StrawberryPigtails @ StrawberryPigtails @lemmy.sdf.org

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I don't see where it claim to be open source, but it's permissions are.... Interesting.

My question would be, why didn’t Tesla clear coat the body. Did they not learn anything from the Delorean?

How I name things depends on what angle I'm looking at it from. Within HA, everything is named <device type>.<room>.<location in room>.<number> which looks something like light.livingroom.overhead.1.

When I expose it to my voice assistant (Alexa in my case), they are usually grouped and are named something that easy to say and remember like Livingroom Overhead.

My current setup is to have all of my music hosted on my Jellyfin server and streamed to whatever device I'm currently using. It can be a player as well as an organizer (kinda). Your setup can be as simple or a complicated as you want.

For iOS I recommend FinAmp as a good music player. FinAmp is ugly but it's actually quite good. It also is almost useless without a Jellyfin server to connect to. Jellyfin's web interface is better, but doesn't play well with iOS killing background apps constantly.

For discovering music I use a mix of Spotify and ListenBrainz.

And finally for acquiring music, Band Camp is usually my first stop, followed by Amazon. spotdl is a good app for downloading songs from your Spotify playlists to your storage nas, but the legality of it varies.

I use Trakt for tv and movies and ListenBrainz for music. Both have plugins to allow them to integrate with Jellyfin.

Just looking at my local housing market, low income is where the housing is needed most. but what that means in dollar figures differs from area to area. Where I am, if you’re making $70k+ there are plenty of houses on the market you can afford (figuring a 2 to 4 times gross wages budget), but the median income in Alabama was something like $35k last I looked. Not much available those folks can afford.

$0.50/share/quarter according to this article. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/meta-is-paying-first-ever-dividend-authorizes-50-billion-buyback.html

If my math is right, At Meta’s current stock price of $472 that makes an annual yield of 0.004%. It’s great news for old investors, but that will be a hard pass from me.

My 3 hosts all run Proxmox. Publicly available services run in VMs, usually running Ubuntu. Private services are usually Docker containers connected directly to my TailScale network running directly on the host.

For obtaining music, I check Bandcamp, then Amazon (they have drm free mp3s of most music and cds for everything else), then the artist site if available, then finally I look in the seas.

As for the best way to store and play the music back, I’ve put everything on my Jellyfin instance and then stream the media to my devices. On iOS, FinAmp is a decent music player for this setup.

Out of the box, the Sonoff adapter is setup to be used as a coordinator, like the SkyConnect. To run it as a relay you will need to reflash its firmware. Sonoff has firmware available for that and I’ve seen guides floating around on how to do so.

Hardware side, best I can give you is a solid maybe, and I couldn’t tell you how stable the connection would be. I do know that it has better signal stock than the Nabu’s SkyConnect.

If you stuck it in front of a broad wave guide you might be able to eak out a little more range without limiting its visibility to the sides too badly. Like how satellite dishes work. A tin can would be too focused for this application but a metal colander or a foil lined dinner plate might work. Both the coordinator and the devices you are wanting to connect would have to be within “sight” of the Sonoff’s signal though.

Alternatively, and I don’t know if the parts exist to do this, you could split the single antenna off to 2 antennas, like CB antennas on heavy trucks here in the States. I don’t remotely understand how it works, but if it’s setup correctly, it would increase range to the “front“ and “back” while significantly reducing range to the sides.

Building a good, reliable Zigbee network is dead simple. Just have a whole bunch of devices scattered around the area attached to your Zigbee network that can act as relays. The network will do the rest.

Here’s some products from my notes that should act as relays. This should give you an idea as to what you can use. In general, if it’s mains powered it will probably act as a relay, and if it is battery powered it probably won’t.

You might consider asking around for what products others use that can act as relays.

Light switch - https://inovelli.com/collections/inovelli-blue-series

Electrical Relay - https://a.co/d/eaIyhDA

Plugs - https://a.co/d/3BqdTAD

Light bulbs - https://a.co/d/9F4JfWG

Gateway/Zigbee Relay - https://a.co/d/eNHZfWc

It sounds like you may be confusing how Zigbee works with how older WiFi works.

