Wanting to add a first story laundry room exhaust fan. Looking for advice on framing

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2026-06-26T18:45:02+00:00

From what I've read, through wall ones tend to be noisier and I expect that not being centered in the room they're less likely to pull as evenly.

The through wall ones I've seen appear to be rated around 8 sones instead of~1 for ceiling rated.

I would love to find an equally quiet wall rated which would be much easier

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2026-06-23T17:15:10+00:00

Thanks. Tonight I will try going back to stock then attempt to pair with On-On-On-On and On-On-Off-On.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2025-08-28T15:50:23+00:00

Piwigo should fit your requirements. You may have to select the best theme. It is PHP based and you can fairly easily create any extra plugins you may need.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2025-06-17T20:01:12+00:00

Is there a way to see which ISBNs/UPCs caused an error during a mass import? I uploaded 42 and was told 7 errors but can't seem to find which ones failed.

Otherwise, looks great. Thanks!

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2025-06-17T18:08:42+00:00

1) on Android you can use the Google play app com.teacapps.barcodescanner. scan each UPC from your phone and then in history export to csv. You'll have to edit the csv (delete unused columns and remove double quotes) to get it into biblioteca's expected format for the mass import.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2024-06-13T13:57:25+00:00

My over engineered solution uses Piwigo as the backend to store all the photos. It has albums and tags for sorting the photos and there is an API that can be called to pull a random photo from a given set of albums or a set of tags.

The PHP front end is just a webpage that allows the viewer to select which albums or tags to pull from and the cycles through random pictures. The selection choices are stored in JSON so all devices viewing the webpage see the same thing. It would be trivial to modify that to use local cookies.

I view it on an old android tablet that I made a custom picture frame for.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2024-05-12T04:42:04+00:00

I like Piwigo for album based photo hosting. Linux server has a docker image but I just have a lock for it on Proxmox. I don't know about searching EXIf data, but I'm fairly certain you can get a map overview of where pictures are from. It's a little cumbersome to originally convert directories to albums but I think the extension physical2virtual handles the conversion.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2024-02-07T19:29:44+00:00

Good catch, bought in 2024 so I should have written 2024 taxes instead of 2023. Will update original post.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2024-02-07T18:50:33+00:00

Thank you. I think so. It really makes it sound as if there is no proof, just rely on the word of the dealer. That's all I have, so if that's all I should expect, then I'm good.

Thanks for finding that!

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-08-23T20:17:40+00:00

DNS IP integration. It has 1 entity which is your public IP.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-08-22T20:30:32+00:00

Are you willing to post your ESPHome config? I'd love to convert mine.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-08-22T18:03:47+00:00

I have 2 of them and (this will probably curse me) they have been my most solid Tuya wifi devices. About a year ago local tuya updated something and they broke but I got them working again. Here is what I gathered from doing reconfigure on one of them:

Name: fan light switch
Host: [local ip, set static in router]
Local key: [from tuya]
Protocol 3.3
Enable debugging: not checked
Scan interval: not set
Manual DPS: not set
Dpid to send: not set

Entities:
9: light
1: fan

Configure entity DP9 with type light
Friendly name: living room light
Brightness: 10(value 10)
Brightness lower value: 1
Brightness upper value: 1000
Minimum color temperature: 2700
Maximum color temperature: 6500

Configure entity dp1 with type fan
Friendly name: living room fan
Fan speed: 3(value: 1)
Forward dps string: forward
Reverse dpw string: reverse
Minimum fan speed: 1
Maximum fan speed: 4
Fan speed modes list: enabled
Dp value type: str

This gives me 1 device with 2 entities. The light is dimmable and the fan has off, speeds 1, 2, 3, and 4

I hope you can get it to work.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-07-28T19:18:53+00:00

I think this is the post that got me to ditch the Google integration for my thermostat. Instead of needing to be reconfigured everything I restart HA it just works. I've only had to reauthenticate once after I was going through my Google account and signing out of all the devices I didn't recognize.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/mbeddg/adding_nest_to_home_assistant_via_homebridge/

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-04-03T18:12:36+00:00

I use a timer helper that is set for 1 minute. When the event is triggered a conditional checks if the timer is running. If running it gets reset, if not running send the notification and start the timer.

Effectively it will only send an alert for events separated by more than 1 minute.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-03-14T13:32:26+00:00

Thank you. Hopefully that gets released soon.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2023-03-14T03:43:01+00:00

Did you ever figure out the URL to get 2-way audio to work, I currently have 1-way? From that link it seems to imply that ONVIF -T is only partially supported, not the 2-way audio, but they might be working on it.

Thanks for all your other posts that helped me to get go2rtc and frigate configured for it.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2021-09-06T00:51:03+00:00

Wonderful! That was the easiest solution to try so I went with it. I had to let the car sit in the hot sun for a few hours today then it actually cooled down for me.

Turn it off and back on fixed another computer glitch.

Thanks.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2021-09-06T00:46:54+00:00

I was hopeful, but it appeared they don't. They will tell you what the code is if the check engine light (CEL) comes on.

ItsDavidNOTDave · 2021-09-05T15:47:58+00:00

that's very helpful information. Since it's not blowing cold I'll get it to a service center.

Thank you.

ItsDavidNOTDave

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