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scenic radish
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Is the Bambu A1 decent? There are refurbished ones for about 200 USD at my Microcenter

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oh A1 mini

warm helm
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yeah, but check if they have the p1s refurb

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$340, no ams

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Before getting my p1s I would use my ender every few months and even then I feel like it was worth having around. Every so often, I'd need a smart sensor mount, wire clip or other small mount and it was nice to just spend a few minutes sending it to the printer vs finding something that may work on amazon and then having to order 20 of them or worse over paying on etsy

solar zealot
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anything from bambu is pretty decent

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would get the ams and an enclosed one tho, makes a lot of things much more painless

stuck mortar
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That’s much cheaper than the $25000 quote I got for a 3d printed part from jlc
-# the stl specifies cm instead of mm lol

hollow glacier
warm helm
solar zealot
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good combination

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only bad thing is the webcam but 550 is a good number

warm helm
# solar zealot good combination

The camera isn't the best but I also get why they did it. Its functionally fine, its just not 30fps so people can watch it live.

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Same thing people do with security cameras. Ratched the FPS up and gain nothing functionally except lose space

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I was looking at the P1s for 340 because I already have one with an AMS but still print mostly black petg. Run the big spools that don't fit

solar zealot
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especially considering the x1c kinda also doesnt get anything better than absolute basic

warm helm
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P1S is just a x1c as far as I can tell for the most part just once they brought the cost way down

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and came out with the H series

solar zealot
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did they improve the lights inside in the new gens?

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that was kinda the second silly choice they did

warm helm
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the only thing that does piss me off not that I have ever gotten it to work is my ender does have AI print failure detection that the p1s doesn't

static schooner
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How does it know?

warm helm
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I also most never really have a failure on either one outside of warping or first layer issues though

static schooner
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Seems like for the most part, it could detect clogs and mechanical failures with the printer itself, but how does it know if what it's printing is garbage?

warm helm
unborn merlin
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probably copy pasted the spaghetti detective model

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😛

warm helm
static schooner
warm helm
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Really not horrible, I just have both send me snaps from the cameras to my watch every few minutes to catch it manually but like I said I rarely have print issues past the first few layers. The last one on the bambu was because I forgot to enable supports. The print still worked entirely for my needs though

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The only reason I haven't pulled the trigger on this p1s is that p2s adds some nice features and AMS2, though I'd probably connect my AMS to it also for 8 colors and then run big spools on this p1s

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or h2s

grizzled gull
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Good afternoon(or whatever it is where you are)

ocean oar
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Only just got out of bed here

grizzled gull
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I have to give props to HA, I had to rename a device because orginally when I named it, it had a space, rather then go through and rename all the entities I just nuked the device and readded it, same name but just added an underscore, figured I'd have to readjust my dashboards and automations, but HA automatically associated with the new device, thank you who ever did that 🙂

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Grumble I get to replace my spendy router be Synology is dumb

scenic radish
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You can have HA re-create the entity IDs when you rename a device FYI

forest edge
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I'd like the one that is white but also not white

static schooner
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So half white and half not white. Gotcha

glacial locust
atomic delta
hollow glacier
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Someone broke the eggs 🥚 and moved the nest runcry

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normal coral
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ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--W_DZau64. Do anyone know if there are any blueprints for his cat panels somewhere? I couldnt find anything

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ocean oar
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I discovered this week that I can drive my Roborock vacuum like a really shitty RC car, so I can stalk my cats remotely now

static schooner
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I sometimes use that to drive it out of "robot trapped" scenarios. It's pretty slow and non-threatening, though

ocean oar
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We have a big decorative rug in front of the TV, I've been thinking to myself about how I could make a mechanism to roll / otherwise drag the rug out of the way (under the couch, probably) so it is less of an obstacle for the vacuum

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Thinking you could have a thin string going diagonally across underneath, connected to one corner of the rug and going through an eyelet on the other, so a single motor could pull and both fold it in half(ish) and whisk it away in a single motion 😄

static schooner
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monofiliment line connected to pullies in the ceiling

rapid jolt
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just get one of those industrial fans. Easy off/on, blow it out of the way. Side benefit is that it'll also blow all the dirt away, so no need to vacuum.

crisp oriole
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I killed 2/3 of my zelky cluster.... :/

static schooner
peak slate
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Awww but I wanted to run laptops for North Korea

ocean oar
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Better luck next time

warm helm
warm helm
ocean oar
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But we like the rug

warm helm
timid stone
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Does this work with tapo and kasa?

static schooner
river flame
unborn merlin
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isnt it great we have the dumbest fucking government on the planet? 😄

warm helm
stuck mortar
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Vote Birb 2028. Openwrt for all

warm helm
stuck mortar
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We’ve barely used this planet! It’s good for at least another couple years

warm helm
hoary canyon
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A temporary exemption lasts 18 months then they have to reapply again

river flame
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And from the emphasis of "consumer", maybe enterprise/prosumer stuff like Ubiquiti isn't affected? 🤭

hoary canyon
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That’s what I was researching

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I’ll forward what I wrote in the Ubiquiti discord

river flame
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There's a Ubiquiti discord?

hoary canyon
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Nevermind.. it’s blocked here lol

hoary canyon
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Take with a grain of salt..

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If Ubiquiti wants to be classified as Enterprise by regulatory standards they basically can’t sell directly to consumers from what I understand

river flame
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🤔

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I guess we'll see how this pans out

hoary canyon
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Hoping Ubiquiti doesn’t go dealer only

river flame
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eBay would ideally still be an option

hoary canyon
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heavily overpriced 😛

river flame
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True

hoary canyon
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r/homelabsales would probably be better

river flame
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Noted

hoary canyon
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I don’t imagine it would be terribly hard to move some manufacturing to the US, they could probably just move their accessories and it would still count lol

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make the big buck stuff overseas still

stuck mortar
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You lot seem to be buying enterprise quantities of APs. You’re your own dealer

warm helm
scenic tangle
static schooner
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gator going to the dayspa

normal coral
scenic radish
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I know everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting for confirmation. I'm happy to report that I was correct. The one I wanted is cool white

vast grove
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anyone else not getting core updates? 2026.3.3/4 never came through. still on 2026.3.2. running update check shows no updates 🤔

scenic radish
dusty mica
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Hi configuration, anyone else not getting core updates? 2026.3.3/4 never came through. still on 2026.3.2. running update check shows no updates?

vast grove
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👀

last cedar
sharp cosmos
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Annoying little whine moment... I'm a little disappointed in the marketing for the ZBT-2, with it being placed on side tables in marketing photos, etc it implies that it doesn't have to be anywhere near your HASS server... because who is gonna just have their entire home automation server sat out on a side table like that?

So I buy one, only to find that I'm probably worse off than my current Sonoff bridge because my server is where a server belongs: in a cupboard under the stairs 🫠

last cedar
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It could have been a kitchen roll holder instead, who knows, they are indestinguisuble from each other

static schooner
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the ZBT-2 is a little short for that

minor bobcat
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Tbf I could take a side table pic with it on top if I don't show the underneath lol

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static schooner
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more fit for the bathroom

ocean oar
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Lord knows we love mix-and-matching things for the kitchen and bathroom

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last cedar
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Wait, is that meant to mean that you should like the kitchen bowls?

