@ottaross I'm sure I'll post some pics when it's working.
I'm building two boards. First one is a SparkFun RP2040 and two MAX485 modules in transmit mode, second is two more MAX485 modules in receive mode with a 36v->5v regulator. Idea is to pipe two streams of neopixel data across my garage from a tiny x86 machine to where the strands start.
I have no justification for this largess. I just wanted one or two spares to mess with because I have five in production and sometimes I need to FA to FO. I could have spent $40 on one machine but I chose to spend $160 on 16 machines.
I haven't tested any yet but they all look to be in good physical shape and all appear to have their (incredibly rare) wifi cards. If they all work I can plausibly part out half the wifi cards for what I paid for the lot.
@zrail Watchtower has boringly just worked for me for this, too. I set mine to 2 minutes because I'm running a dozen+ websites being polled.
I like your idea about using fly to proxy in. I have used Tailscale's funnels for a few projects, mostly to allow GitHub to access it. I should probably re-think that.
It's so nice to have a parts bin deep enough (and infrastructure developed enough) to just build the things I want to build.
I put some grass seed down but didn't have a sprinkler, so I bought a sprinkler, and then I decided I wanted to hook it up to #HomeAssistant
All I needed to buy was a cheapie in-ground solenoid sprinkler valve, NPT to GHT thread adapters, and a 24VAC transformer. Dug a Z-Wave relay out of the parts bin and wired it up.
@zrail@jellyfin@manet@tailscale lucky for you. Because there’s a horrendous self destruct sequence at 4.20hrs of listening that were rather hoping will just go away ;) kidding obviously.
I have a collection of movies and TV shows on my NAS being served by Jellyfin. I have a "Kids" #Jellyfin account with access to a subset of this media.
I want to transcode just that subset with specific settings and dump it to external storage. Ideally this would happen whenever I plugged that external storage into the NAS.
Is there an off the shelf solution to this or do I need to roll my own?
I have a UPS and a couple pieces of network gear in an uninsulated shed. I tried using one of those battery mat thingies but the UPS got a little melty over the winter.
I'd like to keep the UPS above freezing and also be able to run a fan in the summer if it's enclosed. Temps in the shed range from -5F to (probably) 115F. I don't care about the gear as much, it can withstand those temp ranges no problem.
Ok this is maybe a dumb me thing but ever since I migrated #HomeAssistant to an LXC on #Proxmox it has been losing HACS-downloaded components in restart. I used the same docker-compose file I used when I had it on metal, so I'm very confused.
I'm currently using Fastmail for email routing, both simple wildcard domain forwards and more complicated family routing. Fastmail is fine, but I don't think I'm ever going to convince family to move away from their current email/calendar situation, even if I wanted to move to Google Workspace.
@zrail No problem. You just saved me $10 a year of mostly email bit rot 😄
I'm happy to answer questions if you have them. I did a never minimal post on it years ago when I found it. I might refresh that sooner than later based on the outbound SMTP discovery. https://jefftriplett.com/2021/side-projects-email-is-a-pain/
@ironicbadger a friend of mine put together this project that adds a little twist to the docker tailnet service container idea. It's a single-upstream reverse proxy that also does https termination with tailscale certs.
I want to get gas usage data into my #HomeAssistant energy dashboard but my gas meter doesn't expose any kind of IR port or radio signal that I can find. It reports to the gas company daily, however, and I can download a file with daily usage from a non-authenticated link.
HOWEVER that file is only populated sometime after midnight.
Does anyone know how to backdate a sensor reading such that I can get the usage to appear on the previous day?
@vcdx71@homeassistant@homeassistant cool. I picked up an SDR with the intent of trying to pick up the meters but I couldn't get anything. Maybe I'll try again.
Hello! I'm a senior software developer looking for a role where I can help users succeed. I have 17 years of experience running the gamut from #Perl to #Python to #Ruby to #Go. I love to make relational databases sit up and dance. I've been in the financial and fintech space recently, as well as devprod/infra.
I'm open to full time W-2 or short term consulting.
Email me: pete@petekeen.net or DM me here if you'd to chat about how I can help.
I have an #interiordesign#3DPrinting problem. I don't really want my printer in my office, so I've been keeping it out multipurpose "spare" room (I.e. guest bedroom / workout room / now 3d printer lab).
It's a room that's about 10ftx12ft, has a Murphy bed on one long wall and a rowing machine on the other so there isn't a lot of space for activities.
I need something to put the printer on that is stable while also being mobile so I can scoot it out of the room when we have guests.
I've considered a cheap work table with wheels, a cheaper (2D) printer stand, wire kitchen/storage shelving (the chrome kind), and a planar stand (for woodworking power tools). I'm not confident in the stability of any of that.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? Or votes of confidence in the above?