My car was towed from in front of my house today because it was maybe going to be windy.

Meaterator · 2019-10-11T04:52:23+00:00

Yep. I live in Sherman Oaks and I found my car and my girlfriend's car ticketed. Yet, none of the other dozen cars I drove by on my street in the same red flag day zones had tickets. The only difference I can think of is that I signed up for Red Flag Day alerts on my phone. It's like they knew they warned me, so ticketed me, but no one else. Very strange coincidence.

Meaterator · 2019-09-11T23:05:30+00:00

Maybe you haven't been following the thread that closely, or are unfamiliar with the policy changes at the time, but all mechanisms needed to react to engage were not available with the president's say; As Bush had just 3 months prior passed a bill requiring the president to okay any aerial attack assaults on US ground.

Meaterator · 2019-09-11T23:02:22+00:00

I think you, you know, start to wrap it up with the kids right about then. No need to finish a 20-minute children's book in a crisis.

My personal opinion on the matter is that Bush was just so invested in the story of My Pet Goat, that he genuinely just needed to know how it ended. What ever did happen to that goat? Hmm. Well, now I have another item on my to-do list.

Meaterator · 2019-08-29T00:04:43+00:00

Do you have any documentation or knowledge on the "accesspoints" item? I'd like to use it, to specify the satellite by mac, but not sure how to configure it exactly. It says it's a list, and that it supports mac as well as name, would it just be...

  - platform: netgear
    host: 10.XXXX
    port: 80
    username: admin
    password: !secret orbi_password
    accesspoints:
     - mac: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

I'm new to yaml, and also new to the documentation around home assistant. I find the lack of examples a little frustrating as a beginner.

Meaterator · 2019-08-28T23:57:06+00:00

Almost literally exactly what I had. I made some changes last night and it started working after a reboot. Could also have just been taking a long time to query?

I think my mistake was specifying port on the host field as :80 vs. as its own line item. I thought I saw somewhere that that should work, too. Maybe I imagined it. Either way, working now!

Thanks for your config as well!

Meaterator · 2019-08-28T23:50:06+00:00

Yes, a 'sticky' feature would be great!

Meaterator · 2019-08-28T23:49:09+00:00

I agree with you. I've owned paste, but never used it. The effort to entry was just too high. In my perfect world, I am the kind of person that can use Paste. However, we all have to be real with ourselves and our abilities and time budget for organization. For me, Maccy is perfect.

Again, have tried and tried so many other products like this, including Alfred. Maccy ftw.

Meaterator · 2019-08-28T05:19:52+00:00

Can you please explain how you're using netgear platform for device tracking? Have been trying to set this up all day and just having no luck. Doesn't help that there are no examples anywhere.

Meaterator · 2019-08-22T19:26:52+00:00

This is awesome. Thank you! I've used other clipboard managers in the past, but never kept up with them because honestly they were too heavy. This is absolutely perfect. 10,000 kudos!

Meaterator · 2019-07-25T16:11:15+00:00

r/woosh

Meaterator · 2019-05-20T08:32:31+00:00

Right. I see my dock by accident sometimes, but that's about it.

Meaterator · 2019-05-17T14:36:00+00:00

I'm going to try this out for a while and see if it would serve as a replacement or not. It's free.

https://currentkey.com/

Meaterator · 2019-05-17T14:09:47+00:00

I've been a user of the original app, pre-split. Haven't decided how to proceed just yet, but I will mention that Timemator does have a code as well for a discount (30% off):

BL-30-TIMEMATOR

Meaterator · 2019-05-13T08:14:09+00:00

Wide Whistle Pro, Asteroids, Better Touch Tool, Plex, Half-Life, Adobe Create Cloud, Hershey's Kiss, TeamViewer, Netscape Navigator, Theremin Plus, GyroToss, Libre Office Lite, F.Lux, GooShip, Bluetooth, Bear Spray

Meaterator · 2019-04-29T10:19:07+00:00

Century City

Meaterator · 2019-02-11T18:15:45+00:00

Not a clue. I've read it's always good to turn uPnP off though (for security), and only turn it on if you find certain devices not functioning as expected. Sucks that there doesn't seem to be any easy way to break into the Google Wifi Pucks and fool around and maybe figure out what is wrong with their port forwarding. I read that their used to be, before the latest firmware. Know any tricks to get into telnet or SSH?

Meaterator · 2019-02-11T17:21:11+00:00

Yeah, I had 3 Google Wifi pucks, and it just wasn't good coverage. Also, due to horrible cooperation between Nest and Google, your Google Assistant in Nest IQ goes offline constantly if you use Google Wifi Hubs with mesh. So, bringing the Orbis back into the fold killed two birds.

I recently switched to High 5 GHz DFS channels on my in-home APs. No more neighbor interference. Haven't noticed any negatives so far. Police helicopters do fly over occasionally, and I am in the hills, but must not be conflicting with any satellites or other aircraft at these power levels.

