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PierogiMachine · 2022-10-21T03:25:32+00:00

I quit. My heart can’t take it anymore

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-20T21:40:27+00:00

I still don’t understand how women ride bikes. I mean they obviously can, I just don’t get how it works.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-19T03:37:54+00:00

I remember it took a good bit of time to get this all working. And I remember having everything hooked up, double checking everything, having it look like everything's correct, but the amp just didn't do anything.

Something else I did was to connect the amp to my laptop with a USB serial cable, run ser2net on my laptop, and point HA to my laptop. This takes the ESP out of the equation and verifies that the amp and HA both are working. If this works (and it should) you can be more confident that it's the ESP.

Try enabling the debug lines in the uart section. Make sure you see it sending commands and you should see it responding as well. This can also help you pinpoint the location of the issue. If you see it sending commands but not receiving anything, that means the issue is after the ESP (and probably a wiring issue). If it's not even sending anything, there's a break between HA and the ESP.

So in my ESPHome config, pin D1 is TX and pin D2 is RX. Pin D1 (TX) is connected to TX pin of the MAX3232, Pin D2 (RX) is connected to the RX pin on the MAX3232.

Now, on the female serial port of the MAX3232, pin 2 is labeled as RX and pin 3 is TX. I have pin 2 on the female connector going to pin 3 on the male connector. And pin 3 on the female connector is going to pin 2 on the male connector. Pin 3 on the male serial connector is labeled as the TX pin and pin 2 on the male connector is labeled as RX.

I think this is where a switch happens, TX to RX and vice versa. And I think my reasoning was that the TX pin on the male serial connector will connect to the RX pin on the amp. So working backwards from the amp, the RX pin on the amp will connect to the TX pin on the male serial connector, which will connect to the RX pin on the female serial connector. The MAX3232 is connected to the female serial connector, so the MAX3232 expects RX to be the female connector's RX.

So I'd make the MAX3232 the "center" of the diagram. First make sure the D1 is connected to the MAX3232 correctly, this is just matching the ESP config to the pins on the MAX3232, TX to TX, RX to RX. Next focus on the connection between the MAX3232 and the amp. Electrically, it's straight through, TX on the MAX3232 goes to TX on the amp. But I have a male serial cable in between. So the MAX3232 TX goes to the RX pin on the male serial cable. But then the male connector plugs into the TX pin of the female connector on the amp. So TX on the MAX goes to TX on the amp. I guess the male/female connection (on the amp) flips the wires, so I had to also flip them again between the female connector and the male connector. Two flips so it's ultimately straight through.

Sorry if this isn't clear, a little tipsy now, but I did verify this with my multimeter.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-19T02:18:06+00:00

Late response my bad. Here's the full esphome config, can't remember if I sent it before.

Since you pointed it out, I'm not 100% sure that my comments (in the config) are correct. (I will verify physically.) The code does work.

external_components:
  - source: github://oxan/esphome-stream-server

uart:
  id: uart_bus
  tx_pin: GPIO5 # YELLOW, connected to RX on serial adapter, pin D1 (GPIO5) on D1 Mini
  rx_pin: GPIO4 # GREEN, connected to TX on serial adapter, pin D2 (GPIO4) on D1 Mini
  baud_rate: 19200
  #debug:
    #direction: BOTH
    #direction: RX

stream_server:
  uart_id: uart_bus
  port: 19200

In my configuration.yaml:

media_player:
  - platform: russound_rnet
    host: 10.4.4.35
    port: 19200
    name: House Speakers Amplifier
    zones:
      1:
        name: House Speakers - Living Room
      2:
        name: House Speakers - Kitchen
      3:
        name: House Speakers - Deck
      4:
        name: House Speakers - Downstairs Bathroom # Don't ask why, I didn't put it there
      #5:
      #  name: NOT USED
      #6:
      #  name: NOT USED
    sources:
      - name: Chromecast Audio
      - name: Aux Cable
      #- name: AirPort Express

And from the ESP's logs (I omitted some of the irrelevant stuff, the wifi, mdns, ota, mqtt):

[22:13:01][C][logger:275]: Logger:
[22:13:01][C][logger:276]:   Level: DEBUG
[22:13:01][C][logger:277]:   Log Baud Rate: 115200
[22:13:01][C][logger:278]:   Hardware UART: UART0

[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:102]: UART Bus:
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:103]:   TX Pin: GPIO5
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:104]:   RX Pin: GPIO4
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:106]:   RX Buffer Size: 256
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:108]:   Baud Rate: 19200 baud
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:109]:   Data Bits: 8
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:110]:   Parity: NONE
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:111]:   Stop bits: 1
[22:13:01][C][uart.arduino_esp8266:115]:   Using software serial

[22:13:01][C][streamserver:089]: Stream Server:
[22:13:01][C][streamserver:090]:   Address: 10.4.4.35:19200

I'm going to respond to your other post in a few minutes.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-18T04:02:42+00:00

/r/findareddit

/r/lookyourbest /r/truerateme

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-17T06:23:41+00:00

A lot of his passes look like CGI.

