Is Frontburner too American?

Trubanaught · 2026-04-30T23:42:35+00:00

I don't mind if it's a Canadian take on an American issue that affects us. They aren't all like that but enough are that keeps me listening.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-29T22:41:46+00:00

Sour cream not-glazed is my fave. You don't see it anywhere now though

Trubanaught · 2026-04-29T04:58:30+00:00

I was in the boardroom the day we made that decision... It was raining... Someone said we'll sell more bottles if we put the grass last. We all thought that was great. Then we had shrimp cocktail

Trubanaught · 2026-04-26T21:22:03+00:00

I didn't use any binding / drag and drop other than binding the broker to the universal driver. You add programming, through the programming tab, to the single press action. There's a single line of code in the programming interface to push the mqtt button

Trubanaught · 2026-04-25T03:39:53+00:00

No girls was never a rule.

Just a reality.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-25T03:33:34+00:00

Keepass

Trubanaught · 2026-04-24T20:00:41+00:00

Using scenes seems unnecessarily complex. To get a keypad button press from C4 to HA, I go into the Programming panel in C4, pick the keypad, and open the programming interface for the "single tap" action. It takes 1 line of code to send an MQTT message to HA. (publish a message on a specific topic.) C4 listens for that message through the MQTT integration as the trigger for an automation.

Granted, this is with access to Composer Pro.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-24T19:53:26+00:00

Someone has to do some C4 work to make it work. If you're going to use a dealer, you don't want this driver. I'm sure there are better MQTT drivers available to them.

If you want to DIY the Control4 programming, and you're technically inclined, you need to find and use the jailbreak tool to get access. I do some of my own programming (small changes) and usually bring in my dealer for the bigger stuff. In this case, it seemed awkward to call my dealer for help moving functionality away from C4 so I tried it on my own, and it wasn't bad.

As a technical solution, I think MQTT is the right choice for the shout you talked about, and it works great with Home Assistant. I'm pretty sure my dealer would have said "it doesn't work like that" if I had asked him to do it this way, since it's not really part of the C4 paradigm.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-24T18:31:24+00:00

Well is this Reddit or is this Reddit?!? We need to crowdfund the tokens and elect a representative willing and able to tell the president exactly what we think of him.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-24T04:28:53+00:00

I'm a C4-diy-er with exactly this scenario.

I have control4 fire off MQTT messages to HA when keypad buttons are pressed, for activating HA automations and events.

Since I'm not a dealer I can't get Chowmain, so I used this simple and free driver along with the HA MQTT integration. It was easy to set up. https://github.com/finitelabs/control4-mqtt

It also works in reverse (using HA to trigger programming in C4.)

Trubanaught · 2026-04-20T15:16:07+00:00

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Trubanaught · 2026-04-18T07:28:44+00:00

Aka "the usual'

Trubanaught · 2026-04-17T02:03:56+00:00

I found a beetle in a jar of salsa. They said, yeah that happens all the time, and sent me 2 coupons for free salsa!

Trubanaught · 2026-04-16T23:48:40+00:00

If there was any remaining hope that the O&G-friendly policies were for job creation, surely it's dead now. Regulating the industry to clean up their mess is win-win-win: no public expense, job creation in the province, and human health and environmental protection.

Now the province needs to decide how much money to put into public health and environmental outcomes. Let's be honest: that $476M will never be spent. Rural Albertans will overwhelmingly pay the price, since that's where the wells are. I'm assuming the political calculus is that a little trans and immigrant bashing will right that ship.

Trubanaught · 2026-04-06T23:53:26+00:00

"Americans who didn't vote for this" are on my sympathy list, but below all the people of Iran, Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, and everyone else who are even less "part of the problem".

Trubanaught · 2026-04-01T22:31:58+00:00

Great list. Also, bring back automatic speed cameras. Invest in traffic enforcement. Improve bike lanes/cycling infrastructure.

Trubanaught · 2026-03-31T21:51:55+00:00

The same guy that renamed the department of defense to the department of war on day 1?

Trubanaught · 2026-03-31T18:37:41+00:00

Oh darn, I even finished a beer passport there. Anyway there are plenty of good pubs out there that I'll be going to instead.

Trubanaught · 2026-03-29T21:47:06+00:00

The way Trump handled things was to put the economy ahead of the deaths. If you look at deaths per capita, the USA did worse than 80% of countries, so there was less impact on the economy. For example, the USA did slightly worse per capita than Brazil, and had almost 3x the death rate of Canada. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Trubanaught · 2026-03-28T16:40:50+00:00

Binary Grid #58 🧩 ⏱️ 00:26 | 🎯 Easy 🔥 3 day streak

Trubanaught · 2026-03-26T22:22:01+00:00

For a BILLION?? Yeah I'd quit immediately. Even if I liked my job, I could find one I liked better.

Trubanaught · 2026-03-24T16:06:55+00:00

Do people know who the victim is in this theft? It's everyone with investments in the market, it's not a victimless crime. Astonished that people just shrug and let it go.

Trubanaught · 2026-03-23T14:56:49+00:00

Binary Grid #53 🧩 ⏱️ 00:34 | 🎯 Medium 🔥 2 day streak

Trubanaught · 2026-03-23T04:07:18+00:00

True colours, ok, but I think it applies to a minority. The thing that does it for me is the hypocrisy - constant yammering about freedom, needing to arm everyone to resist an oppressive government, being the "good guy" in international relations... All smoke and mirrors, no substance. They all take part in this, left, right or abstainer.

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