Seems about right to me.

May not be enough motion to trigger. If he opens it to put the mail in,nyiu may be better off using a door/window sensor instead.

I have 4 of their motion detectors. Two of them are out in my garage, in the hot and humid deep south.

They’re still working perfectly. As are a pair of Apollo Automation MSR-2s, also out there, I have the motions on the exterior walls to turn on the lights when someone approaches the garage, and the msrs keep them on when someone is in the garage.

That I’m not sure of, I know MASS uses snapcast internally, and can stream to LMS/squeezelite players.

I also wouldn’t call it 100% flawless, but it works well enough for me.

We have this in the living room. It uses 3 AAA batteries and they’re still 90% after several months.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mq6wiRv

I love my 3r stuff.

My favorite use case for MASS is my desktop PC, in our bedroom, has a decent 5.1 sound system, and is running squeezelite.

I have an alarm automation that starts playing from the random 500 playlist.

When my phone connects to my car’s Bluetooth, it transfers the queue to my phone, which is running snapcast on a VPN.

When my phone disconnects from my Bluetooth, and I am at home, it transfers any queue from my phone back to my desktop.

If I’m not at home it just stops the music, otherwise it’ll start playing through the phone speakers.

While at work, I’ll use Ultrasonic rather than music assistant, because my data inside my work area is sporadic, and not conducive to a good musical experience with how MASS streams.

I’m close to a TB myself. For me, I’m a bit of a “completionist” and can’t stand having just 2 or 3 tracks from an entire album. Every track I have is accompanied by the rest of the album it was released on.

Sure, it means there are some duplicates at times, but it’s worth it to me.

Damn, and I thought my 30k plus tracks was pretty large. I use Navidrome as a server and slskd as well

Hello fellow hass/mass user. Also, what sort of low voltage?

Fire/security alarms? Or access control? (Or both)?

I do both, as well as CCTV.

Ultrasonic works fine for me with Navidrome. Plays in the background just fine as well.

Wait. There’s a strawberry for Android? I use it on my PC…

Yeah, but my wife and kid also use it, and they’re not going to be happy if I change things.

And I just tested streaming from my free server to my free phone while said server is at my house, and my phone is with me at work.

Works fine over a VPN.

As was stated on the first post you made about this, it’s a dns or nat reflection issue.

Plex sees you accessing it through your external IP address, and not through your lan IP.

I had a similar problem, and had to roll back some nat changes I made, and now it’s working fine again.

Meanwhile, free remote streaming works fine if you have a proper VPN setup. I just tested it, and was able to stream to my phone, through the Plex app, over my tailscale VPN, and I do not have Plex pass on the server or on my phone…

Real world usage tells me all I need to know.

SMB isn’t really all that slow these days.

I have NFS and SMB shares set up (same directory) and copying files to/from them maxes out my gigabit LAN.

SSH on the other hand is slower, because there’s more CPU overhead.

I do all of those things except neuter animals. Most rural folks do.

Another option is virtualization.

Separate your sharing server from your remote access server, then have them each connect to a different VPN

This is how I do it.

I have several containers and a couple of VMs running on my one server. My router is also currently virtualized (OpnSense running in a Proxmox VM, works great) and it connects to tailscale and uses subnet routing to allow my LAN devices to be accessed from outside my home without putting them directly on the Internet.

Meanwhile, I have two more VPNs set up for two different sharing servers. All on one physical machine.

Tailscale can actually use a Mullvad exit point. I don’t know if you knew that …