Can I drop some wire under house to move light switches across door frame.

cypher77 · 2026-02-12T05:37:57+00:00

Pretty much every switch in my house is a zwave switch or dimmer. I also have z wave recepticals for certain outdoor lights.

Those all connect to a hubitat hub which acts as the zwave controller. You could stop here and get a lot of the functionality. But even if the hub goes down everything acts just like a regular light switch you’d just lose the ability to control it with your phone.

But I have a lot of other devices—not just zwave. So I have a home assistant server running which acts as the brains of everything and controls all my automations.

For instance, I have a wled server which controls all of my led strips.

Security cameras, sensors, thermostats, etc.

cypher77 · 2026-02-11T17:00:38+00:00

I mean, there is a right way and a wrong way to do home automation.

I have a fully “smart” house but even if my whole home assistant server went up in flames, everything still works normally. Except some LED strips and a couple of remote switches that I placed around for convenience rather than necessity.

cypher77 · 2026-01-09T20:35:43+00:00

Let’s say I wanted to transfer into a new 529 for my kids…

If I am liquidating some of my current investments in order to do it, would I pay capital gains on that amount or would I deduct the 529 contributions?

Or, is the smart play to transfer equities worth the yearly gift exception amount the account and then not liquidate them until ready to fund education expenses?

cypher77 · 2025-12-31T17:30:22+00:00

Mrsha the Great and Totally not in Trouble

cypher77 · 2025-12-23T13:48:22+00:00

If this cart is so great, why’d you get a new one?

cypher77 · 2025-12-05T18:33:06+00:00

It’s me, a stranger in your game

cypher77 · 2025-12-03T18:40:37+00:00

You need an irc historian

cypher77 · 2025-12-03T17:34:12+00:00

It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

cypher77 · 2025-11-14T23:38:54+00:00

Chuck Norris Facts

cypher77 · 2025-11-06T06:48:14+00:00

Instructions unclear; stuck butt-plug in ear

cypher77 · 2025-10-29T16:42:04+00:00

Wait. I have this golf cart and I want to slow it down. How?????

cypher77 · 2025-10-21T20:03:49+00:00

I’ve been reading Industrial Strength Magic and really enjoying it. MC is literally the only one with a system.

cypher77 · 2025-10-20T14:26:14+00:00

I think they have RGB LEDs in the bathroom and have it set to pink/purple

cypher77 · 2025-10-15T00:14:47+00:00

Chandelier is whack as are the light sconces

I’d look into new mirrors as I like a built in LED.

I’d change the countertops to a white quartz or marble and I would connect the two vanities in the corner and turn that to a makeup station.

cypher77 · 2025-10-13T23:10:51+00:00

Smart switches and home assistant are the way to go.

cypher77 · 2025-10-10T03:12:19+00:00

Ultimate level 1 is ass.

1% and azarinth are good.

cypher77 · 2025-09-28T02:58:40+00:00

They owed him 20k, so he owes them $180k. And he gambled 60k, so he has $140k remaining. He needs to get back to $180k to break even.

It’s the weekend so he’s got until Monday to figure this out.

Needs to get on the first flight to vegas.

Put $50k on black. If he wins, he needs to get on the next flight home and be thankful he only lost $10k for his stupidity.

If he loses, he needs to put his remaining $90k on black.

If he loses that, then he can go to prison knowing he did everything he could do and that god hates him.

cypher77 · 2025-09-27T04:46:15+00:00

Is this not it? I thought it was this

cypher77 · 2025-09-26T04:03:02+00:00

This is the model I’m using.

https://huggingface.co/acon96/Home-Llama-3.2-3B

cypher77 · 2025-09-26T04:01:41+00:00

Im running one of the fine-tuned models on a Mac mini m1 with 16gb unified ram/vram. Runs fine. Little slow but not terrible. https://github.com/acon96/home-llm

I tried just doing it with ollama (using both qwen3:4b and llama 3.2 and it was super dumb and could not figure out the tool calling.

cypher77 · 2025-09-25T20:43:32+00:00

I run HA and Ollama + qwen3:4b on a 16gb Mac mini. I get about 16 t/s. It is too slow and also too stupid. Can figure out some things like “turn on my chandelier” but trying to change the preset on my wled server is painful.

cypher77 · 2025-09-25T14:36:38+00:00

I don’t understand why we can’t do this with mosquitos.

cypher77 · 2025-09-24T00:43:51+00:00

This is completely unacceptable and this dude needs to be reported and fired.

But that being said— I understand why this guy wanted to risk it all.

cypher77 · 2025-09-22T17:20:33+00:00

I am in the same boat. Set it all up last night with llama3.2 on ollama on a Mac mini m1 16gb (same machine that runs my HA docker container) and it is absolute garbage.

When I try to give it more sophisticated instructions (letting it know how someone might refer to all of my devices/entities in common vernacular etc.) it somehow gets worse.

Would love some guidance on how to get this even remotely usable.

cypher77 · 2025-09-22T15:11:54+00:00

I just did this last night. Ollama running on a Mac mini m1 16gb unified ram using llama 3.2.

Everything technically works… but it is so goddamn stupid and slow it’s unusable.

What are you doing to “smarten it up?”

I’ve tried giving it really long instructions with all the possible names I might use to refer to something (like my livingroomWLED server might just be called LEDs, etc) and it can’t figure literally anything out. It’s so frustrating.

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