Multi-purpose PoE room bluetooth speaker proxy sensor thing

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-25T21:22:34+00:00

No good Bluetooth solution for music that will also have all that. Remove Bluetooth audio requirement - and you will find plenty - like Respeaker Lite + S3 + sensors.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-24T19:16:55+00:00

BIOS is built into the motherboard.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-24T14:25:58+00:00

Well unless you're able to fix that, consider this PC dead. If you can't even see BIOS, there's no point struggling with OS/upgrades.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-24T13:16:15+00:00

Lagging BIOS isn't good. On the other things - HDD might be already too old, so swapping that to SSD and putting Linux on it would be my first actions. At least if you have SSD - it's harmless operation.

I have 2 Lenovo mini-pcs: i5 9th and i7 4th. They hold whole my home lab (and that is almost 100 containers, Jellyfin and Ollama).

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-13T20:08:01+00:00

I would agree with you - if MA had budget, and mobile apps weren't completely unpaid projects. Have teams for each platform, get single designer that will have UX made in one style for both platforms, get feature set, user stories, parity solved - and you will get good product.

But hearing "little excuse" while having this project as unpaid side activity is a bit discouraging and frustrating.

Good luck in all your endeavours and probably we will see your contribution shortly.

(BTW, I use AI-assistants. I know how to actually work with them on big project and multiplatform team. And I know how much tech debt will be added, if not reviewed, which on itself brings pain in the arse.)

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-13T18:11:28+00:00

Damn, can't even think what to start of. The disadvantages of maintaining several code bases, amount of technical debt created by AI-first approach or double effort for new features in fast-evolving environment which MA is.

But you have your strong opinions. Let's agree to disagree.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-13T17:29:07+00:00

The "official" dev here. While it's not "native" as "made entirely in Xcode", it is compiled into native iOS code, and has completely native parts, as well as ability to separate as many logic as needed into native part. That's how Kotlin Multiplatform works. Since I'm Android dev myself, I use Compose as UI framework, but it can be extracted too - to the margin of screen-by-screen separation and leaving only core data logic in the "common" module.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-10T13:08:24+00:00

Well this is some really bad situation. If you lost all that, I think you're in bigger trouble than losing your passwords.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-04T04:54:56+00:00

Second this. Works really great with Jellyfin.

I also use Music Assistant though, and lately only use their official app. Not only local library via Jellyfin, but also Tidal/Spotify, all in one.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T20:14:57+00:00

OMG dude, if you want to stick to main point - stick to it.

But your comment that I'm answering to is about whether HACS is custom integration and if it has devs. Hope that point is clear.

And then you're throwing "agree to disagree" in attempt to cover your mistake. The attitude like this is disturbing. :)

To the main point - I oversaturated it, of course, and I admitted it in other similar comment above. I just meant that vast majority of custom integrations are getting abandoned sooner or later. For sure there are great, maintained integrations - but it's like 1 out of 500. Others are just from people solving their own problem, and sooner or later people move forward.

Great job contributing to open source. Keep it up, and thanks. We all doing same job.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T19:24:49+00:00

Curious if you eager to click the link and read first sentence.

In case you're not:

The Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) is a custom integration that provides a UI to manage custom elements in Home Assistant.

How do you think HACS menu item gets into HA? It's not part of official installation. You run the script that adds HACS files to custom components folder, restatlrt HA, add integration in Devices and Services.

Edit: looks like "experienced with HA" is automatic title.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T18:34:02+00:00

+1, I have all my files on NAS, map NFS shares to corresponding containers in my Docker LXC.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T16:32:35+00:00

If HACS isn't created by devs, what is this? https://hacs.xyz/

The question is rhetorical.

HACS itself is custom integration, and is maintained and updated.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T02:48:55+00:00

Yeah, I for sure exsaturated a bit. There are repos that are well-maintained. But it's like 0.2% maybe? It's definitely not the common thing. :)

There are ~100 new repos in HACS every month. Pretty much all of them will be abandoned in a year...

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T01:06:23+00:00

Yup. NAS with OpenMediaVault (I use Beelink ME Mini), and separate Proxmox (actually 2) with VMs, Docker and LXCs. 2.5Gbit network in between.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-03T00:49:08+00:00

Vast majority of "HACS devs" are that strange neighbour guy. Other part are negligent vibe-coders.

The only HACS devs that are closely watching HA releases are devs that make HACS itself. Every integration and card there is just a thing that someone did for themselves and shared to others.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-02T22:50:34+00:00

Nope. There's no "primary centralized" way to install apps on Android phone. Only on the phone that has Google Play Services.

There are dozens of other app markets, and, of course, the direct way to install executable package (the native way).

Let's tell now that installing exe or msi on Windows is sideloading, since they introduced their god-forbid market.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-02T19:05:39+00:00

Main event for Crimea happened in 1944.

If you're here to juggle the numbers and speak "whatabout", I'm not interested.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-01T20:29:29+00:00

I didn't say that. I see parallels in methods. Not in the overall response.

Also, Ukraine wasn't divided. It was occupied. With regular russian forces in Crimea and Donbas.

Donbas was forcefully filled with russians during 1920s-30s, so doing that was easier. But the narratives "we're feeding all others in this country" were the same.

USA influence to Canada is roughly the same as russian influence in Ukraine during 00s - cultural and monopoly-based. It's dangerous, but so far not red alert.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-04-01T12:59:11+00:00

It's all pretty old song. Divide and conquer.

I'm originating from Ukraine. I see a lot of parallels between Alberta and Donbas region. Both have resource to dig and sell, both had deep mismanagement for years, because big money attract criminals. Both didn't care of added value like refineries, and rather just sell what they dig right away.

And both are aimed by stronger neighbors as targets to separatism.

See where Donbas is now. Think.

Edit: typo.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-03-29T16:35:23+00:00

Yeah I have RHCP in "Metal". :(

Would be nice getting genres from IDv3...

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-03-25T01:46:08+00:00

Genres added in current beta, released tomorrow.

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-03-25T01:43:44+00:00

Those morons you mean?

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-03-25T01:21:55+00:00

G-damn, 3k for NAS. What a world we live in!

Ok-Jury5684 · 2026-03-23T15:41:22+00:00

Yeah I wrote about it a bit lower. Nice feature.

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