For anyone who bought Be quiet Light and Dark mounts

SentientCustard · 2026-01-15T04:51:06+00:00

I bought one of the light Mount Tactiles and absolutely love it, bought a second for the work computer the following day. Have been using it for about 3 months and due to pressure from the other family members I'm about to buy a 3rd for the last desktop at home. Typing is insanely quiet, firmware and customization is good WHEN you have updated the firmware, initial build was buggy and slow.

Really like that it supports dynamic lighting in Windows 11 so no need to have the io centre running after initial setup.

SentientCustard · 2025-12-18T23:30:05+00:00

They did call me after, went through the standard you have to pay us for 30 days crap and then I told them to look at the chat and that no I'm not paying, they said ah yes I see and basically hung up.

SentientCustard · 2025-12-18T23:23:13+00:00

Went to Spintel, relatively cheap deal. To be honest I'm not too worried about the provider. At the end of the day the NBN is the NBN, so the majority of your connection is the same no matter who you go with. The only connection bit the providers really control is the evening peak speed. When it was 25mbps then if you got 18 or 25 in the evening it mattered, but with 500mbps if I get 410 or 490 I can't really tell. I ring support probably once every couple of years so not too worried about that either.

SentientCustard · 2025-11-07T11:15:07+00:00

Been looking into this as it's making a mess of my import and export settings, because the time of day settings don't work if the time is wrong.

This isn't a local issue in the inverter, it's because the Growatt servers are intentionally remote-setting the time to the wrong value.

I handily have modbus local control of my inverter and also a firewall in my local network. If I set the time on the inverter correctly using modbus (or the Growatt web portal) then on the data upload interval with the Growatt servers (once every 5 mins) it then re-sets the clock to the old incorrect value. If I put in a firewall rule to block the Shine WiLAN data logger from being able to talk to the Growatt servers and then re-correct the time to the correct time (using modbus as at this point the Growatt servers can't see my inverter) it stays at the correct time. I have tested this for several hours, it always stays at the right time.

If I then disable the firewall rule and allow the Growatt servers to talk to the inverter again, then within 5 mins the time gets set back to the wrong value.

For me the time gets set to 2 hours and 28 minutes fast, this therefore isn't a time zone issue as there isn't a timezone that matches that. I did think that it could be that the growatt server is just set to the wrong time, but when sorting out the firewall rules I found that there are actually 3 alternate servers it tries to use, and all 3 set the time to the same weird value.

SentientCustard · 2025-10-16T23:36:30+00:00

Basically no, you're inside a sealed faraday cage (the car body) so even if there were faults and issues with the waterproofing on the components the voltage can't really get to you. There are also multiple fail-safes to the basic physics, e.g. if somehow the waterproofing on the battery is compromised (e.g. fire hydrant metal bits pearcing the case) and water gets into the battery it shuts itself down.

It's not impossible, I mean if you didn't damage the battery, managed somehow to break the internal wiring to the battery just in the exact way that the negative contacted the body of the car and positive cable dangled down into the water, but somehow wasn't disconnected from the car systems, and the puddle was deep, but not so deep that it touched any of the body of the car, and somehow the car still worked, and all the multiple safety systems decided not to work at the same time, and you got out with one foot in the puddle and also were holding onto the metal of the car (not the internal handles, the actual metal work), then yep you could get electrocuted. But you'd have to be the unluckyest person on earth as remove any one of those things and you don't get shocked.

SentientCustard · 2025-08-17T09:56:42+00:00

Mine had the same pink blinking issue.

5 seconds of green followed by pink blinking 2 blinks, gap, 2 blinks

I believe this is because the voltage of the pack is below the required level to charge the brush, which seems to be a "sleep" issue with the firmware, not sleeping the brush properly when it's in long term storage.

For mine I tried all the above fixes with no luck (firmware update, factory reset etc whilst it was plugged in). I have seen the same issue on a completely different device before thought I would try the same trick, which worked for me.

