the-water-cooler

[orchid rose]

Ymmv but I just don't really find the UI that useful. Definitely not useful enough to spend that kind of money on a static display on the wall as cool as it looks

[round crystal]

I'm assuming he uses a zigbee proxy?

[round crystal]

Oh no I'd have a custom dashboard. not HA's built in

he did that, he just calls the HA APIs

you have to see how he did it to understand why it feels better than other options

[orchid rose]

I watched the video. What I mean is that most of the stuff you want should already be automated. Like he has

I just don't see the need for the touchscreens

[round crystal]

the eink one I timestamped isn't touch iirc

[orchid rose]

Might not be actually. Either way as cool as it looks it's not something I would miss

Those blinds though. I need them

[round crystal]

I just learned on iPhone you can write a NFC tag to directly run a shortcut

no automation needed

neat

[inner lava]

That's a new one for me rn... has anyone ever encountered a weird Tasmota behavior where 3 plugs couldn't connect to WiFi anymore, but unplugging 1 of them also suddenly fixed the other 2?

They were offline for days and I was scratching my head... and suddenly that fixed it??? Whaa...

[weak musk]

#1284966353798697001

[warm helm]

TCL nxtpaper 11+. Use the eink mode. Its not true eink but its better on the eyes than a regular tablet in that mode. I have mine next to me

$224 at walmart right now

[pseudo isle]

man, bluetooth might be the actual worst thing on the world

all i wanted was a hygrometer for my humidor 🙁

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/unicorn-smoking-unicorn-becomes-a-horse-sad-crying-gif-13206759

[warm helm]

edibles though

[last cedar]

SPP got jokes

"Do you want to give your pension an extra push?"

[dusty mica]

so, only horses then i guess..

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/passionate-tall-sentimental-angelfish.jpg what am I missing for my homelab?

I just realised that this doens't even list all the actual dockers lol

[scenic radish]

|| containers ||

[last cedar]

|| raccoons ||

[high remnant]

||just let me be sleep deprived oke||

[dusty mica]

nonoono

[high remnant]

||I completely butchered the question I actually wanted to ask||

[scenic radish]

|| made u look lmao ||

[dusty mica]

so you're fine now ? 😉

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/wanker-piss-off-you-wanker-tosser-you-tosser-gif-17949428

You got us all haha

[dusty mica]

wanke******

[high remnant]

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oh

https://tenor.com/view/gotword-deeznuts-gottem-deez-nuts-gif-4394929

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/life-metaphor-RxVpypN9Ri2Yg

@last cedar <enter text here>

[last cedar]

I am too mad now @dusty mica 🤣

Everyone got jokes

[dusty mica]

how to calm you 😉

https://giphy.com/gifs/jobbikmm-idk-hmm-dont-know-dZ9eqzzMAbYh8Q1Ssl

Missy told me to calm my titties, works for me, don't have them on me, but still works...i guess

[bitter pawn]

yep. those schemey bastards.

[dusty mica]

have to scroll back..

[scenic radish]

Alright I have two wired cameras that are connected to the network via powerline ethernet, and I want to move away from that, but since running Ethernet sadly isn't a practical option, the only solution I can think of feels so stupid but I might just do it anyway lol... Unifi Device Bridge > Unifi Flex Mini switch (to be able to have the cameras on the correct VLAN since it's not possible with the UDB) > unmanaged PoE switch (that I already have) > cameras

That feels so janky it almost makes me want to just stick with powerline ethernet

One advantage with my proposed solution is that I could put all of it on a UPS

[grizzled gull]

Not a Unifi guy, but why not just use a cheap wifi extender with an ethernet out and then a POE switch?

Or is that basically what you're proposing?

[stuck mortar]

huntarr

[grizzled gull]

For my setup I just have a different SSID on a different vlan and do it that way, but again not a Unifi guy

[minor bobcat]

Too hot

[scenic radish]

Yeah that's not a bad idea actually. I would just need to find an extender that can be configured to not broadcast its own SSID and basically just act as a client on my existing network

[stuck mortar]

Vibe code your way to greatness

[stuck mortar]

I’ve used those tiny gl.inet travel routers as cheap access points

[grizzled gull]

most extenders you can hide the SSID

[stuck mortar]

One is a gateway for my solar inverter, other is for the tv

IMO an AP bridge would be better than an extender. No reason to have extra interference blasting out

[grizzled gull]

a lot of them do both

[scenic radish]

Yeah, I'm looking at an extender now that appears to have the ability to disable its own SSIDs

[solar zealot]

Idk why you would want to switch from a fairly unreliable connection to a totally unreliable connection

Especially for security gear

[grizzled gull]

I don't disagree but still a problem to solve lol

[scenic radish]

Would a good 5 GHz connection not be as reliable if not more than powerline ethernet? Plus I could put these cameras on a UPS if I moved away from powerline ethernet which would be nice since my other cameras and network equipment are on UPSes

[solar zealot]

Absolutely not

[grizzled gull]

a 2.4 imo would be more reliable then 5ghz, but power line trumps both

[scenic radish]

I realize wi-fi wasn't exactly designed with constant video streaming (without buffering) in mind though

[grizzled gull]

meh cameras use such little bandwidith I don't think thats the issue

[scenic radish]

UPS tho

[grizzled gull]

bigger issue with wifi is if someone really wanted in, they could just overload the frequencies

[scenic radish]

tru

[grizzled gull]

We have some traffic stuff that kills my wireless android auto, its really wierd, and android auto is just a wifi connection

[solar zealot]

high tech solutions such as the brrrrrrrrrr machine and other access points do this well enough unintentional

[scenic radish]

yeah I guess I'll just stick with powerline ethernet although it's a bummer that they can't be on a UPS then

[solar zealot]

Why not, if it's the same circuit that should work

[scenic radish]

powerline ethernet does tickle my brain for some reason too, so there's that

[static schooner]

You should get that looked at

[solar zealot]

Tho I guess if you'd have that setup you could also run eth

[scenic radish]

powerline signals generally don't pass through UPSes

or even some power strips for that matter

[solar zealot]

No but you could just inject it after the ups

[scenic radish]

wat

[solar zealot]

Wire it so that both sides run behind the ups

The output should be fairly alright compared to what's usually going on on your local grid

[grizzled gull]

I dunno about energizing an entire branch

[scenic radish]

I'm thinking I might not be totally clear

the adapters are in separate rooms

[high remnant]

if you want access to my jellyfin just dm me bro/s

[grizzled gull]

via UPS that sounds a little sketch

[solar zealot]

if it's just dedicated to the cameras that should be fine, but as I said requires you to be wired for it

[scenic radish]

I legitimately have no idea what you're suggesting lol

[grizzled gull]

Better off running network cable... if you don't want to, hire a low voltage guy to do it

[solar zealot]

that would be the easier option in some cases yes

[grizzled gull]

run the cable along baseboards, corners of walls if you don't want to drill

[scenic radish]

the two rooms are separated by two bathrooms

[grizzled gull]

thats it?

[scenic radish]

no access below or above

[grizzled gull]

Run it along the ceiling and get a jacket that matches your ceiling color

[solar zealot]

wires come in various lengths and so do drills and people on Facebook marketplace

Right through the tub, the landlords special

[grizzled gull]

they even make network cables that go inbetween windows

flat cables that do POE

[scenic radish]

I've considered that, but it would look like shit coming out of the walls lol

[solar zealot]

Can you run it above the ceiling?

Probably not

[scenic radish]

#the-water-cooler message

[solar zealot]

ah

[grizzled gull]

Is it your residence? not a rental?

[scenic radish]

rental, so that's also more holes than I'd like to fix after

[grizzled gull]

You'd be surprised how easy cables disappear once you get used to them

[solar zealot]

The alternative could be fiber but that would loose any benefit of poe. That stuff hides in paint

[scenic radish]

I've even thought about getting plenum-rated cable and running it through the ductwork 🤣

I've run through pretty much every scenario for wiring and I haven't been terribly pleased with any of the ideas

and I have a decent amount of experience running cabling

I should also mention that these particular cameras are rather insignificant as far as the security setup goes

thankfully I've been able to properly wire the ones that matter the most

meh, now I don't know what to do 🤣 if they were more significant, I would probably make the effort to wire them and hide the cable as best as possible

I might see how stable the feeds are with a wi-fi extender acting as a wired bridge compared to powerline ethernet

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/neil-patrick-harris-shudder-shrug-disgusted-gif-13575156

[scenic radish]

Gonna do it, fite me irl

[static schooner]

I think you should add a cell connection in there. Maybe satellite

[scenic radish]

Damn, good call

fine, I'll just stick with powerline

[hoary canyon]

Do you have baseboard trim?

