synestine

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You just gotta think different in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SSHFS uses SFTP which is built into SSH, so no server to install. Its not as fast as NFS, but requires no setup. For something small like a home lab, that is a big advantage.

The Pebble Has Been Brought Back in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dozens? Name three, and be sure to include number of aps in each ecosystem.

I'm sure there are dozens of Chinese smart watches, but most that I've seen are white-labels and sorely missing an ecosystem.

The Pebble Has Been Brought Back in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

And all the other watch makers I've looked at are not doing, or even considering, what Pebble did.

The Pebble Has Been Brought Back in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 7 points 1 week ago

Because good software is hard. The PebbleOS is a gem, and no, no one could in 9 years.

The Pebble Has Been Brought Back in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 23 points 1 week ago

Google dumped the Pebble OS code on GitHub when this whole "rePebble" thing (not Rebble) started. Now there's a new phone app coming out soon (or out now, depending on your platform and abilities) that handles old and new Pebbles and modern phone platforms.

None of this is from Google.

Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, but there's not much one can do about others' stubbornness. I've been using cheap Android boxes with Kodi or the JF client installed. They make sense to my non-techie family. Dedicated boxes are better (something that can run CoreELEC, OpenELEC) but those are harder to find.

Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because that basically requires transcoding for modern codecs. H265? Transcode. Subtitles? Transcode. The JF client on the same hardware can usually direct play.

what ffmpeg command do I need to cut a portion of a larger mkv file and bind the 2 resulting files into 1? in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 5 points 1 month ago

Look into ffmpeg's "concat" feature. It can do what you want. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

Zigbee probe thermometer? in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I've been looking for something like this. I've got a couple of refrigerators and a deep freeze I'd like to monitor. I'm not looking for a cooking tool that constantly sends updates. For that I'd like to use a multi-probe Bluetooth device. I've got Zigbee for other sensors, and I'd like to add these to the net

Self-Hosting Gotify with Docker in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 1 points 1 month ago

It is designed for one user, multi-channel push notifications. Like Firebase Messaging but self-hosted. You can use Markdown when composing the messages and do about whatever you want.

What is a service you host you never knew you needed? in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 22 points 2 months ago

Unpopular opinion from what I've seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.

I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.

We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku's. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.

HA Doorbell in c/[email protected]
[–] synestine 1 points 2 months ago

Follow up:

(Hello future reader!)

The selection is really not great at the moment, but I was able to find a factory-refurbished Amcrest AD-410, which arrives today.

Wish me luck.

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HA Doorbell (self.homeassistant)
 

Until recently I had been using an EZVIZ DB1C doorbell. I researched before I got it, and it worked immediately when bought. Then the company started playing dirty pool. Over the next two firmware updates (WIth nothing in the notes beyond "bugfixes and imrprovements") they stripped out the ability to use a local RTSP stream then they stripped out the ability to use their Windows-only software to even re-enable any functionality. Then they jerked me around for over a month before they finally copped to what the company had done.

And of course there's no way back to a working firmware.

I know people have mentioned Reolink and Amcrest before, but those models are no longer available.

Is there anything in the way of wired, mechanical-bell compatible doorbell cameras that work with HomeAssistant?

I'm so sick of companies that sell you one thing, then strip out the functionality that made it useful, shoving you into their cloud/app shit or leaving you stranded on whatever firmware the thing came with.

GRR

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Smart-ening Window Blinds (self.homeassistant)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by synestine to c/[email protected]
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I've got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn't want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them "smart", let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now...

I've done numerous searches, but have not found anything decent that I could use to retrofit to add any sort of automation to these blinds. The best I could find were purpose-built and/or roller shades.

Is anyone here aware of any projects or products that can be added to a set of blinds to locally automate any of their features? I'm running latest stable Home Assistant in a container, with HACS, if that helps.

TIA!

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Kodi Jellyfin plugin doesn't pick up new content without a restart (self.jellyfin)
 

I started using Jellyfin a few years ago as a shared backend for my Kodi boxes (CoreElec mostly but not exclusively). I use the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi, installed from the Jellyfin repo as per official instructions. I've stuck to defaults/recommendations in the plugin. I did this for the WAF (wife approval factor), because otherwise none of my family ever used it. Now I get a shared watchlist and can stop on one TV and resume on another.

I've been running into a problem, and after extensive troubleshooting, I'm at a loss and asking for help.

The Kodi boxes do not pick up new content when it hits my server, which happens fairly regularly as I am ripping my disc collection into a format that Kodi (and the little Arm boxes) support natively. Unless I restart Kodi or the Jellyfin plugin every day or so, they do not see any new files uploaded since their last restart and if it goes long enough, even watched status falls out of sync and I have to go through the lengthy process of resyncing that entire library.

If I restart my Jellyfin service, every Kodi box immediately reconnects within a minute but still nothing syncs unless I restart the client.

Is this a known issue (Google is pretty useless in this regard)? Is there an option I can change somewhere to force the check-in to sync on a schedule? Is there another plugin that would work and still show content "normally" in the libraries, as opposed to going into another screen? Or does everyone use the Jellyfin web frame client?

Thanks.

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