Badabinski

Should have just used AGPL from the start, instead of falling back to this fucked up modified BSD license. It wouldn’t stop people from stripping the branding, but they’d have to release source code which would tell all users what they’re actually using.

Hard power cycling your AC unit is bad for it and may eventually kill it. The fan needs to run for a bit after the compressor turns off. This affects large ACs more than small ones, but it may cause damage after a while. If your AC unit has an RF remote, I’d recommend using something like a Broadlink unit to control it.

I would not recommend ThirdReality zigbee smart plugs. Their firmware updates have been buggy far too often. Honestly, the only smart plugs I’ve been happy with are z-wave ones. Zooz ZEN04-LR and ZEN15-LR (for high current draw applications) plugs have been awesome for me. My hub is PoE, so I can easily stick it centrally in my home.

But k3s so niiiice.

“Get off vent, or I’ll have you bent.”

I wish those stupid videos weren’t the first thing my brain goes for when I see the word “Ventrilo.”

Proxmox HA cluster with a SAN. VM migrations go wheeeeeeeeee.

I’d just run HA on the mini PC. There are a boatload of add-ons that you can install which will allow you to make better use of the hardware.

Wireguard was written with the explicit goal of having sane, secure defaults. I totally feel you w.r.t. openvpn or ipsec, since it’s easy to do something wrong. Wireguard is much easier because it simply refuses to give you the choice to do things incorrectly.

w.r.t. the certificate thing, you could set up a reverse proxy and do HSTS to ensure nobody can load up a rogue CA on your devices. HSTS has the issue that SSH has (trust on first use or whatever it’s called), but you just need to make sure nobody is MITM you for that first connecting and then you’ll be good to go. This would let you use a self-signed certificate if you do desired.

For people like me who lack context:

Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server and portal fulfilling the identity and access management (IAM) role of information security in providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal. It acts as a companion for common reverse proxies.

Yeah, Pokemon had some nice 2D sprites. I yearn for a pokemon game that doesn’t hold your hand and is challenging with nice sprite work. It’ll never happen unless Game Freak lets the fans do something like Sonic Mania.

Not all Bluetooth stuff requires an app. I have dozens of BLE sensors all around my house and I haven’t downloaded anything for the majority of them. My BLE proxies pick them up automagically and I get a notification on my phone about a new detected device.

There are a few where you have to hack some bullshit, but I just avoided buying more of those once I learned that some of my shit needed that.

tbf Apple membrane keyboards are pretty nice for what they are. I wouldn’t daily one, but I’ve frequently used them in a professional context.

Source: I’m a huge keyboard dork sitting at a desk with an OG TX-CP.

rsync -avr --progress in termux or a file explorer app built on top of scp or rsync. It doesn’t work like your use-case, but I’ve been happy with it.

This is true, but LR controllers have also been a thing for a few years now. zwave-js-ui lacked support until fairly recently, but the hardware has been out for a while.

Z-wave LR has no repeaters, it’s a star topology. Regular old z-wave is a mesh, z-wave LR is not.

I spent several weeks evaluating options and really wanted to use LoRa for controlling some stuff in a detached machine shop, but I just couldn’t find reasonably priced sensors, switches, and gateways (or access points or whatever you call them in LoRa parlance). I seem to recall that one of the major integrations was cloud-polling only which was a huge no-go (same reason I didn’t buy in heavily into Yolink, I require 100% local control).

Do you use LoRa? I’d love to hear what you use (brands and vendors to buy stuff from) if so. I try to have at least two different technologies controlling an area. That way, my zwave-js-ui pod occasionally shitting the bed won’t completely break an area.

I’m deeply confused. I have a shitload of Zooz stuff that supports Long Range. Does the whole star topology and everything. Is this some sort of new development? Or did the author miss the long range stuff that’s been available for a year now?

EDIT: many commentors over on Ars are also confused.

Damn, that’s crazy to hear! Zooz stuff has been the bedrock upon which I’ve built all my automation. Like, I have dozens of ZEN04 LR plugs all over my house. What specific Zooz stuff has been unreliable for you? I’ve only used the ZEN04 LR, ZEN14 LR, and ZEN15 LR plugs so maybe it’s just not anything I’ve ever touched.

Z-wave LR isn’t a mesh, and I’d highly recommend it. I have some very chatty smart plugs (I use them to share load on a breaker, so I need power usage updates quickly or the breaker will pop) and they’ve done a great job on LR.

I avoid anything using WiFi unless it’s running open source software. I don’t want to manage an IOT VLAN, and there’s just no reason my sensors and plugs need to understand IPv4. I just want things to be reliable and self-contained.

Like, I am a very choosy and grumpy person and I get immediately annoyed if I have any sort of connectivity issues. I’ve been using two Ruckus R750 APs in my 2400ft² (220m²) house with properly set minimum RSSIs, xmit power, and channel usage. IOT stuff owns 2.4 on its own channel as you’ve said. It’s wonderfully reliable and fast! My BLE proxies have had 100% availability (outside of power outages, since only my central rack has battery backup). So is my single 800 series Z-wave LR radio that runs off of PoE and is wired in just like any other AP.

I absolutely ditched zigbee for anything other than sensors though. I just couldn’t count on it.

Yeah, the time drift between the earth and moon is small, but it’ll noticable for latency-sensitive software.

God, I’d hate to be the dev that has to deal with relativistic time zone conversions. What a fucking nightmare that’d be…

Fuckers. I don’t know why you’d want to hack the IA, but they’re dicks for doing so. I’m gonna throw some of my spondulix to the IA, and I’d encourage others to do so.