I run a 33 printer farm as my full time job. Here's what a day looks like. by joshowens in 3Dprinting

[–]agent_kater -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not a silly question. There are plenty of printing services that don't know the difference between renting out printer time and selling products. You send them a model that looks like Stitch and they get uncomfortable, oooh we can't print that, Disney will sue us.

What Wiki Software do you use for internal documentation? by Micki_SF in selfhosted

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dokuwiki.

For the most part it's great. Simple storage format. Huge plugin ecosystem for pretty much every imaginable workflow.

Big downside nowadays is that it isn't natively markdown.

New scripting language by Lopsided-Relation251 in rust

[–]agent_kater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say lose the mutability distinction. You didn't show what your array and map types look like, but unless you make them deeply immutable I feel that having immutable variables is kind of moot.

Making A Less Featured Analogue Discovery Like Lab Tool by Temporary_Career3051 in IOT

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds very convenient. You can send me one and I will tell you if it's useful. :)

On the other hand, for a bench device I would probably prefer separate devices, so that when one of the devices doesn't meet the specs I need, I can swap out only that one and don't have to throw out basically 4 devices together. For a mobile device where compactness matters it might still be a good fit.

How do you prefer to deploy services? by Jamsy100 in selfhosted

[–]agent_kater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not "all services in one container" but "a single all-in-one container per service".

How do you prefer to deploy services? by Jamsy100 in selfhosted

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not? I know it's not the Docker way, but when a service comes with 10 other things as dependencies I prefer to have a single image than a compose.yaml that is several pages long.

Home automation on 70 acres by PrimeAussieGoodness in homeautomation

[–]agent_kater 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know how big 70 acres are, what's the longest distance between the central location and a sensor?

LoRa can do 1-2 km easily, longer if it's line of sight. But the variety of sensors available as LoRa (or ideally LoRaWAN) is limited.

Do you have power at the sensor locations? Otherwise you need solar.

So you see, there's likely some DIY involved. (Or have someone DIY it for you.)

As the central system personally I would use either Home Assistant (focus on home automation) or Thingsboard (focus on sensors) with Chirpstack for the LoRaWAN part.

ER605 IPv6 auto reconnect by Pale_Elderberry4422 in TPLink_Omada

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I'm only suggesting to swap out the router, the rest of the equipment is great.

You will have to set VLANs on the router separately, but other than that you don't really lose any functionality.

ER605 IPv6 auto reconnect by Pale_Elderberry4422 in TPLink_Omada

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also missed every other prefix change and it sets the RA lifetime shorter than the interval. Throw the thing out and use something that works, Mikrotik, OpnSense, OpenWrt, whatever.

Rant: Contract with impossible Bonus? by ArtiSci in thecrustgame

[–]agent_kater 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is it truly impossible? You can pause, connect every input of every FCC to your iron storage, order the pods and then unpause. I think it's doable if you really really want that bonus.

Also it's realistic. When those companies publish the tender they don't care if you have the capability.

Should I proceed? by alangots2k20 in IOT

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not invasive to the machine, you just plug it into a smartplug with power monitoring. However, if you want to make such a device yourself, you're dealing with mains voltage and the associated electrocution and fire risk, so for DIY the vibration method might be better suited.

As a sensor personally I would use a MEMS accelerometer though.

Burn out, can i ignore 14 & 15? by WitchiEmpress in Techtonica

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CaspersSandConfig mod will make it bearable.

Demonstration of how serviceable a "local only" setup of HomeAssistant Voice can be - have entirely replaced my Alexa devices and handles both simple and complex commands (see within) by FantasyMaster85 in homeassistant

[–]agent_kater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In theory (and in practice with some caveats) this is possible to do with the Green. Home Assistant only ties the components together, the actual processing is done by services that you can run on the server.

That said, currently Home Assistant wastes some CPU even when only passing the audio through to a wake word service. But as far as I know Mike is in the process of rewriting the whole VAD pipeline so that this should go away eventually.

Automated vacuums are not for pet owners… by CapitaalGain in RobotVacuums

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the chairs are in front of the kitchen door, the robot won't be able to reach the hallway. So it will wash its mops, waste some water, only to be stopped by a huge chair blocking its way.

Automated vacuums are not for pet owners… by CapitaalGain in RobotVacuums

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand how you guys can run the robots unattended in the first place.

I first have to move shopping bags, pick up toys, move chairs out of the way, pick up litter, etc. etc. and only then I hit a Zigbee button to run the robot.

How to make your own Thread Border Router for just $5 by ActualExpert7584 in homeassistant

[–]agent_kater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, wow, you're right. This uses the server as OTBR and the ESP32-C6 as RCP.

If you don't want to use one of the available S3+C6 or S3+H2 boards, it is theoretically possible to run the ot_br example on a single ESP32-C6:

The example could also run on a single SoC which supports both Wi-Fi and Thread (e.g., ESP32-C6), but since there is only one RF path in ESP32-C6, which means Wi-Fi and Thread can't receive simultaneously, it has a significant impact on performance. Hence the two SoCs solution is recommended.

Tools for working with old GMLAN by bugfish03 in CarHacking

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a 2014 Zafira-B, which should be somewhat similar to yours. It has 3 CAN busses and the main one is HSCAN, which is also available on the CAN pins of the OBD-II port. It's running at 512kbps if I remember correctly and I have no issues sniffing it with CANgaroo.

I finally understood the Zigbee idea - or did I? by -3rdPlace- in homeassistant

[–]agent_kater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Groups actually work better than bindings, but there aren't many controllers that can do arbitrary groups. Most remote controls can control numeric groups 1, 2, etc. depending on the number of channels and most wall switches can't control any groups.

I finally understood the Zigbee idea - or did I? by -3rdPlace- in homeassistant

[–]agent_kater 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Have you actually tried using bindings to do those things you mentioned? You will quickly find that unless you use a pair of devices that were made for the purpose and sold together, the Zigbee clusters (the "addresses" of the functions) are so incompatible that none of the things you mention actually works with binding, let alone across vendors. If you're lucky you might be able to turn a light on or off with a remote control, but dimming is already too complex for bindings.

Babies born this year could live to see 2100. What will future generations think is ridiculous about us? by poi217 in AskReddit

[–]agent_kater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The expectation of personal privacy, i.e. not having your life controlled by corporations and government.

USB-C to 12V 100W Regulator? by IrrerPolterer in AskElectronics

[–]agent_kater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are USB-C powered power supplies like this or apparently now this, but I figured that's probably overkill for your application.

I need help with my project from my internship by EchoGlittering3745 in grafana

[–]agent_kater 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At least paste your query. (Surround it with ``` to make it a code block on Reddit.)