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grand marlin
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right

tame moss
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haha

grand marlin
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never really took the time tbh

tame moss
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its this

grand marlin
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I've got quite of bit of scripting and stuff under my belt, but never really cared for web design

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there you go

tame moss
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on my way to edit my theme! hahaah

grand marlin
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coworker of mine is going to school for digital marketing and asked me today if I thought "web design" would be a good elective

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that was a tough recommendation for me to make lol but it makes sense for her anyways ๐Ÿ˜…

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we prob should've been here the whole time lmao

tame moss
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web design is tough

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maybe thats just me though im not very creative ๐Ÿ˜›

grand marlin
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I should probably take web design as well eventually

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it may be part of my degree later on, idr

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I'm software engineering BA

tame moss
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home assistant wont start now LOL

grand marlin
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๐Ÿ˜ฌ

tame moss
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oh god what did i do

grand marlin
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lmao

tame moss
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OOOO its rounded now!

grand marlin
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๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

tame moss
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i dont have a proper image editor installed so i had to make a bunch of rectangles hahaha

grand marlin
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you mentioned your lovelace getting kinda bogged down... I've especially noticed that on our wall-mounted kindle

tame moss
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welll...

grand marlin
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I need to simplify lol

tame moss
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its more me being SUPER busy with work and not having enough time to keep up with HASS

grand marlin
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right

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totally get that

tame moss
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like if you look in the media card in the right that icon has been broken for so long LOL

grand marlin
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I really should be doing homework instead of being here lmao

tame moss
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they removed one of the mdi icons in an update

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and i just havent fixed it yet

grand marlin
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if you haven't seen these

tame moss
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wait thats weird

grand marlin
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just gives more icon options

tame moss
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that used to be the mdi:playstation

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but my actual playstation integration still has an icon

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thats...weird

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ohhh i see

grand marlin
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could be bundled with the integration

tame moss
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its now mdi:sony-playstation not mdi:playstation

grand marlin
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ah there you go

tame moss
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why they renamed it i dunno

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but yeah like i said im super busy

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none of my wyze contact sensors work

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and it saddens me i dont have time to figure it out

grand marlin
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oof

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how do you have them integrated right now?

tame moss
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well i think the sensors them self broke, actually LOL

grand marlin
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also, do they actually work? I've had a contact and motion one die recently yeah

tame moss
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like slowly the sensors would just keep breaking

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replacing battery didnt doa nything

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no red led

grand marlin
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yep, it's a known issue

tame moss
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im pissed off

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i went and put them all into my house

grand marlin
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call wyze

tame moss
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and support basically told me ๐Ÿ˜‘

grand marlin
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I did and they agreed to send replacements for these

tame moss
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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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well there was an issue

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i couldnt find my reciept anywhere

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and i gave them the mac and serial number but they didnt acce[t it

grand marlin
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their new ones are up for preorder, but you've gotta buy into their home monitoring system for at least one month

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just to get the hub to make them work

tame moss
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wtf?

grand marlin
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I actually ordered those lmao

tame moss
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ooohhh its a monitering service

grand marlin
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yeah, the hub is only available as part of the home monitoring "core kit"

tame moss
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i thought it was a subscription service like nest

grand marlin
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yeah

tame moss
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i was about to say i thought wyze was against that

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thats actually pretty neat

grand marlin
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it's... fine

tame moss
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does that hub work with hass?

grand marlin
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I don't intend on renewing my subscription if I can get them working

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nobody owns one yet, to have made it work

tame moss
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so i actually have a theory

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i was reading all over the place

grand marlin
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but I am praying the dev behind wyzesense2mqtt can update pretty quickly

tame moss
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and even the manual states to not let the battery go low on the sensors

grand marlin
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correct

tame moss
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my theory is that home assistant integration isnt properly reporting the battery level

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and we are letting them get too low

grand marlin
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yep

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pretty much exactly what's up

tame moss
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they are requesting too much voltage or not getting enough of it and something breaks

grand marlin
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basically if the battery dies, their firmware wipes itself

tame moss
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thats my assumption

grand marlin
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to my understanding

tame moss
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well you can easily pop the battery out

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and the firmware is fine

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but if it gets too low

grand marlin
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right, I'm not sure how that works out

tame moss
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it has to be some sort of hardware issue

grand marlin
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when I called wyze I threw a nice fit over them selling me defective hardware

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it is

tame moss
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and even if we arent using them as recommended its still wyze's issue

grand marlin
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they quit selling them entirely and clearanced the starter packs that included them

tame moss
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their hardware shouldnt break on low voltage loads

tame moss
grand marlin
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yep

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I bought into a bunch JUST before that

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I actually picked up two clearances starter kits not realizing that was probably why

tame moss
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its unfortunate because its pretty badass hardware

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its rf so technically long battery life

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but we all know how that went

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and it was super cheap

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when they worked they worked SUPER well

grand marlin
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yep

tame moss
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is there any alternative atm?

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they also were incredibly tiny

grand marlin
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there's alternatives, but nothing I'm really excited about

tame moss
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i mean it just sucks because i spent like $100 putting bulbs in my closets to get automatic lights

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and now they are just useless

grand marlin
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prob best alternative imo are the aqara ones, but they're zigbee and not as "aesthetic" imo

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ohhh contact

tame moss
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yeah ive seen those and had the same thoughts

grand marlin
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im actually not sure best for those

tame moss
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i mean before i was using esp32's in a 3d printed enclosure

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but i was burning through cr2032 batteries

grand marlin
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luckily only one of my contact ones has gone bad... I've got them in all my doors and windows ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

tame moss
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i mean burning through them like nuts

grand marlin
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ohhh I bet

night zodiac
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I use sengled's door sensors and they're pretty much the same size as wyzesense

tame moss
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oooo!

