Not exactly the same scenario, but close enough for proof of concept.

https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access

If you want to skip wiring all together, pick up two Aurora Dimmers and put Hue bulbs in all your sockets. It’s not the cheapest or most privacy friendly if you’re using their hub. But going this way, you can put the dimmer near the fixture you want to control, you have no wiring whatsoever, connection to HA, and you’re completely up and running inside of 30 minutes.

We check criminal records from local and national databases as well as your driving record. Because my industry is working with kids, we’re really just checking to make sure you don’t have any child abuse or neglect on your record.

Other industries, I’m sure, are looking for different things based on what they’re hiring for. Where I work, there is a different set of checks we run on folks that work in our finance department, but I don’t oversee that area.

KineStop - After Apple announcef Motion Cues, I went looking on Android because I cannot use my devices in a moving vehicle. KineStop is all I found. I went ahead and bought it because it helps (doesn’t completely get rid of motion sickness). I would gladly switch to an open source alternative if one were available.

I can’t believe this happened because I made a comment on a Plex community. Thank you so much for even looking into this.

Holy cow! That’s amazing!

I would have never stumbled upon playlist shuffling by myself. Wow! You have no idea how much you just made my day! Thank you!

For context, I run Jellyfin on a box at home that serves 3 Rokus and a family of 4. I also run Jellyfin at work, a small school, where it feeds 18 Rokus in wide variety of use cases.

There are two features on my wishlist that are available on Android but not yet Roku.

The first would be the ability to shuffle a playlist. I loved that shuffle was added episodes a while back.

Don’t shame me for wanting to watch things in a random order. /s

The second would be the ability to search for subtitles. I love the new subtitles interface. It would be the cherry on top to be able to search for a missing subtitle without bouncing over to a separate devices.

I know that’s a whole other kind of request, given the use of the open subtitles plugin.

Thank you for all you do!

You’re mileage is going to vary based on if you’re running off the server’s web interface or from a client. The Roku client has made some amazing improvements and I’m thankful for those devs, but it’s still behind the Android version in terms of features.

For music on Android, as an example, Gelli, Finamp, and Fintunes are all music focused clients.

Lastly, you can run both Plex and Jellyfin off the same library. Give it a try, see how you like it without giving up Plex. I ran them in tandem for about six months because making the jump.

Come join us on Jellyfin. The project has made some great progress.

I can do Bob’s or American Dad! to fall asleep to. My wife, on the other hand, prefers the original run of Futurama.

For whatever reason, I’ll binge Gravity Falls if I’m stuck in bed sick.

Alright. Let’s get the ratgdo guy on this. I’d pre-order a rathvac today.

I’ve got physical buttons attached to several ESPHome projects. It’d be trivial to make one just a momentary push button. Beware of ESPHome though, once you start down that path, you’re going to want to build sensors yourself and start automating things that don’t need automation.

I did this at my house too. I’ve also got a card for turning off the the TV and the lights when the kids are done in that room.

A Bicyclops Built for Two aired on March 19, 2000.

This episode aired 23 years ago.

The best thing I ever did with home automation and children is to setup motion sensors in the hallway and tie it to my WLED strips. If anyone in the house leaves a bedroom at night, led light strips in the hallway, along the stairs, and downstairs turn on low and red for 5 minutes. There’s no turning on lights or forgetting to turn them off. It’s bright enough to see but not so bright that is jarring. Also, using red light doesn’t kill your night vision when you go back to a dark room.

Are there certain features you’ve grown to rely on?

I use plaintext documents with markdown. There’s a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.

Let’s keep going down the rabbit hole! You can build your own using ESPHome.

I have a Pi 3 running Home Assistant. I also have two Pi Zeros that I have MP4 Museum installed.

I use MP4 Museum to run projected Halloween decorations mostly but it’s great to have a little box that will take a video file from a thumbdrive and dump it out the HDMI port on boot.