They’ve also been a reliability nightmare from day one with nonstop wifi issues
#the-water-cooler
old cobalt
And the Apple Store is useless.
you must be living in Greece? 🙂
round crystal
Canada
My partner’s Apple Watch battery swelled to the point it popped the screen off
The repair warehouse accused him of intentionally ripping it off and the battery wasn’t swollen.
The battery looked like a bean bag.
I had to spend hours on the phone to get someone to look at the photos and approve the replacement under warranty.
peak tusk
So I have an automation that downloads a PDF of the school lunch menu to "/downloads". I want to send it on to LLM to spit back a clean interperetation, but I can't figure out how to get another automation to access that directory. Anyone have a clue?
static schooner
iron granite
@round crystal I totally get that you are upset. But a little less use of "fuck" would be nice.
high remnant
if someone could automate somethng to get rid of my gnats that would be great
it feels like I am on schiphol airport
static schooner
As always, the answer is lasers (sharks optional)
high remnant
As always, the answer is *lasers* (sharks optional)
hollow glacier
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r76at3/smart_home_users_with_disabilities_what_has_made/ this post is gaining some traction - lots of good stories being shared of how home assistant is being used by people with disabilities/accessibility @lone dagger
chrome pasture
I just installed my first Ikea Matter bulb to add to all 256 other devices
wow what a pain in the rear
scenic radish
lol wtf... apparently the Unifi Device Bridge doesn't support setting the untagged VLAN on the port. Looks like it's going back to Microcenter
thankfully I'm a short bike ride away
chrome pasture
took me a solid 22 minutes to find this out btw;
In the companion app.
Settings → companion app → troubleshooting → sync thread credentials.
glacial knot
Device bridge?
chrome pasture
Device bridge?
if you say so 😄
my hass with the skyconnect is the openthreadgivesyouborderlinerouter
glacial knot
Look two messages further up from yours
scenic radish
Device bridge?
basically lets you connect a wired device via Wi-Fi. I was going to use it to replace some powerline ethernet adapters, but that appears to not be happening lol
glacial knot
I just have a wifi on my appliances vlan...
Not sure if tp-link even has a solution that transfers all clans over wifi though
scenic radish
problem is you don't connect the device bridge via an SSID, so I can't handle it that way
glacial knot
Bäh
Yea, my device bridge equivalent is a super dumb AP
scenic radish
to be fair, the powerline setup is working fine, but I wanted to try this
100 USD device, and you can't specify the VLAN 
would have been perfect since it supports PoE output
stuck mortar
Poe injector and WiFi access point in one does sound nifty
ocean oar
Ah, is it one of those annoying things that just gets dumped into whatever the untagged VLAN is on the AP side?
The cheaper of the in-wall access points might be an answer to this
https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wifi/products/u7-iw
Slightly more awkward to power it because you need PoE input, but I'm 99% sure you can wirelessly bridge these and then do useful things with VLANs on the two bottom ports
glacial knot
Then you'll just need a double ended PoE injector 
scenic radish
Ah, is it one of those annoying things that just gets dumped into whatever the u...
Yep. Insane
forest edge
isn't powerline still limited to 1g?
ocean oar
They sell a version called "2000" but since every device I've seen supporting that has 1Gb Ethernet ports, functionally yes
static schooner
I wonder how much more reliable or fast it is than modern Wifi
forest edge
wifi is still less stable
ocean oar
The real-world speed can be pretty dismal too, I tried some of those once. One house they managed 350Mbps in the same room, or 150 in an adjacent room but unusable packet loss. Current house tried them between the house and garage (about 40m), got 14Mbps (but completely stable). Probably that'd be enough for one security camera, if I wanted it
hollow glacier
lol wtf... apparently the Unifi Device Bridge doesn't support setting the untagg...
that's the switch with a built in AP right?
static schooner
My experience with Insteon, which uses a powerline protocol focused on zero-crossing, is that it's not great
forest edge
The real-world speed can be pretty dismal too, I tried some of those once. One h...
depends on if the two units are on the same line.
static schooner
better than X10, but I still needed an array of filters for a bunch of devices around the house
hollow glacier
My experience with Insteon, which uses a powerline protocol focused on zero-cros...
i see powerline, i cri
forest edge
i see powerline, i cri
thought that was the post office
static schooner
cool in theory, but meh in practice IMO
scenic radish
that's the switch with a built in AP right?
Kind of? It can't be used as an AP. It basically just lets you connect a wired device via WiFi
hollow glacier
Kind of? It can't be used as an AP. It basically just lets you connect a wired d...
yeah i clicked your link afterwards i forgot that existed
hollow glacier
thought that was the post office
it's been zero days since usps pissed me off
scenic radish
I wonder how much more reliable or fast it is than modern Wifi
"not" is the answer lol
static schooner
I would think investing in Wifi 6e @ 6GHz would be better in the long run
scenic radish
But I've successfully used it for some things as a last resort
hollow glacier
6ghz has to be like same room tho
forest edge
But I've successfully used it for some things as a last resort
shouldn't probably have those lead walls removed rather than finding ways around them
scenic radish
It was reliable for 4 camera streams, although that was only 4 Mbps max
static schooner
one of the reasons that I haven't bothered with it. But in a crowded city, might be more reliable
seems like it also means that you're less likely to get interference from neighbors
scenic radish
I'll just continue to be a menace with all of the RF noise it creates
scenic radish
seems like it also means that you're less likely to get interference from neighb...
I've been tempted to go with 6 GHz, but I haven't really had issues with 5 GHz (or 2.4, for that matter) even in crowded environments
This is always fun to see though
Oops! All interference
glacial knot
Man, people on the HA issue tracker are more annoying than paying customers at work 
static schooner
they need to get fixin' rather than complain'
forest edge
"apps" still causing chaos?
glacial knot
well, yea. Both the ones I engaged with over the last weeks are fixed but not released
but release cycles apparently are mystic knowledge
warm helm
Man, people on the HA issue tracker are more annoying than paying customers at w...
FREEEEEE
last cedar
Man, people on the HA issue tracker are more annoying than paying customers at w...
If you want we can pretend to be paying customers and annoy you
round crystal
<@939766263733968927> I totally get that you are upset. But a little less use of...
Frick.
Also whoever said I should move to Proxmox
I’m doing it.
Wish me luck.
warm helm
<@939766263733968927> I totally get that you are upset. But a little less use of...
Those are fighting words. How dare you hate that wonderful word.
iron granite
weak musk
vivid wraith
*Oops! All interference*
This is all of my 2.4 GHz channels, all of them
I don’t even live in particularly dense housing and I live on a corner in front of an alley so I only have one true neighbor
That reminds me I kinda want to explore lowering the 6 GHz width a notch
atomic delta
Welp, my adventure in app creation has ended, because someone else already had done an ArchiSteamFarm app. Just got it up and running.
scenic radish
This is how we use chairs, apparently
tidal bronze
"Don't bother me!"
scenic radish
The most basic of black cat names: Midnight
round crystal
he / she?
forest edge
This is how we use chairs, apparently
are those pictures hung cat height?
looks like there is a drawing too?
round crystal
To anyone wondering how it's going with proxmox
My install broke
Just by existing.
atomic delta
To anyone wondering how it's going with the basic recommended HAOS installation: Everything's peachy.
round crystal
People keep telling me to virtualize it
reinstalled proxmox just now. Built in web shell is broken still.
but
I got HAOS installed into a VM
🥳
I'll fix the shell thing later
it's something with hostsnames
and console is broken.
what
why is proxmox like this
Well. Back to Ubuntu server minimal install for me.
I love Ubuntu server and docker.
forest edge
lol you shouldn't listen to people and just stick with stuff you know and are comfortable with
static schooner
People suck sometimes
unborn merlin
People keep telling me to virtualize it
HAOS behaves.. poorly unless fully virtualized on proxmox. 🤷♂️
round crystal
lol you shouldn't listen to people and just stick with stuff you know and are co...
Yes.
round crystal
HAOS behaves.. poorly unless fully virtualized on proxmox. 🤷♂️
I refuse to believe this
People say it’s rock solid
forest edge
that person is one of the one's you should never listen too
@tidal bronze got your beer jacket ready? https://youtube.com/shorts/_njZRdRiIdM?si=OXMyP_Koq1LO67tB
unborn merlin
People say it’s rock solid
there's probably some way to configure it to work on the other option but I just threw in the towel last time I tried. 🤷♂️
tidal bronze
<@331255319365812224> got your beer jacket ready? https://youtube.com/shorts/_nj...
Beer is for fried shrimp batter, if that.
round crystal
there's probably some way to configure it to work on the other option but I just...
I want to actually buy a HA Green
round crystal
that person is one of the one's you should never listen too
Ty for the advice and making me feel valid
not stupid
round crystal
And I found a bug in Ubuntu server.
It crashes when trying to erase corrupt LVM volumes.
🙃
steel pumice
yo anyone having trouble with YouTube here?
weak musk
no, I don't live there
lavish badger
Good news noone! Belkin's cloud support is dead, I can't tell the difference.
round crystal
Good news everybody
I got Ubuntu Server minimal installed again
god i love ubuntu
lavish badger
What'd yu do to it? 😛
lavish badger
I just replaced CentOS 7 with ubuntu
round crystal
nice!
How is it making the jump from RPMs to apt?
Don't forget to apt remove --purge snap*
robust flicker
My HA is running on bare metal. I have a 3rd party jellyfin addon installed, and yes, it does use my igpu for hardware transcoding. 🙂 My NAS is running truenas (halfmoon nightly) on bare metal, and all my other services are running in the Apps (some are custom docker-compose apps, others are just from their "app store") and there are NO virtual machines to be found.
round crystal
It's like wiping your but after taking a crap
round crystal
My HA is running on bare metal. I have a 3rd party jellyfin addon installed, and...
nice!
TrueNAS here too! Best appliance OS there is
I've never experienced a bug.
TrueNAS is what everyone should strive to be.
robust flicker
and why am I running a nightly release? because I installed FreeBSD originally, and after 15 released I upgraded my pool.. but TrueNAS's latest release was too old for that. 😛
round crystal
how was freebsd?
robust flicker
Nah. The only reason I am running SCALE is because FreeBSD's NFS is horribly slow, and no amount of tuning that I've found can fix it.
round crystal
I haven't touched BSD's since I was like, 12
robust flicker
Other than that, I'd use freebsd on EVERYTHING if I could. hence my tag.
I have NOT been happy with truenas scale, but I'm trying to like it....
round crystal
how come?
lavish badger
I just installed TrueNAS SCALE a couple weeks ago.
round crystal
I may be able to help :>
lavish badger
I'm enjoying it.
robust flicker
maybe it's because it's a nightly, but there are bugs GALORE. couldn't run the "Check for Updates" because it fails. Try to submit a bug report that failure? That fails too.
round crystal
oh god, yea, never run nightly TrueNAS
lavish badger
I'm scared enough of release....
robust flicker
I have to if I want to use my existing pool :/
freebsd 15's zfs is 2.4 truenas's is 2.3 :/
lavish badger
How is it making the jump from RPMs to apt?
It's fine. I use debian a lot on other systems...this was just my last "legacy" server that I needed to fix up
round crystal
freebsd 15's zfs is 2.4 truenas's is 2.3 :/
ouch.
round crystal
It's fine. I use debian a lot on other systems...this was just my last "legacy" ...
congrats on getting it updated
lavish badger
Could be worse. I nuked my entire ZFS pool going from FreeNAS 11 to TrueNAS SCALE
round crystal
switching to ubuntu from other distros can be.... messy...
lavish badger
25 TB gone.
round crystal
ouch
lavish badger
My ISP probably hated my ass...2 full weeks of line rating to restore.
robust flicker
Eventually some dev will care enough to remove the hardcoded r/wsize limits and allow async mounts in the FreeBSD nfsd....
But when you have 20 TB of media to serve and scan over NFS it gets real painful. real fast. 😛
lavish badger
new dashboard?
round crystal
I was on a very old version of HA apparently
lavish badger
Ahhh
I need to get better at making dashes
Mine are...functional...but nothing special.
robust flicker
It may be time to start sourcing some bigger spinners, and I should see if I can wedge an sfp+ into the M700 Tiny running my HA setup... 😛
lavish badger
It doesn't help having over 100 IOT devices.
You have as much space in yours as I do in a 24 bay 4U box....
Mine you, mine is old and is mostly 2 TB drives.
lavish badger
I have DDR3 as well
robust flicker
I was planning an upgrade, but then the ram market went nuclear.....
lavish badger
robust flicker
E5530? Oof. 🙁 Mine is an E3-1275v3
robust flicker
Oh yeah, absolutely. Unfortunately my work is a government, so by the time they actually decide to get rid of stuff, it's 20 to 30 years old!
lavish badger
I do think I could run a few more containers...
stuck mortar
It may be time to start sourcing some bigger spinners, and I should see if I can...
I think all the spinners have been pre-purchased until the heat death of the universe to store the AI slop we didn’t ask for
unborn merlin
My ISP probably hated my ass...2 full weeks of line rating to restore.
you're fine as long as you're not this guy. /s https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/
robust flicker
There's a pair of old TerraPower nas-stations in our office that arent hooked up. But they can't be recycled or tossed... they have 5 500G drives each.....
lavish badger
Dear god that's like a SuperMicro X6 up there. Mine are X8s, they're old, but not 2007 old
robust flicker
unborn merlin
Dear god that's like a SuperMicro X6 up there. Mine are X8s, they're old, but no...
Here’s what’s in houkouonchi’s personal data center, from top to bottom:
A 1u server acting as router and VPN server with 4 1.5TB disks.
A 1u testing server with two 1.5TB disks.
A 2u server—formerly a “colo box”—with eight 750GB disks
A 4u Solaris/ZFS backup machine with 24 1TB disks
Another 4u server—houkouonchi’s main server with 24 2TB disks and two 3u storage expansion units, each with 15 3TB disks.
A 2u “Windows/miscellaneous” server with eight 1TB disks
Two 2u uninterruptible power supplies
Another 4u Solaris/ZFS server for backups with 24 1TB disks
lavish badger
Actually less storage than you'd think
lavish badger
robust flicker
I plan on grabbing another, prob a dual E5-2600v4 with onboard SAS. I have the specific model number written down here somewhere...
unborn merlin
yeah.. i am moving my old media server away from ancient xeons shit
to a modern intel mobile chipset on a weird chinese board with a sAS card.
i want power efficiency now (and moving from dual xeon to weird intel mobile.. I'm actually not losing cores because of how far apart the different gens are..)
lavish badger
I'd probably save $25-30/mo on power if I went more efficient
unborn merlin
also will be gaining a virtualizable intel igpu
so.. i can drop the tesla transcoding card too
so that'll be another hilarious chunk of power going away.
lavish badger
Oh I've got GTX cards in my servers
robust flicker
Must be nice. I can get mediacom 2G here, but my last experience with mediacom at this location was HORRIBLE. Like, daily service loss for hours, and it's either fine when the tech arrives, or it's a maintenance issue.. and I know exactly what the issue is. The plant is stretched WAY past it's initial build point, and a LOT more homes have gone up in the areas driven by this particular node.. and on my particular street they have to overdrive the amps and line extenders just to have signal reach the end of the line with all the new taps they added along the way for the new houses....
lavish badger
Cox does 2G, but my router taps out at 1G
unborn merlin
Must be nice. I can get mediacom 2G here, but my last experience with mediacom a...
just do what this gigachad did.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
robust flicker
So when it's cool on winter nights and evenings, the amps are overdriven to the point of distortion causing signal loss. Until the service guy comes out and eases them down a hair. and then it's fine until it starts to get hotter during the summer days now there's not enough power for us and they gotta turn em back up. There's supposed to be an AGC (automatic gain control) that handles that.. But it takes power to run, and with them installed, they cant crank the gain up enough to make it work in the summer....
@unborn merlin If I won the lottery, I'd absolutely pay the local fiber utility to run line to me. Problem is, they don't do residential service and they are -expensive- and are who actually owns the fiber that all the other utilities use in this area, even AT&T has them run some line sometimes... They used to be called Southern Light, but I think they're Uniti Fiber now.
robust flicker
I'm in semi-rural alabama. It's only semi-rural, because along the coast, even the unincorporated areas still have population densities rivaling small towns in some places..
lavish badger
I'm in metro Phoenix and I cannot get fiber either 🙂
forest edge
Beer is for fried shrimp batter, if that.
beer is for many things.. it's good like that
robust flicker
What I find hilarious about that is, the pure lunacy of people who move to this area and go "I'm moving to the country!" no, Linda, just because there's a farm on the other side of the road with 20 acres and couple dozen horses and cows does NOT MAKE THIS A FREAKING RANCH.
lavish badger
That sounds like a ranch to me
Also..my mother lives on 200+ acres in the middle of Kansas and has fiber internet...go figure.
robust flicker
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5533861,-88.2586139,35621m/ <- take a look there.. tell me if you see any really isolated areas. lol
lavish badger
Mobeeeelll
robust flicker
Yep. The original capital of the Lousiana territories, and where the US's Mardi Gras began. Which is today. WHich is why I got a nice 4 day weekend this weekend! 🙂
Amtrak has 2 trains that run between Mobile and New Orleans daily. They call that line "The Mardi Gras" line. 😛
robust flicker
One leaves NO at about the same time the other leaves Mobile, then they go home that evening.
