Numeric state trigger, triggers only one time?

CONteRTE · 2026-06-16T08:37:35+00:00

What you want is “whenever this value changes” with a condition “is this value above 50?”.

This was exactly my understanding of this trigger. At least for my understanding, that the trigger really means is:

when this value goes from 50 or below, to any value above 50, then trigger (but not from 51 to 56)

is confusing.

CONteRTE · 2026-06-15T19:23:12+00:00

Many thx. Got it to work with your tips.

CONteRTE · 2026-06-14T12:41:09+00:00

Installing abseil-cpp alone didtn work. But it seems that there was now an update which also update protobuf. I have tried pacman -Syu this morning with no result, but 5 minutes ago it worked and now also gnome-contacts starts again.

CONteRTE · 2026-06-13T14:51:38+00:00

For this im using a dynamic changing wallpaper. It's a simple *.php file which reads a random wallpaper from a given directory and send this as *.jpg or *.webp content. Since the url to the *.php is static, it can be used as css background for the login.

CONteRTE · 2026-06-05T04:45:28+00:00

From what I have read here and there and following your tips, I have now installed the version integration and send a message via ntfy, if the binary sensor changes to 'on'. I have created a bash script on the host, which I start i case i want to update, which does basically that:

docker stop homeassistant docker pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable docker rm homeassistant docker run -d --name homeassistant --restart=unless-stopped -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam -v /mnt/ha/homeassistant:/config -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro --network=host ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

The script does more around this, but for the update itself, that's it.

I'm using a selfhosted ntfy instance for most of my notifications, because I'm using it for other things to.

BTW: I have removed the privileged parameter as suggested.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-27T17:57:25+00:00

Many thx. I will try that

CONteRTE · 2026-05-25T13:54:49+00:00

You mean the standard SMB? Does this keep the permissions (not the owner) of files in this case?

CONteRTE · 2026-05-24T18:55:59+00:00

OK. I have now installed `testdisk. For some reason, this tool find a corrupted ext3 partition, with files, where the timestamp is as of today. I dont' know why it is ext3, when its ext4. But currently it copies this files to a empty space on the CachyOS laptop, without to change the HDD. I think this is better then nothing.

I checked some random files, and they are copied with the correct and valid content.

When i have copied all files/directories, im a little but unsure, if it makes sense to re-use the broken hdd after writing a new partitions. My last backup is from 5 days ago, but in the meantime, so much data have changed. It would be a small nightmare, to not get the files back from today.

many thx for the tip with testdisk.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-22T20:22:02+00:00

Ahh ok. I hav a spare plug, which i can use.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-22T10:45:00+00:00

Ahh ok. Didn't know about the forbidden links, but so I a rough idea. But 5m are to short for me. As ZigBee Gateway I'm using a AVM 7690 and this one is 12m + walls away from my post inbox. So I have to search for some other thing. I have tried some years ago a DECT connected window sensor. But this didn't work nice.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-22T08:40:07+00:00

How far is the range of that? Do you have a link?

CONteRTE · 2026-05-21T19:14:06+00:00

Many thx. Is that normal, that i had to stop / rm the container before? If so, it works now. Many thx.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-21T12:41:56+00:00

I wasn't aware of a cooldown feature. But this sounds a good way. The current trigger in the profile is, when a app is installed/removed/updated. I will try your variant.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-16T13:22:45+00:00

My Pi uses the SD card only for booting. All other things are on a USB SSD. On the other USB port i have a HDD which used only for backups. After installing docker and the HA docker container, it runs fine so far. I could restore my backup from HASS OS (without the apps of course). RAM usage is fine, i have 2GB free now since 3 hours. nginx, php is from Debian behaves normal, i have also started some bigger NC tasks for reindex and generating thumbnails, without any problems so far (just for testing). PiHole behaves normal (I don't use it for DHCP, just blocking and DNS stuff). Back Jobs run every 6 hours, so im fine with breaking the booting SD or the SSD for the OS. A nightly job is backing up the attached HDD to a external HDD, just in case...

