This is correct. The only thing that is regulated is the disposal (at least in WA) - otherwise home owners are legally allowed to remove it themselves as they see fit. Not that I recommend it if you don’t know what you’re doing, but you won’t get a fine.

Source: am homeowner who (with saftey precautions such as a tent of 3 mil plastic, negative airflow, HEPA shopvac, soap and water, and a proper respirator) removed asbestos tape from my duct work.

At least on Android, you can make TTS go through your alarm channel on your phone at max volume, to really make sure you don’t miss it. I do this for my alarm and doorbell (only when I’m at home).

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

Funeral potatoes are the one food I miss from Utah. The ultimate comfort food.

I got a NUC on ebay for about the same price, maybe a little less. Has more I/O and an SSD.

Can you share your redacted frigate config?

I use scenes to control my lights and use those in my automations instead. This lets me create “groups” of lights to control.

Friends don’t let friends use Snap.

M-Disc is the way if you’re going to use optical discs for backups.

Safeway has some of the best generics for sure. I’ve never been let down with any of their stuff, and that doesn’t only include food items.

Reolink has a wifi video doorbell that works great, it has an integration with Home Assistant but also with Frigate. I use Frigate personally, since it’s better at person detection and I can record directly to my server. If you don’t use Frigate, you can record to an SD card that you slot into the back of the doorbell.

Also using a Model M from 1991, still going strong. Very serviceable too if I ever need to repair it, so long as I can get the replacement parts on ebay.

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LūN (EDM)/Lights (electropop) (same artist, different personas) has some great music if you’ll like that kind of stuff. Probably most recognized in Canada, much less so in the US and rest of the world.

I also enjoy Echo Movement (reggae) but I’m not sure if they’re still making music or not.

All links go to invidious.

This thread on the inovelli forums has the wiring you need to do, but you can directly associate z-wave bulbs with the z-wave dimmer. I have the inovelli blue dimmers, and do exactly that (except with Zigbee, easier to find the lights for those though)

And this site has z-wave devices, you can probably find compatible bulbs there.

Was about to mention Mikrotik. They even have a 100GBit switch for under $800 (CRS504-4XQ-IN).

Frigate + reolink is a great combo.

You can redirect all DNS traffic to your own DNS server to get around this.

I immediately block them as soon as I realize they’re a repost bot. Has cleaned up my feed nicely.

I’m curious where you run into there not being a YAML option? There’s almost always Open in YAML somewhere.