt seem like HA is allowing me to update stuff.

static schooner
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update it where?

iron granite
frank salmon
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I have no idea lol

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I tried to force update it in the console becaause it didnt seem to detect any updates

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2025.2.5 version i think

iron granite
clear ferry
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Holy red text of Antioch

solar zealot
iron granite
solar zealot
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Yes

stuck mortar
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Aight, time to go OTA update my plant

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iron granite
stuck mortar
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My airwaves aren't that dirty

solar zealot
stuck mortar
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Haha

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This is the third reality one

solar zealot
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so it is tuya

stuck mortar
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Shit

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I have been bamboozled

iron granite
clear ferry
clear ferry
solar zealot
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Oh my

clear ferry
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clear ferry
crisp oriole
static schooner
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Just ask ChatGPT

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Fix my automations plz

tidal bronze
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GPT might be able to fix that too

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I uploaded by packages zipped and wanted some feedback. Came back with your 460 automations looks good with 55% of them using conditional, whatever that means LOL

urban viperBOT
mighty abyss
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Disappointed with VPE. Microphone is absolute shite. For something that is a voice assistant you would think the thing they spend the most time on would be microphone

deft pewter
solar zealot
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idk what kinda studio quality sound recordings people expect out of a voice node, but all it needs to do is be good enough to recognize speech - which it does

primal laurel
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But I wanted to do Katy Perry karaoke 🎤

rain pumice
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What’s wrong with yours?

red rock
unreal crystal
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I just figured out today that a bunch of automations that I was making are mostly pointless.

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I was trying to minimize how much power I pulled from the grid. I pay 21 cents per kWh and they give me 9 cents per kWh.

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However, what I realized today is that they don't settle until the end of the month.

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Which means until then, it's a 1:1 ratio.

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Which means that it doesn't really matter what my gross grid use is at all, only net at the end of the month.

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Which means just charge my car whenver i *(& want, instead of waiting for sunlight.

robust flicker
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Maybe it's a different plan?

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My power provider has several different plans, including flat rate billing, time advantage, energy advantage, etc. They have different rates and different surcharge fees for usage types.

unreal crystal
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I'm in Ohio

primal laurel
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So you lose 21-9=12 cents per kWh

unreal crystal
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Only at the end of the month

ocean oar
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I think what they're describing is they just realised it's net billing.
So it's only the difference in imports/exports at the end of the month they're paying.

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Basically using the power grid as a battery; borrow theirs now, and return it later.

unreal crystal
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If it settled instantly or every hour you'd want to minimize use. But it's more like a credit card. As long as you pay off the energy by the end of the month you don't pay any extra interest or fees.

primal laurel
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Ok that's net metering, it's a kind of subsidy

sage cedar
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Let's call it what it is, bullshit. I feel for you @unreal crystal

unreal crystal
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Who what

sage cedar
sage cedar
primal laurel
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Wut? Net metering is like the best case scenario

sage cedar
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Ok I may be out to lunch here.

weak musk
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Bit late for that no?

unreal crystal
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My whole point was that because it doesn't reconcile instantly, I have the option to lean on the grid more.

sage cedar
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I can admit when I'm out of my depth... I'm out of my depth. I didn't understand @unreal crystal's context (a failure on my part) and inserted my own. @unreal crystal apologies.
-# will still call bullshit when required

unreal crystal
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no harm done, just wasn't clear

sand fable
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Anyone purchase Smartwings shades recently and have to pay customs fees?

sage cedar
young sigil
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And if I had net metering I'd never pay anything. Gross metering is way worse for the customer if the feed in tariff is lower than the consumed tariff.

shy plinth
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unfortunately the providers where serinus and I are still have some baseline fees and i believe net metering doesn't cover those. plus the state limits the size of your install to 120% of your last 12 month average (though I've heard you may be able to get a waiver).

unreal crystal
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You think they're strict about that 120% ? Seems like the kind of provision intended to prevent issues

glacial knot
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"the state" is also a very ominous thing in an international space

clear ferry
robust flicker
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uhm, would template sensor questions go into configuration since it's not really an automation?

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robust flicker
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Oh. I didnt see that channel. ok thanks.

clear ferry
crisp oriole
clear ferry
forest edge
# clear ferry

your new home looks smaller than I thought it would have been

crisp oriole
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Good god facebook. I finished a integration hack for motioneye. And the only post is a question if motioneye is unmaintained. With nothing positive. Its my topic so i have to check. 30 sec search results in last commit in acceptible time.

I said its maintained do your research. Now a whole discussion started about im blunt.

Not a single post about the integration.

weak musk
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I mean, that’s pretty blunt

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this is why stuff becomes unmaintained

crisp oriole
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And its facebook

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Its reply now or never reply at all

gaunt mural
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Hi 👋

crisp oriole
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Like building good documentation on facebook posts.

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Heya vogel.

solar zealot
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Sometimes ya just need to stay silent and not be rude ^^ it's not that difficult

glacial knot
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on the internet? Such a dumb idea

solar zealot
crisp oriole
deft pewter
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You chose not to.

crisp oriole
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I made something and he tells me its build on obsolete stuff.

deft pewter
crisp oriole
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Damn right Pyjama jesus.

weak musk
clear ferry
crisp oriole
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F1. Time to practice my German.

glacial knot
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JA

solar zealot
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eine gute

iron granite
shy plinth
clear ferry
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You psychopaths with your gas appliances

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Germans and Americans, weirdos

pale folio
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does any one know if you can ad confirmations to these switches ?

