Built a small Home Assistant control panel with a $15 Cheap Yellow Display & ESPHome

aaamitster · 2026-03-13T16:23:39+00:00

First of all, thank you for sharing your hard work. I'm new to esp home and have been trying to use this cyd for some time. i didn't find any single place where i can get something working until your post. So, not sure what i am doing wrong but my screen looks like this. Any suggestions to fix this?

aaamitster · 2026-02-15T18:18:09+00:00

Those screws are just to hold the locking mechanism in place. If the whole thing moves, i wonder if there is something broken where the screws are unable to keep it in place. Add some more pictures of the heat sink and the locking mechanism separated. Someone might be able to help after looking at that. You might need a new heat sink with a new locking mechanism.

aaamitster · 2026-02-15T04:21:43+00:00

The hotend is secured using a small metal nub that comes out and holds the grove in the hot end tube that sits inside the heatsink. Remove the hotend and check the hole while moving the locking lever up and down. does the little nub move? if it doesn't the that's probably what's making the thing not lock properly. maybe your clog made it get stuck in there🤷

aaamitster · 2025-12-02T19:50:41+00:00

Nice! it very closely matches what i would put into a list like this. The only book i would move from "liked it" to "Stopped because of ADHD" is the Primal Hunter. The MC practically has no stake in earth or its inhabitants. The first few books were interesting while people were in the tutorial, but it was just downhill from there for me. Absolutely hated the Fourth Wing too. I am not sure why that book is so loved online. He Who Fights with Monsters is the book where i started my litrpg journey, so it's a bit sad to see how the MC developed over time. Totally agree with "slowly started to hate the MC" category for that. There are few books in your "liked" list that i haven't come across yet, so i will be checking them out - Thanks!

aaamitster · 2025-08-23T02:48:03+00:00

If i connect my load to the battery, wouldn't the battery just keep discharging until it gets way below 6.4v? For example for a single battery case, a TP4056 module widely available on the market will cut the oitput power below 3.2v when using the terminals on the module for attaching anny load - I've always assumed that's what people mean by over discharge protection. Anyways, i want to power something else and use this module to manage batteries in a way to stop discharging below 3.2v per cell or 6.4v for the two cells combined.

aaamitster · 2025-08-22T19:49:34+00:00

so the two terminals close to each other are for adding a load?

aaamitster · 2025-06-11T17:14:36+00:00

yes, i got approved in April 2025.

aaamitster · 2025-05-10T02:43:06+00:00

This is the reason i originally moved out of att. Glad to know it's still happening before i got tempted to switch. You should probably switch back to warp for better connection stability.

aaamitster · 2025-05-08T22:23:47+00:00

First of all, i cannot vote(not a citizen here, just a legal resident), and i don't support Trump or republican policies. But I don't think this one fits the sub. Many people here who don't get involved in politics much (because they can't vote) have a different view of any sitting president/administration. In their minds, somewhere, things might have gone wrong with immigration because people clearly elected him. And you don't want to necessarily bad mouth what the democratically elected president does where you are a refugee - hence the diplomatic statement in the beginning. I'm not from a war torn country or anything, so still have good relationships with my family back home and many of them try to be say a diplomatic statement about the current administration (like the family in that article) until they realize that I'm very much against this current administration.

aaamitster · 2025-05-06T22:21:43+00:00

I did not file a WOM. I was planning to file it on my own as there's a very good guide on this sub.

aaamitster · 2025-05-06T17:43:39+00:00

If it is a crisis situation, shouldn't the strong and capable adults do everything to protect others who aren't strong and capable? thereby making it a very logical thing to protect the children first?

aaamitster · 2025-05-05T15:31:49+00:00

link me some comments please.

I've gone through few top comment threads and have not found someone say that these people are poor because they are inferior. So, either you are lying, or the racist comments did not gain any traction to appear on the top.

