While remote authentication is the default, you can configure Plex to not require any sort of auth at all for local users. That's how mine is setup, and we can watch content around the house even when our ISP is offline.
I also don't get ads or anything else pushing other content - I only ever see my own. You just have to not show those things in the sidebar. So again, the defaults can be changed.
Definitely worth trying Jellyfin if it works for a particular case. I've tried Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex - but only found the latter to be reliable enough for OTA DVR via an HDHomeRun which is our primary use case.
Sounds like it's not actually running. Restart the hass server and check the logs, which is the only place you'll see if a dependency is preventing it from starting.
Blender, even with the CAD plug-in, does not have the dimensional precision required for real engineering modeling. The Blender UI is also even clunkier than FreeCAD in many ways.
Strange! Nothing jumps out at me as being an obvious problem with your setup. I'm doing something similar, though instead of rtlamr2mqtt (which I didn't know about) I have a bash script run via cron that parses rtlamr output via jq and pipes that to mqtt (mosquitto), but there's very little to it. I know the energy dashboard setup is picky about the energy recording entities.
Mine looks like:
state_class: total_increasing
unit_of_measurement: ft³
device_class: gas
friendly_name: Gas Meter
The name of the entity is sensor.gas_meter and the state is currently 113812 as an example.
Might be worth reading through GitHub issues for rtlamr2mqtt, including closed ones, if you haven't already. Or maybe a hass restart? Can't think of anything else.
I've found MangoJellys YouTube videos to be fantastic whenever I get stuck in FreeCAD. Worth following for random things that's over learned from his videos as well, such as some of the tutorials.
I did the same thing over the past 6 or so months ago. There's nothing I could do in Fusion360 that I couldn't do in FreeCAD. People love to complain about FreeCAD, and it does have a steep learning curve, but once you learn to design in the way FreeCAD wants you to, it goes quite smoothly.
Your root filesystem is NTFS? That's likely the problem - I'm surprised it boots at all. Switching to a Linux filesystem is the likely solution. You could also try a newer kernel, too - 5.10 is quite old, current LTS is 6.1. Good luck.
CAD Sketcher improves Blender a bit, but it's still not good enough to turn Blender into a dimensionally accurate CAD, and I found the UI to be fairly clunky and if anything even less intuitive than FreeCAD, honestly.
My experience in trying Blender for 3d printed part design was short lived because it's not really built for doing accurate and precise modeling, where FreeCAD is.
Exactly this - FreeCAD is great, but you have to learn to do things its way if you want stable designs. While there is a learning curve, it's really no worse than Fusion360 was in figuring out how to achieve my design goals. There are fantastic YouTube channels out there, like MangoJelly when you do get stuck. I converted all my older designs from Fusion360 to FreeCAD, and everything since is in FreeCAD, and I haven't looked back. I think many people are just afraid to admit they are daunted by FreeCAD, and rather than work to understand it, they just complain and say it's bad, without ever actually putting any effort into learning the platform.
You'll be fine as long as you maintain the system, don't wait too long between updates, and pay attention to the output when you do. I'm running arch on everything - work laptop, a spare laptop, and a server (nas, Plex, home assistant, etc) - two of which are critical systems for me. I use ZFS for all storage pools, including root, and zfsbootmenu, so I can rollback to a previous snapshot if I ever need to or the system won't boot.
That's not true. FreeCAD can do those things just fine. In fact, I have been able to do every single thing in FreeCAD that I used to do in Fusion360. There is a learning curve, but FreeCAD is extremely capable.
It's not really worth it, honestly. All netplan does is generate a config for systemd-networkd. It's better to just configure systemd-networkd directly and have a portable configuration, rather than use Canonical's proprietary stuff. The documentation is quite good for systemd in general, and with more people using it directly for network config it's easier to find examples when you need help.
This isn't an issue with hackers though - this is people legitimately using the devices that they paid for with Home Assistant and other automation systems.
FreeCAD. It'll do everything, but you have to put some time into understanding it. Fortunately, there's are plenty of YouTube videos when you do get stuck.
Ah, I thought you were displaying on both outputs, not switching between them, hence my mirroring comment. I suspect XFCE, not the DM, detects the output change and takes care of it. You might need to emulate that behavior with a hook of some type that you have to setup yourself with the tiling WM, and you might have to --off the unused display. I'd be willing to bet you can find some sort of hook script out there that can do this, I seem to recall an autorandr program I used in the past where you could set up output profiles. I hope that helps, maybe a little bit.
Neither of these points are entirely correct.
While remote authentication is the default, you can configure Plex to not require any sort of auth at all for local users. That's how mine is setup, and we can watch content around the house even when our ISP is offline.
I also don't get ads or anything else pushing other content - I only ever see my own. You just have to not show those things in the sidebar. So again, the defaults can be changed.
Definitely worth trying Jellyfin if it works for a particular case. I've tried Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex - but only found the latter to be reliable enough for OTA DVR via an HDHomeRun which is our primary use case.