It's not a commute run, it's a 4 hour train ride, but you could do the drive in 2.
It's got multiple stops along the way in each direction. The point is for people to easily spend the weekend in one or the other without needing to drive.
It's only been reopened a few months now. It was closed for katrina, and they never reopened it until now. In fact, it's been so long that there's been a rash of vehicle/amtrak collisions because people are used to seeing only the slow 40mph cargo trains, and when that 72mph sucker comes flying they're still running the guards..
unborn merlin
thats just cleaning out the stupid from humanity a bit
robust flicker
I agree, but right after they started running there were a LOT of people demanding that amtrak do something.. Like it was their fault or something.
There were a lot of "the train is there before the arms are down!" until security camera footage from nearby stores started popping up of the collisions.... where the arms were down before the vehicle went around them....
amazingly, since those videos were shared a few hundred times, I've not seen any more real public complaints about that. 😛
robust flicker
In other news, I decided to see just how much I could get that old server to push out over it's 10Gbe DAC connection... And every other Linux machine in the house is pulling gigabit speed off it. Which is only 3Gbe total out, but she's handling that with no issue. Even with spinning rust. 😍
Each instance of rsync is only using half of a core (half a thread, actually, it's a 4 core/8 thread CPU, and each rsync is showing about 50% CPU usage... And yet the entire system is showing like 35% CPU total lol)
glacial knot
Are you counting time in-kernel the same for those metrics?
vivid wraith
I managed to get 10 gigabit out to every room in my house and all the routers
But I still need some small 10 gig switches to split it out in a few rooms
simple gazelle
Not as expensive as I thought, though it seems there's a lot of ones with 2.5G which I gather is a bit of a bodge standard
glacial knot
Yea I think 2.5G only became popular due to wifi speeds in the 1.8G area
robust flicker
I hope she thinks it's funny by the time I get home.... 💀🤡
glacial knot
ornate cosmos
I made a new account on Stoat for when Discord decides to drop the hammer on age certification. I hope to see you all there soon!
solar zealot
vivid wraith
Ok my home automation task for today is to use the RGB on my innovelli switch in my room to light up green when I need to water my rubber plant every 12 days and dismiss when I press the config button
If I want to use this for multiple things I guess I should create some sort of stack 🤔
last cedar
Decimating my bird food
grizzled gull
Cayenne pepper mixed in with the bird seed
last cedar
He is an absolute sweetheart, I couldn't
grizzled gull
Birds don't feel Capsaicin
grizzled gull
ahhh
last cedar
Then decimates the bird food
grizzled gull
lol
grizzled gull
Its funny watching the sky rats after they eat hot pepper
iron granite
Nice birbs.
last cedar
I live my birbs
I should really go out with some pellets for them but they will run off
static schooner
It seems like you just need a taller pole...
iron granite
Do you have a tranquilizer gun?
static schooner
I mean, they're exactly head height for the deer
last cedar
It seems like you just need a taller pole...
I should move the feeders
last cedar
Do you have a tranquilizer gun?
Unfortunately
Because I could have some new pets if I did
robust flicker
And for today's existential dread moment. Imagine if the radio signals we started sending out about 100 years ago were picked up by an alien civilization about 50 light years away. They translated and responded. We'd be getting the response now. Imagine if the response is "BE QUIET YOU FOOLS!" ....
orchid rose
don't worry, AI will have turned us all into paperclips by the time they get here
static schooner
I, for one, will wholeheartedly embrace my role of holding papers together
I finally caught that episode on TV a few days ago
static schooner
I guess that's a question for #1284966540617449515 , albeit a weird one
last cedar
And for today's existential dread moment. Imagine if the radio signals we starte...
This is the really cool part, there is no way we are alone, but do "the others" want to talk, how far away are they, are they sending us stuff we are too stupid ro pick up (remember when the EM spectrum way everything we could touch, smell, see and hear?)
Fascinating stuff
pearl dock
The current curl version is compiled without IPP.
last cedar
Has anyone recompiled curl on HA OS?
Don't ask the Canadian team, they don't curl properly
static schooner
ok, so #1284966540617449515
pearl dock
Thanks!
scenic radish
Don't ask the Canadian team, they don't curl properly
I don't wget it
static schooner
Man, I really did not expect the amount of intrigue and controversy around the curling competition
it seems like it started with a lot of norms and "gentleman's rules" so to speak and is now begging for a micromanaged rule book
last cedar
I am not really a sports buff, but do quite like F1
static schooner
I wonder if you can nudge another car with your finger
or maybe you can if it's the body, but not the wheels?
last cedar
latest "scandal" there is that the compression ratio of the engines are measured at a set temperature, so at least 1 team (probably Mercedes) have apparently worked around it by using thermal expansion (apparently) to allow more than the rule allows
static schooner
what if you use one of those big foam fingers?
last cedar
and the teams that didn't think of it are bitching
last cedar
In this case I believe there was a rule that you were not allowed to touch the stone after you let go.
dusty mica
latest "scandal" there is that the compression ratio of the engines are measured...
the rules are getting changed for that
dusty mica
almost too much..
last cedar
keeps it interesting, seems like the racing may well be shit, we might need the drama
static schooner
In this case I believe there was a rule that you were not allowed to touch the s...
what I learned from all the back-and-forth rule book quoting is that the rules aren't as cut-and-dried as any other the posters were making them out to be
it's amusing, and a bit refreshing, that the officials came out with not just one, but two (or even more), statements referencing and clarifying teh rules and how they'll be enforced
dusty mica
from u2 you mean?
static schooner
you don't cross Big Curling
forest edge
if you find yourself actually paying attention to curling than you know it's past due for you to go outside and live alittle
static schooner
I've recorded all the matches to see if I can get into it
dusty mica
uh
static schooner
Consuela knows sweeping, that's for sure
minor bobcat
Wolfdog Skiing is the new trend
static schooner
There have been a few wildlife incursions. There was one with a squirrel in the downhill slalom skiing too. Almost got trampeled
It would suck to crash and tumble down the mountain because you ran over a squirrel
Raccoons are too smart for that
last cedar
Unfortunately a kangaroo got pulverised at the Bathurst 12H too 🙁
last cedar
Raccoons are too smart for that
I would never tumble down a mountain because I ran into it whilst skiing
minor bobcat
Unfortunately a kangaroo got pulverised at the Bathurst 12H too 🙁
Never look into WRC animal crashes
last cedar
Mainly because I can't ski
dusty mica
😁
static schooner
lol:
stuck mortar
Peak Silicon Valley: dude charging his Tesla in the IKEA parking deck, practicing his friggin golf swing with a full bag of clubs
wanton bobcat
The talk around the office today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4170200/Data_Center/
[dons a tinfoil hat] They have gamified datacenter configuration so that real people play the game, then it collects all the different configurations as training data for AI. With the massive expansion of AI data centers, AI is designing the data centers and there are robots running around doing the physical labor.
minor bobcat
I've had to run around at work today changing mag-tape backups. I'd appreciate a robot doing that lol
static schooner
Is that Glacier works in the background? 🙂
pearl dock
The talk around the office today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4170200/Dat...
YeahI saw a reel for this earlier on ig.
wanton bobcat
I've had to run around at work today changing mag-tape backups. I'd appreciate a...
We abandoned LTO tape several years ago because our backup jobs because they were bottlenecking our backups. Has the speed improved with the latest LTO standard? Have not looked at them since we abandoned the platform.
ocean oar
It has stagnated a bit, but can parallelise the shit out of it 😄
Our big tape robot at work has 24 LTO9 drives, and cumulative write speed can be >5GB/s
pearl dock
We abandoned LTO tape several years ago because our backup jobs because they wer...
It sure has, tape is still alive strangely
ocean oar
Theoretically 400MB/s per drive, but honestly keeping that amount of data flowing takes quite the considerable set of supporting hardware
wanton bobcat
It does. That was the issue we were looking at. In order to get past the bottle necks, we'd have to add more tape drives. The drives that were compatible with the solution we had (an Oracle brand solution), it was going to be stupid expensive. We ended up buying a new SANs system from NetApp for a fraction of the cost.
last cedar
Theoretically 400MB/s per drive, but honestly keeping that amount of data flowin...