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I have been doing this wrong

sharp cosmos
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Badge502 may have a few opinions on where not to put the ZBT-2 tbf

ocean oar
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Depends where you live. In less civilised countries where they wash their eggs and you have to refrigerate them, probably shouldn't.

sharp cosmos
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Flared or not

static schooner
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Jail cell hooch

minor bobcat
vivid wraith
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Oh god reading the inovelli forum threads from people with hard disconnect problems with their white series canopy modules is stressing me out

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I did have it happen once with a dimmer switch

atomic delta
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Had no idea there were updates I'd been missing

exotic yoke
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Time for my voice assistant setup to no longer be shit

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atomic delta
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My voice assistant setup is doomed to forever be theoretical.

exotic yoke
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i mean you can take any competent enough speaker + mic and make one

atomic delta
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Yeah, but I want to get a system that can run a local ollama model competently, and the odds of that happening in the current market are approximately HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

exotic yoke
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lmfao

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i used my old gaming laptop that i took the battery out of

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4gb of vram to run the model and other shit isnt much but it does work

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ooh the jabra speak has fucking leds alla round it can i control them in software

atomic delta
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I've been using my gaming laptop with Hermes. It's kinda awful, but 6GiB vram and it responds quick.

exotic yoke
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i hooked it up to ollama and qwen

proper wadi
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(This isn't a support question, so I am guessing this general channel is the best place for it, but let me know if there is a better spot to ask)

Hey y'all, wondering if somebody can recommend their favorite off-the-shelf piece of hardware as a dedicated HA machine that is low-power and can run 24/7 with high stability.

I love the idea of the Green, but with only 4 GB RAM and no way to upgrade, I don't think I want to go that direction. Currently I am using an old Intel NUC which has worked well for about a year, but started occasionally having crashes were I have to physically unplug it and then power back up again.

atomic delta
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I didn't have good results with qwen

exotic yoke
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i didnt either wheeze i just dont have a ton of options

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actually most of the time it contacts ollama cloud

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which is free and has decent models

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the local model is just a fallback rn

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also made an ollama fork to manually set the max vram to trigger the ollama routine to offload to system ram, which massively slows it but nonetheless is functional

atomic delta
exotic yoke
atomic delta
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Still, Hermes is -fast-. Just a bit stupid.

exotic yoke
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im ok with it being medium speed if it works

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but also since i last actually used local models, i switched to a much larger whisper model (which has given great results actually)

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switched from whisper small en to 3.5/large-distill

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huge difference

atomic delta
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Hermes mostly works, it's usually when I ask it to do unit conversions on barometric pressure adjusted for altitude or things like that where it starts just making up garbage.

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And then I ask it if it's sure, and it says yes, and tells me something different.

exotic yoke
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i only ever use my HA assistant for like smarthome stuff and the ai is just so it can comprehend better commanbds, if i have real questions ill ask a real web ai

atomic delta
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I will use duck.ai if absolutely necessary. I will not use standard AI options.

exotic yoke
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fair enough

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i got a year free of gemini pro with my pixel 9 so like

hidden radish
atomic delta
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I'm basically a privacy nut who has accepted that some things are just going to have to happen, like Discord.

exotic yoke
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lmao fair

atomic delta
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I don't like integrations that phone home. The only one I believe I have is the litter robot, and I filled out their "don't sell my data" request before I ever bought their hardware.

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Oh wait, Telegram bot technically does use Telegram servers. :P

ocean oar
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The WiFi in my LR3 died, and I honestly just wasn't that motivated to replace it

atomic delta
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It's useful in the LR4, but if it died I'd probably just leave it dead too.

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Most of what it gives me is the ability to track the cat's weight.

ocean oar
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Yeah, aside from the occasional "holy hell that's a stinky shit, flush it down right now" moment (and I have it set to cycle after 3 minutes anyway), the "bin full" value is a dumb estimate (4% per cycle) on the LR3, and without the LR4's scale or other features... meh

atomic delta
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This is useful data.

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Bit of fuzz, but still gives us an idea of the cat's weight trend overall over the last few months.

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Also, yes, that's a cat we're monitoring because he's going 5-8 times a day. Way too frequent.

ocean oar
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Interestingly despite both appearing to drink a lot more water since we bought them a water fountain, seemingly no change at the other end of the pipeline

silver fern
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Hallo.

exotic yoke
atomic delta
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I'd probably build my own if I had to.

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Honestly, I should start looking into fans and air purifiers and such.

vivid wraith
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Do you use proton mail

atomic delta
# vivid wraith Do you use proton mail

I use my own domain hosted through Hetzner and I don't trust proton because it involves uploading your private key. I keep my private key locally on my computer and my phone.

vivid wraith
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Proton isn’t encrypted? TIL

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Uploading your private key is the same as Gmail where they just locally encrypt it in storage

atomic delta
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It is, but IIRC they store your private key clientside or something. I looked into it a while back and wasn't satisfied with what I saw.

vivid wraith
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That’s just the same as Gmail

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Ideally your login credentials would unlock it and nothing gets stored

atomic delta
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I mean, you still have a GPG key. Gotta interact with it somehow.

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Though I'm aware GPG is flawed, unfortunately.

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Y'know what today needs?

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🍿

stuck mortar
atomic delta
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I meant literal popcorn. I ate some.

stuck mortar
scenic radish
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@atomic delta what kind? I'm a fan of Orville Redenbacher's Simply Salted™

atomic delta
scenic radish
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O

atomic delta
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Though every once in a blue moon I go for pure excess and get the pour-over butter.

exotic yoke
# exotic yoke Time for my voice assistant setup to no longer be shit

theres 12 RGB leds in a circle on these
sadly, as far as i can tell, you cant just directly write to them
but you can call a few preset modes with HID commands which is fine
but idk how to hook that into linux-voice-assistant without either HA as a middleman (id like it to just run local) or modifying lva code which guh

weak musk
dusty mica
unborn merlin
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isn't that.. utterly fucking ancient and thus basically worthless? 🤔

dusty mica
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dunno, hence the question.. 😉

glacial knot
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how much VRAM is on the card?

vivid wraith
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like 1 GB less than you need to do what you want

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no matter what card you own

dusty mica
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24gb ddr5

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want to run small model only for home assistant control.

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on Dell R730

solar zealot
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if it fits it will do

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may just be unusable slow

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the reason those go for quite cheap on ebay while ai grabs whatever they can is probably telling

dusty mica
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yeah, lot's of negatives.. becoming clear. ty

solar zealot
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i can recommend those A2000 cards

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kinda slow but a very managable 75W tdp with 12/16gb vram

simple gazelle
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I am debating updating my 4070, MSI just chopped £100 off the price

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solar zealot
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A lot of money for 20% more performance

simple gazelle
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True, but I would also then have the 4070 for other duties

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But it's been an expensive few months so I should hold off

last cedar
dusty mica
# dusty mica
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Tesla P40 as LLM GPU?

