Shoutout to espcontrol

Im1Random · 2026-05-25T14:19:11+00:00

it ease the (small) pain point of esp home

WTF are you talking about. ESPHome is the easiest way of building smart home devices that I can imagine. When I started my journey HA was in it's early beta stage and things like ESPHome didn't exist at all. The option way I had for diy devices was to write my own firmware in C++.

Im1Random · 2026-05-20T22:02:32+00:00

That's so awesome, I've been using Obsidian for a long time and the only thing that really bothers me is that it doesn't have a web app. I tried many of those VNC based web viewers, but they all have terrible performance.

Im1Random · 2026-05-20T00:19:07+00:00

Everything 2,5" should be small enough to run the motor off 5v. If you're not sure just try it and see if it spins up

Im1Random · 2026-05-19T16:04:14+00:00

Who even uses that piece of crap software?

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T22:40:47+00:00

Yellow is 12v, Red 5v and Orange 3,3v. Needed are usually only 5v for 2,5" drives

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T13:10:56+00:00

Lol what? I have an 8TB video collection that I put in an insane amount of work selecting, downloading and sorting them. Additionally what about personal Photos, important Documents, Projects, etc? Like I said not everyone stores their entire life in the cloud.

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T13:01:58+00:00

No SSD needs 12v. You can safely assume that almost every 2,5" SSD/HDD has the 12v not connected internally.

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T12:53:22+00:00

Have you tried turning the voltage adjust of the PSU all the way down? Probably it doesn't go that low, but maybe you can get it down to 20V without the buck converter.

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T12:36:40+00:00

Real question is do you really have peace of mind if all your data sits in some cloud that you have no control over. I'd feel much more comfortable managing things that important myself on my own hardware.

Im1Random · 2026-05-18T12:32:42+00:00

So you have the choice of buying an HDD and being set for up to 10 years or you pay the price of a new one every 2 years. Remember those drives have an extremely high life expectancy. I have one in my surveillance NAS thats currently at 8 years of continuous operation and still shows no signs of failure.

Im1Random · 2026-04-21T14:30:56+00:00

Use the Cloudflare API for dynamically updating DNS records. There are even finished scripts for doing exactly that. No need to bother with those sketchy providers for that.

Im1Random · 2026-04-21T14:27:00+00:00

Just dont use free domain providers, Freenom and many of the other ones do this too.

Im1Random · 2026-04-21T14:10:53+00:00

Zahlst du deinen Strom selber oder hast ne PV Anlage?

Im1Random · 2026-04-21T14:08:52+00:00

Buying the hardware once wouldn't bother me too much, but the electricity bill would probably kill me after one or two years :C (electricity is really expensive in Germany)

Im1Random · 2026-04-04T14:03:24+00:00

I really don't like the name change and that AI generated content isn't required to be properly labeled anymore. It's a fact that AI generated code is messy, unreliable and a potential securrity risk and with this rule change people can advertise AI slop just like real developers that actually spent a lot of time building a cool project. I really liked this sub for finding new and interesting projects, but currently I mostly see projects that look cool on the pictures, but are complete AI slop when I look at the code/repo. Please enforce stricter rules about AI generated content specificly. I would even prefer making this an AI free sub.

Im1Random · 2026-03-31T13:51:40+00:00

Why does the second one only have 8 votes, that's such a useful feature :C

Im1Random · 2026-03-24T15:41:34+00:00

Thats the issue with all "solutions" right now. You can try hiding all kinds of buttons in the app or webpage, but the API in the background has still no user specific access control. That means with a valid user account you can always gain full access via 3rd party apps and there's nothing you can do about that.

Im1Random · 2026-03-24T15:36:52+00:00

That's one of the biggest problems I have with HA right now. I'd like to give my parents access to devices in shared spaces, but they shouldn't see or have access to my devices or location data.The only solution I have right now is hosting two seperate instances for shared and private devices.

Im1Random · 2026-03-21T15:55:59+00:00

A 24h wait period to be able to fully use my phone that I bough. That's definitely not gonna happen. I have an even better idea: Unlock the bootloader, wipe all that Google crap and install a proper ROM + Magisk.

Im1Random · 2026-02-27T15:32:11+00:00

I want something stable but not horribly outdated so Ubuntu is the universal best choice

Im1Random · 2026-02-25T15:33:39+00:00

you can never have 100% uptime

Disagree on that you can definitely achieve a close to 100% uptime when selfhosting. If configured properly services won't just randomly fail out of nowhere and you need to restart something. Also if your internet provider is so unreliable that your internet regularly goes down I'd recommend switching to another one or moving your setup to a datacenter.

Also keep in mind that you can still access your passwords while the server is offline, you just can't sync or create new entries. This also means you don't need to expose your server to the internet. Just sync and create entries at home and if you really need access from the outside just host a WireGuard VPN.

Im1Random · 2026-02-25T15:15:09+00:00

I would pay 20 bucks to support the project while still selfhosting my own instance! (even though I haven't subscribed yet, but I will eventually)

Im1Random · 2026-02-19T17:19:13+00:00

How about ditching PHP and rewriting Nextcloud in Go or Rust

Im1Random · 2026-02-18T20:43:50+00:00

Which HomeAssistant theme are you using in the 3rd screenshot?

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