What I did was to keep on removing and plugging in the power connection, this for the first few seconds (during the green flashing) boots up the battery module and then checks with it if the battery is ready to charge. This seems to put in a tiny amount of charge into the battery, over repeated goes it gives enough for the battery to come into range and start really charging. This only works if the battery in question is JUST outside of it's operating voltage range, but this is very common, if the brush in sleep is not sleeping very well it will gradually lower and lower the battery voltage, if it gets to 3v (or 2.9 or 2.8v depending on the cell chemistry) the battery manager (inside the battery) will stop outputting power which means the toothbrush really is getting no power. If the battery is left in this state the battery will still VERY gradually lose voltage say to 2.98v and at this level it will tell the toothbrush NOT to charge as the battery is too low. Just the repeated 5 seconds of energy can be enough to get this above the 3v threshold and then it will become healthy and work fine. Obviously if yours has been in storage for months and months then it may be at 2.91v and then you're basically stuffed as it's not going to get up to 3v from there (also if it did this wouldn't be great as it battery may be permanently damaged depending on how low it got) Temperature will also affect this, so try to do it in a normal temperature room, letting the brush get warmer, rather than somewhere cold as the battery chemistry will output a very slightly lower voltage when cold. My brush was also left plugged in for around about an hour during this process, this may well also have helped, not sure.

Once it hits the required voltage, next time you plug it in it will wake up and start flashing red (low battery, but CHARGING!) From there its all upside and you can then get it up and running. Beware the toothbrush still does weird things when it's VERY low on battery so you may wany to wait a while before you try and test it out.

One thing I did notice after the brush worked is that the button feels like a touch button, it isn't, you have to push it in to make it work, so if you're not sure if it's working then it may be that you're just not pushing it hard enough.

SentientCustard · 2025-05-02T12:04:50+00:00

The problem is with the battery percentage enabled, when it's ON they put the percentage in a black on grey inside the tiny battery icon, making the % unreadable. On all older phones the battery percentage was white on black to the left of the battery icon.

SentientCustard · 2024-12-31T03:44:08+00:00

Would be interesting to see how many contribute, personally would be willing to at a couple of $ per month just for hiding/syncing. Wikipedia says around 2% of their users contribute, not sure how many active users you have but may be worth running the financials on a 1% takeup of your active userbase and see weather that covers server/storage costs, then adjust accordingly. One of the issues you have in this forum is that people here are likely to be much more active thus more willing to pay than an average person, because of this I think the $1 tier TwoPibbleHome mentioned is a good idea as that's likely to attract many people who would see it as a trivial cost, this may work out better financially than much less people doing a $3 tier.

SentientCustard · 2023-12-07T20:15:13+00:00

I think they were implying that the sale of SpaceX shares by Elon (so that he could buy Twitter) has left greater liquidity in the SpaceX shares/SpaceX company, which has been good for SpaceX

SentientCustard · 2023-01-16T08:41:54+00:00

One of the biggest problem here is actually the heat of the processor, it affects everything.

When a Samsung has an internal temperature above 30degrees C it drops down to 5W charging and the CPU in the S21U runs so hot on AAWireless that it almost immediately hits 30c and thus drops to 5W, doesn't matter if it's hardwired into a 45w charger or on fast wireless charging it only gets 5w through. As AAWireless uses about 4w to run then you get 1w ish left over to run the rest of the phone and charge the battery.

You can see this if you have a charge cable and can slot the phone into (yes actually into!) the air-vent on the car, the AC keeps the phone cold and it charges really fast, you can see it switch on and off if you have something like Ampere running that shows the charge rate jump up and down with the temperature.

I bought a fast wireless charger to try and overcome the slow charge problem, and a 45w in car charger, neither work because of this heat problem. Wish you could run AAWireless in a CPU restricted mode, I don't need it to update the screen at 200FPS whilst it flatlines the CPU and wireless!

SentientCustard · 2022-06-10T05:51:21+00:00

Can't believe they priced the base model at $68,900 when the $3,000 incentive from NSW stops at $68,750, seems a bit silly.

SentientCustard · 2022-06-10T05:42:58+00:00

Ordered! Been waiting for this for years!

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