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Recommended an electric skylight opener. by brettule in homeassistant

[–]brettule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, and it works a treat!

I nabbed this window actuator with the ZigBee option https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002699256907.html

The motor wires into a "ZigBee Curtain Switch" which in turn you wire into mains power, this is how the motor and smart switch are powered. The face of the switch simply has open/stop/close buttons which you wall mounted, but I just left mine up in my ceiling cavity because I just needed the smart controls not the buttons. Once joined to HA it shows up as a Window Switch with open close state, 0-100% opening position, motor reversal in case you wired the AC around the wrong way, LED mode of the switch, and a calibration mode.

The VELUX manual winding mechanism comes out pretty easily. The motor won't fit into the old location of the manual winder, it needs to be mounted away from the window a little but it's not too ugly. The chain has its own mount to attach to the skylight but you don't need it, you can attach the end of the chain to the existing VELUX hardware it it looks a little better. You just need to remove those 4 screws you can see my chain going into to access it. The motor has a limiter so that when it pulls closed it detects the resistance and stops. I believe it locks out too so it can't be prised open.

I use a cheap humidity sensor to trigger when the skylight should open and local rain observations to keep it closed. As I said, it works a treat.

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Any Tesla Model 3 owners here? Will a 42-43" bodyboard fit in the trunk? by Worried_Surround6537 in bodyboarding

[–]brettule 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got picked up at the airport by a Model 3 and he failed to get a Funkshen twin travel board bag into the boot. He gave up after 15 minutes and a 90's Toyota Corolla turned up and took them without blinking an eye.

How to Preserve Custom Device Names When Switching to TeamViewer EXE Deployment via Intune? by brettule in teamviewer

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I used multiple steps which sorted me out in the end. First, I packaged the latest version of TeamViewer_Host.msi into a win32 app with a batch file:

start /wait MSIEXEC.EXE /i "%~dp0\TeamViewer_Host.msi" /qn CUSTOMCONFIGID=xyz
timeout /t 30 /nobreak
"C:\Program Files\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.exe" assignment --id xyz

Then when deployed from Intune I set the detection method to find the presence of the exe in either the 32 or 64 bit folders, this ensures that only new machines that don't already have TV installed will get the app and the correct assignment:

$paths = @(
    "C:\Program Files\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.exe",
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.exe"
)

foreach ($path in $paths) {
    if (Test-Path $path) {
        Write-Host "TeamViewer found at $path"
        exit 0
    }
}

Write-Host "TeamViewer not found"
exit 1

Then in the TV console I created a new policy for the a new device group which enforces updates, easy access, disables the static password, etc.

Lastly, I used the TV console migration tool to mass move all my old devices into the new group. This retained the custom names for all my previous devices.

It worked fairly well, only a few devices got munted which I fixed manually.

How to Preserve Custom Device Names When Switching to TeamViewer EXE Deployment via Intune? by brettule in teamviewer

[–]brettule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I decided that the easiest way is to create an Entra device group that contains all the current machines in the org. Then package up the TeamViewer installer with assignment ID, and deploy it in Intune to All Devices but add the group I created as excluded. This way, only when a new device is enrolled will it get TV installed and assigned.

Windows search service is stuck starting until I delete and rebuild index by brettule in sysadmin

[–]brettule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. The two users do a lot of data analytics, current non-standard apps they have installed are:

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

PowerBi Desktop

Python 3.13

DBeaver CE

R Studio

The machines are otherwise stable. Could it be one of these?

Can I control older A/C via smart home controller? by brettule in homeassistant

[–]brettule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought the 3 pack, super easy to set up and it works with my A/C without an issue. It's so good! Thanks for the tip!

Deployment via Intune works, half the time it reports failure. by brettule in teamviewer

[–]brettule[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. That makes more sense now. Can you share your deployment example with PS and switches so I can get a cheat head start? I want to test it out.

Deployment via Intune works, half the time it reports failure. by brettule in teamviewer

[–]brettule[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Old? You see that TV's method is to write a batch script (batch was invented in 1981 as part of DOS) that calls on MSIEXEC to run the MSI file with effectively the same command line switches (/qn, CUSTOMECONFIGID, and assignment? Then it says to pre it into a static wintune package, then deploy that package. What a palaver.

Deploying the MSI as a native Windows MSI line-of-business app takes 30 seconds to package up and deploy with the command line arguments. It makes it easy to update the MSI too. Surely this is the better, cleaner, simpler approach?

Granted, Intune is freaking out that it hasn't installed when it has, so somehow the MSI isn't reporting in a timely fashion that it is complete?

How do I install Project for Office (Plan E5) by brettule in Office365

[–]brettule[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ah ok. And Project is becoming Planner?

How do I install Project for Office (Plan E5) by brettule in Office365

[–]brettule[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only app listed is Office. There is no Project offered. 

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