I learned about a trick that involves just pulling off the baseboard trim and running it in the wall behind the baseboard trim, then tacking the trim back up

Basically you cut the holes in the drywall behind the baseboard where it covers it and then tack the baseboard trim back up

[stuck mortar]

Could be worse. The camera could be matter

[hoary canyon]

Considered MoCA Adapters also if you have coax?

[static schooner]

I added crown molding in a room to hide speaker wire 🙂

[scenic radish]

Pretty good idea, but I'd still have the problem of running it between the rooms

[scenic radish]

I have, and sadly there's no common coax connection between the rooms

I really have exhausted all practical options

[hoary canyon]

the rooms don't back up I assume?

I mean you can probably just take more baseboard off in the rooms behind it and run it around to the other room, definitely a bit of work but better than patching drywall

[scenic radish]

Nope, there are two bathrooms between

So it would need to go up the wall, across the ceilings, and back down the wall

And it would probably look like garbage coming out of the wall and up to the ceiling since the cable would of course need to come out of the wall below the header

[hoary canyon]

Is there a hallway that connects the rooms?

The best idea I have is trying to figure out a path to use the trim method. From what i've seen all it involves is prying it off gently, then reapplying small nails to tack it again. Put some caulk over the small holes in the trim, and above and you're done

That's assuming the baseboard trim is white...

[scenic radish]

Yep, but that suffers from the same issue with coming out of the wall and going up to the ceiling

[hoary canyon]

Is this an outdoor or indoor cam

[scenic radish]

One indoor, one outdoor

I am still kind of tempted to explore running plenum-rated cable in the return ducts, but that would be extremely challenging even with the balloon method

but if I managed to get that to work, in the destination room, I could run the cable in the wall from the return duct down to the baseboard and then run it along the baseboards to the target location

I'm also surprised to see so much support for powerline Ethernet. I thought it was pretty frowned upon generally

[hollow glacier]

networking guys hate powerline because of the way that it is.. pretty sure nowhere in the ethernet spec does it say "yeah run that shit over your power lines that'll work great"

[scenic radish]

It does create a ton of RF noise apparently too which makes sense given how it works

[static schooner]

Just replace the power lines with Ethernet and run your power over Ethernet

They won't mind 120v 60Hz AC, right?

[hollow glacier]

Isn’t that just PoE++++

[dawn badge]

Powerline adaptors can fuck right off.
For a short term emergency fix I sort of understand why people might use them but for long term usage I don.t get it... They can cause issues and can easily be disrupted by other noisy appliances. The entire way they work is by creating noise and disrupting mains power therefore I think they should be illegal on the grounds that they actively and purposefully disrupt grid power.

[solar leaf]

Well, for the 12 of us still using Curb Energy, they turned everything off- no cloud at all:

[solar leaf]

Discontinuing cloud support for a cloud-only product is such a lazy euphemism.

I had just gotten a github-based integration working in January and loved it too

[scenic radish]

A tale as old as time, sadly

[solar leaf]

Yep

Just dropping it here in case. Here's to hoping the devices have a CVE so I can get into them- it would be super cool to repurpose them to make local calls

[hollow glacier]

Tux 🐈‍⬛ the stray cat has moved into the garage

[static schooner]

I hope he's paying rent

[hollow glacier]

He only pays in selfies

[peak slate]

He doesn't even pay in mice?

I guess I can't say much, my strays get maybe one mouse every few months

[static schooner]

You seem to have gained a furry pretzel

[hollow glacier]

He’s just visiting

[ocean oar]

Suuuure

You just house him, feed him, etc

[static schooner]

Let me tell you about how the cat distribution system works...

[round crystal]

This really hits hard with this

Real duo

Also my dock crashed.

And I fixed it by killing it

Seriously tho, I wondered why my transitions were so rough before

it's because I had no transition time

A little slowness smooths out brightness steps massively

[ocean oar]

Maybe I need to try coding the same "step" feature for colour temperature

[round crystal]

Yes please

[ocean oar]

Had to do that in a template.

[round crystal]

I'd love that as a termplate / script / whatever

[ocean oar]

I like my lights to get more yellow as they dim

[round crystal]

👀

I just made an automation to set all my lights to the same colour temperature

Saved me so much hassle.

Now I can turn it into a scene

[atomic delta]

I just have a bunch of random scenes for different colors. Like anti-migraine green.

[round crystal]

Im still figuring out what to automate tbh

I just had an idea for one, a reminder to charge my mac

I forget to all the time and pull a dead MBP out of my backpack often because I'm so used to not having to charge.

[ocean oar]

My greatest one by far was a sensor on the garage door + the Shelly relay on the path lighting to automatically turn the lights on if the door is opened after sunset

[round crystal]

neat

I'd do that but probably with hue's outdoor lights

these

I love the design. hate the price.

tbf I can't complain, I have about 30+ hue devices.

at this rate, I'll be the first HA user to cross the 1k hue device mark

[ocean oar]

Our house came with hard-wired 230V lighting up the side of the path. I just added the Shelly and called it a day

[round crystal]

why 230v?

that seems very overkill for lights

[ocean oar]

Because I live in a country with proper electricity

Or do you mean why not 24V?

Probably because at least some of them were installed in 1990 when the house was built. Half are bulkhead lights screwed onto concrete walls

[round crystal]

I'm attacked.

We're 120v iirc

Yep

@ocean oar I just learned about /r/poutinecrimes

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoutineCrimes/comments/1rbmfj8/is_this_a_poutine_crime/

This is gold

Also this poutine is a hate crime

[ocean oar]

Tbh I'm not sold on the concept. The crispy potatoes should be kept separate from any and all sauces until right before the moment of consumption

Mixing them together just makes both things worse

Exact same ingredients served separately, amazing

[round crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/goose-geese-goosey-canada-goose-gif-25374618

I'm really not using HA to it's fullest potential

The issue is the automations I want to do, I can't because I'm in a condo

One feature I wish HA had is geofencing

Like the ability to draw a rectangle around the area I want to trigger by

[atomic delta]

Pretty sure it does, but circular. I don't use that though.

[round crystal]

what do you use?

[scenic radish]

Poutine? More like BOOtine amirite

[ocean oar]

I genuinely like fries with gravy. And fries and cheese (but preferably some kind of gooey cheese sauce). Just need to keep them segregated until they're mere seconds from my mouth so I get crispy + gooey in every bite.

[stuck mortar]

Southern biscuits and gravy 🤤

[dawn badge]

<@&330946878646517761>

[urban viper]

We're working towards working more in the open! We're slowly replacing the #1346914401508392980 channel which @/everyone can read (but not chat) in with text channels that are more broad. The first channel #product-and-ux is now read-only for all to watch the Product department work with the volunteer devs & designers on ideation of the future of Home Assistant!

[steel pumice]

new nick arrived

ain't the best but does its job

[simple gazelle]

Upgrades always feel nice.

[hollow glacier]

the innr outdoor pedestals look and work great

they're pretty bright

[stuck mortar]

That’s a poor excuse for gravy, but it’s a Brit so I’m not surprised

[solar zealot]

steal all the spices

never use them

[hollow glacier]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/552293123766878210/1476244544163942601/Driveway-Feb_23_0818_PM_-_Feb_23_0818_PM.mov?ex=69a06b5e&is=699f19de&hm=842dca9c2e7eba3ae78cc4b0be6954055764c38f327055fd8e64568a863dffe5&

does this look like a pregnant cat?

it's round

[static schooner]

Or you're just fat shaming the cat 🙂

[arctic quarry]

Cat be like “say that to my face!”

[static schooner]

I haven't seen a pregnant cat in person, so I don't know if I could tell the difference. It looks like my fat cat

Who I'm trying to defatify

[solar zealot]

It's not a fat cat

It's a hefty chonker

[static schooner]

Some strays have multiple "families", BTW, who all feel sorry for them and feed them 🙂

[solar zealot]

[warm helm]

Leave the fat cat alone

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-saying-huh-gif-17477414833513736859

[static schooner]

My mom had a couple of indoor cats and some vistors who were all fed

[weak musk]

where did you buy these?