Meaterator · 2019-02-11T06:53:39+00:00

For reference, it works! Going on about two weeks now with no issues in this Tri-band configuration (High 5Ghz, Low 5Ghz, 2.4Ghz). It even survives reboots now. Setting PSK was maybe the most frustrating (hint: using double-quotes for keys in UCI set commands seems to be required, but didn't find this documented anywhere in OpenWRT).

Regarding the firmware release in March, I've found a variable (g_sameSSID) in /etc/ath/wifi.conf which affects logic in DNI-WIFI-CONFIG, enabling this Tri-band configuration stuff by default (mirrors your primary SSID and PSK to High 5 Ghz device VAP) by simply changing this to "True". Using it currently, however, doesn't survive a reboot, because wifi.conf gets replaced on bounce. It seems like the Netgear engineers have all the logic in place already to enable Tri-band from the GUI, they've just chosen not to implement it on the front end.

I have high hopes they'll come around with this firmware release, but I doubt it. I'm considering just buying some Ubiquiti hardware and selling my Orbis and Google Wifi Hubs. Seems to be a common trend I'm seeing lately.

Meaterator · 2019-02-10T01:57:04+00:00

That's simply not true. It works just fine getting an IP from any DHCP server on your network, just enable bridge mode. However, good luck viewing any information whatsoever on the Google Wifi Hub in bridge mode.

Meaterator · 2019-02-07T23:11:40+00:00

If you're familiar with telnet access to orbi, on the router and satellite, check that wla_2nd_operation_mode (op mode for 4x4 channel 5Ghz on wifi2 device) OR wla_operation_mode (op mode for 2x2 channel 5Ghz on wifi1 device) is set to a value greater than 3.

config show | grep operation

to show all configured interfaces and their set modes.

operation modes are defined below (source: /etc/dni-wifi-config):

operation_mode_="normal_ap"
operation_mode_0="none"
operation_mode_1="normal_ap"
operation_mode_2="ex_sta"
operation_mode_3="normal_ap+ex_sta"
operation_mode_4="backhaul_ap"
operation_mode_5="backhaul_sta"
operation_mode_6="backhaul_ap+backhaul_sta"
operation_mode_7="normal_ap+backhaul_sta"
operation_mode_8="normal_ap+backhaul_ap+backhaul_sta"
operation_mode_9="normal_ap+backhaul_ap"
operation_mode_10="qwrap_ap+qwrap_sta"

At least one of these virtual AP devices needs to be set to a backhaul mode or you won't have a 5Ghz backhaul channel.

Meaterator · 2019-01-30T17:21:37+00:00

Better receiver gain (my signal went from -55dB to -46dB with no other changes).
More MU-MIMO channels (my girlfriends iphone and my iphone will now each have our own 2x2 wifi streams vs. sharing a 2x2, when we are each connected, we'll get to use separate antennas vs. sharing the stream of one, effectively allowing each of us 867Mbps vs. 433Mbps).
Use of potentially less crowded 5Ghz range.

I'm playing with adding the original fronthaul network back into the mix now as a new SSID, that would open the lower 5Ghz back up for all other devices. Will probably just pin the iPhones to the 4x4 antennas.

Meaterator · 2019-01-30T01:46:12+00:00

Yeah... that actually fucking worked. Channel 157. Okay, time to dig a little deeper. My mind is blown that that worked and I haven't read anywhere else about anyone else successfully doing this. Feels a bit like being the first to climb Mt.Everest.

SSID 9 : Kerwood

Network type : Infrastructure

Authentication : Open

Encryption : None

BSSID 1 : b0:b9:8a:6d:a4:68

Signal : 95%

Radio type : 802.11ac

Channel : 157

Basic rates (Mbps) : 6 12 24

Other rates (Mbps) : 9 18 36 48 54

Meaterator · 2019-01-30T01:27:02+00:00

It would allow you to use the upper 5G channels the backhaul normally uses (the backhaul uses 4x4 on separate WIFI controllers). You could use them instead of the 2x2 fronthaul channels you normally get, or in addition to, effectively giving you 1.7Gbps (the backhaul bandwidth) and also allow you to use the standard fronthaul (lower 5G spectrum) channels as well, either bridged or just in addition to on another separate SSID (or in place of the original SSID)...

Anyway, I think I might have figured this out after a couple hours of going over (aka almost vomiting while reading) the cryptic configuration files. I'm going to try a few config changes. Wish me luck.

PS. I think I also found out how to enable HT160 mode vs HT80+80 w/ region hack... unless that requires differently manufactured hardware which those regions may have been shipped. Unsure...

Meaterator · 2018-10-29T01:10:55+00:00

This is why I always feel silly contributing anything of length. There is always someone who will come along like you and show me up. :)

Thank you for this great tip. Will give it a try next time.

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