This is awesome! As someone that has owned a number of aquarium books through my youth but never took the plunge I love the dedication.
Home Assistant has become my fitness tracker and so this post leaves me thinking about all of the edge cases people fold into the kit… Here’s to more write-ups like this; thanks for taking the time to share your hobby OP!

Truly a master of the craft.

Easy to sympathize with the childfree movement, but having a kid does build character.

After several projects this is the best solution by my lights. The home assistant companion app coupled with tasker is pretty powerful. You can call remote location updates via intents and use taskerHA plugin for back and forth communication between the two.

Nice little netbird wrapper for android. It’s on fdroid if you want to check it out.

Neat!

This was not defaulted on my Jetbird.

Lifting builds character.

I skipped tailscale, so feel free to ignore me, but Netbird has been excellent and has no limitations I’m aware of.

This is really neat. I just got a personal project off the ground in HA with an LLM doing similar things and was looking forward to moving it local down the line. This is a fine alternative that I look forward to sinking my teeth into, thanks a bunch!

Very cool, I will absolutely give this a look, thanks!

Replaced a self hosted Wireguard/OVPN setup that was used to navigate corporate/public networks with Netbird a few months ago and haven’t looked back. Never having hosted Tailscale, I am impressed with the flexibility and routing an overlay VPN offers, particularly with Netbird’s management UI. The project itself seems well maintained and the team regularly adds new features, many of which I have not bothered to explore yet.
Give it a go I say.

Anyone running this that wants to comment on the stability? I am using synapse/ap on my test container and was wondering if this is worth keeping a closer eye on…

I’m not quite sure what you are asking but I run the Netbird management containers on a server and also run a native Netbird client alongside them (not in docker) to have the server itself also perform as a peer. Is that what you are looking to do above?

This touches on what I am feeling; thanks for sharing your story. Even here in my my middle years, I find your younger self relatable.

Sounds like it would look pretty cool. If that makes sense.

He did yell at him from the comfort of the doorway.
I used to think these strips were pointing at Calvin as a teenager but being older, I appreciate your interpretation more.

This, I used to run an ovpn server to call home from restricted networks that didn’t allow for wireguard ports. I’ve since moved onto netbird, which runs wireguard under the hood and automatically syncs to a relay server when needed.

Yeah that is a strange take to say the least. I have an older pixel that has long been used as a satellite mic running grapheneOS. It stays plugged in and optimized at 80% charge and sips juice without cellular services. It still functions as an all day replacement when my primary device in the shop even.

Spinning and flash.