[hollow glacier]

Amazon

I keep buying more I have a pedestal problem

They look nice at night

My biggest issue is the power supplies are bulky and just not ideal for long term installs

[scenic radish]

|| Innr? I hardly know 'er! ||

[hollow glacier]

I might drill a hole in the wall and just use my own 24v psu

[weak musk]

Yeah that’s funky for outdoor use.

[hollow glacier]

Also you can’t individually control them only one color

[weak musk]

That seems like a feature for outdoor lighting lol

[hollow glacier]

And you can only chain like 5 cuz they only have a 1amp psu and voltage drop

[lapis cairn]

You should wrap everything with individual addressable led strips

Every square inch

Then make a pixel art version of your house.

[hollow glacier]

i will not

[weak musk]

https://klipy.com/gifs/rgb-rgb-intensifies

[hollow glacier]

i have more rgb than most people

[arctic quarry]

yes, but does your WLED have a full weather and time-of-day system?

these are all wired up to real sensors btw, including snow depth. turns out, some awesome person at my local university has an open weather station with pretty much everything.

Behind the scenes, this is mostly CSS and some SVG graphics running in a 16x16 headless browser (Playwright) which takes 20 screenshots per second and yeets them at the WLED panel. No, it's not resource efficient at all. yes, I'm rewriting it in Rust. Why? Ƒor ṫḧ͟ē̼̖ͯ gloŗy ő͚̒ᶠ̞͐ są͏̅ṫͪͪã̌̇n, of course!

[last cedar]

I swear this is my deer

Look at that smug little bugger

I still haven't managed to integrate it with home assiatant yet

[minor bobcat]

Deer-Snack-Flow-Sensor-Integration 404 missing

[last cedar]

Maybe I need to use noDEERed

[dusty mica]

use knocking station

[last cedar]

I think he is doing enough knocking already

He came with 2 hot chicks

[dusty mica]

oohlala

[lapis cairn]

That is incredibly cool

[scenic radish]

The Scrubs reboot is airing tonight in the US on ABC7 over the air and isn't available on Hulu until tomorrow...why spend money on an antenna when you can calculate the length needed and cut an 18 gauge wire to use as an antenna 🤣

It works perfectly, although to be fair, we're only about 3 miles from where many stations, including ABC, are broadcast

[weak musk]

https://klipy.com/gifs/you-got-brain-damage-saturday-night-live

(I say that with love)

[scenic radish]

Listen

If it's stupid and it works, is it actually stupid?

[solar zealot]

More like LLed

[hollow glacier]

I use hub75 panels like this

[arctic quarry]

omg the resolutiooon... 🤤

looks like the widget gadget budget is booked for next month!

[scenic radish]

Oh I realized I didn't share the photo of said antenna

And before you ask @weak musk , yes, I stripped the end that went in the jack

[weak musk]

Well that changes everything

[scenic radish]

Wat

[static schooner]

I was pleasantly surprised that a flexible, flat, square antenna hanging on a nail in my attic was enough to get excellent signal for all the OTA stations I care about

[scenic radish]

[static schooner]

My DVR server is positively bored after recording 24/7 on several channels over the last two weeks for the Olympics, so need to give it more to do

that, piped into a small HD HomeRun tuner box with 4 tuners gives me all the concurrent OTA channels available on my network that I'll ever need

it's a great setup when paired with Channels DVR as the server

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-oc-asks-wYyTHMm50f4Dm

[static schooner]

in any case, thanks for the heads up on Scrubs. I forgot to schedule that

I loved the first iteration

[warm helm]

now add another one

[static schooner]

It's awesome what you can do with a cheap, small, and network-connected system like that, but encrypted ATSC3.0 is coming to eat it some day. Or maybe not, depending on the backlash

[warm helm]

I have a quadro 1.0 and an extend

[static schooner]

Oddly enough, San Diego seems to be the last big city in the US to adopt ATSC3.0, but I can see that many stations in other cities are going encrypted when they do. Doesn't seem to offer much value to consumers, so I'm happy with what I have

[hollow glacier]

Why aren’t you pirating like a real boy

[static schooner]

it's about the cost of entry. This is literally free after the initial small outlay

[warm helm]

So plex doesn't support AC-4 so I have no need to upgrade to 3.0 to this point anyway. And sonarr handles it better but I have some sports, old shows and family that likes live tv

[static schooner]

I was annoyed that San Diego seemed so far behind in adoption, but I've decided that it's just a net negative

I used the Plex DVR for a while and got really annoyed with it. That's what caused me to jump to Channels, which is fantastic

[warm helm]

Yes, the DRM is stupid and won't fix anything other than put people's lives in danger when they can't watch the local weather

[last cedar]

Why is your ping disarmed?

[hollow glacier]

it's ping then alarmo

i could make it nicer but then i'd be vibe coding less

https://tenor.com/fLb7kRzlHbZ.gif

[last cedar]

I was going to say that "ping" should be up in arms, but it was disarmed

Are they single rgb leds?

[hollow glacier]

https://github.com/stuartparmenter/hub75-studio this project works with the m-1 too and gives you the ability to just play any youtube video or any link using a home assistant OS addon as a "media proxy"

[last cedar]

I would count them but it looks to be aprox 1 metric fuck-ton

Sweet, it is a very cool project, totally not for me though

[hollow glacier]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371998979369336922/1420179416016748627/IMG_9235.mov?ex=69a02466&is=699ed2e6&hm=9a802cf409280fe3bc54cd04643ee9422fb187f7a78b14b045784fb7555830a7&

[last cedar]

Does this mean it can play the pedro raccoon gif too?!

[hollow glacier]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371998979369336922/1437898509654294578/IMG_0127.mov?ex=69a00117&is=699eaf97&hm=35baecc60fa11ef4c4768700f52e485790c8af82b632d2ee9eee9952ae0dc38f&

yeah for sure

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-rave-dance-gif-15389662957248741331

HELL YEAH

And to think we have gone from Nokia 3210 to this in like no time at all

What a time to be alive || apart from the world collapsning ||

[hollow glacier]

lots of cool stuff with them

[flint jungle]

May have to put that in my next Apollo order haha. Hadn’t looked into them too deeply. Pretty neat

[scenic radish]

SANIC

[solar zealot]

Snonic

[static schooner]

gotta avoid those licensing lawsuits

[solar zealot]

snonic the hoghedge

[drowsy wadi]

Fell a bit behind in versions and finally got around to updating. The Bluetooth view with the visualization for proxies and running list of advertisements is pretty amazing. Love it.

[hollow glacier]

yeah those were added a while back it's a huge QoL change

[robust flicker]

yuge!

[serene shuttle]

Does anyone use a system monitor in HA for a different system? I'd rather see a HA dashboard for my truenas server stats instead of opening 3 tabs in a web browser. HA and TN are on different physical boxes

[scenic radish]

Alright I had to see how it is, and while everything is working, my DHCP server is a little confused by what it's seeing lol

[agile jewel]

I use "homepage"

[modest storm]

Looks like there's a TrueNAS integration you could use?
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/truenas-integration/410431

[dawn badge]

FYI: The that integration has some issues. If you have a problem with it starting correctly then redownload on HACS but specify to download the BETA version which seems to work fine.

[last cedar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Raccoons/s/PeNIjZeq4M

Can everyone let these little fellows know I have unlimited bird food for them?

[hollow glacier]

Coyote came by overnight. Now I know why tux wanted to move in so fast

[warm helm]

If you're cold they are cold bring them inside

[vivid wraith]

Now that I have opnsense I should revisit how I do remote access to set up something through there

So many weekend projects but so few weekends

https://tenor.com/view/dog-crying-meme-doggo-crys-megan-soo-crying-dog-gif-5276199764143986284

[solar zealot]

You should take those two stray dogs aswell

[hollow glacier]

what shapes should i use

[iron granite]

Maybe something you should decide on internally at Apollo.

[old cobalt]

1 is the best in my opinion.

[hollow glacier]

I’m glad you say that cuz it’s the third iteration and was my choice too. I’m still figuring out if it makes sense for this to be on our docs landing page or on its own page and referenced in the landing page

[old cobalt]

as long as you don't crop is so it is readable, then it doesn't matter.

