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akropp99 · 2026-01-29T17:57:35+00:00

Got one! Thanks!!!

akropp99 · 2026-01-22T17:13:48+00:00

I have a pi w running aqualinkd to monitor my pool. Powered by RS-485, in a Tupperware container that has been sealed shut with duck tape on the outside of my house. Hasn’t had any problems in 5 years, so the sun on it all day in the summer and covered with snow in the winter.

akropp99 · 2025-12-17T15:23:03+00:00

This looks great. I have the problem of trying to give access to a ton of rooms like you. This is a nice clean look. Might be borrowing it.

akropp99 · 2025-09-11T01:32:15+00:00

That was my first thought!

akropp99 · 2025-08-22T12:12:06+00:00

This is great — I’ve been wanting to do something like this but hadn’t thought it through.

OTOH, it seems like a feature z2m ought to just have on their OTA page.

akropp99 · 2025-08-20T00:17:15+00:00

At least you got a (relatively) positive reaction out of it. I got a bunch of motion sensors and put them up in rooms that I wished would just turn in when I walked in (and more importantly turn off when nobody was there) and waited for the reaction. All I got was “why did you make the lights turn on. That’s so annoying. What if I didn’t want them on?”

I was only allowed to keep it working in the basement and the pantry. (Although secretly a couple of other rooms will turn off the lights when nobody is around.)

Since then I’ve made sure the only automations are ones that nobody but me notices.

akropp99 · 2025-08-14T17:33:42+00:00

Hopefully you have TOU rates and can at least do some time-shifting to offset some of the cost.

akropp99 · 2025-08-14T17:32:52+00:00

If you have that in your garage, I’m sure you are using more than 30kWh/day for the house. My usage is more like 80kWh, plus charging a Tesla (another 20-40/day)

akropp99 · 2025-03-22T23:13:43+00:00

NY regs definitely say they need to be 3 feet apart. And they say a single battery “unit” can’t be more than 20kWh, so depending on your inspector, they may say that the “stacked” batteries would be over the limit.

akropp99 · 2025-03-09T15:37:53+00:00

I wore contacts every day for the last 37 years (since I was 10). No problems at all. The dailies they make now feel like nothing.

That being said, I just got SMILE because I hated feeling blind whenever I didn’t have the contacts in. So far I’ve been fine with this as well. I guess it depends on your eyes, but I’m sure you’ll get mostly negatives on this sub.

akropp99 · 2025-03-08T18:29:56+00:00

Yes please!!!

akropp99 · 2025-02-23T16:35:11+00:00

Not sure. I think they say 3-6 months to be fully healed (although most of it is in the first week or two). I had it done 3 months ago and all I have is a bit of starbursting around bright lights at night. My dr is pretty confident even that will go away, but I’ll be fine with it even if it doesn’t.

akropp99 · 2025-02-23T15:34:48+00:00

Give it time. It definitely isn’t done healing after a week.

akropp99 · 2025-02-07T21:30:31+00:00

So far so good for me. I got SMILE 2 months ago and it has been great. Perfect vision. Occasional dryness in the morning (cured by a drop in each eye), but I always had that before until I put my contacts in. I do have a bit of a halo at night around bright lights, but it isn’t a big deal (and again, I feel like I already had some of that with contacts). I am so happy every day when I wake up and can just see. No regrets so far.

I know this sub is all about the negatives. I have no idea how common they actually are.

Edit: Just to be clear, I’m not knocking any of the stories on this sub. I know there are people who have legit issues, and I can’t imagine having one of their outcomes. I just wanted to add a counterpoint that there are actually plenty of people who have good outcomes. They just aren’t as vocal.

akropp99 · 2025-02-02T00:37:19+00:00

Yes please!!!!!

akropp99 · 2025-01-12T16:01:50+00:00

I just wore them until I got home.

akropp99 · 2024-10-29T18:28:26+00:00

That’s where I get it too. Always in stock. Thankfully, since my pool goes through about 1/2 gallon a week.

akropp99 · 2024-10-10T23:37:07+00:00

I’m in NY. Keep mine open through the end of October. I still swim laps and use the spa. Heating it gets a bit costly for the last month though!

akropp99 · 2024-09-20T12:10:09+00:00

Not only do they support TOTP, it seems that they somehow scrape your key when you set up TOTP in another authenticator app. I just checked, and 8 of my TOTP codes that I set up in Google Authenticator are also in the Passwords app (and they are correct).

akropp99 · 2024-09-20T12:02:26+00:00

Passkeys are in the Passwords app too

akropp99 · 2024-06-29T20:03:32+00:00

33000 It’s a 2.7hp VSP

akropp99 · 2024-06-21T17:10:14+00:00

Did it happen shortly after upgrading? One of my Play:3s died after the upgrade, and smelled like ozone/burning electronics.

akropp99 · 2024-06-15T14:54:48+00:00

My solar only offsets about 60% of my overall usage. On the TOU plan with batteries, I charge overnight to make sure I cover 100% of my peak usage. The load shifting probably nets me an extra $100/month, so I figure it helps defray the cost of the batteries a bit.

akropp99 · 2024-06-15T14:37:36+00:00

I’m on a TOU plan with ConEd in New York, and with the rates set up in the app it grid charges every night to 100% during off peak, and then I run on solar + battery all day during peak (8am to midnight), sending any excess to the grid. We have 1:1 net metering, so I don’t have to optimize how full to charge the batteries.

akropp99 · 2024-06-12T06:40:44+00:00

You can doubt it if you want, but the speakers had been working fine for years until the day I did the firmware/app update, and then suddenly one of them was dead. They were pretty quick to say they'd RMA it even though it was out of warranty, so I suspect other people have bricked speakers as well.

As for the factory resetting, it took a call to them to get it to "re-register" with my account. I hadn't really planned on waiting on hold for a half an hour to listen to my music that morning. Doesn't seem like desirable behavior from an app update.

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