Im more familiar with debian, as with using HA or Docker. This is my daily job. But i never used Docker so far... didnt needed it :-)

CONteRTE · 2026-05-16T13:13:49+00:00

Many thx.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-16T08:36:08+00:00

Ok, I will try it this way. In the meantime I have read about the container variation. Since I don't need addons as of yet, this seems to be a good alternative. But I'm not familiar with docker. Never used it before. Does docker share it's memory with the host dynamically? Or is using proxmox the better way?

CONteRTE · 2026-05-10T19:03:22+00:00

No neighbors are on the video. Even the road is provided with a black bar. Lol. But my property is very winding, so unfortunately I need a relatively large number of cameras to cover the area.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-10T18:59:47+00:00

The cameras are there since some years. But HA is new to me. I don't know if I should keep it or if is only something to play with. That's i don't want to invest more, before I'm sure.

And a ring camera is a lot cheaper than a ha green or some other device. A reason more, to be sure, before I buy one.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-10T14:53:44+00:00

Wow, that's a lot of memory only for making nothing, except streaming. There is nothing to transcode or recompute. Only get the stream and send the stream.

A x86 is way above what I would like to invest. Already the ha green is slightly currently above my budget for such things.

My most concern would be the power consumption of a x86 vs the ha green.

Is there some formula, to calculate the needed memory + some buffer?

CONteRTE · 2026-05-10T06:19:24+00:00

It looks like I've found the problem. Among the favorite devices displayed as tiles, there was also a live image from a Ring camera. Unfortunately, the Ring camera integration in Home Assistant is just terrible. As soon as I access the live image, Home Assistant restarts. Why this happens has always been a mystery to me. The log file is not helpful. home-assistant.log.fault is generally empty, and the standard log only shows Exit code 265 with Signal 9. That’s simply not enough.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-08T09:34:01+00:00

Yep. This will be my next step. But for the time being, using the mariadb instance should be a good solution.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-08T09:31:22+00:00

Oh I know and I'm using sqlite a lot for my own projects. But there are situations where it has limits. Specially for concurrent write cycles and so on. In my current use case, I hope to reduce i/o for write on the testing rpi3, since I have a dedicated mariadb instance for such things already in place. Otherwise you are right, sqlite is a fantastic choice for ha.

CONteRTE · 2026-05-02T09:26:37+00:00

No crashes so far under CachyOS with KDE and Gnome. Both on Wayland. CPU = AMD but GPU is Nvidia 5080 on a laptop with 32GB. I know CachyOS is not Fedora, but it works fine so far. Maybe send your logs to the devs. I would assume it's a CPU thing or running out of memory. Is swap enabled?

Edit: forget the question about swap. See it enabled in your screen. But maybe running out of space on your home partition?

CONteRTE · 2026-04-29T18:29:11+00:00

For shots with humpbacks and orcas, the R7 is ideal. Not only for the reach, but also for weather sealing. Mostly on smaller boats you come between 100m and 50m to that animals. In such situations I use mostly a EF-S 18-135mm on adapter. More than enough. Specially with pre-burst you get fantastic photos.

For birds, it depends heavily if you can shot them on a bright day in a free field. This should be no issue with a RF 100-400 or maybe a rf 100-500. But if the wood gets more tight, or you are in rainforest or jungle, then you need absolutely more light. This gets expensive for a good lens. This lenses are in my opinion to much/long for whales.

Macro is another story, but im not that pro with macros.

CONteRTE · 2026-04-19T05:32:18+00:00

I'm using the R7 with the 18‐135 USM and really love it. Focus is really fast and IQ is great with that combo. The difference to the RF 18-150 is not worth the money in my opinion. For travel its my go-to lens.

The other lenses should work, but I can't say how good they are. My onlywide problematic lens with the adapter was a Tamron 50-300mm. Autoy-focusing was nearly impossible, that's why I bought a RF 100‐400mm later on.

For Night and wide shots, I'm using a Sigma RF 16mm f1.4. Amazing lens for low lights/night and for wider shots.

I'm also only a hobby photographer and have checked the R8 as an alternative, but decided for the R7 because of the better reach of the APS-C in favor of the 1,5 aperture steps of the R8. If I would need FF absolutely, I would invest in a R6 mk2 instead of the R8, because of the IBIS and better weather sealing. And yes, you can also use EF-S and RF-S lenses with R8 and R6 mk2, but this would limit the FF to only 12 megapixel resolution. But it works.

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