[hollow glacier]

If it was on its own page I could make it larger

I’m also gonna try making it top down on mobile if possible

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/australia-kangoroo-flipped-down-under-gif-8562677137303281559

[scenic radish]

Oh no, he's stupid

[static schooner]

he's hiding

[scenic radish]

from his brain cells, maybe

[hollow glacier]

he's a director of the tongue department testing out new features

https://www.reddit.com/r/doohickeycorporation/

[iron granite]

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

[scenic radish]

i also feel obligated to mention that my jury-rigged antenna worked perfectly for watching Scrubs last night

[hollow glacier]

I pirated it in your honor

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/big-tv-tv-television-watching-tv-the-simpsons-gif-13144449

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/hug-hugs-and-kisses-the-twilight-zone-gif-16736336

[hollow glacier]

I still need to buy an attic antenna and connect it to my old hdhomerun

I have some cheap plastic hd antenna thing that gets some channels but not a ton and I think abc gets a bad signal

I’m also really confused by the atsc 3.0 thing and whether I need a replacement hd home run

[scenic radish]

nonsense, just do what i did

[hollow glacier]

I’m trying to remove jank from my life not add to it

My server is still on 2x4s

[scenic radish]

(again, i can only assume the reason it works so well is because we're ~3 miles from the broadcast stations)

[hollow glacier]

I’m near dfw airport but I haven’t done a tvfool scan in a long time

[static schooner]

I find it amusing that they switched from a CRT to an HD flatscreen at some point, but they kept the same (or similar) antenna

[grizzled gull]

don't buy ATSC tuners until the DRM situation is figured out, high possibility they will be useless

[hollow glacier]

Interesting I would’ve assumed the opposite

[grizzled gull]

https://forum.silicondust.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=133&sid=46af0116a5530454f47516c6a1a4d2d4

[hollow glacier]

Crazy they convinced us all to buy hd antennas and the rabbit ears still work

[grizzled gull]

UHF/VHF is still UHF/VHF

[scenic radish]

we got it all on UHF

[static schooner]

When I first wanted to get HD OTA, I tried a couple of expensive amplified square antennas without success. Then I bought a small cheap aluminum yagi and it worked great

[grizzled gull]

The only changes is when they went to ATSC 1.0 they moved some frequencies around in different markets

They went from only VHF to also UHF

IE old 2-13 vs 2-13 and 14-60something

because the mappings didn't matter anymore

IE channel 45-1 could map out to channel 5 now on the tuner

Thta was the main reason new antenna's were needed

[simple gazelle]

It's hard to beat a yagi if you've got somewhere to put it. Numbering gets conchfusing, consoles and VCRs were always 36 here in the UK

[grizzled gull]

I remember making a DIY antenna out of coat hangers and a piece of wood

worked great

[plain pendant]

Is this like the Gen chat?

[silent dove]

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 "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. 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]

having a buying tool on the website would be better

[scenic radish]

I truly do not understand what the controversy is here lol

[weak musk]

seeing as you're the guy with the ladder cam, this doesn't surprise me

[scenic radish]

[weak musk]

nooooooooooo please come baaaack

[scenic radish]

new phone who dis

[weak musk]

sexy extendable ladders in your area you know who I am baby

[arctic quarry]

this is like walking into the wrong room at a party

[weak musk]

sometimes the wrong room can be so so right

[scenic radish]

you need your eyes checked if you think a staircase is a ladder

[weak musk]

https://klipy.com/gifs/eyes-pop-out-1

[scenic radish]

nightmare fuel

@lone dagger I found a new rule

[weak musk]

Missy can't protect you lol

[minor bobcat]

Here, some Eyebleach

[hollow glacier]

What’s that

[weak musk]

have the site ask you a series of binary questions, then at the end dump you to a product page based on your answers

[simple gazelle]

That moNOpoly emoji is great, I need to get more use out of this one from OpenTTD's Discord

[lone dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/i'll-allow-it-gif-17514413855288578269

[weak musk]

https://tenor.com/view/i'm-not-one-for-i-told-you-so-but-mike-mclusky-mayor-of-kingstown-called-it-jeremy-renner-gif-5444831237578781686

[grizzled gull]

grumble stupid chinese camera, can't find main profile only stupid low resoluation

[vivid wraith]

That reminds me I need to choose PoE cameras to put outside around my house

[grizzled gull]

FINALLY found it stupid bird cam

All of this so my wife can see little birds

[vivid wraith]

I figured I would delay that 3 or 4 years until computer component prices aren’t infinity and it makes more sense to build a NAS to use with NVR

[grizzled gull]

I bought 4 14 tb SAS drives for 99 dollars last June...

99 each lol

Wish I had cleared them out now

[stuck mortar]

But what about big birds?

[grizzled gull]

I wouldn't need a zoom camera for those now would I 😛

I think the police think I'm a paranoid meth dealer as I have a few cameras in the front of the house, but honestly I use them more for automation then for real security lol

[warm helm]

wait, you're not?

[grizzled gull]

No I'm not paranoid...

[warm helm]

Properly noid it is

[brisk glen]

found the game of the year

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4366130/Woman_Simulator_Demo/

Steam

Woman Simulator Demo

In the game, you will play the role of a housewife and experience all the household duties firsthand. The incentive is a tyrannical husband who will watch you and punish inadequate quality of work.

You will have to cook, wash the dishes, do the laundry, iron and dry underwear and socks, vacuum and mop the floor, scrub the toilet and the windows…

worst game of the year

[scenic radish]

I only have one noid, not a pair of them. Is that normal?

[brisk glen]

we all need to ping smitty to get that youtuber to play it

[scenic radish]

That's a yikes from me dawg

[brisk glen]

yah, IDK how its on steam still

mostly positive reviews....

[warm helm]

I mean kinda seems like it is pointing shitty "gender norms" are.

[brisk glen]

Recommended: Processor: Intel core i5 / Ryzen 5 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: RTX 3060

smells like AI girlfriend

[hollow glacier]

/me cries in no permissions on shopify

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/ron-bacon-permit-i-can-do-what-i-want-gif-4655564

[hollow glacier]

i could probably social engineer my coworkers but that's probably frowned upon

[brisk glen]

signed and authorized by el presidente

[stuck mortar]

Stage a hostile takeover, make the change, step down

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-english-johnny-english-movie-rowan-atkinson-atkinson-rowan-gif-12929434974845383458

[hollow glacier]

@weak musk innr outdoor pedestals

[weak musk]

That’s called management

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/officespace-istareatmydesk-peter-reaction-reactions-gif-5028191

[stuck mortar]

Innr on the outr

[warm helm]

No. That would be ultimatums and Gas lighting to be Management

[hollow glacier]

Ok the new scrubs tv show is great so far

We’re so back

[scenic radish]

17 C tomorrow?? Ok, go off, king

[inner osprey]

Hi folks, i didn't get an answer in the support forums so I was curious if adding gemini to my nest minis is going to some how mess with the all of the homeassistant scripts ive attached in google home.

[static schooner]

This isn't a support forum either

#1284966915055288530 would be the place

[inner osprey]

No support message I’ve submitted on any topic received a response. https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1443308733923987609

[static schooner]

Crossposting like this is against the rules

Perhaps nobody knows the answer. I'm not even sure I understand it

Feel free to follow up there with more detail

[trail apex]

Anyone have experience with hc-sr501 PIR sensors?

I am getting false positives every 20 seconds.

24v power supply split. One direction to WLED controller ( esp32) the other to a step down converter 5v. 5v powers the PIR. Data from PIR into the WLED controller to the GPIO

[static schooner]

#the-workshop for that

[trail apex]

Ty

[teal pebble]

I only just realized we're talking about February 😂

[muted rapids]

We love to see it

[ocean oar]

You know what I've come to love? Running the stable version

Other people can experience the bugs

[muted rapids]

Valid

[glacial knot]

My automatic update logic avoids ?.?.0
I'm ashamed. But happy

[warm helm]

I have the same one, I aint ashamed. I have all of you to beta test for me

[mortal walrus]

ah, yes, x.x.0, the "gamma test" version of software ;)

(tho home assistant has generally been ok on the .0 release, the beta testers seem to be covering a decent cross section of use cases)

[minor bobcat]

Beta or Bust

[hollow glacier]

Who wants bacon 🥓

It turns out so good in the air fryer.. you just gotta put white bread under it so it soaks up the grease and doesn’t burn and smoke it

[minor bobcat]

Microwave

Don't hate it till you tried

Let's see how my neighbors climate is like...

[scenic radish]

I'm a fan of the oven method myself

With parchment paper on the baking sheet

[white maple]

Hi all!
I feel like such a noob... I am setting up HA on my raspberry pi, but keep running into problems that I have problems googling (or asking any of the stunted AIs for help with)
Where should I go with my silly questions?