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that sounds promising

grand marlin
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zigbee?

night zodiac
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yeah

grand marlin
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right

tame moss
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@grand marlin did you preorder month or year

night zodiac
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wyzesense weren't great with range anyways

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did they release a gen 2?

tame moss
grand marlin
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$35 for a 2pk

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I did month since I don't plan on keeping it active

tame moss
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sengled what is this company

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it seems cool

grand marlin
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@night zodiac up for preorder

tame moss
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very similar to hue

grand marlin
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I shared a link a bit above ^

tame moss
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oh speaking of hue

grand marlin
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I have sengled bulbs in our bedrooms

tame moss
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im disgusted by them

grand marlin
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unfortunately they seem to be the only bulbs that don't act as routers lmao

night zodiac
tame moss
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the new hue remote is absolute trash

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who thought it was a good idea to slap the word hue on it

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if having the word philips on all of my light switches wasnt already annoying enough

grand marlin
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@night zodiac they have a new hub, only available for sale as part of the home monitoring system, which you can only get by subscribing for at least one month

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but the kit also comes with a couple sensors and a "wyzesense keypad"

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not sure exactly how that will interact with stuff besides the sensors though

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if at all

tame moss
grand marlin
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the hub could be zigbee, we don't know yet for sure

night zodiac
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yeah, I'll just stick to zigbee. it's proven.

grand marlin
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my research so far, all the links there are at least somewhat informative

tame moss
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ive been wanting to pick up more wyze stuff but they always seem too good to be true

grand marlin
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tbf I haven't had ANY issues with any of the other stuff

tame moss
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ive been very interested in their wyze watch

grand marlin
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I've got four plugs, three bulbs, two cam v2's and two pans

tame moss
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as an android user who drools over the apple watch

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its a nice alternative

grand marlin
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wait, six plugs

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they launched their vacuum like two days after I bought a roomba lmao

night zodiac
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you bought the brand roomba? ouch

grand marlin
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lol we love it

night zodiac
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jk, they have some nicer premium models but I like the roborock I have

grand marlin
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I wish I'd waited a second and spring for a more premium one though

tame moss
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no offense to roomba but yeah those roborocks and irobots are nice

grand marlin
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we have the 960, was clearance when we got it lmao

tame moss
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it seems like roomba is kinda a household name and roborock kinda gets glanced over

grand marlin
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but $300 out the door so good enough until it dies

tame moss
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i mean you ask even your grandma about robot vaccuums and they will say "oh the roomba?"

grand marlin
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my grandma had the first roomba lmao

tame moss
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hahaha

night zodiac
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the roborock I bought in november is $150 cheaper now

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wtf

grand marlin
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probably got it off QVC lmfao

tame moss
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man qvc

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that place

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needs to burn

grand marlin
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this one is basically just enough to clean our 2br

night zodiac
grand marlin
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it sometimes dies on its way back to the dock after finishing it's job lol

night zodiac
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lollll

grand marlin
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and it doesn't empty itself

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but it's fine

tame moss
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im hoenstly surprised qvc is still around

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and not eaten up by amazon and the likes

night zodiac
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mine doesn't empty itself but it works extremely fucking well

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it leaves the sexiest lines on the carpet

tame moss
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WAIT they can empty themselves?

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your kidding me

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oh my gosh that completely changes the game

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i have 2 dogs that shed like crazy and i thought i would be doing nothing but constantly emptying the thing

night zodiac
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well you'll be untangling the brush instead

tame moss
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yeahhh

night zodiac
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jk, I don't have pets but what I have read is the roborock brushes are really good about not getting stuck on pet hair and moves it into the bin

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Idk though

tame moss
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oh it looks fine

night zodiac
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with pets, you want the roborock anyways because it uses AI to avoid stuffs

tame moss
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my dyson has the same brush

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and it doesnt get tangled

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this is what the dyson has

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which looks similar to the roborock

wet pilot
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dyson vac's, they suck more than anything!

tame moss
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oh back to hyperion @grand marlin oh my gosh i recently moved from adalight to wled

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literally all my issues are solved

night zodiac
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wled so fancy

tame moss
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i never knew you could do it with wled

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and with like 15 minutes i solved all my issues

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flashed it onto an esp8266 and put it in my setup

tame moss
wet pilot
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so do i ๐Ÿ™‚

tame moss
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my first impressions when buying it were "wow, so vaccuuming can be fun!"

grand marlin
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tbf my roomba is the absolute easiest to clean vacuum I've ever owned

tame moss
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yeah my next plan is a robot vacuum sucky boi

grand marlin
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takes like 30 seconds, and I live with two constantly shedding ladies lmao

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wled is so frickin good

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sr-wled is better than ledfx imo as well, but I only have an esp8266 for now, so it can't run all the effects

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need an esp32 for some of them, one day I'll upgrade

tame moss
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THERES MORE EFFECTS?

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I just used it on a spare esp8266 maybe ill have to swap in for the 32

grand marlin
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well

tame moss
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i KNEW wled existed but i never knew it worked with hyperion

grand marlin
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sr-wled is a fork that can take audio input for sound reactive effects

tame moss
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i was poking around with my wled bed lights last night and was like WAIT theres a hyperion setting

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ohhh

grand marlin
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it's JUST as easy to flash, but needs an audio input circuit

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you can use a microphone breakout board or wire up a 3.5mm input circuit

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that's what I did, the 3.5mm

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audio out from my matrix into it

tame moss
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oooo

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what are you doing for sound reactive stuff?

