Joelk111

TIL Meta Messenger Kids exists. Yikes.

Check out OP’s article. I just skimmed it, but yeah, apparently they can be.

They’re both good. Z wave runs at 1ghz instead of 2.4ghz so the range is generally better. It also has a reputation of being more reliable, so I’ll pick it for things that are essential like door locks, thermostats, light switches, etc. For stuff like smart plugs, temp sensors, door sensors, actually most sensors generally, I usually go zigbee unless the zigbee network doesn’t reach the location.

That is a sweet deal! Can’t reccommend a z wave dongle enough though. I don’t really have much wifi stuff in my smart home any more.

Congrats on the C wire! I was lucky in my 1950s house that when they installed AC in the 90s they ran a new thermostat wire with the C wire, the just didn’t hook it up, so that’s all I had to do!

I’ve gotta ask - why a nest thermostat? There are cheaper options out there that you haven’t got to de-evil. I use a Honeywell Z Wave unit and it’s great.

If you can’t think of a reason, you’re lacking creativity.

I use owntracks. It works alright. What features are you missing/looking for?

I use Home Assistant, and prefer Z Wave or Zigbee, as those are gaurenteed to not call home and not rely on a third party server. Third Reality makes some pretty good stuff. And yeah, it’d go between the wall and my server rack.

I am, and it does, that’s how I got the 300-400w estimate. It is connected to the NAS and shuts it down gracefully when power goes out. Wonder if the NAS can also read the power usage over that cable. Might just be easier to use a $15 zigbee plug though to get the data directly into Home Assistant.

About 300-400 watts. I should put it on a smart plug to track it over time. I have a NAS with 16 HDDs, an outdated super overkill switch that I should replace to save some power, and a few old laptops.

I’m excited for memories as well, but I’m not sure you’re using the phrase deal breaker correctly here haha.

4tb it pretty high. I back up my files to backblaze, HDDs on site, and a cold copy on HDDs off-site.

They’re in my attached garage. In the living room when it’s quiet I can hear them humming. Does that count?

Oh my god I need LubeLogger. I only looked it up because of the… questionable… name but I currently use Fuelio and I hadn’t even thought to look up a self hosted thing.

Data Hoarder 💾

• Fleet: 6–10 devices · More than 50 TB
• Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
• My MVPs: Immich, PeerTube, Ghost, Actual Budget, Home Assistant

I create videos for YouTube/PeerTube and backup all of the raw footage. I also have the benefit of being able to get reputable used commercial grade HDDs from work for $10/TB, even right now, it makes it way too easy. Shameless plug: joeltube.com

Why are permissions so damn confusing? I say this as someone who knows why permissions are needed, such as location to find nearby devices. But why must we keep track of “permission X is for thing unrelated to X” in our heads? Now I haven’t tried to make a permissions system for the masses, so I guess I can’t say too much, but it doesn’t seem that difficult.

Twice a year is crazy. I suppose most of my maintainence is adding drives (I’m a creator and I definitely totally need to archive all of my footage), but I also run a fair few apps that have needed manual update steps, so I do all my updates manually so I can fix stuff if it breaks.

Pretty sure I can’t afford that these days

Ohhh, there is a keypad but it’s mechanical. Neat!

You can’t read? Damn I don’t think I’d admit that.

In case it still isn’t clear, I said I am forgetful.

Oh thanks I’ll never forget my keys again, awesome, I hadn’t thought of it like that.

How would that even work? How would they know when the door was closed so they could automatically lock the deadbolt? Or would you need to use a key to close the door from the outside?

Damn, didn’t know they made keys that automatically lock the doors when I leave the house so I can’t forgetfully leave the doors unlocked.

I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment. I don’t have a fingerprint lock.

I was super anti smart locks until I left my garage open and doors unlocked for an entire weekend because I’m forgetful. With smart doors and locks that doesn’t happen and, possibly a controversial take, doors being closed and locked by reputable smart devices is more secure than them standing open. Most crimes are those of opportunity, and a thief is just gonna try the door and break a window when it doesn’t open if they’re willing to go that far.

So does me forgetting to lock the door.

I once left my garage doors open all weekend with thousands of dollars of tools in it, along with my motorcycle with the key in it. My garage at the time was quite visible from a very busy street. I got lucky and nothing was stolen. My garage doors are smart now, so that doesn’t happen any more. Sure, someone could hack my home assistant server and open the garage, but that’s way less likely than my continued pattern of forgetfulness.

Based on that logic, my house also has smart locks now that automatically lock when I leave. I will say that they aren’t cheapo who-knows fingerprint locks, they’re made by a real company and just have a keypad with a lengthy 10 digit entry code.

You want a timeline feed viewable via web and an app. Immich does that. I don’t get it.

I feel like this is a case of not wanting to do the “difficult” thing because it sounds difficult when really avoiding the “difficult” thing is more difficult than just doing the “difficult” thing.

I was replacing the power steering rack on my P2 Volvo XC70 recently. I really didn’t want to drop the subframe because that sounded like a lot of work. Eventually I realized dropping the subframe was the easier way to get the power steering rack out and, in the end, it was way easier to just drop the subframe. It was like 10 more bolts and wasn’t that hard to put back. In this analogy, Immich is dropping the subframe, just do it.

As always, I want to note that seafile is not compatible with existing files, you can’t just point it at a directory, you have to upload them to seafile, and then you can only access them via seafile (at least that’s how I understand it, correct me if I’m way off base).

File Browser Quantum is AWESOME, I’m shocked I don’t hear about it more often.