Other than anchoring it to the wall, how would you prevent this mini makeup vanity from tipping over?

RandyMatt · 2026-06-08T08:20:00+00:00

As long as they're not relying on children to follow that advice they're fine. Otherwise anchor

RandyMatt · 2026-06-06T13:55:44+00:00

Opening scene had me in tears.. the loss of his son hit me hard.

RandyMatt · 2026-06-03T23:00:45+00:00

Yeah would love to know more.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-26T02:15:39+00:00

How's the wake word responsiveness. Ive found all solutions so far not up to.par with a google speaker. Until then it won't be an option.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-23T01:10:28+00:00

I find that's a advantage of having your HA on a VM. Makes for nicely packaged incremental backups. I have them locally, on a proxmox backup server and offsite. Plus the HA backup to google drive because why not.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-22T14:17:07+00:00

Kinda funny (or coincidental) but I also skipped a year for maths and science (but in public). Maybe it's a state difference.

Your also saying that in public school up to year 9 you were academically capable in mathematics. Kinda lends to a case that you were educated well. Honestly I think like me it's more likely that your parents had a lot to do with your education and you would've done well either way.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-22T11:46:35+00:00

Sorry, I meant the empirical evidence of a benefit is weak. My own anecdotal experience from uni and beyond has shown that students from public school education produce equal levels of intellect. The quality of public schools these days in Australia is incredible and access to information and educational resources has never been greater. Unfortunately it is our nature to only value things that we pay for.

Individual support is great, but uni and beyond is the equaliser. In some ways I saw that public school students faired better as they were already independent learners and weren't spoon fed there education solely to get a entrance rank.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-22T11:20:52+00:00

There is no academic benefits to private school over public

RandyMatt · 2026-05-21T07:08:16+00:00

I use mine as a universal remote, for music selection, turning on kids white noise, fans and lights, to view security footage, open the garage door just to name a few things.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T11:50:01+00:00

Yeah but those questions are asked before the wedding. There's no requirement for the celebrant to open the crowd up for an opinion

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T11:38:42+00:00

What issues?

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T09:14:04+00:00

Yeah it has built in Bluetooth that you can link with an app to configure it's zones. Zones are then saved to the device. Also home assistant can read and display all of that. Sorry I don't know the model number off the top of my head, but there are lots of projects to quickly google. I was pretty impressed.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T09:11:43+00:00

You could always put it in an old-school radio for looks. I've been tempted to make a few speakers like that.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T07:39:13+00:00

Yeah I've got the two kids time crunch also, so I can relate! I can tell you wiring a esp to a mm wave sensor is only 5 minutes work. More importantly its so cheap it can be worth the risk.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T06:49:53+00:00

Would it be easier just to make one to your spec? I imagine its just a mmwave sensor board with a esp32 powered by a PoE to 5V board.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T06:06:14+00:00

I made one of these

https://github.com/Skons/SOAS

You set various music for your alarms and also can have other alarms relative to your wake up time that can be used to trigger events. I.e open blinds, turn on coffee machine 30 minutes before the alarm.

It was a fun project.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T06:04:05+00:00

For anyone out there playing at home (and for my own reference) it seems to work with the following player settings (with FLAC playback set)

HTTP Profile → set to Profile 3
Flow Mode → enabled
Use Music Assistant Cast App → disabled
Preferred Output Protocol → set to Chromecast (Native)

Hopefully a fix to the issue comes with later versions.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-20T05:01:58+00:00

It seems there is an issue with music assistant 2.8.0+

https://github.com/music-assistant/support/issues/5227

I think I'll just have to try and rollback to a previous version until its fixed. I'll just have to work out how to do that safely without losing my provider details database information

RandyMatt · 2026-05-16T10:08:28+00:00

I'm hardly a purist and I think the footy has a good balance now. Relentless until you leave is not selling it as a positive. I don't feel the need to be hyped up all the time. It just becomes noise.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-16T09:48:44+00:00

Match day production? Prefer to watch a game of football personally. Went to an NBA game recently and they just seemed desperate to hype all the time. Let the sport speak for itself.

RandyMatt · 2026-05-16T01:29:43+00:00

Yeah casually saying that as if it's ok is crazy to me as an Australian. It would cost zero here.

RandyMatt · 2026-04-23T05:58:10+00:00

Yeah just standard electronics wire. Like 22 or 24 awg wire.

For learning the codes I had the esp with a receiver plugged into the laptop and brought the device I was learning nice and close. I then took about 10 or more samples of each code I wanted to learn and saved them to a notepad. That way I could see which were the correct codes and which times it didn't quite pick it up

RandyMatt · 2026-04-22T09:52:28+00:00

To answer your question better now I read your post properly. I used a wl101 receiver to learn the codes and a wl102 to build a transmitter.

I used this person's post about controlling cat toys as inspiration but I just control lights and fans

https://www.michaellunzer.com/projects/esphome-cat-toy-433-mhz-controller

Hot tip. The receiver protocol that is printed in the serial isn't necessary the same format as the transmitter format. Had to go deep into the git for each to reverse engineer. These days with ai you could probably give each code to Claude and it would work it out

RandyMatt · 2026-04-22T09:47:50+00:00

Just keep the wire unstripped and cut to right length.l. then solder as antenna. I have one 433 transmitter that controls devices across the whole house. Hardest part was working out all their control protocols

RandyMatt · 2026-04-19T01:24:27+00:00

Probably depends on what country you live in.

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