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i meant are you using it in addition to your ambilight

grand marlin
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I have my esp8266, rpi0, and that audio circuit all crammed in a soap dish duct taped behind my tv lmao

tame moss
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haha

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i played the risky game

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no case

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and its RIGHT next to my metal tv mount

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๐Ÿ˜Ž

grand marlin
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yeah, I pretty much only use it when people are over, to do cool lights with spotify

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which... hasn't been happening much because of the vid lmao

tame moss
grand marlin
tame moss
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spy the esp8266

grand marlin
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that was posted before I went for sr-led though

tame moss
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since i dropped in from a arduino uno to a esp8266 i couldnt solder without taking my tv down so i had to use jumper wires

grand marlin
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so it was just using ledfx running alongside hyperion on the rpi0

tame moss
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oh snap the esp8266 fits in that soap dish

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in fact

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i actually have one of those hahaha

grand marlin
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and it was velcroed but the velcro kept coming off, box would sag, lights go offline, etc

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I finally duct taped it for good measure just last night lol

tame moss
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wow your setup is nice

grand marlin
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lol thanks

tame moss
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and yeah i have that exact soap dish same color too lol

grand marlin
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target?

tame moss
tame moss
tame moss
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you got the pallets

grand marlin
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lmao good man

tame moss
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ill have to play more with that github link you sent me

grand marlin
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it's all there

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a bit sloppy though imo

tame moss
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i mean i dont care what the back of the tv looks like

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i just want something thats safe

grand marlin
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like i said, now I've got sr-wled so i need to prune out all the ledfx stuff

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ah, the code I mean

tame moss
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and im not going to have to worry about waking up in the middle of the night with the smoke detector going off because the esp8266 touched the metal tv mount

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after typing that out i should probabyl fix that

grand marlin
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I get errors in HA log all the time from it lmao

tame moss
grand marlin
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well thanks

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there's some stuff in wled.yaml, where sensors read other sensors and stuff, which causes some hiccups, but it works for the most part

tame moss
grand marlin
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that color wheel card actually comes with an effects drop-down, which works great

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I just wanted them all to look consistent, so I had to make the inputs update themselves and whatnot

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and I almost never use the controls in the "match tv colors" card, but it looks nice ๐Ÿ˜Ž lol

tame moss
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i think the emulated hub is bugging out my hass install

grand marlin
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the way my house is, I use my ambilight as a subtle "nightlight" in the living room. whenever I walk through the hallway, it turns on for 30s triggered by a wyze motion sensor

tame moss
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like random cards are breaking

grand marlin
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that way I can get some light in the mornings without waking everyone up lol

tame moss
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thats AWESOME

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wow

grand marlin
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even runs a nice effect lol

tame moss
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im working on setting up under led lights and sectioning off the left and right side of the bed

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and getting a bed sensor

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i saw people using the capactive sensor on the esp32 and a sheet of foil

grand marlin
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or kid walks through to our room, etc

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sure

tame moss
grand marlin
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try it lmao

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ngl I'm really enjoying our time together tonight boys lol

night zodiac
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I have a night light for all of my rooms as well. I just set up an automation for my girlfriend getting ready in the morning. if I am asleep, she has 5 seconds to get into the closet so the light doesn't shine on me, lol

grand marlin
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lmfao

tame moss
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WOAH

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OK

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I SEE THE ISSUE

night zodiac
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sir, your cpu is die

grand marlin
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lmao it's over 9000

tame moss
tame moss
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its straight up not having a good time

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why is my cpu so angry

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wow yeah thats not good

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im going to reboot virtualbox....

tame moss
night zodiac
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yeah, that seems more like an issue

grand marlin
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lol how do you check cpu usage on linux, anyone?

tame moss
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this is windows

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with virtualbox

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because i needed blue iris on this system

grand marlin
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i know, i'm curious what mine is at lol

tame moss
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oh in linux use htop

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just type htop

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ok apparently xbox is on my server

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i like that

grand marlin
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ah nope lol damn coreelec ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

tame moss
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thanks windows 10 very cool

night zodiac
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why is that your server, lol

grand marlin
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that's a whole other issue

tame moss
grand marlin
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pfft

tame moss
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what you got under that hood? amlogic?

grand marlin
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my HA box was my kodi box until i found home assistant

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then it was both

tame moss
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same lmaooo

grand marlin
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now i hardly ever use kodi, and it's still coreelec

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i got f*ck all for linux functionality lmao

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odroid N2

tame moss
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i had a pi running libreelec, got a odroid c2 for coreelec and put hass on the pi, then got a c4 for coreelec, got home assistant on the c2 but it out grew to a hp elitedesk thin client

night zodiac
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I meant windows 10

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for server

grand marlin
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whenever i have a while to mess with it im going to end up migrating to debian, but NOT looking forward to downing my whole house for however long

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i have an rpi4, which i actually got in order to be for HA, but the sd card is WAAAAY slower than my emmc in my n2

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performance is garbage

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could probably get an emmc or better sd

night zodiac
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yeah, nobody here would really suggest an sdcard. I use SSD with mine and they're fine

grand marlin
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but the n2 is def powerful enough for me

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without investing more into it

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oh i guess i can check cpu in coreelec lmao

tame moss
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pfft

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PFFT

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debian

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dietpi >

tame moss
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i was going to get the n2 but settled for the c4 as i didnt think i need the extra power for kodi

grand marlin
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lol my use isn't too bad

tame moss
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i have too many servers for my usage, i need to simplify but it involves downing my house

grand marlin
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not > 100% lmao

night zodiac
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I've been looking at making an extremely overpowered mini pc with one of these things that has a ton of NICs

tame moss
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i have an xu4 for my nas and other misc software like squeezebox

night zodiac
tame moss
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but home assistant refused to work on it for some software issue i couldnt figure out

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and i needed blue iris too

grand marlin
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whenever my Coral gets here, i'm gonna use the rpi4 for frigate with that

tame moss
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so i got a hp elite desk for $50