In WiFi you would have a single access point with a certain range. If you want to extend that range in a particular direction you would have to add a range extender, creating a chain or rope of range extenders.

Zigbee (and many modern WiFi APs) are more like a fishing net. The more relays you have the stronger your net is because if one relay goes down for whatever reason, another relay in range can pass along the message to where it need to go.

By the by, this is also how the internet works (oversimplified to the point of inaccuracy of course).

In building out a Zigbee network you do not want to create chains with a single path available for reliability reasons. It’s better saturate an area with Zigbee relays. The relays can be either bunched up or you can spread them out. The only limiting factor on the size (in sq meters) is the max number of devices of the protocol, which you are unlikely to hit, and the radio range of the individual relays. Each device (either a relay or end device) needs to be able to see at least one (but preferably more than one) relay.

At a high level (I don’t run one myself), A Zigbee to MQTT server is a way to create a second “net” that is completely separate from the your original Zigbee network. In a nutshell, you take a second Zigbee cordinator and attach it to a MQTT server which then passes the information back to your Home Assistant. This second network doesn’t benefit from the first and the first doesn’t benefit from the second. Though, because they operate on the same frequency spectrum, they can conflict just as 2.4Ghz WiFi and Zigbee can conflict.

Can I just get a zigbee to MQTT router and that bridges between a zigbee button and HA?

It’s more something that you build than something you get, but, practically speaking, there is nothing stopping you from doing so. Though it doesn’t usually make sense to do so from an effort or infrastructure prospective for a single end device. Though of course, there are always exceptions. At a minimum, you would need a network connected computer running the MQTT server and a second Zigbee coordinator. Search for zigbee2mqtt.

There’s a couple of ways you can do this.

• You can build out your Zigbee network with relays (anything mains powered usually works as a router) to reach the area.
• If the area is too far away (say in another building), you could setup a Zigbee to MQTT router nearby and route the messages via another network back to Home Assistant.
• or your could use WiFi devices if you have enough spare capacity on your network and are well within signal range.

I’ve so far not had much luck with Matter, so for me, that is an unnecessary complication to avoid. Trying to get Matter working, I mean.

In my case I would probably use either the first or second choice, depending, but your situation may be different. My WiFi already has too many devices on it.

Where have I seen that before? Oh that’s right, the movie Demolition Man. Can we please stop trying to emulate dystopian science fiction please. We’ve been too successful at it as is.

I need to object on the polarized lens. Polarized lenses are great if you are spending all your time outdoors and never get in vehicles or need to look at electronic displays, but most vehicles and displays have a polarizing filters. Mixing two polarized lenses together is not a great idea as it can lead to blind spots.

I drive trucks for a living and can’t use polarized glasses for that reason. I’ve heard pilots are in the same boat. Having blind spots when you are herding that much mass is a bad idea.

I don’t know much about them to be honest, and what little I have heard sounded like it was paid for. My knee jerk reaction is to avoid them. Maybe they’re decent, maybe not. Couldn’t say.

Keepass is probably the most secure, but was a pain for multi device / multi OS users last time I used it.

Currently I use Bitwarden. You can either use their backend or you can self host. Cross platform, multi device support, 2FA support.

Most of the drug laws are due to back door racism, at least here in the US. They couldn't make laws that directly targeted minorities and so they made laws that targeted things that were part of the targeted minorities culture. Opium and heroin laws seemed to target Asians and the weed laws seemed more to target "beatniks" and Native Americans. It's an interesting (if depressing) research topic of you've a mind.

I may be wrong, but I think best practice says it doesn't matter how you name your whatevers, so long as the convention you use is consistant. Within HA I tend to use the format <DeviceType>.<Room>.<WhereOrWhat>.<NumberIfRestMatches>.

For example, the plugs that control my space heaters in my livingroom are switch.livingroom.heater.1 and switch.livingroom.heater.2. The controls for the lights in the livingroom is button.livingroom.wall. Please don't ask why I call plugs switches and controls buttons, I don't have an answer, I just do. 🤷

I almost certain you’re being sarcastic, but please tell me I’m wrong. If that quote is actually true, that would be fucking hilarious!