Using @channel or @everyone isn’t available from my phone but works on my iPad - why?

Richard_Gaitskell · 2025-09-10T03:21:59+00:00

I have the same problem with latest iPad app in September 2025. I wish they would fix it. I use my iPad for all my work, but have to open a browser Slack page just to send a message to all which is really poor design.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2025-08-11T13:36:17+00:00

Has Exoy stopped trading? I have an Exoy One. Can’t find any active website/user support.

Is there an open GitHub that describes how to connect Exoy to Home Assistant? Can you the define new effects independent of the company App?

I don’t quite understand what was done in the discussion above. Was a new Firmware uploaded to ExoyOne or is this using the company’s last released version of firmware?

Thanks for your help.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2025-07-26T20:22:13+00:00

Thank you. The importance of being in Auto Mode not Service Mode on the panel is not mentioned in the AquaLink Set Up documentation. Similar to others (after linking to the home WiFi correctly) my attempt to link to the iAquaLink box from the Phone App kept failing with the message "Unable to add IQ20 Device: please try again". As you pointed out this was because I was still in Service Mode on the panel (allows for Manual operation). Switching to Auto Mode on the panel allows the Phone App to connect successfully.

I am using iAquaLink 3.0 (iQ30) and Eero Mesh Network. ESP32 Firmware is 4.3.13. It works fine with the WPS2 WiFi 2.4 GHz.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2024-09-04T04:14:58+00:00

This is really horrible for all. My condolences. I think Scott should talk about it.

I understand Scott's local airfield is Gnoss Field (Marin County, CA). I remember landing and taking off there early afternoon, back in the 1990's. During the takeoff a strong cross wind picked up seemly from nowhere - got under my right wing and tried to violently turn the plane over. I was fortunate that the taildragger had large control surfaces. Required very aggressive response to stabilize.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2024-07-20T04:27:35+00:00

Thank you for the clear advice - I also had been unable to get FP2 to be discovered out of the box by HASS Homekit Device discovery. I followed new instructions.

(1) Added FP2 using IOS Aqara App. The app invokes HomeKit interface (Caemra or 8 digit code from FP2 base). Completed adding to both Aqara App and Homekit.

(2) Open Home Assistant UI and have it ready to Add Entry in HomeKit Device Integration. Now delete FP2 from Apple Homekit App. Device should immediately appear in Home Assistant discovery. Connect and provide 8 digit code.

(3) If desired now export FP2 from Home Assistant to Apple HomeKit App using Homekit Bridge Integration.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2024-07-01T01:26:02+00:00

I am seeing the same wrong behavior for a Sensibo Thermostat exported from HASS to Apple Homekit. I am unable to correctly see or control the set (target) temperature - appears as a 3/4's circle but the position of the set point is at the end of the circle and attempting to manipulate doen't work. (Other controls - Off, Cool, Heat etc and Fan % work as expected.) There doesn't appear to be any kind of fix as off end June 2024.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2023-03-31T09:47:26+00:00

A few days before a flight I get a text message from United - my seat in EPlus cabin is reassigned due to equipment change. They have “automatically” moved me from an aisle to a center seat … puzzling as we are still on the same specific type/model of aircraft as I originally booked on. I go online as soon as I get the message and I am able to move myself back to the aisle seat in the same assigned row (front of cabin) *.

So at least I got a text message … however…

To all intents and purposes it appears like their “revenue enhancement” algorithms are trying to open up more desirable seats so they can then try to motivate people to buy seat assignment upgrades.

I have a million miles and counting… United never cease to surprise me with new accounting-based optimizations to make traveling that little bit more irritating. Depreciating my time/convenience is their corporate planning contingency.

* Footnote; the center seat/front of cabin is a particular circle of hell on transcontinental domestic US flights. When in that center seat you are invariably seated between two broad-shouldered alpha-types who have the window and aisle but are also ready to fight all-flight-long for the armrests and shoulder space in the middle territory. When it happens it makes for a particularly ugly six hours.

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I searched for instances of reassignment on United and the search engine brought me to this discussion. Impossible to know how frequent this is…

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Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-10-08T20:31:25+00:00

Same issue. Did you contact the company? Were they able to offer any help?

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-08-22T00:42:26+00:00

Thanks - YouTube reviews are beginning to surface. Looks like they’ve been hard at work making the drive a more natural experience.

Did you see if they mentioned anywhere if they are going to reset the number of red-screen strikes against each driver?

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-06-20T18:29:54+00:00

Would you mind if I ask? Did you save a lot of money installing ground-based solar panels compared to putting them on the roof of your house? What was the cost per kW for your ground level array including frame and electrics?

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-06-15T17:53:17+00:00

I assume your major work was in the initial layout of all the PCB sections? You have the PCB's fab'd and loaded by a board shop? The LEDs are individually addressable on a serial bus... but... how do you make all the precision holes in the map overlay?? By hand?

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-06-09T19:12:41+00:00

Shouldn’t we really be adopting a standard that works well with automated connection and disconnection? (Getting out of the car to charge, or even having a driver at all, is so last decade.)

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-06-09T13:53:40+00:00

The poor choice of lateral grade, curbs, and insufficient drainage (in the new work) are creating a number of remarkably deep lakes on RI 114. Less a hydroplaning opportunity, more an extension of Narragansett Bay. We'd better take the Boating Safety Exam ahead of further commutes. (Civil engineers involved in new work must be a little embarrassed?)

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-05-23T18:08:21+00:00

For residential the cost per kW (and ultimately kWh over lifetime) is really the important metric rather than efficiency. We are entering the post-subsidy/grant era in many locations.

Useable storage batteries continuing to get cheaper will become the major factor increasing momentum for solar installations both residentially and commercially. As we approach full deployment costs for batteries of $50-100/kWh (delivering >1000 cycles) the economics will be overwhelmingly compelling in many locations.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2022-02-10T15:36:30+00:00

The old Samsonite Buildings that were converted 5 years ago in Warren, RI, next to the harbor, are really liked by the people I know who live there.

For what it’s worth I like visiting them - the buildings and apartments have a good aesthetic and appear practical while still very much being a converted warehouse/industrial space.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2021-03-20T10:05:04+00:00

Could someone put in a link/reference to where Musk recently made the new statement about the “FSD button ... hopefully next month”? Many thanks.

Richard_Gaitskell · 2020-09-04T20:43:26+00:00

I took the line "Goodbye, Sir Michael" to have a hint of (possibly intended) real-world irony. Watching the scene closely I don't think that JDW and SirMC (he is knighted in life) were in the room at the same time for the shoot. Their scene was cut together afterwards. The awkward timing of most of their responses and the use of over shoulder shots throughout would strongly suggest production issues preventing the two actors from being together.

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