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primal laurel
primal laurel
clear ferry
scenic slate
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Does anyone know if someone made a jellyfin alternative to the https://github.com/JurajNyiri/PlexMeetsHomeAssistant ? This is a great card, you can set it so that when you hit play it goes to the media player its configured for. I'm setting up dashboard for tablets in each of my kids rooms. I like that I can create a tab for Movies and all they do is hit play for it to go to their TV. I just would prefer to use jellyfin.

GitHub
GitHub - JurajNyiri/PlexMeetsHomeAssistant: Custom card which integ...

Custom card which integrates plex into Home Assistant and makes it possible to launch movies or tv shows on TV with a simple click - JurajNyiri/PlexMeetsHomeAssistant

static schooner
scenic slate
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Will post there

clear ferry
primal laurel
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Skate 3?

clear ferry
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Pope Franz in three days

solar zealot
blazing junco
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Hi all,

I'm so confused with the new Discord layout. Don't we have any Chat channels anymore where we can discuss specific stuff. For example: like Frigate? Or can we only post topics now and hope somebody will participate?

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blazing junco
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Wow, ok. That's a bummer

dawn badge
blazing junco
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Yeah that's true. In my experience, topics will get snowed under and never be seen. But maybe i'm wrong 🙂

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Thanks though

young sigil
thick dragon
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Finally got my Inspelnings to replace my blown Athom plugs. Now time to go on a rename spress so all my old automations work again.

clear ferry
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The Great VM Reset: Why Support—Not Software—Is the #1 Requirement in Your Virtualization Strategy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-vm-reset-why-supportnot-softwareis-1-your-strategy-jason-newton-ednwc

The Great VM Reset: Why Support—Not Software—Is the #1 Requirem...

By Jason Newton, VP, Hybrid Cloud Marketing at HPE From boardrooms to datacenters across the globe, enterprises are re-evaluating their virtualization strategies. Licensing changes have forced many to explore alternatives to their long-standing VM platforms.

deft pewter
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By Jason Newton, VP, Hybrid Cloud Marketing at HPE
Yeah, figures

robust flicker
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This is what I'm talking about when I bemoan my local used PC component market... He has 8 hard drives listed in total. The highest capacity is 120G. I added all 8 up and came up with 580G. Meanwhile, for 19.99 each and free shipping, I bought 3 3TB drives from a Newegg marketplace seller. All 3 of which were still in the original OEM packaging, unused.

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primal laurel
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it's facebook, it's preying on the dumbest people online

deft pewter
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I thought that was Twitter

robust flicker
solar zealot
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don't low ball them, they know what they have

primal laurel
robust flicker
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And, it's hard to pay in cash when you aren't there. And most of these kinda deals want cash.

primal laurel
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interesting, I've been doing that for 10 years. Never paid with cash

solar zealot
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cash money tax free time

clear ferry
clear ferry
solar zealot
clear ferry
primal laurel
solar zealot
clear ferry
solar zealot
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Yeaa

clear ferry
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That's a good deal

glacial knot
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=.= I think I'll have to get my hands dirty on the automations building blocks for loops....

clear ferry
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Floops

glacial knot
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almost

mighty abyss
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is there like a normal chat for home assistant voice?

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I like a channel just to discuss it

iron granite
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No.

mighty abyss
iron granite
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Support channels have been moved to forum style channels.

mighty abyss
iron granite
clear ferry
primal laurel
glacial knot
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rooSuffer fortinet

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@clear ferry you ahve weird stuff. Do you have some multi-room audio setup? yagaThink

iron granite
glacial knot
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I don't even doubt it...

clear ferry
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Hey

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Hey

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Hey

glacial knot
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Hey

clear ferry
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I don't kink shame you guys

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But yes I do

glacial knot
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you'd never

clear ferry
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Multi room servers that is

glacial knot
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but what about uadio?

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I think I'll set up snapcast. But not entirely sure yet yagaGa

clear ferry
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I actually installed a setup with 512 servers in one room, and then 512 servers in another room, we had to make a superspine to interconnect them

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But no, no multi room audio here, playing around with music assistant currently though

glacial knot
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one cat 5 (no E) cable should be fine, right?

clear ferry
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64 switches with 64 ports each

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Plus the downlinks to the new spines

glacial knot
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o.0 full N to M?

clear ferry
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Infiniband fat tree yes

glacial knot
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o.0

clear ferry
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That is just spine leaf, now add superspine on top

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All leafs connect to all spines

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All spines connect to all super spines

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With one or more links

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That infographic is old though, these days it is moving to 800G

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And downlinks are 200/400

glacial knot
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hm, music assistant also looks like a good option

weak musk
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I don’t understand music assistant.

