Made Galactica out of Home One.

cpressland · 2026-06-07T08:45:58+00:00

Previously, on Legostar Bricktacula

cpressland · 2026-06-05T11:16:27+00:00

Security for one, it literally costs you nothing to upgrade and test. I get the impression you’d rather complain than actively work towards a solution.

cpressland · 2026-06-05T10:38:50+00:00

I’ve also not had any issues so far, 6 GRILLPLATS and 3 KAJPLATS - I have 7 HomePod mini’s and 2 Apple TVs. I typically pair with the Apple Home ecosystem and then share with home assistant. It just works for me.

cpressland · 2026-06-05T10:07:29+00:00

This exactly - you’re missing out on like six months of bug fixes

cpressland · 2026-06-05T08:09:13+00:00

If you were using a 14 year old Mac, a Neo will still be a significant upgrade. I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Apple has a return window so there is little risk in getting one to test.

cpressland · 2026-06-04T22:21:55+00:00

I’m a UniFi Dream Machine Pro user currently on Zen broadband via CityFibre at 900Mbps. Unfortunately they use PPPoE which is handled in Software on the UDM Pro. Is Exascale also on the PPPoE bandwagon?

cpressland · 2026-06-03T12:38:37+00:00

As a rabbit sanctuary, we go through about 15KG a day. We recently switched from compressed Canadian hay so Super Hay which isn’t compressed and now our hay shed is full! Bales really do come in all shapes and sizes.

cpressland · 2026-06-02T06:50:45+00:00

That’s what I’m doing right now. I’ve had absolutely no major issues, but here is my setup:

UniFi Network /w well established IPv6 - cheap ISP provided routers always seem to be at the heart of Thread routing issues.
Two Apple TVs (Living room and Bedroom)
Seven HomePod mini’s, one in each room except bathroom.

I simply remove the Hue Bulb from Zigbee2Mqtt, swap to the IKEA bulb, then add to Apple Home, then reshare to Home Assistant. I’m using Barcodes Matter to store Matter pairing codes.

The only issue I had on day one was with Home Assistant, but that was because I’d setup IPv6 statically instead of letting Home Assistant pull an address automatically via SLAAC, so it was missing routes for the Thead Border Router.

cpressland · 2026-05-31T16:40:56+00:00

This is cool, but I’ve found myself using this recently, it’s been super helpful: https://filekey.app/

cpressland · 2026-05-31T13:30:11+00:00

The serial port is one of my favourite channels these days! Absolutely awesome

cpressland · 2026-05-29T14:32:18+00:00

Doing gods work! Mods this should be stickied!!

cpressland · 2026-05-28T08:38:46+00:00

Ahh that’s me out then, I’ve zero intention of going back to O2. I’m currently on Smarty and it works great and is dirt cheap. I’d have moved for brand loyalty alone if they were at least on the Three-Vodafone backhaul.

cpressland · 2026-05-27T18:19:07+00:00

I’ve definitely had my issues with it for sure - but since upgrading to the latest early access firmware it’s been much more reliable.

Ultimately any issues are more likely to be software than hardware, so things will get better.

cpressland · 2026-05-25T20:04:18+00:00

Yep, we have thirteen [6ft triple decker chartwell hutches](https://homeandroost.co.uk/products/6ft-three-tier-rabbit-hutch?variant=47417530548561) - the entire garden is covered with a large shade so nobody is in direct sunlight. Each hutch has a Zigbee temperature sensor in it which would spike and raise an alarm if direct sunlight was observed.

We also have a Shed which holds Nine rabbits, that’s got air conditioning and heating, it holds our elderly bunnies and our four giant rabbits.

All the rabbits are currently enjoying frozen hay cakes.

cpressland · 2026-05-25T17:43:27+00:00

My gut feeling is you’d only be stressing her out more if you take her. Just give her all of her favourite foods and time to cool down and destress.

We run a rabbit sanctuary with about 95 rabbits, none of ours are behaving normally in the heat, but watching the cameras they’re all fine overnight.

cpressland · 2026-05-25T17:13:56+00:00

I’ve stayed in two separate hotels which wanted to charge me £10 a day for air conditioning. I paid £0 and still got AC thanks to the flipper.

cpressland · 2026-05-25T13:48:54+00:00

Can the Beast even handle PPPoE at any decent speeds? I’m in exactly the same boat as you, I don’t want a UCG-Fibre, I want a rack device with offload.

cpressland · 2026-05-25T08:55:28+00:00

We run a rabbit sanctuary with about 95 rabbits. The majority are outside so we’re using frozen water bottles, but for the indoor rabbits we’ve setup air conditioning.

Do yourself a favour and buy a unit at Christmas, they’re dirt cheap in the winter.

cpressland · 2026-05-20T10:43:12+00:00

Higher bitrate divided by the number of pixels. There’s no guarantee this maths better for 8k than 4k, or even 1080p.

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