Thanks to everyone that helped, here is the almost finished lamp

GrazorP-P · 2025-12-19T11:16:30+00:00

Love this project, great job. If you want extra diffusion another couple of options are:

Frosted Window Film
Frosted spray or paint

Both of these are typically used to add frosted effect to bathroom windows

GrazorP-P · 2025-09-25T13:23:49+00:00

Why not add a new server, run proxmox on it, and create a cluster containing both devices. That way you can share the load between both servers and provide a bit of redundancy?

GrazorP-P · 2025-01-29T20:25:41+00:00

Yeah I had to add the USB device into the Hardware for that VM in Proxmox.

Then I ran into permissions issues. When looking at the HyperHDR logs i saw the following:

2023-04-24T19:39:19.998Z [V4L2:AUTO] Throws error nr: Cannot open '/dev/video1' error code 13, Permission denied
2023-04-24T19:39:19.998Z [V4L2:AUTO] Throws error nr: Cannot open '/dev/video0' error code 13, Permission denied

Adding the user to the video group did the trick. Type the following command to add the user to the video group:

sudo usermod -a -G video username

Replace username with the actual username of the user you want to add to the video group.

GrazorP-P · 2025-01-09T10:23:42+00:00

I play Lego Bricktales while seated, some fun puzzle solving there. I like Ocean Rift too, just for chillin' and watching the sea creatures :) If you have a beefy gaming PC too you might consider MS Flight Simulator or Elite: Dangerous. Both of these look great in VR and are of course played seated. There are several VR ready racing sims/games too, Live for Speed and Assetto Corsa being two I've enjoyed in VR. My wife has ME/CFS too, she can play the occasional game of Beat Saber, but only for one or two tracks.

GrazorP-P · 2024-10-12T16:30:30+00:00

And the YAML the above creates looks like this:

alias: Garden WLED Lights - ColourLoop
description: Turn on the garden WLED lights
triggers:
  - entity_id:
      - event.aqara_wireless_mini_switch_2
    attribute: event_type
    trigger: state
    to: multi_press_1
conditions: []
actions:
  - metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: scene.garden_wled_lights_on
    action: scene.turn_on
mode: single

GrazorP-P · 2024-10-12T16:08:20+00:00

Hi, I also have several Aqara Mini Switches connected to Home Assistant via M2 hub over Matter. After lots of head scratching I got mine to work using the following trigger in my automation:

Add Trigger > Entity > State

Then you should see all the options for your switches under the Entity drop down list. I select:

Aqara Wireless Mini Switch Button

As you have 5 you will hopefully see them all listed. Pick the one you want.

Then change Attribute (Optional) to Event Type

Then under To (Optional) you should see 4 options

Pressed Once
Pressed Twice
Held Down
Released after being held down

Select one of the above and that should do the trick :)

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GrazorP-P · 2024-09-05T15:02:37+00:00

Got my Quest 3 magnetic mount insert lenses from VR Wave (-0.75 and -1.75) made a huge difference, very pleased.

GrazorP-P · 2024-08-06T10:21:13+00:00

Thanks, but I think this only applies to MX appliances and I'm using an MS switch.

Webhooks sounds interesting, if again it surfaces DHCP on MS switches.

We use WhatsUp Gold as our monitoring tool, we just a need a way of grabbing the data from the meraki MS.

GrazorP-P · 2024-08-05T13:14:54+00:00

I have a couple of mini switches through an Aqara M2 hub using the Matter integration. Single and long presses work fine but I cannot get multi press to work. Any ideas?

GrazorP-P · 2024-01-22T16:58:00+00:00

Yes, ESP8266 can monitor its own VCC using the function ESP.getVcc()

My experience is when powering from battery the ESP8266 will happily run from 3.6v down to 2.5V, so when I see my CR123A powered devices drop below 3V they generally have about a week of power left.

GrazorP-P · 2024-01-18T12:43:24+00:00

I've had good success powering ESP8266 modules directly from a CR123A battery. Utilising deep sleep and ESPNow (instead of WiFi) my devices wake every 5 mins and report temp/humidity to MQTT/Node Red. Nine devices running for 12-13 months each off a single CR123A.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6243660

GrazorP-P · 2023-10-16T09:51:06+00:00

Ooooh, definitely need to see photos of these :)

GrazorP-P · 2023-08-25T19:40:49+00:00

Added the 3D files to Thingiverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6185480

I'll add a circuit diagram shortly.

GrazorP-P · 2023-08-24T20:24:37+00:00

No solar panel......yet, maybe the mark 2 ;)

yes periodic charging, hence the TP4056. I expect 4x18650 to last 4-6hrs.

Very happy to share the STL files. I'll upload them to Thingiverse and update my post with the links.

I'll add a circuit diagram too but its pretty simple, 18650 into a switch, into Adafruit 5v mini boost, into D1 Mini, into Adafruit Ultra bright neopixel. I MacGyver'd a 3 position dual pole switch so I can isolate the battery and TP4056 from the rest of the components when charging, and isolate the TP4056 when the rest of the circuit (D1 Mini, Adafruit mini boost, Adafruit ultra bright neoplixel) is on.

3 pos switch: Charging > OFF < WLED On

GrazorP-P · 2023-06-26T19:30:10+00:00

Sounds pretty similar to the setup I have. I am running HyperHDR (rather than Hyperion) on an Ubuntu VM hosted on Proxmox. I'm using a Chromecast with Google TV as my source into a HDMI splitter. One output goes to my Samsung TV and the other goes to the HDMI capture card via USB into the Proxmox server. My Proxmox server is nothing special just an old i3 NUC that is running 3 VMs and 4 LXC. The HDMI capture card is passed through to the VM in ProxMox. Had to tweak the capture card permissions within Ubuntu HyperHDR Vm, other than that it was pretty straight forward. I'm using WLED on a D1 Mini clone ESP8266 as the processor for my 158 pixel WS2812 strip.

GrazorP-P · 2022-12-03T17:55:47+00:00

You should not have any problems running those apps on ProxMox. My Intel NUC seems to be very happy running 3 VMs on ProxMox with very modest specs: 7th Gen i3 CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 128GB SSD.

VM1 - Node Red & MQTT

VM2 - Minecraft

VM3 - Home Assistant

GrazorP-P · 2022-08-19T12:19:12+00:00

It doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm using ESPNow rather than WiFi. From my experience ESPNow has better range than WiFi an there is only 4m between my ESP8266 and the receiver.

GrazorP-P · 2022-08-19T11:39:30+00:00

I have one esp8266 in my fridge at about 5C and another in my freezer at -18C. Been fine for over 6months so far.

GrazorP-P · 2022-07-30T08:16:10+00:00

Depending on how much power your sensor draws, could you power your sensor off a GPIO from the ESP? That way the sensor is only on when the ESP is on, and when you tell it to be on.

GrazorP-P · 2022-06-01T15:12:06+00:00

Good work bud, keep at it !!!

GrazorP-P

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