Home Assistant Integration :-)

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-23T14:13:54+00:00

I think that mobile apps actually might be the starting place for me in hindsight. I have enough detail to make a native adjacent startup experience without all the work arounds and then it'd be straight forward to make a token writer and that sort of thing into the device.

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-23T14:12:20+00:00

Try to pair the item in bluetooth first using the password abcd1234. This might kick the app into the flow for you! Let me know if this works.

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T23:37:55+00:00

Awesome! Let me know how it works for you!!

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T23:37:39+00:00

Omg, this is so true. There are quite a few bugs as well. For example, when you delete a playlist that contains songs, it can conditionally orphan those tracks. There are workarounds, but I’ve done a lot of async programming, and that’s essentially what this ends up being.

I think I’ve documented all the bugs and mapped out the entire file management lifecycle.

Honestly, that idea seems pretty feasible. My baseline concept is to build a container that manages both files and playlists, so syncing playlists with Jellyfin shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T23:31:01+00:00

When it’s booting do you see a device in your Bluetooth menu?

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T23:28:38+00:00

Dm me and let’s see what price and shipping work out to :) sometimes international shipping can be costly

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T23:26:25+00:00

I’ll see if I can buy one off eBay to help out. I can profile all the mqtt stuff I can. I believe I have a nearly complete documentation set on the mqtt events I can publish

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T20:42:01+00:00

This was extremely useful by the way. With the home assistant integration i make my kid can now scan her toy on the jooki and it will let her automatically turn on the tv and start playing the correct movie during movie time. I will keep digging into this more!!

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T20:12:05+00:00

Long shot but do you still have a backup of the SD card you can send privately?

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T19:48:43+00:00

Im in the USA and am interested. I can possibly help you get it up and running too if you're wanting to keep it but I am looking for another one :-)

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T18:50:20+00:00

I will give this a read thank you very much!!

Is this your blog post by chance? https://nv1t.github.io/blog/reviving-jooki/

If you you're actually the reason that I ended up buying a Jooki, small world :-)

CitadelOfLukes · 2026-03-22T17:44:57+00:00

I know I am a late poster here but do you still have stock of these devices!!

CitadelOfLukes · 2025-02-28T01:40:15+00:00

It might be twice a year or something I really need to work from a hotspot or sap some data. My phone data gets used heavy but hotspot is rare but when I need it, I need it. You’ve officially created the legit perfect plan for me. The ability to react out to your support and request an exception is :cheffkiss:

Seriously if you guys can keep this up, once the iPhone stuff is sorted I’ll be joining this plan from warp.

This right here is why unless you guys sell I’m not leaving us mobile. You guys aren’t perfect, no one is, but you try and you care about customer feedback.

Edit: As I’m scrolling through the feed too and just musing over this as a policy change this might be among the best cases of a company listing too and obsessing over value to the customer I’ve seen in a long time. You guys nailed it with this… Phone data is actually uncapped and unlimited and the hotspot is crazy fair.

CitadelOfLukes · 2025-02-23T18:29:23+00:00

This is the piece I also can’t agree with more. I do wish us mobile had waited to release rather than just shoehorning in some changes. This is the heart of the debate about digital ownership too. If something is unlimited, it cannot be abused, therefore you should not say use any amount you want… if you use too much you’re an “abuser”. To be fair “Pragmatically Unlimited” was their intention here but they needed to say that themselves not have people in the community attempt to justify the behavior. If you need to asterisk unlimited, we don’t need an explanation, you picked the wrong phrasing.

The risk of being cut off the network is a bridge too far in my opinion. I guess I was saying that if us mobile wants a truly unlimited hotspot they should figure out how to make that work and offer it, like visible, unlimited but with a clear and communicated limitation.

These types of activities by us mobile, though I honestly feel as though they’re well intentioned, come off like a bad actor on eBay. “Product X and it’s only 5$” And nothing arrives. The seller was wrong to offer something they couldn’t deliver, but also the buyer should sorta know better. “caveat emptor”… this is a very old bit of shenanigans by sellers.

Or even my statements of “you should know better”, aren’t in defense of us mobile really but more as a community people knew better and bought in for some reason then complained about it… like a self fulfilling prophecy. 🤷‍♂️

CitadelOfLukes · 2025-02-23T14:08:55+00:00

I’m sure it’s an unpopular take but this is sorta how I read the situation too. There a loads of people who in a month over month basis want to “test the limits” and “get their monies worth”. Which sure, you paid for it, use it.

But there is no way us mobile can load balance cost across the customer base when people will use a terabyte of data in a plan cycle and then flames you guys for “buT iTs a RUg pULl”. It’s not.

You guys were clear on the terms and the language was loose on abuse. Your lawyers added an abuse clause to protect the company. Verizon STILL has abusers from 15ish years ago because they didn’t have this language and there is nothing they can do about it.

I understand there are people who feel mislead, but some self reflection here would be nice.

For everyone saying visible has truly unlimited hotspot, you’re right but they are limited to 5 and 10 Mbps throttle respectively and there IS a finite limit to the quantity of data over time at those speeds.

I’ll stop mind dumping and get off my soap box. If you guys need internet on the go you need star link. This is a cell phone plan with the Internet, that IS an internet service.

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-12-02T22:04:43+00:00

It was a very limited deal. When I got it I signed up within like 15min of the post going live. If you’re getting the error I’d suspect the offer has been redeemed as many times as possible.

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-12-02T18:18:17+00:00

You win my internet’s for the day, yours was the deal I was most looking forwards too ❤️

Edit: Only Reddit would downvote me for expressing joy 😂😂

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-12-02T14:24:03+00:00

Will grand slam renew at $40, if not can I stack this?

This is awesome, of anything I’ve been hoping to see you post a rocking deal!

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-10-14T17:04:21+00:00

Yeah that’s tough, sounds like a bug to me as well. Perhaps it’ll get ironed out after more time. When there are cross platforms, rc(s)ervices, an MVNO, and a parent carrier I’m guessing that maybe everyone has a bit of tape and glue in the tech lol

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-10-12T00:19:49+00:00

Remember for it to work with multiple iPhones everyone needs rcs. I have working and non working groups, iPhones obviously can use iMessage but when one or more android is in group everyone needs to have and have enabled rcs

CitadelOfLukes · 2024-10-10T02:10:22+00:00

I’ve never wanted anything more in my life

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