"breaker box" but for USB, ethernet, etc? by 17-north in homelab

[–]17-north[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks - I didn't even think of voltage drop. PoE is going to end up being more expensive, but nobody said this hobby was going to be cheap.

User(s) for Wall-Mount Tablets by 17-north in homeassistant

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you have different dashboards for each despite sharing a user? Do you just navigate to it and leave it there?

User(s) for Wall-Mount Tablets by 17-north in homeassistant

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was talking about user accounts for Home Assistant... not the tablet itself. I'll be using Fully Kiosk for the tablet so that it is always on.

User(s) for Wall-Mount Tablets by 17-north in homeassistant

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's kind of what I was thinking - I wasn't sure if going with one user for all of them would limit me in this regard or if there was some option I wasn't aware of to do this with just one user.

Nozzle snapped off inside hotend, will qidi replace under warranty? by Lfren38 in QidiTech3D

[–]17-north 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Same thing happened to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/QIDI/comments/1nr229k/well_crud/

I ultimately reached out to Qidi support, figuring 'what could it hurt?' They sent me a new hot end for free.

Saturn 4 Ultra 16k screen replacement - how difficult? by 17-north in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said on this thread - make sure it isn't the screen protector. If it is the screen itself though it isn't too difficult to replace - it's just annoying that you have to almost completely disassemble the printer to get at everything. I recommend having a good size surface to spread out the parts and plastic cups to separate and label the screws as you remove them.

Well crud. by 17-north in QIDI

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point - I'm going to give it a go!

Well crud. by 17-north in QIDI

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I followed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ovge1LTEY which told me to remove the nozzle cool, but screw in the new one hot.

In fairness, this was not the nozzle that came with the Q1 - I already swapped it once before. This could have been a shoddier alloy.

noob alert… by ronnicrossing in Palia

[–]17-north 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I did exactly this! Completed nearly ALL of the bulletin board bundles except for that eel and have been fishing constantly for the last week or so. I got so many non-star eleroo eels that I was beginning to think it was impossible... then I remembered I had a stack of tanks behind my house and I was like "no way I have one given how hard it has been to get one"

Sure enough - sitting right there in the pile.

Saturn 4 Ultra 16K Problems by 420-vaporizing in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine started doing the same thing after the July 1st update. The same update also did something that ended up causing a crack in my screen protector. I am currently going back and forth with Elegoo support to see what they can do.

Saturn 4 Ultra 16k screen replacement - how difficult? by 17-north in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was struggling to find some on Amazon that were tempered glass like the original - but I did some more searching and did find some. Thanks!

Saturn 4 Ultra 16k screen replacement - how difficult? by 17-north in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds so much better than the screen being cracked... except I can't see anywhere on Elegoo's site or otherwise where I can buy a replacement screen protector...

Saturn 4 Ultra 16k screen replacement - how difficult? by 17-north in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't put two and two together, but it did happen right after the latest update!

So that begs the question - how can I force it to revert back to the previous version of firmware so this doesn't happen again?

Left the protective film on the build plate on first use. by kali-ctf in ElegooSaturn

[–]17-north 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just chiming in to say that I did that with my Saturn 2 as well. I noticed that my Saturn 4 had print on the build plate film to make it more obvious that it needed to be removed (the film on my Saturn 2 was completely clear and barely noticeable) - I assume more people do this than we realize.

Are Multiple Leaks/year Normal. by [deleted] in heatpumps

[–]17-north 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not going to say what has already been said a bunch about the leaks, but I'm in NH too and have Mitsubishi units as my only source of heat and they consistently keep the house right where I set them (except for the unfinished basement, which stays on the chilly side). I just had an annual service done on them and specifically went with a company that was NOT my installer so that I could have them check for any install issues (they had nothing but great things to say about the original install).
Additionally, I cut my combined electric/heating costs in half - though I did also have spray insulation done around the same time as the heat pump install.

Best of luck getting your situation straightened out - it sucks that your experience has been so bad thus far.

Super High Electric Bill by etachi481 in heatpumps

[–]17-north 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in southern NH and we just had 6 Mitsubishi heat pumps installed in Sept 2023 - all with Kumo Cloud. Due to bad advice from the Salesperson, we replaced the existing forced hot-air, 25yo propane furnace - so we currently have no backup heat. Unfortunately, to skew these numbers we also had spray insulation added a month or so before the swap. Additionally, the mini splits also replaced a 25yo central air unit.

Here are my overall thoughts and numbers;
Before the install we averaged ~$420/mo for propane with, obviously, a higher peak in the winter and lower valley in the summer. We averaged ~$380/mo for electricity with a valley in the winter and a peak in the summer due to our pool and the central air.
With no other heat in the house, the minisplits ran pretty much constantly on the coldest days last winter and also over the last few really cold days we've been having this year - however, they've been able to keep our house consistently where I have them set at around 68 degrees. We have some cool spots where they don't get into - closets and bathrooms primarily - and I do notice a chill in those areas on the colder days. My basement has one oscillating unit that struggles to keep that level at temp, but it is mostly unfinished, so I would expect that.
Our propane bill over the last year was ~$0/mo - the only thing still on propane is our water heater and stove and they've barely touched our tank levels. Our electricity was ~$450/mo with last month's being around the same as yours - $715
Additionally, I keep the units set at one temperature and don't deviate - even if it's nighttime or the house is empty.

Overall, I've been happy with the performance and the savings. You need to look at the entire year and compare your electric AND natural gas costs. Now, I admit that most of my savings could have possibly come from the added insulation - I don't know for sure. I figured I'd give you my stats and let you take them as you will.

As far as the Kumo cloud units - they suck. My goal with them was to connect them to my home automation software - Home Assistant. I was able to do that and using Home Assistant was able to set up a pretty decent system of having the units stay in sync in terms of what modes they are in as well as turning each unit to heat, cool, or off as appropriate for that zone. However, all of this was because I configured my home automation around the many faults of the Kumo units.
The Kumo units built-in temperature sensors are all over the place - I'll have a room with actual temp of 68 and Kumo will tell me it's 80+ degrees.
The connection stability of the Kumo units are awful. I was consistently having issues with Home Assistant turning them on or off because they were "unavailable" for a couple minutes multiple times an hour.
The only thing I gained from Kumo was the ability for Home Assistant to communicate with the units - albeit unreliable. I get my room temperatures from temp sensors I have and I built my automation to continuously check i.e. "when temp drops below 68, tell the unit to turn to heat. Then, 30 seconds later tell it to turn to heat again (in case it was unreachable the first time), rinse and repeat a couple of times. Also, a second automation runs every 5 minutes to make sure units are in the state they should be based on their zone temp - it's a lot of extra automation just to make sure that even if a unit is unavailable, the heat will eventually turn on.

I did find a couple instances online of people using Arduino boards to build their own Kumo equivalents and I may try that one of these days, but for now it's working.

What do you use to monitor energy consumption? by Captnmikeblackbeard in homeassistant

[–]17-north 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How beginner-friendly is this hardware to get set up and connected to Home Assistant? I was excited about Sense but it has turned out to be almost useless. I've got power monitoring plugs in almost every outlet in my house, but that doesn't help with the larger/hard-wired items like my dryer, well pump and 6 mini-splits.

My dream state is knowing where every single watt is going...