#the-water-cooler

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vague narwhal
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amber bramble
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I've had one of those "Wink-enabled" fans in my living room for about a year. Relatively little problems except it randomly just shows up as "offline" to the wink hub and requires a power cycle. I added a second fan and had to fight to get it to pair, and now that it's paired neither of the fans will dim lights

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No clue how pairing a second fan breaks dimming on the first one, but it somehow did

pure vine
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I blame wink

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Although the only ZigBee devices I have are the IKEA lights

amber bramble
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I'm getting pretty fed up with my Wink hub overall

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Only using it for my caseta switches and zigbee fans. Bought a caseta pro smart bridge yesterday so i can move all my caseta stuff off

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and now i'm holding out hope that HA's zha component will get support for my fan controllers

shy comet
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yea im waiting for some improvements into zha myself....like battery reporting and energy meter lol

last plaza
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Anyone uses GoPro Hero 6?

pure vine
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@amber bramble do you know if there is a standard in Zwave for controlling fans?

shy comet
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@pure vine there is a fan command class....there are some switches taht support fan control and also thermostats have their own support

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they dont have those all in one units like zigbee/wifi....but any ceiling fan connected to a zwave switch will work....probably cheaper than the other units too?

pure vine
shy comet
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i hope all the ZHA PR's get approved and merged soon 😃

amber bramble
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that should work with all of my fans, woo

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now it just needs support for polling or getting the state from the device if its changed from outside of HA

fiery shore
odd mason
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pretty expensive tbh @fiery shore

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i have monoprice door sensors and they are instant

fiery shore
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Where you purchase them at?

odd mason
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no need for something so expensive imo

fiery shore
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Agreed

odd mason
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i just wait for deals for monoprice

fiery shore
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I need more than a few as well

odd mason
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their motion sensors suck

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but the door sensors are good

midnight adder
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@fiery shore i've got the neato botvac, haven't set it up yet. But the main positive seems to be scheduling and rules.

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raining outside & you went out with the dog = start botvac when everyone has left home.

shy comet
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another cheaper alternative is xiaomi too < $10 a sensor is really cheap

odd mason
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i've heard great things about the xiaomi but it sucks that u need their gateway

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i also have the neato botvac connected and love it

fiery shore
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@odd mason thanks!

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@shy comet yea, I'm waiting for the damn power converter for the gateway. Going to be testing it.

shy comet
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yea but the gateway costs $20

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if you need a bunch of sensors its still cheaper to get it

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like more than 5 and you are saving money

fiery shore
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@midnight adder thanks.

odd mason
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true but it's another thing on my network

shy comet
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in fact....leak sensors alone make it worth it

odd mason
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do the sensors report pretty instantly?

shy comet
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yea i agree another thing lol

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mine do but i only have leak for now

fiery shore
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@shy comet but a gateway always introduces some latency, right? Where these monoprice sensors pair directly with z-wave gateway/aeotec stik.

shy comet
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@fiery shore my xiaomi stuff has been as fast as zwave

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its all local control

odd mason
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xiaomi is a zigbee mesh

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similar to the phillips hue

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they build their own mesh network

shy comet
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i find xiaomi to be a bit more stable than the others lol

midnight adder
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@fiery shore not that much latency + not that big of a difference then z-wave USB stick middle layer compared to the hub middle layer.

fiery shore
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@odd mason Yep - I know. I run a lot of Hue via hass and it works flawlessly. But I'm just saying .. another gateway to add 😃

odd mason
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i wanna see some videos on the latency

shy comet
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anything that does local control will be really fast in hass based on my experience

odd mason
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@fiery shore exactly....and idk what the range of it is but all my stuff is in the basement

fiery shore
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@midnight adder good point.

odd mason
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1second latency is acceptable for almost everything EXCEPT motion sensors imo

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those need to be damn near instant

shy comet
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zigbee does get a bit better range but a lot of interference

fiery shore
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@odd mason my stuff is in the basement also 😃

shy comet
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best thing to do is keep it out of the same room as any router

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for the record

odd mason
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@fiery shore let me know how it turns out for u lol

midnight adder
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anything from the hub to HASS will be ethernet anyway, that's going to be fast.

shy comet
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i have zha, lightify, hue, xiaomi here

odd mason
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well i have a unifi USG as my router in the basement then 2 unifi AC mesh pros throughout my house

shy comet
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out of the 4 hue gives me the most failures

odd mason
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i went with lifx to avoid the hubs lol

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plux lifx is brighter

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what is lifghtify

shy comet
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LOL i started with lightify since it was cheaper than hue and didnt require a hub with ST

odd mason
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never heard of that

shy comet
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hue competitor

odd mason
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oh

fiery shore
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@odd mason agreed - need motions to be fast. But the Hue hub does a damn good job with my automations via hass - which includes hue bulbs, sensors and autmation a-la Node Red.

odd mason
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gonna look into that

midnight adder
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(aeotec nano dimmers here) happy mostly, but hoping some BLE mesh stuff will start showing up.

shy comet
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i ended up getting the hub to do firmware updates on teh lights

odd mason
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i don't trust BLEs

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i'm waiting for Xandem

midnight adder
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if i manage to sort out the wiring i'll drop the wireless for lights, but till then this will have to do.

odd mason
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also walabot looks interesting too

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for presence detection

fiery shore
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@odd mason you purchasing monoprice motions as well?

amber bramble
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i dont trust the xiaomi gateway to not turn into a botnet

odd mason
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@fiery shore i bought one but would NOT recommend it

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at least not for motion to trigger lights

amber bramble
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im holding out hope for zha support for xiaomi sensors

shy comet
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@amber bramble LOL you can use parental controls on it and restrict the internet

odd mason
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@amber bramble can you not firewall it off

midnight adder
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@odd mason I haven't seen any BLE mesh stuff out there yet. It's a different beast compared to normal BLE.

once ESP32 sorts out their BLE mesh support in firmware (scheduled to happen in April AFAIK), they'll flood the market.

odd mason
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@shy comet how do u deal with the chinese app?

fiery shore
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@odd mason so - what are you using for motions?

odd mason
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is there an english version?

shy comet
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well you select the server as China but the app is in english for the most part

odd mason
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@midnight adder haven't heard of BLE mesh

amber bramble
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i didn't research it a lot, does it work locally or require cloud access?

shy comet
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like 80% of it

odd mason
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will look into it

shy comet
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one thing you cant stop is the gateway from talking in chinese when you are pairing a device LOL

odd mason
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it's a zigbee mesh so it SHOULD work locally

amber bramble
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i mostly dont trust cheap chinese electronics that are difficult to source 😛

shy comet
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it does work locally

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you can only use it localy in HA

amber bramble
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and its one more thing using electricity when i already have 3 different hubs 😦

odd mason
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lol i don't mind cheap chinese electronics as long as i can put them on a separate vlan that doesn't have access to the internet

midnight adder
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@odd mason it's in the spec, but not in any home automation hardware yet.
Motorcycle headsets are a good example of where it's used atm.

shy comet
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my wife hates taht i use up all the plugs but we got a small house 😛

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in all honesty i wish i heard about xiaomi before i heard about iris

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wouldve been cheaper

amber bramble
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i do want to buy a bunch of the xiaomi temp and humidity sensors

fiery shore
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@shy comet what motions you using? Xiaomi as well? They are super cheap!

odd mason
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@midnight adder ble mesh looks really cool...BUT...still not ideal for presence detection imo

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u still need a device

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where as with something like xandem, it is device-less

shy comet
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@fiery shore i have cats and dogs....no motion for me 😦

odd mason
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@fiery shore not using anything for motion yet

midnight adder
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@odd mason what do you mean device-less? there's always going to be a sensor(motion), beacon or a gateway(BLE/wifi/etc..)

fiery shore
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@shy comet ah - got it.

odd mason
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just have some motion security sensors but my security is all honeywell

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u don't have to have a device on u for the network to detect someone is there

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it's expensive but it's pretty awesome

midnight adder
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@odd mason that's essentially fancy motion detection.

odd mason
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yes but...better

midnight adder
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yep

odd mason
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once i get my existing stuff installed and have time i'll look into one of these

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right now i have all this crap i bought that i haven't installed yet

shy comet
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i think most of us have a box of stuff waiting to be installed 😛

odd mason
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lol

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walabot is awesome because apparently u can detect minute movements like standing up and sitting down

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and idk if people have unique RF signatures but if they do could could detect who is in the room doing what

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which would take automation to a whole new level

shy comet
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yea i think fitness trackers should be used more in hass....trigger sleep/wake up....find where in the house you are too

midnight adder
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polar a360 doesn't surface it sadly.