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and put windows 10 + blue iris + virtualbox on it with hassos

grand marlin
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and probably offload a few other things

tame moss
grand marlin
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i'm not running as much as some people by any means, but i've got

CONTAINER ID        NAME                CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT    MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O           PIDS
68ab1e482f48        zigbee2mqtt         0.02%               47.42MiB / 3.62GiB   1.28%               0B / 0B             0B / 0B             22
28f0f159ae43        homeassistant       3.25%               326.2MiB / 3.62GiB   8.80%               0B / 0B             0B / 0B             92
b2dad61c11f4        frigate             61.77%              488.3MiB / 3.62GiB   13.17%              22.7GB / 1.28GB     0B / 0B             298
8e0810bdf953        mosquitto           0.10%               2.543MiB / 3.62GiB   0.07%               72.8MB / 29MB       0B / 0B             1
98158ed13361        wyzesense2mqtt      0.50%               9.379MiB / 3.62GiB   0.25%               3.46MB / 588kB      0B / 0B             4
95be2bf15d94        swag                0.49%               29.24MiB / 3.62GiB   0.79%               3.41MB / 549kB      0B / 0B             27
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running in docker

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frigate being the worst offender obviously

tame moss
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bit of a insider secret

grand marlin
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with a coral though, that'll drop signifcantly

tame moss
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a lot of vendors are upgrading their old elite desk's that had the 6th gen processor

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ebay is flooded with them

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for cheap

grand marlin
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maybe i won't even need to change much

night zodiac
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I want all of the NICs

tame moss
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oh you need multiple nics

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that makes sense

night zodiac
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not really need but I like them a lot

tame moss
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that thin elite desk is a matx motherboard which they use in their full size elite desks

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meaning

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it has a pcie port

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you might have to mod the case but theres pcie on the board lol

tame moss
night zodiac
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I just like to be able to give vm's their own IP and keep my configs pretty normal

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"normal"

tame moss
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i mean like look at this

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$115

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will beat any SBC on the market in that price range

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only downside is higher power usage

night zodiac
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I want to move all of my stuff off of the pis, nas, and server to one machine running exsi and probably will

tame moss
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so weird question

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i wish i knew what software he was using

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how hard would it be to add a led strip to a soundbar with hyperion

night zodiac
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uhh

tame moss
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because thats a super neat idea

night zodiac
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I feel like that person is in this discord and I have seen them link pictures of it

tame moss
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oooo

night zodiac
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yeah, that

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wow, I remembered a whole fucking thing

tame moss
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@alpine spear how did you get the soundbar like that

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like i imagine adding a led strip to hyperion it would scale to the number of leds?

wet pilot
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yeah, i'm looking for a good bar that's wall mountable

tame moss
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but you can clearly see it ends exactly where it does on the main led strip

wet pilot
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they don't seem to do that

tame moss
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maybe its just a illusion

night zodiac
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I feel like mine came with mounts but I didn't use them

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let me double check

tame moss
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i have a vizio sb36512

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best soundbar on the market in that price range

wet pilot
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those ambient lights. i really want to do that but i don't want to put in the work ๐Ÿ˜„

tame moss
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mounts beautifully on the wall

night zodiac
wet pilot
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boo out of stock as its out dated

night zodiac
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buy Hue Sync then, that is what I did, lmao

wet pilot
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haha

tame moss
wet pilot
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its for the MBR tv though so i don't need anything too crazy

tame moss
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hahaha

wet pilot
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have a component system for the living room already

night zodiac
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oh, it isn't that much, lol

tame moss
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their gradiant soundbar and playbar and hdmi matrix is a ripoff

night zodiac
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the couch is finally coming after months of waiting so I'm going to move sync box to living room and buy a phat tv

tame moss
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maybe this is heavily personal opinion

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but like

alpine spear
tame moss
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i feel like hues solution is flashy and kinda like fast and the furious in a way

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hyperion is like actual accent lighting

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hi tyler i love your setup!!!

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oh really thats all you did?

night zodiac
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the accent lighting works well for me

tame moss
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ugh that involves dropping the tv down again to get the wire over ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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also @alpine spear whats strips are you using?

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i have ws2812b's but mine never look like that

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i think people are using those sk6812 ones now?

grand marlin
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wow those look neat

tame moss
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i swear i see videos that look really good and they never use the same leds as i do

night zodiac
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I just did some in my kitchen that I will probably redo

tame moss
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and then i see videos that look kinda meh and they use the ws2812b's like i do

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holy crap

night zodiac
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I need to do diffusers

tame moss
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i thought they were like $200 didnt know they were $300

tame moss
grand marlin
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eventually i think i'll change these strips for sk6812s

tame moss
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https://youtu.be/KEe0O23WZU8?t=368

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Intermit.Tech
๐Ÿ’กQuinLED๐Ÿ’ก 12v SK6812 RGBW and 96LEDs/m in a Neon Rope Sleeve

Today we're taking a look at 2 different types of LED strip, the first is SK6812 RGBW but then in 12v, it turns out to be very interesting and has the lowest power usage of 12v addressable LED strips I have tested! Then we're also taking a look at a 5v addressable LED neon sleeve, this gives a great and diffused effect making a lot of patterns l...