Like 1 of you running around, apparently
Do you count as supporting hardware?
ocean oar
I don't know if I'm supportive enough to count as supporting hardware.
grizzled gull
I hit a flying couch yesteday at 70 miles per hour, I'm having a discussion with my insurance agency that it should go on comp vs collission because it was an act of god vs avoidable event
forest edge
I hit a flying couch yesteday at 70 miles per hour, I'm having a discussion with...
only it's origin was from space
pearl dock
or Tornado..
grizzled gull
it dented the hood adn took out a headlight because the car in front of us hit full on
forest edge
it dented the hood adn took out a headlight because the car in front of us hit f...
bet the owner watched the whole thing in the side mirror while depressing the gas pedal harder the whole time
grizzled gull
oh I'm sure they did(I would have too)
static schooner
It sure has, tape is still alive strangely
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
grizzled gull
Last claim I've had was when a tree fell on our SUV 15 years ago
wanton bobcat
I got passed by a pickup truck once on the highway late at night. Blew past me like I was standing still. He merged over in front of me and the canopy on his truck flew off. I got really lucky because it barely touched my car, I had a small dent on the passenger front of the hood and one just above the driver side A piller.
grizzled gull
I got passed by a pickup truck once on the highway late at night. Blew past me l...
Lucky, I have a 8" dent in the fender, and a lot of missing paint, along with a crease on the passanger door
wanton bobcat
I thought for sure that thing was going to come through my windshied.
grizzled gull
forest edge
nothing a bit of dry ice can't handle
wanton bobcat
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
One night a buddy and I were pretty drunk and decided to do the maths to figure out what the bandwidth of a VW bus loaded with Zip Disks traveling at 60 mph was.. I can't remember the outcome but it was stupid funny at the time. Had to figure out the cubic feet of cargo space, how many disks could fit, etc.
static schooner
hits on the corner like that tend to cause damage to both the front and the sides for maxium repair cost 😭
grizzled gull
hits on the corner like that tend to cause damage to both the front and the side...
Part of me hopes they total it so I can buy it back
its paid off :/
But I doubt it has 10-12k worth of damage
KBB is 20-24
forest edge
unless you are already only paying liabilty I would fight against it
trucks these days are more expensive then ever so having a non salvaged title one is worth holding onto
wanton bobcat
Ugh. Meeting time. I don't want to go to meetings anymore. lol
grizzled gull
That truck staying with me until it dies, it can never be traded in, it has been on a diet
forest edge
That truck staying with me until it dies, it can never be traded in, it has been...
all the more reason to milk full coverage for as long as you can
grizzled gull
@forest edge you might be the only person in this room who knows what I'm refering too given where you live
pearl dock
That truck staying with me until it dies, it can never be traded in, it has been...
Do dents count as loosing weight? 😄
Amazing that is all you came out with for a flying couch.
forest edge
<@104768700069990400> you might be the only person in this room who knows what I...
if you are referring to the diet comment i am not sure unless you removed your emission stuff lol
thought you said one time your truck was diesel and I know that emission shit gets tossed pretty quick
round crystal
Part of me hopes they total it so I can buy it back
Usually higher insurance tho
Also speaking of car stories
I hit black ice today
Swerved 45 degrees to the right . Thankfully no one was near me and I got it back under control
I need new underwear though
forest edge
forest edge
A-A-Ron, is there an A-A-Ron here?
de-nice
astral frost
So, I have an old Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 lying around. I'm interested in turning them into IP cameras, ideally skipping Android altogether, but I've found surprisingly little that would work for these old devices. Does anyone know any resources about this? Or have other cool ideas for things to do with such old devices?
forest edge
So, I have an old Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 lying around. I'm interested in turning th...
there was or still an android app called ip cam that basically turned the camera of old cell phones into ip cameras but the hardware of the phone was never meant to run 24/7 like that. while the devices would work for a bit, maybe even weeks but all in all it is a shit use for the device. best to turn them into one of those buy your old phone kiosk or sites etc
round crystal
So switching to the Google assistant is a nightmare if you’re not 100% matter over thread
Fml.
forest edge
that makes no sense
steel pumice
meow
astral frost
there was or still an android app called ip cam that basically turned the camera...
Yeah, I read that the battery could overheat if you left it plugged in all the time.
I'm sad to see it go, though.
Maybe there's something cool with HA that I could do with it? Over-powerful room controller, maybe?
forest edge
I mean it's a phone, you could always just use it local as a dashboard for HA
forest edge
<@&330946878646517761> a
tidal bronze
What did you do now?
forest edge
I said bitcoin
tidal bronze
I thought plugged in openclaw in here
forest edge
you did, it's been airing your dirty laundry all day
tidal bronze
Come to think of it 16 x Sunny LA pictures sent to you daily ain't a bad idea
forest edge
Come to think of it 16 x Sunny LA pictures sent to you daily ain't a bad idea
you can keep your ai slop lol
tidal bronze
I see loads of hate for AI too funny.
I remember clam shell to smartphone was the same. Kids were going to go bonkers etc.
Now you can learn a thing or two from the kids
muted oak
When will a personal cloud local llm hosted on my server at home replace bixby on my Samsung phone?
last cedar
If Samsung gets it way, never probably!
forest edge
@tidal bronzeJust got done watching the update documentary about the state of LA called Jackpot.
lol
scenic radish
last cedar
They wrote about my holiday
steel pumice
arghhhh im hungary
1 hour left before eat
imma waste this time on figuring out what to do with this bad boy
exotic yoke
turns out that 4 GB of VRAM, while it seems like a lot, is quite constrained when i want to run a LLM, TTS, STT all in ram, and leave room for other stuff
celest kayak
It begins https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/hobby-coder-accidentally-creates-vacuum-robot-army
teal pebble
Does anyone know what's up with the SOTOH tickets?
Looking forward to the event.
hollow glacier
can i get some feedback on my fancy new pinouts for dev-1 and dev-2 boards
iron granite
Does anyone know what's up with the SOTOH tickets?
Looking forward to the event.
Still 
eternal dust
Does anyone know what's up with the SOTOH tickets?
Looking forward to the event.
They start selling on the 29th until the 31th of February, I heard.
glacial knot
exotic yoke
omg my dumbass model ran the "move_fan" script, which increments the fan angle, not sets it
(i mean i did call it move_fan, and am using the 1.7b model, so 
)
forest edge
now this is what ai is suppose to be lmao https://youtu.be/x9SbEpt9ifw?si=AB5RZNivAsiGBWqj&t=357
exotic yoke
ehehe streaming seems to have just been one config setting away from being enabled
dusty mica
i listened to Michael Bennett and was speachless for a moment. What a good song!! Then realized that the camera was showing all the same women in the audience. Yep, it was AI. Damn.
different video, but same AI
exotic yoke
ehehe streaming seems to have just been one config setting away from being enabl...
hmm it doesnt seem to be working and i dont know why 
dusty mica
forest edge
https://youtu.be/3MZeXqSocNc
that whole video has the whole ai paste to it
the one before it had real clips which mashed it up some
exotic yoke
something may be wrong with my home assistant websocket config
(also to be clear im not asking for support, right now anyways, im just sorta "live tweeting" this)
forest edge
@tidal bronze think it can handle the barn? https://youtu.be/DHm5I2VWocg?si=NsEjIMRuNCwVpLbx
arctic cobalt
am i imagining or did there used to be a help button that took you directly to the docs
arctic cobalt
nah like
each condition and action had a help or more info button, that ? mark, but you press it and here for example itd take me to the numeric state docs
i swear that was a thing
eternal dust
@lone dagger , I just ordered the socks on the new merch store! How about flipflops and socks as a combination, that's fashion right?
forest edge
socks?
iron granite
Open Home socks. Those with ventilation holes.
forest edge
https://store.openhomefoundation.org/shop/p/socks-home-assistant-white Yes!
wtf lol
eternal dust
Haha, that was quick!
lone dagger
<@303933403303247872> , I just ordered the socks on the new merch store! How abo...
Was it you who asked for this in one of the dev channels? 🤣
eternal dust
Was it you who asked for this in one of the dev channels? 🤣
That'd be me, yes
Just didn't want to spam and bore people there
forest edge
i wanna know who all bought this https://store.openhomefoundation.org/shop/p/trucker-cap-open-home-foundation
lone dagger
Just didn't want to spam and bore people there
Hahahahah
It's okay, you made Sonoma pay attention to something for once.
lone dagger
Gonna make an "unimportant" custom merch for you, Sonoma.
forest edge
at least a single sticker in the pack
dusty mica
powered by sonomassistant
eternal dust
I'm telling you, flipflops and the HA logo it: big cash cow there. There's a large market for it.
dawn badge
when real "programming socks"?
lone dagger
when real "programming socks"?
