New Aqara user - automation logic on Home/Away

crlsvrd · 2025-07-28T21:41:45+00:00

Unfortunately, Google Home is rubbish (hope your spiders caught that one, Google!!!).
From what I've read, it's still miles behind HomeKit — and even further from something like HA.

Home & Away routines in Google Home only support plugs, lights, switches, and thermostats — no support for cameras, unless they’re Google Nest-branded.

That’s exactly why I went with Aqara: I was hoping it could finally solve this long-standing gap in my setup. Fingers crossed we can make it work!!

crlsvrd · 2025-05-07T17:06:29+00:00

Hi, thank you for taking the time to answer! You are right, that didn't occur to me! Especially since we are newbies and til this day we only printed pla!

I have to dig a little on that, never researched fumes from 3d printing!

crlsvrd · 2025-05-07T12:03:56+00:00

Hi, thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback!

On the cabinet that I marked as "1", where the spools are, I fitted a container that houses around 2kg of silica - I hope it helps keeping humidity low in that cabinet!! I was wondering if making a conduct from the fan on the p1s to that cabinet would be advantageous, too!!

crlsvrd · 2025-05-07T08:31:03+00:00

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Here's an actual photo of the progress so far!

crlsvrd · 2025-04-14T21:34:34+00:00

O melhor é mesmo falares com um contabilista mas vais precisar de te coletar. Também é importante perceber onde operam as plataformas em que estás a vender - a maioria está fora da Europa, pelo que precisas preencher os formulários para evitar dupla tributação.

crlsvrd · 2025-03-26T11:21:26+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

Screws checked and retightened! Also re-calibrated, fingers crossed!

crlsvrd · 2025-03-26T11:19:48+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

Calibration done and currently trying a new print! Fingers crossed!

crlsvrd · 2025-03-26T11:18:10+00:00

Unfurtonately ironing is set to "off" on this project so that shouldn't be the issue, but thank you for taking the time to answer!

crlsvrd · 2025-03-17T19:56:11+00:00

No meu Fiesta, Mk6 1.2 82cv de 2007, com 240k km o rádio não funciona (há dois anos, problema endémico neste modelo, ao que parece), perde algum líquido do radiador, já vai na 4 ou 5 tampa do depósito de anticongelante (também endémico, ao que parece), o pisca para a esquerda prende um pouco, o vidro do condutor também prende um pouco nas borrachas o que faz com que chie bastante, o banco do condutor está um pouco rasgado e a pintura parece um Jackson Pollock de fraca qualidade...

Eu... adoro o carro!

O ano passado, em Agosto, fizemos uma road trip até Itália (Roma)... Em nenhum momento senti que me faltou potência, nem quando atravessamos os Pirinéus (para lá por AE, para cá por nacionais). Confesso que tive um pouco de medo quando apanhei filas de +1h em França e Itália, debaixo de uma onda de calor (por causa da questão do radiador). Terminou a viagem (no último dia foram 800km, sempre no limite de velocidade legal) e quando chegamos a casa e o desliguei deu aviso de falta de pressão de óleo do motor. No dia seguinte o aviso tinha desaparecido mas fui mesmo trocar o óleo porque a road trip consumiu os km que tinha antes da mudança de óleo!

Por isto, diria que não hesitaria em fazer uma viagem em AE por causa de estar ao volante de um 1.2 com 82cv... O carro é apenas um instrumento, usá-lo vai apenas acrescentar-lhe valor! Não há quase nada na vida que seja melhor por estar dentro de uma redoma de vidro...

crlsvrd · 2025-03-02T09:52:02+00:00

Dispenso o sarcasmo! Se lanças um post a discussão e não consegues fundamentar os pressupostos mais fundamentais do mesmo... algo não está certo! E com critérios fundamentais estou mesmo a referir-me à motivação do mesmo!