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wet pilot
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hyperion seems cool but how do you feed it the screen data?

tame moss
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those "neon ropes" are INSANE

tame moss
grand marlin
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those are rgbw or rgbcct?

wet pilot
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hmm, interesting

grand marlin
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sk6812

tame moss
grand marlin
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yeah those ropes are neat

tame moss
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BUT

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hyperion doesnt support rgbw

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so atm its useless

grand marlin
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ohh

night zodiac
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do they have nice connectors?

wet pilot
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so if you use smart tv apps you're screwed but if you use external you're golden

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might have found me a new project XD

night zodiac
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I just use wled

grand marlin
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mine are ws2812b, don't really give faithful whites

wet pilot
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inb4 murdered by wifu

tame moss
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ive seen those ropes before in a house and i was blown away

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im looking at getting some for myself

grand marlin
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yeah they look dope

night zodiac
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quad suggested them and I bet his look nice

grand marlin
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and would really like to go to 60/m, these are only 30/m

tame moss
tame moss
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i knew before buying my ws2812 i should have gotten 60 and should have gotten sk6812's

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but for some reason i went with ws2812

grand marlin
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another user and i were troubleshooting with that hyperion grabber app a few weeks ago, could never get it working

wet pilot
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all good, i have a NV shield that i could direct the wife to use

grand marlin
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lol it was for money, ssame as me lmao

tame moss
wet pilot
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just have to train away from the Sammy software

tame moss
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iirc it was money and seemed like a pain in the ass to power inject them

grand marlin
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either way, time for me to watch tv lmao

tame moss
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my ws2812b is running around a 55" tv with no flickering

grand marlin
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same... ish

tame moss
grand marlin
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i get some minor flickering now and then, but nothing distracting

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shoot

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i'll have my phone

tame moss
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when your tv goes to a dark scene does your leds turn off or do they turn kinda red?

tame moss
grand marlin
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mine turn off

tame moss
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ugh

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i cant figure that out

grand marlin
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gets dark as hell in here lmao

tame moss
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mine turn very dark red

grand marlin
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that's... odd

tame moss
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ive messed with the gamma settings

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can never figure it out

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i even turned the red down

grand marlin
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I haven't messed with those, so not sure

tame moss
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still have that issue

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oh i definitely recommend messing with it once you got the time

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at least the gamma

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i didnt for a couple of months and was blown away when i fixed it

grand marlin
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I've done no color calibration, only some with signal detection, or else I get "no signal" bars displayed as rainbow stripes on my wall lmao

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interesting

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maybe I'll have a play... just more accurate colors then?

tame moss
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dont really play with color calibration

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just tune those gamma values

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its incredibly simple and that .1 decibel change does a lot

grand marlin
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hmm, maybe I can get whites to not be so blue

tame moss
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i matched them with my tv so you might not be able to copy my values but yeah

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unless you have a tv that gets bright as crap like i do lol

grand marlin
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but if I turn blue up for example, my blues won't be so blue ๐Ÿ˜ซ

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like the disney+ splash is incredible lmao

tame moss
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dont turn it up

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turn it down

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reread that image snippet i sent

wet pilot
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lol just got wife approval

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so i guess i gotta buy stuffs now

tame moss
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trust me i got confused tuning it too

tame moss
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it makes that sound going from left surround to center to right surround

grand marlin
tame moss
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right

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turn it down

grand marlin
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yeah

tame moss
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so .9 to turn up blue

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assuming it was at 1.0

alpine spear
grand marlin
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mine were all 1.5 by default

alpine spear
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Ws2812b is what I have

tame moss
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thank you so much for the diagram!

tame moss
alpine spear
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No problem! I just made it because people have been asking

tame moss
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next time i drop the tv down ill have to run that soundbar wire

grand marlin
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I'll fiddle

alpine spear
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Iโ€™m planning on making a how to video, Iโ€™m an electrician so itโ€™ll be more focused on wiring techniques.

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Iโ€™m hoping to have it done this week. Iโ€™ve had a lot of crazy stuff come up lately

tame moss
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i have a hue led strip running along my desk and it actually works really well but unfortunately its not addressable

tame moss
night zodiac
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which color tastes best

tame moss
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ive shown your setup to so many people haha

grand marlin
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@night zodiac purple imo

alpine spear
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Thanks!

night zodiac
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I get memed on about my purple fixation

tame moss
night zodiac
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been a few years since I've rewatched it

tame moss
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i think her name is marie

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but shes obssesed with the color purple

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i rewatched it last year and i noticed literally everything is purple

alpine spear
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๏ฟผOne thing to pay attention to is how many LEDs would be on the sound bar. Say itโ€™s 100. You would count 50 LEDs over, from the TV bottom LED strip, and add the data wire there.

grand marlin
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oh yeah right

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I forgot about that

tame moss
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ooo yeah thats a good point

alpine spear
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That way it will line up perfectly for the two strips animation

grand marlin
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those gamma settings really do make a difference, damn

alpine spear
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Iโ€™ve done so many try and redoโ€™s with this lol

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Everyone is going to have it easy from my video, haha. I redid my lights probably 10 times.

tame moss
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you may notice you turned up or down a setting too much or certain scenes

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youll be playing with it all night haha ๐Ÿ˜›

wet pilot
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giggity

tame moss
wet pilot
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uhh huh

tame moss
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ight im tripping out

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i played this

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my leds turned off

alpine spear
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I use the unofficial prismatik fork btw for my Ambilight.

tame moss
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ohhh you dont use hyperion?

alpine spear
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I donโ€™t know much about coding, and didnโ€™t want to get into Hyperion. I had found prismatik and it was easy, and worked lol

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Prismatik seems easy to what I see in your photos above

tame moss
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ah ya nothing wrong with that

alpine spear
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Itโ€™s on my PC, I can use Steam link to stream video to my TV

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But I might use my MacBook or this mini pc to run it close to my TV to avoid wireless.

wet pilot
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coding is nothing to be afraid of ๐Ÿ™‚

alpine spear
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I also got an HDMI splitter, and screen grabber to play with for this tutorial. Trying to get the Xbox and Switch integrated

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Yeah, I learned a little, but Iโ€™ve been using all my time to learn woodworking to build some cool furniture with electronics, and LEDโ€™s

grand marlin
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at least it doesn't reboot the whole shebang when I change hyperion settings lmao

alpine spear
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Too much to learn, not enough time hahaha

tame moss
alpine spear
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Trying to learn vector art to design a logo and stuff for my YouTube and side business. Iโ€™m draw friend of mine for practice lol

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wet pilot
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that's kinda cool

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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

tame moss
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thats awesome

wet pilot
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kinda borderline for this server

alpine spear
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Haha thanks

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lol

wet pilot
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i can't encourage here

tame moss
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wdym?