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10

victor_answer_id

3

victor_answer_text

Don't care

arctic quarry
static schooner
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And here I thought you were asking about using your car GPU for an LLM...

dusty mica
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thanks to all replyers for pointing me in the right direction 😉

lone dagger
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@arctic quarry I heard you make music. Can I ask a small favor of you if you're willing? 👀

arctic quarry
static schooner
lone dagger
high scarab
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I literally rejoined this server just to voice how bad the AppleTV integration is

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The fact that it seems to just randomly decide whether "turned off" is of state Idle or Turned Off is horrible

arctic quarry
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and yet, you managed to hit the one channel where there is no support

static schooner
stuck mortar
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I think Missy is looking for a custom walkout song for SOTOH

warm helm
warm helm
iron granite
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Home Assistant - The Waltz

iron granite
hollow glacier
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<@&330946878646517761> new spambot who dis^

scenic radish
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Gone

hollow glacier
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yeet

iron granite
scenic radish
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Oh hush

lone dagger
hollow glacier
trail crag
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@lone dagger did you already ask smarthomejunkie?

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Ed always has those guitars and keyboards in the background of his videos

exotic yoke
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moving my HA server from fedora server to fedora coreos since it was always podman based anyways and coreos is designed for that shit

lone dagger
warm helm
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"AI make me a beat"

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if missy kills me for that, I deserve it

static schooner
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don't worry, we'll remember you

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or at least we'll have an AI summary of your life and contributions

last cedar
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Remember who?

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When I go to the great trash dump in the sky, breadcrumbs of my || mental breakdown || trash heists will remain

warm helm
iron granite
last cedar
warm helm
last cedar
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I really wanted to put a plastic skeleton in my loft before we added extra insulated, but they are bloody expensive

last cedar
iron granite
warm helm
static schooner
stuck mortar
minor bobcat
warm helm
warm helm
minor bobcat
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...up into the attic

stuck mortar
grizzled gull
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I hate networking, all I want to do is have VLAN's but there is so much conflicting information, I know my router can make the VLAN's, but there is conflicting information if unmanaged switches can pass through VLAN's and trunks and bah this is why I didn't do networking lol

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Would just stay with my current setup but its only gig connection and I'm going with 2 gig :/

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Wonder if I make a drawing and submit it to AI they will tell me lol

wraith lark
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Maybe this belongs in #documentation?

"Design Portal" on HA site points to https://design.home-assistant.io/ , and on there the link to the "Figma DesignKit" gives me a 404. From my Figma account history it points to a different URL.

It also links to the #designers channel on Discord which I think no longer exists.

ocean oar
minor bobcat
grizzled gull
ocean oar
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I do love my L3 routing at home

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Switch is the L3 router for all the VLANs, just has one P2P transit network to the router for each VRF

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Upsides: network more or less keeps working even without the router / internet connection

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Downsides: most people won't understand a damn thing about what's going on

last cedar
last cedar
ocean oar
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They're cheap when you badger your Arista account manager into a fell-off-the-back-of-a-truck deal 😉

grizzled gull
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I think I found a happy medium, connect my AP's to the managed switch in the server room and all wired devices just be on vlan1/unmanaged

last cedar
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Earlier as in a few years ago, I could be way wrong now though

grizzled gull
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I have multple drops in the living room from previously doing HDMI over Ethernet(doesn't work for crap)

last cedar
ocean oar
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Also my comms rack is well out of earshot. Our house comes from the era of "negligible indoor cupboard space", so I bought an IP45 rated outdoor rack and screwed it to a floor beam in the crawl space under the floor

last cedar
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You could just add managed switches as you go?

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Saves the upfront cost

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I splurged for a 48 port arubu switch (1930-48) in like 2018 or 2019 and I run all my drops to it, very inefficient in terms of cable, but very easy setup from 1 device

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I run poe injectors to stuff that needs it

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Those switches are like double the price now, totally unaffordable

grizzled gull
last cedar
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I have 4x10gb sfp and no fan noise, about 15W power consumption and negligible heat, those were my motivators at the time

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Ubiquitis only had 2x 10gb ports

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And most others had noisy fans

grizzled gull
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None of the devices in TV/projector rooms has 2.5 gig connections anyhow

last cedar
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Could maybe swap them as needed? Up to you?

If you only want to segregate iot you could definately just isolate that on its own vlan and do it that way, though

grizzled gull
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Non of my IOT is hardwired

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I don't plug in my TV's, main thing thats hardwired are gaming systems and nvidia shields

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I could just keep my 16 port switch and connect it to the managed switch and run trunk lines to the AP's and an even smaller switch

last cedar
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Question is.. are game consoles and shield also iot? 😄

grizzled gull
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meh

last cedar
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Haha

warm helm
grizzled gull
last cedar
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Depends how anal you want to get about stuff, but it is an interesting discussion I feel

warm helm
grizzled gull
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Only other people's money 😛

warm helm
last cedar
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I have been debating if I put my ventilation system and solar panels onto the same vlan as cameras/ blue iris + alarm system, to which Indecided not to

grizzled gull
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ohhh you just made my choice for me, I forgot about my IP cams

last cedar
warm helm
grizzled gull
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err POE Cams

last cedar
grizzled gull
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POE cam's are going on their own VLAN with no outside access

warm helm
last cedar
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Talking Victron solar, not some obscure chinese stuff from aliexpress (not knocking that if it floats your goat)

grizzled gull
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Just means 1 4 port managed switch, so not to bad

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I love my victron stuff in my camper

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Honestly on Amazon here in the states, the smaller victron stuff is not that much more then chinese crap

last cedar
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I am diying a 3 phase setup with 15kWh of batteries, so I am starting with a simple install /s

grizzled gull
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I think I paid 130 for a 100V/30A and 175 for a 150/75A controller

last cedar
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I can get Victron from the Netherlands a little cheaper than buying a Deye in Sweden

grizzled gull
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I know small stuff, but its nice that it talks to my 120volt charge controller too all via bluetooth

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My camper has 600 AMP hour and 800 watts on the roof and 500 in deployable flexible panels, even have a 12volt minisplit lol

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Now mind you my camper is only 6x12 with only 10 feet of that conditioned space

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so 60 square feet with r5 in the walls and r10 in the ceiling, not great, but it works

last cedar
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Sounds sweet tbh

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My plan is to get a camper and a remote job and just drive around and eat trash

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But I am currently in the wrong line of work, so need to work on that too

wraith lark
last cedar
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Same for me

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No raccoons allowed

minor bobcat
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Gotta go green

last cedar
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Does designer underwear count?

minor bobcat
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Only if it's green

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Prove has to be sent @lone dagger

lone dagger
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Lol.

