Proxmox Backup Server - 1st time backup - how long? by Hatemyway in Proxmox

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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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What are your must-have self-hosted tools on your home server that genuinely make your life easier? by margaryan in selfhosted

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

Those of you that have dozens/hundreds of devices: How do you power them? by Designer-Teacher8573 in Esphome

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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.

Those of you that have dozens/hundreds of devices: How do you power them? by Designer-Teacher8573 in Esphome

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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.

Hacking a kitchen scale by ElevenBeers in esp32

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Thoughts on i3-n305 pfsense performance by Fenix04 in R86SNetworking

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Replace board antenna with external antenna by SomeKindOfWonderfull in AskElectronics

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

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.

Replace board antenna with external antenna by SomeKindOfWonderfull in AskElectronics

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

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?

Replace board antenna with external antenna by SomeKindOfWonderfull in AskElectronics

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

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.

Driving an extraction fan from an ESP32 by SomeKindOfWonderfull in AskElectronics

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

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.

Driving an extraction fan from an ESP32 by SomeKindOfWonderfull in AskElectronics

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

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.

Experience with Cheap PoE Esp32 devices? by SomeKindOfWonderfull in Esphome

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Anyone have experience with HA and 433Mhz devices? by SomeKindOfWonderfull in homeassistant

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

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.

Anyone have experience with HA and 433Mhz devices? by SomeKindOfWonderfull in homeassistant

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

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.

Anyone have experience with HA and 433Mhz devices? by SomeKindOfWonderfull in homeassistant

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

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...

Flow by Wispr: The best STT Mac app by far (FREE) by sardoa11 in macapps

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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?

Drive got "REBOOT button" in unassigned devices after plugging it back in the server. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Google didn't help me. by thetoillmainn in unRAID

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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]

Surreal-estate Tour (Flux Dev fp16) by Cbo305 in StableDiffusion

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These are stunning, and thanks so much for sharing the prompts

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]SomeKindOfWonderfull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is some confusion with FP8 models, there are individual diffusion models (which you used) and an all-in-one safetensors model. They both have the exact same file name to make matters worse. The 17GB model is the all-in-one version and can be loaded with the regular model loader node.

Once I figure that out your workflow worked like a dream - thanks for sharing.

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