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i thought this was like a whatever chat

wet pilot
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we do have rules and we try to keep it SFW

tame moss
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uh

wet pilot
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modding while drunk is hard

tame moss
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i wouldnt say its nsfw

wet pilot
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hence "borderline"

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also #afterdark

alpine spear
night zodiac
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lol, I went to a different channel for a while because girlfriend is drinking in here with me and not trying to explainz

tame moss
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that link doesnt work for me phnx

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is that a special mod channel

night zodiac
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I used to redraw vector stuff for a living and hate it now

tame moss
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gib access

wet pilot
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it's not a link ๐Ÿ˜›

alpine spear
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Yeah itโ€™s kinda boring

night zodiac
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I just did it like 40 hours a week on someone elses schedule

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if it was more relaxed probably a lot more fun

alpine spear
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But I have a Wacom tablet, and about to start drawing with Krita

night zodiac
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the most fun of it was the stuff we did with the graphics

wet pilot
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wifu just picked up one of those

night zodiac
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wrapping racecars and boats and shit

wet pilot
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noice

alpine spear
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Do any of you stream on twitch or anything

wet pilot
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i kinda wanna commission a hololive type avatar of my wife so she can do a stream of that for her students

alpine spear
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Just curious about designing overlays

wet pilot
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she teaches remote right now

tame moss
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i love learning about my harmony remote!!!!!

night zodiac
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I have worked with some large twitch streamers

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I'm a twitch mod for some large streamers, nerd alert

tame moss
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oh god

night zodiac
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I have made some overlays

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I made an overlay that synced the pictures with lights in the room

tame moss
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@night zodiac be like

night zodiac
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svg overlay that synced to Hue lights

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I love that video

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I posted it in a discord channel

alpine spear
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Do you just make whatever vector stuff, at 1080x1920, then overlay it with OBS or something?

night zodiac
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I made a website and overlayed the website shit but pretty much, yeah

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I positioned with css and stuffs

wet pilot
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lol y'all aren't that bad but still ๐Ÿ”จ

night zodiac
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hrmm, for some reason that hue overlay project isn't on my github

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second

alpine spear
tame moss
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STOP TYLER

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YOUR MAKING ME JEALOUS

night zodiac
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a video of my kitchen from a few days ago

tame moss
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lol

wet pilot
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lol angle there makes it look like your spacing is off

night zodiac
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nobody liked it, lol

wet pilot
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<nobody liked this>

tame moss
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issue is it is centered

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but i have so many varying factors

wet pilot
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hey

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hey

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at least i call out why

tame moss
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you cant tell with my setup though

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hang on

wet pilot
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Distance is an illusion

alpine spear
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I have OCD with layout, level and centering

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Iโ€™m a union electrician, and have set a lot of really expensive equipment and transformers. It has to be dead on lol

tame moss
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this is actually a better image

night zodiac
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I used to also hang signs when I did vinyl/svg shit. that gets tricky when the ground isn't level, lol

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some shit can look really fucky ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

last cedar
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@night zodiac whatever floats your goat tbh. But far overdone for my taste ๐Ÿ˜‚

tame moss
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but because the monitor is angeled towards me it gives off a off ceentered vibe

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same with the middle monitor because my desk kinda bows in a little

alpine spear
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The dewalt auto level laser is a life and time saver

tame moss
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my tv is also angeled down so i can sit in my bed but it again makes everything looked off centered

night zodiac
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I have it a bit exaggerated for video but I have it on music mode quite a bit

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ever since

alpine spear
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Vertical, or horizontal lasers, or both at the same time

tame moss
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messed up a small bit on installing a switch and adjusted it, but you could see a VERY small hole of drywall on the bottom

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client saw it

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had to patch the wall

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and painted

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god

wet pilot
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i still need to cut a hole behind my center channel to hide that cable

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mounted above the tv

tame moss
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the hole was so small literally got a fucking paint brush to paint the new drywall

wet pilot
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i've posted before and got massive shit for it

last cedar
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Center above? What kind of monster are you!

wet pilot
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if LR below, center goes above

last cedar
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๐Ÿ˜‚

tame moss
alpine spear
tame moss
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i have 4 holes in the wall and everything goes to that bottom mess of cables below the desk

wet pilot
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uhh i have -10 to observe right now

tame moss
night zodiac
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wow, I made this overlay Hue light sync in 2017, wild

alpine spear
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I was thinking about something like that

last cedar
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LR should be to the left and right though :P

alpine spear
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I saw people make fake skylights with them too

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Frame it with wood

night zodiac
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Tyler, I seent that.

