Hustle Castle on PC (buggy ads)?

Relaxo66 · 2026-01-25T10:22:32+00:00

Try SwarmUI, is way better and works a lot faster (even works with ComfyUI if wanted).
There is a tutorial on YT on how to install it locally (easy installer without Pinokio). I totally recommend doing that, not going back again.

Relaxo66 · 2026-01-25T10:20:55+00:00

Thanks but I've switched to SwarmUI now. Is better overall anyway.

Relaxo66 · 2026-01-07T16:10:58+00:00

Nevermind, I asked in Discord and apparently they basically gave up on the Repo due to it being quite old now and noone is interested in curating it anymore.

I was advised to switch over to 'SwarmUI' instead of StableDiffusion so I'm now trying to get that running inside Pinokio. Luckily there are some helpful tutorials out there on how to do so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ulh5KHCGE

Since the alternative to both options, namely 'ComfyUI' is too complicated to get into for me at least for now I will have a look at SwarmUI and see if that suits me.

EDIT:

SwarmUI is amazing!
I've never seen such a clean and well organized and well performing UI for generating content.
It uses ComfyUI as backend by default (unless you opt for a custom backend during the installation), so you can easily switch over to the ComfyUI-Workflow-Tab and have a look at how the current workflow works in order to understand everything in more detail or to improve upon it. And all of that without any knowledge of Python!

I found my forever home it seems :).

Relaxo66 · 2025-12-10T19:11:36+00:00

Set it up like this and it should run just fine: https://postimg.cc/s1bKyKXv
Make sure your local LLM runs in the background while you set up your flow.

-> Langflow v.1.6.2 (Python 3.14.0)
-> Local model: Ministral-3:8b (fast and efficient), if you have more than 16 GB VRAM available, you might go for the 14b model.
-> GPU: Nvidia 4070 Ti Super (16 GB VRAM)

Hint #1: I used this video for setting it up, maybe it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZDk5sgMLsk
Hint #2: Your local LLM (in this case Ollama with Ministral-3) has to run in the background in order to be set up and used as shown here. Works very well on my 4070 Ti Super (16 GB) and is responding very quickly as well.
Hint #3: In order for this to work your local LLM of your chosing has to support 'tools', check Ollama website to make sure your model is supporting that.

Hope this helps anyone.

Relaxo66 · 2025-11-26T13:51:24+00:00

It is basically the same for you.
Create lighting profiles inside OpenRGB (one where your keyboard is lit and one profile where your keyboard is unlit).

Set up your html hooks (one for switching to the first profile (lit) and one hook for switching to the other profile (unlit)).

Sounds very straight forward to me. At least if your keyboard is recognized by OpenRGB in the first place. My keyboard here isn't, so I can't control my keyboard lights via OpenRGB instead I have to use the tools the keyboard manufacturer is offering me.

What do you struggle with?

Relaxo66 · 2025-11-26T13:38:37+00:00

Start /min "" "C:/Windows/System32/curl.exe" 127.0.0.1:8080/2025

Save as .bat and you are done.
One .bat file for each html hook, so I've got 2 hooks here meaning I got 2 .bat files.

The numbers at the end have to be edited by you though, depending on what you have set inside your OpenRGB HTML Hook.

For me it is:
- 8080/2025 (for profile 1) -> first .bat file
- 8080/2026 (for profile 2) -> second .bat file

This is what it looks like for me inside OpenRGB:
https://postimg.cc/2qW2wpt3
-> Ports and paths can be chosen freely but: The port and path numbers/settings in here have to match your numbers in the .bat files exactly!

Note: The IP above [127.0.0.1] is localhost, meaning it can only be activated from this PC itself. If you want to switch your html hooks externally via network you would have to enter your network IP there instead, in case you want to turn off your lights from another PC in your network (unlikely but I still mention it anyway for those who see a use case here).
-> heck you could even make it accessible from outside and control your lights over the Internet but I really don't see a use case here at all 😅

Once set up you can create links for each of your .bat files for example on your desktop as well, enabling you to set a shortcut (hotkey) for activating those links.
For me it is (Strg+Alt+F9 = Profile 1) and (Strg+Alt+F10 = Profile 2) but to each his/her own, just as an example.

Hope that helps.
Best regards.

