- SMARTLIGHT.ME, Ethernet Zigbee Controllers and more… by Iain: I really like their stuff, the updates come frequently and UIs are well thought out. A refreshing approach in the smart home market. Aug 29, 23:47
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Solved it by using esptool to erase flash. Aug 24, 15:04
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : It’s a mix. You can physically move the scope up and down and there is digital zoom in as well. Aug 24, 11:51
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : Dear Mr. Scargill. Thanks for this fine review. I’ve always wanted such a device. Can you report whether the magnification is optical or digital zoom? Thank you. Aug 24, 02:17
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : same here, just flashed mine (a v1.0 pcb, says label on mine), using “standard” firmware, 2 minutes job, nothing to press to flash Aug 23, 14:16
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Yes, just plugged them in my PC and flashed them from the “https://espresense.com/firmware” page. Aug 22, 18:56
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : I tried these, but can’t flash them, and no boot button available. did you use the web flash for this? Aug 22, 14:32
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : Completely agree. Some years ago, someone sent me a small microscope to review but no-where near the usefulness of this one. I like it. Aug 22, 08:20
- TOMLOV HDMI Digital Microscope Model DM9 MAX by : I use one I brought my daughter to disect insects! They are a God send for small micro soldering which simply is impossible without that set of focused SuperMan eyes! Aug 22, 00:19
- More AliExpress cheapness – T34 Smart Plug+ by : They are nice. I use to switch off from remote my 3D printers if a printing fails. I monitor with the IP camera that is also connected to Smart Life, and if I see problems I switch off the printer. Thats because my printers still use Marlin firmware and don’t have Klipper and remote control. I don’t charge them with over 400w. Aug 21, 17:09
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : Fixed those and more, thanks… can’t complete the entry until I get more support from Shelly – in the past they’ve always been good. Aug 16, 17:46
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : Just a few typos – coodinator, devie, etc. Nothing too bad, just stands out a bit. Aug 16, 15:40
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : I needed the link for cross-referencing – you’ll find I’ve done a lot more now on the Shelly devices – but still not finished as I decided to do a firmware update on the Shelly Blu Motion(for no good reason – I just like to have the latest firmware) – and 15 minutes later it’s STILL at it… I’m just about to contact Shelly to find out why it’s taking so long…. meanwhile if you spot any mistakes – feel free to drop me a note… Aug 16, 12:28
- An Exciting Shelly and Sonoff Friday by : Seems like you published this before you completed the section on the SHELLY devices? Aug 16, 12:16
- Reolink Argus 4 Battery + Solar 180 degree Camera by : Got that one. The hardware is fine. The software needs to go. The camera firmware lacks reliability. There’s so much movement this camera misses. I’ve tested it with a lot of movement and it’s a hit or miss. It misses a great portion of the day where clearly other cameras are able to detect and report namely kasa. Aug 15, 20:40
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : I used this very video to do mine and it was super easy Aug 13, 12:55
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : no need to readd or repair anything, this video shows everything needed to move devices between different coordinators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ3UZw-Zkn0 Aug 11, 17:20
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Will progress this tonight. Flight right now.. The usual.. No WiFi.. You’d never think there are now countless satellites up there.. Good gadgets though I’ve so many Zigbee lights and cheap AliExpress sockets which also double up as routers.. Aug 11, 12:39
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : @w00dst0ck and @DrFragle and MrShark: you are geniuses! I first tried two of these sticks and they worked right away, flawlessly. True plug & play! After configuring them I just dug up some old unused 5v USB adapters, plugged in the USB stick and put them in a free wall socket. I now have 9 of them in almost all of the rooms in my house and I really love this solution. Very neat and unobtrusive. Thanks guys! And @Peter Scargill too, for providing the discussion platform. Aug 11, 11:54
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : Hi I’m not on ANY commission for these Ethernet devices, my friend gave me one. So I contacted the company to tell them I was impressed and they wrote back today – very helpful chap – by early next week I’ll put more information in that blog entry as I plan to replace my existing Spanish dongle with one of the samples and a router (ie repeater – ie a Zigbee smart plug) in the middle of our house with the other one – which I’m led to believe should have better range than a typical smart plug due to the large antenna. At that point I’ll know for sure if you have to re-add existing Zigbee units to Zigbee2MQTT or not. Meanwhile, it seems that right now their prices compare with AliExpress – worth a look – https://smartlight.me/smart-home-devices Pete Aug 9, 14:54