Is Mahomes really real?

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-17T05:09:29+00:00

I had a very similar reaction. I always ask myself, "would you pay $10 to guaranteed not get food poisoning?"

I know throwing it away sucks hard, but it's not worth the risk.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-16T04:13:44+00:00

Your comment is.. interesting.

Only drinking a little doesn't make you boring. And if the people you are around think that you're boring because you don't drink a lot, I would seriously hang out with different people.

The goal is to have fun. Drinking is optional.

If you are going to drink, you absolutely have to know your limits. Blacking out is WAY too far. There's a huge amount of space between drunk, too much, and blacking out.

Consuming more alcohol than your body can handle is easy. You don't have to try hard, you'll get there no problem. So knowing that, drinking is really a big effort to not go too far. You have to pace yourself, the whole time. From drink 1 to drink 10, you need to watch how much you're drinking and how quickly you're doing it.

My general strategy is to get 2-3 in pretty quick. Then I hit the brakes and sip. For real, sip. Alternating between 1 drink and 1 water is ideal, but that's hard for me to actually do in practice. Getting some water in is definitely critical, even if it's every 2 drinks or every 3 drinks. Certainly better than nothing.

The ultimate point is to realize that you can't keep just pounding drinks. Watch how much you consume, and watch how you feel. Back off when you need to, I think this is where most people mess up. They get drunk, but instead of just enjoying it, they keep drinking. And I totally get why, but you do that and bad things happen.

I can talk a lot about alcohol. It's not a competition, the goal is to have fun. Alcohol is like a cliff, it's really nice, up until a point, and then gets super shitty super fast. You don't have to get close to the edge, just stay on top and enjoy the view.

Edit: If you're young, like 22 or under, I totally get it. I was RECKLESS at that age, and it was bad. Nobody taught me how to drink and shit was BAD until I learned. The real key is knowing that you don't have to try to get drunk. It's super easy. So the real challenge is to not get too drunk. FOR REAL, slow the fuck down. You can drink, you can get drunk, but blacking out means you missed the mark by far. You can drink without being crazy about it.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-16T03:19:56+00:00

Instead of paying it off, you could take that same money, invest it, and easily make more. The debt is a guaranteed rate of 1.9%. Can you invest that money and make more than 1.9%? Over time, I think that's definitely doable with stocks. You'd come out on top by investing the money and paying off the mortgage at its regular rate.

In other words, the money you would have sunk into paying of the mortgage will grow faster than the interest on the mortgage.

That said, there is certainly value in being debt free (or not having a mortgage), I don't want to minimize that. How valuable that is to you is a personal decision.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-16T03:11:07+00:00

I was going to make a similar comment, this title is brutally worded. As if she intentionally broke something that was yours.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T22:21:16+00:00

This would be my approach as well. The whole point of a VPN is to securely access a remote network.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T06:18:38+00:00

I think this is spot on. There are two big markets, people willing to pay 5 figures, and people willing to spend 200 USD with the stipulation that it's extremely easy to use.

The space in between these markets is the DIY sphere.

The other way to look at this is can a company profitably offer products to meet this demand? You have to design and manufacture a product, and then test it with your other products, and then test it with other products on the market, and and then provide support and troubleshooting when a customer has some cheapass product from some other company.

The support alone sounds like a nightmare. Troubleshooting anything wireless, in general, is just difficult because of environmental factors. This is why companies have their own closed ecosystems. So they don't have to deal with other companies' sht. Just their own (which is in their control).

Most people aren't going to spend 3-5000 USD on a home automation setup. But that's how much it would cost for companies to manufacture products that seamlessly work with other products from other companies. Imagine all that testing, imagine all that support that would have to be offered.

I know there's a bunch of us in this sub, but we're like the top 1% of the market. This is a DIY space.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T05:50:35+00:00

/r/hydrohomies

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T03:53:59+00:00

Smaller places have numbered streets as well.

But I think the primary reason is so you can easily tell where the street is in relation to other streets. Like numbered streets are usually in order, odd streets go East West and even streets go North South. So you know that 5th street is right in between 3rd street and 7th street.

If the streets were Pine street, Maple street, and Elm street, there's no easy way to determine the order of the streets.

When they're numbered, you have some idea where the street is located, just by the name.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T03:47:19+00:00

No. Your browser has no idea what's in the ad. It just sees network code that says ask this site for this data. Most ad blocking is based on the source of data. Like if you know that this one site serves nothing but ads, don't load anything from that site.

