synestine

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[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you've optimized your BIOS settings (balanced mode or power saving wherever possible), the only other option is removing extraneous hardware. All hardware power use (disks, HBAs, other adapters and controllers) adds up. I managed to get idle power consumption of an HP DL-380 G9 down to about 60w (started at 210w) by removing the disks, RAID controller and battery, fiber channel adapters, and extra Ethernet adapter. Each SAS disk I removed saved me 10w. I used one M.2 drive in a PCI adapter instead.

Like you mentioned, these aren't designed to save power. That Opteron (and the chip set) hales from a time before "performance per watt" was a thing.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

No. I upgrade my Ubuntus before they go EOL so I don't need ESM.

Most places that want ESM do so because they can't get away from EOL versions. I refuse to get stuck in that swamp myself, so I run LTS and migrate/rebuild them when necessary.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's so strange, one of the first things my searches turned up is "Disable the TMDb Box Sets plugin because it causes problems"...

 

I've been running Jellyfin stable on Linux for a while now. I'm up to 10.10.7 and I've noticed a problem I cannot fix: my Collections are now empty. They used to be fully populated, would self-update whenever I added a new movie that belongs to a Collection, and all my movies are still here and work fine, but when I went into Collections, every single Collection had no items in it. I tried refreshing various libraries (That one, Movies, etc), and even removed and re-created my Collections library, but nothing has worked. Worse, now my Collections has no Collections in it. Movies are still fine though.

I've scoured the web, using various search terms (And wading through AI crap), but nothing has worked. I have very few plugins enabled, and none related to Collections. My movies are fine, but Collections refuses to repopulate.

Has anyone else run into a problem like this? If so, were you able to get it resolved?

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the one listed on Flathub not official?

https://flathub.org/apps/org.signal.Signal

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so you're the kind who loves bitching about things online, but won't lift a finger to defend themself, gotcha.

What I mentioned prior doesn't change anything about library management in the slightest, you just wanted an excuse.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

The reverse proxy is the part that's exposed. CrowdSec watches the logs for intrusion attempts like fail2ban would.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you're worried about it, make sure to not use a default path. Then legit clients are fine but these theoretical attackers get stymied.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Yes it is completely normal. The Internet is almost but not quite as bad as security wonks claim. Especially since you're not on the default port, most scanners don't have the programming to attempt on Home assistant. Most of them are built for more common exploits.

If you look at your proxy logs, you'll see attempts at various random paths, but those should all be 404 or 403s.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

SSHFS uses SFTP which is built into SSH, so no server to install. Its not as fast as NFS, but requires no setup. For something small like a home lab, that is a big advantage.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dozens? Name three, and be sure to include number of aps in each ecosystem.

I'm sure there are dozens of Chinese smart watches, but most that I've seen are white-labels and sorely missing an ecosystem.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Methinks you underestimate the complexity.

And all the other watch makers I've looked at are not doing, or even considering, what Pebble did.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Because good software is hard. The PebbleOS is a gem, and no, no one could in 9 years.

 

Until recently I had been using an EZVIZ DB1C doorbell. I researched before I got it, and it worked immediately when bought. Then the company started playing dirty pool. Over the next two firmware updates (WIth nothing in the notes beyond "bugfixes and imrprovements") they stripped out the ability to use a local RTSP stream then they stripped out the ability to use their Windows-only software to even re-enable any functionality. Then they jerked me around for over a month before they finally copped to what the company had done.

And of course there's no way back to a working firmware.

I know people have mentioned Reolink and Amcrest before, but those models are no longer available.

Is there anything in the way of wired, mechanical-bell compatible doorbell cameras that work with HomeAssistant?

I'm so sick of companies that sell you one thing, then strip out the functionality that made it useful, shoving you into their cloud/app shit or leaving you stranded on whatever firmware the thing came with.

GRR

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Smart-ening Window Blinds (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by synestine@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
 

I've got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn't want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them "smart", let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now...

I've done numerous searches, but have not found anything decent that I could use to retrofit to add any sort of automation to these blinds. The best I could find were purpose-built and/or roller shades.

Is anyone here aware of any projects or products that can be added to a set of blinds to locally automate any of their features? I'm running latest stable Home Assistant in a container, with HACS, if that helps.

TIA!

 

I started using Jellyfin a few years ago as a shared backend for my Kodi boxes (CoreElec mostly but not exclusively). I use the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi, installed from the Jellyfin repo as per official instructions. I've stuck to defaults/recommendations in the plugin. I did this for the WAF (wife approval factor), because otherwise none of my family ever used it. Now I get a shared watchlist and can stop on one TV and resume on another.

I've been running into a problem, and after extensive troubleshooting, I'm at a loss and asking for help.

The Kodi boxes do not pick up new content when it hits my server, which happens fairly regularly as I am ripping my disc collection into a format that Kodi (and the little Arm boxes) support natively. Unless I restart Kodi or the Jellyfin plugin every day or so, they do not see any new files uploaded since their last restart and if it goes long enough, even watched status falls out of sync and I have to go through the lengthy process of resyncing that entire library.

If I restart my Jellyfin service, every Kodi box immediately reconnects within a minute but still nothing syncs unless I restart the client.

Is this a known issue (Google is pretty useless in this regard)? Is there an option I can change somewhere to force the check-in to sync on a schedule? Is there another plugin that would work and still show content "normally" in the libraries, as opposed to going into another screen? Or does everyone use the Jellyfin web frame client?

Thanks.

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