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : I’ve heard of these adapters, and I’m really thankful for your review. I think I’ll add one to my kit! Thanks! Aug 9, 14:00
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : A) Yes, USB3 and Zigbee do seem to interfere – I learned that the hard way. Ended up ensuring the SSD had a proper shielded cable and shielded plug – and still put the Zigbee dongle on a long (shielded) lead. Hopefully a thing of the past if I get another Ethernet unit… B) I now have a spare 4G router which I can then plug into a normal GL-iNet router with OpenWrt and hence TailScale – sadly my 4G OpenWrt-based GL-iNet Spitz 2 router simply doesn’t have enough storage to add TailScale (their newer routers do) – I’ve asked GL-iNET if there’s a way to remove un-necessary rubbish to make way for Tailscale – no answer yet. As it happens, for now in the outbuilding that has the tiny 4G router – I only have one socket device and it’s a Tuya phone-home job so I can control it with the APP for now. Aug 8, 20:42
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : OK, got it! I use an old Plusnet router with OpenWRT flashed on it as a Wifi access point in my garage. I installed a Tailscale client on that so I can access my local LAN remotely. I’ve got a PI 4 with HA on it plugged into the same router and use a Sonoff Zigbee USB stick for my zigbee comms. When I upgraded the pi SD card install to a SSD the zigbee comms dropped off completely. So I put the SSD on the end of a USB extension cable and zigbee comms restored. So it would seem that the SSD frequencies interfere with zigbee. P.S. The CAPTCHA on posts is a right pain! I enter the “correct” value and it’s rejected. There’s no “refresh” so I have to cut my post, refresh the entire page to get a new CAPCHA, paste in the post and try again… Aug 8, 18:56
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : The plain 06 model does not, I believe, do POE. All models are pretty similar apart from POE and chipset. Aug 8, 18:47
- Tiny Remote for the New Hohem iSteady M6 AI Gimbal by : I’m not at home so I don’t have access to the Hohem right now – but just ask them directly. Aug 8, 18:43
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : Yes, the SLZB-06 is in the UK and my RPI5 is in Spain. SLZB is not on my 4G router as that does not have Tailscale. It is plugged into my normal router which gets it’s external connection from the 4G router. My normal routre is a GL-iNet Flint – which has Tailscale as a standard install. The SLZB-06 has a USB-C connection for power and upgrades. It WAS plugged into the outside routre USB connection but I’ve just replaced that with a TP-Link MR600 4G router which has no USB connector so the SLZB-06 is now getting power from a bog-standard 1A USB wall adaptor. Tailscale links the two networks together so each can access the other. As there is only me messing with networks in our homes this doesn’t pose any extra risks. Aug 8, 18:42
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : even if you don’t have poe on router itself, you can use some poe injectors to feed in power to the socket which brings on the other side to where you put the device, so that EXIT port has both data and power… they exist even in the other way around, called poe splitters plug in source network cable and power on the injector, and the cable on the other side will be POE Aug 8, 18:26
- Tiny Remote for the New Hohem iSteady M6 AI Gimbal by : I can’t seem to get mine to pair. Is there a particular button to press on the remote for a particular amount of time? I get the gimble in pairing mode but I always see pairing failed. TIA ~peaty Aug 8, 18:26
- Zigbee2MQTT and the Ethernet SMLight SLZB-06 by : If I understand correctly, the SLZB-06 is in the UK and your pi, which is talking to it, is in Spain ? If so… Is your SLZB just plugged into your UK 4G router ? And I assume that if not using PoE then there is a USB power socket on the device which you’re hooking up to your router USB ? (seen a side image of the SLZB with a USB socket). And are you using tailscale to allow the Spanish pi to talk to the SLZB over IP ? Trying to visualise it… Aug 8, 18:15
- BigTimer by : Bigtimer gets it’s time from whatevre it is running on. In my case a Raspberry Pi. Aug 2, 13:25
- BigTimer by : Hi Pete, Can you tell me why the time on the Big Timer is an hour out from my PC? Is there a setting somewhere that I need to change? I am running this on a small server which is set to the correct time? Aug 2, 12:04
- Inexpensive Occasional Smartsocket + Low-Bandwidth 4G by : Another good option for low-level data usage is RWG Mobile. I’ve been using them for a couple of years for a SIM in a GPS tracker and it works perfectly. Mine costs £1 a month for 750 MB of data (plus 100 minutes of calls and 100 texts if needed) but they seem to be charging £2 a month now. Still good value for the amount of data. Aug 1, 21:51
- Surface Pro 4 – Windows 11 or NOT? by : Hmm. Mine runs reasonably cool. All my mcs Win 11. Good luck. Jul 24, 10:12