Socks with only YAML on it.
iron granite
Socks with only YAML on it.
If you get the YAML wrong, it will not be a sock but a scarf.
eternal dust
when real "programming socks"?
Like in websocket?
dusty mica
that socks
dusty mica
like a coccoon, a raccoon will come out
eternal dust
OK, I probaly should go back to the dev dungeons now. Not sure how I escaped anyway.
dawn badge
Socks with only YAML on it.
lone dagger
Like in web**sock**et?
oh no.
forest edge
so what happens when the socks don't pass the config check
lone dagger
I'm telling you, flipflops and the HA logo it: big cash cow there. There's a lar...
I just added these and the sock mentions in here to the list of requested items.
eternal dust
I just added these and the sock mentions in here to the list of requested items.
Haha, I wonder how this will evolve 😄
lone dagger
We shall see. 
idle oyster
so... can anyone explain the logic behind removing the ability to set default dashboards for each device a user uses?
I can't figure it out, this is driving me insane. I also can't figure out an actual replacement that works and isn't "make a new account for each device," because that defeats the whole point of the very concept of an "account"
iron granite
grizzled gull
You know what bugs me, people recommend proxmox or another hypervisor to run HAOS to people who have no business running them, and then they come onto support forums asking for help, its unfortunate because a lot of times people are just over the their heads
I feel the same about people running containers and then complaining they can't get the containers to work or even communicate with each other
forest edge
this happened just the other day
grizzled gull
this happened just the other day
Whats "this"
forest edge
some infinite dumbass talking someone to try and run HA in proxmox when the person had no business diving into something they never messed with before
minor bobcat
My friends Copilot just went down a rabbit hole creating a 12 line template. What he really wanted was
"+ timedelta(hours=8)).strftime('%H:%M')"
scenic radish
forest edge
where is tediore's melted HA sticker?
stuck mortar
I migrated haos from rpi4 to proxmox with the intention of installing something… eventually
Eventually will come at some point maybe but realistically I might just nuke it and run haos bare metal again
forest edge
I migrated haos from rpi4 to proxmox with the intention of installing something…...
I had considered this but to only replace my pi3 in the barn with the pi4
curious if i can get the pi4 to super bare bones run frigate
stuck mortar
Yah the pi4 got turned into pikvm for a desktop that I don’t have plugged in anymore
forest edge
2gb? model I understand.. anything 4 and over.. wtf is wrong with you? lol
stuck mortar
It’s what I had on hand, and that’s when basic pis were 100+ so it would have doubled the cost
Very much a “get it done now” situation
I had been waiting for one of several “coming soon” esp-ish ATX controllers that still haven’t materialized
So it was the best option compared to one of the questionably secure kvms that had come out. Jetkvm wasn’t shipping to US at that point
tidal bronze
<@331255319365812224> think it can handle the barn? https://youtu.be/DHm5I2VWocg...
Finally you are heading in the right direction. Well done amigo, well done!
forest edge
Finally you are heading in the right direction. Well done amigo, well done!
you should put ice on that head injury
tidal bronze
@forest edge
forest edge
poor mr roger
exotic yoke
ok so wyoming_openai does NOT support STT streaming god DAMMIT
tidal bronze
Oh wow!
exotic yoke
i was told to use speaches and wyoming_openai but grgrg
forest edge
isn't ai dead yet
atomic delta
AI was dead on arrival. Some people are just still clinging.
trim fulcrum
Question why has HA not taken off with non tech people as even basic tech literacy I feel like you can use HA now
exotic yoke
isn't ai dead yet
"ai" as a broad field is never going to die
LLMs are a bit silly for most applications
but are almost dead
but not yet
but like machine learning fucking speech to text is what i want 
not llm
dawn badge
Question why has HA not taken off with non tech people as even basic tech litera...
I think it is really making progress from a UI prospective to be more friendly to the "Normies" (for want of a better word). But getting started is probably still a pain point. Whilst yes the Green is great for this any other setup is too much for people.
trim fulcrum
I think it is really making progress from a UI prospective to be more friendly t...
Yes fair I was only thinking about a UI perspective totally forgot about getting started . But would loved to encourage non tech people to have a go
warm helm
Question why has HA not taken off with non tech people as even basic tech litera...
Have you met people?
arctic quarry
🙂
robust flicker
I've discovered a side dad-joke-style benefit of my using a CB-related name... when people say they're taking a break, I pretend to be excited to go.
"Where are ya taking me? I can't wait! is it a surprise?!" lmao
forest edge
@tidal bronzeI hear you all are getting a sprinkle
static schooner
was steady rain here for much of the day
exotic yoke
im losing my mind tracing this bug
so it Seems that
wyoming_openai sends speach a normal transcription request, asking to stream the output back
speaches, somewhere along the way, somehow forgets that it is streaming, and sends back the params of a non-streaming request
and this breaks everything
fringe dagger
pro tip: you can use helper entities to make it look like you have a button for anything you want
though for some reason the nuke icon is included, i didnt have to do that
static schooner
im losing my mind tracing this bug
so it Seems that
wyoming_openai sends speach ...
This would be for #1284966915055288530
tidal bronze
<@331255319365812224>I hear you all are getting a sprinkle
Too much. Maybe time to buy an umbrella wonder if costco sells them.
forest edge
Too much. Maybe time to buy an umbrella wonder if costco sells them.
maybe. i wouldn't put it past some of you trying to use them as an ocean scoop
tidal bronze
Phew
forest edge
do you just not leave your home at night when those temps drop? lol
hasty parcel
I refused to install the Reolink app just to set up my doorbell so I instead went down the rabbit hole of learning how Baichuan works, then how the web interface uses client-side AES to encrypt the JSON being sent to the API, all to figure out how to set a password: https://gist.github.com/timkent/0663418f639f388fae04a719bf7a4bb5
stuck mortar
Too much. Maybe time to buy an umbrella wonder if costco sells them.
Only in bundles of 50
We got hail here, briefly
exotic yoke
I THINK I FIGURED OUT THE ISSUE????
so running fucking whisper in speaches, it defaults to float16 which my gpu doesnt support, and evne if i specify int8, it also does float16 in intermiedate steps
so i had to either specify float32 or int8_float32
guh
GUHH
hasty parcel
https://tenor.com/view/fml-sylvester-cat-annoyed-head-bang-gif-16267453
The second part was an unsolved problem lots of people had hit, it's a bug in the web interface that doesn't allow you to set a password if the old password is blank, but the API accepts it
hot scarab
I just realised I’m getting married on Sep 17 same day as home assistants birthday, what are the chances of that
minor bobcat
I just realised I’m getting married on Sep 17 same day as home assistants birthd...
1/365
limpid light
Sharing for awareness. Sorry if this isn’t the channel/place for it
tidal bronze
Only in bundles of 50
Only 50?
stuck mortar
You can always buy two packs
forest edge
whoa it's brisk out there this morning
forest edge
isn't 37F a state of emergency for california?
tidal bronze
Did I forget something? Upselling at another level 😆
crisp oriole
Did I forget something? Upselling at another level 😆
Can someone translate that native symbols to international format?
simple gazelle
-# It’s 37F lol
Counterpoint, do you trust your fellow CA drivers in such conditions?
stuck mortar
Counterpoint, do you trust your fellow CA drivers in such conditions?
I don’t trust them in any conditions
stuck mortar
Can someone translate that native symbols to international format?
It translates to “long sleeves, but it’s a sunny winter so don’t complain”
crisp oriole
It translates to “long sleeves, but it’s a sunny winter so don’t complain”
Oh here it is everything penetrating cold most of the time. 🥶
static schooner
A socal winter coat is a fleece pullover
tidal bronze
Can someone translate that native symbols to international format?
Translate? But why?
crisp oriole
Translate? But why?
To late its long sleeve weather
solar zealot
An odd looking raccoon you got there
tidal bronze
MIddle earth raccoons
glacial knot
To late its long sleeve weather
Almost 60? That's cooked alive weather
crisp oriole
Then my information was false
iron granite
You can also be cooked alive with long sleeves.
crisp oriole
You can also be cooked alive with long sleeves.
Perhaps it helps against sun burn
Wasn't farheith a real 0 + 30 something. And then 1.something from a real 1-100 scale?
stuck mortar
It’s %hot. 57F is 57% hot 
iron granite
What is the conversion to %cold?
round crystal
I want input on an idea
I’m thinking of labeling my stuff with NFC sticker tags
This way I can tap it to identity it when I do eventually move
That’s not stupid. Right?
high remnant
forest edge
That’s not stupid. Right?
so you would need a device to see what is in a box?
be faster to open the damn box!
iron granite
A permanent marker can do that easier.
minor bobcat
If you want it fancy try homebox
Can create QR codes you can stick on stuff
We use it at work behind our bosses back to keep inventory of our cables etc. Lol
static schooner
https://tenor.com/view/wesley-ice-skate-snipes-uphill-fucker-gif-16810230
Reddit
last cedar
A permanent marker can do that easier.
Yes, this is what I would do, if you wanted to use NFC tags though, that would be very cool
exotic yoke
diving down another "reading the code" rabbit hole because i want to limit ollama to 2gb vram
it HAS the logic to dynamically calculate how much of the model to put in the gpu based on vram, but it wont let you do that with any value that isnt the gpu max, or dynamically reducing free amount
golden wing
any of y'all residential electricians? trying to figure out something that has no real practical impact but is something i'm just itching to know now
ocean oar
No, but you're gonna want to start with which country's electrical system you're about to ask a question about
golden wing
in this breaker panel, i just kind of instinctively labeled the circuits on the left bus bar as "phase A" and the circuits on the right bus bar "phase B". those top two are phase B, next two phase A, and so on
I was getting really confused when the sum of the phase A circuits was adding up to the measured phase B current rather than tha phase A current, and after going out there and poking around with a multimeter (i know not a good idea) i found out that the main breaker was flipping the cords. the left cord powers the right bus bar and the right cord powers the left bus bar
golden wing
No, but you're gonna want to start with which country's electrical system you're...
north america/usa sorry
golden wing
in this breaker panel, i just kind of instinctively labeled the circuits on the ...
i actually could have figured out the breaker flip thing by just reading the panel though:
the thing i'm curious about now is labeling each phase. Is there a practical difference between phase A and phase B? other than 240 volts of course
like, me having arbitrarily labeled the left bus bar as phase A, would someone sufficiently knowledgeable be able to examine the breaker box and say "no actually that's phase B"
or is it just a kind of relative thing and you do just arbitrarily choose one
I know there's some timing stuff with 3-phase but I don't know how much that really plays into residential stuff like this, if at all
and like i said, now that i've figured out why my measurements were weird this has no practical purpose i'm just curious now
(and yes that image is not the permanent solution, i'm planning on putting a dedicated low voltage box to the side and running the ct clamp wires into it to reduce the risk of anything catastrophic happening)
ocean oar
So you're gonna get what is my admittedly spotty understanding of US electricity, but I thought it went like this:
A B
B A
A B
B A
Which is how those double-wide 240V breakers get both phases, if the whole left was A and whole right was B then adjacent breakers would have 0V between them.
golden wing
no i'm not saying the whole of left is A and the whole of right is B, i'm saying the left bus bar is A and the right bus bar is B. the bus bars alternate per row so it's:
A A
B B
A A
B B
ocean oar
Same thing
golden wing
ye what i mean is that's how the tandem breaker gets 240
it's on tabs from both bus bars and getting A and B
The only real residential standard I've seen so far regarding the specifics of which one is A vs which one is B is 1,2 is A, 3,4 is B, 5,6 is A, etc.
round crystal
A permanent marker can do that easier.
Ugly tho
golden wing
(and yes that image is not the permanent solution, i'm planning on putting a ded...
i think i'm gonna get another vue 3 and do 9 on one and 9 on the other. i'm not a huge fan of the hack required for the 240v circuits and how it's represented
round crystal
Just realized the eve smart plugs don’t have a manual button
That’s a bit of a disappointment
They seem nice so far. And they’re improving my dogshit thread network
So that’s good.
Ok so they pair insanely fast.
So far so good. Questioning if they’re worth $60 each vs Philips hue with the pro hub / third reality with the matter bridge.
They’re definitely louder than Thirdreality
golden wing
i think i'm gonna get another vue 3 and do 9 on one and 9 on the other. i'm not ...
i have an idea for how to handle this without buying a new device:
I'll create a "virtual" ct clamp and when the dryer circuit is over some reasonable threshold, say 10 watts, its template reading will be the opposite phase total power minus each individual real circuits power
and since i have two 240v circuits, if i ensure their single CT clamps are on different phases from each other I should be able to get a pretty reasonable estimate of the other phase load for the specific circuit using that logic
golden wing
it works:
it acts a bit weird with the AC though, need to figure out what's going on there
lol i'm an idiot, left in some semicolons when i was copying things and subtracting all the individual circuits
static schooner
This would all be great in #1284966203026182206
golden wing
oh sorry
brisk glen
derp.... I forgot to give rootless gitlab CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
narrow quarry
Hey, I'm new here 👋 Which is the best channel to post general questions to?
static schooner
Look through #find-support and post in the appropriate place
round crystal
I dream of the day
the day
HomeAssistant can be a matter bridge
for all devices
atomic delta
I dream of the day I find a cheap (per-node) device I can use for reliable mixed mesh (WiFi and Ethernet backbones depending on node) with an open firmware and proper ipv6 support. So far the options for that seem to be:
Matter is kinda SOL until I have working ipv6, and ipv6 makes my Orbi shit the bed.
Tempted to just pay Microtik out the ass and run fiber optic backbones between nodes, then not touch it for 30 years or so.
stuck mortar
Matter is kinda SOL until I have working ipv6, and ipv6 makes my Orbi shit the b...
So, orbi logo drawn in crayon?
steel pumice
So, orbi logo drawn in crayon?
you want my public ip address earlier no?
deep python
ok, so updates break alarmo now?
static schooner
Constructive comments in #1284966582375813201 are welcome
deep python
its not a constructive comment
its a literal question
i just installed it 😭
i updated HA and suddently the alarm panel says "this device is no longer provided by alarmo" so basically idk if i broke it or the update did
static schooner
silent doveBOT
static schooner
People will be less likely to help if you start with a snide comment
runic cape
Are there other Home Assistant Discords of note?
ocean oar
Not anymore. We fought them to the death, with our army of attack raccoons.
runic cape
I would rather you had not done that
last cedar
Am I doing this right?
ocean oar
10/10 for creativity, certainly
runic cape
wow I hate how timers work
iron granite
Use stopwatches. They work the opposite way.
last cedar
wow I hate how timers work
Have you tried feeding them spinich?
young sigil
wow I hate how timers work
Wai till you try traveling at super luminal speeds relative to your timer's reference frame. Ridiculous results. Whoever designed this universe needs to be shot with a ball of their own excrement.
iron granite
minor bobcat
Wai till you try traveling at super luminal speeds relative to your timer's refe...
"I know for sure I've been going for 10 min but my timer only dropped by 10 sec at home"
raw ginkgo
Is there any alternative for HA cloud to not be through Amazon AWA
AWS
And if there isn’t do I just only unblock my cloud link!in dns allowlist
static schooner
silent doveBOT
raw ginkgo
👍
green cradle
Anyone know where i can get a firmware update for HASPOne plate ? I changed my router, and now it's not connecting to wifi anymore.
iron granite
hallow fossil
WELP. I didn't read the fine print, got a Reolink battery doorbell instead of PoE because I wanted it to work with my existing mechanical chime. Now it doesn't work with HA or Frigate. I guess the Ring has to go back up. 🙁
Anyone else keep running into dumb footguns with this stuff?
forest edge
WELP. I didn't read the fine print, got a Reolink battery doorbell instead of Po...
none of the reolink ones are just simple plug and play with mechanical chimes but there are ways to make them work
solar zealot
you can at least buy rf relays and pair them somewhat easily
hallow fossil
none of the reolink ones are just simple plug and play with mechanical chimes bu...
I'm starting to think that what I actually want is a dumb doorbell and a camera.
forest edge
I'm starting to think that what I actually want is a dumb doorbell and a camera.
would depend on your backend system. dumb cameras work good if you have a backend system like Frigate or an NVR with object detection. if you don't have that then you want that baked into the camera
nothing more annoying then just motion detection on cameras and leaf blows by
hallow fossil
I'm using Frigate already with some Tapo indoor cameras. They're wifi, but they work alright.
young sigil
Please take this discussion to a support channel.
forest edge
its already over
runic cape
Is there a different HA discord that is more relaxed on this?
I use HA less because I have no social space for small questions, complaints and just kind of newbie experience sharing
This forum-only thing is really weird, not sure I've seen it anywhere else, if people wanted forums they'd go to the forums
solar zealot
yea no
runic cape
🙁
forest edge
as long as it's not support you are fine. you can make complaints in here as long as you don't expect a response or anything
young sigil
Don't go gaming the system by making a statement (rather than asking a question) about a problem in the hope that someone will provide feedback - but when you are called out on it replying "I don't want support, it was just an observation". It's very obviously not the case.
young sigil
Is there a different HA discord that is more relaxed on this?
Go to one of the relevant channels in the support section and start a discussion topic.
runic cape
as long as it's not support you are fine. you can make complaints in here as lon...
I don't think it would be fine
young sigil
I do.
forest edge
@tidal bronze screw you and your tiktok crap! stop supporting that platform! I shouldn't have to watch tiktok tool review videos lmao
runic cape
Someone's going to end up judging whether I hoped for a response, doesn't sound like a great plan. anyway that's not the issue for me
young sigil
Someone's going to end up judging whether I hoped for a response, doesn't sound ...
There are plenty of other places that may fit your needs better. Have you tried Reddit, Facebook or the Discourse Forums?
runic cape
Your answer to someone not liking forums is more forums
forest edge
they kind of got you there lol
runic cape
I'll check again in like 6 months or so
young sigil
Discord may not even be a thing for Home Assistant after 6 months the way they are going with their "gamer" focussed policies.
forest edge
speaking of which.. we all moving to the matrix?
round crystal
Question
Since a lot of you are a lot older than me
And have a lot more experience owning a home
We bought this condo. Everything looked normal. We found out the old owner redid the drywall with thicker drywall much thicker.
So the electrical boxes are set back 1/4” back.
I can use electrical box extenders or whatever they’re called to fix this right?
forest edge
I can use electrical box extenders or whatever they’re called to fix this right?
you would have to check canadian code but in the US the answer is yes
round crystal
He used wire wound up and extra long screws to space it correctly so they look flush. But now when we change them with something new, the new item doesn’t sit perfectly level. Usually at an angle now as it clings to the tiny bit of drywall it can hit
round crystal
you would have to check canadian code but in the US the answer is yes
Oh thank god.
Afsik, they’re legal here. Home Depot sells a metal one but I’m gonna get plastic ones from amazon
round crystal
Thanks you so much for confirming.
Ok stupid question now. Will a smart switch fit in one of them?
They all seem to get smaller towards the back
forest edge
you should ALWAYS still check your local code for the peace of mind when you go to sell
round crystal
Yes.
forest edge
I don't know how all that works in moose land but here it's possible for stuff to be perfectly legal in some cities/counties/states but not in others and when it comes time to sell if it's not code approved then it becomes a mess you have to deal with
round crystal
Ty. And uh. We just ignore it violating code lmfao.
Not legal. But flipping market is like that sadly.
forest edge
stuff like that is a pretty safe bet
those extenders generally can only cover like an inch
vivid wraith
i got my new smart lights in the mail for outside
but i dont want to put on pants to go screw them in
dusty mica
round crystal
i got my new smart lights in the mail for outside
Which brand? Hue?
@forest edge I wanna share this with someone because it’s exciting as hell
My hue bulbs all finally updated their firmware during the night and I got motion aware features enabled
And wow that’s magical
No sensors. Just bulbs.
It detected a fan moving in our bedroom.
It’s insane how sensitive it can be
The hue hub pro was worth the money
I have it setup for matter for Google home and Apple home. Philips hue api for HA
So multi admin, and new smart aware features
Hue just keeps winning.
forest edge
not a hue fan so the wrong person to tag for that
not to mention we frown on hub buyers around these parts
boreal belfry
Is there a HA integration for the dirigera hub?
static schooner
forest edge
there is noway that Lord of the Rings: The hunt for Gollum is real
vivid wraith
Which brand? Hue?
wiz, hue hasn’t updated their par38 line to the new thread bulbs yet
boreal belfry
What are the advantages of matter over zigbee, I’ve just switched my zigbee bulbs for matter and it’s been nothing but a headache.
static schooner
last cedar
Can anyone help me? I have connected the HDMI into the raspberry pi, and I still cannot get any chicken soup out? I can't get it to show up within Home Assistant either? Anyone got any ideas?
vivid wraith
you have to be connected to the same 2.4 ghz wifi or it wont show up
static schooner
That's what you get for not using Monster cables
ocean oar
The 2.4GHz signal coming from the microwave is too strong, my laptop won't connect to it
static schooner
The chicken soup corrodes the cables unless they're gold plated
last cedar
Also, is it a soup converter that converts HDMI soup to chicken soup, or is it a soup converter that converts HDMI into chicken?
ocean oar
Is the question whether it's an [hdmi] to [chicken soup] converter or [hdmi to chicken] soup converter?
Because the answer is yes
last cedar
I thought so
static schooner
Torn between #the-kitchen and #the-media-bar
last cedar
I think #the-kitchen sounds perfect
stuck mortar
Can anyone help me? I have connected the HDMI into the raspberry pi, and I still...
Have you tried it with strawberry rhubarb pi instead?
ocean oar
Problem is clearly that you're trying to mix savoury and sweet
Doesn't matter if your Pi is Raspberry, Orange, Banana, none of these things go with chicken soup
last cedar
Are you saying if I had a chicken pi, it would be able to make chicken soup?
stuck mortar
True, we went to a clam chowder cook off yesterday and one of them somehow made it too clammy
Probably stole clams from the place that forgot to thicken the roux
static schooner
naive trench
can someone explain why i'm forced to apply states to entities when i am setting up a scene? in "review mode" i can't even add devices
static schooner
silent doveBOT
hollow glacier
ocean oar
Now see I assumed that "bundle" meant you're getting a better price for buying the three together, but each individual item is on sale and the sum of the prices is identical
(in which case I'd maybe consider the extra $80 to get a 9800x3d instead of a 7800x3d)
vivid wraith
Okay I replaced the spotlight par38 bulbs in the front of my house with wiz bulbs
Also I learned they were inside of a spiny rose bush which I had not appreciated when I initially went outside
ocean oar
Took a wiz in the bushes outside your house. Gotcha 👍
untold quail
I want to connect home assistant on my phone to my home assistant on an RPi but when connected to wifi, it never connects, says Port not reachable, server connection failed, and skipped (previous check failed). I use Proton VPN but everything is connect to my homelab. What am I doing wrong?
iron granite
round crystal
not to mention we frown on hub buyers around these parts
fight me.
@forest edge also
ty for the advice yesterday
my outlets sit perfectly
🙏
It was almost a whole year they didn't sit perfect, and I hate to admit
one stuck out
in the kitchen.
because the screws couldn't reach at all.
We just used electral tape over the screws and a outlet splitter (2 -> 6) so we could handle that
stuck mortar
I did not expect to find myself in the middle of an electronics project, struggling to find a basic doorbell button we like
round crystal
I did not expect to find myself in the middle of an electronics project, struggl...
me_irl
Also
I ordered pizza and the delivery guy (clown) refuses to deliver saying he got ticketed recently
and how our parking is paid and how there's no spots
we have 21 open spots. 5 dedicated to delivery people with giant signage stating so.
read the reviews on the store, apparently he's getting 3+ tickets every single day!
when can HA automate pizza delivery?
stuck mortar
when can HA automate pizza delivery?
Reddit
ocean oar
So you're saying the answer is "until recently" 😆
I'm sure someone else was complaining about the loss of that API. Lotta people did some really dumb shit with it
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/MNThomson/dominos/latest/docs
Warnings and Caveats
This is not a joke provider. Or, it kind of is a joke, but even though it's a joke it will still order you a pizza. You are going to get a pizza. You should be careful with this provider, if you don't want a pizza.
round crystal
I'm so glad I redid my entire HA setup
it's so much more performant.
I blew away my old container today, started 100% fresh.
atomic delta
I plan on never doing that.
round crystal
lol
for some reason my philips hue sensors were glitchy before
now they're solid. Maybe they got a firmware update while connected to a hue hub?
atomic delta
Could be.
I still have all my hue devices except one bulb hooked up through the hue hub, because I've been too lazy to set up dimmer switch controls manually.
round crystal
I love using the hub with HA
best of all worlds
It's literally the only hub I'll accept
@atomic delta oh I forgot to say
I bought a bunch of new hue bulbs and new light fixtures
🙂
I considered smart switches, but hue bulbs were just easier
stuck mortar
Smart switch is love, smart switch is life
round crystal
I have four Rodret smart switches
and four / five of the new thread based ones
that aren't as nice to use in HA becuase matter support is hit and miss.
stuck mortar
Wall switch with dumb bulb, not remote for smart bulb. Leviton and zooz mostly for me
hoary canyon
I considered smart switches, but hue bulbs were just easier
Easier until you realize how much more expensive they are 😛
The only reason I’d get bulbs is for temperature / RGB (or for things like lamps)
wall switches all the way.
hoary canyon
a switch for a bunch of lights is also $20
round crystal
I decided to give essentials a try
round crystal
a switch for a bunch of lights is also $20
I wish.
hoary canyon
a switch for a bunch of lights is also $20
and you don’t have to replace each bulb 😛
round crystal
even Tapo is like, $25
round crystal
😭
hoary canyon
round crystal
Zooz Zwave ones can be found for $20-25 on sale
I bought not on sale
hoary canyon
Not on sale they’re about $30
round crystal
I'm currently labeling all my zigbee devices like a good boy.
hoary canyon
Atleast now you can eventually get a Zigbee switch and bind the bulbs directly to the switch
round crystal
True
but
I can also just make a bunch of worthless automations for the same task /s
hoary canyon
Do you guys not use manual lighting at all?
my problem is people still want a normal light switch
and I didn’t wanna cover up all the switches with those ugly covers and put remotes everywhere
round crystal
ugh
no
lol
Also I just realized I factory reset my laundry light and never paired it
Also realizing I have a spare RGB bulb I should put there.
Also hue
static schooner
Do you guys not use manual lighting at all?
That's the point of the smart switch
hoary canyon
That's the point of the smart switch
yeah, he’s saying he uses bulbs though
static schooner
Smart bulbs are interesting if you want color, I guess, and a switch in smart bulb mode would restore regular switch functionality
vivid wraith
That reminds me I need to figure out how many more innovelli dimmers I want
I need some for my porch lights
For sure
All the PAR38 spotlight upward facing accent lights I have as smart bulbs so I can set them to colors on holidays
🙂
Unfortunately they’re WiFi but whatever
If hue ever updates their outdoor rated PAR38 with thread bulbs I can switch to that
vivid wraith
also on my todo list i need to figure out how to give my home assistant a second ip on an IoT vlan in opnsense to let it straddle
willow sundial
The image reminds me of a logo I've seen somewhere...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think
warm helm
The trust is gone
lapis cairn
Is that the new HA logo design?
Or is this the new GraveAssistant™ coming April 1st?
static schooner
The image reminds me of a logo I've seen somewhere...
https://www.anthropic.com...
The game of baseball would like a word with all of you
naive trench
<#1284980040940912641>
i'm not asking for support. i'm asking for why it was designed this way.
silent doveBOT
static schooner
If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support.
vivid wraith
Why is the raccoon sad
iron granite
Why is the raccoon sad
orchid rose
but the balloon says get well
iron granite
Morticians hate this trick.
round crystal
What are the advantages of matter over zigbee, I’ve just switched my zigbee bulb...
you just found out lol
@forest edge didk if you saw it, but thank you again 🙏
Also TIL: IKEA matter devices mostly have Zigbee modems.
even IKEA can't quit Zigbee. Zigbee is like crack
Also @hoary canyon I believe you told me about thesmatesthouse
Any other sites like this for weirdos like me with no ideas for home automations
I jsut realized today I can use NFC tags + siri shortcuts to track when I change my air purifier filters
bro I just learned about this today: https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-dimmer-scene-controller-zen35-800lr?variant=41594421608511
😭 I wish i had a zwave modem
This literally fits what I need perfectly.
round crystal
ok I'm liking NFC tags
These are neat
I feel like the person who first discovered fire
hoary canyon
😭 I wish i had a zwave modem
Why not get one 😛
round crystal
bro you see I just discovered how cool NFC tags are
hoary canyon
Haha
round crystal
seriously. this is neat
I have one behind my ensuite bathroom switch vanity plate to play my husband's music when he taps
he's so happy
I might make one to tap when we go out to turn everything off instantly
hoary canyon
I might make one to tap when we go out to turn everything off instantly
You could probably automate this based on network and location
round crystal
people say to use it to link user manuals
They're living in the year 3000 while I'm discovering the year 2000
round crystal
You could probably automate this based on network and location
Tempted!
I'm thinking of labeling each bulb with a NFC sticker to say what socket they belong to
hoary canyon
Wait till you learn how good of an idea it is to write breaker numbers on the back of switch plates lol. That idea never occurred to me until I saw it online
round crystal
I'm going to probably label my hue dimmer switches too since we have one on each side of the bed and mix them up 24/7
This is literally the simplest QOL improvement I've ever made
round crystal
Wait till you learn how good of an idea it is to write breaker numbers on the ba...
hahah so today my friend helped me map out the breakers
the label below is 99% inaccurate
it also says "lite fixture"
time to put NFC tags on the breakers /s
hoary canyon
Have you ever been in a home pre 1980s with like 6 total breakers lol
it’ll have a breaker named bedroom that goes to 3 other bedrooms and the kitchen 🤣
orchid rose
Whenever I see people use NFC tags it feels a bit forced. Like surely there's a better way. But I can also see the attraction to stuff like album covers that play the album etc
round crystal
Whenever I see people use NFC tags it feels a bit forced. Like surely there's a ...
I know what you mean, but this is actually proving to be handy
I didn't realize NFC stickers could be something useful instead of stupid
hoary canyon
I haven’t played with NFC tags much but now I want to lol
round crystal
Do it, they're like $10 for 40
orchid rose
How are you using them?
round crystal
be warned, apparently if you put them over metal and they're not made for that, you won't be able to read them.
round crystal
How are you using them?
I just started personally. Automation for my husband's music in the bathroom
orchid rose
They are very cheap though so worth experimenting with
round crystal
100% better but I wanted to control Apple Music
hoary canyon
Music Assistant if you have compatible speakers
round crystal
two issues. I'm docker HA, and HomePod Minis
hoary canyon
HomePod minis have airplay no?
round crystal
They're not the most reliable.
I just bought a Sonos sound bar and I'm in heaven
I'm going to probably buy a 2 pack of Sonos 100 whatever speakers from Costco for $549
maybe two
Sonos speakers are really good
Their headphones are ok
hoary canyon
I’ve been playing around with HA Voice using the View Assist project. Works good when there isn’t an issue with my LLM 🤣
ocean oar
I haven't bought a new one in years, but we have Sonos things in most of the rooms of the house. Also one of the battery powered ones, to carry down the garden with us
round crystal
I haven't bought a new one in years, but we have Sonos things in most of the roo...
How's it going?
round crystal
I’ve been playing around with HA Voice using the View Assist project. Works good...
See I want to integrate a LLM with HA but have no idea where to even start
I have a mac mini running LM Studio as a server already, so why not use a small LLM like Phi 3?
Phi 3 is competent enough to control lights
hoary canyon
See I want to integrate a LLM with HA but have no idea where to even start
Check out the view assist project. Grab yourself an eBay echo show (2019) and root it
orchid rose
See I want to integrate a LLM with HA but have no idea where to even start
Ask an LLM. Not even joking
round crystal
Check out the view assist project. Grab yourself an eBay echo show (2019) and ro...
but it's an cough echo cough
ocean oar
Well amazingly considering they only advertised about a 3-4 year battery life, the nearly 7 year old Sonos Move still gets 6+ hours of playtime at moderate volume. So I'd say pretty good
hoary canyon
but it's an *cough* echo *cough*
There’s a custom ROM / OS out for some of them
you’re just using the hardware
round crystal
Well amazingly considering they only advertised about a 3-4 year battery life, t...
Ok, I'm in good hands!
round crystal
you’re just using the hardware
I want to actually try a Pixel tab as a hub
ocean oar
I have an outdoor AP with a big-ass directional antenna on it so it works a long way from the house too 😄
hoary canyon
I have an outdoor AP with a big-ass directional antenna on it so it works a long...
U7-Outdoor by chance?
round crystal
I want to actually try a Pixel tab as a hub
or an iPad
hoary canyon
I want to actually try a Pixel tab as a hub
If you can run PoE the crestron tablets are super cheap on eBay
round crystal
Like the iPad not as a hub, but as a thing
ocean oar
U7-Outdoor by chance?
Ruckus T350se, L-Com HG2458-10DP antenna.
round crystal
If you can run PoE the crestron tablets are super cheap on eBay
Running the POE is the issue, also I'd need a POE switch
hoary canyon
Ruckus T350se, L-Com HG2458-10DP antenna.
ah nice
round crystal
@hoary canyon https://youtu.be/Wkzg8sNkm8Y?t=91 This is how I want to do it
hoary canyon
haven’t watched that yet, but I’ve seen it pop up recently
round crystal
A giant e-ink desktop display mounted to the wall being driven by a pi
It's just nice.
I want my home status display to just vanish
hoary canyon
I don’t know how I feel about the Pi part though
round crystal
if I'm not looking at it, I don't want it to glow
hoary canyon
that makes me feel like it’ll be unstable
hoary canyon
I feel like it’d be better off with something like Android personally, have heard lots of things and had some experiences with Pis
round crystal
Also if you watch the video, it seems like he runs HA on a mac