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Yeah, the Designers channel was made into a private chat for those with the role - instead it probably belongs in #product-and-ux.

lone dagger
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@wraith lark Actually, turns out we updated the doc but not that link. I've requested both things to be updated. ankha_heart

last cedar
atomic delta
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Did someone call for a Mr. Body?

fallow moth
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anyone here monitor their water usage? EPA is saying 400 gallons/day for the avg american family of 4... i'm like... 4x below that and we don't do anything specifically to conserve water but i'm seeing insane stats like avg home is 90 gallons/day in leaks and stuff. that's almost near my full water usage for the day

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or my softener just doesn't measure water accurately by a factor of 4?

static schooner
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really depends if you're running the dishwasher or doing laundry

fallow moth
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dishwasher almost daily

static schooner
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my showers are 30-40gal apiece, and my irrigation system uses a lot more water than I do in the house

fallow moth
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yea i don't have anything that measures the spigot but that's only summer anyway

static schooner
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I've used 33gal in the last 24hr for one person, including the shower today and incidental water usage (no dishwasher or laundry included in that)

fallow moth
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i'm seeing ~3050 gallons a month for the last 2 years for a family of 4

static schooner
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shower today was 23.4gal, but it was a quick one

fallow moth
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epa is saying 9000-12000 gallons

ocean oar
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I was about to say "dishwashers consume 5/8 of fuck all water", but then I remembered the average US-market appliance tends to be grossly less efficient on those kind of metrics.

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Between 7 and 17 litres per cycle for mine (1.85-4.5 US gal). Worst case using it every day would be 135gal/month

fallow moth
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i mean based on your usage robc, you sound closer to mine which is way out of epa estimates.. maybe this is like the average american eats 9000lb of cheese in a year

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i eat 1 l and some other dude is eating 20000lb

static schooner
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if it includes irrigation, it will be a lot more

hollow glacier
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Can I get a bruh

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hollow glacier
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lol

stuck mortar
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Apparently my family needs to use more water per EPA standards

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But too much during the summer by the California limits they keep threatening

fallow moth
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just have to put store it in the pool

unborn merlin
warm helm
stuck mortar
#

Heh I was in Phoenix area a few weeks ago. Brown with green splotches

peak slate
#

(I don't care if mine dies, that's it's own fault for not handling the heat)

peak slate
atomic delta
ocean oar
#

If you took 8h/day off to sleep, you need to eat ~1.55kg/hour.
At ~1.4g/cm³ (random figure I found on the internet) that's 1.1 litres of cheese per hour

stuck mortar
#

narrator: the cheese does not love him

static schooner
#

and it was pretty full, and I think it adjusts based on how much contamination it sees

ocean oar
#

I always run mine on the "sensor wash" cycle, which results in the time remaining display just being completely useless 😄
It very much has a "it'll be finished when it's finished" vibe

vivid wraith
#

This week I should finally make my guest mode toggle work that does stuff like disable all my stuff turning off when I leave the house

ocean oar
#

Ugh, good luck.
I did that, so, so, so many places I had to add the check for it being enabled.
You don't realise just how much stuff you do for your own convenience that'd be maddening/inconvenient/inexplicable to a visitor

minor bobcat
#

I give every automation that actually automated a function in my home a tag for identification later. Now i can disable everything when I'm on vacation for example.

ocean oar
#

I made an input boolean that is a condition inside all of the automations.
I'm not sure that was the best option, but it works

minor bobcat
#

Tag your stuff, definitely easier

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last cedar
last cedar
glacial knot
high remnant
#

SGLAFFZIMMER🗣️🗣️🗣️

junior panther
#

who wanna bet if they're gonna put an april fools joke in?

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last cedar
glacial knot
dusty mica
#

and a c..

#

and h

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Genetischer Hobbyraum

plain pendant
#

Hey I was supposed to do a survey for something about building dashboards. Anyone know where I can find the link to that?

dusty mica
#

@plain pendant

grizzled gull
#

Grumble just spent 600 USD on networking stuff because Synology is stupid :/

hollow glacier
#

Is grumble a first or last name?

high remnant
#

or simply AN NAME

dusty mica
#

dass ist eine Annahme

hollow glacier
#

Like Madonna?

high remnant
#

ja

dusty mica
#

or Kermit

glacial knot
ocean oar
grizzled gull
grizzled gull
#

Whats annoying me is I spent that much on my synology setup, live and learn I guess

#

Really was aiming for a n300 system, but then I realized I don't need the power I have server on 24/7 and anything that needs horsepower can just go on that

#

n150 with 8 gigs of ram and 128gb is probably overkill for a opensense box

glacial knot
last cedar
grizzled gull
# glacial knot Which APs?

Zyxel WiFi 7 Access Point BE5100, not great, but for the price and for what I'm using them for I think they will be fine

#

Did not go with radios with 6ghz as my house has steel siding so we get very little interference from the outside and all PC's are hardwired(basically AP's are for cell phones and IOT)

last cedar
#

Why are the Knipex cable shears like 220 euro?!

minor bobcat
#

How big of shears are we talking?

last cedar
#

Ish

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I had thought somewhere about half that price

#

Clearly I was very very wrong

minor bobcat
#

160 in germany

last cedar
#

Oh wow, the 250mm one is the little one too

#

Holy shit

#

"Only" need up to 120mm2

minor bobcat
#

Even Chinesium costs 30 ish

#

Folded metal handles lol

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last cedar
#

I will probably have to make those up at work, I believe we have one of them, was going to pick my own up, but not for that price

grizzled gull
#

sawzall?

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angle grinder?

#

hacksaw ? lol

last cedar
#

May work well with a fine enough blade

#

The insulation is normally very floppy though, not sure how easy it is to keep still

grizzled gull
#

if just copper or aluminum a hacksaw with fine tooth blade would cut through it, clamp it to a table or put it in a vice?

last cedar
#

It is like rubber cable basically, just a bit thicker

grizzled gull
#

Are you cutting the insulation or the wire?

last cedar
#

I need to grab some lugs too, I need to drill the busbar

last cedar
grizzled gull
#

what gauge wire? Because honestly I find it cheaper for anythign above 2/0 to just buy premade cables

#

That partially because my crimper only does 1/0 but also they buy wire in bulk and get it cheaper

last cedar
#

It is around 4/0 I think

#

It could very well be cheaper to just order them, although I do work at a proper electrical company, I only do low voltage stuff though, so I really should be doing them myself 😄

#

I am not even sure who works with stuff this large at work, need to ask around

#

Been stuck at a single project for over 2 years, I don't even know everyones name yet lol

ocean oar
#

The hydraulic crimper they have to use for the stuff in our datacentre at work is wild. Takes two people to lift it

#

500mm2 cable seems to be a special kind of joy to work with

#

Also watching one of the apprentice electricians doing involuntary chin ups on the torque wrench because they didn't weigh enough to tighten the bolts holding it to the busbars 😄

minor bobcat
last cedar
#

Luckily I only need like 120mm2 cable, for the battery rack to the inverters, it is quite managable

#

Think the rest will be 35mm2, the mppts seem to run 35mm2 terminals and all the sources should have same length of cable and same size to avoid mismatches

atomic delta
warm helm
static schooner
#

Its name is definitely Peanut

warm helm
hollow glacier
#

Nah that’s just Dave

last cedar
swift prism
#

Where can I post a link of my college commitment post?

iron granite
lavish badger
#

Am I the only one who gets driven crazy by the constant HA update notifications.

#

I swear they're daily.

minor bobcat
lavish badger
#

No, like even HA Core.

