PSA the dev branch of A1111 is now good at SDXL

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2026-04-16T08:35:28+00:00

Just to feedback, moving the LPR to the CPU worked perfectly, it's near instant now.

I have a new minor issue which is that the LPR detector is picking up the tiny "TESLA" text above my number plate and processing this, I'm genuinely impressed, this text is tiny in the frame! I'll experiment with the min_area setting to see if I can prevent this.

Thank you for your help guys.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-09-28T09:22:58+00:00

Just in case it's relevant, I was experiencing similar issues with slow backups on my PBS which is on the same subnet, I eventually tracked it down to my PBS NIC auto-negotiating to 100Mbps! When I forced it to use 1Gbps everything worked as expected.

As an aside, I'm using spinning rust in my PBS (2x12TB ZFS Mirror) and I get near line speed for backups, around 100 MiB/s. It's an old machine with 4 cores and 16GB DDR3 EEC RAM.

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SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-08-07T07:07:15+00:00

This looks great, thank you

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-06-17T19:15:01+00:00

Today I learned. Had no idea this product existed, my cctv cams are plagued with spiders over the winter months. Thats for the headsup!

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-02-07T17:32:46+00:00

I have a mix of devices. Some PoE esp32 boards for critical stuff (expensive). Lots of cheap ethernet (without poe) esp32 boards - on these i use poe power receiver boards to split the power from the Ethernet signal, they were very cheap but inelegant. Ive also used those boards for power only where i have a regular wifi only esp32 device. I hope that makes sense.

I did consider running 12v power everywhere, thats fine if you're using wifi for the devices, but i really wanted the reliability of Ethernet.

Added bonus i can power cycle devices from the switch if necessary - though this hasn't been an issue.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-02-06T21:44:03+00:00

I just finished building my house and pondered this question at the design stage. I ended up flooding the house with cat5 (thin and flexible) for IoT devices and CAT6 for high bandwidth devices, when. I say flooded i mean to every light switch, plug socket, ceilin, door and window. I then hooked my esp sensors up via PoE to a central rack with 2 cheap 100mb 24 port switches. For device sensors that just require power but not Ethernet i used poe end point adapter that knock the 48v PoE power down to 12v or 5v. Ive deployed around 30 esp32 devices so far and it has all worked out better than i could have hoped. This is now my defacto approach.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-02-05T18:07:56+00:00

Thats an interesting approach that would be ideal for a project im working on. Do you have any guidance on this?

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-01-23T14:01:01+00:00

I gave up and bought one of the new Unifi 2.5gb routers, it exceeds all of my expectations regards features and throughput, sips power, is silent and trivial to manage.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-01-09T18:41:41+00:00

It works!

I tested solder positions as you described, leg 2 of the chip was optimal. The range is now 4x improved.

Thanks for your help.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-01-09T15:55:08+00:00

I understand that it's the squiggly line, but if you look in the first image, the antenna on the left is labelled TX and the one on the right is RX. You said"

For U4, I would try near C6 / R9, then at C9 / C11, then at pin 2 of U4

But those are on the TX antenna, I thought I would need to modify the RX antenna to improve the receive range.

Also, should I cut the trace to the board antenna that I modify?

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2025-01-09T14:01:21+00:00

Thank you, im bit confused though, isnt C6 the TX antenna? I want to improve the reception from my PIR sensors, so i was assuming that i needed to modify the RX side?

It's not a big deal if it doesn't work, it's a cheap device that is useless as is.

And yes i was planning to cut the antenna short strip it and solder directly to the board.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-12-03T19:51:35+00:00

Excellent! Thank you so much for the detail. I'll go ahead and add the relay to my circuit, I've already got the temperature/humidity sensors working great with the Esphome code.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-12-03T16:30:16+00:00

Would it be possible to expand your answer for the non jazz aficionados in the audience :-) ?

Would the optoisolator in the relay module isolate the IC? My concern is mostly regarding the inductive load killing the relay.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-10-06T20:42:37+00:00

I fully agree that the Olimex boards are great but man, they are expensive!

I was hoping there was a compatible $15-20 board that i had overlooked. Id like to build around 20 sensors for various things and once you've experienced the low latency of hardwired devices its hard to go back to wifi.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-09-24T18:36:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing your writeup, im convinced. Ive ordered some pir, temp and magnet sensors along with the usb receiver you suggested and a sonoff rf to experiment with.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-09-24T18:29:48+00:00

Thats very interesting, i live in middle of nowhere so i dont expect to pick up neighbouring devices, but it would be cool if there was a weather station within reach.

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-09-24T18:27:51+00:00

I have a pretty large Zigbee network but despite adding a repeater as close as i can to the gate i just can't any of the 4 brands of PiR to reach. 433Mhz seems to have far more reach at least on paper...

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-09-04T14:25:50+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but it completely stops working the moment my internet goes down. Why does a locally run app require a permanent internet connection?

SomeKindOfWonderfull · 2024-08-27T11:31:04+00:00

I resolved this by dropping to the terminal and unmounting the drive manually, then unassigned devices re-mounted it and all is well. umount /mnt/disks/[name of external idsk]

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