LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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I'm glad I glanced in here. I recently deleted everything and had to start again, but MET office was broken on my old install so I never tried again.

Your screenshots made me reinstall, and my phone remembered my Met office logins (bonus) so it took seconds. And it works!

Smart Life is just another name for Tuya. I started with a bunch of Tuya devices and actually used Smart Life as my app.

There are Home Assistant addons that support Tuya. I can't remember because I'm much further down the path now, but it should be as simple as signing in to the addons with your Smart Life credentials. It may be a little harder in that you may have to pair them to another app first, but same principle.

This is assuming of course that you're talking WiFi devices. If you're on ZigBee then it may be even easier, pairing your hub to Home Assistant.

Either way, Home Assistant will show you a new way.

I've tried a bunch of different approaches to VPN in my short self hosted journey.

I chose Mullvad as my VPN and tried to make a container containing an OpenWRT router, a Windows machine, a bunch of containers within containers (Docker in LXC) before learning that's a shit way of doing things, and then I found Gluetun.

It was so simple to set up, and there was a dude on YouTube with all the Docker compose files and explanations, so I learned what I was doing as I was doing it.

Ultimately the only reason I didn't end up using it was because I didn't have my Plex instance in the stack and it couldn't communicate with the containers I was deploying, a trifle really.

I took what I learned from my Gluetun stack and used it to run Docker in a Debian VM with a the Mullvad app running, which is arguably easier but uses more resources since I run a second VM with Plex and other server stuff in Docker, and I could theoretically run it all in the same VM with a little more knowledge.

It cost me £15 to change the carbon brushes on my washing machine and a 10 minute video on YouTube. The Washer Shop charge £75 to do it, and I considered paying it too.

It's a bit like that.

Nobody is saying you're not helpful. Actually, nobody is going back through your history to even see if you're helpful.

All people are saying is, in the future, post a brief description of the app you're linking.

Don't take all these comments so personally pal, chin up. Just walk away and forget about it until you next post, and when you doz drop a quick description of the app you're linking the change log for. That way people will have to find something else to moan about instead.

You can't please everyone, there's far too many of us, so please yourself.

Hey man, keep it up, just put a description of what the app is with the update.

I personally clicked in just to see what the hell it was. I mean this one is useless to me, but maybe something else you're using is not. So a description in the title of what it does would be helpful, then I can go "Oooh a new thing to play with" when I scroll past it.

Well that's kinda the point, it's such a small change that makes such a big difference.

a phone alarm set to 5am Mo-Fr?

That's exactly what it is. My Home Assistant picks the alarm up and turns my lights on. My alarm runs silent for a minute then ramps up the volume.

So I don't wake up to pitch blackness with the sound of a fucking rainstorm. Instead I wake up to a light, look around, then hear my alarm and realise it's time to get up.

It's a small change, but it makes getting up so much easier.

This I like. I've just threatened to give the kids money for chores and I'm trying to work out how to automate it, and this is what I'm looking for

I've had a similar automation to turn my screen on and off and miss it, it needs setting up again. I'm halfway there though, I set up my Wake On Lan again yesterday.

I have a QI charger on my computer desk, it's the only one in the house. When I place my phone on the charger, HA sees the wireless charging and turns on my PC. It's a tiny quality of life improvement that I really missed, sit down and throw phone at the charger and the PC turns on.

My son walked in to us talking about "Head Count" (number of people you fucked) the other day and we all convinced him we were talking about how old we were when we tried alcohol.

"But Mum said 1, that's like really young"

"Ah but back in our day we had Rum put on our dummies to help teething"

Also chloroform on their pillow-cases gets to sleep in minutes.

My 10 year old son's most missed automation was the house telling him to go to bed. He noticed he was just chilling in bed with YouTube and it was well past his bedtime and asked me to set it up again.

Basically I automated bedtimes years ago so the house tells them to go to bed and an hour later turns their lights off. Didn't think they'd miss that but they did.

https://github.com/IATkachenko/HA-SleepAsAndroid is the add on if anyone is interested and this is the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep which I paid for premium long ago and have shared that premium with family account to my son's phone too, well worth buying.

When my alarm goes off my hallway light and the lamp on the far side of the room turn on low and the alarm remains silent for a minute, then ramps the volume up.

This means I can get up and not wake Wifey, huge WAF benefits...

I turn the alarm off and HA waits for the motion sensor in the hallway to pick me up, then the far lamp goes off. The next motion sensor on the floor below turns the hallway light off and the front room lights on for me (while the motion sensors do their usual stuff, this is extra).