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as an example.

fiery shore
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@shy comet I've got so many boxes, I'm afraid to tell the wife. She'll kill me

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of stuff waiting to be installed that is 😃

shy comet
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lmao....luckily for me that box was my wife's idea 😄

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she doesnt mind this habit since it means i cant say a thing when she wants to buy stuff 😛

odd mason
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lol true

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my wife doesn't care about me buying stuff as much as she cares about the mess i make

shy comet
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yea things need to be kept clean lol

trail crag
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"which" ? is that a real package? googling it a PIA for this noob

📎 unknown.png
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node-which maybe

pure vine
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what project is this @trail crag

trail crag
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I'm poking around buildroot

pure vine
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Yeah, its a command dont know where from

trail crag
pure vine
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seems to be installed by defult in ubuntu

trail crag
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thanks, @pure vine . I see it now

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lol man which

pure vine
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Why is that funny

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It shows that NGINX can run wordpres

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Nah, to much effort, and a lot of people know wordpress

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Also has anyone in here managed to convince no techies in their family that they dont need ads, basically im going to install pi hole on my network, but my pairents will moan that google search ads dont work and quidco dont work

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Yeah, i know

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But pi hole has a nice UI

fiery shore
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I must accept my fate - I have to run Lutron Caseta in some places due to no neutral wire.

pure vine
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My whole home has not neutral wires in the light switches

fiery shore
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So what did you do for smart switches? or did you not? Just went with bulbs?

pure vine
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I just went with ikea bulbs

fiery shore
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So you're keeping power to them and using some wireless switch to control them?

pure vine
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Other rooms have alexas in or we use phones

fiery shore
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I have Hue bulbs/switches/motions. Same kind of thing. Works just fine, but wanted some smart switches in specific places, like I wanted the Hue bulbs in specific places.

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Tradfri require a hub?

pure vine
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To work with home assistant yes

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although the bulbs are just zigbee bulbs

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so they may work with the ZHA component

fiery shore
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Oh really? I do have the husbz1 stick. Works well with the few Sengled bulbs I have

pure vine
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Yeah, i dont know though

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Looks like there are issues

fiery shore
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With what? tradfri and zha? I'm not surprised.

odd mason
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step 1 in home automation: rewire the entire house with neutral wire

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LOL

fiery shore
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@odd mason I'm almost ready to do that. But then realize the cost of Hue gear is the same 😂

odd mason
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haha

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well i have smart bulbs with smart switches

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so u get the best of both worlds

fiery shore
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How?

odd mason
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wife would kill me if switches didn't work

fiery shore
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isn't that like bad for smart bulbs?

odd mason
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nah, i've wired the switches so my bulbs always have power

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then i use zwave events to turn them on/off

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so the bulbs never actually lose power

fiery shore
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ah yes - I've read about this method. Still need those neutral wires though, so I'm still a stick in the mud. lol

odd mason
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yup u still need them

fiery shore
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It's all good. I have an electrician coming Saturday. Someone smarter than me may tell me that I can still do what I want. I've got way too much respect for electricity to be mucking around here. Especially since I didn't build the house and don't have enough skills to solve it myself.

pure vine
amber bramble
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@fiery shore Almost all of my smart switches are lutron caseta and we love them

fiery shore
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How are controlling them in hass? Like with automations and all? I think I'm making more of a bigger deal than it really is 😃 It's the z-wave hype! 😃

amber bramble
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you'll need either a caseta smart bridge or a wink hub to pair them to since they speak a proprietary protocol

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i have mine paired with a wink hub. works fine, though the wink can be a little slow to respond sometimes. they just show up as normal light. or switch. entities

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i ordered a caseta smart bridge pro a few days ago. I'm going to move them over to it because it can detect when you press buttons on the caseta pico remotes and fire events off in hass, plus it runs locally so it should respond a lot faster

fiery shore
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Yea - sounds like the way to go. I have to do some more research on how to rewire the other ends for 3 and 4-way connection types.

amber bramble
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no re-wiring if you use caseta 😄

fiery shore
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I wanted the Zooz because most of the 3 and 4-way far end switches I won't ever use, but they require neutrals still.

amber bramble
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you just put a pico remote in the wall plate

fiery shore
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No, but you have to connect terminate them. Can't leave them as wired.

amber bramble
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well, let me rephrase that, minimal re-wiring. you basically re-connect it like a single switch instead of a 3 way

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yeah, that

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that reminds me.. i need to buy a couple more so i can finally finish my house

pure vine
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Ive seen some products that some how only need the hot wire

fiery shore
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I think there are two brands.

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or 3, including Lutron

fiery shore
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@amber bramble Why do you need the pro bridge to integrate with hass? Wouldn't the standard bridge be enough?

amber bramble
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The pro bridge has a local telnet interface, so it should be a little more reliable and faster

fiery shore
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Asking nicely - What does that have to do with anything though? Won't change how hass is leveraged - maybe I don't understand

amber bramble
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The non-pro bridge could theoretically get a firmware update that renders the hass integration unusable, or that may require cloud access instead of local control

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mostly im trying to avoid internet/cloud dependency as much as possible

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but aside from that as far as writing automations and controlling it through hass, it would work basically the same regardless of if you use wink or either of the lutron bridges. the wink integration is a lot more mature i know

fiery shore
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Got it - thanks for explaining.

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@amber bramble do you know if multiple bridges is OK in hass? I'm going to need more than 50 devices.

amber bramble
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I know you can have multiple bridges, but I'm not sure if the HASS lutron component supports multiple ones yet

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looks like as of last july it didn't

fiery shore
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Boo.. ok

pure vine
shy comet
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not entirely HA related but Android P is here

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Indoor positioning with Wi-Fi RTT
does this mean native room presence is coming to hass? 😄

clever mortar
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If you assume people's phones are glued to them 😛

shy comet
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yea but now you wont need to do the whole find server thingy that peopel like to do lol

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not sure how i feel about the new notification design

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that might have to grow on me lol

clever mortar
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Looks like a logical next step from what's there currently

pure vine
pure vine
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@shy comet I dont think Home assistant zones have that much resolution

shy comet
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@pure vine true I was thinking more along the lines of an input_select or something similar

gusty owl
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@pure vine how do you like the IKEA bulbs with HASS? do they work well? any issues?

pure vine
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@gusty owl Yeah, they are allright, the only issues i have had are the gateway having a memory leak, that is now fixed as Home assistant now listens for events instead of polling, and if you use tradfri groups you can only set their brightness, Use Home assistant groups for grouping bulbs in home assistant

gusty owl
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@pure vine ahhh good tip. are you using the full color bulbs too?

pure vine
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I have one of those

oak haven
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Anyone tested HA with docker and traefik as proxy and for certs?

formal heart
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i'm trying to but it keeps giving me a 502 (bad gateway). I had it working for a bit and i'm not sure what i changed. Want to see my example?

velvet horizonBOT
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    image: homeassistant/home-assistant:latest
    network_mode: 'host'
    ports:
      - 8123
    volumes:
      - /opt/appdata/hass/config:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    labels:
      - "traefik.enabled=true"
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oak haven
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It should be enable if this key is even required?

formal heart
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guess its not required then lol

oak haven
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I can't test it atm, but auto generating the SSL certificates for the containers sounds nice. Apache also can do this

formal heart
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its alright but it has its limitations

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i think you're best off putting it behind a load balancer

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like i'd like to be able to easily reverse proxy services running on another machine, but theres no easy way to do that

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might not be a big deal outside ofa home network tho

pure vine
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and the tracking API is free to use

pure vine
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Gosh, that video is old, I'm confused how Ubuntu got on her laptop

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Ive been liking fedora recently

pure estuary
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Sonoff T1 with 2ch to homeassistant.
can someone help me configure it?

shy comet
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anyone here setup zoneminder through nginx? having some issues with a Bad Gateway error and I think its more linked to my nginx config

hollow crescent
amber bramble
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bah, i still don't understand why my fan won't dim

midnight adder
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Have anyone looked into Roomba vs. Xiaomi robot vacuums?

