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- 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." 3 days ago:
Well it’s exactly what I asked for, can’t argue 😂
We settled on Puck for the name. It rhymes with what’s said when weird noises come from its direction…
- Comment on Reuse old security system 5 days ago:
Ademco Vista 6139 keypad.
As suggested by others, this will be wired back to a bigger box somewhere in the building. Any monitoring devices like door contacts will also be wired back there. Look for any references to the installer - it may still be under a monitoring & maintenance contract.
If no contract or out of contract, look up some manuals for this series and try getting into engineer mode. I think the default with these is 4110 800 iirc. If you can get engineer, you can put in new user codes for… using your system. It’s likely the engineer code has been changed though.
So break in. Most boxes are equipped with a tamper switch, so it is likely to scream if you remove the cover. If you decide to do so, switch off the mains supply first. Then remove the cover and immediately disconnect the battery to kill it.
From here, ID the unit and find the installer or engineer manual. The user manual is useless at this stage. Familiarise yourself with it.
When you are ready to play, pop the battery back on, restore power and then go immediately back to the keypad to press * and # together. This should reset the engineer code to the above, but retain the rest of the current programming.
These are old systems and a lot of this is from memory, so YMMV.
Alternatively, get the codes off the previous owner or replace it with something new. This one could be over 20 years old; vistas started in the 90s.
- 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." 5 days ago:
Why not. I would love to see your detached robotic ass.
- 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." 6 days ago:
I printed special little stilts to raise one of our tables the 10mm extra it needed to be able to go under without getting wedged. It still tries fornicating with the cat tree - a different problem to solve.
Never lost it’s ass though, one to look out for there.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
It would definitely be a size thing for adding Ethernet (PoE or otherwise) to small boards like these. The ones I am using are already bigger than they ought to be - the bottom half is just a glorified serial interface and power input for USB. The esp plugs into this through pin/header. If I were less lazy, they could be about half the thickness in a final product. no PoE I suppose also keeps them cheap, which is always good for me. The casings were my first ‘proper’ design and entry into resin printing.
The Tapo kit I have found to be a good balance of price, features and quality. I have a Tapo C310 mounted outdoors at another building, which has done great in all weathers. Initial setup does require the app/service last time I checked, but it can be made to serve RTSP locally after that. Very good for the ~£30 price point.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 1 week ago:
Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
Ok so the combination is:
- This camera board
- This external antenna
- This project
- A shell I designed myself in SketchUp (skp download). Note that’s not the final version, as I lost some design files.
And the finished item:
All assembled, they will give a decent enough feed back to frigate for the basics, just don’t expect miracles in the resolution or framerate departments. 3fps does fine for my use case of tracking critters.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
New to me & bookmarked. I am sure I have some crap lying around that this would work with.
Thank you!
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
For hardware, anything that can provide a local rtsp stream is a good place to start. I run cheap and cheerful mix of tapo, unbranded and homebrew esp32 cams. Offload the motion/object detection and alerts to something that can pull in the feeds, and isolate the cams to local network only.
WiFi usually ok, but at least hardwire the power to save future grief.
Using frigate to manage mine, which is running under Homeassistant - another project worth looking up.
A few images, featuring Freddie the visitor:
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 3 weeks ago:
Cheers for another month. Hope all continues to be well for you, your family and the team :)
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 2 months ago:
Government Response:
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
Why pick shit out of your cereal, when you can just get the other brand that doesn’t have shit in it?
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
At least they’ve zapped the acceptable ads out of it :)
Ironfox is my current pref for mobile, backed by uBO & a VPN to a box running pfsense.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
ABP hasn’t been relevant for years, because they started on “acceptable ads” back in 2011.
Anyone with sense has long since moved on.
- Comment on I can't access this sub can someone help me? 3 months ago:
Odd one. Accessible using an app, not on browser though.
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 3 months ago:
Will need an alternative if you need to port forward, but for general use you can’t fault them
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 3 months ago:
UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.
Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.
Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.
I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.
- Comment on Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
There’s a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven’t recently. Devs finally waking up haha.
Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.
- Comment on Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
B42 multiplayer can’t come quick enough…
Have you tried unstable in SP yet?
- Comment on Blorp - A new front end! 4 months ago:
But there are tons of great Lemmy clients out there built by talented people.
Like yourself. You’ve obviously put a lot of graft into your work and it shows. I can appreciate that, regardless of where you are on the generational spectrum.
Wishing you the best :)
- Comment on Blorp - A new front end! 4 months ago:
Not for me I think. On desktop, seems to be much like Tesseract but a little less busy. Alexandrite is just about tolerable and the default frontend is acceptable with dark theming. Newer frontends seem to focus more on big images and spoon-feeding posts bit by bit in a scrolly, algo-friendly manner. I’m more of a reader, so lots of scrolling for comparatively little output won’t ever get along with me. It’s like having a restaurant menu read out to you at the table dish by dish, instead of just simply being given the menu to pick from.
Can’t comment for mobile, as a dedicated app will beat any web based frontend. There’s just no use case in a mobile frontend for me.
Favourite will always be mlmym; hoping it continues to be maintained in forks as it seems to be mostly abandoned by the original author. It puts the most info in the space available, while remaining spartan and uncluttered.
Alternatives are always good though, even when they don’t fit personal preference. I can see how others who have settled on the newer frontends up until now might appreciate Blorp a lot. I realise I am old, grumpy & in the minority on this one.
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 4 months ago:
Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.
For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.
- Comment on There is no greater loss than that which is inflicted in the name of war. 4 months ago:
…Goddamnit.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 months ago:
Sorry, should have been clear. Lethal allergen tour = bad. Banning completely = also bad.
My main point was that there is a line between discomfort and danger. That line can move based on the situation, so it is awkward to abstract without getting down to specifics.
If say 5% of the population suddenly developed a tendency to go into anaphylactic shock on exposure to vanilla, then you could easily see it disappearing from fragrances altogether and becoming a non-problem in that regard. Yet it would still have culinary use and join many friends on the bolded ingredient lists on food.
There is a turnover point (that I cannot explicitly define) where the onus is on the afflicted to ensure their own safety, rather than the population at large going out of their way to ensure it.
I am fortunate to have no issues like this. In 5% Vanilla-Death-Land, the smell of the stuff would still give me pause, as I probably know someone who could well die from the idiot that just walked in the door honking of it.
If the same person instead just brought in a vanilla milkshake, I probably wouldn’t bat an eye.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 months ago:
Eating an allergen loaded sandwich to yourself - A-OK.
Coating yourself in allergens and going on tour - No.
Banning an allergen because a small fraction of the population suffer - Also No.
For matters of personal preference, I would invite the offended to suck it up and deal with it. For anything with consequences beyond offense, each individual situation is nuanced and common sense should apply. Maybe don’t eat that PB&J just before meeting a bunch of people for the first time.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 4 months ago:
See Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube, picked it up from him :)
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 4 months ago:
I loved that TV tuner cartridge.
Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 4 months ago:
Oh nee :((
It’s a Synology NAS so will work with the Synology DSM integration: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/synology_dsm
There’s definitely ways to poll the sensors of other devices though. I had some janky sensors set up before for monitoring a standard Linux box.
- Comment on I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave 4 months ago:
