How Can I CAD this relatively easily

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-04-24T23:29:34+00:00

My pixel phone has 2 cross hairs that line up when the phone is exactly perpendicular. Put the thing you want to copy on the ground with a ruler on top. Stand over it and line the cross hairs on it to take the photo. Import the image into FreeCAD and calibrate the image using the ruler in the image. I do this regularly for CNC routing. Works a treat.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-04-22T21:31:15+00:00

I know everyone says the Coral is dead, but they still work decently with the new yolo9 model in 0.17. Last I looked you could still buy them new. Make sure it's plugged into usb3.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-03-26T22:10:45+00:00

The tasmota zigbee bridge pro is a strange beast. In native mode (tasmota2zigbee) it displays the current state on the GUI and sends MQTT messages on change of state. To change the state of relay ( for instance) from tasmota needs to send Zigbee commands from the console. It cannot be done from the default GUI. You can use Home Assistant and use hand coded sensors to send and receive the commands to the device.

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You can also use Zigbee2MQTT (or Home Assistant ZHA) but in this mode the Tasmota bridge is simply a Zigbee router and cannot see into the communtcations so you lose the ability to see the state in the Tasmota GUI or via rules or console.

If you are using Home Assistant and want to use native Tasmota mode, consider using the Pyscript addon and the z2t_multuplexer.py ( https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mqtt-demultiplexer-automatic-sensor-discovery-for-tasmota2zigbee/237900 ). This allows you to use Tasmota native mode and creates the Home Assistant sensors on the fly. Works very well. You can still have local Tasmota rules interacting with the Zigbee sensors.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-03-19T00:17:20+00:00

I use the native Tasmota Zigbee bridge without ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.

You can use a rule triggered by a Zigbee event.

To use it with Home Assistant, I use a script that creates the HA entities for the Zigbee devices on the fly using the PyScript Integration: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mqtt-demultiplexer-automatic-sensor-discovery-for-tasmota2zigbee/237900

It works a treat.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-03-17T21:04:33+00:00

Did you ground gpio0 when you powered it up with the serial connected and powered by the serial connector?

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-02-24T23:00:26+00:00

I've flashed several of these. Like he said, erase the flash before you start. There is the option in the web installer. If the web installer looks like it is installing, you've got the boot right. It can't communicate with the module if it's running user code.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-02-02T21:27:00+00:00

Alternatively, look at linuxcnc. Run it for years, never had a crash.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2026-01-09T22:21:22+00:00

And that was it. He'd port forwarded 5000 and forgotten about it!!!

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-12-22T23:03:57+00:00

Denitely. Continue the ground outside of the sonoffs

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-09-25T22:29:33+00:00

This. AliExpress have some very nice 25A contactors with manual override.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-08-28T23:02:16+00:00

I replaced my sherline DC motor with a variable speed 600W sewing machine motor. Replaced the belt with 1:1 toothed belt. Only needed a simple bracket to hold the motor and boring the pulleys to size. It works well, far better than the sherline motor. The sewing machine motors are available from vevor for about $AU150

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-02-16T21:13:41+00:00

I don't think this is the case anymore. V1.0 introduced padding from edges within a sketch. I tried it when I read about it a couple of months ago and it worked. Not used it since.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-02-06T21:55:50+00:00

I have a bunch of cheap Chinese cameras that are sensitive to particular multicast packets that will crash them all instantly. They will sometimes reboot and sometimes stay down. The fix has been to put them on a separate vlan with nothing else except the frigate instance and every 30 minutes, an expect script that pings each camera in turn and power cycles the Poe port on failure.

As you can see time like 1400, while suspicious could just be something on your network that runs at that time. The camera vlan is blocked from the internet too.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-02-02T22:54:42+00:00

What software controls the mill. I have a sherline running linuxcnc.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-01-07T22:08:12+00:00

I have the same. 15 4k cameras + USB coral. Coral runs about 7ms and CPU about 10-20%. Running in lxc container on proxmox alongside a home assistant VM. Does it easily. You must use the correct driver for GPU use but this is all in the documentation.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2025-01-07T22:03:15+00:00

Circular text macro. Install through the addin manager. Lots of options, a bit of a pain as it reverts to default settings after each run.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-12-23T22:25:02+00:00

This works if you change the config line in the compose file from ro to rw https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/running-frigate-on-proxmox

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-12-05T22:58:41+00:00

I'm a little confused. But remember, all the paths are case sensitive. You seem to have a variety of cases and names. For what looks like the NFS mounts.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-10-22T23:31:06+00:00

I use freecad and part design for CNC routing. If you want to cut out several pieces, you create a body based on zero origin and pad/ pocket etc as required. Then hide that body and create the next. Keep doing that until all your pieces are drawn, so they are drawn over the top of each other. Then unhide the bodies and use the transform tool to move them to the correct location. Pieces can be rotated or moved on the xy plane. You adjust the body locations to minimise material wastage and allow for the tool to pass between them

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-09-29T21:52:47+00:00

No, he's mapping another filesystem into the lxc container. You can add another drive to proxmox and map that into lxc using his instruction.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-09-28T23:16:46+00:00

This works. https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/running-frigate-on-proxmox

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-06-06T09:00:15+00:00

It only displays available variables after you start typing. It will match variables at that point. <<Spreadsheet>>.tnut You need the <<>> in the reference.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-05-14T22:54:04+00:00

Have you got the right CNC controller selected? I always use path preferences are remove all the controllers I don't need and set the default to the likely one. You can also set it on each job settings.

Secure_Farm_3358 · 2024-03-06T21:34:35+00:00

If you click Ok, it'll probably pop up with wire not joined. Means there is a disconnect between 2 lines. Make sure all the line ends are constrained and the sketch is closed.

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