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Dunno if I should take the chance with the Xiaomi

pure vine
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Hmm, i cant decide if it is a good idea to update ubuntu over ssh

clever mortar
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Done it many times - indeed other than Windows servers I've almost never upgraded a system from the console

pure vine
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Yeah, its more the issue that im not in the same building as the server

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now

clever mortar
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I've upgraded plenty that I'm not in the same continent as

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If you've got LOM access (remote console) then you've nothing to worry about

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Even if you don't, unless you've got an unusual setup (obscure storage controller, say) and you're upgrading in the weeks after the release, you'll be fine as long as your hardware doesn't fail

pure vine
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I decided rather than moan about homeassistant setting a point release as required ill just update ubuntu

clever mortar
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You could just upgrade Python 😉

pure vine
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Yeah, but i rather have the version from the Ubuntu repos with all the things built

clever mortar
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You've got backups off the system you're about to upgrade?

pure vine
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No, I dont realy care about the stuff on the system disk, but i have home assistant backed up on github

clever mortar
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And your secrets.yaml and other sensitive stuff?

pure vine
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Secrets are not backed up, but wont be to hard to rebuild

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If anything does go wrong i dont care, i was planning to do a fresh start of HA becuse of how messy the automations where

pure vine
shy comet
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Tautulli (PlexPy v2) is out now as stable 😃

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huge improvements over v1 too

last cradle
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Cool

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Been running beta

last cradle
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has anyone DIY'ed a video doorbell that can stream video full time and snap a pic or series of pics when the doorbell is pressed and send them to HASS and/or something else like Discord as a notification?

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been googling and finding several video doorbell projects but nothing that does what I want. Closest I found required RF and I don't wanna do dat

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maybe using motion to stream video and some kinda python program to trigger snapshot and send out notification when the button is pressed and maybe a motion sensor too?

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I know I'm not asking a lot here 😃

pure vine
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What is the google core chart libary used for, i thought home assistant changed to chart.js

lament cradle
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@last cradle there are a couple of projects that use a usb camera, a pi and a PIR sensor to record. Not door bell triggered but it’s motion triggered

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Seemed pretty straight forward, I ended up getting a ring doorbell though

last cradle
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yeah.. I am looking at those now

lament cradle
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The usb camera I wanted was so expensive it almost caught up to the cost lol

last cradle
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I've been looking at the Skybell HD but this seems more fun

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I'm just thinking of using a pi camera

lament cradle
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I’m not sure if the pi Cam can do the live stream

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I can’t remember why i didn’t go with that because it’s what I initially looked at when I first researched

last cradle
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I'm thinking maybe using this https://thepihut.com/products/zeroview

The Pi Hut
ZeroView

The ZeroView is a clever window/glass mount for your Pi Zero and camera module. Using high-quality suction cups attached to the board, the ZeroView can be mount

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maybe running bright ass LEDs where the suction cups are supposed to attach lol

lament cradle
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Lol yeah I looked at that, I may still use it for the garage camera

last cradle
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could prolly do this one with a Zero-W

dry cairn
vital mango
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hey all, looking to get my HASS setup back up and running, but was wondering what people's opinions are. I can either run on a pi3 or in an docker on my unraid server.

pure vine
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dwell Docker on the unraid would be better, hass on the pi tends to get slower with the ammount of stuff stored

midnight adder
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Hi Guys i just bought a neo coolcam light switch any one have some experience with these switches or similar ones?

pure vine
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Just saw who got 1st place in those awards home assistant got 3rd place in. Pretix definitely earned that award

strange bobcat
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i either just installed malware or finally found the USB-serial firmware on these knock-off NodeMCU boards

midnight adder
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Does someone know if you can get phone notifications from sensors in HA?

strange bobcat
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@midnight adder definitely. i've used both the HTML5 push notifications with my Android phone and the iOS app. there are probably some ways to accomplish this with SMS as well

midnight adder
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Is there a guide i can use to get this working?

strange bobcat
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one you have a notification component setup, you can use an automation to fire off a notification when a sensor's state changes, etc

midnight adder
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Alright i will try that out, thanks for the help dude

strange bobcat
midnight adder
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Can i add you and ask some more questions about sensors if needed?

strange bobcat
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sure, but feel free to ask in #330944238910963714 as well. others may benefit as well and there are others who can help answer as well

midnight adder
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Ye im using general usually but its kinda late and no1 responded and asked here

tame dock
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Hey guys, is there someone who can advice me on Homematic / homematic IP ? and can Home Assistant replace any "access point" ?

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And what would you guys advice me? Using demotica over RF / WiFi or is there a possibility to hardwire it (ethernet?)

lusty compass
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Hey, I'm writing a few tutorials on diy home automation projects for a new blog, does anyone want to contribute? Can be anything to do with automation from setting up to showing off your current setup with the world!

vague narwhal
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@Scott#7644 I could give you a bunch of Docker compose examples I’m using for my setup if you’d like

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Does anyone here know if he LIFX minis would comfortably fit in an E27 PAR16 recessed fixture?

pure vine
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@TheAK#3061 possibly, Wikipedia has par 16 defined as being 2 inches, but it looks like it has been rounded and the lifx bulbs are 60 mm in diameter

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Although their spec page is a bit awful

odd mason
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anyone here have to use elasticsearch queries at work

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holy crap, it's possibly the ugliest querying API i have ever seen in my life

pure vine
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I have a sticker of its very cool logo on the back of my laptop, never used it

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eww, json

odd mason
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it's so so so ugly

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makes zero sense

pure vine
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I wonder if someone has made a sql translator for it :P

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@odd mason It looks like its entire purpose is for interfacing a database with JS

odd mason
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well i guess ES is a "storage" layer

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so it makes sense

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i just wish they came up with something not as horrendous

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i literally have 6 layers of bool should bool must

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that's literally what part of my query looks like

midnight adder
pure vine
pure vine
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can mods edit messages?

light trout
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AFAIK Only delete

pure vine
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yeah, just checked on my bot test server

pure vine
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I want to buy one and put a esp8266 in it

wintry crow
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Lol the original ones were Goblin - remember those?

odd mason
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zone 1 is missing?

last plaza
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I have no idea... I don't have that setup yet... Although I prefer button look compared to the lightning icon look

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if you set assumed_state: false to each of those switch in customize section, you can see them as "real" switches

odd mason
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i'll check that out

last plaza
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do you see all zones when you login to the web site or via app?

odd mason
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yep

last plaza
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sure there are no config mistakes/errors?

odd mason
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i just rebooted again i'll check it out when it's light out and see maybe they are misnumbered

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i only have 4 zones

last plaza
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ok..

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which model # did you get?

odd mason
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lol another reboot fixed it

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so weird

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i got the 8 zone

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mini 8 2nd gen

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i really like the look of the HD 12 but i had to make the logical choice...i'll never "look" at it so the look of it doesn't matter

last plaza
#

ok...

odd mason
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this was way cheaper

last plaza
#

that looks cool too!

#

you got it online? Does HD/Lowes sell them?

odd mason
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i got it from amazon

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it was cheaper

last plaza
#

ok... I am planning to do my own sprinklers... just for the front yard

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and have plants/flower beds watered automatically - using the same system

odd mason
#

ur gonna run the pipes and wire yourself?

last plaza
#

yes

odd mason
#

damn

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that's awesome

last plaza
#

I am a DIY guy - love to do it myself

odd mason
#

i don't trust myself that much

last plaza
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lol

odd mason
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it took 3 guys about 7 hours to do my front and back yard

last plaza
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problem with sprinkler system is that you have to mow every week 😦

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you water it, you trim it - repeat 😃

odd mason
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haha

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i got a service that does the mowing and stuff

last plaza
#

that's why I just want to do front yard and use rest of the zones for flower beds

odd mason
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i did it for the first month i bought this house...then i just gave up

last plaza
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I bought a tractor a couple of years ago - fun to ride that thing

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I had a push mower (self propelled) for 14 years, hated mowing lawn.... it is fun now

odd mason
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nice

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i don't trsut myself with big machines like that

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i'll do little things like electrical and drywall and stuff

last plaza
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@odd mason did you take pictures when it is being installed?