#

I guess we're only on 2026.3.4, but that's still 4 updates in a month...Some hacs stuff for sure, though

#

I just hate seeing update badges lol. Guess I could find a way to disable them.

dusty mica
#

are you on beta channel?

lavish badger
#

Don't think so, let me double check though

minor bobcat
#

Most months you get 4 core updates

#

202X.X.0 -> 202X.X.4 (so 5 updates if you include the monthly rollover)

#

Many people seem to only update to the last monthly and i think I've seen some scripts to automatically skip .0 to .3

#

On my end I get way more updates from Hacs stuff even though i try to keep that to a minimum

lavish badger
#

Yeah...I think I just need to make it not notify me

dusty mica
#

use hammer or axe

last cedar
solar zealot
exotic yoke
#

Next is to make the buttons on it change LVA's volume

#

It's very not linear but I think that's a pipewire quirk of doing it with db

minor bobcat
exotic yoke
muted oak
#

Whats the best local llm to run for home assistant that actually uses tools and will turn off the lights everytime i ask vs telling me the code on how to do it

solar zealot
#

you dont need an llm for that tho

#

turning lights on and off is a standard feature. a list of them intents can be found here

muted oak
#

Ok, than is there a good way to use my wake word and get both something that turns off the lights and is a local llm that i can ask questions about anything to

solar zealot
#

custom wake words are very much unrelated to homeassiant. how that works exactly for your satelite depends a bit on the hardware used

#

about the llm, any that you could even run will be what you can do.

muted oak
#

Ok

exotic yoke
solar zealot
#

jabra

#

the flashbacks

ocean oar
#

Less of a flashback for me, we still have a bunch of those at work. They're... not terrible

solar zealot
#

i couldnt find much nice about them to say

exotic yoke
#

works pretty well as a voice sattelite

#

and theyre cheap

#

2nd hand anyways

weak musk
#

Headsets are still pretty good

last cedar
exotic yoke
#

the shitass jabra speak is this god awful internal telephony state machine so there is no external way to detect the mute button when not on a call
buuuut i can just read theinput and detect when its all zeroes tro

forest edge
#

@tidal bronze you still kickin or did your food choices finally catch up to you?

tidal bronze
#

Lovin life and living the best of it. Beautiful weather, Gemini + Codex + Claude, how can you ask for more.

forest edge
#

odd that you jumped right into talking about AI..

tidal bronze
#

That's all I interact with all day now.

forest edge
#

so then how do you know it's beatiful weather?

tidal bronze
#

What a boat load of fun

forest edge
#

sounds like you haven't seen the sun in awhile

tidal bronze
#

Pool side, laptop from 8AM. Oh I am outside

forest edge
#

if AI is suppose to make doing all that faster.. why you spending so much time with it?

tidal bronze
#

Started a health app for myself as a weekend project, and now haven't done anything or flown in 2 months. So deep into it.

#

Sadly gotta fly out this weekend

forest edge
#

does the app just simply say, "don't eat good food"?

#

pops up notification when your phone is near some place actually good

stuck mortar
#

I’m sure it’ll be fine

forest edge
#

friend said nvidia has taken over the claw or whatever it's called now and making a much more secure version of it

#

hired the person who made it or something

exotic yoke
#

taken over the claw wheeze

tidal bronze
#

Antigravity with NotebookLM GEM thinking and Get-Shit-Done is the king

forest edge
#

so your torrenting movies and having ai post it to discord?

tidal bronze
#

Openclaw interface is discord

forest edge
#

still think a butler would be cooler

stuck mortar
tidal bronze
#

Finally done with ML models so supplement stacks can be filtered

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forest edge
#

if I was loaded

tidal bronze
#

That's it?

#

Next idea is to disable all automations once ML models have enough data to run the entire place with LLM correlation engine.

#

Let's see how forecasting works for home behavior 😂

exotic yoke
forest edge
#

your house may look like that scene from the poltergeist

exotic yoke
#

openwakeword on an old raspberry pi 3b+ wheeze

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look at er go

#

(also linux cpu % is 100% = 1 core so this is only 15% of the entire system)

copper acorn
silent doveBOT
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dire raptor
#

Hi... I built an open-source AI audio deterrent for Frigate that talks to intruders through camera speakers and publishes MQTT events for HA automations. Where's the best channel to share it and find testers?

young sigil
ember gate
#

ha is so nice once you get it working but gosh this is Hard

quasi breach
#

My mother would accidentally disable the speaker output on the amplifier and then complain why it doesn't work so I made this for her

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drowsy lantern
#

How do folks deal with DST for time-based automations? Are there any best-practice methods?

I noticed DST triggered yesterday in my country so some automations that were supposed to fire at 1:30 never triggered because of the hour skip

solar zealot
plain pendant
#

Pretty happy with this

#

Even though I'll probably only ever use like 3 of the drops 😂

static schooner
#

Looks pretty. Is the punch down panel adding something there?

plain pendant
#

Absolutely not

#

At best a clean way to switch what wires are hooked up

static schooner
#

I did that at my a house 20 years ago and I got comments about why I added more connection/failure points points rather than just just terminating and plugging the wires in directly

#

I thought it looked cool 🙂

plain pendant
#

Also as someone who has been in more than one trade in my life and I'm currently an electrician, if it's done right things don't fail for no reason

#

Wires don't just break sitting in the wall. Connectors don't just come apart, computers don't just decide to stop doing what they are supposed to. (The computer part was more true when I worked on cars but generally speaking)

Load, heat, water, movement ect make things fail. News flash your house doesn't vibrate that much

#

Also it looks cool

glacial knot
#

nice

glacial knot
#

even if they are only touched once a decade or so

static schooner
#

That was my theory as well, but they usually end up plugged in and left

acoustic saffron
vivid wraith
acoustic saffron
static schooner
vivid wraith
acoustic saffron
#

oh shit really?

vivid wraith
#

Looks like something GitHub/Microsoft needs to deal with as a botnet

#

Given 3 hours ago maybe they did…?

acoustic saffron
#

doesnt seem like it to me

#

since, there's still >800 pages of this crap

vivid wraith
#

I mean stopping new ones

acoustic saffron
#

I guess ?

static schooner
#

Paulus said he disabled issues. GitHub is aware

acoustic saffron
#

WSL and OpenCode was also hit, hm

vivid wraith
#

Hopefully the CLI tool will provide a way to automate cleanup when it’s over

acoustic saffron
#

This is weird, there's no rhyme or reason for any of these attacks at all

#

One of them is on an empty repository

vivid wraith
#

It looks like the format is uniform enough that it will be easy enough to regex the issue title/content to automate cleanup

acoustic saffron
#

you mean this one?

#

(I mean I guess there's aggregate uptime numbers that are missing but that's not the official page)

vivid wraith
vivid wraith
#

Rookie mistake

exotic yoke
#

I just realized the esp home logo is an E and not just lines

glacial knot
#

It's clearly a key

scenic radish
#

It also mimics the common PCB antenna pattern on ESP32/8266 modules

stuck mortar
#

It’s multitasking

scenic radish
#

I will say I never noticed the E and only noticed the antenna pattern lol

#

And now I can't unseE it

exotic yoke
#

makes sense its both

arctic quarry
#

<@&330946878646517761>

#

cheers

keen bridge
atomic delta
#

We need a bot that slowly collects all the cryptobots that get banned and gives us an end of month summary in the form of a chain defenestration video. A... Home Assistant of sorts.

lyric crow
#

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on this, as my searches have come up bupkis.

