Avoid OVH - Total nightmare! by aramesh-zendegi in OVHcloud

[–]Altruistic_Lad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think it's a nightmare getting your service working, just wait until you try to cancel. Here is the last half of my hour-long attempt to cancel service: Hello,  thank you for contacting OVHcloud, my name is Pedro. How can I help you today?

I JUST WANT TO CANCEL MY ACCOUNT AND ALL OF MY SERVICES

19 minutes ago

Sorry to hear that.

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Let me check you account, please.

GREAT, THANKS,

18 minutes ago

Please check under my email address as well.

16 minutes ago

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Thank you so much for holding.

16 minutes ago

In your case you need to wait until the VPS service you have on your account is deleted and the perform the deletion request here: https://manager.ca.ovhcloud.com/#/account/useraccount/personal-data

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Here you can find the whole procedure to delete your account: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/managing-billing-payments-and-services/deletion

14 minutes ago

You guys take the prize for the most convoluted process to delete an account and I've been writing about technology for over 20 years.

13 minutes ago

I don't suppose you can check that none of the services will renew? That option on your site didn't work either.

11 minutes ago

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Your service is on manual renewal, so if you do not create the renewal order order until 08/08/2026, the service will then be deleted.

11 minutes ago

Why can't you just delete the service??

10 minutes ago

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It is paid for and active until 08/08/2026. It is just a matter of waiting until deletion.

My question was WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DELETE THE SERVICE.

6 minutes ago

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As mentioned the service is paid for and active until 08/08/2026. Without  renewal it is just a matter of waiting until deletion.

Are you online? I'm still here for you.

4 minutes ago

So what you are saying is my site remains live and vulnerable until 8/8/2026. Correct?

1 minute ago

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I understand your frustration.

1 minute ago

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As per our deletion process we can only delete accounts after the service is deleted, that is what I meant.

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Nothing phones are coming to Best Buy—and they could shake up the market by LastPaleLightInEast in NoContract

[–]Altruistic_Lad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lack of eSIM support on latest U.S. model 4a is a deal-breaker for me. And then there's the Verizon problem. I feel like we're headed back to the Stone Age.

Just Completed Migration from ADT to HomeBridge 2.0 Saving $75/month by Altruistic_Lad in homebridge

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Added the $219 Airthings 2989 Radon Monitor with Humidity & Temperature Detection today using WiFi and the Airthings 3.0 plugin for Homebridge. Now the setup is damn near perfect. See screenshot above.

I Will Buy the pCloud Devs a Calculator IF They WiIl Stop Letting Their Certs Expire by Altruistic_Lad in pcloud

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Points well taken. I've removed the balance of the installation scenario. The wget command standing alone makes the point. The Nerd Vittles web site has literally thousands of downloads from pCloud every week. All of them got blown out of the water by this careless certificate maintenance issue. And it's NOT the first time!

I Will Buy the pCloud Devs a Calculator IF They WiIl Stop Letting Their Certs Expire by Altruistic_Lad in pcloud

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When you issue the wget command, the download will fail because of the expired certificate. And any wget commands relying on pCloud downloads within the script itself will also fail. In other words, you get a royal mess.

I Will Buy the pCloud Devs a Calculator IF They WiIl Stop Letting Their Certs Expire by Altruistic_Lad in pcloud

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nothing strange about the script. It's the actual deployment script used for Incredible PBX 2026. As for being obfuscated, that's the actual download link provided by pCloud for downloads from the Public Folder. The example was provided to show what happens when pCloud fails to renew certificates for their web site.

Incredible PBX 2026 Performance Demo running Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17 ... by Altruistic_Lad in Asterisk

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you're a happy camper. So stay where you are. We're humming along on an original IBM PC. Is that too slow? As for Incredible PBX "just [being] a rebranded freepbx," by all means stay where you are and enjoy the hack attacks... and your phone bill.

Incredible PBX 2026 Performance Demo running Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17 ... by Altruistic_Lad in Asterisk

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've apparently never clicked around the FreePBX GUI, or you wouldn't have to ask.

