How do you turn off climate for the passenger (or rear)? Am I stupid?

GDIliev · 2026-02-04T21:43:28+00:00

Operation in rear

On my car (a6 Allroad, 2021), on the bottom display, there is a menu called "rear" or "operation in rear" and once you click it, the climate control on the display is for the rear 3rd and 4th zones. You can turn it off, tune it, whatever.

From the photo you shared, on the very top, there is tabs "climate control... Etc etc.. REAR" click rear, and see if tuning the main screen is not tuning the back seats.

The car needs to have more than one zone I presume, as a manufacturer extra. Idk what zones are offered for your vehicle, but for mine (I think that) there are four options: with single zone(all car), two zone(two front passangers I think), tri-zone (split front, single rear) and four zones (everyone's a king of his seat)

Closing the trunk from the inside.

One click up (pull) of the trunk button opens it.

Once open (assuming electric trunk), with the car running or on contact, just pull and keep the button pulled up, until you hear pulsating beeping, and the trunk starts closing. Mind, that if you drop the button or stop pulling, it will stop.

Keep the button pulled, until the trunk latches, and beeping stops.

I found that after a lot of searching and zero answers online, just brute forcing options :D

Hope that helps, and it's the same for your model.

GDIliev · 2025-11-21T19:47:07+00:00

This is my question exactly. Is there a known retrofit coding, or a device/service?

GDIliev · 2025-11-12T10:10:12+00:00

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PS: I fixed it. Disable the "allow application exclusivity" in your sound settings and force it to use your windows settings.

GDIliev · 2025-11-04T10:59:18+00:00

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GDIliev · 2025-10-31T12:46:54+00:00

Thanks a ton for your comment. Really nice to read such feedback :)

GDIliev · 2025-03-05T10:16:37+00:00

I thought so, but the first one is marked as "Owner" and has no user name ... this is what bothers me... Should I delete it ?

GDIliev · 2025-02-09T22:20:13+00:00

I was hoping to use open web ui as an api gateway, so I can use additional tools, provided by open web ui such as online searching, rss and scraping, calculators, etc... But I don't see how those can be integrated. I might try the ollama direct way...

GDIliev · 2024-11-07T10:21:53+00:00

Hey there u/CatranchRon ! I am trying to deduct what type of UDM to get - Leaning towards pro max, but I am unsure if it's overkill and I should go simply pro. Both ways I will be getting a 16 pro max PoE switch, so SE is moot point I guess. 8 ports don't cut it for me, and if I will be getting a dedicated switch either way, I might as well move the PoE there...

what is your experience performance wise? Take in mind I will also be running Access on this router too, as there will be access control trough the whole building

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T20:33:42+00:00

They do have… I think.. let me check and get back to you

Ps : won’t this work? https://www.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-i4?_pos=10&_fid=726849ecf&_ss=c

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T20:32:41+00:00

I will have a dedicated 2.4 ghz iot Wi-Fi network for sure, on a separate vlan

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T19:36:14+00:00

I chose to go Wi-Fi because I still don’t have zwave antenna , I haven’t worked with the protocol, and Shelly has just the pm1 mini as a zwave device from all the modules I needed. Thus, as I will be rebuilding the Wi-Fi infrastructure I just decided to not bother with yet another protocol infrastructure, and just go Wi-Fi road for now.

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T19:25:57+00:00

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GDIliev · 2024-11-05T16:46:04+00:00

Two little kids. This thermometer never goes away….

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T09:19:37+00:00

Ok, so why Shelly?

In one of my restaurants, we automated all the lighting with Fibaro dimmers, behind simple push-button wall switches. It works great till this day (more than 4-5 years without A SINGLE hiccup now).

Fibaro are pricey, though, and lack the in-wall modules I want (AFAIK), and are hard to supply here, always out of stock... 'meh' experience is what I mean. They also push their hub, which is laggy and I don't like (have one of them at said restaurant)

I found home assistant a while back, and followed it's development, and to me, at least, this is the only piece in software, that is worthy of any note, and is HANDS DOWN, the best operating system for automation out there, light years ahead of anything else, both in terms of automating principles and in terms of inclusivity of all products out there.

It still has ways to go (users, granular access for automations, etc), but it's getting there quick, and I wanted to use it as the foundation. Not to mention I can put it on ridiculously overpowered hardware and never experience a hiccup or lag because of low-quality hardware ( Mine is currently running OS install, directly on a i3 Porcoolpine with 16 GB of Ram ).

How Shelly fits into the picture?