I have HA installed via Docker and Music Assistant installed via Docker as well (same stack) and while I can get MA up and running great, I cannot see it from the HA app. I was sort of under the impression that while I could not install apps/add-ons without HAOS, I could circumvent it and I guess I did, but is there any way to then automate my music set up from MA inside HA? The other curious thing is that under Media there's no sign of MA either, but if I go into a player in HA, I can see a folder view of more or less everything provided by MA.

I know it's not ideal, but my alternatives are a Pi3, which struggles and simply can't run MA plus HA. I had set up HA via VM on my desktop, but I don't want to run my desktop in perpetuity just to get apps either. I'm running this all off my NAS.

hoary canyon
silent doveBOT
#
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lyric crow
#

It is already added, but there's no sign of it "natively" as you would get via the app/add on installation on HAOS

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static schooner
quasi breach
#

Made this dashboard for my 3D printer

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static schooner
forest edge
#

Up early enough to eat a donut on a Monday. Not sure if I should be happy or sad

last cedar
#

So I would say sad

simple gazelle
#

Does Sweden get a 4-day weekend? Work is quiet as anyone with kids is taking off one or both of the weeks either side

warm helm
#

What is a weekend?

scenic radish
#

finally, something worth buying on FB Marketplace

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high remnant
#

that’s nuts

last cedar
#

Can't answer the question though

static schooner
#

you can go through all the motions of pulling the imaginary cable

#

Imaginary cable never gets hung up in a wall. It's the best

iron granite
#

Wireless cable.

scenic radish
last cedar
#

So literally it could have been done properly ages ago, but no

solar zealot
static schooner
#

holy marketing, batman

exotic yoke
static schooner
#

looks like 60GHz, which is mmwave

scenic radish
#

Yeah it's just a wireless backhaul with a fancy name lol

warm helm
scenic radish
simple gazelle
#

I want 10Gig for moving video footage around, but it seems those desktop switches which are 4x2.5 + 2x10 they are a bit poo

stuck mortar
#

Can confirm, had a 10 gbe 5-port desktop switch that just… died suddenly. Thankfully right before the warranty expired so it was RMAed

simple gazelle
#

How bad do you have to be for Amazon to flag you as "Frequently Returned"?

warm helm
simple gazelle
#

Ah, not me, the switch I was eyeing.

static schooner
#

I don't know what their criteria are. You can usually suss it out from the comments, and they may just be customers who didnt know what they were buying

#

It's not necessarily a bad thing for techy stuff

#

More important is why

simple gazelle
#

I did check the 1-stars and it was all "keeps losing link", which for an unmanaged switch seems fairly terminal. I mean it could be the cables or NICs but that seems less likely

static schooner
#

Yeah, I'd skip that one

#

You had ONE job...

stuck mortar
#

I love the comments that are “this product does exactly what is described, does it really well, but I meant to purchase something else entirely. Half star if I could”

last cedar
warm helm
last cedar
#

This is a great example

#

Especially if it is a network switch

warm helm
#

bro, they need to go to the hospital.

ocean oar
last cedar
#

"United states" so probably can't go the hospital, would be financially ruined for having the shits

#

/s

thorny heron
#

not looking for advices. Nor support. Just showing off my new mascot

last cedar
#

please be a raccoon

thorny heron
#

The voice assistant looks better with more than 2 eyes and a mouth

thorny heron
#

I got something

last cedar
#

That was adorable anyway!

thorny heron
#

We once tamed a baby racoon

last cedar
#

HOLY SHIT

thorny heron
#

With only sugar and soda pop

#

we named him Claude

last cedar
#

Claude may be the most precious being I have ever seen

thorny heron
#

he took a nap after his sugar crash 🫠

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He stayed with us like 2-3 hours, asking for pets and food

last cedar
#

OMG

thorny heron
#

And at the end we had to make him go away xD He was trying to enter the house for more food.

#

So we brought him to the end of the field and left him there... thrice

last cedar
#

Awwwwww

thorny heron
#

he kept coming back

last cedar
#

He will be back I think

#

LOL

thorny heron
#

Claude knows where the candies are

last cedar
#

Built in candy homing devices in the grabbies

#

I have to go visit the zoo 6 hours south of me this year

#

Only place to see them in Sweden 🙁

thorny heron
#

No masked bandits in Sweden? ( I have no idea of their taxonomy and repartition haha)

last cedar
#

They are classed as invasive, so killed on sight

thorny heron
last cedar
#

There are many in Germany though, it seems like it may be a matter of time though

thorny heron
#

Be the change you want to see in the world Michelle! Spread those blue zones!

last cedar
#

They are highly adaptable

grizzled gull
#

hmmmmmm need to figure out a new SSID, I always change them with new hardware, so far have used Springfield, Quahog, New_New_York

thorny heron
#

NotAPineapple

grizzled gull
#

South Park(although thats to obvious)

#

Hmmm could go classic Bedrock... 🙂

#

or Orbit City, the Jetsons

thorny heron
#

'DefinitelyNotAHoneyPot'

#

Make any person suspicious of it is my goal in this scenario hahaha

warm helm
thorny heron
warm helm
grizzled gull
#

I'm thinking back I dunno if I ever used Springfield, I used Stoolbend.... lol

warm helm
#

Also that's a Raccoon, I thought it was a cat on a fast scroll

thorny heron
#

Yeah, that's a racoon named Claude 😄

#

He can't code for Sh*t tho

warm helm
#

I am scared about my dog actually seeing his first Raccoon

ocean oar
hollow glacier
thorny heron
#

Claude fixed so much of my errors, i can't say it can't code

#

It definitely can better than 90% of junior devs

hollow glacier
#

claude is our lord and savior. we are going to vibe our way into the apocalypse together

grizzled gull
#

I'm curious the new restrictions on Claude how much it will affect the free tier to work in automations in home assistant

hollow glacier
grizzled gull
#

All the tiers the token count got reduced a whole bunch, there's multiple articles and reddit posts

#

People are saying they are hitting 5 hour limits in 10 minutes etc

thorny heron
#

YEP

#

I subed to Codex today

#

Claude is becoming too greedy

hollow glacier
grizzled gull
#

I'm debating hosting a local LLM to see how it does with HA coding

hollow glacier
#

the bots/idiots are all acting like everyone else are idiots and not seeing it for what it is

#

claude is doing some bait and switch bullshit with A/B testing

#

but claude could steal my cat and i'd still trust them more than sam altman

#

that guy is fucking evil

grizzled gull
#

Got a 7900xtx sitting here idle on the gaming computer

warm helm
thorny heron
#

On a dedicated 3090

#

The agentic is not nearly as good as Claude/Codex

static schooner
#

I wonder if Stanley Kubrick knew that would become a meme, since he was predicting the 2000s

grizzled gull
#

hmmm well it combined 4 automations into 1 without complaining, although on free tier I'm not even sure I can see what I used

hollow glacier
grizzled gull
#

I'm just copying YAML files directly into the webclient on claude.ai

hollow glacier
#

the mcp is magic

#

you just vibe and it does it for you

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i could do it but then i'd have to go click around in gui like a caveman

verbal olive
#

Hoooooooo boy, I'm EXCITED

#

I finally, FINALLY got my mental out of the dirt enough to get my bedroom and office clean and organized, and the rest of the house isn't too far behind.

