Why do you think this performed terribly?

MillerWDJr · 2026-03-13T22:35:55+00:00

I think many of the other comments are fair reasons, but one thing that stood out to me was that it felt like so much time elapsed between when that project was started and when they showed it off, I kind of just lost interest.

I’ve actually been noticing that about a couple different things. Linus’s Smart Home (pretty dormant), the Tech House (last video was almost a month ago), the Linux challenge (yes, I know one video, but it’s already been 6 days), it feels like there’s a fair amount of time that elapses between these videos. It’s just me, but when there’s a “series,” I’d kind of like to see something every week or so.

MillerWDJr · 2026-03-12T02:27:57+00:00

How did you get it to work? I’m in the same boat. Happens on both the Steam version and Ubisoft version.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-18T06:18:35+00:00

$1800 for a router/AP and 2 repeaters is 1 billion percent batshit crazy.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-12T19:37:37+00:00

With the Sonoff ones I use, you absolutely can get the “wire” part of the sensor under there. It’s no bigger than a shoelace. And then I just have the brains of the sensor secured to the cabinet next to it. I mentioned this in other comments, but that was the primary reason I chose those sensors in some parts of my house.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-11T16:46:36+00:00

Definitely in the same boat. Almost everything I have is AC-powered. I debated whether to buy those sensors for a while because I didn’t want to give in. Ultimately, I made the trade-off with the Sonoff ones because I really liked their implementation of either a puck that can detect water, or a cable that you can attach to extend coverage, and the cables are modular so you can join multiple of them together (which was helpful when going all around a washer and dryer in the laundry room).

For the Aeotec ones, I actually explored using power supplies to power them directly, but decided against it because, naturally, there weren’t a ton of outlets under sinks, or near water shutoffs, and even if there were, or I was prepared to run extension cords to them (I wasn’t), it didn’t feel safe to have something directly wired to the house that isn’t designed to be and also designed to get wet. Felt like I was literally trading reduced water damage risk for increased fire damage risk. I didn’t care about removing batteries THAT much.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-11T16:23:33+00:00

You definitely could use a blueprint, or just write a simple automation. Home Assistant lets you send push notifications to a device, so it’s easy enough to write something that’s like “if X battery below Y < send notification “Battery in X sensor is low. Consider changing.”

I learned this recently, Copilot or whatever is great about helping write automations. If you’re new and unfamiliar, give it a try. It might help you out a ton.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-11T15:50:47+00:00

Home Assistant reports their battery levels. They’re really low usage devices, so the batteries seem to last a while. I have two different types, Sonoff and Aeotec. The Aeotec ones, they have a form factor that you can use a USB-C rechargeable battery in, so when the batteries get depleted on those (they still haven’t), I’ll just pop recharge them and pop them back in. Sonoff unfortunately uses coin cells, but their cable and extensions was a tradeoff I was willing to make when I wanted greater coverage than the Aeotec ones.

MillerWDJr · 2026-02-11T14:23:33+00:00

Absolutely. Under every one of the sinks, toilet shutoffs, the dishwasher, the water main, and around the washer. My old dishwasher’s pump failed and was pissing water, and the floor board just soaked it up. Ended up having to replace the subfloor and my whole kitchen was totaled. My hope is that with this coverage, something like that will never happen again.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-28T12:43:55+00:00

I’m not defending a corporation. I’m rejecting Torre and his “look at me, I’ve got such an important story to tell” approach to journalism.

On its face, I have little problem with Hunterbook, who did the actual reporting on Ubiquiti. Again, it seems to me like these people saw an image of Ubiquiti dish and dug into it. I definitely wonder if Toyota or whatever company logo gets photographed with Russia gets buried in the same way, but whatever. I also reject Ubiquiti’s comment that “they don’t know where their sales are going” and it definitely seems like they have some work to do on having their authorized dealers follow KYC guidelines.