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Like I get what it does, but it doesn’t seem to solve any gap I have (and I have multi room audio)

clear ferry
glacial knot
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do you have hardware devices you use for clients, or run some software players? yagaThink

clear ferry
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I just use Ikea symfonisk in all rooms

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I have two symfonisk lamp speakers in the bedroom that connect to an apple tv and the bedroom projector

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Great fun

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One symfonisk bookshelf in the main bathroom,one in the kitchen and one in the dining room, main living room has a LG tv with Chromecast with a Klipsch bar, downstairs living room has a Luxor tv with Chromecast and a Sony bar

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Garage will shortly have a Snell speaker setup with a Chromecast connected to a Yamaha receiver

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My office has Klipsch speakers, no smartness though, wife had a Google home screen in her office and the kids have google home minis in their rooms to control lights and music with voice

glacial knot
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do you know which protocol the symfonisk speak? DLNA? Chromecast? Airplay?

clear ferry
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They do AirPlay and dlna i believe

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Because I can do Plex with them

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And Spotify directly

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And since they are Sonos you can do some fun automatic grouping thing based on movement

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So sound follows you around

glacial knot
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Part of the idea would be to not use spotify directly since that's kinda annoying to transfer between clients

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oh right. They have the sonos multiroom stuff

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Though iirc. sonos is on the bad children list due to some weird update that removed features thing? yagaThink

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also MA insisting on running on a L2 network with the players... 😦

clear ferry
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Mdns?

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Can just do microsegmentation between clients smart

glacial knot
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could yea

trail crag
# mighty abyss I just wanted a normal community to see how people have used it in automations o...

even if it were a normal chat, your chances of just popping in and seeing others discuss use cases and automations would have been very low, or require a lot of scrolling back. There's no reason you can't start your own topic with the exact thing you are asking about in #1284966915055288530 , and then see who comes in to participate and share over time, giving you the "normal" discussion you are seeking. You only need some patience.

lapis cipher
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Long time no see 😎

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(if the joke is too brutal i apologize, the author of that is right there above ^ 🙂 )

robust flicker
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Jerry was a zigbee user.

lapis cipher
primal laurel
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this scrolling is something I did all the time, not anymore

clear ferry
lapis cipher
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Slowly again resurrecting my infra, i recall my HA installation (of course on Raspi) is something like early 2022 version 😄

forest edge
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@static schoonerdidn't you say at one point you disassemble your LR3 at one point and had to figure out how the magnets went back in?

static schooner
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No, I read about the magnets, but I've never had to do anything with them

forest edge
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I found an article that talks about it. I forgot all about them and sure as hell they fell out lol

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glad they don't use those on the lr4

static schooner
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The foot on one of the weight sensors of my 4 keeps getting wedged and it only registers the weight of one of my cats. Quite annoying

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It detects the other cat and cycles, but doesn't record a weight

vagrant kraken
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Greetings friends. Can I do automated operations with the assistant with Prowlarr or Radarr etc. What is their actual function on the home assistant as an add-on?

static schooner
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I set up a camera there to prove that the other cat is going

static schooner
forest edge
static schooner
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It just gets stuck and doesn't move freely

forest edge
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whats crazy is the ammonia the urine produces will rust metal anywhere on the units and yet they don't account for that with nothing lol

static schooner
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I took the whole sensor apart and I think the legs on the foot are splayed out and getting stuck

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I don't know for sure that hats what's causing the weight issues, it I've also had this unit report that the weight sensors were active for too long and I need to reset the robot

forest edge
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didn't see anything weird when you took apart the sensor?

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I haven't had to mess with mine yet. not sure whats involved. only looked at them while installed

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yea but refering to the sensor itself, not the foot

static schooner
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Nothing out there of the ordinary. Some of the epoxy where the wires are attached was worn away

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It's just a white load cell and the foot has some legs that clip onto it from behind and a post that presses on it

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Pretty simple. The other three feet move freely

forest edge
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well as I stated above the ammonia fumes from the urine wreck havic on all kinds of crap on those units. I would suggest taking the weight out of the liner and rustoleum that the next time you deep clean lol

static schooner
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It's pretty easy to get litter wedged up in the gap around the foot

forest edge
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guess still not under warranty?

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I need to hunt down the screws they use on the globe. two of them snapped from corrosion as I took the LR3 apart

static schooner
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Ordered back in 2022 and it has a 1 year warranty

clear ferry
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You weirdos and your 1 year warranty

forest edge
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we extended ours

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and since I have 4 units on one account I just use whichever warranty that's still active for the others

clear ferry
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We just get 5 years from the get go by law HaHaa

forest edge
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do you even have cats?

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aside from the mean wild ones

clear ferry
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No, cats don't exist

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Just like birds

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All fake

forest edge
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yea so no market for auto litter boxes in the land of the pallas cat that will eat your face off

static schooner
clear ferry
solar zealot
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a small kitty!

forest edge
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think they wised up to that tho cause our second one they just sent a liner

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and they changed the liner to require a plastic clip to hold in the weight and didn't send the clip

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that made me a little upset

iron granite
robust flicker
solar zealot
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did i stutter. its. a. kitty.

robust flicker
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White girl energy. 🤣

solar zealot
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its friend shaped why wouldnt it be fren????

clear ferry
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How much is gas in Misery now @forest edge last i was state side it was $1.95, but we were at $8.3 per gallon at the time but now we are at $6.7 per gallon

forest edge
robust flicker
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Many years ago, when I still had a full head of hair, and less belly fat, I had an ATV. I encountered a wild bobcat during my many travels in said ATV... She was not happy to see me. And she had babies. I noped right tf outta there.

clear ferry
robust flicker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat

Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the wildcat, bay lynx, or red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. Native to North America, it ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2002, due to i...

