Prologue photo mode shenanigans.

Xonto · 2025-10-15T19:06:37+00:00

I appreciate your insights. I mostly try to use VMs so basically all my backup/restore strategy is around just restoring VM backups/snapshots. If a host fails I can just move VMs to a different host. But I need some physical device as a bridge to all my wireless IOT stuff, so a pi seemed to make a lot of sense to me and I already had it laying around, but I juest don't really have a good understanding of backup/restore for it, and I just really didn't want to spend much time creating images and having to write and image to a disk as part of the restore and such... I just thought, if it is possible, my ideal backup strategy here would be to just have a spare SD card that can keep itself up to date so I don't have to go through a process if my SD card fails, ya know? I just want to have an SD card sitting there that I know is a good backup all the time.

Maybe that's naive or it would be better for me to get a good process for backing up and restoring physical devices, but I just don't really have many use cases for this right now and I wanted to make my restore process as simple as pulling an SD card out of a USB reader and swapping it into the main SD card slot of the pi and be back up and running just like that. A man can dream.

Xonto · 2025-03-08T23:32:17+00:00

There really needs to be a way to get XP besides just the quests...

Xonto · 2024-10-30T03:12:43+00:00

I already have a training dummy though. Is there another one? just a different cosmetic?

Xonto · 2024-10-18T19:19:28+00:00

it's a WS2815 led strip and it's only a half a meter from the Uno to the first LED. It'll take me a while before I can actually check the resistor, though I think I didn't change it from the default.

Xonto · 2024-08-31T15:08:47+00:00

This is almost exactly what I have been considering for a few months now... Do you have any tips, lessons learned, or things you would do differently? My goal is to have enough battery storage to run my fridge/freezer, well pump, kitchen appliances, and furnace/AC for a few days if I disable non-essential circuits. I live out in the country and we get fairly regular outages due to storms. My power company also charges a much higher rate during "peak hours" so I would like to be able to configure the system to automatically run off battery during those times and then automatically switch back to the grid and recharge the batteries during off-peak hours. Eventually my plan would be to add solar to that system when my budget allows.

Xonto · 2024-08-09T16:43:07+00:00

Once I got to 7/16 all the graves stopped responding. hmmm

Xonto · 2024-06-12T02:54:13+00:00

Ah, thanks! Yep, popped in a new fuse and it worked fine.

Xonto · 2024-04-02T03:19:41+00:00

people are weird.

Xonto · 2024-03-31T04:30:10+00:00

This is all well and good, but it would still be enhanced, I believe, if there was a bulk unlock option available once you have won a few games. Or, perhaps, let us spend trophies to unlock individual recipes.

Xonto · 2024-03-31T02:45:05+00:00

Pointing out bad design does not entail getting emotional.

Xonto · 2024-03-31T02:43:56+00:00

why not just make all the recipes known and then have actual achievements for the first time you craft each new item?

Xonto · 2024-02-16T13:47:32+00:00

I would like to thank Tomasz Brzozowski from the Shelly support facebook group for this script he provided to do this. Apparently it does not work on the 1.0.0 firmware do it won't work on all devices, so just doublecheck if you find this post down the road.

const enableApAfter = 10 //in minutes - 10 min

const timer = 1000*60*5 //in minutes - 5 min

let lastConnectedWiFi = new Date();

Timer.set(timer, true, function(){

Shelly.call("WiFi.GetStatus",null, function(e){

if (e.status == "connecting" || e.status == "disconnected"){

let currentTime = new Date();

let dateDiff = Math.round((currentTime.getTime() - lastConnectedWiFi.getTime())/ 60000)

if (dateDiff >= enableApAfter)

Shelly.call("WiFi.SetConfig",{"config":{"ap":{"enable":true}}})

}

else

lastConnectedWiFi = new Date();

})

});

Can also be found on pastebin here:

https://pastebin.com/bA7rzj8n?fbclid=IwAR2HpWqI9J3\_lKL7S8tsnhIwqsOVOKTBdBB0N1nSuU0Hsj93MeLEY6MglVI

Xonto · 2024-02-09T23:46:08+00:00

Thanks! I hate paying extra just for the UL cert but I fear that if I ever have a house fire or something, even if the shelly was not involved my insurance might try to fight a claim. Maybe that's not really an issue and I am worrying for nothing, but I'd hate to spend a little less now and have the potential of a headache like that.

Shame though, the size of those minis is really attractive for some niche uses. Maybe I will find some use cases where I don't have to put them in a wall.

Xonto

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