- Surface Pro 4 – Windows 11 or NOT? by : Hi I did the same, installation went fine, all good but the Surface is now overheating when watching movies. Fan is loud and spins fast, the surface getting hot, this also drains battery 3x faster. Never had this with Windows 10. Also used a debloater to remove all the telemetry stuff. Thinking of going back to 10. Jul 24, 09:47
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : oh, like it! i’ve a similar dongle acting as zigbee repeater, ordering this too! thanks here 1€ cheaper: https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005007003046727.html Jul 19, 11:52
- ESPresence for Home Assistant Presense Monitoring by : Have you seen this device? ESP32 Development Board WIFI BT Module for USB Dongle Hardware Key 4MB Flash CH343P MINI USB Flash Disk Tools https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ex56sl1 Works as BT Proxy with ESPHome for me and fits easy in an USB-Port. Jul 16, 18:03
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : same applies to esphome, all the secrets (wifi and mqtt passwords, for example) need to to in the secrets.yaml file, so if you change them, your devices are just a recompile away, with 0 mods needed to their yaml Jul 16, 08:47
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : Antonio makes a good point about passwords and I’ve since moved my “aws_secret_access_key” onto the secrtets file. For reference for anyone wondering what that is, the secrets file is a text file called secrets.yaml in which you can store passwords and refer to them elsewhere. For an example – I may have a password for use with camera integrations. If I need that camera password, then a one-line entry in the secrets file may be like: my_camera_password: specialpassword123 and I would access that in configuration.yaml with an entry: password: !secret my_camera_password A lot simpler than it looks maybe… secrets.yaml may contain many such passwords. Typically all such files may be stored in the Home Assistant /config folder and can be edited with any simple file editor. Jul 16, 08:41
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : you should never put secrets in plain configuration.yaml, but use secrets.yaml instead: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/ Jul 15, 17:30
- Sonoff BSP Zigbee Smart Water Valve (SWV) by : Just updated minutes ago – looking promising. Jul 10, 14:05
- And Now – HA TV Lighting Automation by : I did one that talks to my TV and can tell when stuff is playing, and dims/undims the lights when you play or pause. It’s one of my favorites, it’s really nice once you get used to it. Jul 4, 02:15
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Isn’t the USB cable used to detect moisture too? Meaning it sucks up the water and triggers based on that. So you don’t have to place the main unit on the correct side of the washing machine (and hope the water won’t run in the other direction), but you can place the *cable* around the washing machine and it triggers when water touches the cable! Eve introduced that several years ago for their homekit only sensors. Great to see sonoff is following! (At least if I interpret their website correctly) Jul 2, 20:53
- 256 Colour Editing in Linux by : Great article on enhancing the SSH session experience! Switching to 256-color mode in Mobaxterm significantly improves the editing environment, especially with tools like MC and MCEDIT. For anyone frequently working with headless SBCs, this is a must-try tip. Speaking of editing, if you’re looking for a powerful and [url=https://thecapapkscut.com/how-to-get-templates-on-capcut/]user-friendly video editor[/url], CapCut is an excellent tool to check out. Thanks for sharing these useful insights! Jun 28, 17:25
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : i’ve them for 3 months now, never triggered (luckily!) if not for test twice, and battery cr2032 is still at 100% Jun 28, 14:15
- mm Wave vs IR vs ESPresense – Big Decision? by : take a look at Reed’s videos, Aqara FP2 can do much more, like splitting a room in zones using a single sensor, given this is put in a sensible spot to see all the area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarollsdao4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzxGfdHhR0 Jun 28, 12:34
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : i’ve 3 of these: https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005005942046538.html Jun 24, 11:23
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Mmmmm. Needs a hub which I assume would not work with other company’s sensors?? Jun 23, 22:02
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E2202.html#ikea-e2202 https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/badring-water-leakage-sensor-smart-60504352/ Jun 23, 17:05
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : Good… I’m a Zigbee2MQTT man myself but I’m sure that would work too. Got the Ikea product link handy? Jun 23, 13:13
- Water Leak Week – Switchbot, Sonoff and more… by : As an alternative, I use the IKEA ones with zigbee linked to HA via z2m. They use a AAA battery and work well. Jun 22, 20:12
- Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : and picture; including DIN rail mount. It was quite difficult to open the housing but once open it is an easy job. Jun 17, 10:58
- Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : I would prefer external antennas. Now I had to do this myself. And DIN rail mount Jun 15, 22:21
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : between normal vpn, tailscale, zerotier and cloudflare tunnels, remote access is not a problem… Jun 13, 11:39
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : I know you’re focused on Home Assistant, but thought I’d mention that openHAB provides free cloud access to users. You might want to check it out as an option for getting a handful of devices into Alexa and Google. Jun 13, 02:25
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : Understood, I do something similar as well with NodeRed. However, the ease of use (important to me) was the nabu integration. They have a trial available too. If you dont want to (or cant) support Home Assistant team, they detail how to set it up and show the Alexa skills required. Jun 10, 17:43
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : for google, we configured Pete’s HA to continue using his old (working) nodered flow he detailed here somewhere… for alexa, we set up the hue emulation integration which allows him to expose to alexa just the entities he wants… Jun 10, 17:39
- MORE Home Assistant Learning – Restart Mode by : Since then I realised that mode: single is not ideal – mode: restart solves the problem. The light will always come on for 20 minutes after the last button press. Lovely. Jun 10, 12:13
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : Good – and fine for many folk, but I’m now retired and goodness knows how many 7.95 payments I pay for every month – trying not to add more. I’ve no ssue with one-off payments but keep adding more monthlies… Jun 10, 12:06
- MORE Home Assistant Learning – Restart Mode by : from a useability point of view, hopefully just pressing ON rather than OFF then ON could work? Jun 10, 11:02
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : for alexa, use nabu casa – which also supports the development of Home Assistant. Jun 10, 10:30
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : check last bits of the article, it was a trial/error method to find the correct numid Jun 9, 12:26
- AWS Polly Speech on RPi4 and RPi5 using Node-Red by : Finally bought a RPI5 and gone full docker and just received the usb to audio adapter. Are there any requirements to redirect audio out to USB? Jun 9, 09:54
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : NOTHING works on 4g as you are behind a NATted network system, so no ip exposed directly… the only way is a reverse service, like cloudflare tunnels, i explained below… Jun 9, 09:38
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : there is a way, using cloudflare tunnels (free), but requires a domain managed by cloudflare, and a dns zone assigned to this on THEIR (free) dns service… or maybe it can be used duckdns, which i saw in 1 of the following videos: i don’t know, i used a .xyz domain, if composed by ONLY numbers is just 1€/year… i’ve exactly this, and as it acts as a reverse proxy, no ports need to be opened and works in 4g, too… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAwT9N-7Hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoTmO4mLibw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4svVZGRMrsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATaIA4gAGtE Jun 9, 09:31
- MORE Home Assistant Learning – Restart Mode by : I’m quite happy using Node Red for all my automations. If you use the Node Red Contribution Websocket (https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket) you will have direct access to all the HA devices and entities, you can even create them from Node Red. Also, you can create scenes such that you can invoke one from Alexa which will kick off a Node Red flow for you. Jun 8, 20:32
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : Ah! yes. Take a look at DuckDNS and Caddy Home Assistant addons. DuckDNS gives a hostname if (like me) you have a dynamic IP address. Caddy is a reverse proxy that passes the data to the internal home assistant address. DuckDNS and Caddy provide a SSL cert via a service the name I forget. Certs are refreshed every 6 months – Caddy / DuckDNS handle it. I don’t know if it will work with a 4G connection but I think it will. You will need to open some ports on your router. Jun 8, 17:56
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : Well that looked promising at first but To use Google Assistant, “your Home Assistant configuration has to be externally accessible with a hostname and SSL certificate” – I don’t thank that’s going to happen on a 4G+ broadband connection – no external IP address, yes? Has to be a way…. Jun 8, 17:02
- Home Assistant June 2024 – Alexa, Google Home and more by : If you want to use Google Assistant without a cloud account, have you tried the manual set up here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ It is long and complicated, but I did it ages ago. The instructions I used at the time are now 404, but it should be possible. Jun 8, 15:15
- Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : Thank you. I did order the same router. I’m going to use it as a main home router hope it will work well. The most important for me is uptime. Will back with feedback later when receive it in around 3 weeks Jun 7, 13:59
- Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : its been on 24-7 since the review – not a single hitch. Jun 6, 14:01
- Beryl-AX (GL-MT3000) WiFi 6 Router and MORE by : Hi, considering buying this router. What is your uptime? Can you name this router as a reliable regarding connection and uptime? Jun 6, 13:14
- Remember “The Last One”? Now we have ChatGPT ! by : My wife does that constantly – “Hey Google please turn off the mancave lights”. My version “Hey Google mancave off” 🙂 Alexa on the other hand usually gets “Alexa, you are f****ng useless”. Come the revolution, Amazon’s bots will have me hung, drawn and quartered. Jun 5, 12:48
- Remember “The Last One”? Now we have ChatGPT ! by : > Antonio – are you still reading? yes, of course 🙂 i suggest to be more specific in your prompts, give it the entities names, the exact things you want it to address, so it just gives you copy pastable yaml instead of generic one that you need to check and rewrite after, changing resource names… and go by steps, let it do a basic example (useless to ask for the simplest one, it does not care), then refine it adding more options and additions: it has context of what already asked in the same chat, so knows what you’re talking about… and remember, always say PLEASE… just in case 😀 Jun 5, 12:28
- Remember “The Last One”? Now we have ChatGPT ! by : Hi Peter I volunteer for a UK charity that communicates with the members by email from an Access database using v.b.a. and the Outlook API. Late last year we became aware that MS were withdrawing the Outlook interface. The replacement email interface was Microsoft Graph, BUT, Microsoft did not give any examples of using v.b.a. to communicate with Graph. A session with ChatGPT requesting v.b.a. code to send emails via the Graph interface yielded some interesting code. This code was not a comprehensive solution, but provided a workable basis. SO, ChatGPT to the rescue! Jun 4, 18:57
- Remember “The Last One”? Now we have ChatGPT ! by : I just realised that yesterday – change device type. Thanks for that. So much to learn, so little time. I’ve not linked any of my HA stuff to Google or Alexa yet. I was (am) using the Google Home in NR to make virtual devices to turn stuff on and off but need to move to HA for that once I’m done with my automations. Not using HAOS because we recently finished moving all my NR/MQTT/Zigbee2MQTT stuff – firstly onto thr RPI5 (challenge 1) then into Docker (challenge 2) and finally Antonio added the Docker container for HA and convinced me (unwillingly) to give it a try. 2 weeks later and I have all my devices un HA – need to get the automations migrated from NR BigTimer to HA THEN get voice control up and running. I’m a glutton for punishment. Jun 4, 14:02
- Remember “The Last One”? Now we have ChatGPT ! by : In the entity/settings for the switch, you can show as a light. The switch integrations will still work and you will get a new light entity. Very handy when you link them with Alexa….. Glad to see you moving HA stuff from NodeRed. I still use NR for complicated parts. Are you using HAOS? You can use the NR add-in to keep it together. Jun 4, 11:24
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : this is an example output in case of full backup (running script without any parameter) Jun 2, 18:05
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : finally i added the backup script… a basic backup script is now added to my repo, it will create a folder for each week day under ./backup and under them 1 folder for each service, containing a tgz file with full datetime as name. If service is running, it will be stopped for consistent backup before, and restarted as soon as backup completed, while stopped services will just be compressed in the tgz without any other intervention. you can run the backup script as is, with `bash backup.sh`, or pass a folder name, in this case it will backup only that folder: `bash backup.sh nodered`, for example. For easier access, it has been added to the `iotmenu.sh` script, too, as 1st element for each service. of course for a real backup, you need to mount that ./backup folder on an external nas share, for example, or get it out of your system in other ways, this is up to YOU… each file contains the full folder content, so in case of restore, just uncompress it and move back to the original path of the selected service Jun 2, 18:03
- TP-Link Archer MR600 AC1200 Dual Band LTE Router by : Hi all sorted use the tether app 👌 May 22, 21:21
- TP-Link Archer MR600 AC1200 Dual Band LTE Router by : Hi thanks so just leave it in the router. Do I need to put it in a phone first or straight in the router Regards Mick May 22, 21:02
- TP-Link Archer MR600 AC1200 Dual Band LTE Router by : No idea should be fine with MR600. If new could take hours or a day to register sim. Several people here have gone down this route no issues. May 22, 20:57
- TP-Link Archer MR600 AC1200 Dual Band LTE Router by : Hi I’m trying to use a DIGI sim in my mr600 but not getting any internet connection any help with this would be grateful May 22, 20:44
