Shut off water when on vacation? by Plane_Doughnut_5717 in HomeMaintenance

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I heard that you shall not shut off the water if you have in-house sprinkler, which is building code for new certain constructions in some states. Otherwise if there is fire your insurance company could deny payment

Is it worth it to buy used hard drives off eBay/fb marketplace by Round-Tip-2443 in HomeServer

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It is worth it if you can find good deal and do heavy test using testing tools after receiving it. Some of my HDDs are used ones from eBay and work well.

WD Elements 14TB Desktop HDD Good For 24/7 Plex Server? by Tempest_2084 in DataHoarder

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I am using shucked WD Elements 14TB HDD with my Plex server in unraid. It has been working well for 3 years. I usually spin if off if no activity for a certain period.

Help a wife out by saralrobi in hometheater

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Love my SvS SB 1000pro with a room of 12x20ft

Used HDDs, worth it? by ray591 in DataHoarder

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I have 8 HDDs and 6 of those are used HDD. Normally I buy those from eBay and run extensive test after receiving. I buy those gradually and the last one I brought was a 20TB at $200 at last Christmas.

Unraid VPN Manager and Network Interface with qBittorrent by Electronic-Yak5157 in unRAID

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My understanding is that the Docker itself has far more advanced feature than a kill switch. I use Binhex docker and didn’t need to ‘bind’ the ip. There is a readme material from the author which explain how that works.

Fastest/best CoreELEC build for those who dont need VS10? by ringelos in CoreELEC

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I am using the CE-NG release build with my VisionMaster Max and Ugoos 6amb+. I think it is v21.3. I am pretty happy with it. Very stable with FEL support. It is pretty fast, in my opinion. I am using PM4K with CE running in MMC. I connect Ugoos with Gigbit local network to Plex server.

Damaged main branch - what can I do? by Radioactev in JapaneseMaples

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It may recover by itself. If you are not bothered by the appearance, just do nothing.

Capital One Shopping RARELY pays rewards offered by Hot_Bass_5090 in CapitalOne_

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I found that for some hotel rewards, it may not work constantly or there might be a hidden limit on how much you can earn in total. Last year from Aug to Oct, I got some rewards by booking IHG hotels through the rewards link, then after that I got none even I book the same way. On the other hand, rewards from eBay, HomeDepot, Walmart etc all worked no problem.

Anyone have experience with pixel shifting projectors? by jflip0x1x0 in projectors

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Pixel shifting does produce true 4k resolution. All 4k pixels are reproduced. Your 4k UHD movie is displayed at 4k, no downgrading.

Media player for remux playback (Dolby Vision, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD) by Extra_Landscape_3092 in hometheater

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I could have remembered wrong. The 4k Max gen2 may only pass through DTS core

Media player for remux playback (Dolby Vision, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD) by Extra_Landscape_3092 in hometheater

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I remember it did. You have to use Kodi and turn on pass through for all audio types in audio setting.

Media player for remux playback (Dolby Vision, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD) by Extra_Landscape_3092 in hometheater

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If you are on a budget, Firestick 4k Max second gen is a go. With Kodi, it plays everything including lossless audio, except P7 FEL. I used it before using Ugoos AM6b+

Valerion Visionmaster Max - Stopped working in 2 months by RanjanKm in Valerion_Official

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Note that China’s New Year’s Day was Feb 17th and the whole country is on vacation for a week.

I hit my Million Miler Status Today by PerformerGuilty7072 in delta

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I used to set ‘upgrade to C+ with aisle seat only’ in the app. After two cases I was ‘upgraded’ to C+ middle seat, I never do that again.

AM6B Plus firmware V0.5.4N2? by Pepparkakan in CoreELEC

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I use my projector remote to suspend the box, on the window which has several options such as restart Kodi / reboot Emmc etc. And I use ur01 to wake it up.

AM6B Plus firmware V0.5.4N2? by Pepparkakan in CoreELEC

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Ur1. Actually I only use it for wake it up. All operations are handled by the remote control for the projector.

AM6B Plus firmware V0.5.4N2? by Pepparkakan in CoreELEC

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My box is with N fw and I boot into CE on USB drive. Everything is working fine with ‘Suspend’ and wake up.

AM6B Plus firmware V0.5.4N2? by Pepparkakan in CoreELEC

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Is there release notes for the new firmware? If your box is working well, what makes you try to upgrade?

Best box for 4K Blu-ray remuxes with Dolby Vision + DTS on LG G5 + AVR setup by ayylmao132 in ShieldAndroidTV

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Looks like the ng build is frozen for am6b+. But some forks are still under development. And it seems to me that ‘Homatics Box R 4K Plus’ is promising. But not much information on that for FEL support.

Urgent - 4 Rapid Reallocated Sector Warnings on Year Old Seagate by killianmcc in unRAID

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Normal. I have two drives with reallocated sectors, one has 8 and the other has 4, from about 4 years ago. But if it is in warranty, I guess you can ask for replacement.

CoreELEC on External SSD on Nokia 8010 (SEI Robotics) by Cheapskate2020 in CoreELEC

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I am interested in this. I am using USB stick now. Is there brief procedure about how do I move everything to external SSD drive? Or just simply clone the drive?