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I could use them 🤣

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if you do, please PM me

rugged fjord
#

Anyone know if there is a way to get Google Chrome for android to go full screen without address bar?

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Just figured it out. Create a homescreen shortcut and launch it and it shows fullscreen

shy comet
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yup...you can do the same thing on desktop too

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although it doesnt seem to do that on a tablet 😦

odd mason
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@last plaza unfortunantely i didn't

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but i understand the basic concept. they used hunter valves/sprinkler/and rotor heads

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ran PVC pipes from the valve to the various zones, then used flexible pipes to install and position the sprinkler heads

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it's not complicated but just time consuming work

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DUDE

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rain machine is awesome

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they have an entire postman collection to help u use their rest api

last plaza
#

@odd mason Awesome. I watched so many videos on that. I feel confident that I can do it.

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API stuff is cool! With the postman setup!

odd mason
#

yea it's pretty awesome...unfortunantely my zone 1 isn't showing up anymore :/

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i created an issue with the python package

last plaza
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Ok. Have you checked the issues to see if someone has already reported?

odd mason
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lol @last plaza i needed to update to the latest version

last plaza
#

😝

odd mason
north bane
#

@odd mason control: hidden

midnight adder
last plaza
#

Awesome! It’s too late, I got it 2 years ago 😩 @midnight adder

midnight adder
#

@last plaza something with an API/serial that can be integrated?

last plaza
#

Are you referring to the RainBird or in general? @odd mason got a rainbird and they have api available and also made the postman scripts for the developers to test the api. Of course it is already integrated with HA and he didn’t really have to do anything special. I’m sure the rainbird component uses that api behind the scene

midnight adder
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@last plaza I meant the robot mower.

last plaza
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@midnight adder if the api is available for the mower, you should be able to write a python program to test it. After that, you can create a custom component

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That’s how I wrote my custom components - life360, Palo Alto Firewall....etc. they are all based on some sort of api.

odd mason
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@last plaza I got a rain machine

last plaza
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That’s what I meant 😊

midnight adder
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@last plaza that was a response to your comment about the grass starting to grow too quickly with the rain machine.

  1. get rain machine
  2. see that grass grows too quickly
  3. get robot mower
  4. etc...
    never ending circle 😃
last plaza
#

🤣

pure vine
#

Open Reach just put this on my street

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squeels in excitement

drowsy garden
#

How do I display the time passed sisce my MQTT sensor published payload_available: "Connected"?

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I'd like to have a time or number of days as an "uptime"

agile sinew
#

@pure vine I'm 3 miles from two FTTH providers, but neither will expand to the town i live in

lament cradle
#

Definitely random but sharing in honor of Pi day coming up

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I made this last year, it revolves entirely around rpi and hass and rpi put it on their site for Pi day lol

shy comet
pure vine
#

based on the meta in it its from highqualitygifs

shy comet
#

that one is hilarious lol

dry cairn
vague narwhal
#

Does anyone here have a dell r710 server?

orchid rose
#

using home assistant in Vivaldi's Web Panels is actually a pretty good way to interact with the Hass UI

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just open the side bar to access hass, perfect

pure vine
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Ohh, that quite cool

full thorn
#

@orchid rose dude.... that's slick

#

That would be awesome to pair with floor plan or security cameras. Have one hass page on the left and another on the right

pure vine
onyx gorge
#

I'm scratching my head on the concept of the light group that is new in 0.65. I have already been using the regular "Group" and from what I can tell, I can control the group as any light. But with services like "homeassistant.turn_on". I'm trying to think of use cases but I'm coming up short. Any thoughts?

pure vine
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It makes i behave more like a light

oak haven
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Colored frontend icon, set color for group

pure vine
#

would it not be better to make it a setting for groups then a new module

shy comet
#

nice a new pi!

onyx gorge
#

oh colored front end. But you can set color with normal group now via automation.

#

maybe this is more just visual than functional

#

I think I see what you mean

#

but more valuable for the colored lights, not standard soft white

shy comet
#

ok in for 1 for the new pi 😛

#

wonder if this new one can handle x265 content

agile sinew
#

I want to see the POE board in the Pi3B+

#

Now, today I have a Webinar for Meraki cloud managed switches. I should get a free switch, do I keep it for myself or use it at work?

shy comet
#

looks like full hw decoding of x265 needs a new SoC however the new cores can handle software decoding of 4k..awesome....nice to a see bump in RAM too

agile sinew
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@shy comet i'd like to see it get 2gb of ram myself

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But I'd love one in a pi-top

shy comet
#

well im sure that will come usb3 and actually gigabit ethernet lol

#

lol

agile sinew
shy comet
#

yea thats awesome

amber bramble
#

If only the Pi 3B+ had more RAM 😦

#

i kept hitting the ram ceiling on mine

agile sinew
#

boys*

orchid rose
#

are chromecast and google home automatically synced when you play music on them? Seems to be the case for me and I was just wondering if I buy a another google home and/or chromecast audio, will it be synced as well?

shy comet
#

@orchid rose yes they can be

orchid rose
#

can be or will be?

odd mason
shy comet
#

@orchid rose by default they are not, that is something you do in the google home app, you can add them to the same group there...you just need to set it up and it will work as expected

pure vine
#

@odd mason makes it useful for quickly hacking something together

agile sinew
#

Is 15:11 to early to start drinking?

shy comet
#

its 5 oclock somewhere

pure vine
dry cairn
#

dirty lies i see no bong nor beer

#

but that chair in the back seems very well build

shy comet
#

i could never use a keyboard like that

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it would throw me off so bad

dry cairn
#

yeah

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i never understood the appeal of those

shy comet
#

it would make me feel like ants in my eyes johnson 😛

dry cairn
#

hrhrhr

odd mason
#

@last plaza

last plaza
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@odd mason Nice!!!

odd mason
#

just made some delicious low carb pretzels

dry cairn
#

low carbs cause cancer of the rectum

shy comet
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lol

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@chags#5818 got a recipe? never made pretzels before lol

odd mason
#

@dry cairn LOL

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i skipped the cheese and used marinara

gloomy canyon
#

hey grafana pros: any idea why this graph isn't working any longer?

#

sensor.load_15m works and gives me data...

amber bramble
#

@gloomy canyon is data still making it into influxdb or did the connection drop out

gloomy canyon
#

Other graphs work

pure vine
#

Is that data still going into the DB

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I'm assuming it's Hass data

shy comet
#

thansk @odd mason another subreddit to add to the list lol

odd mason
#

they have some good stuff

shy comet
#

looks like I found teh reason why gearbest hasnt dont a great sale yet....its coming soon apparently: https://www.gearbest.com/promotion-gb-4th-anniversary-shopping-gu-special-2110.html?1&utm_source=mail_api&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=GB_special_180315_1521106048&eo=ORKCkbekOohhEtOO

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orchid rose
#

oh nice, that'll come in handy

pure vine
midnight adder
#

😄

dry cairn
#

well we all know what happened here ... the dude tried to strangle his gf with it broke the headphones and after he was bailed out he tried to get them warrantied with apple

tame moss
#

Wot happened to bruhautomation?

dry cairn
#

whoautomation?

tame moss
#

He made a bunch of home assistant vids

#

He's in the documentation aswell

dry cairn
#

🤷

tame moss
#

Although his voice was downright annoying and cringy, his tutorials were easy to follow and very informative

dry cairn
#

and mostly out o date and causing issues

#

he never updates his shit

tame moss
#

Hmm

#

I watched a few vids that helped

light trout
#

Home Assistant is in constant chage, static content like videos tend to be out of date fast.
some may work, but the best place to get instructions/ideas is by looking at the official website, and the repos of users that regulary uptade them.

pure vine
#

Although some of those are poorly written

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The docs that is

clever mortar
#

Then suggest edits 😉

light trout
#

@pure vine Even the docs are Open Source and contributions are most welcome 😃

pure vine
#

I do contribute to them, when I have the time

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Or have better wording

pure vine
clever mortar
#

Well, given that they kicked their integration discussions off 4 months ago, I'm not that surprised 🤷

#

We shouldn't be far off now hopefully

vague narwhal
shy comet
#

thats gotta be one of the best trailers theyve done yet

last cradle
#

Why would some of my Hue lights show available even though I can still control them in the Hue app and in my Floorplan?

