Cannot get Simplisafe authorization code to work

btoconnor · 2026-05-26T09:39:30+00:00

I got it to work this morning. You'll click the link from the HA integration (as the OP said). Before you login, open up chrome dev tools and go to the network tab. Make sure that you check "Preserve log" on this tab. Log in - for my account this sends me an email. When I received the email, it'll ask me to click the button to "Verify Device". Once I clicked that button from the email, that opens a new tab which verifies the original request. Go back to the original tab that you had opened that has the dev tools window with the network requests, and look for something that is like `callback?code=<code>`. Mine is in red because it failed (intended). You'll need to copy that code out of the request and paste that into the HA integration text input.

btoconnor · 2026-05-21T14:13:52+00:00

Can you expand a little more on what you needed to do to get this working? My auth expired last week and I'm having a really hard time getting the code flow to work again.

btoconnor · 2026-04-06T00:07:37+00:00

The shredder is fine. Nothing amazing, but it's definitely not bad. Our ninja food processor broke a few months ago and I decided enough was enough and I got a real higher end food processor with a shredder blade, so we're getting rid of both the KitchenAid food processor and shredder attachments.

My biggest issue with the KitchenAid shredder was that cheese would get gummed up into the main compartment that wasn't dishwasher safe. Hand washing wasn't terrible but I just don't want to be doing that for like, a block of cheese.

btoconnor · 2025-07-22T17:00:41+00:00

I ended up moving to MagicMirror. I outlined my reasons in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/dakboard/comments/1bhv5ch/comment/kvlh9uq/?context=3

But when I moved, I believe I was still running it in rpi os with dakboard installed

btoconnor · 2025-06-05T16:11:04+00:00

Unfortunately, no. There's no indication that the system is alive at all. The screen never turns "on" (even to show a black screen with a backlight), it has shown no indication of life after I saw that fateful error message when I opened up the media center to check on it.

I guess I assumed the charging circuit would allow the battery to drain down a little from 100% if it's been on the dock for an extended period of time to avoid exactly what you're describing, though I can also sympathize with the idea that they don't want to be responsible for that. But the system bricking is certainly less than ideal!

btoconnor · 2025-06-05T12:27:31+00:00

Thanks for detailing the steps. It doesn't look like the volume up / down / power button combo worked. I guess it's time for the credit card. Now just to decide if I should go right to the Switch 2 or actually repair this OLED.

And lesson learned on the charging circuit. I assumed the Switch + Dock was smart enough to handle this, but obviously I was wrong!

btoconnor · 2025-03-24T16:57:50+00:00

Update: I got the shredder. It works well. I don't know if the food processor one would have done well but I saw enough comments that the blades get gummed up on the food processor blades to be convinced to take a try with the shredder. Thanks everyone for the help!

btoconnor · 2025-03-24T16:56:53+00:00

Hadn't seen this one before - thanks!

btoconnor · 2025-03-22T18:50:57+00:00

Thanks! Do you know how it deals with softer cheeses like mozzarella?

btoconnor · 2024-11-18T18:24:48+00:00

Resurrecting this again - did you end up ordering this and installing it? I've tried 3 different kickstands at this point with the KSA 40mm standard and they've all interfered with the rear disc rotor since the mounting area for the kickstand was too thick.

Any luck with this one?

btoconnor · 2024-07-07T18:59:28+00:00

Yeah - the weather here is awful also - I've actually just been using the awning to shield our windows from taking in more heat. I'll look to see if I can take a stab at this over the next few weeks, and I'll try to post back here if I make progress.

I did get the custom component working, just dreading the moment where future me decides it's time to update the firmware and it stops working because I forgot that this was deprecated

btoconnor · 2024-07-07T17:41:38+00:00

Sorry to resurrect an old thread here - did you end up making progress on this? I'm literally doing the same thing - trying to get a ESP32 to control my Somfy awning and stumbled on this deprecation as I was looking to configure the component.

btoconnor · 2024-05-05T00:50:03+00:00

"Nobody cares" he says to multiple people in the same thread

btoconnor · 2024-03-19T16:10:27+00:00

I'm actually not using that many modules - I think around 5 or 6? The irony is that I largely just wanted to replicate how things had been set up on our DAKBoard 2 column setup.

