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My #galaxywatch8 arrived today...it feels thinner and lighter than the 7. With the various discounts it cost a little over £150.

Irish weather and road salt don't play well with floating caliper brakes. Totally smoked disc due to jammed up pads.

Factory fit discs and pads on a 2019 Tuscon with 53k miles on the clock. Very easy to replace with new pads and discs from local #napa
#hyundai #diymechanics

The #homeautomation protocol is named #Thread, perhaps that is a typo as #Threat is more apt and accurate. If you roll your own device you might very well experience the full force of their blood thirsty lawyers.

What the actual F.

@homeassistant some Developer apparently thought it would not be a terrible idea to update the HA iOS App, disable Local Push, and:
1. not mention it to the users after the update (so most are probably unaware, because iOS automatically updates Apps…)
2. not provide any steps in the App how to restore the behavior/setting (on *every single device, separately / manually*)

Horrible workflow. (1/2)

#steam hardware survey only looks at the primary GPU. Which on my #ryzen9 9900X is the Radeon thing built in to the CPU. The survey ignores the 4070 that I actually use.

Which in my eyes makes the survey pointless.

Got a little JetKVM with DC power controller (velcroed to a rear power strip) connected to my server.
Bit of a rats nest with barrel jack converters but it seems to work well.
I can now remotely get to my server console rather than dragging it to a monitor and keyboard.
#HomeLab

#Homey's mission has always been simple: make smart homes truly smart. By adopting #Thread and integrating it into #HomeyPro, they've created a seamless, low-power, and future-proof platform that unifies devices.

Read the full #successstory here: https://www.threadgroup.org/Portals/0/Documents/Homey%20SS.pdf

Just a TIL - if you buy a #aeotec #smartthings hub, and it was manufactured before April 2024, there's a good chance it won't work, as the SSL cert in factory images before that expired in March 2025. You will likely get an error 33-504.

Once the firmware is updated, they're fine, but getting it to update is a challenge.

Workaround is to block NTP on your firewall, so the hub doesn't know what time it is upon reset, and it'll then happily work and update.

I just got a second hub from Amazon UK and it was manufactured in 2021, so it took a bit of digging to get the thing working.

https://community.smartthings.com/t/troubleshooting-smartthings-hub-2018-and-aeotec-hub/298332

#Google rolled out their device finding network a few years ago. It's still utterly useless.

I put an #Airtag, a Samsung Smarttag and a #Chipolo Spot in the side pocket of my car.

I currently have a Samsung phone with Google's Find system set to find anywhere. Wife has an #iphone

The Airtag updates and is traceable pretty much everywhere. The Samsung Smarttag is pretty much similar, sometimes it's position is half an hour out of date, but a few refreshes later it pops up.

The Chipolo running Googles Network is bad. It hasn't seen the tracker since 2nd June. The tracker is in the car which is 3 feet away from me. Last reported position is at work, 50 miles away. I, along with the tracker visited the largest city in the country on the 4th June, where the car sat in a highly populated area for 3 hours.
The actual Cipolo is still transmitting, because I can see it in #homeassistant

Tldr; don't buy a Bluetooth tracker that relies on Google Find My network, and expect to be able yo find your thing.

3 weeks in and I can say the #homeassistant yellow works great with the CM5. All I did was pop out the CM4, move the little heatpads and flashed a new version of HAOS on to the SSD using the Pi imager.

I didn't *need* to reinstall, but my old install was severely full of cruft after years of tinkering.

The CM5 is fast. HA runs as quick as it does on a low end miniPC. Uses about 5W running off POE.

"there's no other podcast out there for self-hosters that do it quite like you guys do" #selfhosting #selfhosted

https://blog.ktz.me/self-hosted-150-fin/

YouTube Premium is £4 cheaper if you subscribe through Android or a browser than if you subscribe through the YouTube app on iOS. #AppleTax

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom).

Out with the old, in with the new. Replaced a 4GB/32GB eMMC CM4 that was the heart of my #homeassistant Yellow, with a 8GB CM5 and a 512GB Samsung PM981 NVMe.

Very simple process:
1: Prepare the NVMe drive by installing HAOS using a cheap USB to NVMe dongle and Pi Imager.
2: Take full backup of HA
3: power down, swap the CM (don’t forget to move the heatsink pads
4: Install the NVMe
5: Boot up and restore the backup.
6: ????
7: Profit!

So the new solar panels I fitted are exceeding expectations. They’re cheap end-of-line 425W Suntech panels from my local electrical wholesaler. Fitted using cheap brackets from the jungle website. There’s 20m of Doncaster Cables PV -Ultra 4x 4mm2 cable running down the wall and across the yard in to the garage, and hooked up to a pair of Victron MPPTs. These give me power to charge the batteries and power the house when the grid-tied solar on the house roof goes off.

They are rated to produce 2550W per string, peak has been a little under 2900W.

@ironicbadger Just listening to Self Hosted, and wanted to say I’m a long term Emby user. I’ve tried Jellyfin and Plex many times, and I keep coming back to Emby.

It’s great for transcoding, that Just Works(tm) more often than the other two, both using nVidia or Quicksync. Intro skipping is also much more reliable.

I don’t use the Emby clients though, I pretty much just Infuse on iOS/ATV, and web interface on Windows.

I bought the Emby Premiere years ago, so it’s been great VFM.

Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.

all the CAD for v2.0 of the #ESPhome #esp32 oil tank ultrasonic level sensor to integrate into #homeassistant - looking forward to the first test print to see if the components fit and I measures it all correctly:
Circular threaded case to contain #esp32 microcontroller, battery, #JSN-sr04t ultrasonic sensor & two control boards, LIPO battery and charge controller board with side mount USBC connector

Is it just me, or does everyone else’s #appletvplus forget what has been watched? I didn’t realise #mythicquest was on again, no mention in the app, and Seasons 1-3 are marked unwatched. Er…definitely watched these, folks.

#blog

Home Assistant – smart home server [ENG ]

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/home-assistant-eng/

#AMD #ARM #balenaEther #GitHub #HAOS #HomeAssistant #Khadas #ODROID #OpenSource #port8123 #RaspberryPi #SelfHosted #Shelly #SmartHome #Tinker