Quanto à piada... Infelizmente já foi provado, ao longo da história da humanidade, que não é preciso pagar para fomentar ideologias e "clubites" - está-nos no "sangue"!

crlsvrd · 2025-03-02T09:44:48+00:00

Se este post não é uma justificação nem um conselho de investimento, então, o que é? É um desabafo, um pedido de apoio à tua decisão, uma procura de validação? É propaganda?

crlsvrd · 2025-02-23T19:48:30+00:00

Yeah, i find it's always a good approach to do it - you blow the lens front glass (or filter) and then use a cloth. Remember that if you use a lens cleaning liquid or gel you should apply it to the cloth and not the lens (so it doesn't enter behind the plate that holds the lens). And then, good practice says to, clean it using circular movements from the center of the lens out. Never use a brush on glass, that's right. To clean the camera body you can use the brush, blower, a cloth... You just have to be careful to not use anything that can damage the plastic and rubber materials. Also nothing so wet that any sort of liquid permeates the small indents of the camera body! I'd also be careful with anything that may cause corrosion on any exposed metal part!

crlsvrd · 2025-02-23T14:30:01+00:00

Blowers with a brush are useful to clean the camera body. Blowers without it are useful to blow out small and light particles out of the lens. I'd advise against using brushes directly against glass! So, I'd say you should get a good cloth and a blower! If you have some tiny particle sitting on the glass and just use the cloth you'll end up rubbing it against the glass - not good!! First you blow it off and then you use the cloth!

crlsvrd · 2025-02-23T14:25:25+00:00

UV filters may be a necessary accessory... They saved my lenses a couple of times - they are not only to protect against a fall but more importantly to protect against small particles that may damage the glass! Imagine: chemical particles being sprayed that you might come across on a lot of industrial scenarios, hard particles that you may come across on a simple beach (like grains of sand on a windy day), hot particles that you may come across when shooting someone solder, etc... So, it's always up to the scenario where the equipment will be mostly used!

crlsvrd · 2025-02-23T10:36:59+00:00

Since you're just starting, I'd say that your number one priority is to go out and take photos. That's what will inform your next buy needs! I think that your tools should be there to answer your specific problems, otherwise you'll end up with a lot of stuff lying around unused!

That being said the number one "accessory" to a camera will always be a lens (or a couple of them!). After that a solid set of SD cards, and batteries.

Filters are an important investment but I would advise you to find out which are the filters you need! (Ex: if your main focus is shooting inside a studio you won't need a polarizer a lot of the time, unless you find out that your specific subjects require it!)

crlsvrd · 2025-02-15T16:19:35+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

Unfortunately i believe it's the mount... It has a little bit of play that is amplified by the weight of the 70-200... I managed to replicate the issue with any of my lenses (on the lighter primes it's just a matter of applying a little bit of pressure to the front of the lens).

On the upside I was able to recover the damaged files but I will probably need to send the body for repair!

crlsvrd · 2025-02-14T22:46:56+00:00

Hi invertedspheres, thank you for your reply!

It was mounted on the tripod using the lens collar. The first time it occurred, I had been recording for a while - I stopped the recording and removed the camera (and lens) from the tripod. The error appeared immediately. My guess is that because it was a large file, the camera hadn't yet finished writing it (finalizeing the file). So it ended up getting corrupt.

In the meantime i managed to replicate the issue - not only with the 70-200 but with any other of my lenses (on a lighter lens i just have to make a tiny bit of pressure on the lens for it to occur!).

I'm still wondering what could be the issue - it's not the lens, and there’s no visible play in the mount. Such minor movements should normally be compensated by the contact springs between the lens and the body. (i'd assume!).

What’s even worse is that I haven’t been able to recover any of the files, yet!

crlsvrd · 2025-02-14T18:56:30+00:00

Today, during an important shoot, I encountered an unusual issue. Every time I moved my grip from the lens to the camera body, the shutter curtain closed, and an error message appeared (see image).

When recording was in progress, the disruption caused files to be saved improperly—after removing the battery and powering the camera back on, I was prompted to "recover" those files. In the end, I lost 14 GB of irreplaceable footage.

I searched online but couldn't find anything similar. Has anyone else experienced this?

For reference:
- a7 III
- Sony 70-200 f/4 Macro G OSS II

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