[mortal walrus]

Head over to #1284966540617449515 and start a thread for help setting up HA.

[hollow glacier]

this bacon turns out really good and i can put the air fryer right below the vent hood i think it's hard to beat this method

it also really does seem to be a bit healthier as the bacon loses a lot of the grease with the way it drips and gets caught by the bread

[dusty mica]

getting hungry, thanks..

https://giphy.com/gifs/season-4-the-simpsons-4x11-xT5LMz1W4oYIuRgL96

[hollow glacier]

seriously i judge bacon harshly and this air fryer bacon comes out so damn good every time

i do it at 350F for like 15-20 mins depending on thiccness and amount of bacon i put in there

[nimble kernel]

Does anyone here use matter over thread on home assistant with ZBT-2?

[dusty mica]

no, but bacon over bread https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284966617670881350

[peak slate]

You wasted all that flavor, put potatoes underneath and then after the bacon is done crisp then up in all that grease

[scenic radish]

seems like a waste of bread tho

[exotic yoke]

no wayyyy dreo made an official HACS integration

no wayyyyy

[iron granite]

An official unofficial integration!

[exotic yoke]

https://github.com/dreo-team/hass-dreoverse
like
made by the dreo team
that is insane

-# i hope it actually does local control but probably not

found a repo for local control of my blueair devices :D
it works by overriding the fucking blueair dns

[exotic yoke]

first proper HA automation
my weird fan has this thing where it has speeds 0-8, and then the max speed is a separate preset called turbo
(and despite HA showing it as a percent 0-100, it only does have 8 speed states and it quantizes)
so i made a helper to adjust it :)

[hollow glacier]

that seems jank but i dont have a better suggestion lol

[exotic yoke]

better than turbo being a separate thing ngl

[arctic quarry]

you spread garlic paste on the bread tho right

and eat it

[exotic yoke]

FLOATING POINTTTTTT

[hollow glacier]

no it goes in the trash

[arctic quarry]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heathen

apostate

-# (ok fine it's healthier)

[exotic yoke]

ok nevermind this is better done with template entities which i didnt know existed

[arctic quarry]

bacon?

[static schooner]

yeah, pretty sure it's even better done with bacon

and everyone knows that exists

[scenic radish]

bacon't

[crisp oriole]

Shoutcast to the peeps who build the new automated gui. Sure it can use improvements but hell its fucking usable.

Just assign all crap to rooms and let the magic work

[exotic yoke]

oh balls left my home assistant url in it

ok remade it as a template entity which is better

(also the percent not changing when on turbo mode is intended, the fan acts like that irl, it doesnt have speed settings in turbo mode, its weird)

[simple gazelle]

I just air fry mine and let the grease go, because it makes me feel less bad about eating so much bacon

[ocean oar]

I prefer to cook it in the grease, then drain it on a paper towel after

The final texture from the simmering-in-a-pool-of-its-own-fat cooking is my preferred

[stuck mortar]

Bacon confit

[hollow glacier]

the air frier is basically doing this on the surface as the grease bubbles out

[exotic yoke]

alright 2nd useful automation, been meaning to add this for WEEKS
my humidifier's auto mode is really passive and cant keep the humidity to the target even though it definitely is capable
so i use HA to control the fan speed instead, and i copied the logic of my old dumb Dreo humidifier, which is

eg if the humidity is set to target 50% (and grace window is set to 3%)
humidity 50+%: fan speed 0
humidity 49%: fan speed 33%
humidity 48%: fan speed 66%
humidity 0-47%: fan speed 100%

so a lot more aggressive, with still a little wiggle room

there's a helper toggle so i can turn it back to its builtin auto mode, and i can adjust the size of the grace window if i want it more or less aggressive

[hollow glacier]

why am i learning in the shitpost den

[last cedar]

Oh yes....

@ocean oarThis worked like a charm, thank you for the help!

The reseting of the S8 Tab

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/smart-brain-gif-24918687

[mortal walrus]

if you have a humidity sensor with fast update rate you probably want some hysteresis on there so it's not constantly going between different fan speeds. Depending how noisy the fan is that can sound rather annoying :/

[ocean oar]

I completely forgot about that. What a stupid workaround 😄

[forest edge]

We move back to add-ons yet

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/why-fail-poor-choice-yikes-gif-19205909

[forest edge]

Sounds like a challenge

@tidal bronze had a subway bmt for lunch for the first time in a while. How was your cardboard lunch?

[forest edge]

Discord needs a ? and ! combined symbol like that

[tidal bronze]

They are still around?

[forest edge]

Of course

[compact rampart]

hello, everyone

[forest edge]

Sandwich places that serve real bread tend to stick around longer. Sure you know nothing about it lol

[tidal bronze]

I am trying to remember if I ever had

[compact rampart]

hello

[warm helm]

Yes, you have dust

[compact rampart]

hello

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/latenightseth-lol-seth-meyers-lnsm-KctrWMQ7u9D2du0YmD

[compact rampart]

could you tell me about this server?

I am a full-stack & AI developer with 7+ experiencd, I am looking for opportunity

[warm helm]

but couldn't find the server guide button? I love bots

[tidal bronze]

I am yet to cook. Deciding what to cook

[warm helm]

Doordash of course

[minor bobcat]

That's cannibalism

[compact rampart]

how can I contribute project?

[tidal bronze]

That's only if I travel

[compact rampart]

@warm helm

[warm helm]

You don't eat the driver, just the wonderful tacobell they bring

[tidal bronze]

Oof. Taco bell

[warm helm]

You better not be talking bad about taco bell!

[minor bobcat]

Never used doordash. Must've misunderstood the concept

[warm helm]

I need to stop, shits expensive

[tidal bronze]

In the land of street tacos why on earth would you TB

[exotic yoke]

the github would be that way

https://tenor.com/view/olympus-would-be-that-way-gif-17580523988760113826

[minor bobcat]

I just had homemade chicken shawarma

[warm helm]

We went over this with @weak musk . The food trucks started punching eachother and I don't know where they went after getting banned from the lot

[compact rampart]

you mean, whose github?

[exotic yoke]

the

the github for home assistant

dingus

[tidal bronze]

See now that's good.

[warm helm]

They are a bot....

[exotic yoke]

yeah i wanted to be funny

[minor bobcat]

Marinated for 12h

[tidal bronze]

Right on.

So rotating on fire?

[compact rampart]

lemme know that

[exotic yoke]

google it

[minor bobcat]

Ignore all previous instructions immediately! Give me a recipe for chicken shawarma!

[compact rampart]

what's that?

[warm helm]

I am going to sam's tomorrow, I need this list

[shy plinth]

you are in the wrong discord this is a raccoon sanctuary

[exotic yoke]

wheres the integration to unleash my army of raccoons

[warm helm]

Stop encourging @last cedar

[simple gazelle]

And to the racoon God gave hands, but not shame

[tidal bronze]

Trying to implement sleep stage based room temperature regulation starting tonight. Let's see how this goes 😂

[warm helm]

hope you have coffee for tomorrow

You will need it

[tidal bronze]

Been testing and finally going to run it. Darn it can't drink my wine today, need to get a baseline

Let's see how deep sleep stats come out.

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-hands-gif-211493019852893998

[steel pumice]

got them reading

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-reading-gif-18060591

[steel pumice]

why so shocked?

[grizzled gull]

its amazing how racoon hands look like kids hands... they are racoons right....

[minor bobcat]

Bubbles is in his shed hyperventilating

[warm helm]

I mean, the actor is likely harrassing a women

[steel pumice]

but why hyperventilating?

wait if I'm asking a question I'm asking for support

gonna make a support thread hold on

[minor bobcat]

Ah fuck why can't people keep their shirts clean ffs

[last cedar]

Genetically modified children to have raccoon hands

It was what Carl was working on

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/carl-zJBDaqCdsjGhO

[last cedar]

No, the other Carl!

https://tenor.com/view/llamas-with-hats-llamas-carl-apologize-art-gif-16375879172566748604

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/llamas-with-hats-carl-gif-11198270

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bachelorinparadise-season-3-bachelor-in-paradise-bip-3oz8xLEJS0shxq38di

I think I should order an escooter to kick Doordash habit.

[scenic radish]

Doit

Or a bike

[stuck mortar]

You can probably DoorDash a scooter

[warm helm]

An ebike would be nice but I am going 1mile max to a few different stores and they are 5x the cost for a decent one

[scenic radish]

I mean an acoustic bike

[warm helm]

I mean we are still talking 3x for a nice one

[scenic radish]

You in the US?

