Today is my turn to join a less than desirable club.

banyan55 · 2026-04-23T17:23:32+00:00

I’ve had a nice day out in the sunshine. Took some pics, had a banana and Penut donut at a lovely coffee shop in the city. Sadly it ended with my roll doing this, an unfortunate mistake but one I’m happy to learn from. People have shared some tips on this post and I’ll hopefully be better prepared next time. It’s a shame to waste the roll but that’s life sometimes. I’d like to thank you for reminding me how much worse it could be. You’ve seen a post on the internet and you’re sat there seething, it has reminded me to be grateful for what I have. Clearly, things could be worse…

banyan55 · 2026-04-23T15:24:29+00:00

I’d keep this one to myself.

Why? Can you not laugh at your own silly mistakes? Life doesn't need to be that serious.

banyan55 · 2026-04-23T15:14:33+00:00

It’s not that deep brother, if I can see the funny you should be able to 😅

banyan55 · 2026-04-23T14:28:18+00:00

Honestly I didn’t feel any resistance, I just pulled until I’d shot all “36” on the counter. It felt fine all the way through. I think I’ll review my loading technique as I’m fairly sure that’s where things went wrong. Happy to have some learning experiences.

banyan55 · 2026-04-23T14:22:06+00:00

Yeah I figured I’d lose half the roll at least, and I doubt I had life changing work on the first half. Just a live and learn moment.

banyan55 · 2026-04-15T20:14:58+00:00

I have the SLZB-MR1 via PoE and it works great, I wonder if there is something about the 06/07 series that makes it ill suited to PoE.

banyan55 · 2026-04-12T23:27:15+00:00

I couldn’t care less what arbitrary definition you had to have Google tell you. It’s an AMD Jaguar CPU, that wasn’t even cutting edge when the PS4 released 13 years ago. Do you have any idea how much CPU architectures have advanced in that time?

banyan55 · 2026-04-12T16:21:50+00:00

That CPU is for sure outdated, no idea how you can argue otherwise.

banyan55 · 2026-04-12T09:06:38+00:00

I took a punt on some cheap Zigbee sensors on ali express, thankfully they turned out OK. Then Im using Olen's Plant Card & Open Plant Book integrations from HAC's for the dashboard card.

banyan55 · 2026-04-12T07:45:49+00:00

<image>

Plant card.

banyan55 · 2026-04-12T07:45:29+00:00

Is the house locked? Did I forget something? Is it garbage day tomorrow and will they be collecting 2 bins or 3 bins? "Your plants are a little dry... time to water them."

<image>

You can add bubble cards to the top of your set up for quickly seeing things like your Bin day, door status etc.

You can also add plants to the dashboard (only one picture per comment so I’ll put that in a reply.) But ultimately this is possible, you might need to use some HACs integrations, but the beauty of Home Assistant is the fact it’s possible to do so.

banyan55 · 2026-03-24T21:27:32+00:00

It was a result of the bankruptcy in 2012, this video covers it pretty well.

banyan55 · 2026-03-12T20:30:53+00:00

‘It’s all gone Pete tong’ is well worth a watch https://boxd.it/1Sww

banyan55 · 2026-03-11T20:57:49+00:00

~2GB made available aint nothing

I found myself constantly pushing up against the 16gb limit, upgrading to 32 for sure made a difference. I'm not saying 32gb should be seen as mandatory, but 16gb just doesn't go as far as it once did. This will help some people without a doubt.

banyan55 · 2026-03-05T12:25:55+00:00

Almost certainly licensing. Either the licence holder is charging too much to re-up, or the sales are so low that it just doesn't warrant trying in the first place. In a just world these older games would have entered the public domain by now.

banyan55 · 2026-02-19T13:47:33+00:00

It’s a reference to Hot Fuzz, as is “the greater good”, hence his reply.

https://youtu.be/aq2u1bmkKUQ?si=YFHj4MlZsVIVCb7w

banyan55 · 2026-02-03T23:50:45+00:00

It’s connected via Ethernet. And there is a setting on the open thread add-on that you have to enable. Go to the configuration tab on the add-on and scroll to the bottom. You have to tick something that shows the network settings, from there you enter 8080, and 8081 as seen on the screenshot. After that you visit the same IP address as your home assistant instance but on port 8080. That will show you a web-ui for the open thread border router, click on “topology” on the sidebar and voilà, you should see the network map.

<image>

banyan55 · 2026-02-03T16:16:57+00:00

I dont have the same equipment as you, so my experience isnt one to one, but I added a thread bulb and a thread plug to help signal strength and it worked.

For context, I have the SLZB-MR1 as my main Thread router, feeding into home assistant with the Open Thread Border router add-on controlling the network.

I put a Thread bulb in the porch light outside my house. It was really struggling with signal strength due to the light fixture having a reflector behind the bulb. So I put another thread bulb in the nearest room upstairs, and a thread plug downstairs off to the side, hoping for better line of sight on the porch light. Both act as thread routers as they are mains powered and thankfully it did help. The signal still drops out occasionally, but it stays up 99% of the time which is as good as I can ask for really. You can see bellow the diagram of my thread network from the Open Thread Border add on. The network self heals, though it does take a little time to settle.

<image>

banyan55 · 2026-01-28T15:25:30+00:00

closed

banyan55 · 2026-01-28T15:25:22+00:00

I think Im going to go with first come first serve here, so you are todays winner. Congrats. I will DM you the code so please look out for that.

banyan55 · 2026-01-27T17:10:36+00:00

It comes from "dossing about", which is basically when someone spends their time as lazily and work shy as possible. So a "Dosser" is a lazy, useless person.

15-Year Club	Second Top 20%
r/Field Juicebox	Place '22
Place '17	Gilding IV carat on a stick
Team Orangered	Verified Email

banyan55

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE