synestine

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[–] synestine 2 points 9 months ago

This is how my partner and I do our notifications. We've got "him", "her", and "us", depending on who needs the notification. Whenever either of us gets a new device, I add it to either of our groups and then works.

[–] synestine 3 points 10 months ago

Skipping forward/back between scenes mostly. It's either that or the time skip, which works, but is more work and less accurate.

[–] synestine 9 points 10 months ago

It's more because they provide an ONVIF interface or an RTSP stream that makes them self-hosting darlings. Them being Chinese white-labels and cheap is mainly a side-bonus.

What are your recommendations if not them?

[–] synestine 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you object to their feely-distributable firmware updates? Seriously? Without those, your CPU is vulnerable to exploits and known hacks.

[–] synestine 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Really? Which ones?

[–] synestine 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You mean besides Fedora?

[–] synestine 2 points 11 months ago

From what I've seen from running it the last year or so, yes, most Z2M releases add/change a large number of things. I use the Docker container, and I backup my mapped data directory between releases, but I have had no release related issues. Sometimes new items or features appear in Homeassistant, but it has always worked for me.

[–] synestine 1 points 11 months ago

I agree that it is awesome to use Kodi as a Jellyfin front end. I use some CoreElec ARM boxes that directly support all the codecs I use. My problem is that the Jellyfin plugin only updates content at startup, so I have to restart Kodi before it picks up changes made since the last restart. I've asked around and either no one else is having the issue or they didn't chime in.

[–] synestine 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I can tell, it has always used the dotNet 6 framework.

[–] synestine 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Odd, I only have to reboot mine for updates. Other than that it seems fine running on a Linux VM with 2GB RAM, after the initial setup.

And it uses the dotNet runtime 6 so I'm unclear on what roadmap you refer to.

[–] synestine 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'dd' works, but I prefer 'shred'. It does a DoD multi-pass shred by default, so I usually use 'shred -vn1z /dev/(drive)'. That gives output, does a one-pass random write followed by one-pass zero of the disk. More than that just wastes time, and this kinda thing takes hours on large spinners. I also use 'smartmontools' to run SMART tests against my drives regularly to check their health.

[–] synestine 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

6th gen works, 8th gen and up works better.

As long as you have enough RAM, you won't get much more speed. 4GB should be enough. A minimal Linux install plus Jellyfin takes less than 16GB on disk, and anything is fast enough.

Fanless Intel runs a little hot for my taste, but it's your build. I've run tiny/mini/micro systems that were virtually silent but still had a CPU fan to help move heat out.

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