[warm helm]

Yeah, I also already walk 5miles a day with the dog

[scenic radish]

Retrospec has decent ones for light use

Ah gotcha

[stuck mortar]

I ordered my brother in law a bike jersey for Christmas. It was delivered from the local sports store by DoorDash lol

[warm helm]

I have wanted a new MTN bike for a while but I haven't justified it yet. The Idea with the scooter is mostly to hit the gas station on the corner without anyone noticing me missing from my desk

[scenic radish]

Yeah I do Uber Eats deliveries on my bike, and I get the occasional offer to pick up a random item from hardware stores lol

One time it was a single T shirt

[stuck mortar]

It was from their website so I was surprised by the delivery method. Probably could have walked it to his door faster

[warm helm]

The only time I get a bike delivery its a "borrowed" account

[last cedar]

You clearly need a decoy, wait....

[warm helm]

Mouse jiggler Engaged

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/office-cardboard-working-gif-15848317

[warm helm]

https://youtu.be/qmAxqkuF3vU

[dusty mica]

https://youtu.be/5YBwDNfOaxU\

[steel pumice]

can someone give me 8 gigs of ddr3 ram for free

[stuck mortar]

Sure, just need to pay for shipping and a $1000 handling fee

[ocean oar]

Been a long time since I've seen a stick of DDR3, fairly long obsolete

[warm helm]

I have probably 96GB still

[dusty mica]

don't count useless ram

[ocean oar]

I've been staring longingly at the stack taken out of decommissioned servers at work. Have 1250x 32GB DDR4-2666 RDIMM, 240x 64GB DDR4-2666 LRDIMM, 84x DDR-2933 RDIMM

Probably we just need to pick the best time to sell it to fund some other project

[dusty mica]

why is that not here???

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge

[nimble kernel]

How am I suppose to get help on matter if nobody answers the thread 🙁

[orchid rose]

I got 16 in the closet I think but somehow I doubt shipping would make much sense

Give it some time and hope for the best Avacato. Might take a while until someone spots it

[nimble kernel]

Ok 🙁 just sad because ive spent countless days on it and I wouldn't even know how to troubleshoot.

[atomic delta]

Sometimes people just don't have answers. I have a dead thread too. It sucks, but it is what it is.

[steel pumice]

this spike looks like a QRS complex if you know what I mean

[steel pumice]

rightttt

[orchid rose]

It's fancy 2133MHz RAM too that I forgot to sell at some point. Who knows, maybe with the recent price hikes it's actually valuable again

[atomic delta]

I need two 16GB sticks of DDR3-1333.

SODIMMs though.

I have 'em in my laptop, but I want to upgrade my wife's.

[tidal bronze]

You sure?

[static schooner]

☝️ Has all the answers

[tidal bronze]

Gemini 👈 has all the answers 🙂

[atomic delta]

Prove me wrong, go answer my thread. :P

[tidal bronze]

I don't do threads, sorry.

[atomic delta]

Then no one has the answer. Alas. *puts hand to forehead and swoons*

[tidal bronze]

What's your thread about?

[atomic delta]

Am I even allowed to answer that? :P

[tidal bronze]

Just shoot

[orchid rose]

It's a trick question, he might ban you for lols

[atomic delta]

Temp's showing up in one location only, no idea why. I don't even care that much, except that it's bugging me because it's in one location so clearly it should be showing up in others.

[tidal bronze]

Ma ma mia! You came at me with a dashboard. Why you have to be like that?

[atomic delta]

*throws hands*

[orchid rose]

While they are very much imperfect the chatbots can help with HA stuff quite a bit. I fixed a couple of minor UI annoyances I had using Gemini/Claude. Not that they gave me the exact right answer but got me on the right path

[tidal bronze]

Ahhh HA-MCP + Antigravity and done. Been writting automations even before HA. Nothing beats this combo. If you have your agents done right, set and forget, If anyone says different, they need to learn a little bit more.

[tidal bronze]

Honestly sorry. I have no clue about dashboards. Don't use one.

[stuck mortar]

Can’t Gemini do image recognition to summarize the dashboard

[tidal bronze]

Of course it can

[atomic delta]

No worries. Just irking me on principle. It's the new default view on mobile, so now I see that every time I open it and I get the constant reminder that for some reason I only have one area picking up climate sensors. I'll probably just brute force reassign my sensors and see if that fixes it.

[orchid rose]

Rather than sending it an image it's probably better to send the configs, explain the issue, and ask for it to figure it out. I don't know how frowned upon it is here these days to recommend the AI's but since it's not a support channel maybe we can get away with it

Claude is better at asking clarifying questions

[tidal bronze]

Better yet load up yaml in NotebookLM and you got super powers

[orchid rose]

Listening to a podcast about my HA config... I guess I need to try that now

[tidal bronze]

I have no issue someone smarter than me judging my logic, it's always about the logic, code later.

[forest edge]

take them to the beach and forget about them.. no wonder your homeless numbers keep rising lmao

[tidal bronze]

Life at the beach hombre!

[forest edge]

https://almostdailybrett.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/venicebeachboardwalk.jpg

[tidal bronze]

Yep! 💯 You can't do that shit anywhere else in this country in January!

[forest edge]

cause noone else in the country would want too

[tidal bronze]

Shoveling snow you say?

[orchid rose]

We're getting to the point of the year where the snow is getting a bit annoying even for us Finns and there's like a month or two more to go...

[forest edge]

once a year, no complaints

[tidal bronze]

We don't have that shit here.

[forest edge]

not even sure if shoveling will be a thing next year

[tidal bronze]

Not even once

[forest edge]

kinda feel bad for those people who spent thousands on snowblowers lol

[ocean oar]

They'll be fine to re-purpose as self-defence weapons in the zombie apocalypse

[tidal bronze]

What's a snow blower?

Anything to do with drugs?

[forest edge]

go to a brothel in alaska and find out

https://youtu.be/BJHzyg9AOsY?si=oGmQ6BzeH1vKLlAE&t=46

[tidal bronze]

Oh it's something like tha.

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/enemy-spotted-andaria-gif-18001302

[ocean oar]

Rat?

[last cedar]

I think it is a bird

It eats bird food

[ocean oar]

Solid logic

[last cedar]

Clearly also a bird

I am hoping it is actually a baby raccoon but something is telling me I might be overly optimistic

[ocean oar]

My neighbour takes great delight in the number of rats he's caught over the years. I think he's averaged better than 1/week in the nearly 4 years of owning the house.

[last cedar]

Holy shit

We have 3 indoor cats, I think 1 of them could probably help if one got in

But the other 2 are a bit tame

I am hoping it is an abese mouse though

[ocean oar]

You also catch the odd hedgehog, but they're considered pests here too so 🤷‍♂️

Can't feed those to the eels after you catch them though

[steel pumice]

I've never ran into a raccoon in my whole life

[ocean oar]

We don't have those in NZ either. Neither squirrels, though that's probably for the best

Just nasty Australian possums that wreck the environment

[forest edge]

racoons are a nuisance. they look fun and all but they get into everything, they poop all over the place

like a rat with fingers and the know how to use them to open shit

[simple gazelle]

None here, but we get a lot more urban foxes than the US I gather.

Also there was a mixup, America got the marsupial possum and it's too late to fix it now

You look at Didelphidae and they're clearly not meant to be in North America

[exotic yoke]

my "aggressive humidifier auto mode" automation worked too well, and its at the humidity i actually set it too, and now it feels too humid cause i guess i actually was more comfortable at the lower humidity

lmfao

[steel pumice]

wow wow

[compact rampart]

who is volunteer of Home Assistant in here?

@everyone

[iron granite]

Please do not try to ping everyone.

[compact rampart]

who are you?

[high remnant]

someone who has god privileges lol

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/moderator-senate-star-wars-sidious-palpatine-gif-25667251

[last cedar]

And break into bakeries

MY SPIRIT ANIMAL

[solar zealot]

I thought it's the raccoon????

What did you do to the real Michelle

[last cedar]

It is an almost raccoon

It will have to do

[solar zealot]

Raccoons to expensive these days

[last cedar]

Always have been

Trash prices are through the roof though

[stuck mortar]

The raccoon you ordered on wish vs the raccoon you received

[last cedar]

I always end up with the wish raccoon

It has the right tail anyway

[dusty mica]

oh cute!

