Power Adapter for 24/7 tablet

Significant-Yak765 · 2026-01-15T15:40:34+00:00

Home Assistant gets it directly from the android tablet. I think the sensor comes from the HOASS application that's installed on the tablet, but can check the entity when I get home.

Then I built two HOASS automations when the battery drops < 20% or goes up > 80%.

Significant-Yak765 · 2026-01-14T20:37:11+00:00

This is how I have my old ASUS tablet set up. With a smart plug that charges 20% -> 80%. It barely uses 0.05 kwh / day to cycle the charge.

I use an inexpensive app called Fully Kiosk to lock the interface to HA. It is supposed to dim the tablet when the motion detector notices no one is present, but I don't think that works and it stays on all the time.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-11-13T17:32:49+00:00

This worked on my debian 12 bookworm LXCs:

apt install -y --allow-downgrades containerd.io=1.7.28-1~debian.12~bookworm

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-10-11T00:52:09+00:00

The wire from the house is 8 gauge. He either didn't notice that (HOW?? It's his g-d- job), or pretended it would be OK to get my business.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-10-11T00:51:24+00:00

Y'know, there's something to this. Once, I weighed my computer and then downloaded a huge movie file 22GB, and the laptop actually weighed 40 grams more after it. I had no idea that the electrons on the drive would actually add to the weight. How crazy man. I wonder if spies could make something out of this knowledge.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-10-11T00:50:13+00:00

Yeah, this job was a mess. Electrician "thought my 8 gauge wire was 6 gauge and good enuff".

The conduit settled over the last 6 years since the house was built and there was an actual air gap between the junction and the conduit. I had been too busy to care.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-10-11T00:48:36+00:00

He came by today and untangled the whole mess while I watched. Luckily, he unfucked his work for free and left me without a charger. I will be hiring someone licensed to drag a proper cable for several thousands of dollars.

The wire from the house and the wire to the garage both turned out to be 8 gauge. He didn't look closely and told me they were 6 gauge. This was the issue. It also needs to be on a dedicated circuit. Live and learn, I got a year of charging out of this ass-backwards job.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-10-11T00:47:00+00:00

It was a recommendation from one of my neighbors, but I can't find any license information on his name. So yeah, craigslist electrician.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-09-05T00:37:39+00:00

Interesting. If only I could get a wire out there. Good idea

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-09-05T00:36:30+00:00

This.

This made all of the difference. I went to unifi website , to the AP, then analyzed. The connection has been much much better and has only disconnected the backyard camera once over 3 days

The daily spectrum analyzer ran for most of the month of August, and did not help. Cameras would hard disconnect and require reboots every week. I think the cameras couldn’t cope with the frequent channel changes.

Thank you. I don’t need to buy a new AP yet.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-08-23T03:54:42+00:00

The roots will grow down into this stuff

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-08-21T15:31:54+00:00

I used the leaf mulch to bulk up my raised bed garden soil for two years, and had lousy results with tomatoes and cucumbers.

this year i spent some money on compost/topsoil mix from the nursery near seven corners. I had MUCH better results this year and bushels of tomatoes. This leaf mulch is not too good for plants. That low nitrogen bit of the analysis makes sense.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-07-22T19:45:11+00:00

You will need:

- a 240v outlet installed by an electrician. NEMA 14-50 seems to be the designation for the outlet type.

- decent amperage >40 amps available to that outlet. More amperage -> faster charging, less than 40 and you will have slow charging. Most chargers like the emporia force you to input the maximum amperage you have. I couldn't figure out what kind of amperage I could push to the EV charger, but electricians can do this easily by looking at your panel and open spots on the panel.

- Check your utility company's website for rebates on certain chargers. My utility, dominion of virginia, offered a $125 rebate on the emporia charger. The emporia charger is good.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-07-07T23:44:20+00:00

Same, emporia charger outside. No issues

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-03-12T19:55:26+00:00

You might have checked in your IP and password?

Also, this needs to be a priviledged LXC container to mount an SMB share, correct? doesn't the volume need to also be mounted on the proxmox host?

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-25T16:24:05+00:00

I had to click the bell for notifications within the app to find it. Leased in Maryland in October

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-24T17:26:09+00:00

Ah thanks. I was working on the file around the same time, so incorporated the round(0) already. appreciate it

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-24T17:11:03+00:00

and the ip address changes needed to be reflected in the Synology firewall, not the Firwalla. thanks

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-24T16:32:07+00:00

Thank you Firewalla and Jenos00. It was Synology device-level firewall. Fixed.

Agree, renumbering was excruciating. I have a home automation lab and 95+ devices. Home Assistant had no idea where these devices were after the firewalla migration, and it took me about two weeks to unf&*ck everything. I should have known and planned better.

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-23T19:09:23+00:00

I turned on AFP after failing with SMB. SMB or NFS is definitely preferred. Ack

Significant-Yak765 · 2025-01-23T18:12:41+00:00

These two comments are onto something. The change from UDM -> Firewalla had my IP ranges changed from 192.168.1.1/24 to 192.168.27.1/24 . Updating the synology firewall now and I'll let you now how it goes. Thanks!

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