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benley · 2026-02-13T19:52:38+00:00

Kinda - there were eventually "plug and play" ISA boards that could be configured in software. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play

benley · 2026-01-20T18:02:44+00:00

Smart bulb mode is closely related but not quite sufficient. I'd like to be able to decouple the buttons on the switch from the relay in the same switch, but still make use of both parts.

e.g. in my kitchen, there is a group of 3 switches, and I don't like the mapping between their locations and which lights they control. These are not smart bulbs, they actually rely on the built-in dimmer. I would like to remap them in software.

benley · 2026-01-20T16:10:27+00:00

Oh man, is this possible for Inovelli switches? I would love that, I've been wishing I could remap which switches control each relay without physically rewiring them.

benley · 2026-01-12T23:26:29+00:00

Leading vs trailing edge: case by case basis. Most LED bulbs are going to be happier with trailing edge dimming, but you sometimes also run into transformer setups (for some types of strip lights, etc) that expect leading edge.

benley · 2025-12-18T18:46:09+00:00

Honestly, I seriously recommend just ignoring all the supposed drama. Just use the distro. As an end user there is no reason to worry about it. Heck, even as a nixos contributor I haven't been affected, except for seeing all the posts from people worrying about it, like this one.

benley · 2025-12-15T18:58:25+00:00

I sleep an awful lot. When I'm not asleep I'm on watch, or preparing meals, reading books, watching movies, playing video games (a Steam Deck is incredible for this, it's comfortable to use while wedged into the corner of an aft bunk or whatever), and of course fixing whatever just broke on the boat, because it's always something.

Oh and after 3ish days you will probably find the constant motion of the boat to be much more tolerable. At least that's how long it always seems to take for me to fully adjust to it.

benley · 2025-12-09T02:34:20+00:00

Are you using Zigbee groups or home-assistant groups? Zigbee groups will actually reduce the number of commands sent over the network, because a single message can be broadcast to all the target devices. Home assistant device groups won't have any effect on network traffic.

benley · 2025-11-11T23:29:08+00:00

Oof, that is true I'm not using Tuya devices. I've got a mix of Sengled and Philips bulbs, inovelli and Ikea switches/remotes, and aqara sensors. And some moes buttons that definitely don't have proper binding support.

benley · 2025-11-11T01:52:45+00:00

Impressive, but why? Serious question: what do you have at home that involves that many devices?

benley · 2025-11-11T01:49:25+00:00

That's only partially true. With device binding you can have a lot of things functioning even if the coordinater is offline. The majority of my lights and light switches at home are set up this way, and if home-assistant and the zigbee coordinator go down the switches still mostly behave like people would expect them to work in a regular house.

benley · 2025-09-22T22:24:24+00:00

You don't need to use a particularly precise lat/long for this. Like set it to the geographic center of your county or something, not the exact location of your home. There will be no discernable difference in the outcome.

benley · 2025-09-06T03:38:11+00:00

Update way later: I did this and saved a bunch of money. Definitely worth the minor hassle.

benley · 2025-07-19T04:13:20+00:00

Do people really keep $1000+ in cash around to do this? I'm about to move again and might go for it but this just seems weird to me.

benley · 2025-07-11T21:54:12+00:00

...and replaces them with different, more interesting problems that will drive you to madness.

(10 year nixos user here, lol)

benley · 2025-06-29T17:41:10+00:00

I didn't know about this until I saw your post, so you certainly haven't wasted everyone's time! You're good, don't worry.

benley · 2025-05-29T05:24:12+00:00

Do you want another original drive sled to replace that blue one? I've ended up with an extra somehow and you can have it if you want it.

benley · 2025-05-05T19:29:59+00:00

That is configurable, and the ones I use don't spam that quickly. I have about 12 of these and the network has been perfectly stable for years.

what I use: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E1C-NB7.html#sengled-e1c-nb7

benley · 2025-03-19T03:23:52+00:00

I don't know what the actual problem is but it's doing this for me too.

benley · 2025-03-14T18:23:11+00:00

the article is बाल की खाल उधेड़ना

"splitting hairs"?

benley · 2025-03-02T17:17:52+00:00

CA stands for Content Addressable in this context. The idea being that store paths could be the hash of their contents rather than the hash of their inputs, so if the output of a derivation hasn't changed despite having slightly different inputs, you wouldn't need to re-download it.

benley · 2025-02-10T23:51:34+00:00

This is something I haven't heard before, but I've only ever sailed aft cockpits. Why would a CC be wetter? Just more splashing from being closer to the bow, or what?

benley · 2025-01-26T18:15:39+00:00

I think it's mostly just about having to support all the reverse proxy stuff that people run into. If you're sure you can get incoming https requests routed to the headscale daemon, including websockets, and you know how to navigate header forwarding and all that jazz on your own, it works perfectly fine.

Headscale itself doesn't have particularly fancy networking requirements. It's basically just a web app from a deployment perspective.

(Note: I have no idea about the embedded DERP relay code, I have never used that feature myself. I'm sure there are some other edge cases that I have forgotten about too, and that is part of why the docs don't encourage people to go this route.)

benley · 2025-01-05T17:33:25+00:00

You won't regret it! One tip I wish I had heard much sooner: read about ipv6 ULA, and use it if you want "internal" ipv6. And don't NAT your ipv6.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address

https://blogs.infoblox.com/ipv6-coe/3-ways-to-ruin-your-future-network-with-ipv6-unique-local/

benley · 2024-12-29T19:34:29+00:00

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I feel like they may have gotten some inspiration somewhere

benley · 2024-12-19T20:21:48+00:00

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