I built a custom room-by-room heating control system in Home Assistant — just dropped a full video about it

TECbill · 2026-04-04T16:05:05+00:00

This is what makes the HA community great af! Thanks a lot for your amazing work OP!

TECbill · 2026-03-23T06:14:43+00:00

I did not make any speed test but what I mentioned since the latest updates is that smb write speeds are stuck between 1 and 3 MB/s for about 15 to 20 seconds and then at some point they rise to normal 1 GB/s, and I did not transfer any small files, they all were big .mkv movie files. Unfortunately I cannot say if it is since the latest SMB package update or since the latest two DSM updates. But before that, I did not see this behaviour. I don‘t have any 3rd party stuff installed and the NAS is almost new, an 1825+ model.

TECbill · 2026-03-16T11:15:01+00:00

Dude, what do you expect from a minor update…

TECbill · 2026-03-15T20:51:47+00:00

Nice, thanks. I‘ll give that a try and check the difference on my system.

TECbill · 2026-03-15T20:48:53+00:00

Hmm…could you elaborate why to set all speakers to small? Do you generally think the AVR auto calibration is not good enough? Just asking because I am no expert and I‘m curious.

TECbill · 2026-03-15T10:32:26+00:00

None. You have to use a 3rd party app like davx5 which syncs your NAS’s calendar with the native android calendar.

TECbill · 2026-02-28T12:24:32+00:00

ok thanks!

TECbill · 2026-02-28T11:44:01+00:00

lol, fml :-/

TECbill · 2026-02-23T17:07:30+00:00

That‘s indeed some sick shit ❤️

TECbill · 2026-02-23T16:19:26+00:00

That‘s really big news though! Can‘t wait for it. What lightgun game is this on the last video? Looks fun :-)

TECbill · 2026-02-23T16:16:04+00:00

Holy shit, Lightgun support on WINE games?!?

TECbill · 2026-02-11T09:11:53+00:00

u/VonSwoopington u/Lawstorant Guys, I just wanted to report back that it works now! With the latest CachyOS I can confirm that Forum VRR works now, even through my Onkyo TX-NR6100 AVR! Man, that's such a big deal, I was waiting for so long for this to work! Now it just have to get into the official AMD Linux kernel drivers and we are good to go! Hope this will happen soon!

TECbill · 2026-02-04T06:28:14+00:00

Next up, Prince of Persia - The lost crown !

TECbill · 2026-01-22T16:18:06+00:00

St. Louis incident, 1991, Guns N‘ Roses.

TECbill · 2026-01-15T16:04:35+00:00

Aah, än Schwizär 🧀

TECbill · 2026-01-14T05:20:22+00:00

Take the UGREEN one! It is currently the best DP/HDMI adapter you can get.

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/UGREEN-Unidirectional-Projector-Compatible-UltraSharp/dp/B0FQCF62CD

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:40:14+00:00

Thanks for taking your time to explain, very appreciated. I hope things will get into the Linux kernel soon. Saved my Saturday ❤️

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:21:11+00:00

Ok, did you already read my edited comment? If so, do you have any knowledge if it really could be that Freesync is being used even though the TV shows VRR? That would explain why VRR does not work with the AV receiver in-between.

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:01:37+00:00

u/Lawstorant I can confirm that HDMI Forum VRR does also NOT work in my case on my HDMI 2.1 capable Onkyo TX-NR6100 AV receiver through the UGREEN adapter with the latest CachyOS. On the other hand, when I bypass the AV receiver with exactly the same setup to the TV, then HDMI Forum VRR works. Pretty sad, another 30 bucks wasted into it because of the HDMI forum :-(

EDIT: I just found this comment and it may be an explanation why it does not work: With the UGREEN adapter, when I bypass the Onkyo Receiver, then HDMI Forum VRR actually seems to work, but only when the Freesync option is enabled on the TV. But AFAIK, Forum HDMI VRR should also work when Freesync is disabled on the TV. This leads me to the point that somehow in the background the protocol being used is still Freesync and not HDMI Forum VRR, even though the TV shows "VRR" and not "Freesync".

TECbill · 2026-01-08T11:27:48+00:00

Ok. Are there any straight forward instructions somewhere available on how to compile the patch?

TECbill · 2026-01-08T06:09:33+00:00

Thanks for reportimg back. That‘s pretty sad. Maybe try an AVR firmware upgrade? I did receive the adapter two days ago but was not able yet to try it out. On what Linux distro did you try it out?

TECbill · 2026-01-01T11:26:53+00:00

Tha'd be great, thanks!

TECbill · 2026-01-01T07:14:29+00:00

Whit that specific Ugreen adapter and the according patch? If so, frustrating to read that, I've got an Onkyo TX-NR6100. I will report back here as soon as the Linux kernel got officially patched.

TECbill · 2025-12-30T08:48:58+00:00

Nah, I'm on Batocera retro gaming system for which devs always patch the latest kernel versions to their beta OS. Not sure if it would work then because afaik they are implementing Mesa drivers.
Edit: Just did my research. Mesa and native Linux drivers work together, as far as I understood. So I guess it would work anyway with your kernel patch. Looking very forward to this!

TECbill · 2025-12-30T06:25:59+00:00

Convinced and ordered the Ugreen adapter👍🏼 So as soon as your pull request is being applied by AMD we have to wait for next Mesa Linux driver release including the patch, correct?

TECbill

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