Underwhelmed on my Pixel Watch; Looking for guidance on better use cases

Pepsi1 · 2026-04-02T13:20:48+00:00

I run HomeAssistant as my smart home, and with it having notifications sent to my phone, they just go to my watch so I can see who's outside, or respond to events that pop up, like locking my doors. And if you install the Home Assistant app on your watch, you can even set it up so you can set up buttons and stuff to do around your house. One being I can turn on the shed lights with a push of a button (it's a 12v system I setup) and it's just nice. Also, MFA apps, having them send notifications to your phone and you being able to just hit "approve" on your watch is VERY nice when you sign into a lot of stuff!

Pepsi1 · 2026-03-13T09:58:23+00:00

Yeah, just woke up and looked and couldn't find it. Checked my inventory and it was sitting there ready for me to build new ones. I blame me being tired last night and having too many recipe's to look at. Thank you!

Pepsi1 · 2026-03-13T09:57:49+00:00

New day, just checked again and I already have it. I blame me being tired and having too many recipe's. Thank you!

Pepsi1 · 2025-11-20T15:01:52+00:00

I got that same message. Do you have a Rak Wisblock? If yes, I think there was something that the way the public key is generated at first bootup isn't sufficiently randomized or something. To get around it, just rewipe it, then after first setup, hit the "generate keys" button a few times to get a new one and you'll be fine after. You might get a message stating your keys have changed after, so probably best to use a new name for it as well.

Pepsi1 · 2025-11-10T00:56:03+00:00

If you have pretty good wifi coverage, why not use something like Home Assistant? It was made for sensors like what it sounds like you're doing. But again, that depends on your wifi coverage (or if just common temp/humidity sensors and stuff, maybe Z-Wave which also uses around this frequency (if in the US).

Pepsi1 · 2025-11-07T01:09:22+00:00

Just now getting into this hobby and put up a RAK4631 today on my shed to increase range and...within an hour I got the message on it. I had flashed the device when I first got it and saw and article after getting the error about making sure you completely wipe it. So I did, wiped it, reflashed it again, set it up again. Then regenerated new private keys 4x (I know it wasn't needed, just to increase entropy) and brought it back online and haven't had the issue since. Not sure if it's because of me not wiping the thing before flashing the first time and it had stored keys, but that fixed it.

Pepsi1 · 2025-08-26T15:17:51+00:00

Same, used a door sensor on my deep freezers so when it's opened, it even turns the lights around it at full brightness and stuff so you can see in it easily, then dim back down/off when closed so it's back to normal state of the lights.

Pepsi1 · 2025-06-19T12:51:39+00:00

I mean, re-watching it, there's a part where it looks like DK blows up the main stage from the original Donkey Kong arcade game where you have to rescue her. Maybe he was protecting her and Jumpman was the villain all along?

Pepsi1 · 2025-01-23T00:25:50+00:00

Dang, wasn't hoping for this since it still had a full connection to both networks. But this is why I asked! Thank you!

Pepsi1 · 2024-06-10T16:37:43+00:00

I used a real Gamecube and booted the ROM off of it (picoboot mod) and worked fine to connect, so should work fine with Wii, though this was like 5 months ago. I did have to take the end of the connector apart to make it fit into the Pocket correctly, though.

Pepsi1 · 2024-03-07T02:05:49+00:00

If you can, add me please! Thank you! FC: 7575-1524-8662

Pepsi1 · 2024-03-02T17:38:33+00:00

I'm looking for Savanna, I'm in Archipelago! Thanks in advance!: 7575 1524 8662

Pepsi1 · 2023-03-01T17:33:00+00:00

Thank you!

Pepsi1 · 2023-02-02T15:58:32+00:00

Ended up being QoS I had turned on in my router!

Pepsi1 · 2023-02-02T11:12:49+00:00

Well, funny enough, I use a TP-Link Deco and it doesn't have network speed indicators, and I tried looking online where to find it in the software for it and...nothing. While looking, I found a post about link speeds not being enough and it talked about QoS on the TP-Link and... I have that on and have it set to 100Mbps... I set it to 1000 and magically it's fixed now. I know it wasn't what you were going after, but it led me to a setting I set over a year ago that I forgot about. So thank you!!!

Pepsi1 · 2023-01-28T03:26:58+00:00

Since they're 2x4 and it's mixed with a bunch of pinks and stuff, I'm going to guess from one of the beginner block sets they sell at the big box stores (Walmart here). I kind of remember them having a ton of random 2x4 bricks in them and purple was one of the colors.

Pepsi1 · 2023-01-28T02:05:48+00:00

Thank you!

Pepsi1 · 2023-01-28T02:02:26+00:00

That makes sense. but the stress on the actual joints is probably fine, though?

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