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Bobcat is a lynx.

forest edge
iron granite
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^ Bobcat

solar zealot
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the best kitty This

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those

clear ferry
static schooner
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Attachment of the foot to the sensor looks identical on both

forest edge
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should contact them regardless

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spares are always welcome

static schooner
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Some litter did get in there and I cleaned it out, but it could have caused some damage

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It's weird that it's just the one cat. And it had no problem with that cat until I added a heavier one using the same unit

grizzled gull
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missed the conversation, talking about autmated litter boxes?

static schooner
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Yes, litter robot

grizzled gull
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I've had good luck with chinese knockoff 2 years trouble free 3 cats

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Catlink

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when I bought it was 30% of the price of litter robot

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went up 150 bucks since I bought it, depressing

static schooner
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I've had so many others over the years that I didn't want to mess with an off-brand. Whisker support is pretty good and their products are good quality (once they sorted out their firmware)

grizzled gull
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Understandable

static schooner
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that does look like a knockoff

grizzled gull
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oh it most definately is

static schooner
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and the cat looks drugged

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wow, the updated version costs more than the Litter Robot

grizzled gull
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I know

static schooner
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well, looks like they have a $150 coupon, so like $50 less

grizzled gull
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To many electronics for my tastes

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Mine tells me when its full, who poops and pee's(really dont' care about that either)

static schooner
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LARGE SPACE & DRAWER - 70L robot cat litter box internal space allows cats to turn around more easily. The large 13L capacity waste container supports nearly 20 days of no-scooping, and the included waste bags can be used for up to 1000 days for one cat
At first, I thought it was saying that you didn't have to clean it for 1000 days

grizzled gull
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oh that would be rank

static schooner
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20 days is still quite a while

grizzled gull
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Honestly we reuse the bags (dump them into kitchen garbage when it goes out and we don't due the deoderizer because honestly it doesn't smell

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Its more like 4-5 with 3 cats(we have 2 of the litter boxes but they mainly use one)

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4-5 when the full annoucement goes off, its usually only 50-60% full though

last cedar
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Local pet store sells a self cleaning one for 600 euro ish

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For that money I would expect it to give the cat a full wash and shampoo every time it went for a shit

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I nearly died

iron granite
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No need for a litter box, if you train them to use the toilet and to flush afterwards.

ocean oar
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I know our currency is really in the shitter right now, but a LR4 (which isn't even in stock, so you can't actually have one at any price) is listed at $1775 NZD. (excl tax, USD$930, €810).

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I was pondering the upgrade (now that they've ironed out the bugs with the weight tracking), but at that price, not so much

last cedar
frigid mirage
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Anyone unable to create a new issue in core repo?

last cedar
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We used to have a fluffy one that would end up with more shit on its arse than in the litter box though

clear ferry
last cedar
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Female, just too much of a fluffy arse I guess

clear ferry
last cedar
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It is a chore cleaning, but I am not sure if it is a 600 euro chore

clear ferry
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Maybe if you have 600 cats

last cedar
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How hard can it be to make one for less money?

clear ferry
last cedar
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We did have 6

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And that bitch took 3 of them

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I got the best 3 though

frigid mirage
last cedar
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And not the fluffy shit-arsed one, but she was great to cuddle with

clear ferry
last cedar
ocean oar
static schooner
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they're so much more convenient and so much less messy than a regular catbox

grizzled gull
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They also save litter

frigid mirage
grizzled gull
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our use is down 50%

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I will also say once you have one, you will never go back

deft pewter
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They control the odour better too. Love ours.

near reef
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update on the blue dongle saga

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this is actually a CSR 8510, don't waste your money on amazon just get this

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usb 3-2.2: Product: CSR8510 A10
Bluetooth: hci0: CSR: Setting up dongle with HCI ver=6 rev=22bb
Bluetooth: hci0: LMP ver=6 subver=22bb; manufacturer=10
Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22

grizzled gull
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Did you use the approved bluetooth adapter list?

near reef
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i did read that yes, but most of the brands on that list are no longer for sale

grizzled gull
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Mainly asking is if you did then and the adapter didn't work maybe it needed to be updated is all

near reef
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i ordered a tp-link 4.0 that used to be a CSR 8510 but they sent me a revision with a realtek instead

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gonna send that back

grizzled gull
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Yeah I see my adapter I bought on amazon isn't for sale anymore :/

near reef
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this is the adapter you DON'T want, they switched the chipset to a realtek BT 5.x https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/usb-adapter/ub400/

hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0a hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=0a lmp_subver=8761
Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin

ocean oar
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I bought an "Orico" branded one for about $12 from a local bricks and mortar PC store, was a CSR5810

near reef
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the realtek one would kill itself after a few hours, i had to make a loop that reset it every 30 mins

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pretty much exactly what the manual says

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sudo modprobe -r btusb && sleep 10 && sudo modprobe btusb reset=1

grizzled gull
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is csr8811 bad too?

