@meltedcheese @brianvastag If any of your Home Automation stuff needs Internet to work, you've done Home Automation wrong.

Zigbee/Zwave/Matter things controlled by Home Assistant or similar is the way forward.

@o_O Incidentally, the CM5 doesn't seem to be as picky as the CM4 in the Yellow regarding drives.

CM5 in a Yellow is a very easy swap, and a significant upgrade. I used an 8GB WiFi with no eMMC CM5, booting off NVMe. Works great.

@o_O Well, that's not at all true. I've had the following working fine in the Yellow (I use one for testing):

Samsung 970 EVO 250GB
WD Blue SN550 500GB
WD Blue SN570 1TB
Samsung 9B1 1TB (Dell OE 2230)
Fanxaing S501Q 1TB
Samsung PM981 512GB
SkHynix G31 Gold 1TB
SkHynix P41 Platinum 1TB

Plenty of easy to get drives there...

The only drive I've not had work is the WD Green SN350. But they're junk anyway.

Just a TIL - if you buy a #aeotec #smartthings hub, and it was manufactured before April 2024, there's a good chance it won't work, as the SSL cert in factory images before that expired in March 2025. You will likely get an error 33-504.

Once the firmware is updated, they're fine, but getting it to update is a challenge.

Workaround is to block NTP on your firewall, so the hub doesn't know what time it is upon reset, and it'll then happily work and update.

I just got a second hub from Amazon UK and it was manufactured in 2021, so it took a bit of digging to get the thing working.

https://community.smartthings.com/t/troubleshooting-smartthings-hub-2018-and-aeotec-hub/298332

#homeautomation #homeassistant #iot

@ironicbadger Bit sweaty.

@marshant @homeassistant I'd use an opto-sensor, similar to what's used in oil boiler burners. Light = flame lit. Dark = flame gone out. Much less need to interact directly with the fire.

#Google rolled out their device finding network a few years ago. It's still utterly useless.

I put an #Airtag, a Samsung Smarttag and a #Chipolo Spot in the side pocket of my car.

I currently have a Samsung phone with Google's Find system set to find anywhere. Wife has an #iphone

The Airtag updates and is traceable pretty much everywhere. The Samsung Smarttag is pretty much similar, sometimes it's position is half an hour out of date, but a few refreshes later it pops up.

The Chipolo running Googles Network is bad. It hasn't seen the tracker since 2nd June. The tracker is in the car which is 3 feet away from me. Last reported position is at work, 50 miles away. I, along with the tracker visited the largest city in the country on the 4th June, where the car sat in a highly populated area for 3 hours.
The actual Cipolo is still transmitting, because I can see it in #homeassistant

Tldr; don't buy a Bluetooth tracker that relies on Google Find My network, and expect to be able yo find your thing.

@stroughtonsmith It's funny and sad, because Apple's European HQ is in Ireland, so it's not like they don't know about Eircodes.

@ironicbadger TPLink pocket router flashed with OpenWRT. They idle at less than half a watt if you turn off the WiFi.

3 weeks in and I can say the #homeassistant yellow works great with the CM5. All I did was pop out the CM4, move the little heatpads and flashed a new version of HAOS on to the SSD using the Pi imager.

I didn't *need* to reinstall, but my old install was severely full of cruft after years of tinkering.

The CM5 is fast. HA runs as quick as it does on a low end miniPC. Uses about 5W running off POE.

@piofthings It likely just died. Total heaps of junk.

A neighbour, an elderly gentleman has a similar Rangie. His air suspension stopped working years back, he just drives it around with zero suspension. It batters and bashes along the road on the bumpstops. He's totally clueless.

@ironicbadger You should really start a podcast about self hosting...oh, wait...
😆

@balloob This Wednesday was yesterday. You mean next Wednesday.

@everytechever I'm most excited about not visiting your site because it blocks me due to my ad blocker.

"there's no other podcast out there for self-hosters that do it quite like you guys do" #selfhosting #selfhosted

https://blog.ktz.me/self-hosted-150-fin/

@georgetakei The Chinese have released a number of EVs that are better and cheaper than Tesla.

Oh, and the Nazi thing really didn't help. Germany is really grumpy about that one.

YouTube Premium is £4 cheaper if you subscribe through Android or a browser than if you subscribe through the YouTube app on iOS. #AppleTax

@DrPen Google Docs, not “everything”.

@Minty95 TrueNAS is just Debian with a GUI slapped on (in the loosest teems).