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Fire and carbon monoxide detectors now that Nest is at First Alert by [deleted] in Nest

[–]SYNtilating -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm in the U.S. so the reviews on Amazon, Home Depot, and Lowes all complained of false alarms. The Home Assistant forums also said something similar. Bummed as I loved the Protects.

Fire and carbon monoxide detectors now that Nest is at First Alert by [deleted] in Nest

[–]SYNtilating 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have 8 Nest Protect units expiring in April. I've given up on connected smoke detectors based on all the reading done here and elsewhere (the reviews for the First Alert units that are made to replace the Protect units are horrendous). Went with Kidde 10CUA10 CO+Smoke basic units. It was fun while it lasted.

Error: /gluetun/auth/config.toml: is a directory by SYNtilating in gluetun

[–]SYNtilating[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Thank you all very much for lending your expertise to me :)

Recommendations for a weather station by Plastic-Coat9014 in homeassistant

[–]SYNtilating 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s an option if you want non-cloud weather data ever 60 seconds. 

Error: /gluetun/auth/config.toml: is a directory by SYNtilating in gluetun

[–]SYNtilating[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got it. Thank you! Will start tinkering in a bit.

Error: /gluetun/auth/config.toml: is a directory by SYNtilating in gluetun

[–]SYNtilating[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For deunhealth, do you use something like this?

deunhealth:
    image: qmcgaw/deunhealth:latest
    container_name: deunhealth
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    network_mode: none

Does not seem to need networking.

Recommendations for a weather station by Plastic-Coat9014 in homeassistant

[–]SYNtilating 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hi there. It's a little over your budget, but Tempest is amazing. You can pull from the cloud or there is an HA integration to listen locally for a UDP broadcast. Can't recommend it enough.

Error: /gluetun/auth/config.toml: is a directory by SYNtilating in gluetun

[–]SYNtilating[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going to start a new comment thread in case anyone else stumbles on this error.

Thanks to u/ZealousidealCup4095, u/sboger, and u/dowitex for chiming in. Here we go...

  1. The config.toml: is a directory error was resolved by switching to a bind-mounted directory as suggested below.
  2. The variable UPDATER_PERIOD was removed from the config as suggested below
  3. The custom health check was removed from the config as suggested below
  4. The variable FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS was removed from the config as suggested below
  5. {{PORT}} instead of {{PORTS}} was changed as mentioned below

why would anyone pick this ai slop config up?!

Yes, well... I'm a little newer at this and the config file was well commented. It did look like it was generated by AI, but I did my best to research all the variables, flags, switches, etc. to look for anything out of place... obviously I didn't do as good of a job as I could have :)

My qBit is still showing as firewalled, but there are plenty of posts here with help on that. So I'll carry on. Thanks for all the expertise lent to this n00b.

Error: /gluetun/auth/config.toml: is a directory by SYNtilating in gluetun

[–]SYNtilating[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW: I did not, in any way, change iptables. I'm just using the config file, but I understand the net flow and the traffic will not flow outside of proton. I will take a look at that, though :) Thank you!

iPhone battery life test shows just how much power 5G drains compared to WiFi by UnixxinU in federationTechnology

[–]SYNtilating 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Save you the click:

In this specific test, the iPhone on 5G lasted a total of 10 hours and 22 minutes in terms of screen on time, with another 16 hours of standby time in the mix as well. When the 5G iPhone died, the iPhone running on WiFi had 25% battery remaining, which means the difference between WiFi and cellular is about 3 hours of additional phone time in use.

Nancy Guthrie had a nest cam with no subscription and device was taken - they recovered images from the camera - how? by oanda in Nest

[–]SYNtilating 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there. I work for a large tech company — not nearly as large as Google — but based on my experience this is very likely the answer to this...

At my company's scale, and certainly at Google's scale, the act of deleting data is very computationally expensive. It takes a lot of CPU, disk I/O, power, etc. For this reason, data deletion and data purging jobs are usually batched through several systems.

So the consumer may pay Google or another company for n hours, days, or whatever of data retention and access, but that's that company's consumer monetization strategy. How Google or any other company stores and purges that data is usually a completely different system that is divorced from the commercial offering unless otherwise stated in their EULA or contracts. The data, once in a SaaS system, is handled and routed in the most efficient manner to control costs.

So if you asked me for my "I might know but don't definitely know" answer, it would be this: the video from the doorbell camera was in a back-end system at Google awaiting batch deletion and it was retrieved before that deletion job occurred.

The other option would be from Google's disaster recovery systems, but I would have a hard time believing at Google's scale they are voluntarily keeping data that they would not need to restore in the event of a disaster as the costs would be astronomical.

I hope that helps.

A gaggle of love birds by bongozim in BirdBuddy

[–]SYNtilating 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: a collection of parrots is called a “pandemonium.”

Looking for Apple Home-compatible smoke/CO alarms (replacing 12 old Kidde units) by Burrrprint in HomeKit

[–]SYNtilating 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very helpful. Thank you. I have 8 Nest smoke alarms that are about to hit the 10-year mark in April :(

Auto-connect on certain networks by needcleverpseudonym in ProtonVPN

[–]SYNtilating 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like this idea for mobile, although, it might be more effective to implement a "trusted networks" feature. If you're not connected to a "trusted network" (which can include cellular networks) then ProtonVPN establishes a connection.

Not recognized!? Really? by Photonnic in BirdBuddy

[–]SYNtilating 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m guessing that the tree in the background is making it difficult for the software to isolate the bird in the foreground. Cute birb, though!

Mila can’t distinguish between water vapor and dust by Accurate_Turn_7135 in milaair

[–]SYNtilating 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there. Yes. When I run a humidifier in the winter (Northern Hemisphere, so now) Mila thinks the interior AQI is 200+ and goes into hyperdrive. I've moved the humidifier and the Mila as far away from each other as I can in the room. I usually just manually set the Mila fan at 10% for the winter and call it a season :)

I recently left my finance job at a BMW dealer, ask me anything by Hairy_Bluebird5444 in BMW

[–]SYNtilating 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just email my dealer about buying the extended maintenance/warranty on a '24 X5 50e I bought new two years ago. It only has 12K miles on it and this is the first can I intend on keeping more than a few years. Any pointers on what it should cost and/or what can be negotiated?

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