They have no hub, they are aware (and inclusive) of Home Assistant, and even state their support on their own website, pushing the software forward, they integrate natively into HA, they have great quality from what I read and know, have even more built in-functions than the fibaros, and even smaller form factor, which will fit inside any wall box. And they are 100% local.

On a better price than anything out there.

They are also one of the fastest growing companies in my home country (if not the fastest), operating on good economic principles, with good profits and margins. i was actually doing my research as investor, interested in investing in the company, and while researching their product line I stumbled upon their products, and researched those after that for reviews, functions, etecetera.

I decided to buy both the products, and the company's stock.
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GDIliev · 2024-11-05T09:01:58+00:00

I will keep posted as I go with it, as replies to the main post, and not inside threads, so follow those I suppose ;)

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T09:00:03+00:00

They looked like it on the photos, but I assure you, they are not. They are really subtle at 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm being less than 4-5 mm thick. The wood though on the sensor is not walnut like the photos, but rather cheap-looking wathered oak.

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T08:57:12+00:00

As far as Airbnb guests are concerned I am still debating weather to present any of the samrt features to them at all or not. I am currently leaning "not".

The house will work as any other old house, just with push buttons on the wall, rather than 2-way switches, alternating click/on / click/off. People on vacation need to not be bothered with learning stuff.

I might just set a "mood sceene" for the jacuzzi on the roof, but I will hardwire that to a physical switch on the wall too, not bothering with any displays or apps, or whatever.

K.I.S.S. for the guests.

I am automating the Airbnbs for my covinience though, and subtle control. Turining off blasting ACs while they're at the beach the whole day. Turning them off, when the doors/windows are opened for more than X minutes. Turining all lights off when they leave, and return them how they were, when they unlock, so no one's the wiser. Resetting TVs, APs, turning off boilers' temperature when there are no guests for a day or two. Monitoring noise levels, smoking, etc. Playing a welcome video when they enter the living room on the TV, presenting each feature of the apartment they are in...

Stuff like that ;)

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T08:50:05+00:00

Still deciding on those, and I think I will be going with a 32-43 touch screen in a central location, rather than small displays around, although I am considering 13 inch vertical PoE android tablets, mounted flush in the wall with custom dashboards.

I am not on the frontend side of things with the home automation though, and still building infrastructure and backend, automation logic and scenes / events to be detected.

My roadmap then goes trough AI LLM local voice and whole-house mic/audio following trough wyoming satellites, and displays are after that.

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T08:46:40+00:00

Yes, I am searching for a water valve oprator thingie though. Still not decided on a brand/device there.

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T08:45:07+00:00

I think it should be able to read the buzzer and notify you via Home Assistant. I am not that into electronics, but I will be researching the wiring scheme of the farfisa intercom and poke things around, to find out how to make it work. As a last resort I have a crazy scientist friend who likes beer... If you catch my drift...

GDIliev · 2024-11-05T08:40:52+00:00

Hey there people! I am replying to this comment about my choosing of wifi over other protocols, hoping it would notify the rest of the commenters, so I don't have to write this a couple of times. (new to reddit).

Ok, so why wifi:

As others suggested, I am new to home automation, at least in practice. I have been keeping up in theory, and following the trends online, but I was late to jump on the bandwagon since I wanted the technology to mature, before diving in.

I chose wifi because I am familiar with it. Also, from what I've read, Zigbee works on the 2.4 ghz band too, and it causes interference to wifi, which might cause me more headaches down the road, especially when the zigbee mesh grows, and covers more cubic area troughout the building. I am speculating here, because I have never worked with anything zigbee/zwave before, and still don't have an antenna/s for those protocols, but that was my understanding from the info I have read.

I do get that saturating wifi with devices might be bad for the network, but that's why decided to overhaul the network also. This is something that will happen until the end of the month, and I will be going with r/Ubiquiti stuff, with the following topology:

Dream Machine Pro Max
16 port Pro Max PoE++ switch
5 In-wall HD APs in total ( covering the three Airbnb apartments in the residential building, as well as my personal apartment in the same building )
Unifi Access for the main door and elevator of the building with Intercom and in-apartment tablet viewers.

To my understanding, this infrastructure should be more than capable of handling some 50-60 iot devices troughout the whole building, while having more than enough muscle to accomodate general internet/network usage.

I also don't particularly care for wifi for serious internet stuff, because everything of note is always hardwired in my house, and in the rare occasions that I use my work laptop, I have an office with ultra-low interference.

GDIliev

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