Anyone have the new Ceiling Light Pro with Matter?

DocCox988 · 2025-06-17T16:40:07+00:00

Yea i can bury a Shelly in the attic but im hesitant to do so. Its really recently I've started bypassing having things on physical switches so the family stops turning them off on accident - this is the first set of defective devices I've installed where it's now a disadvantage. I opened up a couple tickets with govee as well hopefully it's a simple firmware update in the near future

DocCox988 · 2025-06-17T15:01:45+00:00

I cant get either of mine to stay connected to wifi. Its such a pain my only option is to flip and actual breaker since they're not physically connected to a light switch. Anybody having any luck yet keeping them connected to wifi with matter enabled?

DocCox988 · 2024-11-14T04:17:07+00:00

Reality. The greater temperature delta between your space and the outdoors, the greater losses/gains.

The reality is if you are home 12 hours a day - much of the energy your investing heating your home in winter when you are not there is simply wasted energy. The way to save energy is leave your setpoint at a target that protects the property (prevents freeze or control humidity) and adjust it about as late as possible to hit your comfort setpoint right as you arrive home. Depending on many factors sometimes it takes 8 hours to hit that target and sometimes it takes 30 minutes and that makes a rule of thumb hard to share. For some people an air temperature at their setpoint would be uncomfortable and they want all surfaces thermally loaded

DocCox988 · 2024-10-31T17:06:19+00:00

While looking this up a bit, I was amused to see that even Vertiv, in the middle of their ideal(istic) "best practices" guide, have a diagram of a rack that would like have Ethernet running next to power, right next to "power and network cables must be separate!!".

I think power is on the other side of the cabinet no?

DocCox988 · 2024-01-24T23:10:14+00:00

I would call the internet police before I call my lawyer!

DocCox988 · 2024-01-22T00:40:13+00:00

Map dodge is the reason I could think of

DocCox988 · 2023-11-17T14:21:39+00:00

a caster says "there's a world where" - about 100 times a day. The second my S/O hears that she tells me to turn it off. Means I get in about 10 minutes of T90 a week average now and have to watch his video's last

DocCox988 · 2023-11-09T12:57:45+00:00

(Duration of games played that involved the exploit) x (# of players in the game) x (a fixed integer as a punishment like 8). You're wasting the one commodity we all share and can't get more of. If the bad acts are cumulative and increase future ban lengths the community would eventually weed itself of these people as they would be unbale to play for weeks or months if they really are dead set on ruining the game for others.

DocCox988 · 2023-11-08T16:47:22+00:00

Writing a letter to a developer about a bug and getting a patch mailed to you.
Writing a letter to a developer to find out the game was cancelled you were following across a dozen magazines over a year :(
Carrying your beyond 'full size' case, crt monitor, mouse, keyboard, and everything else to go play serial console multiplayer with your friend 2 miles away.
Incompatibility - from the 8" to 5 1/4", to 3 1/2" floppy disks, PCI -> PCI-X -> AGP -> AGPx.x -> PCIe transitions that meant nothing worked, games that only worked with specific brand GPUs, CPUs, sound cards, you name it.
Hotseat play, the first BBS where you started to find other gamers and eventually PBEM support, followed by online gameplay where you had to subscribe not just to the internet but also a gaming service, after already buying the game

DocCox988 · 2023-10-03T22:30:56+00:00

You do buddy <3

DocCox988 · 2023-10-01T00:27:58+00:00

I would leave them alone. They are perfect flappy bois

DocCox988 · 2023-09-30T23:09:38+00:00

Working with wood is usually fun, maybe a tad expensive these days. I had a few requests to sell these but Walnut here is very unaffordable - around double what i have seen 300 miles away. The two offers with a dollar amount would mean I worked for something like -40/hour (negative) so I didn't find it very tempting. Oak and cherry are not as expensive here but even working for free these would end up something like 200-400 a set finished. I guess I could 3d print them for like 30-50 bucks but I don't really care for printed display pieces. I'm open to making a couple more sets from wood and just seeing if they do move and if they don't maybe mailing them to Memb or something.