#

asking here because it's the only place I can show the screenshot heh

serene mortar
#

If they are available, they should not appear as unavailable.

last cradle
#

agreed, but they do

shy comet
#

well sometimes hue lights show as unavailable but are controllable still...at least that is the case for me

#

the hue app still lets you send commands

wild beacon
#

yeah. that's a bug/quirk with hue. my outdoor lights do this all the time. i think there is some status frame which drops but control packets are still getting through

#

i'm guessing your lego lamp is further away from other ones

#

you could try placing another bulb in between and seeing if it meshes

last cradle
#

the bad thing about this though is that with 65.5 at keast, automations and Google Home are no longer able to control them while "unavailable"

serene mortar
#

I have not experienced it, but you may want to file a bug report with details.

last plaza
shy comet
#

lmao

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silicon valley anyone? 😛

dull chasm
#

laying on table by tv for now

clever mortar
#

Nice

dull chasm
#

a pita ass to setup with chinese software.... will block internet access and still have to figure out how to give password LOL

clever mortar
#

😄

worthy drift
charred meteor
#

@clever mortar is it possible to skip some tests when making python? test.regrtest has been running for 90 minutes now

#

(Today I´m installing on a rpi3b+)

clever mortar
#

Don't think so

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It took about a couple of hours all in when I ran it, following my steps

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(on 3.6.4)

charred meteor
#

Deos this install pip3 as well?

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Or should I do that from packages

#

Does

clever mortar
#

Pretty sure it installs pip3

charred meteor
#

Ok, will try. I´m doing a fresh rasbian and manually installing the venv etc

#

I don´t want the extra overhead of ResinOD

#

OS

clever mortar
#

Fresh Raspbian should come with a supported Python 3.5

charred meteor
#

Yes

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Btw, when upgrading packages, will they detect the manually installed python?

#

When using apt-get

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If not, maybe better to stay with the packages

clever mortar
#

When using apt-get, they'll use whatever they're told to us

#

It really depends on the package, there's no single answer

#

Some will be fixed on Python 3.5, some will just require Python 3, or 3.2 or later, or...

charred meteor
#

Ok, btw is there some way to support you using Bitcoin or whatever, you are always supporting 😃

#

Maybe a virtual beer or similar

clever mortar
#

Nah, it's fine - I'm quite happy to just help others, the theory is that at some point you'll be able to help others too, and so it goes 😉

charred meteor
#

Unfortunately not with me, I tend to forget everything after 5 minutes. Its like self-destruction

#

For example, right now I don´t remember why I´m talking to you 😃

clever mortar
#

😄

#

Thankfully, you can scroll up. Of course, then you'd have to remember why you scrolled up... 😛

charred meteor
#

My caretaker will be with me any secon

#

d

#

care taker

#

There is nothing like the feeling after a fresh install

#

I will try to keep this installtaion for HA only when when seeing the low CPU usage I tend to add more stuff to the device anyway

#

LIke Unifi Controller

mellow flower
foggy flint
#

Unusual situation. I bought a harmony remote but our new decoder comes with an RF remote. I've tried to capture RF via broadlink rm pro+ but nothing seems to come up. There is an app that allows for control of the decoder on android. Would someone know of a solution that would allow home assistant to send android app commands or anybody have any clever ideas on how I might solve this?

glossy sluice
#

@everyone does anyone here own an OpenEVSE car charger?

wintry crow
trim cliff
arctic ginkgo
#

Mixing metric and imperial, please no

rocky prairie
#

hey can some one help me out with automation old:

clever mortar
#

@rocky prairie Do please remember to read the channel descriptions 😉

dim sentinel
#

Hey, does anyone use the Broadlink S2 RF433MHz Alarm + Sensors with Home Assistant?

foggy flint
#

@trim cliff hm, interesting. Is this a firmware that doesn't automatically upgrade, unofficial?

#

@trim cliff My serial starts with RM3 , could you see what you have? I don't want to brick my broadlink 😄

mellow flower
#

Hmm had to make this for power my raspberry pi 3B+ , i used a standard 5v 2,5amp power supply but seems like it undervolt and you can see that on the pi when its undervolted when it need more power, so i stipped this 12v adapter and putted a buck converter between it to 5v and now its fixed the undervolt led is solid now instead of flickering ☺

📎 WhatsApp_Image_2018-03-18_at_11.49.05.jpeg
full thorn
#

I really wish they would just add 5 to 12V converter to the board and fix this problem

wise oriole
#

My NodeMCU temperature and humidity mini-project is done 😃 I used a cheap $2 screw box and hot glued the DHT22 on top. The case is a cheap screw box case because the normal project boxes for something like this is now like $10 on Amazon. Don't need to spend more than I have to - and this is in the basement, doesn't matter if it's ugly or not, as long as it works and is protected from bumps.

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pure vine
#

anyone here used to blender, Can a Nvidia 940MX handle blender? Nah, im going to do it on the desktop in the house

midnight adder
wise oriole
#

@midnight adder yeah that'll work too, nice and cheap.... the screw boxes are nice because you can get them locally and cheap. plus i kinda like being able to see the onboard led since i have them blink for certain things

#

i might have to get a couple of those, though

midnight adder
#

@wise oriole there are different sizes, this is just one i found quickly, If the size fits you can fit the PCB in the built in slots.
you can bring out a led on the front panel, but that means drilling 😃

wise oriole
#

and wiring an led 😉

#

I'm lazy when it comes to these smaller projects where the onboard works great

wintry crow
#

Folks, with devices that support both WiFI and 433, is there a benefit to using 433 instead - via a broadlink or whatever? Just wondering

gloomy canyon
#

@wise oriole ac powered?

wise oriole
#

@gloomy canyon NodeMCU takes 5v, so in that photo I'm using an AC powered 5v output wall wart

#

I think I'm using an old cell phone 5v 1a charger which works fine

gloomy canyon
#

My door Sensor uses an esp32 with a 18650 battery

wise oriole
#

ah the nodemcu is an esp8266

gloomy canyon
#

Fits well in a case too

wise oriole
#

how long does the battery last?

gloomy canyon
#

Hass alarms me when the current is below 3V

#

Usually 1-3 months

#

Depends how often i open and Close the door ;)

mellow flower
#

no grafana for me , what a buggy program , worked my whole sunday on it and have still nothing becouse of the bugs 😡

full thorn
#

@wintry crow. 433 is lower power. It's better for battery devices. You also get less attenuation over distance. Downside is you get less bandwidth

glossy sluice
#

@trim cliff I am in the market for a charger and saw both the Juicebox and OpenEVSE were compatible with HA and wanted to see if anyone has experience with them and how well they work. I cant be sure but it seemed that the OpenEVSE was more open than the Juicebox.

trim cliff
#

BTW: The wifi and app on the JB is great and I like that it can go all the way up to 40A for future cars.

wintry crow
#

Thx @full thorn

copper galleon
#

Hi! Does any one know a good fall detection sensor you wear that will work for zwave, zigbee, wireless or BT?

shy comet
wintry crow
#

Folks, the sonoff stuff, I see that FW1.6+ breaks the basics ability to do an OTA firmware flash, but does it still allow you to point it at an alternate site, running the same firmware?

mortal jasper
#

So, another wierd thing,. I cant start Home on my phone, if i factory reset it and use my apple id it works, but if i use my regular backup it wont start, just loading when i start it.

agile sinew
#

@wintry crow I flashed over Serial, so IDK?