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sorry not actually looking at anything, but something poped up when I searched for my out of stock adapter

near reef
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if it isn't realtek or broadcom it's prob good

ocean oar
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"If it isn't broadcom it's prob good" is a rule you can apply to almost every product category broadcom operates in

grizzled gull
crisp oriole
desert cave
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just gonna say it's really nice to be able to set the dining room lights to automatically turn off after an hour, to counter my housemate always leaving them on :P

simple gazelle
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We all have our blindspots, HA helps cover them

stuck mortar
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Turn off after 15 minutes
“You’ve had enough”

quasi peak
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anyone have anything bad to say recently about Govee lights? Ive noticed that almost all the amazon pages for them now say "frequently returned"

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the 3 strips i currently have are still running fine, but i recently installed their recessed ceiling lights (new build, no power yet to test), curious if theres been complaints

iron granite
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Their space heaters have been recalled.

unborn merlin
quasi peak
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i dont need a lot of functions, just on, off, color

unborn merlin
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if you're using outdoor lights my advise is..

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the controller is not actually fucking waterproof.

ocean oar
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Common L with cheap lights

unborn merlin
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govee aren't that cheap

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the annoying part is.. they put a fucking gasket in it

quasi peak
unborn merlin
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just not in all the right places to actually functionally waterseal it.

ocean oar
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It's especially fun when the cable is also far too short (and not detachable) so it can't possibly not be outside

quasi peak
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they are in my new build living room

unborn merlin
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my assumption for why those are frequently returned is probably related to how weird recessed light stuff can be

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like.. it looks like 4" because it uses a bulb for that size.. but nope its 5/6 or etc I imagine

quasi peak
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yeah i had my electricians install them

unborn merlin
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🤷‍♂️

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that stuff is more about what you're comfortable with/whatever is currently in the ceiling and etc..

quasi peak
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new build house too

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more that these were supposedly compatible with the govee tv backlight thing

unborn merlin
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i mean.. its more just its all integrated with govee's stuff

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which isn't good or bad.. it just is

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... and if you really wanted you could probably open them and force it to be regular esphome too. 😄

quasi peak
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true

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main thing though is i just wanna make sure theres not some super flaw i didnt notice cause its WAYYYY to late to return

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I bought them when the project started in jan

unborn merlin
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nah.. but since new build I presume you already have whole-house surge suppression going

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which should take most of where failures eventually tend to come from.. unstable power.

quasi peak
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oh yeah 100% new and pro installed power box and breakers

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they did a damn good job

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I have enough exp to know when shoddy work, but not enough to do it all myself

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these 4 lights have their own breaker

unborn merlin
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I mean.

that's probably wild overkill. 🤣

quasi peak
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lighting for the room

unborn merlin
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if I could do a new build all myself I'd probably put low-voltage wiring to all my lighting boxes too.

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that's still hilarious overkill 😄

quasi peak
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my PC outlet has its own breaker, now thats OVERKILL

unborn merlin
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but its code and blah blah blah

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probably.

quasi peak
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its more that each rooms lighting and plugs each have their own breaker set

unborn merlin
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yeah the plug circuits is normal

quasi peak
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code is the lowest

unborn merlin
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but these days? if you redesigned code for modern lights..?

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it'd probably be like

quasi peak
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we met or exceeded code on every bit of this house

unborn merlin
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per-floor light circuits or something.

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because LED's take fucking nothing

quasi peak
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I have them split to per room because its a smart home, and plan to be editing or changing out things

unborn merlin
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mind you with a panel and bit of service-loop on wires in boxes.. it'd be trivial to have it be switchable later.

quasi peak
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and my exterior walls are all high density foam

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not the normal spray in

unborn merlin
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insulated concrete forms, or?

quasi peak
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this is the stuff you put in boats to make them float

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wood frame house

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just spent 5 grand on insulation

unborn merlin
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it'll pay off if you live anywhere even slightly cold...

quasi peak
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can be 48C outside, and the inside could stay 20C without the AC unit on all day

unborn merlin
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🙃 my family's current house was built up in the 2000's...

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.... it has like R12/R14 or something insulation

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and it fucking shows.

quasi peak
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im at r56

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🙂

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its so sealed the AC unit requires a dedicated intake because the house doesnt really breath

unborn merlin
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I mean thats a heat exchanger unit in most modern houses..

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or active ventilation/whatever

quasi peak
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my dads house across the driveway doesnt need one, the attic has enough built in flow

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my attic is climate controlled

unborn merlin
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not even terribly cold outside when I took this

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thermal cameras are fun. 😛 (and useful for some issues/etc)

quasi peak
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oh agreed

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i bought one and checked the whole house

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annoyed my builder but i wanna spend almost nothing to cool this place

unborn merlin
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still trying to convince the family to

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install a god fucking damn heat pump

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but nah, they much prefer the route of buying bullshit to go on the deck/etc that will get used 3 times a year every other year or something.

quasi peak
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lol

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heat pumps are awesome

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we paid extra to have one installed

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this house should be SUPER efficient

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like everything is led, the painting was picked to help reduce heat, and all the windows and doors are high efficiency rated

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only thing that could do more would be masonry walls, but thats another like 8 grand we didnt want to spend

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so went with thicker foam and concrete board siding

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and put smart wire systems into most of the wiring

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you think thats bad

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try getting a set of EMF meeters to check your house wiring for problems

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oh i did

unborn merlin
quasi peak
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i wired up everything and found every bit insulation damage, every badly wired outlet

unborn merlin
quasi peak
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EMF is ANY leakage

unborn merlin
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there will always be leakage.. Unless you're running metal conduits 😛

quasi peak
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was EOD for demolition

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I double checked the detonation wires and such for explosive demo jobs

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checked wireless signal strength to ensure any wireless detonators wouldnt get blocked by the building

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and built in repeaters when needed

unborn merlin
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so lame no fun plunger smh.

quasi peak
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oh ive hit the button

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the panels look a lot like this

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unborn merlin
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sir.

no plunger no fun.

