I’m just this guy, you know?
I don’t know this for sure, but if you installed the mobile companion app thru the Store for your platform, then the integration is probably using its push API to reach your device remotely.
I’m >90% sure notification workflows find me even when I am remote and untethered from home when I notify the app on my mobile devices.
It’ll be remembered a dark age when the lights go out and all the disks rot. And, if I know archaeologists, they’ll call our data centers ritual centers or temples.
Otherwise there will be disbelief at the inexplicably sophisticated engineering, and how we could have achieved it all with no written records. Probably it was all just ancient aliens.
You could source a pair of gigabit media converters and a length of fiber on Amazon for about $100. Just use the media converters to extend the Ethernet port from where the Internet hands off in your house over to your office. You can affix the fiber along baseboards and up over door frames with adhesive cleats and zip ties, or those nylon staples on a nail they use to tack down coax cable.
If you’re willing to spend a little more on the fiber for a custom color, you can probably even order the fiber in a more neutral color than SMF yellow to blend into the trim better.
That’s the neat part, you don’t!
Seems It was actually 2024.6.1 that introduced the change. Not sure where in this release notes it said it was a breaking change, but
I’m all turned around. I updated the main post with the link to the PR and I had the right version from the get-go.
Oops! Good eyes, and thanks! Typing yaml on mobile is squinty business. Fixed in the main post
Da fuq? That was hilarious. Also, maybe.
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I’m a junkie for YouTube maker videos and other forms of creative infotainment. I binge on This Old Tony and Farmcraft101 videos, but I also listen to several podcasts adjacent to my (rather technical) professional sector.
Ugh, and politics. Stresses me out too.
DEPENDS
Probably I’m neither a tankie nor not a tankie, but I like tossing grenades in these sorts of surveys.
I also mainly don’t use screen Auto Rotate, but I did make it a tile on the window shade. Rather than toggle it manually, I have Tasker enable rotation when an app that I want to auto-rotate is active on the screen, and disable it when that app is not active.
It doesn’t put anything up on the status bar, but if you can live without it knowing only certain apps do it, maybe it doesn’t matter.
Profile: Auto-rotate Apps
Settings: Restore: yes
Application: Sky Map, Camera, Gallery...
Enter Task: Enable Auto-rotate
A1: Display AutoRotate [
Set: On ]
If [ %ROTATE_APP_LOCK Set ]
A2: Variable Clear [
Name: %ROTATE_APP_LOCK ]
Exit Task: Disable Auto-rotate
A1: Variable Set [
Name: %ROTATE_APP_LOCK
To: 1 ]
If [ %ROTATE_APP_LOCK !Set ]
A2: Display AutoRotate [ ]
Oh, and then I guess it inspired Bowie’s single, Major Thom
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at the time of its release, was based on a short story called The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. In that story, the roots of the Tycho Monolith plot segment of 2001 of is sketched out, and then expanded as both a screenplay and a full-length novel.
The SmartThings hub does both ZigBee and Z-Wave, right?
I have been pretty happy so far with the Aotec ZW187 sensors on my doors, and the Aquara TZ-006 ZigBee sensors on my windows. The Aotec sensors are Z-Wave, and the Aquara sensors are ZigBee. So far the battery life on the Aotec devices has been stellar, but the ZigBee once seem to fade within a couple of months.
Both are local-only devices, and paired right up with my HUSZ-B combo stick USB controller. Both are well supported in Home Assistant.
I got both through Amazon, but I’m sure you can source them elsewhere as you prefer.
If you just want each physical interface on your server to participate in a single VLAN, set the corresponding switch port as an access port in the desired VLAN, and then configure each server interface as a normal untagged interface.
You would only do tagged frames (802.1q trunking) if you wanted to support several VLANs on the switch port.
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It’s mainly about managing risk, but also not all ISPs allow residential accounts to host services on their IP addresses.
Opening a port to the internet exposes the service to the whole internet, which means you need to secure the service with strong credentials, set up SSL, manage the certificate, and keep software up to date. You incur a lot of extra work, and also extra risk not only to your self-hosted service, but to any other services you host that “trust” your service.
All that work requires extra knowledge and experience to get right which, let’s just be honest here: we’ve all probably followed that one How-To blog post, and maybe not understood every step along the way to get past that one pesky error.
Running a secure VPN overlay like Tailscale has much less overhead. You generate some keys, and configure your lighthouse server so the enrolled devices can find each other. It effectively extends your LAN environment to trusted hosts wherever they might be without exposing any of the services to the Internet.
Overall, Tailscale is simpler and much less work for individuals to set up and maintain than to secure multiple services against casual or targeted intrusion.
Tailscale also has the benefit of being a “client” in the view of the ISP, who see your IP address reach out to your VPS to initiate the tunnel, and not the other way around. If there’s any CGNAT going on, Tailscale would tunnel through it.
I mean, we can’t tax the businesses for their behavior. They might, I dunno, leave?
Its not exactly lightweight, but the Netdata integration will get you all of that.
Securing Netdata itself can be a bit of a chore, and then the integration requires creating sensors of interest in your configuration.yaml file. Have a look, it might be an interesting project if you’re up for a challenge.
Curious to hear what others are thinking too.
I’ve been happy with the GE Enbrighten series, though they do require a neutral wire. I use the Z-Wave models, but I can’t imagine the ZigBee models would work any differently.
Neat feature of the Enbrighten line is they recognize several gestures including short tap, long press, double tap, and I think even triple tap. I configured mine so that short taps on/off toggle the lights between off and 100% on, long press on/off brightens/dims, and double tap on activates the preferred evening lighting scene.
I think Minoston are also a GE product line? Again, Z-Wave, but rated for higher wattage in my case. They also require a neutral wire.
I had a pair of no-neutral ZigBee switches sold as ‘Martin Jerry’ brand, but they were super dodgy. Terrible feel to them, and they made a sort of electrical whine when the fixture was on. I pulled them right out and sent them back.