lka1988

I'm slowly converting everything to run on these little 1 liter PCs. I have three so far (four if you count the Mac Mini NAS), and an Optiplex 7050 SFF that's been a bit hotrodded with a 300W XE3 PSU, Precision 3420 CPU cooler, & Noctua fans w/extra intake fan.

I like the Optiplex for obvious reasons, but it's a bit of a power hog with the i7-7700 and 48GB RAM. I haven't measured them individually, but if I had to guess, the Optiplex probably accounts for a solid 1/3 of the power usage in my entire homelab.

Which coordinator do you use?

Connect ZBT-1

If the network is not well meshed then the link quality could be too low for the sensors to reliably stay online. Adding repeater devices (mains powered devices like bulbs) could help here.

Running six of these over three floors (2x basement, 2x main floor, 2x upstairs): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DQTFM1T6

Soil sensors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DH25W72N

One is within a few feet of the coordinator. I try to just not look at the network visualization as it just causes more headaches, but I have zero "green" connections... Maybe those plugs are just garbage though, IDK.

For a split second I thought he was about to put himself to "sleep" with the gun 😂

We've got a few Echos, but these days they are mainly used as a bluetooth speaker (bedroom), kitchen timer (kitchen), and the kids' one (basement) is used for music... and that's about it.

I have one in the garage, too, but I'm about to throw it against the concrete floor and run it over a few times for how often it only plays one fucking song from my Spotify playlist when I'm working on my motorcycles.

That's why my HAOS instance runs on bare metal 😁 (Lenovo M710q, G4560T, 4GB RAM)

I'm running ZHA at the moment, but some of my devices (mainly the plant humidity sensors) keep falling off the zigbee network for hours at a time. I've heard zigbee2mqtt resolves a lot of issues with ZHA, would that have any effect?

I like smart tech, as long as I can make it work for me and not just another data vacuum for some faceless corporation. I've got Home Assistant handling a lot of my stuff now, and I'm moving things over to it and replacing corporate-app-only things with things that can work locally.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. db0 account.

Do it. The only reason I'm posting from my shit account right now (I still like this place, don't worry) is because db0 is blocked at work for "PiRaCy" 🙄🙄🙄

Yikes. Yeah I'll look for other communities.

Boo. And for .ml, are you talking about lemmy.ml? I'm subbed to several communities there for the FOSS and selfhosting stuff, on both this account and my db0 account..

The only thing I'm really questioning is the removal of the Archos devices. I'm sure if this is legit then there are reasons for it, but those devices essentially started the entire Rockbox project.

Genuinely curious - besides that particular user causing issues, what's the deal with hexbear in general? Full of idiots like that?