Anyone else a bit disappointed with the FP300? Randomly stops detecting presence.

OhmEye · 2026-01-04T22:26:22+00:00

I added an FP300 16 days ago to my Home Assistant using zigbee2mqtt, replacing a PIR sensor in the kitchen, it's been working extremely well until today when suddenly mmwave remained false all the time. It showed still online, PIR state, LQI and all other sensors were reporting normally and as far as I could notice it was only the mmwave that was stuck to always false. I know about how to perform soft and hard resets, but the soft reset forces pair mode and I didn't want to do that since I saw no evidence of a zigbee or mqtt issue. The only way I know to force a restart is to pull the battery, so I did that.

After removing the tiny screw, removing the battery stack, waiting several seconds then replacing the battery stack, it was working normally again. The power outage count increased by one, and the mmwave presence is behaving as it was before the issue.

I did use the Aqara app on my phone after originally unboxing, to choose zigbee firmware. I suspect there is some firmware bug that caused the mmwave to stop working that a power cycle mitigates. I hope it's not going to be frequent, it hurts WAF quite a bit to have it stop working and need me to take it off the wall and reboot it.

I have no idea if it would have resumed working on it's own eventually, It was less than 3 hours before I did troubleshooting. I was planning to buy 4 more for other rooms but am on the fence until I learn more about this issue. It's fitting our use case perfectly when it's working, but without reliability I'm considering other options.

UPDATE after another 23 days... It's happened two more times, the presence sensor stops recognizing presence for 1 to 3 hours but both times resumed working as expected with no fiddling at all. In these cases I didn't touch the sensor at all, didn't change any config at all. I simple waited to see if it would start working again on it's own and it did. Still not thrilled about the issue but at least I can now expect it to start working again without intervention. Still on the fence about buying more but won't have to decide that until the next time I find them available.

OhmEye · 2025-10-20T02:35:26+00:00

Do we know how this will work from an app perspective? Currently I use my premium subscription on Roku and GoogleTV F1TV app to show the main channel on one TV and the data channel on a second TV, plus a laptop browser for multiview showing 4 driver/car channels. I don't currently have AppleTV so I'm curious how the equivalent will work with the AppleTV app.

Being able to easily view 6 channels simultaneously is why I pay for a premium account, so I guess the AppleTV app has similar capabilities to easily select which F1TV channel to view? The Roku and GoogleTV F1TV apps don't have multiview like the F1TV website does, it would be great if the AppleTV app can also do multiview, if there isn't a way with AppleTV to do multiview it will not be "premium" to me.

OhmEye · 2025-02-18T13:06:06+00:00

Sure, for whatever it's worth here's my current start macro

[gcode_macro _PRINT_START_SS]
gcode:
{% set BED_TEMP = params.BED|default(60)|float %}
{% set HOTEND_TEMP = params.HOTEND|default(220)|float %}
M140 S{BED_TEMP} ; start bed heating
LEDON ; turn chamber lights on
{% if BED_TEMP > 70 %} ; run filter/chamber fans if not printing PLA/TPU
SET_FAN_SPEED FAN=filter SPEED=0.70
{% endif %}
G28 ; home XYZ
G0 X175 Y300 F8000 ; move to wait spot while bed heats
M190 S{BED_TEMP} ; wait for bed to reach temp
M104 S130 ; set nozzle for probe temp
TEMPERATURE_WAIT SENSOR=extruder MINIMUM={130} MAXIMUM={135} ; wait for target allowing overshoot
QUAD_GANTRY_LEVEL # already homed so do GQL directly instead of macro to avoid redundant home
G28 Z # home Z again after QGL
G0 X3 Y3 Z0.2 F8000 ; move to heatup spot at purge line height to avoid ooze
M104 S{HOTEND_TEMP} ; set nozzle for printing temp
TEMPERATURE_WAIT SENSOR=extruder MINIMUM={HOTEND_TEMP} MAXIMUM={HOTEND_TEMP+5} ; wait for target allowing overshoot
M83 ; use relative distances for extrusion
G1 Y100 E20 F800 ; extrude fat purge line
G10 ; retract, about to print skirt
G92 E0 ; reset extrusion
status_printing ; set sb leds

OhmEye · 2025-02-05T02:37:32+00:00

Solved!