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pretty neat

wet pilot
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relation to tv. if LR below screen C needs to be above

tame moss
wet pilot
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nuuu

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don't need more shit

tame moss
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DM IT

wet pilot
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nuuu

tame moss
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I SENT MY SETUP

night zodiac
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welp, I found the code for the overlay and it wasn't worth finding. lol

wet pilot
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also room is a wreck 'cause baby

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well, 2yo but still

last cedar
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Under 18 is baby

wet pilot
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lol

last cedar
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Over 18 is adult

wet pilot
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heh thanks for the delete

tame moss
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np

last cedar
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Nooo, looked good

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Why delete ๐Ÿ˜

tame moss
wet pilot
#

being nice to me

night zodiac
wet pilot
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i appreciate it

night zodiac
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same. drinking with girl right now, lol

tame moss
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it wasnt even bad

night zodiac
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not trying to explain conversation

last cedar
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But you need more shit, because of your high c channel

wet pilot
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still tho

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i appreciate

night zodiac
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STILL

wet pilot
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โค๏ธ

night zodiac
#

<5

wet pilot
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lol

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proof of booz lvl

tame moss
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im deploying another home assistant install for a friend

wet pilot
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lol GL HF DD

tame moss
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debating on using a x86 computer or a home assistant blue

wet pilot
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x86

night zodiac
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I started my father's install 6 months ago

wet pilot
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in docker

tame moss
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i already have an x86 computer to use

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but i want home assistant blue for the simplicity

night zodiac
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barely did anything to it

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he has fucking satellite internet though. super frustrating

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I need spacex internet

tame moss
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INTERNET GO BRRRRRR

night zodiac
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my mother goes through their quota instantly and then they're throttled for 25 days

tame moss
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i wish i could send a video @grand marlin i got the harmony automation working awesome with wled

wet pilot
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lol

tame moss
night zodiac
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if it was an option they would, lol

wet pilot
#

is sitting here with 2 internet providers for a total of 1.4G

tame moss
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ahh

tame moss
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that was a reference to that video, was just a joke* ๐Ÿ˜›

night zodiac
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my gigabit is solid

wet pilot
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nah, wfh and got screwed by one when a line was cut

tame moss
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im jelly i want gigabyte

wet pilot
#

not letting that happen again'

last cedar
wet pilot
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those p2p downloads tho

tame moss
#

mans ballsy

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center channel with a cat and no grill

grand marlin
#

sweet

wet pilot
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haha

last cedar
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The claws got stuck in grill

grand marlin
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@tame moss I've got another one, gimme a min

tame moss
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dont tell ma

wet pilot
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lol

last cedar
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Because anything made of fabric is a scratching poat. Apparently

wet pilot
#

i prune that out more these days

night zodiac
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I need to torrent more

tame moss
#

my vizio soundbar is a fabric grill and i hate it so much omg

wet pilot
#

but when steam games download at >100MB

night zodiac
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imagine playing more than 1 game /s

wet pilot
#

psh

last cedar
tame moss
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imagine working 48 hours a week and managing to complete several games a month

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god i dont know how i do it

night zodiac
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haha, you are a true gamer. I just like to yell at my screen

tame moss
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i just enjoy mehself

subtle pasture
wet pilot
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noice

grand marlin
subtle pasture
#

So multiple computers downloading the same update = only one download from the internet

wet pilot
#

thought about doing that but wifu doesn't game enough to make it worth

subtle pasture
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And they all get it at 1 gbps

tame moss
grand marlin
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nvm

wet pilot
#

internal is the shiz though

last cedar
#

I am gonna get that setup when I move, thanks for the reminder Leapo

tame moss
#

home assistant has a way to see what app is opened on my sony android tv

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so im planning on getting color schemes for like netflix and stuff

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or spotify when i chromecast

wet pilot
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but i'm out of storage on my fileserv so i need to fix that first anyway

grand marlin
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yeah there you go

subtle pasture
#

@wet pilot Yeah, a SteamCache server is especially handy with Comcast's shitty data caps... the speed for re-downloading and multiple computers downloading is great, but it also cuts the bandwidth requirements for multiple machines to get the same update pretty heavily

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Steam still doesn't P2P between machines like Blizzard's launcher does :<

tame moss
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^ GOOD

wet pilot
#

oh yeah, totally get it there. got lucky that both of my providers don't care (att + specturm)

tame moss
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spectrum is ๐Ÿฆ› ๐Ÿ’ฉ

grand marlin
#

its... state_attr(your_androidtv, 'app_name')

tame moss
#

it literally has every app

wet pilot
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1G from att, ~450 from spectrum (fastest i could get without needing their equipment)

tame moss
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and even knows when im chromecasting to my soundbar which is wack af

grand marlin
#

ohh smart tv?

tame moss
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yeah it has android tv built into it

grand marlin
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right

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and the sony integration then?

wet pilot
#

2 connections + Ubnt ER3 == golden

grand marlin
#

I just have my shield integrated as androidtv

subtle pasture
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This is the way ^

grand marlin
#

my tv is "smart" but I don't use any of that

tame moss
#

i have a x900f

grand marlin
#

nice

tame moss
#

i was going to get a shield but i like how my tv is integrated with everything

wet pilot
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we use sammy crap because lazy but we have a gen1 shield pro hooked up for backup

grand marlin
#

shield does everything I need, and had before I got the tv lol

tame moss
#

unfortunately

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my odroid c4

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cant do dolby vision

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so

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shield is on the list

night zodiac
#

I like the Google TV Chromecast thing I have

grand marlin
#

whoa it can? I didn't realize that

tame moss
#

but coreelec is more stable than nvidia shield kodi unfortunately

wet pilot
grand marlin
#

loads

tame moss
grand marlin
#

I don't think my shield does, 2017 non-pro

tame moss
#

it should i have a 2017 in my living room and i brought it into the bedroom to test

wet pilot
#

โค๏ธ @subtle pasture

grand marlin
#

I thought they just added dolby vision with the 2019 ones?

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or was it an a shield update maybe?

tame moss
#

i dont have a dolby vision tv in the living room :((

subtle pasture
shy comet
#

2019 model has DV only

grand marlin
#

I don't either, maybe that's where I'm hosed lol

tame moss
#

wait wtf why did my 2017 work then

wet pilot
tame moss
#

i got the DV logo

grand marlin
#

I was almost positive

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on what?

