B0rax
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- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 5 days ago:
As far as I understood, this is just a USB interface, you’d still need zigbee2mqtt or ZHA
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
Sure, but the same is true for embedded timestamps. Just put a black bar over it with the time and date in white. Claim that the system does it that way, done.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
The rommbas? Maybe. The other ones? They have plenty storage.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
I would not say they cloned the design. The first breakthrough for Roborock was the S5, which had LiDAR and a map. Both was not something iRobot had at the time. iRobot simply chose to not innovate in the areas people wanted first. People didn’t like the random cleaning that the roombas did for a long time compared to the structured of almost everybody else.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Really? It can’t do no-go zones and lines without the cloud? Even the „Chinese competition“ can do that without internet.
- Comment on Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but keep write operations on SD cards in mind.
You can also look at thin clients like the Futro s740, or the much more powerful Lenovo tiny series (like the m720q)
- Comment on Got my robot vacuum running Valetudo the other night... 2 weeks ago:
Well these robots run a Linux distribution as a base. So yes, sure, they will run doom just fine.
- Comment on Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if bambulab should be recommended. With the cloud issues and the very closed nature of it. Better recommend Prusa.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 3 weeks ago:
Lots of people use fusion360. It has a free license for hobbyists. Although it is a cloud-first software. There is always the risk of them canceling that free license.
But I have yet to find a good enough replacement…
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 4 weeks ago:
Why though? When you run multiple services on your machine, conflicts between these can cause headaches. Updating them is also often not trivial on bare metal. Let alone migrating to a newly set up machine (I suppose you could automate that with something like ansible)
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 4 weeks ago:
What would you prefer and why? Bare metal?
- Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? 4 weeks ago:
Are both parties online at the same time?
Maybe something like this is a good solution: github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
It will figure out the fastest p2p connection and send even very large files without hassle.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the dongle, that would increase power consumption. I think that is difficult in the current state, seeing that there is not much power to spare at the moment.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
I am a hesitating running a VM in proxmox to run my docker services there. It doesn’t feel right to me (maybe I am wrong, what do I know…).
I also do not understand yet how this would work in a cluster. I don’t want all the services bundled on one node (then the whole cluster thing would have been a pointless exercise haha)
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
And that is good! It would have been a better answer if you mentioned these major limitations as well so that interested people don’t need to look it up :)
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
Please elaborate. I have only found that all drives will be treated as they would have the smallest capacity in the bunch.
There is some manual workarounds, which is would not call „can do it fine“
Or am I missing something?
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but it does not have redundancy or caching. Redundancy can be achieved with snapraid, but how you get caching I don’t know…
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
Free Tier? You mean the 30 day trial?
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 5 weeks ago:
Which is still not nearly as userfriendly as unraid.
With unraid I can browse the community store, click install and with juste one additional click I most of the time have this service fully running. It notifies me if there is an update and I can install updates with a single click.
With proxmox, I have yet to figure out how to update the installed services without manually ssh-ing in every single container and run a specific update command.
Unraid is light years ahead in terms of userfriendly ux for novice users.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 5 weeks ago:
I am more of a Lenovo guy, but they are more or less the same anyway.
- Comment on m2 to sata adaptor board suggestions? 1 month ago:
I have one installed on a raspberry pi 5 with NVMe adaptor.
- Comment on Looking for recommendation to upgrade my Raspberry Pi-based home server 1 month ago:
In this regard: here is a comparison of all the Lenovo tinys: github.com/a-little-wifi/TinySecrets
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Zigbee2mqtt can do scenes, no problem.
The only thing you miss is the hue app.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
But you can buy a 10-20€ zigbee stick and connect them directly to home assistant. No hue bridge or account required.
- Comment on Multi node media server 1 month ago:
Do you want the data to be only stored once or twice? Or would it be an option to sync everything? This would be the easiest. Just set up 3 individual servers, set up syncthing between them, done.
It would mean that all server need enough storage though.
- Comment on Which would be better? 1 month ago:
Matter itself is just the protocol, not the wireless standard. There are lots of matter over WiFi devices, for those you don’t need this additional adapter, as they will connect to your WiFi router.
Thread is a wireless standard which is almost like zigbee, that is why there are some adapters that support both.
But thread border routers are also a thing in lots of devices. For example if you have an Apple TV, this can be used as a gateway with home assistant without additional hardware.
- Comment on Which would be better? 1 month ago:
Matter is not really big yet.
For zigbee adapters, take a look here: www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/
- Comment on Ender 3 v3 se y axis bearings loose in carrier. 1 month ago:
Try to somehow fix it in place, shim it for example. See if that works for now. When you got the printer printing at least a little, print a replacement part.
- Comment on Best Synology Replacement? 1 month ago:
I bought a HPE microserver gen10 plus and installed unraid on it, works perfectly. Truenas would also be an option.
It has 4 drive bays, 4 1 gig Ethernet ports and 1 pciex16
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I actually bought unraid before it became a subscription. And I must say, i really like it.
I am currently looking into Proxmox to build a small cluster to prevent critical services from becoming unavailable whenever I do stupid things… but… compared to unraid the learning curve and ease of use is much more brutal.