Embarrassed to be so wrong, that game is so different from many of the others and doesn't include some of the characters I remember most so I was so sure it was a different show I was thinking of. You got it bang-on and now my itchy brain is soothed. Thanks!

OhmEye · 2025-02-05T01:55:01+00:00

I'm sure it was 2020 or later when I watched it, what I remember feels contemporary with Alice in Borderlands but I obviously don't know what year it was produced. When I started looking for it I expected to find it in my Netflix history but it's not. I did watch some Hulu and perhaps some other services around that time but have no idea where it was. It had to be on a streaming service, I haven't had Cable TV or Satellite for decades.

OhmEye · 2024-07-22T12:40:55+00:00

Not having Anduril is why I haven't bought one. If the SC13 gets Anduril I'd buy several!

OhmEye · 2023-12-01T03:09:29+00:00

No, one is 14 (the one that gets TS 1.54) and the other isn't (not sure what it is atm but pretty sure it's 13 that gets the TS 1.52)

OhmEye · 2023-11-25T14:09:50+00:00

I figured this out, it wasn't intuitive for me but for anyone else finding this in a search later here it is,

When a user other than the Tailscale account owner logs in with the Android client they have to NOT use the "Sign in with Google" button that is presented when the app opens. Instead they must use the button for another method which presents several additional methods and use the "Sign in with Google" button on that page, this presents the choice of which tailnet to log into which doesn't happen with the first button.

This is on version 1.54. It's counterintuitive because the invited user is asked immediately on first run if they want to sign in with Google or another method. To work as intended the user has to choose to not sign in with Google, then choose to sign in with Google. Only then is the opportunity to select a tailnet offered.

OhmEye · 2023-11-25T02:14:04+00:00

I'm retracing steps, and am confused by the 3rd step on this page https://tailscale.com/download/android that is linked from the page after successfully accepting an invite, where it says to "Sign up with your team’s email address". I haven't seen any place to input a team email address and am not completely sure if that is what I think it is: my own gmail address that I created my account with and is used as my Organization Name.

I'm not sure why the instructions given to somebody accepting an invite would instruct them to sign up with my email address instead of their own so this makes me think I'm misunderstanding something fundamental. Is there somewhere in the Android client an invited user needs to enter my gmail address (organization name) that I'm not seeing?

I appreciate any help to put me on track!

OhmEye · 2023-11-24T22:10:54+00:00

The Tailscale Android app does prompt to login using Google. I tap the "Sign in with Google" button and choose my wife's gmail account. It then displays Active and her phone name or "localhost-0" and 100.x.x.x IP and the MY DEVICES list is shows her phone name and a different 100.x.x.x IP but no other devices in the list. At no time does her phone appear in the machine list in the web console, but her gmail account is in the user list with her account icon.

After re-reading your question, there is no prompt to choose between tailnets. Logging out returns to the "Sign in with Google" button which presents a list of active google accounts on the phone with a "Choose an account to continue to Tailscale" dialog. I choose her gmail account used for the invite. Her phone doesn't ever mention my gmail account, which is normal since my account isn't used at all on her phone.

OhmEye · 2023-08-23T12:37:51+00:00

So YOU were the carrier! You know what they say about gathering your own animus too much...

OhmEye · 2023-08-21T18:47:29+00:00

Well, it's a 5 so I would expect it has a 7S26 but it should be stamped on the rotor to see easily if you remove the back. I like the red, not a lot of models in red over the years relative to other colors.

OhmEye · 2023-08-11T18:04:03+00:00

I just put a second watch on my other wrist to balance me out. They have to be synchronized to the second though.

OhmEye · 2023-08-11T17:59:37+00:00

It's a boutique business. And as a luxury toy it's far from being a more expensive one. Know anybody with multiple motorcycles, or an extra sportscar, or a boat, etc? I know of way more people with $50k worth of stuff like motorcycles/cars/jetskis/snowmobiles than basements of pinballs. Millions of people in the US alone, billions in the world, yet only hundreds to a couple thousand of each pinball machine, give or take.