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we all want the acme experience

quasi peak
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I used to be able to tell you what every single function and button on these types of panels did

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was a GREAT summer job

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but yeah

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was fun whipping that EMF meter out and the electrician actually knowing what it was

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he quickly before i started reran a few lines

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i lested those lines after, nothing major was wrong with them but the insulation was damaged on them a bit

quiet tulip
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Well, I bit the bullet, moved my HA instance to a VM hosted on proxmox. Generally the directions worked, there's a helper script that makes it pretty easy. The biggest issue I found was the USB passthrough / permissions. There's no one way/solution, but find the right device and pass it through as the USB port itself, then be sure to find the permissions and set them to allow the world to write to it the device file.
lsusb will tell you which USB device. and in proxmox you will see the device name detected .

I was able to make more of the servics I wanted to collapse on to this system be done in LXC containers, rather than add-ons in HA for things like Plex.

So, I now have 2 machines collapsed onto one, and a LOT of breathing room. I probably could put the whole workload on that N100 with 16GB of RAM. I don't think I'm up for another build right now though.

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tawdry topaz
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Good morning,
I was wondering where the new device database is discussed. I wrote
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/definitive-guide-to-weather-integrations/736419
and since it is a pretty popular guide, I wondered if services could be included.

Home Assistant Community
Definitive guide to Weather integrations 🌦

There are a bunch of weather integrations to choose from and everyone you’ll ask will have a different opinion about which one to choose. Let’s break down the options where they shine, where they fall short and help YOU choose the perfect fit for your smart home. So, grab your metaphorical raincoats (or sunscreen, depending on the forecast)...

red rock
blazing forge
tawdry topaz
red rock
hybrid dust
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hey guys, i'm looking at making my own server and domain (so i can have all my things in a domain that i can give to people to use) and i have some questions around it and email domains and whatnot - i know that it's not HA related but i figured that some people here would have already done this - does anyone have any suggestions on a subreddit to put this on? all my research is coming up with something like selfhosted, but i don't want to self host my emails so not sure if there's anything better to use?

solar zealot
deft pewter
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hybrid dust
deft pewter
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You've been presented with the best (and only reasonable) option. Stay with good provider, set up custom domain.

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stuck anchor
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for the rest - get a domain name you like. then decide if you want to host other services at cloud companies or at home. if at home, check if your isp offers static ip address for your router.

if you cannot get a static ip then use something like duckdns. then set up the services you want to access at home as CNAME records in your own domain that point to the duckdns name. set up port forwarding in your home router redirecting ports 80 and 443 to a proxy that uses the hostname in the url to redirect internally.

that's pretty much it

solar zealot
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or you skip duckdns and friends and just update the dns record directly. With most major ns providers it's a two line curl

stuck anchor
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not all dns providers are happy with short ttl outside of ddns subdomains. but if you find one with ddns and also offering a name you like ..

solar zealot
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major ones seem fine in my experience, especially as dns servers somewhat ignore ttl for caching purposes

simple gazelle
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Who're y'all using for domains these days? I was on Gandi but they jacked the prices up, moved to Porkbun who seem to support everything I need.

solar zealot
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cloudflare, netcup, namecheap

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Unfortunately cf has very little tlds in store

iron granite
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I register my domains at Hetzner. But I'm using Cludflare for DNS.

solar zealot
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netcup runs a lot of discounts so you end up paying 1.40 for a .de over a year

simple gazelle
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I have a stupid tld (.guru)

lapis cipher
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I've been on Joker since forever, haven't ever done any comparison between other registrars

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I initially wanted to use Google Workspace when i retired my own hardware (with domains, emails, everything) on a datacenter but it was no longer available (as in, free as it used to) for my existing account(s). Lazy as i am, i just created one more account and redirected all the domain emails to this account. I use a lot of custom addresses for services i sign up into, easy to see who leaked my address for spammers and block.

keen bridge
solar zealot
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I love how all of those services and sites sound like made up these days

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"Yea of course I have all my sites with bubbles but they recently got bought by slurp.ee and will rebrand to nXt$ite"

iron granite
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At least they don't sound NSFW in the local language like some website provider.

solar zealot
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hot-web-deals-in-your-area

lapis cipher
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i am so glad my server borked, had lost interest to tune postfix, spamassassin and all that stuff long ago already. It was fun while it lasted, then it became a plain burden

iron granite
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Mailcow looks promising, but haven't tried it yet.

solar zealot
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mailcow is good

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🐮 polishcow

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I don't like their web mailer but you don't have to use it

glacial knot
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I decided against hosting mail after a while

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The effort us just... Immense

lapis cipher
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Exactly! And if and when you set it "perfectly" once and then don't touch it for years, there is again loads of learning curve on how things work, especially if its not something you do for a living

desert cave
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self hosting mail is almost impossible these days. 90% of users are on google or MS sites, and MS at least is pretty strict about only accepting mail from "reputable" sources. I host an art gallery site and we run into constant issues with password reset e-mails failing to deliver, even though we've whitelisted ourselves with MS multiple times, and gone through every verification step they've asked for

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at this point I'm considering something like sendgrid (though maybe not them, as they just got breached) to deliver mail, even though we only send a few messages a week currently

clear ferry
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Self hosting email is for two kinds of people, people who have no idea what they are doing, and 90 year old Unix admins

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Protonmail just handles my email domain for me

normal moon
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As a 90 50+ year old Unix admin, I no longer self-host email. It is too much of a hassle.

