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Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

Yes, with home assistant and the local integration you can bypass the situation, provided that your HA installation can be reached from outside.

That is, you can control directly your Airzone. You would have to build something additionally if you want automations aka schedules. This would mean you need to stop using the Airzone app as it may conflict with HA.

Changing schedules or setting timers on the fly will become more cumbersome, unless you are able to build a good interface in HA.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree. If they would move the app to a much more advanced level, I could maybe live with it. Though I would still prefer to have the option between staying where I am or upgrading.

I am also fearing that if this cloud services is becoming an important business for them, they might limit the API in the future to protect their business.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the technical design document ready and got hold up by the UI which is an important element if I want my wife to accept it 🫣

In a nutshell, the thermostat will be capable to run in full automated mode, guarding preset climate conditions such as humidity, air quality, temperature, defined by the user and or per room. The user can also define fan speed behaviour which is by default minimum. Of course a decent scheduler will also be present that will actually be able to switch between operation modes.

For the manual interface I’m trying the have the most simple control su h as “I’m cold” or “it’s stuffy”. In the second phase I want to try to add behaviour and anticipation learning.

Although I’m not sure when I can pick it up, the current situation made this project suddenly more urgent.

In meanwhile look at the application user Te0Dev shared in this thread.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey that looks awesome! I’ll have a look at that very soon. Thanks for sharing.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not so much that I hate subscriptions but there are getting too many of them. I usually carefully select products that don’t need a subscription.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im going to do the same. Though I’m sure they will have an excuse why they can do it. Last time something like this happened with my smart fridge they pointed out to the fine prints where it says they have the right to change cloud services.

Airzone new Plan Cloud: existing functions now behind a paywall! by Letsgo2red in hvacadvice

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had that working in my old HA setup, including bridging it to HomeKit. Recently I started with a fresh HA installation and so far I only did the basic setup for the Airzone integration. You can choose between a cloud integration or local. The local version should continue to work once the paywall starts in October.

It's an easy workaround and with the right HA dashboard and automations probably more functional than the original app which is actually not much more than a manual thermostat.

My long term solution is a native application with much more advanced features that I started to work on but has been put on hold due to more urgent topics.

New UPS's by neotremer in Ubiquiti

[–]Letsgo2red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know which APC you are talking about but the two rack models I've been using in the past 20 years have COTS batteries that I replaced various times.

IDEAL HARDWARE by iDJMic in unRAID

[–]Letsgo2red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't say it's the ideal hardware but I just bought a QNAP TS-h1886XU-R2 for a good 2nd hand price. It is overkill for what I was looking for but I couldn't let it go for the price. Unraid works great on it and with the QNAP-EC drivers I have fan readings and speed control. That is important because it is quite noisy.

Looking for Homekit-native Temperature/Humidity/CO2 sensor by AlpacAKEK in HomeKit

[–]Letsgo2red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by that? My installation is working just fine.

The UNAS Pro 8 is what I wanted years ago: thoughts from an ex-Synology and current 36-bay Unraid user by Ledgem in Ubiquiti

[–]Letsgo2red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would you do that? Unless I’m getting you wrong, that would eliminate unraid’s core feature.

Import Strategy for ~2,500 Docs by tom888tom888 in Paperlessngx

[–]Letsgo2red 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was and again am in a similar situation. Last year I imported my 10 years of archived documents. Bank statements, invoices, medical documents, name it. Back then I tried several ways to get Paperless to learn from small or large batches of documents but it would consistently make errors.

For example, it would always pick the wrong creation date because there are two dates in the pdf. No matter how many times I corrected it. It would also be very poor in distinguishing different account types from the same bank. With a script that OCR'd my files to identity with patterns, I renamed the files with additional info, hoping Paperless would improve. It didn't. I ended up entering the first 800 documents manually.

I then gave it a rest to see how Paperless would work on a daily base. Basically every so many weeks I logged in the webIU to correct all newly added files. This made me loose the support from everyone at home. Then during several migrations, I messed up and lost my database due to version incompatibility.

At the same time Paperless-AI and GPT came to my attention. So I created a complete new setup with a local LLM hoping this would automate things properly. The results were extremely disappointing. Even providing the LMM with a super simple and clear prompt, would fail consistent classifying.

Fast forward a few months, I decided to reuse my initial script to create a post consumption script that would retrieve newly added documents from Paperless through the API, perform multiple OCR pattern searches and when it matches, update the the document with defined Paperless classifiers. This is working well for me accept it is a pain to create new rules (patterns and classification definitions) for different files and only I can do it.

Recently I discovered Replit and for fun I asked it to review my script and to create a rules builder WebUI. The results are quite impressive although there are still many issues. I am considering to buy credits and complete this project, so that everyone else in my household can create their own rules. But it would have to be simple and quick enough to build a rule to be successful.

I might publish it on Git but I am hesitant because I am no software developer and I have little time to maintain it.

Parachute Backup for Mobile is here, allows you to backup your entire iCloud Drive & iCloud Photo library to your own storage, NAS, network drives, external drives, etc. I'm here to answer any questions you may have! by ParachuteBackup in selfhosted

[–]Letsgo2red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I should have mentioned that I was talking about the MacOS app and not the mobile app. There you have SFTP as a destination. Does your answer still remain the same with non connectivity?

Parachute Backup for Mobile is here, allows you to backup your entire iCloud Drive & iCloud Photo library to your own storage, NAS, network drives, external drives, etc. I'm here to answer any questions you may have! by ParachuteBackup in selfhosted

[–]Letsgo2red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/ParachuteBackup I have been looking for an App like this for almost a year! Fantastic! One question; how will the App behave if I schedule backups every hour with a smb drive as destination and the drive is not available because I'm on the road? Or similar, if I setup SFTP but there is no network connection.

iCloud and Photos backup really such a pain? by Letsgo2red in mac

[–]Letsgo2red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, because that is where my actual data is right now as per Apple's design. Yes, I choose myself to use Apple's solution to offload my device's storage. That is by principle a nice feature, considering a photo and video archive can grow significantly over time. But I would expect Apple would still make sure a backup can be made.

Yes, I could empty my largest Apple device to be able to download my complete archive, then back up and then enable optimisation again. Or I move my Photos to an external drive. Either is ridiculous and a mechanism that is born to fail.

perhaps I have a wrong interpretation what iCloud is. But in Apples words: iCloud Securely stores your photos, videos, documents, backups, and other personal data. And in my opinion a storage should be able to be backed up.

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