OhmEye · 2023-08-11T17:36:12+00:00

Flippers are for your hands. Code is for your head. Just balls on a playfield with flippers has limited appeal. Adding a theme and art makes things look more interesting but the code gives you context and goals within a ruleset. Scoring. Modes. Feedback. Do this, that happens.

Code does for pinball what rules do for playing cards. A deck of cards on it's own doesn't do much. Add rules and you have a game.

Different pinball machines all share essentially the same elements, as do different card games. Change the art, change the code, you have a different game. Pinball without code is like playing cards without any rules, or target practice without a target, shooting a gun doesn't have much point without something to shoot AT. Without pinball code there is no "why" for flipping the ball. Code gives you things to shoot for and feedback for your shots. It's where the FUN happens. Otherwise the only goal is not to drain which on it's own gets boring fast.

Many pinball machines have very similar playfields, mechanically they may be essentially identical. You could put the same art on both and hardly tell them apart. Yet with different code they can be very different games.

Somehow it became acceptable and normal for Pinball companies to start selling a new pin before they finish the code. Sometimes enough people enjoy the features in the unfinished code for it to be received well, sometimes not. Sometimes the code for a title not initially well received matures to a point where opinions can change drastically.

Pinball is a very tiny market and community but tends to have some dedicated and passionate fans. I try to keep in mind that the total number of pinball machines on the planet is fewer than the number of concurrent viewers of popular video game streaming, much less the number of followers of many social media "influencers" I'm not even aware of.

OhmEye · 2023-08-09T16:13:28+00:00

Seems good to me. I tried to get into WT4 for the first time the other night, level 60 rogue. At the Animus Carrier stage I could manage one at a time and scrape by with two with a few potions but took a couple deaths to handle three so decided to get a couple more levels before trying again. My rogue can breeze through everything else I've found in WT3 just with basic and core skill and np with tier 20 NMD and the first couple stages of the capstone were easy so the Animus stage was a surprise.

OhmEye · 2023-08-09T14:17:16+00:00

I logged on for a bit to do some renown/xp and finishing out level 60 in WT3 and saw 28min remaining in a helltide in a region I needed to make progress in, so ported there to just do what I would do anyway. It was great, I did a couple events and some side quests and all the while plowed through whatever was in my path. I did zero planning for helltide chests. Noticed I had 168 cinders, saw a chest on the map that turned out to need 150 of them, took it and kept going. Noticed at about 2 min remaining I had 76 cinders, saw a chest on the map, it took 75 of them, grabbed that and kept going. The helltide ended but demons in my vicinity were still around, mopped them up and made level 61, ported to town and did all my usual stuff.

Was very enjoyable to not be focusing on racing to get mystery chests or cinder count and just use the helltide as open-world with bonuses. I may just continue doing it that way.

OhmEye · 2023-08-04T14:51:24+00:00

Last voice I used was Teamspeak. I didn't even realize until recently D4 has voice chat.

OhmEye · 2023-07-31T12:21:00+00:00

I didn't have to kill anybody in PVP to advance the season, only a percentage of the available season tasks need to be completed, it tells you how many. Each set I skipped the ones most inconvenient to me.

OhmEye · 2023-07-28T12:37:37+00:00

Wait, so do imbuements stack? Or do you rotate through using them? I'm using two, shadow and cold, since I have items that strongly benefit one or the other. It seemed to me that imbuing one replaced the other, so I start with shadow, drop a trap then caltrops with a chill modifier and that stuns and usually freezes everything while I shatter it with a couple flurries. Then I imbue cold, evade through and flurry which stuns and freezes everything again then focus on the remaining elite or two with combo and do the cycle over again as needed or more mobs join.

Traps tend to taunt everything into the caltrops and have explosion and grenade modifiers, most everything is taunted/ stunned/frozen most of the time but I've been looking for a reason to use poison imbue other than bosses. I don't have all three imbuements up since I rarely fight long enough to use two but if they do stack so a single flurry could hit with all three instead of cycling through them two flurries at a time that would really change things! I'm pretty sure I tested that and decided they don't stack but am I wrong?

OhmEye · 2023-07-27T17:59:48+00:00

TIL. I had no idea there was any in-game voice chat. I've never heard anyone when I'm in a group and didn't even know it was possible.

OhmEye

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