I also used to use this automation to turn the "I'm sleeping" switch off but I haven't set my sleeping up properly again yet.

If I snooze, the lights go off again and come on when snooze is finished the same as an alarm.

Now to set up my teenage Son's alarm, he was nearly late to school once this week which is unheard of

Ok so I receive a letter with a fake stamp which I did not purchase, and I'm gonna be fined for it? How the fuck does that work?

Tell you what, I'll buy a fuck load of them for 4p each and send a bunch of mail to people I don't like to bankrupt them with fines.

Oh and the "Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract" but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I've sent mail to gets fined?

Ah, email, where none of this matters.

I did have ,but the storage borked, I rewiped it and never got around to setting up backups again.

Now I'm on setup 2 and it's high in my list of things to do

Recently set this up myself in Ubuntu with the Mullvad app. I noticed in the qBittorrent settings that you have to tell it which ip to use. Mine was set to "any" so I had a quick look at the IP address of Mullvad and selected that one in the drop down

Bleugh Immich.

I've heard great things but I'm quite new to all this and can't get the fucking thing to boot. Last night I followed their install via Portainer walkthrough to the letter, copy/pasted their files from their links they pointed at...

I'll have it running by next weekend most likely, this keeps happening, then I learn a bunch of shit. But I really have no idea why it wouldn't boot last night.

This all sounds awesome. So eli5 I have all my drives mounted to Proxmox, then passed through to OMV in a VM.

I can just mount these same drives to containers no issues right now, and I can add them to VMs using your link?

I would like to get down to LXCs too, but I've found VMs so much easier to set up and use. I'll try your way

I share bind-mounts currently between multiple LXC from the host Proxmox OS, configuration is pretty easy, and there are lots of tutorials online for getting started.

Now then:

Are you sharing SMB mounts? I have my HDDs passed through to OMV and have considered just trying to pass them through to other VMs, but never tried because I don't wanna break anything.

I have seen that you can share SMB to Proxmox and use them in Proxmox but don't know if you can use them in VMs too.

As it is I really struggled with mounting smb for a couple of weeks and then had an "aha" moment last weekend, and have it all figured out now.

The Tailnet idea was so I can just mount everything to the Tailnet and stop worrying about whether it's on this vlan or that. I was trying to set up an Openwrt container with VPN, which I could use for any container that needs a vpn, but then those containers couldn't see the main network properly...

I've given up on that now and have my SMB mounts all set up, but feel like pass-through would give better network speeds for moving things around.

I hear what you're saying and honestly it's not something I had thought about, so thanks for that.

For myself I should be good if your prediction comes true since I already have Home Assistant through my own domain using Cloudflare. I could theoretically move all my stuff to my own domain and Nginx, etc.

I like Tailscale because I don't have to do all that. I'm new to Self Hosting (no I'm new to running multiple VMs) so finding something that just works with minimal effort is great for a noob. I wanna learn the things (networking), but I wanna learn other things (loads!) first.

Cloudflare and a Domain wasn't as hard as DuckDNS and Nginx, but Tailscale was easier and cheaper than that in my adventures on Home Assistant. I've gone from hard to easy mode.

At some point a hobby has to cost money, I may be happy to pay for Tailscale if there's more features. I'd like to replace SMB mounts with Tailnet mounts, but currently that's not a thing to my knowledge.

Oh and I'm not really shouting from rooftops on a self hosted Lemmy server, it's more like a quiet chat around a campfire telling a potential newcomer and easy way. It may cost in the future or they may make enough from Businesses that they keep a free tier, but currently it's free and easy.

Nah it sounds far too simple to "just install Tailscale and you're good" doesn't it? But it really is kinda that easy.

Install the Tailscale add on for Home Assistant, sign in and set up an "exit node" (it's a menu item, easy) then install Tailscale on your phone.

Switch it on on your phone outside your network. 3 dots in the app and select "Use exit node" and select the one you set up.

Now on your browser on your phone just type in the IP address of the self hosted service (I just have my home page address set to Homarr which has them all) and you're done.

Really damn easy, and free

Edit: That exit node you set.up is inside your network. Tailscale tunnels to that exit node inside your network without open ports, so when you do as above, you're essentially inside your network.

I use work WiFi. Work block WhatsApp. When I connect through Tailscale via work WiFi, my WhatsApp works fine, because I'm using my own home network to send/receive messages