padook

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HACS (feddit.nl)
 

HACS offers great additions to the functionality of HA, but there are so many options it feels overwhelming. What are your favorite HACS?

Is Pine64 in trouble? in c/pine64@lemmy.ml
[–] padook@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like the same over on Reddit, it's really sad. For a while I got sooo much excitement following Pine64. I feel like I was just working to make money to buy everything they were developing!

Help setting up OpenWRT for extra router in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

I agree about the USB Ethernet dongle. Unless you only require short distance wifi range (eg hotel room temp router) the radio in the pi isn't going to be enough

I built a pi4 router a few years ago, and it's still running great, I recommend the project. But unfortunately I can't find the HOWTO and it was before I started taking good notes. I assume your current router is a phone company supplied modem/router?

My setup is cable modem-->pi router-->switch--> old netgear router in Access point only mode

Being that your router/modem is upstream of router, I'm not sure if you could pass-through the WAN to the pi router, and pass back the LAN to the router/modem for the wifi... maybe someone on here can shed some light?

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Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel (feddit.nl)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by padook@feddit.nl to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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This is surely common knowledge for some of you but I thought I'd share a story, as this just made me cringe

I never understood the point in the option to "run actions in parallel" I thought if I had a list of actions to complete, HA makes it through them almost instantly, and with the varying latency of each action they wouldn't complete at the same time anyways.

Then I tested my smoke alarm notification that I have had running for over a year.

It went-

If: list of smoke alarms detects smoke Then: Turn on the lamp next to my bed, then Send a notification to my phone.

I had made an error when setting up the lamp entity. (I made it full brightness on both scales, can only use one) this stopped the automation before the notification went out to my phone.

If it's important that the automation makes it to the end, run in parallel!

Talk about a false sense of security

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[Question] TV consumption SBC's (feddit.nl)
 

A few years ago I turned a pine64 rock64 SBC into a kodi box, and saw immediate performance improvement over the stock Roku chip on my TCL TV when streaming from SMB. As always "better" becomes... ehhhhh I want more. I want to stick with an SBC because of power consumption on a box that I'm going to leave running 24/7. So my question is: What's the best price to video performance SBC out there?

U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The last I knew in the US you have a choice to remove it yourself, you can be as safe or unsafe as you see fit, there a very few rules. Or you pay a company which must follow strict regulation on its removal.

Self Hosting Fail in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 9 points 6 months ago

I could have the best self hosted setup.... living in a van, down by the river!

Self Hosting Fail in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

This thought came to me this morning. I have 4 machines both because the BEAST grows organically, and because we're always trying to avoid that single point of failure. Then a scenario comes along that makes you question your whole way of thinking, diversifying may actually create more problems

Self Hosting Fail in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I didn't mean to imply that Services actually broke. Only that they didn't come back after a reboot. A clean reboot may have caused some of the same issues because, I'm learning as I go. Some services are restarted by systemctl, some by cron, some....manual. This is certainly a wake up call that I need standardize and simplify the way the services are started.

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Self Hosting Fail (feddit.nl)
 

I woke up this morning to a text from my ISP, "There is an outage in your area, we are working to resolve the issue"

I laugh, this is what I live for! Almost all of my services are self hosted, I'm barely going to notice the difference!

Wrong.

When the internet went out, the power also went out for a few seconds. Four small computers host all of my services. Of those, one shutdown, and three rebooted. Of the three that ugly rebooted some services came back online, some didn't.

30 minutes later, ISP sends out the text that service is back online.

2 hours later I'm still finding down services on my network.

Moral of the story: A UPS has moved to the top of the shopping list! Any suggestions??

Nature (@deliberatelyburied) in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
Tailscale/ PiHole in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

Slaps forehead I know I read that guide too....whether I forgot about it or thought that would do something else... Thank You!

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Tailscale/ PiHole (feddit.nl)
 

I've been slowly moving access to my Self hosted services from multiple WireGuard VPN connections over to tailscale for that nice flat network feel. One thing that was holding me back from the switch was that I liked vpn'ing my internet traffic from my phone and laptop back to my network and into the PiHole to avoid ads/tracking when I was away from home.

Then I found the DNS settings on the tailscale admin console and everything lit up! I added the server that PiHole is running on as a nameserver and changed the global settings and BINGO! No ads!

Unfortunately.... A few days later when looking at my PiHole admin console I realized that the PiHole that I set up at my parents house for them was one of the biggest clients.....Not optimal.....

Is there a way to make an exception to the global DNS setting? Any suggestions? I don't want to remove their PiHole from my tailnet as it makes it much easier to maintain.

Home Assistant 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Me: Hovering mouse over the update button Click it!!

Also me: No no, it says right in the changelog that this is one of biggest releases ever, wait for a point release

Me again: but you can make the "sleep time" automation say Goodnight after it runs!!!!!!

click

Share your favorite automations in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The problem with a good running automation is you end up used to them, I forget they're even there most if the time.

I end up appreciating my once-in-awhile automations more. A couple times a month I need to get up extra early, skip my normal routine and go straight to work. But I'm American, this can't be done without coffee. The night before I prepare the coffee maker and scan an NFC on the top that turns off the plug and waits for my next alarm, then turns it back on. Once it runs it disables the automation, so I dont accidently burn the house down. Worth a million bucks

In the summer in the northeast US most evenings are cool enough to sleep with just a fan in the window. For the nights that stay too warm past bedtime I scan an NFC on my AC that triggers an automation to shutoff the AC and turn on the window fan at a specified outdoor temp. Saves on electricity and who doesn't love fresh air??

Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options: in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] padook@feddit.nl 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm sorry, what?....Oh, all I heard was that my linux home server is going to be running on new hardware in about a year and a half when all these used computers go on sale. 😁

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Zwave Thermostat- Outlier stats (feddit.nl)
 

Can anyone explain these annoying outlier points from my zwave thermostat? This is from a honeywell thermostat, but before this I had a trane that suffered from the same problem. It happens with current temperature and humidity. It's not like its terrible, it doesn't mess with my automatons or anything, but when I want to look into my heating history it really screws with the scale

Unknown Known Entity in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] padook@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe click on that lux entity in the dashboard and see if it has been consistently transmitting its data (on the history graph)? I'm pretty sure you'll get this warning if the state reads "unavailable" which could be a reception issue or a dying sensor.

I recently saw this happen to an animation of mine and I think this was the cause

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Graphics Card Help (feddit.nl)
 

Can anyone help me pick out a budget friendly (sub $200) graphics card?

  • Doesn't have to be current generation

  • I won't be gaming at all on the PC

  • Needs to run well on Linux

  • Must run 3 monitors

  • Biggest workout it will get is streaming security cams on one screen, full screen video on another.

  • Power supply is only 295W and I'd rather not upgrade it.

Any help is much appreciated!

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