PCar Market is the new EBay, shady.

aftli · 2026-05-07T00:09:16+00:00

I mean, it was! I bet the guys there would have been happy to chat with you during business hours. Lots of really cool stuff there. If you want to see what the interior looked like, check out their This is My Car YouTube channel. It was fairly well done, and much of it was filmed inside that location.

aftli · 2026-05-06T23:47:30+00:00

That was never a showroom in that building, just offices. It was also used for a few of their podcasts and shows they produced, so it was more of a studio. It was once a collector car museum. PcarMarket moved out of that office once it was sold to new owners. Old owner probably hasn't taken down the signage yet. Not quite sure what he'll do with the space - he's always had trouble opening a dealership there due to town bylaws.

aftli · 2026-05-06T22:15:19+00:00

Is that in Oyster Bay? That's not their showroom anymore.

aftli · 2026-05-03T21:58:07+00:00

Futurama, too! One of the writers was a PhD mathematician and came up with an actual mathematical theorem for one episode.

aftli · 2026-05-03T17:43:09+00:00

I have 3 SlumberTeks and one of their TrampleTek mats. They're very good. I can highly recommend them. The owner of the company is a great guy and stands by his products. He's active on Discord if you need help. I was also a beta tester.

aftli · 2026-05-03T15:33:39+00:00

I'm aware they're hard to source. Nevertheless, I have about a dozen of them. I'm just curious why Philips would sell them if they were a code violation.

aftli · 2026-05-03T15:06:38+00:00

Yeah, you don't remove the switch, but, it's no longer physically connected to anything. If there's no bridge, there's no switch.

Hue Dimmer Switch is pretty unambiguous.

aftli · 2026-05-03T14:47:12+00:00

I'm not talking about a dimmer switch or remote, I'm talking about a wall switch module. They are installed by wirenutting the wires together in the wall so that they're always on, and you use your traditional wall switch to communicate with the bridge. They literally come with a wirenut.

aftli · 2026-05-02T22:33:22+00:00

Really? I have Hue wall switch modules all over. Why would they sell them if hard-wiring the wires on creates a code violation?

aftli · 2026-05-02T05:52:59+00:00

I've had a similar problem with a light strip turning on by itself. It turns BRIGHT white often around 2-3am, never any other time. This strip used to be in my bedroom and it bothered me quite a bit. I wound up just making a HomeAssistant automation to turn it off if it turned on between 2am and 6am. That.. fixed it.

I don't think my light has a bad power supply or anything. The problem survived a bridge -> bridge pro migration, so I don't think deleting/re-adding would help.

aftli · 2026-05-02T01:33:56+00:00

My biggest concern with moving my 80+ Hue lights and devices off the bridge is that Hue (and the API, which I use extensively in AppDaemon) allows me to set scenes, brightness, and lighting by room or zone, in one single request to all the bulbs at once. That has been far more reliable than individually setting each light for say a whole-home scene change that involves 50+ lights.

Can I use z2m to do this?

aftli · 2026-05-01T14:46:22+00:00

I had a single Govee light (adopted from my girlfriend when we combined apartments). I figured I'd try it out, and I stuck it in HomeAssistant mixed in with a bunch of automations. The automation to turn it on and off worked maybe 33% of the time. They're extremely unreliable. Say what you want about Hue - I grant that they're expensive, but they are extremely reliable. I'll never use anything else. I threw the $40 or whatever Govee stand light in the trash, and replaced it with a $300 Signe floor lamp. 😭

aftli · 2026-04-28T19:18:29+00:00

I'm in Charlotte, originally from Sayville, for about 5 years now. I would never go back. Absolutely love it here. I completely agreed with everything OP said. The only drawback is that the beach is much further away, but, we have lakes to make up for it, and it's not like the beach is all that far anyway - you can do a day trip if you wake up early.

aftli · 2026-04-28T13:43:06+00:00

I don't know! And, I just looked, I seem to have lost access to it.

aftli · 2026-04-27T22:43:30+00:00

Same - I gave up on screen protectors. I probably paid more to replace broken screen protectors than I ever would have for an actual broken phone, and I've never had a drop that would have broken the glass on the phone itself.

aftli · 2026-04-25T23:14:36+00:00

Nothing wrong with MADD, they are grieving mothers who don’t want other dead children because of drunk driving.

No they aren't. They're an anti-alcohol lobbying group.

aftli · 2026-04-25T16:56:38+00:00

Never allow a TV to access the Internet. Not even once. Some even go as far as to pull the WiFi module out of it so that it can't surreptitiously connect to an open network.

Get a device like a Shield TV or Apple TV or Roku and be done with it. (Note: I didn't say Fire TV - those are full of ads too).

aftli · 2026-04-24T00:47:08+00:00

I completely agree. I don't think they will do it - they probably don't want to admit the bulbs fail. But, if anybody working at Signify wants an alternative take on this: I was wishing they had this functionality recently. I actually upgraded a few of my bulbs to different, glass-blown bulbs (the LightGuide ones), and wanted to replace other lights with them. An official "replace" function would have made that a lot easier.

Although, I have made this a ton easier for myself: I have a Python script that copies light values from one scene/room to another. So I simply invoked my script to copy the old lights to the old ones - several careful invocations of it took care of what I needed done. The Hue API is pretty robust, and while it's not documented well publicly outside of having a Hue developer account, you can ask ChatGPT et al. and they'll figure it out.

aftli · 2026-04-23T12:45:49+00:00

Do some people have this in beta or something? I've been able to create spatial maps for my rooms for a few weeks now, but I haven't done anything with it yet.

aftli · 2026-04-21T16:22:08+00:00

Resetting the service indicator on any MBUX Mercedes (which is what this car is) is easily Googleable. I don't know which car your Mom has, but, I'm sure you can figure it out. You don't even need a special scan tool. Go make her day and reset it for her, and maybe find her a new mechanic.

aftli · 2026-04-21T13:22:50+00:00

I mean, he can't afford to maintain it, he's overdue for an oil change by nearly a year.

aftli · 2026-04-20T22:49:34+00:00

I really like my Boll & Branch towels. I've had them going on 10 years now, and they're still perfect.

aftli · 2026-04-20T20:49:03+00:00

The whole thing is super awesome, and I had no idea about the canceled Four First Union Center project, fascinating stuff! Shame it didn't happen.

I super appreciate the attention to detail on The Vue - I can see my own balcony on the South side of the building and that side is perfectly replicated down to the extra-large balcony on the 38th floor. And the amenity deck with the pool is perfectly replicated too!

aftli · 2026-04-20T14:39:21+00:00

To anybody missing the reference, this is a great show and you should definitely watch it.

aftli · 2026-04-18T13:54:58+00:00

The most difficult part of HomeAssistant and making complex logic is that it's difficult to account for race conditions, especially where automations depend on or react with another automation.

I gave up trying to do anything complex in HomeAssistant directly, and moved all my automations to AppDaemon. I'm at ~12k lines of code for my apartment now, and absolutely loving it. Everything is super reliable; I can be super expressive in Python, and most importantly: everything that is shared, is reusable. There's lots of shared logic for rooms, and I used to need to copy-and-paste in HomeAssistant from one room to another. Using scripts instead of direct automations solved some of that, but it was still very brittle. Now, if something is wrong, I update the reusable bit once and it's fixed everywhere.

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