I’ve done a number of ESPHome projects (coffee maker, fireplace, garage door, temp sensors, etc) and I’m looking for some ideas on what to try next. What have been your favorite ESPHome projects that you’ve worked on?
Garage sensor. Uses distance sensors to detect door open/closed and car present /absent. Has buttons to open/close the doors, a 3v garage door remote. Also has a motion sensor, temp/humidity sensor and a photo resistor to understand outside ambient brightness.
Looking at building some fridge/freezer temperature and water leak sensors.
Problem: I scroll on lemmy, I talk to friends, I see some interesting page, project, funny meme or something else. (when I was on reddit i pressed SAVE, when I was on Instagram I pressed PIN (or something) and now I’m stuck with (uncategorised) information all over the place....
UPS For Less: https://batteryupsforless.com/ca/en/
If you can pick it up in person in Markham, it's even cheaper. Bought a bunch of UPSes across a couple dozen years now, and replaced the batteries on many of them. Best prices I've found.
when downloading torrents you have a bunch of seeders and maybe most won’t be online, but some will be. I’m so so tired with services and monopolies. Do you think it would be possible to create an internet where instead of large servers we just have individuals hosting their email service, the communities they like to post...
You are describing IPFS. If you install IPFS, then browse to some IPFS content (like a wikipedia mirror: ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/), that's cached on your system, if someone else requests those assets, your computer will help distribute it. You can "pin" content, keeping/seeding a copy.
I use restic extensively, and it works really really well... until it breaks. Then there's next-to-nothing you can do to fix the repo.
Rustic, on the other hand, has lock-less design, and repair options, so I end up using it to fix things. However, it has a number of rough edges: it uses its own wacky config file, its include/exclude options are wildly different and a bit painful, and to use a bunch of repo backends (like S3), you need to install, configure, and use rclone, which is poorly documented by rustic.
Not a bug. Also not a feature. Somewhere in between.
It's just a number in a database. If you are the server admin, there's no reason why you couldn't fiddle with it. When anyone asks for the profile, server sends what's in the database. They're doing the same thing with the Joined Date.
If it wasn't a bot specifically mirroring another platform's stuff, that kind of manipulative behavior might rub other server admins the wrong way.
Agree on the creepy side, though there's other possibilities besides facial recognition, namely:
They buy data from a data broker. Said data broker bought (or got) location data from any number of apps you have installed on your phone that monitor your location data.
They associated your phone's Wifi MAC (even if you don't connect to their Wifi) or a bluetooth MAC (of bluetooth headphones, watch, or other device) to you previously, then saw it again
Arguably, I find automations make a smart home truly smart rather than perks like voice control do. What are your favourite automations running at home?
Exterior house lights - I have a bunch of automations around this, the most complex is that lights will turn on if one of us is away from home, but within 8km (proximity) after dark -- going to upgrade this to reference a photoresistor soon instead of sun state
Laundry - push notification when both the washer & dryer are finished. Also controls exhaust fan. Planning to upgrade this with a motion sensor so I can detect when the washer has run but nobody has moved the wet laundry.
Extended away - If we're going to be away for a while (eg: vacation), turn thermostat to Eco. UI control to set return date & time, when it comes out of Eco so the house is temperate when we get back. This also disables firing of some automations.
Currently building a garage sensor, which will detect garage doors open/closed, car present/absent, motion sensor, temperature/humidity, photoresistor of ourdoors, and manual garage door open/close buttons
I’ve calmed down a bit but still would like to know if there are any new ‘cool’ apps to selfhost. I know of the awesome-selfhosted github repo. Any other great sources, and could we incorporate something like that into our selfhosted community here? Maybe a bot that checks if any new ones been added?
Awesome selfhosted.
Selfhosted podcast.
Being in a selfhosted community and hearing what people are talking about.
Searching for self hosted alternatives to services you use.
What was your favorite ESPHome project?
I’ve done a number of ESPHome projects (coffee maker, fireplace, garage door, temp sensors, etc) and I’m looking for some ideas on what to try next. What have been your favorite ESPHome projects that you’ve worked on?
Looking for a app/service to save webpages
Problem: I scroll on lemmy, I talk to friends, I see some interesting page, project, funny meme or something else. (when I was on reddit i pressed SAVE, when I was on Instagram I pressed PIN (or something) and now I’m stuck with (uncategorised) information all over the place....
A Birthday Card You Will Throw in the Trash (lemmy.ca)
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8cb427e6-e963-4377-b398-606200313576.jpeg
Best bang for the buck battery backup
Like the title implies, I’m trying to figure out where to pickup cheap used or new battery backups (ups) in Canada....
Torrent style internet
when downloading torrents you have a bunch of seeders and maybe most won’t be online, but some will be. I’m so so tired with services and monopolies. Do you think it would be possible to create an internet where instead of large servers we just have individuals hosting their email service, the communities they like to post...
Anyone using rustic? (github.com)
Hey, you probably know about restic and borg for backups. They are pretty mature and very commonly used....
Why some Mastodon accounts 'have' the same number of followers from Twitter? (lemmy.world)
This is one from many examples....
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
Have you ever had this happen to you?
So recently, I went into a shipping service store, that is well known, etc etc. I walked in, asked a question, then walked out. I did nothing else....
Share your automation ideas
Arguably, I find automations make a smart home truly smart rather than perks like voice control do. What are your favourite automations running at home?
Best file menager on android?
I use material files but i don’t know if it is still maintained? Last update is from may 2022. Any newer recommendations?...
How are you keeping up with new selfhosted apps?
I’ve calmed down a bit but still would like to know if there are any new ‘cool’ apps to selfhost. I know of the awesome-selfhosted github repo. Any other great sources, and could we incorporate something like that into our selfhosted community here? Maybe a bot that checks if any new ones been added?
Best DNS for privacy?
I read a bit about using a different DNS for Privacy and I think the best one should be quad9? Or is there anything better except self hosting a DNS?