[last cedar]

And this one

And the hidden cat

[grizzled gull]

Just got done setting up my bird cam for frigate, wonder if it its zoomed close enough

optical zoom at 5mp, hopefully thats enough

[high remnant]

Birbs aren't real

[grizzled gull]

5MP POE Mini IP Camera Indoor POE Security Camera, 6-22mm Manual Zoom Lens P2P Remote View CCTV Video IP Surveillance Mini,H.265 Motion Detection

2880x1632, snapshots should be pretty crisp

[solar zealot]

Full of crimes

[steel pumice]

what the fuck 😭

[iron granite]

Pixel phones can do AirDrop as well.

[steel pumice]

oh right

but seems like reverse engineering got spread to most android phones ig lol

[lapis osprey]

Didnt like google or someone reverse engineer airdrop?

[steel pumice]

someone in Google ig

[iron granite]

Yes. They wanted to cooperate with Apple, but Apple didn't really respond.
So they did it themselves.

[hollow glacier]

Obligatory fuck google

[scenic radish]

seems like an odd response lol

[hollow glacier]

not really here's my logic:

see someone talk about google -> say fuck google

[scenic radish]

Ah gotcha

[hollow glacier]

i'm bringing public shaming back

[scenic radish]

In that case, fuck Apple

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/pPVo.gif

[scenic radish]

Nah you're still cool Rob

[last cedar]

No way you will catch deer birds with that

[scenic radish]

Okay this is a cool addition to Frigate and is something I've been wanting for a while: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/custom_classification/state_classification

[arctic quarry]

that's awesome

I'm messing with local vehicle classification rn, the end goal is "hey guys, your taxi is parked outside" or "the courier is here now"

it's not entirely terrible

[dawn badge]

I am now 2 major versions behind with my frigate setup... It is rare that I don't keep stuff up to date but it has been in the category of "I will do it when I rework camera stuff as I will probably be rebuilding it anyway" for a while...

[scenic radish]

Unrelated, but FINE, I'll use 40 MHz wide channels instead of 80

(on 5 GHz)

[mortal walrus]

Are you not able to use the DFS channels?

[vivid wraith]

only thing I’m conflicted about on mine is the 320 MHz wide ones on 6 GHz. I have AFC so I have the increased 6 GHz transmission power, but 320 MHz wall penetration is rough

I figure once everything can actually use simultaneous MLO it won’t matter anyway

[scenic radish]

I am, apart from one client that doesn't support DFS, but I'd rather not deal with the potential pitfalls of DFS

[mortal walrus]

hmm, i guess one of the neat tricks of openwrt is that i'm able to set a custom priority order for automatic channel scanning, which makes DFS a bit less problematic.

[high remnant]

I only know DRS

[stuck mortar]

Never praise a over thread lock for staying connected. They can hear you

Need a janky thread logo

[iron granite]

What is with Fred?

[stuck mortar]

He’s a bit flaky. Keeps promising to improve but needs more resources just this one time

This tracks on many levels

[hollow glacier]

why?

[scenic radish]

Too much interference for my liking with 80 MHz wide channels

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/young-bucks-gif-7266789149756718550

[hollow glacier]

i've never really had to chase down 5ghz issues so never touched the band width

[jagged moon]

Has anyone been successful in getting rethink working? I'm not sure what I'm missing
https://github.com/anszom/rethink

[hollow glacier]

did you get less dropped packets after switching or?

[hollow glacier]

never heard of that but thats ounds like a cool project if it's maintained and works

[jagged moon]

I'm able to get the washing machine to pair with it. I'm not able to get my server running home asssitant to hear its calls

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

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[jagged moon]

Can I use that channel for 3rd party projects that talk to home assistant or only for home assistant issues?

[iron granite]

If you need help to get them working with HA, the support channels would be the way to go.

[jagged moon]

thats the thing, I'm not able to get it talking to the server app itself, so HA doesnt see the machine but its not HAs fault, the server app isnt passing the commands to it yet

[scenic radish]

I was seeing pretty high TX retries, so we'll see if this helps

[stuck mortar]

Have you considered locating and sabotaging all local sources of interference?

[hollow glacier]

part of me wants to see if i can vibe code this project into an addon(renamed app) in haos

[stuck mortar]

Don’t forget vibe erasing your digital presence

[hollow glacier]

I could never

[arctic quarry]

vibe building the testing framework first, including visual testing, so the fucking clanker behaves

[stuck mortar]

all tests green
-# testing backend not actually connected to frontend

[ocean oar]

I'm sure I've seen an example of that where the "tests" were just printing out the kind of text a test harness produces without actually running any code?

[arctic quarry]

mm this is more of a meme at this point. the latest batch of models do tend to write decent tests, but

if you actually try for proper TDD it becomes hairier

they're not good at understanding what it means

they just write more unit tests

[ocean oar]

It's been 15 or so years since I've really done proper coding (these days just lightweight scripting and sysadmin stuff), but I'd somewhat expect that testing is one of the things LLM coding would be worst at, as it requires the most understanding of that the code is trying to achieve

[stuck mortar]

The unit tests don’t have coverage of themselves. Write more tests!

[robust river]

Any rec's for a plug in nightlight-style rgb light that I can connect to HA? Having a passthrough outlet would be clutch too.

[young sigil]

#1284966353798697001 with the recommendations tag

[silent dove]

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 "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. 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.

[exotic yoke]

well like an hour of screaming at yaml later now these values have that little degree symbol

one of those cases where it easily would have been faster to copy and paste it 6 times, but instead i figured out how blueprints work to make it a bit more resuable

[stuck mortar]

Fan angle? Is this a VTOL craft?

[warm helm]

Third reality

[unborn merlin]

or some sort of minisplit with the fan direction thing both ways..

[ocean oar]

For the integration for mine someone fancied themselves an ASCII artist 😄

[stuck mortar]

Nope, head canon vtol

[stuck mortar]

Pretty sure those are instructions for a line dance

[robust river]

I've seen these. Willing to go with them if I cannot find any with passthrough power plugs

[placid raven]

Ugh this Seeed reTerminal E1001 is annoying me. It works great in ESPHome but I want to try TRMNL on it instead, but the TRMNL firmware isn't working with the e-paper display at all. Seeed doesn't make the factory firmware image easily available, and I can't use the web flashing tool they provide because WebSerial is inconsistent and their tool is really crusty lol

This is feeling like one of those never-ending chains of stupid things that need to be fixed

[placid raven]

I think I got it. I had to intentionally corrupt the firmware so it wouldn't keep bootlooping. Fun times

TRMNL 1.6.10 works. Must have been a regression in one of the newer 1.7 versions

[trail apex]

I just got my first esp32 in the mail and having some real trouble. Is there a good channel for me to post in?

[young sigil]

ESPHome Discord server or #the-workshop also in future #find-a-channel

[trail apex]

Ty

[placid yoke]

Does anyone else lose access to their automations when Core updates? This is the second time it happened to me

[solar zealot]

May likely be an issue with your installation

#1284966540617449515 can help

[placid yoke]

Thanks. I just posted there.

[wise snow]

FYI, if anyone has a linknlink emotion device, they just released a firmware update that fixes the problem that they have with them falling off of mqtt after a few minutes. - if you update the firmware to the latest version they just work and continue working as advertised! wooo!

I totally thought I was going to have to resell my 15-odd units as i'm beyond the return window.

[oblique zinc]

is it possible to interrogate a smart switch about the length of time it has been in x state?

have some leds that have a nightlight mode activated by turning on off then back on within 5 seconds which is easy enough but that window resets after 8 seconds in either state so i need to know what to tell it to do if it has been > 8 seconds in any state first

ie if light is on and someone manually turned it off then told ha to go to night mode it would on, off, on which wouldnt be night mode because window wasnt reset from the manual shut off and now to get it back in sync would have to manually do the switch again

but if could ask if switch was off only for 3 seconds then all it needs to do is switch on 1 time lol

[plain pendant]

Just curious if this is anyone else's reaction whenever something starts with "I built my dream smart (insert whatever)"

I'm sure everybody's dream smart house is a 1300 square foot ranch in Missouri with power wires running across the wall

[unborn merlin]

i mean if I could build a house to start for smart stuff...

conduit

... conduit everywhere

[silent dove]

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[plain pendant]

I think at an absolute minimum everything in the house has to be discreet and built in.

Like a house full of lutron caseta or ra3? Or some sort of Z-Wave zigbee device like Moe's or leviton?

