Maestro

Reolink?

Obsidian aldo has (paid, subscription) native sync that is supposed to work better than file sync. Another alternative is git sync. That’s basically file sync through git but great if you want to track your changes.

I have the same thing for my son (well, not a heart but the great A’tuin)

Ah, a fellow whittler! I started out with a bunch of Doug Linker video’s. I’m currently working on the first piece of what should become a full medieval chess set.

The people they’re killing tend to skew Republican. Let’s see how that works out…

I did my table with stairs finisher. It’s even tougher than floor finisher. My 3 year old hasn’t destroyed it… yet. According to my wife the only thing even tougher is professional grade boat finisher.

That looks really nice! Congrats!

I have a few backup lights that are dumb led lights on a smart wall switch. But my HA is pretty much never down unless I am manually restarting it for updates. And my Zigbee network works even when the internet or wifi is down.

Bulbs are mains-powered and should be zigbee routers. The way to prevent that is to take out the switch, wire it closed, and stick a smart button over it.

Which of these is better for Aqara? I recently switched from Conbee to Zigbee2mqtt but I don’t have any aqara devices (yet…)

You can use an ESP32 to ring the mechanical bells via HA when someone presses the doorbell

What do you mean that Reolink is not available? You can get them easily and they work great with HA and Frigate.

I have the Reolink doorbell, integrated in both Frigate and Home Assistant. It’s been running for 2 years now. It works great!

…even less Americans could be arsed to vote for a sane person. You can’t blame the backwards electoral vote system this time.

Yes, I recommend the book as well. Don’t ask me why though. I tried quitting smoking many times using many different methods but always failed. On a whim I got the Alan Carr book and read it. I read it in bursts over a month or two. There was nothing interesting in there. Nothing I didn’t already know. I finished it and quit smoking. The next day I relapsed and smoked again. I reread the last few chapters and quit again, this time using nicotine patches. I quit the patches within a day because they made me feel sick. I never smoked again. It’s been 7-ish years and I haven’t had any inclination to smoke again. It went from one of the hardest things to one of the easiest things to do. I don’t care if people smoke around me, it doesn’t bother me anymore. I still don’t know why the book works, but it did for me.

I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.

There’s worse. Ever heared of FOOF? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

Periodically rotating passwords is against NIST policy. Ask IT why the insist on using it when everyone, even the government, says it’s insecure

Lock him up?

I think all settlements should be public