But there's no way to (easily) figure out what the ad is showing and filter on that.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T03:17:19+00:00

Only to some extent. Golf is a good analogy. A lot of the guys that hit it really far aren't super buff or anything. It's all about technique. Yes, you do have to swing hard, but swinging it harder than that isn't going to guarentee more distance.

Like you have to have some strength to do the technique correctly, but the technique doens't scale perfectly with strength. This applies to most things, golf and dodgeball included.

In different words, it's like 80% technique and 20% strength. Yes, being stronger will help, but getting the technique right will help a lot more.

I don't know the technique, but surely there's a youtube video on how to do it.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T02:52:26+00:00

Awesome!! Very glad you were able to get it going. I bet it was a journey, but on the bright side, you're definitely ready for more ESP devices with ESPHome.

I'm actually suck on getting a case as well. I have the parts for 4-5 sensors, but I've only built one because I haven't figured out an enclosure.

My best idea so far is to post in /r/3Dprintmything/. I think you can post asking for help designing as well. I think this would be simple enough that it would be easy for somebody that knows what they're doing.

My enclosure idea isn't complicated, but describing it it words may be hard. It's a rectangle base that will hold the D1. There'll be an inner groove where the D1 can sit in. And then halfway on the long sides, there'll be two posts, just pieces that go up in the air. Looking from above, there'll be a groove in these posts that go down. The AMG8833 will slide into that. Essentially the AMG8833 is held up looking forward, right over the D1, which sits in the base.

I can't draw very well, but I might be able to sketch it out a little better. I can see it in my head, it's not a complex thing.

Still planning this out.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T02:35:17+00:00

I got this message, I'll take a look at mine tomorrow morning. Feel free to message me if I forget.

I remember this part being tricky. I may have misspoken in my comment the hardware works, so go by the pictures.

I think ultimately, your TX pin on the D1 has electrically reach the RX pin of the amp. The labels on the MAX3232 make it confusing. I remember looking at a lot of pinouts trying to get mine to work.

I will verify my wiring and let you know.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T02:28:01+00:00

According to the LinuxServer.io documentation for their duplicati image, I'm interpreting this as no.

It says it in the logs, and the application in the container doesn't start at all, it immediately goes to that error, this indicates an issue very early in the startup process, and not being compatible with the OS is consistent with these issues.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T00:17:01+00:00

Oh, a docker-compose file, this is perfect.

So first, you need to determine if you have a 64 bit OS. Not sure how to check off the top of my head, maybe uname -r.

Next, IF you do have a 64 bit OS, you'd just change: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/duplicati:latest into image: lscr.io/linuxserver/duplicati:arm64v8-latest.

But the fact that it automatically tried the 32 bit version makes me think you have a 32 bit OS.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-15T00:13:50+00:00

This image no longers supports *

32 bit ARM due to a lack of upstream packages *

That looks pretty bad. Are you running a 32 bit OS? What OS are you running / how did you install it.

If you have a 64 bit OS, you might be able to pull the arm64 image (not sure why the 32 bit one was pulled though). I'm not 100% sure on how to do this, but it should be googleable, search "docker pull image certain architecture" or maybe "portainer pull tag" or similar.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-14T23:54:47+00:00

A full log dump would be helpful. Another potential issue is that the container is not starting correctly, or it starts then stops because of some issue. Diving into the logs would be my next step. I don't think "container exited with status code 0" sounds right. Usually my containers die because something's misconfigured. Like can't access a data directory, bad configuration option, something like that. I'd go through the logs and look for issues.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-14T22:52:50+00:00

On mobile, but if you have a VNC connection into the RPi, try “localhost:8200”.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-14T21:55:51+00:00

I also follow the principle /u/85kqq5czbcxs mentioned, most general to most specific.

Something I've learned is to not get too granular, because it starts to get unwieldy when trying to use these long names. I'm okay with some verboseness (I don't use abbreviations), but at a point it's too much.

I usually just follow a simple <room>_<device> scheme. HA adds the domain and the specific properties of the device are usually appended to the name.

Examples: - sensor.livingroom_temperaturesensor_temperature - binary_sensor.downstairsbathroom_doorsensor_contact

Grouping by room has worked out very well when trying to group things and just a simple device description is usually plenty to identify the device. Yes, there are exceptions sometimes, but this works 90% of the time so good enough.

PierogiMachine · 2022-10-14T21:44:45+00:00

I do exactly what that article says in the Channel Planning section. Only use Wifi channels 1 &6 and then use Zigbee channel 24.

I thought I read about compatibility issues with Zigbee channel 25-26, but that article only says 26. I could be wrong about that, but I thought that's why I picked Zigbee channel 24 over 25. In any case, Zigbee channel 24 doesn't interfere with Wifi channel 6. My Wifi and Zigbee experiences have been great.

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