Faceman🇦🇺 @ Faceman2K23 @discuss.tchncs.de

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People have tried and failed to make the "one arr to rule them all" but the current stack is pretty lightweight, stable and mature so it is better to just install them all in containers then have some kind of frontend and request system in front of them for users and admins.

I use Organizr as a frontend (keeps them all together in one interface and optionally handles SSO across all of them) then I have Overseerr for users to add media without having to give them access to the arrs directly.

Zigbee can have very good range depending on the products, but those outlets have poor range initially due to a bad antenna id guess, then they are plugged into an outlet, low to the ground, up against a wall, probably near lots of wiring and even grounded metal boxes in many cases. So it's a bit of a worst case scenario for signal strength.

In homeassistant you should be able to go into the device page and pull up signal level information to see if you need to add or move devices to fix a deadspot.

I've tried to use lidarr but I think my archive is too weird for it.

Not only do I have a lot of obscure releases, but I also have things like vinyl and cd rips of every version of every album by certain artists. Like I have a huge amount of frank zappa for example, sometimes I will have 10 versions of the same album, sometimes more. I have collections of the different live variants of many tracks, archives of guitar solo variations ets..

Lidarr has no idea how to handle that so I do it all manually.

You rip your cds or buy direct from the artists (he says without suggesting you can easily find everything for free online)

Cry because the metadata is never right.

But really this is usually solved with proper labelling of ARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST tags separately.

I find some integrations much easier to implement in nodered then I've the hacs nodered plugin to connect them properly

I personally haven't had any issue with the standard spotify integration when calling it from automations or scripts, so I suspect it can be made to work pretty well when just having a button call up a premade playlist or something. then one button could maybe be left free for a simple play/stop function.

Central Scrutinizer, play Joe's Garage on the living room stereo

"Satan, Play Emperor on the living room stereo"

I don't know what type of disabilities your little one has but I was looking into this for my grandma when she was struggling to use things due to physical and mental decline and ended up with the "Relish Simple Music Player" which is a dead simple desktop radio with limited controls and preconfigurable presets for FM/dab stations or playlists from a memory card, **but it had no smart features or streaming. ** not really kid optimised but it's good to know there are devices out there that are specifically designed for various disabilities.

As for DIY smart HA based solutions, a compatible device like a google home mini or similar (or any active speaker with a compatable receiver plugged in, or a Sonos One SL or something if you are OK with that) and some simple control device like one of those zigbee scene controllers (like these), the standard spotify integration, plus a bit of automation/scripting or a tiny bit of nodered could become a simple and effective little jukebox.

I'm starting to replace some wifi devices with zigbee too, Yes many zigbee devices will act as a repeater or router for other devices to connect through, the only devices that tend not to have this functionality are battery powered devices like pushbuttons or remotes.

Just a word of warning, those S26 Zigbee outlets have quite poor range so you might still run into issues if you only have a couple of them.

As far as I know there is no alternative firmware for the Zigbee and Z-wave devices. nor is there any real need for one as they do tend to "just work" but that also means you are stuck with the features and functions they give you. There are some Zigbee bridges that can run ESPhome to add some customisability, but that is just for the wifi side of the device.

Sounds like a bug in the encoder perhaps. I dont have that issue with my setup, but I'm not using AMD GPUs

Fold3 5G, I charge to <85% nightly and it almost always lasts me all day from 6am to 11pm.

I'm not a super light user, but my screen on time is nowhere near yours, 7 and a half hours screen on seems crazy high to me. I usually come out at 3 to 4 hours.

I keep the screen brightness down, wifi and bluetooth are automatically on and off only when needed, very rarely receive phone calls or video chats so that's saving quite a bit.

While I tend to avoid encoding wherever possible, I use H265 10Bit at low RF to archive non-critical libraries (old TV shows in some users personal libraries, 1080p movies more than 1 year old and over 20gb etc..).

my average size reduction going from a 1080p Bluray remux of 35-40gb is about 50% with no significant effect to image quality. High action or high grain movies end up a bit larger, slower movies with no action and most animations compress a bit smaller. works well overall.

basically any modern device can decode them and the image quality tends to be a bit better than 8bit.

I'd like to go with AV1, but very few of my client devices can decode it, so its not worth the trouble to save a few percent,

Yes I've seen some like that. just bonkers stuff.

Automatically ripping movies is pretty easy, but TV shows often need manual work to get them right.

Sometimes you'll get individual videos with the correct chapters, runtimes and they are listed in order, but other times they will be jumbled in random order, or will be one large video that needs to be split manually into episodes.

Was never even available as a service in my country so no loss to me.

Japanese company doing Japanese company things..

Thanks to the media shovelling fear, misinformation and lies into our minds. I blame Facebook, Twitter and Murdoch for this one.

The conspiracy theories around this issue were fucking wild. Ranging from the UN taking control of our government, to abolishing all land ownership and giving them the right to have your home demolished, to some bizarre thing about the pope or some shit.

For bulk diverse, pre-tagged and sorted collections you really have to go to p2p like soulseek.

For tagging picard is really the only option that can handle bulk tagging with some level of trust and authority, but definitely have a backup or work in chunks just in case it goes awry.

For a spotify replacement, Plexamp is really doing well as long as you have decently tagged media. It can do all the mood radio and playlist suggestion stuff that Spotify and others have been doing.

FF6, FF9 and Links Awakening