wintry crow
#

Ok thx @agile sinew, I'm actually looking at creating a dummy sonoff server, so just need to repoint the devices to my own server. The point was to do it without breaking out the soldering iron

worn jasper
#

i updated my sonoffs without using a soldering iron just FYI, its do-able

wintry crow
#

@worn jasper: Yeah but apparently the later firmware broke that - made it very difficult to spoof the SSL verification. Seems like nobodys figured out what the new setup is

worn jasper
#

i mean flashing using serial, i have no idea how the stock firmware works with updating etc LOL

wintry crow
#

Ah, just holding the contacts on the header?

worn jasper
#

i just used thin wire and put through each pad and taped to the bottom side LOL, it was ghetto butit worked

wintry crow
#

Hahah I guess that's all it needs tbh! My issue is I bought a mixed bag - got 2x Sonoff basics that use ewelink, a funky coloured lightbulb that uses Smart Life, and just received a 2 gang light switch that seems to use yet another app. I wanna decouple em all from their respective servers and just run 1 local one

#

Just messing about at this stage tho lol

worn jasper
#

yeah thats where something like tasmota is great, just get them all using MQTT and just let hass handle it all

wintry crow
#

Just need to attack the bulb and light switch with a hammer... 😛

languid turret
#

Anyone know of there should be an issue using PWM dimming on a 12v AC/DC led filament bulb?

dry cairn
#

tztztztz

orchid rose
#

can someone recommend a super cheap small amp for a multiroom speaker setup with chromecast audio?

last plaza
#

Looks like the gearbest sales started already!

serene mortar
#

yeah....supposed to start today (3/20)

last plaza
#

Cool 👌

orchid rose
#

aliexpress has a sale in 8 days as well

agile sinew
#

@wintry crow if you get it to work, i'd love that

shy comet
#

yay gearbest sale lol!

#

what are you guys getting? 😛

pure vine
#

I'm tempted to get those xinomi IP cams

shy comet
#

they are popular

#

for now i got a few contact sensors, motion and temp sensors

#

waiting for leak sensors to drop to $10 and hopefully the air purifier willl go to $99 like it was on slick deals a few months back

#

anything else good in tehre that i may have missed?

amber bramble
#

I want a few of the temp/humidity sensors, but I'm still holding out for native zha support so i dont have to mess with their gateway

shy comet
#

i think if you install yoda-x's bellows branch it will work natively

#

personally i just got the gateway since it was only $20 lol

#

hmm 2nd gen vacuum on sale at 450

pure vine
onyx gorge
#

@shy comet there was a flash sale on the s50 vacuum on Sunday. I picked one up.

pure vine
#

anyone here use emby

pure vine
#

Im having fun setting up gource

shy comet
#

gource?

pure vine
#

currently have a perl script getting all the advatars of the commiters to the home assistant repo

trail crag
#

@pure vine hey that's pretty cool! I'm watching @shy notch hack away in 2013.

pure vine
#

At 2016 now

worn tulip
#

so my arduino is spamming mqtt messages and ha can't keep up with it should I use delay?

#

nvm, kek, im tired... the update line is misplaced

pure vine
#

On that uber crash, do we know if the LIDAR(the spinny thing on top) was on

pure vine
trail crag
#

B+ benchmarks

clever mortar
#

Runs cooler, much faster networking, CPU is between 10% and (about) 20% faster depending on the benchmark

#

That's pretty nice

dawn shadow
#

oh, it was years ago since I read something on phoronix 😃

wet quail
#

more power draw, though

mellow flower
#

2 motion sensors from like 11 dollars ea , and thay already work with HA 😄

trail crag
#

@mellow flower what are they?

mellow flower
#

@trail crag motion sensors from xiaomi (aqara version)

shy comet
#

anyone here running nextcloud? debating on setting it up alongside zoneminder and hass

shy comet
#

damnit Gearbest.....woke up to a notification that the leak sensors dropped below 10 and 2 hours later.....nothing....wonder if it was a price mistake

#

😭

wraith temple
#

ok so had comcast (bill doubled) got out and went to DirecTV - on demand NEVER worked - so cancelled ........ what do people use for streaming TV (DirecTVNOW, Sling - what are the boxes they use (Amazon Fire TV, ROKU, Native TV Apps)?

shy comet
#

if you don't care about legality you can look into IPTV

#

will save you money, but if you require things to be stable may not be for you

oak haven
#

Hey @slim vortex where is your live stream from yesterday?

slim vortex
#

I accidentally hit the "start streaming" button instead of the "start recording" button.

#

I was just getting some screen capture for my DIY smart lock video.

#

Just accidentally sent an alert to 7000 people. no big deal 😖

#

If I do that again I'll just let it run. It probably would have been cool to just chat while I was working on the video.

shy comet
#

DIY smart lock? that sounds so awesome!

slim vortex
#

2 different styles. 12v Magnetic locks, controlled by Sonoff SV with Tasmota. $25 total build vs $200 for the retail "smart" locks.

wraith temple
#

@shy comet IPTV, will have a look, thanks - needs to pass the wife test whatever is chosen (reality channels included 😦 )

shy comet
#

@wraith temple if stability is of concern then you will need to stick with cable as channels can do down, however if you can download all the shows that she cares about then it might be a win win scenario lol

wraith temple
#

@shy comet i can feel the plex server is coming out of retirement 😉

shy comet
#

why was it ever retired?!?!? lmao

#

i cant imagine life without plex

#

😛

wraith temple
#

xfinity was actually pretty good

#

just not the price tag at the end of year 1

shy comet
#

yea but i get spoiled by having commercials stripped out

#

its annoying to have to fastforward

wraith temple
#

true - never really looked into the commercial stripping - as a Brit in the US, was a great opportunity to put the kettle on a make a cuppa 😃

shy comet
#

hahah

#

yea thats why we have a TV in the kitchen that mirrors the main tv lol

wraith temple
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thats a nice idea, how are you mirroring (and speaking of mirrors - next bigger project is the bathroom smart mirror)

shy comet
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so I use Kodi locally and Plex externally

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there is an awesome Kodi add-on called Kodi Video Mirror

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lets your master instance play on the slave instances

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works really well and its a cool party trick

proud plaza
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Bored so setting up an Earth day automation to turn off the lights at 8:30 every year on 22nd, send a notification. Wonder how can easily return state afterwards without turning all on ??

wraith temple
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@shy comet that is cool - i saw this https://getpanl.com/ and immediately wanted to build - thinking of creating a thin ish mirror, in front of the bathroom mirror - so can watch the news, check headlines, twitter when brushing teeth (max out those 2 mins lol)

PANL
PANL
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(ignoring the time it will take me to build it ha)

maiden estuary
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magic mirror not fit the build?

wraith temple
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couldnt decide if touch is a good idea or not

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only had a quick look too

maiden estuary
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for a mirror I can see it being a disaster! too many finger prints, at least in a busy household

wraith temple
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yeah - that was 1/2 my thinking, other 1/2 was smudge proof material. trying to think about a screen and how i'd interact with it without touch - i guess unless its set up the right way. but how would you watch an NBC/BBC news video from a headline say?

maiden estuary
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depends... I've got a few ideas on that and am thinking about a magic mirror build myself! I personally think the more automation in a smart home, and the less remote control, the better! On the rpi have it pick up the BLE token on your phone at a certain strength in the morning and load the news maybe?