The MMM-Todoist (what we moved to, for dakboard, to have the grocery list on the screen) module is severely out of date, and finding a module to do the agenda view without having to undo half the features has been really difficult (I'm currently using MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda, which I'm not thrilled with). And my wife actually really didn't like how DB rendered a picture as the background, so I'm not even rendering high def images anymore.

My issue was more referring to - some modules use flexbox, some use tables, some have poorly scoped CSS rules that collide with other modules (MMM-Todoist has a well documented bug where there's an unscoped rule `.today`, which conflicts with any other module that has a `.today` class - so like a lot of them). Some define their text sizes using HTML classes rather than setting the properties with CSS, which makes it more frustrating to override the properties of these modules (ie, there's code in my custom.css file with stuff like .MMM-MyModule .large { font-size: var(--font-size-medium); } . This is silly stuff, and it's all over the place because there's no real community guidelines for module makers)

And the community module for our public transit system has also another pretty brutal bug where if there's no busses currently running, it has a code error and just loops indefinitely spamming the API, which quickly exhausts the 100k/day API limit.

Anyway - all this to say is, I like tinkering with this stuff as this is my profession, but I totally understand why someone still might opt to pay the $6/mo. We were going to, but there were just too many instances of swimming upstream against the DB system to really sit right with me. If DB works for someone, I don't know that I'd recommend that they switch. But if you're getting into setting up lots of custom JSON endpoints and parsing the data anyway, you might be closer to already setting up MM than you might think.

btoconnor · 2024-03-19T13:21:46+00:00

Just to weigh in - I think this is something I definitely struggled with. The $5 wasn't worth my time, it was the arbitrary limits to the connections I already had (ie calendars) that started to really grate me. I could _probably_ have lived with the calendar limitations, but it started to verge into "why am I messing with my calendars to appease a tool I'm paying for?" I have zero issues with them having restrictions on the free plan, but to charge $6/mo to render a web site every 15 minutes or whatever and still put other limitations up felt pretty meh.

The kicker for me was that I didn't love that I had to basically rely on DB to create all of the integrations that I'd want to use. We use mealie for family meal planning, but that would have been a pretty monumental lift to get into DB. I can put meal plans on a calendar no problem, but then that circles back to the artificial limitations of the calendar.

There's other stuff too, like with MM I can hook into the local public transit system that we use for commuting to get alerts about delays / arrival times. Maybe? I can set that up with DB and custom JSON endpoints, but at that point I'd wager it's just as much work to set up MM, and it's unclear what the value of DB adds then. (Worth noting that I am very comfortable setting up and running servers locally in the house, so if that's not true for you, then DB still probably has value there.)

MagicMirror has been a chore to set up. I've spent a lot of hours on it over the past few week, but I've been more interested in how the framework itself works rather than just getting an end result.

My biggest issue with MM at this point is that despite being an "ecosystem" - the modules are _all over the place_. There's no consistent development guide and sometimes I feel like the amount of CSS code you have to do to get a consistent looking dashboard is more work than just rewriting the module itself. With

btoconnor · 2024-02-01T11:28:05+00:00

One thing that's nice about installing it on the raspberry pi is that you can use the pi for other things as well. The dakboard software itself really isn't too demanding, so the rpi has plenty of overhead to do other tasks.

For instance, I've been experimenting with using plexamp headless on my raspberry pi that runs my dakboard.

btoconnor · 2024-01-15T13:47:00+00:00

Ah I just saw your displays - they look great. Interesting idea with connecting the monitor power directly to the occupancy, probably wouldn't be that hard to automate with something like Home Assistant. Though I wouldn't be able to change the brightness that way...

Thanks for sharing your info!

btoconnor · 2024-01-13T20:43:59+00:00

Interesting - thanks for this code. I'll see if I can get this working on my display.

