I do agree - years ago he was doing some good case reviews and I’d pick his videos to compare against others, but I do agree with other comments here that he’s getting click-baity and I tend to skip his vids now

It’s not much better in German

I’m kinda with you, with a slight change: raspberrys that can’t run Arch Linux on Arm run Raspberry Pi OS, so, almost Debian.

Everything else: Arch.

(Oh… and pfSense on FreeBSD… but let’s not muddy the water)

Radicale just implements CalDAV and CardDAV so use any clients you want.

I’m mostly using the Fossify from F-Droid - their calendar, contacts, all work with DAVx5 syncing to radicale and it works fine… no 3rd party tracking my dentist appointments.

I also have TrackerControl running on my phone, so I know that there’s no tracking.

True… could be both… or perhaps copyparty.

I was thinking more along the colab side, where syncthing is working on your laptop and mine to sync our files, rather than central storage, but fair point.

Or, just radicale and syncthing (if you don’t need a webUI)

This EMQX?

Seems it’s no longer FOSS?

I’ve been using Gotify for a few notifications from Home Assistant and it doesn’t appear to be eating my battery.

It’s a little more responsive than ntfy - sometimes ntfy doesn’t alert for ages after the trigger (could be phone power saving the wifi…), but then I also get realerts from yesterday… not had that with Gotify.

Just looking at my NAS now…

I used to use Kopia to backup to a Backblaze B2 bucket, but I’ve moved to Restic as I can backup over ssh to a NAS at a family member’s home and to a Hetzner storage box.

Use the one that makes most sense to you for restores.

Backup a folder, then restore it somewhere else… if any of the applications causes you problems for your setup, move on.

Just add a “Not To Be Used In California” note.

If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

This comment thread is about your opinion on the developers wanting to gain renumeration for their efforts.

Considering their influence on standardising open protocols across the home automation industry rather than proprietary lock-in protocols, then this is a much wider commitment than just software development… attending conferences is not cheap.

Flash with ESPHome? Not that I’m aware of (but would be nice to know)

Edit: just found this: Smart Bulb (9W/RGB+CT) - Preflashed & Preconfigured

I’m happy with the Shelly bulbs, they work without internet shenanigans and can do MQTT, etc…

I have used Pi Zeros and ESPresense for prsence detection… seem to work ok, but if you’re wanting to do room-level detection, (ie who’s where), then that seems to be really difficult to tune the sensitivity

It’s clear that the Nabu Casa Inc. people, who also happen to be the Home Assistant project leaders, are focussed on making money over making well engineered software.

It’s clear that Paulus created a free home automation product and developed it for 5 years. For free.

In 2018 they started a fund raising system which also helped provide secure remote access for those that don’t know how to do it themselves.

I’d say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.

Source

And under Settings->Extra Settings->Audio on Android version of VLC

Another +1 for Hetzner.

I did an initial backup of my music (so I wasn’t concerned about encryption) with plain old rsync to get a feel for the system first, do a restore, etc. to feel comfortable with it all - and see if there were any hidden costs.

Then I wiped all that and moved over to rclone to encrypt my data into different chunks (photos, music, work, etc)

It all worked well and they even skipped charging me 1 month becuase I hadn’t exceeded their minimum charge (rolls up to the following month)

I’ve had proactive emails from them notifying me of work which might have reduced my ability to access their system, but ad it was outside the time of my backups, then no issue.

A post introducing a graphical web-based system would be remiss if an image of that graphical system was missing.

Of course you can block those posts (if that function is.enabled) , but you’d be missing out on many discussions.

No worries, I don’t have a time limit on responses 😉

But… I took somethong like ~3 days to get an initial baxkup done.

Then ~3 years later I was at a different provider doing the same thing.

What I did do differently was to split the data into different backup pools (ie photos, music, work, etc) rather than 1 monolithic pool… that’ll make a difference.

Define “Operating System”…

I guess my washing machine & car are also going to be “not for use in California.”

Those Cisco switches & Broadcom DSLAMs would be tricky too … I guess the internet’s “not for use in California.”

And the air-gapped power station control system? “not for use in California.”

It is annoying that these laws come in (I’m also including magical thinking about encryprion backdoors for “the good guys”) without any form of real-world, practical assessment. Complete waste of tax payers money and undue stress for everyone.

FFS.

Hmmm… I have a spare Pi kicking about, I might give this a go.

Before I go looking for stuff, did you need a BT adapter to get better range, etc?

And then after that command has run try ^update^upgrade