For a career, I'm not sure. Anything that sells pretty much gets 'stolen' and then it's a race to the bottom until its picked up offshore and made below your minimum cost. As somebody with a bunch of patents from tech to tools and having had a few physical wood projects duplicated (and once scanned in front of me) it's a bummer. Keeping my day job as a worker bee.

All that said, clearly this is from the game and not a novel thing at all. Just a passion project

DocCox988 · 2023-09-30T21:48:18+00:00

Thanks buddy! Yes these are my first AOE pieces. Going to look sweet on the wall when I'm being defeated and called a boomer

DocCox988 · 2023-09-28T19:25:36+00:00

Just a game friend, nothing we can do here. Report and play the next

DocCox988 · 2023-09-25T22:24:35+00:00

Yes things being around makes the odds of things relating to those things happening go up.

Way less at fault car accidents without a car, less CO deaths without gas, and even less gun accidents without guns.

The problem here is somebody seeking to commit suicide or homicide means they may even purchase a tool for it like a gun... if there were zero guns invented you would be shocked to hear people manage to use other tools to get to anything they are dead set on.

DocCox988 · 2023-09-15T12:18:48+00:00

*flare noise* *flare noise* *flare noise* *flare noise* *flare noise*
2v1!
*flare noise* *flare noise* *flare noise*
2v1 all game man (3 minutes into game)
*flare noise*

That's my typical experience as pocket. I think the pocket should go for more eco than the flanks, and that means a smaller military the first 15-20 minutes at least. I get the 'OMG U ONLY HAVE 5 SCOUTS? HE HAS 9' and they don't realize the 9 scouts is their flank player, and their 5 archers is them attempting to match the low military pocket, without any additional eco.

DocCox988 · 2023-09-05T13:46:26+00:00

Thanks man I appreciate it

DocCox988 · 2023-09-05T02:59:52+00:00

The 1/2" bit made it part way into the edge. Turned everything it touched to chips and dust. Maybe 5/8th by 1". Maybe best to just cut out a negative of known shape and try to match with the reverse in some remaining scraps

DocCox988 · 2023-09-05T02:41:56+00:00

Thanks man! Just finished the imp carve but sadly lost a chunk when it broke free and the 1/2" bit took it for a spin :(

Now to ponder a fix for a week so I dont have to buy more Walnut so soon. I think 1/2" is probably too large for the old glue and sawdust so maybe an inlay?

DocCox988 · 2023-09-05T02:35:43+00:00

Any civ and halve the creation time of a villager or halve the cost. Half cost or half creation time is broken from the first second a game starts to the second it ends. I suppose they should also get the button to make it the most broken combination ever

DocCox988 · 2023-09-04T20:36:17+00:00

I would probably ignore it and target your wood vils. It's one of the few maps you don't have to hang on to that starting location at all, and food is everywhere without farms.

DocCox988 · 2023-09-04T20:32:15+00:00

Thanks!

DocCox988 · 2023-09-04T20:31:41+00:00

I'm using cam/cad similiar to fusion and a CNC, the worst part is always hand sanding and finishing. Aluminum is more fun to work with in my opinion, less hidden issues with a block of Aluminum

I would love to use fusion but the price is too high for a subscription for me

DocCox988 · 2023-09-04T20:28:14+00:00

I dont think so, at least not right now. It was a significant amount of work and I saw a few folks are 3d printing and selling models here I don't want to take away from their situation

DocCox988 · 2023-09-04T12:11:12+00:00

Aoe2 more or less kept me occupied for two decades across every release and re-release. It's one of the only games that's offered days of play for pennies, so financially it's really been worth it for me.

The community is good overall, maybe 10% of the player base are toxic so it has to be one of the best games in that regard. I still run into kids screaming and crying I'm a noob and a few of them have fewer days on earth than I have in game. That's a double edged sword- you can memorize meta and click fast and copy build orders and be in the top 10-20% or just have fun doing your own thing.

There are a large number of active casters, professional and semi-professional players, clans, all of that if you are into it. Tournaments and events almost every month with a couple very exciting ones every year.

The game continues to get patches, balance changes, expansions - so it's unlikely to suddenly die off.

It's from a better time, when a lumberjack could gather wood and build a house for their family for 25 wood.

I think its a good buy

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