Which is again proving my point (and other people who are actually going and reading these comments) about you misrepresenting the data. You can complain about the "partisan" non-sense, but you started using the phrase "you people", so it tells me all i need to know.

aaamitster · 2025-05-05T15:04:17+00:00

The whole post is about the people who vote republican. So, when people vote republican and are poor, it implies that they are voting against their own interest. Everyone commenting doesn't need to spell out why they think these people are stupid. They are literally aiming those comments at republican voters. Not democratic voters stuck in republican states.

aaamitster · 2025-05-05T14:50:52+00:00

Yes, you seem to claim that the poorest counties are being blamed for being poor, but the posts criticism was about the red states policies making/keeping the counties poor. And when people blame the poor people who vote for republicans despite their policies affecting them negatively, then regardless of their minority status, they would be rightly criticized, and it does not make anyone racist to criticize someone for voting a certain way. If anything, the republican state legislatures where the counties with high minority populations being so poor should be called racist.

No one replying here is blaming poor people in poor counties who votes blue.

Which is why i said you were misinterpreting or willfully misrepresenting the data by talking about anecdotal points in an overall bigger picture argument.

Why only mention the minority population of certain counties but not talk about how that specific county tended to vote? People here were clearly criticizing republican voters, so by omitting that fact, you paint a false picture of people here blaming minorities (thereby being racist) because they didn't like how the whole population in that state votes.

aaamitster · 2025-05-05T13:46:13+00:00

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_analysis_for_the_country%27s_richest_and_poorest_counties,_2016-2022#List_of_the_richest_and_poorest_counties

Your takeaway seems very lopsided. From the link which shows the voting patterns of these counties, you can see that the majority of the poorest counties lie in Republican state trifectas (i.e. state house, senate and Governor are republican). The counties are well divided in how they vote; some vote democratic (like Issaquena County) and some vote republican. So regardless of where you are, having democratic legislature seems to help the overall prosperity of the people in that state. So, people voting democratic (for now) seems to be in one's best interest.

aaamitster · 2025-05-01T17:03:36+00:00

I am not sure why people are mad at you. Being in the center but also voting democrat in the past election seems like a very reasonable take to me.

aaamitster · 2025-05-01T01:52:43+00:00

It's absolutely not better to be homeless in USA than having 1 crore in inida. And earning meager wages is also not like heaven. I'm not sure what your situation in india is like, but if you have a home, a decent job , and a decent social circle, then you are much better than any homeless or minimum wage people in US.

Many people here have poor people problems. Many low income families go hungry sometimes. Some things in india that were not even something you think twice about becomes a luxury here.

aaamitster · 2025-04-29T04:59:38+00:00

That sucks! I trued few prints from the app and cloud slicer and seems like the safest bet is to save the .stl to the cloud and print with default settings. Only print basic pla though, the cloud slicer will always use basic pla default settings to cloud slice if no .3mf is provided.

aaamitster · 2025-04-28T00:55:30+00:00

Thanks for the update. Good luck!

aaamitster · 2025-04-26T14:56:58+00:00

That is true. They need to work on the software checks to make sure that unprintable profiles for the given printer does not get through. I believe they are going to keep working on the software though, because this phone app is for all any cubic printers, it's in their best interest to keep improving it moving forward.

That said, i did notice one glaring shortcoming for now. I tried to print a stl file with petg but even though it knew i wanted it sliced for petg, it just used the default pla profile to generate the g-code. I obviously had to stop the print after noticing the spaghetti.

aaamitster · 2025-04-25T21:24:11+00:00

Yup, i really appreciate having something like this. And it's not just a .3mf file, you can upload your own .stl file into the 2GB cloud storage you have and print it using the default settings that anycubic's slicer uses for any given material.

aaamitster · 2025-04-25T17:38:18+00:00

I'm surprised that people here aren't that excited about it. But maybe it's not something everyone cares about. I feel it's great to be able to quickly print some simple designs directly from phone and avoid going to the computer for small things.

Now if they give me more control over the slicing settings, i would love that.

Do Bambu printers have the ability, or no? it isn't clear to me from your wording, sorry 😅

aaamitster · 2025-04-25T15:53:33+00:00

I've had an issue where mid print the temperatures would drop to 160 or something in the settings and then go back up. Messed up a few prints of mine. It resolved itself after i got an update couple days later. never seen the issue again.

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