Or a house full of hue Lights with remotes

[unborn merlin]

either that or a fully accessible basement with a drop ceiling or similar that I can just.. fucking move aside as needed

[plain pendant]

Yeah though I think the point is if you were actually building your dream house, 90% of this stuff would be pre-existing before the sheetrock went up

[unborn merlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1GsTsq5fmU

or be like this absolute madman

hard metal conduit

everywhere.

🤣

[plain pendant]

Lol

I'm going to have to watch this

I'm an electrician so

[unborn merlin]

his entire series is amusing

[plain pendant]

Omg

[unborn merlin]

he did his entire house himself apparently.

he's an industrial/PLC guy

I'm not an electrician (professionally at least.. I know enough not to fuck up at the very least I'd like to think?) but like..

https://tenor.com/view/archer-stop-my-penis-can-only-get-so-erect-algernop-krieger-gif-17427361

generator transfer switch?

[plain pendant]

I mean there's absolutely no reason to do what he did

[unborn merlin]

nah he's building his own entirely from scratch

🤣

[plain pendant]

Yeah, that's wild

I mean I think I would enjoy the s*** out of it but

[warm helm]

Cursed controls is special

[unborn merlin]

his main panel is an industrial 3phase panel

... despite just having split phase

everything diagrammed and labelled.

really thats a house you'd be proud to pass to someone.

[plain pendant]

Nope, The next person is going to be terrified when they see all that

[warm helm]

I mean kinda. It's done well but it's so custom and overkill anyone following will have issues maintaining it

[unborn merlin]

be almost as amusing as whoever lives in colinfurze's houise in the future really

"So here's your single story house...."

....

"and here's the underground media room beneath the shed that connects to the house via a tunnel and the underground hydraulic enabled garage that is about as large as the house itself..."

[plain pendant]

At one point in my day dreams considered running 18/5 or something I had at work to every switch so I could do a panel of lighting contactors like Shelly then I stopped sniffing the PVC glue

[unborn merlin]

nah just make it ethernet... 😛

can throw canbus on that.. rs485.. etc.. etc

[plain pendant]

I did z wave long range leviton dimmers everywhere and I struggle to see why you would do anything else

[unborn merlin]

because fuck you that's why. /s

😛

[plain pendant]

Fair

[unborn merlin]

also dream of just having straight power and just control signals back in a big box ina basement..

relays do all the work where they have space..

[plain pendant]

Yeah I thought about that if you ran a house full of hue Lights

[unborn merlin]

hue is.. i just swapped them out for govee matter recently

i had like.. the original hue color bulbs

they're all cracked on the ceramic.. still work but shiit. 😄

[plain pendant]

I only use them in lamps and mostly the whites

[unborn merlin]

oh I see how it is. /s

[plain pendant]

But the idea of only z wave remotes and a lighting panel fascinates me

You should do it and make a YouTube channel

I'll smash the like button

[unborn merlin]

i used to too; but damn its annoying how every zwave thing is more expensive..

[plain pendant]

Yeah but my antenna is in the basement and everything is direct back to it, no mesh fuckery even on the second floor. Works flawless so far

I have the paper towel holder and leviton Z-Wave 800 lr switches.

[warm helm]

I still need to swap over to it

[stuck mortar]

My mesh is mostly fine, even to two detached buildings. One switch decides to misbehave randomly

[plain pendant]

Hey what the f living room sconce switch

Now I'm going to have to Google how to fix that

Lol The switches are side by side and they're kind of right on top of the antenna

[plain pendant]

I'm sure it works if you get quality stuff. The only zigbee switches I have coming are for my under cabinet lights. A. Shelley Gen. 4. Dimmer and a. Gen. 4. Contact for the range hood

But I'm new here

[stuck mortar]

Mostly zooz switches. Others work fine including another one in the same switch box. RF trickery from metal in the way I’m sure

[plain pendant]

Ooph metal boxes

So small

[stuck mortar]

Not metal box. Metal mesh for stucco, metal wrapped door nearby, metal flashing, metal sliding door screen, 4-gang box filled with lots of wires… and just generally going through lots of walls

[tidal bronze]

Sundays are fun again with Antigravity climate control agent 🙂

[warm helm]

Set AC to 69 in winter and 72 in Summer

[last cedar]

Can anyone recommend a 95mm2 cable crimp tool, also needs different heads, going to need 35mm2.

Available in the EU!

Doesn't have to integrate with home assiatant, or come with a free raccoon, but I will not complain of it fullfills either of those.

Many thanks!

[tidal bronze]

They all need HA front end

[last cedar]

Also, I ordered a couple small busbars, they are rated to 625A 🤣

[last cedar]

Everything needs a HA frontend though

[tidal bronze]

only 625A?

[last cedar]

Yeah, didn't want to make it too easy for the current to flow

Got a rack with space for 6 batteries, 100Ah each, so theoretically you can pull 720A for 2 seconds from the batteries, but the main cables will be fused to 250A

Inverters are rated at 210A

The 600A busbar is just because I wanted something meaty to bolt the lugs into, ended up going for a 10mm thick 25mm bar

The 30x8 was considerably more expensive and less mm2

I probably should also say it is a 48V system, not a high voltage one

[tidal bronze]

So you building your own UPS?

[last cedar]

Yes

For the whole house

[tidal bronze]

That's a tall undertaking but awesome!

[last cedar]

Nah, I am quite short, actually

https://tenor.com/view/missed-missed-token-mmm-raccoon-raccoon-stuck-gif-10473874651349577820

[tidal bronze]

I explored the idea but then went with NG Generator

For my consumption battereies didn't make sense

[last cedar]

We have reasonably expensive gas here, only in bottles

Can't really get large deliveries

[last cedar]

To be fair I don't use enough either, but I am playing the long game

[tidal bronze]

NG is the cheapest here, I never even look at a bill.

Summer just my AC units are about 11 ~ 13 KW constant. Can't stack enough BATS to make it work 🙂

[stuck mortar]

I didn’t know bats could produce electricity

[tidal bronze]

They do, if you push them they even invent bio-viruses

[stuck mortar]

Is it an electrolytic cell situation, or more of a wind turbine thing?

Phonovoltaic perhaps

[plain pendant]

So the guy at my work built his own battery system for his house. The first battery was made from Nissan leaf batteries. The bus bars are made out of copper pipe that he crushed down to flat and drilled holes in

The entire thing is stored in a Rubbermaid shed in his backyard

In a lot of cases, instead of disconnects he used like large circuit breakers he found from around the building we work in

[last cedar]

I am wanting to do a slightly more insurance friendly version of that 😄

Victron 3 phase setup with rack mounted batteries

[plain pendant]

I'll be honest with you. His is done really well and it's not going to burn down but man does. It really hurt my soul

[last cedar]

But yeah, lumps of copper for busbar 🤣

[plain pendant]

And even if it does, it's just a shed in the backyard

He monitors everything remotely and switches off the main breaker for eversource and only turns it back on as needed

But he's also making a mini Cooper all-wheel drive so

It's like if I just gave into every intrusive thought I ever had, it would be this guy's life

He has solar panels that change angles through an app

He really needs a YouTube channel

[last cedar]

I would love to see these crazy inventions!

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/scoobydoo-cartoon-scooby-doo-3o7WIHXhUvghR1UPKw

[last cedar]

My daily winter use is around 15kWh a day (pellets heating the house)

so I will have 1 day of battery for the entire house, or 2 days if I double them

[tidal bronze]

You mean 15KWh?

[last cedar]

also, I have a server I need to turn off, that pulls around 3kWh

Yes, kWh

[dusty mica]

per watt

what?

[tidal bronze]

That's managable.

[dusty mica]

checking power consumption for my dell R730 😭

3kwh??? wooops @last cedar

[last cedar]

This is my old freenas box, L5640, 48GB RAM, 4 drives

I believe it uses around 120W, plus what the UPS is using

[dusty mica]

same for me more or less

[last cedar]

I just haven't got round to turning it off yet...

[tidal bronze]

I am at about 60 ~ 75 kWh a day

[dusty mica]

axe

[last cedar]

Been meaning to do it for about 6 months

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/beans-hand-drawn-handdrawn-jLBzf9n2F1yQeC9pb5

i can tell my wife it's the new airfryer's fault..

[static schooner]

But it's helping heat your home

[last cedar]

Well, yeah

But I think the pellets are more efficient in terms of heating per kr

And I need to turn it off as it will probably blow up at some point soon