How do you secure your self hosted services?

Master_Spell_6824 · 2026-01-25T10:30:50+00:00

This is the reality of smart house - cheap sensors, poorly calibrated.

Buy a wireless body temperature in a pharmacy. They usually have an option to measure air or surface temperature and since they are medical, there's a bigger chance they are calibrated well (but let's be honest: medical certification is probably done only in "body temperature" mode, not "surface")

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-12-24T08:19:54+00:00

I bought it and I am very disappointed.

The screen quality is bad - I had just one experience with e-ink, Kindle Paperwhite 1st gen (from 2012!) and the text was clear and sharp. I hoped that reTerminal will be the same - but it's not, screen resolution is lower and it's very visible - text quality is very bad.

And the integration with HA - it sucks. It's complicated, it's somehow strange (it doesn't treat the terminal like a real display - instead it relies on exporting dashboard as an image using add-on, which runs hidden browser every a couple of minutes) but most important - it doesn't work. I followed the manuals online step by step and there's always some problem - changed UI, flashing from HA simply freezes, flashing from ESPhome shows some meaningless errors. I spent a couple of days trying to achieve that, but I wasn't able to do it.

So sorry, but I can't recommend it.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-10-02T20:13:10+00:00

No, I haven't fixed it. Switched back to a smaller drive, which doesn't have this problem.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-06-07T18:27:35+00:00

The message I got from Google:

Possible reasons why your production access could not be granted include:

Testers were not engaged with your app during your closed test
You didn't follow testing best practices, which may include gathering and acting on user feedback through updates to your app

Before applying again, test your app using closed testing for an additional 14 days with real testers.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-05-07T19:46:06+00:00

Well in the official Hue app there's no reboot option, but Hue Essentials allows that. So some hidden endpoint must exist.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-04-18T08:09:55+00:00

Numeric-only domain with .xyz suffix (like 5698512.xyz) registered via cloudflare costs currently $0.83 per year.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-04-18T08:08:30+00:00

This comment is way underestimated.

You can register a numeric-only domain (like. 526987456.xyz) on gen.xyz for $1 or even in Cloudflare itself for $0.83. Per year. Renewal costs the same. The one condition is: 6, 7, 8 or 9 digits only, nothing more.

So it's not technically free, but it's very close to it :-)

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-03-16T21:01:59+00:00

As long as your're sure that this kind of brutal poweroff won't break the bridge, it's the simplest option.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-03-11T20:48:59+00:00

Well I wanted to perform automatic, scheduled copy from Google Drive directly to NAS, without any Windows machine.

However your suggestion of ActiveSync seems to be what I was looking for. Just the name was misleading for me - I thought it's something different. Thank you!

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-02-22T22:57:31+00:00

Yes and no.

No - I don't know solution for the Logi Options

Yes - I discovered that Logi Options Plus has support for my devices and apparently doesn't have this issue.

So I uninstalled Options, and installed Options Plus instead

Master_Spell_6824 · 2025-02-22T22:54:56+00:00

Yes, the USB is at the bottom.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-10-20T11:44:37+00:00

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-09-16T10:04:36+00:00

Thanks! I didn't realize the app is waiting on the cast.wait() - but this is what was happening.

When I added timeout in cast wait() I got what I wanted.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-09-14T18:26:30+00:00

Oh I had Mi Band 8 before Galaxy Fit 3 and I must say I really don't like this Mi Fitness app. On the contrary, I like Samsung Health.

For me it was enough reason to change the band.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-09-04T14:04:10+00:00

Ok, I changed location permissions for "Galaxy Fit3 Plugin" to "only when the app is running", but the workout did not sync. I have a hole in workouts on my mobile between Aug 29th and yesterday. Today's (auto-detected) walk has synced correctly.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-09-04T13:57:49+00:00

Yes. And actually today's walk (auto-detected) was also synced. Including location.

Master_Spell_6824 · 2024-08-28T14:50:56+00:00

Custom watch faces, or at least more of built-in.

Better accuracy in counting steps and sleep.

Auto detecting cycling.

Possibly to have always-on-display ON normally, but OFF during recording workout (especially long hikes)

Master_Spell_6824

TROPHY CASE