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or a PIR on the GPIO on the pi to just pick up motion, would just need to find a stream then of the headlines and have it activate ever time it senses a change

wraith temple
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cool, i wondered if a pi camera could do face detect so if you shared mirrors, different dashboards are shown

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as quite frankly i dont care what happened to the kardasians over night lol

maiden estuary
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very wise JB! I don't see why not if you had something capable of face detection

wraith temple
maiden estuary
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If you really want a touch screen I think a fire 7 in kiosk mode is about as cheap of a suitable you can get at the minute

wraith temple
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the nest and volume is very cool

maiden estuary
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yeah, very impressive.. Years ago I have a kinect jerry-rigged up to a windows media center pc that was sort of an attempt at a Minority Report interfact.. it was just horrid

wraith temple
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ha nice

maiden estuary
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I wonder if a Leap would make an interesting control mechanism for something like that

wraith temple
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interesting idea, only seen their little puck - typically underneath a screen though - so may be in danger of getting wet

maiden estuary
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good point

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wrap it in cling film 😛

wintry crow
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Lol clingfilm actually works a treat to waterproof stuff - I used it to wrap a bathroom TV. Low voltage and had no fans so airflow wasn't an issue

maiden estuary
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either that or WD40.. solves all things water related

wintry crow
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WD40, No-nails, and duct tape. With those 3 things you can take on the world

maiden estuary
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or fix it back together

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😃

wintry crow
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Oh and silicon sealant 😄

rocky prairie
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can anyone help me out with this

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Testing configuration at /config
Failed config
General Errors:
- Component not found: customize

vague narwhal
clever mortar
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@rocky prairie It's worth reading the channel descriptions before posting 😉 Try #330944238910963714

dry cairn
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reading is a skill quickly lost nowadays

wintry crow
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random question alert: I bought a hue hub on a whim before I realised there were things like sonoff toys. Can I use my hue for anything funky, or is it a paperweight?

dry cairn
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hue scores a 10 on the funkometer no need to add more funk then it will be completely broke

wintry crow
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Hahah is it rubbish then?

dry cairn
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wel it depends on what you doing zigbee and zwave can fail due to wifi interference plus i didn t have a good experience with it i dumped zigbee and zwave and went all wifi

wintry crow
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Yeah I'd prefer WiFi all round tbh. However, being honest this is a new hobby, so the emphasis is on keeping the cost minimal until it becomes part of my natural life. Now I've found remote CH controllers that work on 868MHz hahah, need to see if there's any HA integration 😛

wintry crow
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Ohhhhh I have an old MCE remote IR blaster... Since I have dumb TVs that might be my next project, see if I can control it from HA to get it to turn my Tv on/off and change input between Youview, Roku and Chromecast

hexed herald
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hello, was planning on upgrading my 7 years old laptop, and was wondering what brand or laptop do you suggest for long term usage, and what specs (used for big data analysis and work and a little gaming). was thinking between lenovo or Dell .... Thanks 😃

clever mortar
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Both are good brands., I've used both. In either case, I'd suggest getting one that charges over USB C, and supports external video over USB C
Depending on your definition of big data, 16 GB of RAM and i7 may be what you're after (along with a large SSD)

hexed herald
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oh thank you 😃

hearty depot
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Got my problems flashing tasmota via ftdi.. any tips?

dry cairn
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connect it right

hearty depot
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Haha - Jea - its like always - when i ask it works

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but the problem is still the same

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its on, but restarts every 30 secconds with a click

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ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

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but i see it in the router

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it could be Running out of memory

dry cairn
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does it flash what you flashing

hearty depot
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Jea, flashed fine - sonoff tasmota v5.12.0

dry cairn
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you able to log in the web gui?

hearty depot
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nope

dry cairn
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k so it didn t flash right

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when you hook the ttl to it can you get the serial outpt

hearty depot
dry cairn
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thats a pain in the ass

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1 sec

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flash that

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preconfigured etc

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you gonna need the uploader lemme find it

hearty depot
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Could only flash this ota i think..

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using platformIO to flash it atm

dry cairn
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that has teh flash tool in it

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you put the bin in the same folder as the flashtool

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then you can flash it with the ttl

hearty depot
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Mhmm.. but then i cant change the SSID and stuff..

dry cairn
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after boot you hit the button on the sonoff 5 times and it will create a wifi ap you can connect to and configure wifi

hearty depot
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Aaah 😄

dry cairn
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yep tasmota has some nifty tools build in

hearty depot
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Then i just hope you dont got me a rat tool ^^

dry cairn
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pfft

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scan it

hearty depot
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nah..

dry cairn
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if you want i can give you the link for espeasy that has it

hearty depot
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nono ^^

dry cairn
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that has teh tool

hearty depot
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almost on it - also push the button when i connect it?

dry cairn
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well yeah it has to be in flash nmode

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oh 4 presses for ap mode lol

hearty depot
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Comport (example 3, 4, ..) :1
Flash Size (example 512, 1024, 4096) :486
Build (example 71, 72, ..) :

dry cairn
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flash is 1mbit

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unless you changed the flash chip

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i have a upload prog somewhere thats a lil easier just gotta find it

hearty depot
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nope.. - but no idea hot to use the exe

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text data bss dec hex filename
493683 10048 41328 545059 85123 .pioenvs\sonoff-DE\firmware.elf
Building .pioenvs\sonoff-DE\firmware.bin
Configuring upload protocol...
Looking for upload port...
Auto-detected: COM4
Uploading .pioenvs\sonoff-DE\firmware.bin
Uploading 507872 bytes from .pioenvs\sonoff-DE\firmware.bin to flash at 0x00000000
................................................................................ [ 16% ]
................................................................................ [ 32% ]

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atm at platformIO

dry cairn
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did it flash the bin file?

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i dunno anything about platformio

hearty depot
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No - i coud interact with the bat - but no point in guessing witch buttons to press

dry cairn
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lemme see if i can find a better uploader

hearty depot
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............... [ 100% ]
[SUCCESS] Took 95.11 seconds

[SUMMARY]
Environment sonoff [SKIP]
Environment sonoff-CN [SKIP]
Environment sonoff-DE [SUCCESS]
Environment sonoff-ES [SKIP]
Environment sonoff-FR [SKIP]

dry cairn
hearty depot
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but now only blinking once in a while

dry cairn
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^^^ simple as it can get

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yeah

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hit the button 4 times

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then it will start an ap

hearty depot
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got a new naibur as i see in the AP's

dry cairn
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use your phone connect to ap and configure wifi

hearty depot
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and restarting again =/

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now esp gui

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read 0, requested 1
warning: espcomm_sync failed
error: espcomm_open failed
error: espcomm_upload_mem failed

Finished with exit code -1

dry cairn
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not in flash mode

hearty depot
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yr right!

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Finished with exit code 0

dry cairn
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thats good

wintry crow
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Folks, I know Win aint supported, but anyone had any joy using an MCE blaster to control a dumb TV - via HA of course is the end goal, but first steps? I installed the drivers, installed EventGhost, which sees the keypresses on the remote, but when I try to teach it my TV remote it locks up

dry cairn
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and its discouraged to use it on win because of known breaking problems

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i'm afraid help for anything ha on win is not gonna be easy to get

hearty depot
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FUUUUUUUUCK broke the button

dry cairn
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how the fuck?

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🤦

hearty depot
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Im working in the dark - wife want to sleep and ive got phe pc in the bedroom

dry cairn
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well so its her fault

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tell her to order more

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then yo unlsolder the button and replace it

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😛

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did you break the long pin or did you shred the whole switch

wintry crow
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Well I love a challenge zombu lol

dry cairn
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thats not a challange its known broken

hearty depot
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nooooow completly in the dark...

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aaah deam

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long pin

dry cairn
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well you got 2 options get rid of the wife or move the computer

hearty depot
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but its partial working

dry cairn
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you can push the button with a pen

hearty depot
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you know, the metal plate fixed with 4 plastic.. dots

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3 are broken away - one is in place

dry cairn
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yeah i know all about those ...ask me how 😛

hearty depot
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how?

dry cairn
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i broke em off before

hearty depot
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now i know

dry cairn
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lol

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i ended up replacing em with some proper push buttons

hearty depot
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so, back in the network, but sloooow

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ah time out

dry cairn
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you gotta configure mqtt

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if mqtt is unconfigured it slows down

hearty depot
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slowed down so mutch that i cant configure mqtt

dry cairn
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reboot it

hearty depot
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so have to quit for today.. befor i have to get rid of her...

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thank you for your help!

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a lot!

dry cairn
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np

hearty depot
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up again 🕹

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Fu... I think the nonoff is broken..

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now its only getting a little hot - and not controlable what so ever

dry cairn
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serial output?

hearty depot
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connection refused? dont know what is ment by serial output

pure vine
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Who does the blog posts?

hearty depot
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got now the serial output

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but nothing special

wraith temple
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@last plaza so just getting round to building the motion from a camera + pi (and adding a push button using this https://github.com/flyte/pi-mqtt-gpio ) any thoughts on platform to record or stream video to another device/URL (possibly a video message in HA)

GitHub
flyte/pi-mqtt-gpio

pi-mqtt-gpio - Expose the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins over MQTT. Also works with external GPIO modules such as the PCF8574 chip.