#

Now I actually have room and time to set up some of the HA stuff I wanted

#

I hope a Home Assistant Blue isn't too outdated by this point

last cedar
verbal olive
#

now time to look around for cheap displays and cheap Zigbee or Z-Wave buttons

#

I shall liberate myself from ADHD through the glorious magic of "minimizing clicks"

#

(also "shitloads of reminders")

warm helm
#

Problem is that you squrriel before getting to the reminders

vivid wraith
#

What is a home assistant blue

static schooner
#

Isn't sold any more

weak musk
#

That’s why it’s sad

verbal olive
verbal olive
static schooner
grizzled gull
#

@last cedar, saw this on facebook

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verbal olive
#

Trying to "use what I've got" where possible, admittedly

#

I have no problem replacing it if it's necessary, as long as it won't cost me an arm and a leg

static schooner
grizzled gull
verbal olive
#

Considering I work two desk jobs

#

about three fiddy

hollow glacier
verbal olive
#

only used laptop I have lying around is over a decade old lol

static schooner
#

that's probably fine

verbal olive
#

I'll probably use Blue until I can justify shelling out for a green

static schooner
#

and better than the blue, yellow, or green

hollow glacier
grizzled gull
#

@hollow glacier RE The Unofficial and Awesome Home Assistant MCP Server, haven't looked yet, but can that ollama local models too or just Claude?

hollow glacier
warm helm
hollow glacier
static schooner
#

I was running HA on a 2011-vintage Lenovo Thinkcenter for a long time

warm helm
#

g3 n100 here

hollow glacier
#

I moved from a 7th gen intel mini pc to an n100 and saw zero improvements lol

grizzled gull
#

uhhh.... I'm ashamed to admit what I'm running my container on

static schooner
#

Now it's sitting on my desk next to me wanting to be loved

hollow glacier
#

A lady gave me her old laptop with a broken screen and broken keyboard and I ran haos on that for like two years

#

I still have it in a drawer waiting to jank itself back to life

hollow glacier
warm helm
warm helm
hollow glacier
#

Actually no I got the n100 free cuz I helped a guy on discord

grizzled gull
#

I'm using a n150 for opensense, not sure if its overkill or not

warm helm
#

I paid $130 for each of mine, though 1 is a n150\

hollow glacier
#

Yeah they went up in price quite a bit didn’t they

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Something something oil warz

ocean oar
warm helm
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Tarriffs don't like it

hollow glacier
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Frigate kills my n100 cpu big time I gotta move back to a coral

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Altho part of it is cuz of the audio on my UniFi cams iirc

ocean oar
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The N150 isn't a useful upgrade for a lot of people either, identical CPU cores to the N100 with a slightly higher power GPU

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And for some situations that's likely to make the CPU run slower, since the GPU appears to have a higher power budget but the total package power/cooling hasn't changed

warm helm
ocean oar
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1P / 4E CPU. First time we've had an odd number of cores in a very long time

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(a lot of people seem to think 2P/4E but it seems like they really have just given it a single performance core)

warm helm
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Giving it any P cores is a little silly,

static schooner
hollow glacier
static schooner
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instead of Coral and it works well. Not as fast, but supposedly better detection

hollow glacier
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It still pegs cpu at 70%

static schooner
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that doesn't sound like it's working

hollow glacier
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10 streams

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I set it up with nick mowen my config is good

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Maybe a little outdated but yeah. Part of it is needing to re encode audio from opus on my UniFi cams iirc

static schooner
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I guess mine is about the same:

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I set up a dedicated N150 for it

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with a few other things, but mainly Frigate

hollow glacier
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I actually turned frigate off and have been considering just using the UniFi integration since it’s gotten a lot better. I could do cooler shit with frigate tho

static schooner
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I just use Frigate as an appliance now, works pretty well

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I used to label and submit images all the time, but I pretty much never have false positives or negatives now

hollow glacier
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I haven’t given frigate a fair shake to be honest

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I’ve been too lazy and cheap to pay and use frigate+

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But I still believe in the project and think it’s great

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I just think it’s a worse user experience as far as playback and downloading clips compared to the UniFi apps

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But as far as automation on a person entering my yard zone after midnight to trigger a siren or whatever I think frigate is much better

static schooner
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Frigate+ with custom models made all the difference for me

hollow glacier
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Yeah mine still triggered my car constantly and cat is a dog etc

static schooner
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I thought you needed Frigate+ to use the OpenVino detector models

grizzled gull
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Customized ones yes

hollow glacier
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I thought frigate+ was just custom model training

grizzled gull
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There are openvino that arent' trained

static schooner
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I see

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they all start with a base model, so I guess so

grizzled gull
hollow glacier
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i'm not familiar with thingio

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similar to openmiko etc? yeah looks like it

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those are cute

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verbal olive
hollow glacier
grizzled gull
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feed the rtsp to frigate

hollow glacier
verbal olive
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oh shit, are those presence detectors or whatnot?

hollow glacier
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yeah

verbal olive
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I've never actually gotten to mess with those, if you're serious, I'd happily accept

hollow glacier
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i'm their "support guy that does lots of other stuff"

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i sent a pm (i lie to myself and call dms a private message cuz it makes my heart feel better)

verbal olive
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I've never owned any Apollo before, so yeah, that'd be really cool of you

hollow glacier
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my first apollo sensor was gifted to me.. then i was in their discord helping people.. then i got a job helping people in discord lol

verbal olive
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Well that makes more things possible

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Biggest thing in front of me is just hoping I can these lights down and resoldered

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I went way overboard for an early project, and the difficulty of doing voltage injection was too much

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Gonna repurpose them for smaller runs in indirect lighting stuff

hollow glacier
weak musk
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Matter doesn’t…

grizzled gull
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hmmmmmm local Ministral-3:14B oin a 7900xtx is snappy...

hollow glacier
# weak musk Matter doesn’t…

Honestly my biggest complaint about matter is how it’s been shoved down everyone’s throat and praised by influencers and developers alike instead of allowing it to rise to the top if it’s so good

grizzled gull
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Card sounds like a jet airplane right now lol

hollow glacier
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Well that and it relying on ipv6 and mdns

silent doveBOT
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grizzled gull
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I may have broken home assistant lol, pasted to long of a yaml file into a dashboard :/

static schooner
glacial knot
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kubectl rollout restart to the rescue

minor bobcat
hollow glacier
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ATTENTION EVERYONE WE HAVE BABY DUCKLINGS 🐣

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hollow glacier
iron granite
hollow glacier
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I have baby duck food that floats at home I’m gonna come right back and try to feed them. Might be their first ever meal

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They were not here yesterday

simple gazelle
hollow glacier
last cedar
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Asking for a friend:

What is the volume of 12 tonnes of kitkats?

static schooner
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what's the net increase of your volume after eating that many Kit Kats

minor bobcat
last cedar
last cedar
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But boy would I like 22m3 of kitkats

minor bobcat
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A shipping container has 33m³

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With packaging, boxes etc. It's probably a whole container worth

static schooner
glacial knot
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Old news rooD

static schooner
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sort of. It's a revision of his comments in 2023, but this is current

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28 February 2026; revised 16 March 2026)

agile jewel
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The Home Assistant Voice PE is the best thing I've ever purchased.