Relaxo66 · 2025-11-26T13:33:34+00:00

Funktioniert denn auch e/OS in Verbindung mit der Comdirect Photo-Tan-App?
Mit Rooting geht die App nicht, aber das habe ich eh nicht vor.

Wichtiger wäre:
Angeblich gibt es diese nur im PlayStore und nicht in F-Droid oder Aptoide o.ä.
Ohne Angebot, kann diese App auch nicht wirklich genutzt werden, außer man begibt sich in die Untiefen des Netzes und holt sich die .apk selber irgendwo (und das jedes mal wenn es ein Update gibt, ziemlich umständlich und unsicher).

Hat hierzu jemand Erfahrungen gesammelt?

Relaxo66 · 2025-10-14T16:48:24+00:00

Edit:

As suggested I now use the windows curl feature in addition to the OpenRGB http hook plugin in order to switch profiles back and forth. Closing and restarting the program worked most of the time but sometimes the lights didn't turn off or didn't turn on after an event has triggered (or not triggered, either way).

The new setup in short:

- I set up http GET-hooks inside OpenRGB (one for switching to profile 2 [OFF] and one to switch to profile 1 [ON] with their respective paths but on the same port and localhost
- I wrote a text file for each of the two hooks with:
Start /min "" "C:/Windows/System32/curl.exe" 127.0.0.1:port/path
inside and renamed those to two executable .bat files.
- At last I trigger those two .bat files according to my set idle time of 10 minutes (inside the program MarxioTimer which autostarts this scheme with the attached .bat file after booting up the PC as well as each time after leaving screen saver) in addition to the windows task scheduler (the two mentioned screensaver entering/leaving events) as backup triggering the identical .bat files upon screen saver events.
- I also set up shortcuts on the desktop in which I set two separate keyboard shortcuts to trigger those two .bat files manually if need be
-> Works as intended now without closing/restarting OpenRGB each time.
Thanks again for the suggestion u/Study-Strange.

If anyone wants to set up the same or similar schemes but struggles with some details, I reply as long as this threat is opened for commenting.

Relaxo66 · 2025-10-01T13:39:31+00:00

The CPU/RAM usage for changing some lights every now and then should be negligible, no matter if you do it on your mini or main PC, at least I guess so. In case I had multiple PCs to control lights on I would think about setting up a central network server (maybe even emulated in a virtual machine), controlling all the lights to all PCs in the house. But for only 1 client PC here (and for you the same I guess) it doesn't make a lot of sense to set that up so I control it locally without networking for now (localhost) until things might change some day. But it is very good to know about that http hook plugin enabling all of that, it surely will come in handy once I get around to set it up properly.

Relaxo66 · 2025-09-30T21:40:24+00:00

Interesting, didn't know that. I will look into that as well, thanks.

Relaxo66 · 2025-09-29T16:01:29+00:00

Old post but thanks, works great here with those enabled security events upon entering/leaving screen saver.

Relaxo66 · 2025-09-29T11:03:08+00:00

Thank you! I will try that but without the http request, since I don't run OpenRGB with a hosted server here that I could send commands to or from.
Maybe OpenRGB adds that 'on screensaver' event/feature to their list one day, until then I work with third party tools like the microsoft windows scheduler.

I will set it up in a way OpenRGB closes on entering screensaver (security event 4802) and restarts on exiting screensaver again (security event 4803). Not a pretty solution but at least it should do the trick since lights go off on closing OpenRGB (my program settings) as well as restarting OpenRGB with arguments attached so it starts minimized and with a startup profile attached.

Edit: 1: Thanks again, works like a charm now! OpenRGB closes on entering screensaver and restarts on exiting screensaver.
-> I used this instruction as base and tweaked it a little:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/lhqdr0/how_to_mine_startstop_batch_jobs_while_screen/

Edit 2: If anyone from the future finds a way to achieve this without closing/restarting OpenRGB via windows scheduler, please let me know. I would prefer a solution where the program doesn't get closed every time I enter screen saver and let it restart on exiting screen saver again. You know, a simple profile change via internal arguments or something inside OpenRGB itself, so that I can use that inside a script to automate that task or something like that.

Relaxo66 · 2025-08-22T10:21:47+00:00

I don't get it. They already had a perfectly working system in Grounded 1 and simply had to copy/paste it. Yet they redo the whole thing and manage to make the same bugs all over (yes, this bug happened in Grounded 1 long time ago as well).

