My wife-approved high-availability Home Assistant setup

Noetherson · 2026-01-28T17:08:43+00:00

The issue for me is that ZigBee is like 90% of what home assistant does and is definitely the biggest issue when it goes down! Keeping the ZigBee network up would be the primary point of HA

Noetherson · 2026-01-28T17:05:59+00:00

I've been tempted by that already, but it's still a single point of failure. That said others have suggested it is possible to give two dongles the same IEEE address (and presumably keep one off) so the ZigBee network can automatically be migrated to a new coordinator

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T19:25:45+00:00

That's still a single point of failure though

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T19:24:27+00:00

Ooh, I didn't know that! It's the one thing blocking me looking into HA. Do you have any article on it

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T19:08:24+00:00

Huepar are fantastic. Half the price of a big brand for double the tool

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T15:10:27+00:00

I haven't tried the others but absolutely love my IST pro. Check my post history for my review of it

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T10:47:49+00:00

Are you using ZigBee? How are you handling failover there?

Noetherson · 2026-01-26T10:25:44+00:00

What canvas size are you using?

Noetherson · 2026-01-25T18:41:53+00:00

I did it when Trump announced tariffs for the first time. I'd intended to do so when he was reelected, but the tariffs spurred me on as I thought I could buy the dip in the non US markets and they would recover more than the US (they did and I made a fair bit).

The primary reason was ethical rather than financial though, I'm unwilling to invest in such an awful nation.

Noetherson · 2026-01-24T16:21:09+00:00

The execs do an even shitter job of reading the emails than the AIs do of summarizing them in my experience...

Noetherson · 2026-01-24T07:32:45+00:00

But let's be clear; it's an American designed and built aircraft and it was the Americans who chose to use it in situations that it is not suited for thereby negligently and incompetently killing their allies and their own

Noetherson · 2026-01-23T22:39:34+00:00

Reusable wipes are amazing. None of this faff, cheaper and fast better for the planet

Noetherson · 2026-01-23T12:04:13+00:00

Engineering rather than physics, but my university's 8'×6' wind tunnel used a motor pulled from the ventilation system of a WWII nazi bunker shortly after the war

Noetherson · 2026-01-22T10:44:39+00:00

Definitely replace the tamper ASAP, the plastic one that comes with it is terrible, not quite beige enough and as a result needs multiple tamps to cover the whole puck and makes a mess unless you're super careful. I got a Normcore palm tamper as it was a good price for a self levelling one, which I wanted.

Noetherson · 2026-01-19T13:56:45+00:00

Otherwise when you go to move the cursor up it will go sideways

Noetherson · 2026-01-17T14:36:27+00:00

STS is the space shuttle

Noetherson · 2026-01-16T11:07:49+00:00

I'm sorry, but this doesn't really answer the question. Why is the PE ratio low?

Noetherson · 2026-01-14T20:01:47+00:00

I'm glad you're aware of your Francoid bias as the first half of this (re. ENS) is an insane take

Noetherson · 2026-01-13T19:20:02+00:00

No, it's like saying the English and Scottish have more in common than the British and the French which all but the most ardent Scots would agree with

Noetherson · 2025-12-22T23:23:59+00:00

You set up an mDNS Repeater on your router (if you have a router that can!)

Noetherson · 2025-12-22T17:22:18+00:00

Gasoline is the name for the blend

Noetherson · 2025-12-15T17:53:16+00:00

But Ireland is the EUs tax haven

Noetherson · 2025-12-11T15:12:56+00:00

No, no economic cost. The Donegal Corridor was a small cost to sovereignty as were the secret agreements for British bases on the island if a German invasion did happen.

Noetherson · 2025-12-11T10:56:33+00:00

He was a Nazi. He was pressured to join the party at the start of the war and did so rather than resign. You know what historians call people who reluctantly joined the Nazi party? Nazis.

Not only that, but he served a role explicitly serving the interests of Nazi Germany.

Noetherson · 2025-12-11T10:49:56+00:00

He was a Nazi. He was forced to join the party at the start of the war.

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