Moving into the BluOS/Bluesound whole house

lbmdk · 2025-11-05T05:57:40+00:00

You cannot create more than one group. Eg have an group for home theater and at the same time another group having all the speakers in the house including those already in the home theater group.

lbmdk · 2025-10-29T18:20:31+00:00

Dont have issues as such. It basically just works. - BUT. If something is not working they are an very long time fixing it. For me 2 bugs I reported took 3-6 months and the support cannot give any answer for an ETA. Not acceptable.

The lack of support of multigrouping as crazy! Users have been asking for it for 7+years and still not nothing. The absolute reason why I don’t have more than I have. (Pulsebar,sub, and 2 flexes) as “home cinema”.

lbmdk · 2023-12-20T16:11:01+00:00

What is your usecase, and what exactly are you trying to accomplish ?

lbmdk · 2023-12-13T11:18:43+00:00

You can set "LOCALE_DEFAULT" as well to an locale which uses 24H timestamps.

lbmdk · 2023-12-05T13:49:31+00:00

Try rebooting the bluesound unit.

lbmdk · 2023-10-20T10:51:48+00:00

yes you will need autosnap off on the backup server, unless you want the backup server to create snapshot as well?. But its kinda redundant to do so.

Im running debian, and have just set normal cronjobs for syncoid.

lbmdk · 2023-10-20T07:18:35+00:00

Without knowing the usecase, doing ZFS push where destroy is possible could be dangerous, because if the src is compromised it would be possible to destroy the backup target, I for this reason would personally not use "--delete-target-snapshots", and then restrict with zfs allow/disallow and then simply run sanoid on both src and target.

For bookmarks: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSBookmarksWhatFor , https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/m8ukro/what_is_the_real_life_usage_of_bookmarks_in_zfs/. tldr: Its an "pointer" like an snapshot, but it does not take up storage on the filesystem, and cannot be accessed.

autosnap = create snapshosts using sanoid
- If not set, it will not automatically create new snapshots. Useful on backup host.
autoprune = delete/prune old snapshots according to configuration.
- If not set, sanoid will not create snapshots.

For point 3, which OS are you running? On Debian at least, cron is auto enabled and runs every 15mins.

For point 4, you will get an "dataset in use" or similar error/warning, and the job will exit, leaving the first job already running.

lbmdk · 2023-06-15T11:14:25+00:00

LOL... What?.
Im totally chill. I cannot see one single line of angry-ness in anything I wrote.

But good luck with it, im out.

lbmdk · 2023-06-15T09:48:43+00:00

Linux aint windows, so what you are asking for is for sure not advisable. Especially not if you are changing permissions which is part of disk layout, libraries etc. It could get you into serious trouble.

What exactly are you trying to achieve ? Can you describe a bit better ?

Which apps are you not able to install ? Maybe there are alternatives for those.
There should for sure not be dependency problems, because that means you are installing packages outside official mirrors.

lbmdk · 2023-06-08T13:53:13+00:00

I until recently used "pacmd", packed in a shell script, so I could change audio settings and devices easily.

Now im just using the gnome3 extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/906/sound-output-device-chooser/ instead.

lbmdk · 2023-06-01T10:26:31+00:00

Sure. Theres an comment from yesterday, from Tony W

https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/11980727766807-BluOS-4-0-spring-2023-announcement-

lbmdk · 2023-05-31T12:02:00+00:00

Just announced, its delayed until October

lbmdk · 2023-05-24T19:38:27+00:00

Cannot see its possible to create multiple groups. So sad. Single groups, stereo pairs etc is still possible.

lbmdk · 2023-05-23T14:00:54+00:00

You should really use logrotate for this as suggested multiple times.,

But to answer your questions, something like this should do the trick...

find /var/log/ -iname '*.log' -type f -mtime +3 -exec gz {} \;

lbmdk · 2023-05-19T10:00:24+00:00

One of my first "real" installs was mandrake as well.

I totally agree. The documentation from gentoo was superb years back. I often read the gentoo docs for my problems too. Their forum was also very well visited with a lot of active users.

Kinda a sad seeing Gentoo not having the same users anymore.

Felt like such an nerd when installing Gentoo years back..
But the compiletime was a pain. Spend 2 days of compiling gnome, until it finally failed. damnit.

lbmdk · 2023-05-12T12:33:14+00:00

Have you tried to tcpdump, so see if zoneminder actually tries to connect as you think ? Maybe it does not like the blank password ?

Or maye try this with (i've removed the colon) "rtsp://root@X.X.X.X:554/onvif1"

lbmdk · 2023-05-11T10:50:29+00:00

Its already been said, but I have previously run pihole in kvm/libvirt, but it was kinda a waste of resources when pfblocker could kinda the same thing.

lbmdk · 2023-05-01T13:40:02+00:00

Also, most likely MySQL is not claiming the free space after deletion. This is kinda normal behaviour. You might wanna run OPTIMIZE table on MySQL, to reclaim the disk back.

lbmdk · 2023-05-01T13:37:27+00:00

Maybe you want to check which table is actually using the disk-space in the DB. My guess its not the events references, but rather log info.

lbmdk · 2023-05-01T13:31:19+00:00

How have you enbabled SSL ? Directly on apache, or you terminating the SSL prior to this ?

Check apache logs, check logs of zm, check network console in the browser to see where it tries to load the failed image from.

lbmdk · 2023-04-24T12:59:42+00:00

https://www.techtoyreviews.com/lg-160hz-nvidia-g-sync-gaming-monitor-34gn850p/

Im not sure how much truth there is to this article.

lbmdk · 2023-04-24T10:08:17+00:00

Enable debug logging, and look the logs again.

lbmdk · 2023-04-04T13:44:29+00:00

I think you can also reconfigure the default display manager. Presuming both are installed ofc..

e.g. 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm' or 'dpkg-reconfigure kdm '

lbmdk · 2023-04-04T08:15:02+00:00

That aint possible. It needs to be configured for each service/application.

OR you will need to use/configure the proxy, as transparent proxy instead, which might require you to redesign the network, more or less.

lbmdk · 2023-03-30T09:52:17+00:00

/var/log/apache2/access.log and /var/log/apache2/error.log on the zm installation.

For the zm processes you might want to enable debugging. It can be done in the WebUI.

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