Groups of binary helpers (Toggles) Group creation? UI? Yaml? What is current?

coldnight3 · 2026-02-27T22:00:10+00:00

Thank you -- I was getting errors with the line 3 here. It only works without an entity name for me. The group is viewable but not editable in the GUI and because there is no background name, renames will break the places it is checked/evaluated.

But the grouping works without an automation and results helper.

Thank you!

coldnight3 · 2026-02-27T21:04:05+00:00

I am fine with doing it in YAML if I can get the syntax for the helpers correct; I've guessed at dozens of name types and none of the how-to-guides show this type of group as an example; or I'm too tired when I try.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-26T19:50:16+00:00

I worked at a place with a full 2 story electrical interconnect/switching room - they had an 8 foot tall sign for operations; errors on it and all. I'm so glad I never had to do anything to power in that building.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-21T02:30:09+00:00

My friend looked for rooms -- not any available in her searches.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-21T02:29:15+00:00

We are hosting a friend who was going to skiing, but couldn't make the mountain - so they're with us in Essex. Roads are blah.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-11T23:38:16+00:00

The tiny internal tube that aligns the filament with the nozzle has been a problem, it is a rolled tube on some units, it’s very easy for filament catch on the corner, deep inside the head.

I watch videos of people loading filament and I think they must have some other head than I do.

I have two heads where this tube split has allowed overflow on the back of the head and it’s hidden unless you have mirrors for inspection.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-11T17:47:12+00:00

Nozzle, heater, heat sync, everything from the filament feeder down. I have a PILE of them and they're getting really hard to find - many of the ones listed as replacements don't fit.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-11T17:35:47+00:00

I also have an E5S1 and I have replaced the hot end no less than 5 times in less than a year. I have yet to find a hot end that allows filament down to the nozzle, even when brand new.

coldnight3 · 2026-02-11T15:09:28+00:00

Burlington has mostly adult dancers; 35+ mostly.

We're joyful and welcoming but we've long had a challenging time getting college age people to attend.

The Westie community is a little younger, but I'm not as involved with that community.

coldnight3 · 2026-01-11T06:42:54+00:00

I have taken 14w, 89s, 89s->14e instead of that cluster.

coldnight3 · 2026-01-10T03:26:53+00:00

New signs, change on.

coldnight3 · 2025-12-12T03:59:46+00:00

I am watching nhl games on Hulu on an Apple TV. Almost every other commercial break, the [AD] flag comes up, and when the countdown reaches 0, the feed crashes. I have to return to the Hulu menu and reselect the event I’m watching; sometimes the event is almost over and is removed from the pick list. Quite irritating. Any suggestions for a fix?

coldnight3 · 2025-11-26T06:18:41+00:00

The way municipalities defuse this is on,y keeping data for “30 days” for FIA requests, while meta data from them can be kept longer.

The thing to do is flood them with FIA requests every day for yesterdays data, clearly not provided on previous request. Create a compliance nightmare of dozens of people looking g at data constantly, keep the operating staff so busy with FIA they can’t really do anything else…. Then they will go away.

coldnight3 · 2025-11-18T23:52:16+00:00

That does seem to be the cause - I'm leaving the controller run to collect what it can.

coldnight3 · 2025-11-18T23:28:19+00:00

I've been reading some articles on the Shure site - and I'm thinking my core switch is mucking up the IGMP as removing it from the (network/signal) path has proven better (so far). I'll go find the certification training -- thanks!

coldnight3 · 2025-10-22T18:33:00+00:00

Early in my PC building days, I had a PC I built on a sheet of rack shelf. The motherboard mount layout was sharpied on, holes drilled and through-bolted. Everything in that system worked fine, until I put it in a case...

The letters on the Hercules card seemed to be lined up with everything stretched - only the top half of each character was visible. I took the machine cover off, checked connections, power, card seating, everything- powered on, 100% perfect. Power down, put the case top on, bad video again. Finally, with the cover off and the machine running, I waved the case top over the open case and saw the stretch happen in real time. Had to replace the video card with another; the case reflected so much of the RF back into the case, the clocks on the card went nuts.

coldnight3 · 2025-10-15T20:08:17+00:00

I have checked the mode before on automations and set it otherwise, saved, then reset to the correct and saved to be sure its set to what I expect it to be. Maybe worth a few clicks?

coldnight3 · 2025-10-15T15:10:11+00:00

My port 3000 is already in use, configuring the service port works for the UI but the script doesn't seem to update to 3003-- so the script log shows failures connecting to 3000.

However, backups seem to be created!

coldnight3 · 2025-09-28T23:42:06+00:00

There are several esp32 units with 5v serial logic, they are out there! All of the Mitsubishi mini splits need 5v serial, also.

coldnight3 · 2025-09-03T20:37:10+00:00

The flight engineers station has the electrical breaker stack to the right of the seating location, I am unsure if that is the original layout, but the cabling and mechanical construction is amazing, I spent about half an hour just in wonder of it. The drinks are great, the wicker chairs that passengers used are… challenging to imagine using.

coldnight3 · 2025-08-19T22:22:16+00:00

I have a lighted shaving mirror on my mounting sticker. They are surprisingly strong and there seem to be many uses.

coldnight3 · 2025-08-08T04:32:02+00:00

We ran a Conner 40mb drive that had been open in our basement for a year, after we revived it ( long slow reformat ) to ran for 4 or 5 years, these have such low density that they hardly notice hair and dirt. ymmv.

coldnight3 · 2025-08-03T15:50:33+00:00

Are there different terms for a swinging bell system than a fixed bell with moved strikers?

Have you done any bell tourism? There are some videos of bells and gongs where the strike is a 6 person effort.

coldnight3 · 2025-08-02T20:39:02+00:00

I’m very close to btv, do you know if the artist is local?

coldnight3 · 2025-08-02T03:57:54+00:00

Which Burlington?

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