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I can try

tame moss
#

do you have a dv tv?

grand marlin
#

no lol

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๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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sorry, I'm all over

tame moss
#

ah

shy comet
#

only HDR here...not sure the new LG one work sent me has it though

subtle pasture
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Aaaah, sorry, my eyes jumped right past the gif XD

wet pilot
#

๐Ÿ˜„

subtle pasture
#

๐Ÿค˜

wet pilot
#

chat move too fast

tame moss
night zodiac
#

๐Ÿฆ

wet pilot
#

4k HDR ++

grand marlin
#

I've definitely got 4khdr with shield 2017

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but not dv

shy comet
#

lol no its from my work....10 year anniversary present....50" LG not bad

wet pilot
#

yeah old version is able

tame moss
#

hm

grand marlin
#

whether it's my tv or shield, idk

subtle pasture
#

Oh joy... NAS has a firmware update. Here we gooo

wet pilot
#

newer is apparently better though

night zodiac
#

firmware, fun

wet pilot
#

new HDMI spec etc

tame moss
#

shutup phnx

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dont get me started

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on hdmi 2.1

wet pilot
#

haha

tame moss
#

i will rant on and on

wet pilot
#

its a hot mess

#

but still

tame moss
#

me who spent $1200 on a tv right before hdmi 2.1 dropped

wet pilot
#

i have a Sammy Q90R which apparently supports everything but didn't shell out for the cert

night zodiac
#

I need to find a TV

tame moss
night zodiac
#

I have had a tv stand waiting for a couch for months and it is finally coming

tame moss
#

dont have dolby vision or dts:x

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like why

wet pilot
#

they're shit at software but damn is their hardware nice

tame moss
#

mehhhh

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not the biggest fan of their tvs

night zodiac
#

yeah, I have my samsung tv unplugged from internet, it was being naughty

tame moss
#

depends on who you ask but i dont like their upscaling

subtle pasture
#

Thankfully Synology updates are pretty bulletproof these days, and this NAS is new enough that it does Virtual DSM

wet pilot
#

@tame moss that falls under "shit at software"

night zodiac
#

oh, yeah, I did my updates a couple of weeks ago smoothly

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DSM

tame moss
grand marlin
#

I've an lg 55" we've had for 2yr, and it's running strong

#

good enough for me anyways

tame moss
#

i was at best buy last night and there was a samsung vendor shoving things down this poor couples throat ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

wet pilot
#

i wanted LG but couldn't justify the price bump

tame moss
#

get sony

wet pilot
#

have a 65" in this room but its till slightly too small

subtle pasture
#

Still waiting for the living room TV to die before I replace it...

wet pilot
#

sony uses LG pannels

subtle pasture
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Damn thing seems immortal

wet pilot
#

lol upgraded livingroom and bumped the previous tv to MBR

tame moss
shy comet
#

@wet pilot im in the sme boat and at this point kinda want a projector lol

wet pilot
#

lol same but can't quite justify it

tame moss
#

so either x900h/e or Q80/Q90R for LCD, or LG B9 or C9 for OLED

wet pilot
#

unless i get a retractable screen to drop in front

shy comet
#

my wife is starting to warm up to the idea

#

yea i have to do that

wet pilot
#

but even then, true 4k projectors are $$$$$$$

tame moss
#

projectors

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meh

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haha

wet pilot
#

dlp with pixel shift is meh

shy comet
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yea i know but once you go over 65" they get pretty pricey

tame moss
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vibrant colors > 120" projector

shy comet
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it also depends on how far away you are from the screen

wet pilot
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unless you get sony lazor meh

tame moss
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nah fam

shy comet
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im about 16ft away so 65" feels small

tame moss
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original imax projector from abandoned movie theater

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only way to go tbh

wet pilot
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those are 2k

tame moss
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its so unfortunate only like 2 movie theaters in my state with an actual real original imax projector

wet pilot
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imax used 2x2k

tame moss
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all these new ones are digital and dont have the same aspect ratio

night zodiac
wet pilot
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i have older than that and is pretty nice

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only rub is white text on full black

tame moss
wet pilot
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Korean or bust

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LG or Sammy

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OLED or QLED/MicroLED

tame moss
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never buying a samsung again sorry ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

wet pilot
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everyone else re-brands older panels from the first 2

tame moss
subtle pasture
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Synology sells their own branded hard disks now

wet pilot
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lol

night zodiac
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custom firmwared toshibas

grand marlin
tame moss
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THATS IT?

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Holy crap how dark are they

night zodiac
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why so low

tame moss
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mine are at 4.8a

night zodiac
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mine are at like 7400

tame moss
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are you sure thats the right number infernoo?

wet pilot
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at least they aren't deathstars

grand marlin
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bahaha crud

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yeah, that's right

subtle pasture
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Also, where the hell is DSM7 already?

tame moss
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careful inferno

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youll burn your eyes out

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hahaha

night zodiac
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I was wondering the same thing Leapo

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I thought I saw the beta flying around

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or a dev blog or something

subtle pasture
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It's still a "Preview"

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The beta dropped in December

tame moss
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wheres my no power inject gang at

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๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ’ช

night zodiac
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wuuuut

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I have a toy strip for alerts I use without power

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injected

tame moss
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what

grand marlin
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it's because I power from the 5v

tame moss
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i also power from the 5v

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wdym

grand marlin
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idk wled says not to go over 1A in that case

tame moss
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i cant tell you what amp power supply i have but its overkill

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i have like a 15a power supply but i have a bunch of other stuff chained onto it

grand marlin
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yeah my psu is too large as well

tame moss
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wait

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drinfernoo

grand marlin
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what will happen if I do go "too high"?

tame moss
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your powering the leds using the esp's 5v out?

grand marlin
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wait, no

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hold up

tame moss
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ok thats what i thought

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its a warning if you are

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so just ignore the warning