That’s also what I’ve been using, they just don’t look very permanent or polished in my high traffic areas.
That’s also what I’ve been using, they just don’t look very permanent or polished in my high traffic areas.
Could I trouble you to link a relay you’re talking about? Because if it’s a naked board that’s cool I’ll hide it in the wall, but amazon is confused and thinks I mean a switch I think.
You know, that’s actually really sound advice. I hadn’t considered that. Maybe I’ll go with relays or something else.
Who is this even written for? What a duh article.
If you want to lab around on the cheap then sure get a mini PC, if you need small form factor to do a sane standalone task get a pi. If you’re trying to actually get off the ground in self hosted hardware, build a pc (or a server rig) and don’t buy rpi or mini PC: that’s not in the article, but it’s free advice.
It really is super good
Oh neat. I don’t think my smart plugs show power consumption.
I’ve got one esp32 board with espresence on it right now, but I sort of balked when I had to go in the HA settings and enable BLE on high power for my phone. How does it affect your battery life?
Also, as a minor annoyance, I could only flash the board from chrome when connected to a WINDOWS machine which I find pretty nasty 🤢, but I may be in the minority there.
Edit: how do you know when to send the notification btw? Did you configure some automation or script that just says how long until notify?
I don’t suppose you can dumb it down 2 notches? What do the kits do? PIR and Radar I don’t get the application for, and I don’t know the meaning of addressable led strings.
I have one esp32 I was starting to configure for room assistant and gave up. This is not your problem, but I feel like the HA world is deep and it’s easy to start in the kiddie pool end, but I can’t even understand the deep end and I don’t know how to keep moving forward with more than just more switches and more random sensors.
Ssh to pihole. $ pihole restartdns
usually works for me
Better off using local Plex then? It seems like it should be so much easier to just send a TV a Netflix url with name of title, but maybe not.
I guess this means I need to set up home assistant instead of lazily relying on Google… This is totally beyond my expertise and I’ve got a 42U server rack in my basement.
I reserve everything below .100 for static IP devices like switches/access points and my work devices, the rest is all dynamic lease DHCP.
I could just set up a dashboard or figure out how to use hostnames, but I’m a caveman and I remember the IPs of the devices I want to ssh or browse to in my network.
So separate WiFi name or (or probably router/AP) for separate vlan?
I like your funny words magic man.
As a total novice for networking (setting up 4 hat rules for my pihole was… tough), how bad are vlans to set up?
Thanks that’s not what ai was expecting!