I wanted to know what people recommend as a starter glass set for a prospective new z6 owner.

Said owner had a d500 with the following lenses:

• 16/80 f2.8-4
• 70-300 (newer version)
• 50 f1.8
• 35 f1.8

For equivalent or better range coverage, and better sharpness, and without breaking the bank - what glass do people recommend?

I thought this was a boost issue, but even using lemm.ee's web site, when browsing to my Nikon subscription (https://lemm.ee/c/nikon@lemmy.world) I don't see any post. If I go to the same community from lemmy.world's own site, I can see recent posts: https://lemmy.world/c/nikon I noticed the same problem in other communities (but I thought the issue was my lemmy client). Can this be fixed?

Looking for recommendations for a touchless car wash. Currently using the shell at Burnharmthorpe and Mavis but its kind of far. There is another one I used in the past in Dixon and Islington that is supposed to give both touchless and roller options, selectable in the screen, but the last time i was there it didnt ask, used rollers.

If you use Reolink wifi cams via the Frigate integration in homeassistant, you may be used to seeing tons of "ffmpeg has crashed unexpectedly" in your frigate logs. I have 3 older reolink wifi cams in frigate (510WA, 511WA) which most in the community seems to advise against and indeed since I've been running frigate, while they worked, they have been problematic since Frigate 0.12 and the arrival of go2rtc

Cutting down to the chase, when I was using the standard common configuration with these cameras:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    driveway:
      - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy"
    driveway_sub:
      - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD"

... frigate would generally work with them however in the logs I could see that the ffmpeg process that frigate creates for each re-stream would crash every few minutes, accumulating thousands of crashes over time. I assume that the crashes would also cause event detection to be unavailable for a brief period each time they happened.

With Frigate 0.13, it got even worse, as with each crash, the HA dashboard would show a black image with a "No frames received" message that would only go away after a manual dashboard refresh.

I believe the issue is that go2rtc was unable to properly handle the streams from these old cams, while in the past, ffmpeg directly in frigate could do it, adding some ffmpeg parameter.

The solution I found a few days ago that ALMOST COMPLETELY eliminated all the "ffmpeg crashed unexpectedly" situations (I went from THOUSANDS of errors to just one or two errors after a few days) is to change the go2rtc configuration so that it uses ffmpeg instead of it's own code to connect to the cams:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    driveway:
      - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy"
    driveway_sub:
      - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD"

I also have the following global ffmpeg configuration in frigate's config file, not sure if it helps or not:

ffmpeg:
  global_args: -hide_banner -loglevel error
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
  input_args: -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -flags low_delay -strict experimental -analyzeduration 1000M -probesize 1000M -rw_timeout 5000000

This go2rtc configuration decreased CPU utilization significantly (frigate 0.13 itself also helped apparently). Hoping this will help others in the same situation, as the cams themselves are not bad, it's just their software that sucks, but that can be worked around quite nicely with ffmpeg.

With the release of 2023.8 I noticed there is built-in shopping list functionality in HA. Up to now at home we have been using Alexa's shopping list (we have an old echo in the kitchen so it's been practical). My question: is there a way to somehow have the Echo's/alexa's shopping list feature to manage HA's shopping list by default? I recall from ages ago that there were Alexa skills like todoist that could take over the shopping list in the echo, is there anything equivalent from the HA community?

With 2-bedroom rentals in the 3k+/mth range and 3-4br houses in the 5-6k/mth range, I wonder what level of family income is needed (specially to afford renting a house) and what kinds of professions/jobs are the ones that can allow you, in Toronto, to achieve that.

Years on the waiting and finally a replacement for my fanless Apollo lake home server seems to be on the way! After the disappointments of Jasper lane and prior announcements this one seems for real. 3-4 times better compute metrics and half the power.

Wondering what are others in the community using these days for always-on home server/media streaming needs?