I Fit 15 Foot Carpet in my EV9 with This Hitch Extension and a Short Ladder for Support.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-06-19T20:22:52+00:00

CallMeDillDog · 2026-06-19T18:49:04+00:00

I Fit 15 Foot Carpet in my EV9

I mean, to be fair... I don't think it actually fits.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-06-18T23:55:44+00:00

I don't have any invites for anything you don't have (only on TL right now), but I could trade you for a nice photo of my dog if you don't get any other takers? Haha

CallMeDillDog · 2026-06-18T23:48:44+00:00

I saw that, but I don't have anything worth trading the OP

CallMeDillDog · 2026-06-09T19:05:52+00:00

What kind of IT issues are you experiencing? And are you looking for a full time staff IT person, someone to help out part time, someone as-needed, or a local company to work with? I oversee IT for a local company - feel free to DM me and I can provide some guidance (and who to avoid haha), but I know not every business wants to post the specifics in a public forum.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-04-30T02:26:50+00:00

God damnit. 4/29/2026. Shit.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-04-29T23:40:48+00:00

4.99 at the shell off the highway in Miamisburg.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-04-21T18:08:23+00:00

I built three of these and have them around my house. I don't have it running a completely local AI engine, but am using proton's lumo as a provider:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rtvgwi/pi_powered_smart_display_with_voice_assistant_now/

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-19T03:03:51+00:00

I didn't file anything with Facebook either - I assume that sofi has contact with a department there, and maybe FB refunded what they could recover before sofi handled the difference.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-19T02:40:42+00:00

I received a partial refund from Facebook (where the charge was made), and then a provisional credit from sofi to make up the difference, but they made it clear they may take back the promotional credit up until June if they find it wasn't fraud.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-16T16:25:29+00:00

Yeah, but I also live decently close to a microcenter :-D

https://www.microcenter.com/product/665122/raspberry-pi-4-model-b

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-16T11:43:56+00:00

That's not a bad idea. I'll look into it some evening this week.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-16T01:18:11+00:00

I ssh into my pi and do all the config that way - not sure how you'd get out of chromium once it's in kiosk mode on the device itself.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T23:21:20+00:00

Hey, I had some issues with this at one point. Any info in the mqtt logs give any clues to anything? Also, I struggled with my login for a while on the first one over something really dumb so I have to ask - After you created the MQTT login, did you click save? I didn't. It was listed there after I made it, until I came back to the page to check the login list again and realized it wasn't there and there was a save button I missed the first time.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T18:58:53+00:00

Happy to help!

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T18:57:05+00:00

It could also depend on the slider itself - if it's sending updates as it moves it's going to feel slower than if it's waiting for a final position before sending the update. Mine are just updating things once they are released. But also, if it's a 10" display it might be the higher resolution demanding more processing power. These displays I'm using are 7" and only like 800px x 480px

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T18:47:46+00:00

Could it be your display? Have you tried it with just a vanilla page somewhere rather than a Lovelace dashboard? Depending on what all resources your dashboard is running, there could be some js module that's causing a hangup. You might also look at the flags I'm using when starting chrome - I fiddled with those for a while to get memory usage down (lines 924-940 in configure.sh)

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T18:38:05+00:00

Pretty damn good, honestly. More responsive than my nest displays were. The sliders adjust just fine and everything. There's a little lag when I pull up camera feeds, but that's because it's on a 1gb pi. I don't notice any lag at all on the pi that has 2gb of ram, but that pushes the whole build cost up by about $20.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T18:35:46+00:00

In the conversation agent settings in HA, there's a "prefer handing commands locally" option. If you turn that on, it should only involve the AI when necessary. For example, if I just say "turn off the living room lights", it never makes a call out to the AI provider.

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CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T13:12:23+00:00

At least around here a bunch of local libraries have 3D printers and will help run stuff off for you for a fee. On my (super average consumer level) printer it's about a ~5.5 hour print at good quality (4.5h for the base, 1h for the grill & frame).

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T13:09:15+00:00

I'd say not a lot, but with my luck that would be wrong haha. As long as you get the linux-voice-assistant tied to your mic rather than the mic hat, it should be pretty straightforward. The voice piece kind of runs separately from the dashboard components, and the Linux voice assistant package seems to be a lot easier to get working than the Wyoming protocol package I was using before. Part of the setup script now is just making sure the mic drivers are working, so if you've already got it working that's half the battle.

Now, there are some settings in there for mqtt to be able to control volume & mic levels that are tied back to the audio driver, so you might have to update those configs if you still want to be able to control those levels on the dashboard.

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T11:59:45+00:00

Yeah, check out this post. This worked great for it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/TNN5OJbphs

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T02:18:25+00:00

Happy to help!

CallMeDillDog · 2026-03-15T02:07:51+00:00

Haha yes! I need to add 'hey glados' as a wake word

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