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I had it running in Kubernetes for a few years, then found Fastmail and decided to pay them to do the thing.

iron granite
primal laurel
normal moon
lapis cipher
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Speaking of which, my brand new microsd just failed after a week for BirdNET-Pi - gonna lose all the birdmails :/

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normal moon
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I use them for my drone, and in a USB A/C thing to pretend to be a flash drive

lapis cipher
clear ferry
primal laurel
glacial knot
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Shooting yourself in the knee to piss someone off is quite the dysfunction

clear ferry
primal laurel
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urban viperBOT
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Oh hi blobwave

We’re proposing to stop supporting two installation methods officially:

  • Home Assistant Core (running directly in a Python environment)
  • Home Assistant Supervised (running the full stack on your own operating system)

Additionally, we’re planning to discontinue official support for two older architectures:

  • i386 (32-bit x86)
  • armhf (32-bit ARM hard float)

Want to share thoughts before it’s official? Read more about it and let us know 👇

🗣 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/feedback-requested-deprecating-core-supervised-i386-armhf/880968

primal laurel
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iron granite
glacial knot
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Nice. No more supervisor rooComfy

peak slate
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But I like supervised! Though I guess I can just go haos

glacial knot
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I don't like it
I like it even less in containers

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Makes them behave in messy ways

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S6 is kinda ok, but also has some corner cases

peak slate
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Oh nvm don't mind if it's not officially supported, I wouldn't want to inflict my supervised setup on someone to get help

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I'd just nuke and pave (like I've done in the past)

clear ferry
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Yuck supervision

simple gazelle
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Wait, wasn't Docker the recommened way? Everyone told me to do that!

primal laurel
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Base Docker is fine

simple gazelle
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Oh, I missed the "stop" don't mind me bukirest

primal laurel
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You're not gonna be th only one misreading this lol

glacial knot
last cedar
iron granite
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Core and Supervised are also not going to be axed (they are used for development), Just not officially supported.

glacial knot
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D: how boring

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Though I consider the dev env with devcontainer largely docker

solar zealot
jade kiln
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Core user here... 🥶

solar zealot
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PE_PandaUnicorn we know they don't exist

jade kiln
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...

solar zealot
clear ferry
primal laurel
clear ferry
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New office chair time

iron granite
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That's no TV - it's a space station.

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its a red hat red hat!

clear ferry
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It is

iron granite
clear ferry
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I only use it for monitoring, so I don't tilt my head much

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It rotates through 5 tabs

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And sometimes it runs for loops when I need to do it outside my computer but still monitor it

deft pewter
# clear ferry

What size are the bottom 3 monitors? I used to swear by multiple monitors but now I find it easier working with one ultrawide... almost looks like you have multiple ultrawides 😂

iron granite
clear ferry
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I hate ultrawide

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If I could have 6x24" I'd be happy

shut magnet
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all i can see is that god awful hat

glacial knot
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It's a RedHat

iron granite
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A red red hat hat

glacial knot
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a red redhat fedora fedora hat

iron granite
clear ferry
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Fun fact, I got it at vmworld

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2015

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But I put it on whenever I have meetings with redhat

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Always makes them laugh

glacial knot
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Luckily I have yet to deal with them

clear ferry
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I actually enjoy openshift

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Need to get my feet dirty with hypershift

hearty palm
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question has anyone used rodret ikea zigbee dimmer switches with ha i dont want help with them i just want to know if they work with home assistant before i buy one that i need

iron granite
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I'm using those with ZHA.

hearty palm
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thanks its good to hear that they work fine with ha i was hopping to use them as a normal light switches for my lights in my room ( yes i know they are dimmers but their small form factor was perfect for me )

forest edge
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holy hell taking apart the LR3 globe fully and putting it back together is a pain

static schooner
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it really is. the liner is a pain in the neck to seat properly

forest edge
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well I had thought it coming apart in 4 quadrants would make it easier to deal with. boy was i wrong lol

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safe to say this will be the last time that thing ever gets taken apart

static schooner
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the seam between the two halves causes me trouble. It tends to get caught on the sliding standoffs and cause an over torque error

forest edge
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ea it has one gliding tab, it needs more on both sides

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to align them and keep them level

static schooner
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I've been trying to fix it in various different ways by applying zipper lube to the textured track and putting packing tape over the seams

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it sorta works, but it's not a great design

forest edge
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could epoxy your own added guide on both halfs if you ever have to take apart again

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the thing is has is just a a tab that slides between two pieces of plastic

static schooner
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Plus, the bonnet can get deformed if you don't get all the tabs into the right slots, which can also cause the globe to bind up because two of the sliding posts are on the bonnet

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took me forever to figure out why it was sometimes binding up and stopping mid-cycle

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I have none of those issues with the LR4

forest edge
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yea that globe is easy

static schooner
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I really like the handle they added to pull it out

forest edge
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i can get gross

static schooner
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it's a bit more important on the 4 because the round portal in the front prevents you from just grabbing the globe from there

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it would be more awkward

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the LR4 with the dodgy weight sensors has stopped recording any weight at all after I removed and reinstalled the sensors, so I guess it's time to call support

forest edge
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thats weird

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wonder if there is some kind of code to hard reset those sensors

lapis cipher
visual dawn
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Hey guys!