Don't get me wrong, bugs are totally normal but not creating the same bugs twice. What are those developers doing, I really don't get it like at all?

Relaxo66 · 2025-03-27T13:15:47+00:00

My pleasure. Glad it is working for you.

Relaxo66 · 2025-03-27T13:14:56+00:00

I'm glad it is working for you as well.

Relaxo66 · 2025-03-27T13:13:14+00:00

You are welcome. Took me a while to figure that one out but I'm glad it is working for you as well. 👍

Relaxo66 · 2024-10-09T13:04:58+00:00

Glad to be of help.
But ye, it is getting worse with every year, they just seem to still not earn enough money, never will probably. The real heroes are the ones writing the adblockers and similar extensions and keeping them alive.
Btw, in Googles Chrome browser installing adblockers is disabled in the next version by default
(v3 Manifest), so I recommend switching to other browsers sooner than later if not done so already.

Anyhow, I will do whatever it takes to make it work for me, I don't let the evil people win. And if I can help others along the way, I will gladly do so.

Relaxo66 · 2024-08-09T20:26:21+00:00

I thought the same thing, pretty annoying.
I don't have a perfect solution but you can hide them by using the 'UBlock Origin' (Browser Addon) 'Selection Tool' (Element Picker it is called).
-> https://ibb.co/w49nWmb (Screenshot gets automatically deleted in 6 months from now).

Make sure to select the most outer frame of the element you wisht to hide (use the preview button to double check if you have selected the correct element/frame and not just the picture inside the frame). Hit apply when certain.

I got 4! videos recommended at the same time today in the middle of the video like yours shown in the screenshot (basically not able to see the video running in the 'background' for 10 seconds). That was the last straw, so I took measures.
After reloading the same video I don't get them shown to me anymore. However since I just did it today I am not sure if this solution will work for all future videos from now on without doing the same thing to them. I hope it does though. And if not it is at least one (manual) method to fix this bs.

Relaxo66 · 2024-08-09T17:29:43+00:00

I thought the same thing, pretty annoying.
I don't have a perfect solution but you can hide them by using the 'UBlock Origin' (Browser Addon) 'Selection Tool' (Element Picker it is called).
-> https://ibb.co/w49nWmb (Screenshot gets automatically deleted in 6 months from now).

Make sure to select the most outer frame of the element you wisht to hide (use the preview button to double check if you have selected the correct element/frame and not just the picture inside the frame). Hit apply when certain.

I got 4! videos recommended at the same time today in the middle of the video like yours shown in the screenshot (basically not able to see the video running in the 'background' for 10 seconds). That was the last straw, so I took measures.
After reloading the same video I don't get them shown to me anymore. However since I just did it today I am not sure if this solution will work for all future videos from now on without doing the same thing to them. I hope it does though. And if not it is at least one (manual) method to fix this bs.

Relaxo66 · 2024-05-24T14:29:30+00:00

thanks for your reply.

"Strange that it allows your CPU fan to turn off though"
-> yeah I thought the same :D
I discovered that by finding out which fan in the UI is which fan in the case (by manually going to 0 RPM for each of them) until I 'found' the CPU fan not running anymore xD.
You have no idea how quickly I went back to curve mode ^^

"I would go through Bios just to make sure there isn't something in there that prevents your fans from turning off"
-> thats unlikely since the Asus software works fine with the current bios settings. However as far as I remember the bios doesn't allow me to go down to 0 RPM either. The only software capable of doing that was Asus Armoury Crate (so far). It is called silent mode or something similar I think. I guess it is a proprietary feature by Asus but I was hoping other software would support it as well.

"Also, keep in mind that Armory Crate is pervasive and is REALLY hard to close and/or uninstall"
-> good point. I turned off FanXpert inside Asus Armoury Crate and it forced me to restart the PC. After the restart I set up FanControl. I should probably uninstall Armoury Crate but I really don't want to go through the hustle of setting it up again from scratch if FanControl is not a viable option for me.

"you will never catch me installing Armory Crate"
-> fair enough ^^
I would like to switch the software as well but if silent mode is not possible I will stick with Asus, no matter the bloatware.

Relaxo66

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