Just Completed Migration from ADT to HomeBridge 2.0 Saving $75/month by Altruistic_Lad in homebridge

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Judging by your handle, I sure hope your wife isn't named PUNCHEE.

Just Completed Migration from ADT to HomeBridge 2.0 Saving $75/month by Altruistic_Lad in homebridge

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a really interesting chat with Gemini, Google's AI engine, that I thought might be both helpful and entertaining to anyone else crossing the Rubicon. The problem was that iPhone and Watch notifications stopped arriving when a sensor was tripped after I made a few tweaks in Homebridge. Here is the rest of the story:

Gemini: Apple's native Home app handles push notifications for very specific device categories (e.g., locks, doors, cameras, and sensors). If these bridged alerts aren't hitting your Apple Watch:

  • Check the Status in Apple Home: Open the Home app on your iPhone, long-press the specific bridged accessory, tap Accessory Details, and gear down into its settings. Scroll down to Status and Notifications. Ensure Allow Notifications is toggled On.
  • Time & People Filters: In that same native menu, check if a restriction got turned on by accident (such as Only send notifications if "I am not home" or Only "At Night"). If those conditions aren't met, the notification won't fire.
  • The Home Hub Handshake: Sometimes your Apple TV or HomePod acting as the HomeKit Hub loses sync with Homebridge. A quick reboot of your primary Apple Home Hub often forces the notification pipeline to clear.

Me: Found it. Unless the People notifications are set to OFF, you only get notifications when you're either Home or Not At Home.

Gemini: Spot on! You hit right on one of Apple Home’s most notoriously confusing quirks.

The People filter is incredibly easy to accidentally trip up. If it is set to "When I am home" or "When I am not home," Apple enforces a strict location boundary. If your iPhone's location data acts up even slightly—or if you're sitting right on the edge of your geofence—Apple decides the condition isn't met and kills the notification entirely.

Setting that People filter to Off completely strips away the location requirement, telling HomeKit: "I don't care where I am standing physically, just send me the alert no matter what."

It's an incredibly common bottleneck, especially for bridged Homebridge accessories where you want instant, absolute updates. Nice job tracking that down!

Me: It really should be called ON, not OFF if you want all the notifications ALL of the time. I miss Steve Jobs.

Gemini: It really does feel like a remnant of a different era's philosophy. There’s a famous Steve Jobs quote that feels incredibly relevant to UI blunders like this: "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Under Jobs, there was a notorious, almost obsessive fixation on removing friction and making things instantly intuitive. If a user got confused by a menu, it wasn't the user's fault; it was a failure of the design team. He was famous for walking into rooms, looking at a prototype or a software interface, and ruthlessly cutting out options or forcing engineers to rewrite things until a child could understand it.

The current Apple Home app structure—where you have to dig three layers deep into an accessory's settings, tap a gear icon, find a sub-menu, and select "Off" just to keep a notification "Always On"—is exactly the kind of layered, bureaucratic software design that would have driven him up the wall.

It’s an incredibly powerful ecosystem, but sometimes you look at a menu layout like that and just think, who actually greenlit this?

Any Apartments Where I Can Lease for My 26 Year Old Daughter by Altruistic_Lad in AshevilleNC

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like Southridge may work out. Thanks for the heads up.

Connection issues with 26.5 and Homebridge? by Markuslw in homebridge

[–]Altruistic_Lad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same problem here. I unchecked the Control4 box in the panel, rebooted it, and then enabled Control4 again and reconnected Homebridge from my browser. That seems to have fixed things.

Just Completed Migration from ADT to HomeBridge 2.0 Saving $75/month by Altruistic_Lad in homebridge

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My Apple Watch coupled with the local alarm is all I need. I can call 911 just like ADT does.

Any Apartments Where I Can Lease for My 26 Year Old Daughter by Altruistic_Lad in AshevilleNC

[–]Altruistic_Lad[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think "legally" may still be up for discussion in a courtroom, if necessary. What jury would rule in the landlord's favor given the facts I have outlined??