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i could also just use BlueIris (as it now supports MQTT)
Pi camera -> BlueIris -> HA
button press -> MQTT -> HA
Motion from BlueIris (or pi) -> MQTT -> HA

pure vine
woeful cove
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Selling a smartthings hub v2. Hub only. Great working condition. Selling as I switched to veraplus for my external hub. PM me offers

dull summit
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@peak cloud Is there a purpose to this chat?

oak haven
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@mods can someone ban this idiot please?

dull summit
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<@&330946878646517761> help

dull chasm
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@dull summit i think same guy

dull summit
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wtf thats annoying

dull chasm
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yep kicked again

dull summit
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thank goodness

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why cant people appreciate this server properly

dull chasm
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🤷

dull summit
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omg my eyes

trail crag
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should we temp disable images/links here?

dull summit
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but what about the people who enjoy the pictures

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not those ones

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but like cool stuff

dull chasm
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its allowed in random

trail crag
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that's why I said temp

peak cloud
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High security enabled temporarily.

oak haven
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What does this mean?

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Ok found it

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Don't forget to disable phone number again^^

fallen fox
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Looks like I missed the fun. 😦

rocky prairie
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Okay trying to see if somebody can help me out with this one

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So on the device turns on and reports to homeassistant

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so when

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like this

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But when the device disconnects from the mqtt I need it to say cleared meaning to device has powered off esp8266

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Any help would be appreciated and so on the device turns on I get a detected like shown in the picture but when the device turns off it just continues to say detected I needed to say clean or no fire or no detection

pure vine
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what happened?

vale shale
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does anyone use portainer for docker?

oblique nymph
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@vale shale I do

vale shale
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ok I was just curious on who has it. Pretty awesome when paired with watchtower.

shy comet
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if you got it.....Hey Google spring into target

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probably US only 😉

foggy flint
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I'm trying to figure out how to extract api calls from a cordova angular app. It's an app to control the tv decoder via android etc... Unfortunately the remote is using RF to control the decoder so I was thinking I could write up a python script to authenticate and send commands through. However I've hit a bit of snag. In the developer toolbar the requests seems to be made through google analytics. For every keypress I get something like this: https://www.google-analytics.com/r/collect?v=1&_v=j66&a=1338806764&t=event&ni=0&_s=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.rikstv.no%2Fapp%2Fuse%2Fremote&dp=%2Fapp%2Fuse%2Fremote&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=RiksTV%20App%20-%20Styr%20din%20smartboks&sd=24-bit&sr=1792x438&vp=1792x438&je=0&ec=Fjernkontroll%20klassisk&ea=Trykk%20p%C3%A5%20knapp&el=INFO&_u=SACAAEAB~&jid=1199338602&gjid=1309829752&cid=400005654.1000468952&uid=fb5892a9c624be144b21bf3433fsdlkg8345690230ba&tid=UA-2513164-9&_gid=199000279.1522009809&_r=1&gtm=G3kPCBXDR&cd1=yes&cd7=BarnasFavoritter%2CCMoreFilm%2CCMoreSport%2CRiksPakken%2CTV2SportPremium&cd13=desktop%20app&cd14=yes&cd18=true&cd20=fb5892a9c624be144b21bf3433fef3f14f9290ba&cd10=428105654.1519468952&z=1711564863

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So it seems to be passing the requests through google-analytics unless I am missing something. Is there anyone who knows a bit about this and have any suggestions how to find out more how the api calls are made?

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If all else fails, I've successfully ran remote commands by using selenium but I don't know how nice that would wrap up as a home-assistant component.

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They don't even support and the don't want to support my logitech harmony. I've also got a broadlink rm pro but no rf signal is coming up. That's why I'm trying this approach 😃

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I've also tried to copy as curl and import it into postman to see if i could run it but it's not the correct enpoint. Probably masked somewhere I don't know.

pure vine
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TIL that my new LG TV uses pulse audio

midnight adder
normal ferry
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since this is a random chat , can I ask , are there any hardcore Xiaomi smart ecosystem users? I'd like to verify if their automations via Xiaomi's app (MiHome) send result notifications to their phones. Mine was working fine when one day it just -stopped- and I haven't received a single notification since , though all automations run just fine.

orchid rose
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Does anyone know any sonoff style switches but with dimming?

slim vortex
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@orchid rose what kind of lights do you want to dim? LED or Incandescent? The dimming process is different

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I've been tinkering with a dimmer board, but it only works with incandescents

orchid rose
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well actually either is fine

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still have both

slim vortex
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oh, didn't realize this was the random chat. Did you ask in the General channel? may be more people listening there.

orchid rose
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well it's a bit of a random question 😛

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but no I didn't

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what sort of a dimmer board?

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I currently have some RF controlled dimmers but I'd like to phase those out sooner or later for a faster, more reliable and more secure way

wintry crow
#

Guys any AppDaemon users here? I keep getting "warning appdaemon hass disconnected from home assistant"

clever mortar
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Did you read the channel description 😛

wintry crow
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It's not random enough lol?

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I'd've asked in general but it's not directly HA is it

clever mortar
wintry crow
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Ah!

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heads over there

midnight adder
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$64k shipping, still 12-21 days smh AliExpress

clever mortar
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😮

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Did you buy a few container loads of kit or something 😛

midnight adder
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Nope, it’s just a lamp lol

clever mortar
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$64K shipping on a lamp?

midnight adder
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Yup 😂

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Someone borked the shipping costs lol

dry cairn
#

thats russian rubels lol

last cradle
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LOL

wintry crow
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Arghhhh gremlins have taken my arduino

last plaza
clever mortar
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You're making a go of creating templates for all possible purposes, aren't you 😉

last plaza
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lol

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I need more scenarios, so that we can expand collection

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variables inside a loop is usually the painful part

wraith temple
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@last plaza been looking at IPTV based on your recommendation, VERY interesting!

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On a fireTV too

shy comet
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IPTV is awesome who r u guys using?

dry cairn
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beams-tv

last plaza
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@wraith temple I don't recall recommending IPTV 😃 I'm curious what you got going there!

serene mortar
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@dry cairn How do you pay for it?

dull chasm
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i bet with money

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🤣

last plaza
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he is an ISP - bandwidth and the channels are free for him

serene mortar
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channels cannot be free

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may be channels are free as well

dry cairn
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create an account on their site

shy comet
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you guys should look into Vader Streams 😉

last plaza
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vader streams is free?

shy comet
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naw they charge but you get a lot of channels from all over the world including all PPV and EVERY.SINGLE.SPORT.

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almost 700 english speaking channels not including sports

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canada, uk and us and like 40 other countries too i think

midnight adder
#

hey gus, a bit offtopic question - do anyone of you know a good client-side free anti-spam solution that kinder intercepts between isp and a pop3/imap client ?

clever mortar
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I think most of the major AV products do that in their paid version. For free once upon a time I ran fetchmail to retrieve remote email, passed it through a local SMTP server with spamassassin and then would point the mail client at the local IMAP/POP server

devout crown
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@shy comet How long have you been using vaderstreams? I've considered it but am a little wary of it not working during 'big' games

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would hate to have ppl over for a game and have the stream crap out

shy comet
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i am actually using MyStreams which is a Vader Streams reseller. Originally it was part of SmoothStreams and I had them for almost a year. New service is much better

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to be hosnet you have to put up with streams crapping out

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taht happens with all services

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cable's $100 tax is purely for stability IMO

devout crown
#

I do think having all those channels, even if they

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're spotty is amazing

shy comet
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its been getting better but all these services have that issue

devout crown
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there was a movie in the 90s about infinite cable channels and it never came to be, always wanted something like these services and there is no legit way to pay for that level of service

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trade offs 😃

shy comet
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yea exactly

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im not that big on sports and if the show/movie is important to me I have other means to get it lol

devout crown
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not a big believer in piracy taking money out of the mouths of anyone. For years my friends have known I probably saw a movie or show before they did and have asked me for recommendations

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they buy the media and I send them to get it lol a tastemaker of sorts

shy comet
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ahah

dry cairn
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you not taking anything from them they already got paid through ads may it be in movies or tv shows

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all they do is double or tripple dipping