I have a quick question for zigbee users -

I have a sonoff usb dongle as a coordinator and a bunch of sonoff sensors connected to it. All works fine, couple sensors are outside so the LQI and RSSI aren't great.

Today I added a sonoff smart zigbee socket and it acts as a router. The thing is, that the socket is right next to the actual main coordinator. I see in ZHA some path of some sensors have switched from the coordinator to the socket router and the LQI and RSSI became almost perfect (255 and -35 dBm) on the ones that connected to the socket router including the sensors that are outdoors

Is it really possible that the socket router somehow extends the signal so much more than the dongle coordinator?

swift prism
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so am i going to have to sacrifice my raspi for haos :/

solar zealot
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why

weak musk
swift prism
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its already been running sluggish

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it is only 2gb but wont running it in a container lower performance

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(currently I am upgrading HA and hacs is causing startup to stop so i'm disabling it for now but, yeah)

solar zealot
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containers will change pretty much nothing

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nor would keeping it like it is

deft pewter
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Pis are just toys. Don't run anything serious on them.

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Get an NUC or micro PC or whatever you want to call them.

solar zealot
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They do run homeassistant about alright

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Just keep backups for the SD cards to die ^^

swift prism
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hmmmm

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i gues my mom's old laptop is becoming problematic because of windows (lol), maybe i can install linux, make a super low power thing and use that? idk

deft pewter
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Maybe you can move this to a support channel... idk

swift prism
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im just ranting for now but i might

primal laurel
forest edge
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ugh now discord is sending emails about new features for sale...

swift prism
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yeah osmethings up with my install, ill bein support tomorrow. :P

still kiln
carmine cloud
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Question for people using Z2M... is there a way to "freeze" the map? I switched to a Sonoff dongle from deCONZ and the Z2M map is essentially unusable. With deCONZ you could move nodes around and they would stay where you left 'em. Z2M's map is constantly bouncing all over...
Or... am I using it wrong? User error? If so, how are you using it?

thick dragon
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What's the deal with power monitoring sockets and fridges? Aside from the "switch" component, why are they electrically a bad idea?

brisk glen
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Even when you throw some NAT networking in the mix your network output is forever going to be low enough that you will never notice.

swift prism
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Then what is it? A fancy chroot?

brisk glen
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Yes

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You got it

topaz cosmos
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Hey I just want to make sure I'm not going nuts. But is the new Areas thing automatically using the mushroom cards over the stock?

stuck mortar
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Mushroom is the new black

young sigil
tired quarry
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Hi all - sorry if this has been asked ad nauseum. Is there a bot/way to search the channels? I'm trying to work out if anyone has some good guides on setting up a Waveshare 7" touchscreen ESP32-S3 - want to use LCARS eventually but for now I'm just looking for initial setup/connection to HASSIO etc. Currently it just boots into LVGL v8 Demo dashboard and unsure if I should reflash it with something like I have my house light switches with Tasmota... or where to begin really.

frozen fulcrum
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will hiding sidebar elements on a per user basis ever be natively baked into home assistant?

regal schooner
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If I bought MOES zigbee roller shade can I control it without a hub?

visual dawn
thick dragon
crisp oriole
glacial knot
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ah yes, the age of VDI is here

stuck anchor
# swift prism it is only 2gb but wont running it in a container lower performance

are you running from sd card? if so, swapping/paging will really kill performance. sd cards are really bad at random i/o and anything not using their preferred block size. a2 class cards are better than others, but not good.

i have been running my haos on a pi 4b 24/7 for years. it's a 4gb model and with a bunch of addons i see it hovering around 2gb used. i can imagine a 2gb model getting to be problematic.

back when i also ran node red i migrated my os from sd card to a good memory stick first, and got a huge performance boost. then i bought a cheap usb to sata cable and migrated to a 128gb ssd and saw even better performance. now i have deleted node red as ha has gotten good enough on its own over the years but i will keep it running from ssd.

i like having my home automation running completely standalone. i plug it directly into my isp router to make sure no errors elsewhere in my home network affect automations.

lean hornet
swift prism
stuck anchor
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just make sure that if you run from sd card you never need to use it 😄

swift prism
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well later I will disable swap then ig

deft pewter
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And everything else that reads/writes from your SD card. Then you'll be safe.

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Or just do the sane thing... use an NUC.

swift prism
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While point of a Raspi for me is kind of to act like a NUC 😂

deft pewter
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I also like to use Fisher Price tools instead of Black and Decker tools tapshead

clear ferry
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White and Roofer for me thanks

stuck anchor
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a pi is a perfectly fine nuc as long as you get it off that sd card. sd cards suck as boot drives

swift prism
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I already recently bought a SSD for my Wii U and currently now is not s good time to buy electronics 😅

stuck anchor
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not if you are in that country

primal laurel
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