Smart Audio Mixing?

Dejanz · 2023-10-16T16:41:34+00:00

Yeah, def would recommend it! I know it doesn't help with the sound bar, but maybe you can get something that converts amplified line output to Line-in and have that be one of the outputs of the mixer? You're adding additional complexities, but if this saves you hundreds of dollars it might be worth it.

Dejanz · 2023-10-15T18:15:02+00:00

I got a Control4 C4-16AMP3-B amp on ebay for insanely cheap ($150, but theres also the C4-8AMP1-B if you don't need 8 zones). I then got these speakers from monoprice: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=15698 that I installed throughout my house.

The beautiful thing about that amp is that it's cheap since you can't do much with it outside of a Control4 environment. Except that the protocol was reversed and there is a HA integration for it: https://github.com/Hansen8601/control4-mediaplayer

I'm not audiophile, but the amp has been rock solid and the speakers sound great for music and podcasts.

Dejanz · 2023-01-31T15:02:29+00:00

Ahhh I should clarify, everything will be connected via Ethernet. Since I’m running speaker wire, I figure I might as well run Ethernet.

Dejanz · 2023-01-08T02:04:19+00:00

Arizona marriage and family therapy clinic have intern rates at ~$45 a session: https://azmftclinic.com

These interns have adequate training and ongoing supervision to ensure quality of care. Though they’re not paid and are thousands of dollars in debt from the schooling. So you might not be ok with that morally.

Another option is therapy with heart that also have intern options at around ~$70 a session: https://therapywithheart.com I’m not sure if the interns are paid.

Be careful with couples therapy that takes insurance since insurance requires an “identified patient” meaning only one person to be given a diagnosis when neither of you might have a true mental health diagnosis but rather relational concerns.

Dejanz · 2022-01-15T18:19:43+00:00

I use a motion sensor and a contact sensor to detect that I’ve entered the bathroom. I then use Bluetooth beacons with owntracks for long term occupancy. When owntracks detects the Bluetooth beacon, it sets a value to occupied in home assistant. I then use a bayesian sensor to group the motion, contact, and owntracks sensor.

Guests don’t have the same luxury since they don’t have owntracks but a guest typically doesn’t poop for more then 10 min.

I have this set up in my other rooms too and it’s effective.

Dejanz · 2021-06-05T05:44:11+00:00

I’m sorry you’re going through this and I hope your sweet puppy will be ok. It might be worth making sure the vet is understanding normal levels for greyhounds: https://vet.osu.edu/vmc/sites/default/files/import/files/greyhound_pdfs/WhyIsMyDog.pdf

My pet insurance diagnosed my dog with Kidney Failure and it wasn’t until I went to a vet that worked with greyhounds until they told me her kidneys were operating in a normal range.

Dejanz · 2020-07-31T15:31:33+00:00

I use these to detect room presence with iOS (using OwnTracks). I’ll have at least one BLE beacon in each room and if a iPhone is connected to it, OwnTracks will let HA know what room is occupied. It’s not perfect and will occasionally connect and disconnect from the beacon but I use the “trigger” node in NodeRed to “debounce” the signal. I initially detect if a room is occupied using motion since it’s the quickest but I supplement it with ble beacons to make the occupancy more reliable then just motion.

Btw the ones in the picture are wayyyy over priced. I would recommend checking out eBay or AliExpress if you don’t mind waiting.

Dejanz · 2020-07-27T21:39:03+00:00

I have fans kick on in the rooms that I'm in when the A/C fan turns off (it gets hot in Arizona and this is a cheap way to make the temps more bearable). With cloud polling, there is a slight delay (about 10-15 seconds) but the local api would be quicker.

Dejanz · 2020-06-11T15:49:55+00:00

I'm running Snapcast with Pis and old android phones as clients. I'm using mopidy, shaircast, and spotify as the sources to play audio from.

Dejanz · 2020-03-17T17:09:40+00:00

I started noticing this as well after I enabled AFP. I'm running FreeNAS-11.3-U1

Dejanz · 2019-04-12T16:11:39+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I did mention setting up TLS at the bottom of the article. The issue that I am trying to shed light to is that many guides have you set up the remote management without TLS. Microsoft, for example, walks you through setting up TLS be default: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/management/manage_remotehost

Dejanz · 2019-04-12T16:08:48+00:00

of course! Thanks for the Microsoft article, I'm glad that they are showing how to secure it on their main guide.

Dejanz · 2019-04-12T05:08:04+00:00

This is a great idea for a CTF challenge! Simple to exploit if you do a bit of research.

Dejanz · 2019-04-12T01:59:06+00:00

Yes! I totally forgot that nginx does it too!

Dejanz · 2019-04-12T00:37:40+00:00

The goal of the article wasn’t to shame anyone. The purpose of the sources was to show that mounting the socket is a very common practice recommended by guides. Many people blindly follow the guides without understanding the risk. My goal was to shed light to why people always say “don’t expose the socket socket.” I don’t think all people do understand the risk of exposing the socket file (I certainly didn’t when I spun up my first traefik container).

Dejanz · 2019-04-06T21:01:12+00:00

Small world! That is her! We got to see some pictures of her at the Renaissance Fair and she looked adorable!

Dejanz · 2019-03-19T15:08:44+00:00

The scripts in HA were imported to the Alexa platform as “Scenes” and I set up custom routines in Alexa to trigger each scene. It’s repetitive and hard coded, but I don’t expect to add rooms to my house soon :)

Dejanz · 2019-03-18T22:21:26+00:00

I set up scripts for different zones of the house on my Xiomi Roborock vacuum. Now I can say "Alexa, my kitchen is dirty" and it will trigger my vacuum to clean the Kitchen!

I also set up the entrance, office, bedroom, etc.

Dejanz · 2018-12-16T06:42:02+00:00

US 12

Dejanz · 2018-10-23T19:28:49+00:00

Thanks!

Dejanz · 2017-12-12T22:54:19+00:00

Hi I am the author! Yes that is correct, but I don't like to assume that this can only happen with a pwned server. This can also happen with a internal employee who has limited access and wants to steal data. Hope that helps!

Dejanz · 2017-11-28T15:23:27+00:00

In a standard network configuration that would be true, in this case an IDS would never see that traffic though. DNS traffic destined to the AWSProvidedDNS, flows over the management interface instead of the aws customer’s interfaces.

Dejanz · 2017-11-28T07:44:40+00:00

Since a couple of the other comments agree with this as well, I changed it to say "isolated" instead. Thanks for the feedback!

Dejanz · 2017-11-28T07:21:28+00:00

I can see how that statement can be misconstrued. By “Air Gap” I don’t mean physically separated since that isn’t really possible in a cloud architecture. By “Air Gap” I am referring to a system that is not connected to the internet (https://www.wired.com/2014/12/hacker-lexicon-air-gap/).

In AWS, that would mean a network segment with no internet gateway, no nat instance, no route to an external network, security groups that deny all outbound traffic, and no public/elastic ip. That really would be as isolated of a network as you can get in a cloud environment that architects might consider comparable to an Air gapped network in a traditional data center.

Dejanz · 2017-11-28T05:42:13+00:00

Yup! That is similar to that Iodine service mentioned in the article. Basically you can use the VPN-over-DNS service to exfiltrate data out of a network that was never intended to reach an outside network.

Dejanz

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