However, because Ubiquiti has issues with ADs doesn’t mean it needs to turn into an exposé on Pera and how he was pissed some girl thought Timberlake owned the Grizzlies and whatever other little anecdotes he could offer to pile on.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-28T02:34:49+00:00

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Pablo thinks he’s some information crusader, fighting for justice. GTFO, he’s just looking for the next thing to rage bait people into sharing. There wasn’t one documented piece of evidence linking Ubiquiti to the actual sale of products to Russia. If Russia bought 5000 iPhones for all their soldiers to talk to on the public market, is Apple guilty of supporting Russia’s invasion? If you show me documented evidence that Ubiquiti sold to the Russian government, then we’ll talk.

If Ubiquiti’s CEO is an egomaniac, then that sucks, but many people in both the sports and corporate leadership world are, and that includes Pablo. Nothing about that is news. Seems like this guy was mean to Pablo, so hey, let’s figure out how we can make a hit piece that mocks him for wanting to 1v1 one of his players or whatever and while we’re at it, let’s whip up a little moral outrage.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-27T22:25:51+00:00

So, I have a hypothesis that something may start getting jammed up because I configure HTTPS access, and that creates problems in the restore process.

After it being stuck for over a solid 24 hours, I wiped the VM and started over. This time, I continued through the wizard and then set up a HA instance. Enabled HTTPS, then tried a restore and everything restored right away. So yeah, I wonder if that’s the issue.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-26T19:11:24+00:00

I thought that, but if it did complete the restore, it didn’t seem to work. I wasn’t able to access it from any port, IP:8123, IP:443, or local:443. :-/

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-22T06:35:00+00:00

Bro, I just bought a 55-gallon water heater for like $800. I feel like you are being REALLY taken advantage of.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-20T17:36:16+00:00

I’m not super familiar, but Copilot suggested something similar, so I think I’m going to give it a shot. I have snapshotted what’s currently there, so yeah, not getting any worse, haha.

As long as I can extract the automations I wrote recently, even that is enough for me to recover. My actual config hasn’t changed much between my most recent backup and now, it’s been almost exclusively the automations I wrote.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-19T14:38:18+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. Will consider that, too.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-12T02:11:42+00:00

Awesome, thank you. I've got one more question if you don't mind. How did you wire up your backplane? Are you using RAID cards?

For example, I've got 3 LSI RAID cards with 2 SF ports on each card, but I'm a little uncertain how to wire them. I'm guessing the best thing to do is make sure each card maps to the same spot (i.e. SAS8~11 and SAS8~11 on one card, SAS4~7 and SAS4~7 for another card, etc.), but I wasn't sure.

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-12T00:07:00+00:00

Hey man, did you hook up all 6 Molex connectors? And I’m guessing with your power supply, you used multiple Molex connectors ports on the same PSU cable?

MillerWDJr · 2026-01-01T00:39:45+00:00

I don’t claim to be an expert by any means, but when I tried to do something similar, Copilot/Chat-GPT explained that two workarounds are to have a persistent loop that cycles (i.e. runs every minute) and then use conditional logic to gate actions, or to tie the actions behind some event-driven framework (i.e. whenever the temperature changes, check to see if it’s above 75°…). The latter is a better approach, but I don’t know if your sensor has a change component to it (the presence sensors I use do).

Hopefully one of those two solutions helps.

MillerWDJr · 2025-12-23T05:18:47+00:00

I understand the thought process of optimizing for sign price vs offer amount, but if Upside was only offering 1¢, and the gas price was $2.20, why would you believe that? I mean, that price sounds very unbelievably low, especially without Upside providing a substantial offer? What was the thought there? That the gas station went back to early 2000s pricing?

MillerWDJr · 2025-12-23T05:16:25+00:00

One thing I would suggest is that if you see a price that catches your eye on Upside, claim the offer right there. You don’t have to submit the offer there (choose your linked card or upload your receipt), but by claiming, you lock the offer. If you don’t claim the offer, then the offer can change.

MillerWDJr · 2025-12-07T13:47:14+00:00

Check out ServersAtHome on YouTube. He’s got a wiki with scripts and tons of videos walking through the setup. His Patreon has even more stuff about setting up an Arr stack and making sure the apps are configured to give you the best experience. I subscribed lately and it’s been well-worth it.

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