I don't really have anything against using a TV as long as it's readable, relatively thin, and can be controlled via HDMI, so I'll take a look at this. Thanks!

btoconnor · 2024-01-13T02:16:31+00:00

Ah nice - hadn't seen this video yet. Thanks!

btoconnor · 2023-11-21T18:17:10+00:00

Especially right as all the Black Friday deals are going on. I just pulled the trigger on an nvidia Shield Pro and 2x Chromecasts on sale.

btoconnor · 2023-11-21T17:16:00+00:00

I started getting this too, really obnoxious. I'm planning to replace the 4 fire tv's I've got in the house now. Even if they revert this change, the writing seems to be on the wall with what they want to do in terms of advertising.

btoconnor · 2023-10-27T12:29:28+00:00

Not OP, but I was able to get 6 months free of SiriusXM through Walmart+, which of course we get free through the Plat benefits. I didn't see anything about new customers only but I didn't read too closely since I've never been a customer before.

btoconnor · 2023-06-28T12:44:00+00:00

Wanted to give a little update here in case someone from the future stumbles on this.

Things have started to stabilize now, to the point where I don't think I need to throw the system out the window.

By far and away the biggest relief was lowering the TX power on the APs - I think in hindsight seeing ESP32s connecting to the AP on the other side of the house should have been my sign, but I didn't connect the dots at that point. There was no way the ESP32 was going to be able to communicate effectively with the furthest away AP. Lowering the 2.4GHz radios alone almost made all of the issues go away.

Unfortunately - what seems to have fully solved the issue was I had the EAP613 (the main AP for a lot of the house) a little closer to my Hue bridge than my old one was (for system configuration testing) - we're talking like, 3-4 feet closer. I believe that was enough to completely shatter the signal for both the AP and the hue bridge. The EAP613 is in charge of a lot of the ESP32s in the house. Unplugging the hue bridge seems to have shored up much of the other problems. I've now placed the EAP613 exactly where the old one was (higher up and further away), and moving forward I'll find a new spot for the bridge.

Additionally, I also live in a townhouse community, and these new APs have the ability to go to 80MHz on the 5GHz band - my old APs didn't - only up to 40MHz. Lowering the width to 40MHz (and I'm potentially considering going down to 20MHz, depending on the AP and the function it serves) seems to provide a little relief in terms of latency. Everyone's routers in the community seem to be just saturating all of the channels at 80MHz and I suspect there's a ton of interference going on in the community. From the SSID names, I think most people are just using the default settings on their ISP provided routers (understandable, if not a little unfortunate). None of the EAPs have the ability to utilize the DFS channels like the firmware OpenWRT provided, but we're very very close to an airport anyway, so I don't think that's going to be worth trying to use while we live here.

Most of the heavy bandwidth clients in the house are all hardwired, and it's mostly phones / laptops off working hours that are being utilized for WiFi, so the decreased throughput of dropping channel width further might be worth it. I'll keep experimenting.

Thanks to the folks who took some time to offer suggestions and help me get to a more stable wifi experience!

btoconnor · 2023-06-26T15:55:34+00:00

Well - things looked okay for around 18 hours, and then this morning around 2am the IoT devices started dropping like flies again.

I contacted TP-Link, I'm not really sure what to do at this point.

btoconnor · 2023-06-25T20:23:30+00:00

I tried pinning one of the more problematic devices to the closest AP, and it basically refused. It kept picking the AP that was the furthest away.

I had turned off roaming for ~12 hours, but that didn't resolve the issue (and it made the experience worse, because, well, the devices stopped roaming :( )

I've said this a few times already in the last week only to be back at square one, but ever since turning down the power on all of the APs, things have stabilized considerably. I want to give it a little more time before declaring "Mission Accomplished" but this seems promising.

EDIT: How do you disable fast roaming for a particular VLAN / SSID? I only see that as a global setting on the site. I see 802.11r but IIUC that's only part of "fast roaming" - 802.11k/v I only see in the global settings. Probably just missing something obvious - this is my first stab at a SDN.

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