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It's so good

static schooner
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It enabled me to get rid of Alexa, along with the backend changes. Big fan

agile jewel
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I've never had a voice assistant in my life

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This is my first time. Using free groqCloud API witch gpt-oss

orchid rose
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If I didn't have a bunch of Google Home devices I would for sure

vivid wraith
iron granite
static schooner
orchid rose
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I have all the parts to build a HA one as well, but just haven't gotten to it for like 1½ years lol

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Bought silver plastic, red leds, glass lenses and everything to finally have my own HAL 9000

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just never built it

iron granite
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I'm sorry, K. I'm afraid I can't do that.

last cedar
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Absolutely not, I would never

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So hypothetically, if a regular routine was to come home and devour a packet of pringles and 2 twix bars

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Would you die before you ate all 22m2 of kitkats?

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Or how long would it take to eat them, if say you ate maybe 5 or 6 bars per meal? To make it part of a balanced diet

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Again, asking for a friend

static schooner
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How to get diabetes with a single meal

thorny heron
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And then, you can eat the 22M2 of kit kat! 😋

high remnant
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||HA made you look! happy April fool’s ||

warm helm
static schooner
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Alright, FutureBoy

fast dust
fast dust
thorny heron
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I did the same switch, went from 16 Minis to 7 Wiim pros and 9 Assist devices, could not be happier

hollow glacier
fast dust
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It cost me $850 roughly.

thorny heron
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I put 800$CAD at some point. It was midnight and in a bad part of town.

fast dust
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I figured I buy now before these components are simply not available and too expensive

thorny heron
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But hey, the LLM MUST be ran

fast dust
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lol

thorny heron
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Basically hopped on Marketplace at 10pm with a mission

vivid wraith
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is the ha update coming out tomorrowtoday or is that an april fool and we’re gonna get passed over

stuck mortar
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The better question is whether you would trust a release on April 1

glacial knot
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treat it like any other
and if it's not working correctly, file bug reports like any other

minor bobcat
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We had a software developer that thought it was funny to make the text RTL on April 1st. If he wasn't the bosses son he would've been fired.

glacial knot
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Should have reconfigered his ide...

minor bobcat
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He managed our FileMaker App, no need to punish him further.

last cedar
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Knew this was an aprils fools when I saw "compatable with HA" and tuya together

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Nice try though

analog crow
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but it's the smartest crap I ever took :(

hollow glacier
vivid wraith
warm helm
thorny heron
# warm helm And?

Well. you're keeping an inferior solution due to the cost invested in the past.

And will continue investing in a bad solution, due to the cost already invested having a value for you.

Therefore losing more money on an inferior product

That's the falacy 😛

weak musk
warm helm
thorny heron
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I went from 16 Minis to 9 Voice Assist assistants, and honestly.

As bad, if not better for me.

With minis, i could not start media from my Plex server to my Chromecats

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With Assist... I can

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And all the other functions are basicaly present as well.

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Math? Sky-intent integration
Internet search? Same integration.
Wikipedia search? You got it! Sky-intent does it too 😛

weak musk
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I'm at the point where I'd rather a less functional but local solution over one where I'm cloud dependent and sharing my data/behaviors etc with Google/Amazon

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That said, I try as hard as possible to not use voice for any part of my smart home

thorny heron
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/thread

Really, you should not need to use VA at all if it's properly automated 😛

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My 9 assistants and 12 tablets are MAINLY for my guests

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My stuff/preferences are already baked-in and automated

warm helm
grizzled gull
grizzled gull
thorny heron
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Just put 16 load cells under the mattress 😛

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(/s)

grizzled gull
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I'm not savy enough to do this, but I wish I could just put a mic on all my esp32's since I have 3 in many rooms and just make a house hold web of mics

thorny heron
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I tried hooking up a Mic to esp32s, and gave up and went with premadeESP32-s3-boxes

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For a mic, you'll need an amplifier and all that to be soldered, as the voltage is very low without that

warm helm
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I do have a withings pressure mat, I replace the esp32 one with it again as I wasn't getting good readings with it but for a while I was just using bermuda and phone charge state to run the good night automations

grizzled gull
thorny heron
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I use those

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I got 6

grizzled gull
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could get PE's with speakers for not much more :/

thorny heron
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100% But no screen, no Battery compartment, No Radarr, No IR blaster 😛

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I have 3 VPE and 6 of those boxes.

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And the boxes, while having a lower volume. Have more functions.

So it depends on your needs

grizzled gull
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or for 12 dollars a piece I can reuse my esp32 boards with soldering :/

warm helm
thorny heron
static schooner
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I have a few of those, but they don't have an XMOS chip to remove background noise and I found them not to be as reliable. That was a long time ago, though

thorny heron
last cedar
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I could see a use for a remote flush, for when the kids leave more in the toilet than goes down, yes you know what I mean

warm helm
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teach your racoon to poop in the toilet, then flush on no occupancy after 5 minutes

dusty mica
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should build in a second condition for safety before raccoon got flushed away. On the other hand, raccoon will clean obstacles if pressure is applied.

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a friend told me

olive saffron
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i think i bricked my homeassistant, none of my things were making progress updating so i restarted it and now its not connecting

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😍

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should i turn off and on the device its running on

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olive saffron
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fair nuff

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thanks

dusty mica
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@olive saffron

olive saffron
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i got it

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thanks

blazing parcel
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Heyo, hope everyone is having a wonderful day so far!

distant gate
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Trying to wrap my head around getting my Cursor AI to connect to HA. Does anyone have a doc or video tutorial they’d recommend?

I am connected but not able to access Lovelace dashboards or logs the way I hoped. I want to see how others are able to use it.

blazing parcel
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im personally more attaching to ollama with a custom fork of HGA

blazing parcel
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or is it more of a stats integration?

cloud osprey
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Question - how do people that have set up presence lights determine current brightness level? Like if the room is already bright I don't need the lights but if its dark I do

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I used to use this little aqara illuminance sensors but I kind of hated them. I had to manipulate the data coming out so much to kind of get them to do what I wanted and they still didn't really work that well. Now I tried using https://github.com/pnbruckner/ha-illuminance to just base it on illuminance outside but that's not working well either

distant gate
cloud osprey
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Anyone have something that actually works? lol

static schooner
cloud osprey
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Sure yea that makes sense

dusty mica
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maybe change name to "the-water-cooler-without-support-absolutely NO-SUPPORT-HERE"

atomic delta
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Huh, new update did end up making it out on April 1st. That bodes well.

dusty mica
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let's see 😉

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nah, running fine..

high remnant
atomic delta
dusty mica
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nope, no sheep, no dogs and no sneeze

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i mean, i do get updates, but they never blehr at me

atomic delta
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To be fair, HA is one place I'd have very limited patience for April fools jokes. I expect my HA to run and run well.

blazing parcel
dusty mica
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that's what it does, at least for me, no sence of humor today for me too...

dusty mica