- BigTimer by : Having some issues with times/timezones. Currently my system timezone is set to EST and date and date -u both show correctly. Which times should I be using in bigtimer? UTC? ETC? The reason I am asking is that I have tried to use times in EST but the it just doesn’t seem to be working the way I thought it would. What is the correct way to use this? Thanks May 22, 02:05
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : Hi, I had the same problem here it’s the github, the proxi created by Cédric in France works for 1 month (you just need to activate the app) and otherwise the other solution with Dockers… appreciate https://github.com/cedric-guadalupe/powervision-s1?tab=readme-ov-file https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLfXf7Lxeps May 20, 09:34
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : Hi, I had the same problem here it’s the github, the proxi created by Cédric in France works for 1 month (you just need to activate the app) and otherwise the other solution with Dockers… appreciate https://github.com/cedric-guadalupe/powervision-s1?tab=readme-ov-file https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLfXf7Lxeps May 20, 09:33
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : I am stuck just as you. Bought it in a big sale (now I know why). Like the article mention bluetooth features might still be available using other apps (if I understood correctly), I al trying to find one of those. good luck in finding a solution, if you find something, don’t hesitate to share it here please ! May 16, 12:31
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : I have. No response so far. I wish they would have made an update for their app so it doesn’t require any login. Even if they don’t add new features, etc. That’s not serious at all. I’ll try to post any solution, if there’s any. Which I doubt… May 16, 08:21
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : added TasmoAdmin on port `8258` and TasmoBackup on port `8259`. Set TasmoAdmin user and pass on 1st login. to get just them in a safe way in your already set up folder, run this as user root: cd git clone https://github.com/fragolinux/DockerIOT TEMPCLONE mv TEMPCLONE/tasmota DockerIOT rm -rf TEMPCLONE cd DockerIOT/tasmota dstart May 15, 21:16
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : Have you tried support@powervision.me – support page doesn’t seem to work. It’s a year since I heard from them. May 15, 20:18
- Compact PowerVision S1 Gimbal for Smartphones – Update by : As of 15/05/24 I can’t find a way to create an account to make the PowerVision S1 to work, that’s a shame, I’ve just bought it and can’t find a solution. Can someone help me please ? Thank you. May 15, 20:12
- BigTimer by : Well, for about 3 seconds I thought this might be difficult. Take an inject noded and set the payload to (for example) “on” (click repeat) or whatever you need. Fire that for testing to a debug node. Also fire it at a delay node with a fixed delay of 10 minutes – and the output of that delay node to a function node – which sets the payload to (for example) “off” and returns the msg to the debug node (or MQTT or wherever you need it to go) – simples. May 11, 22:33
- BigTimer by : Hello, I was wondering if you could help me. I need to turn on a sprinkler valve every 60 hours, run it for 10 minuets then shut off. Then run again every 60 hours in a loop. In home assistant How can this be done? Thank you Rob I apologize if I posted this twice I was having problems with Firefox May 11, 19:07
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : added mosquitto management center, check the update mosquitto readme for info: https://github.com/fragolinux/DockerIOT/tree/main/mosquitto you’ll need the new “.env” file in there, and to add full “mqtt-mgmt” block added to your docker-compose.yml file, then restart mosquitto container… In the docker-compose file you’ll find 2 images available, official most updated and feature rich one (image refers to THIS version) but only x86 arch available, and older (but raspberry compatible) one, choose accordingly. feel free to contact the author of the arm raspberry version asking him to update his image to latest additions, his contact informations are here: https://hub.docker.com/u/dotwee May 10, 20:24
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : added stirling pdf, a full suite of instruments to manipulate pdf files: https://github.com/fragolinux/DockerIOT/tree/main/stirling to get just it in a safe way in your already set up folder, run this as user root: cd git clone https://github.com/fragolinux/DockerIOT TEMPCLONE mv TEMPCLONE/stirling DockerIOT rm -rf TEMPCLONE cd DockerIOT/stirling dstart it will be available on port 8421 of your device ip May 8, 14:53
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : I’ll check that myself jsut as soon as I’m finish slowly narrowing down this new code block issue with the blog service provider… if people knew how may private test pages I’ve put up today…. May 7, 15:37
- Rpi5 and the Transition from The Script to Docker by : a good explaination on how containers work (with mosquitto as an example): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl45cUpenT8 May 7, 15:35