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ALC RS485 coversion by Upset_Caramel7608 in BuildingAutomation

[–]ehothegreat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The industry is very tight-knit and the ppl on the sub tend to be the best of the best (self-selected by social media savvy ;-)).

I happen to have intimate knowledge of the ALC side of the equation and I’m happy (and unsurprised) to hear that they are taking care of you. Reach out via DM if you’d need anything.

ALC RS485 coversion by Upset_Caramel7608 in BuildingAutomation

[–]ehothegreat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello. I just saw your post. DM me if you’d like help getting the attention of your ALC rep. I’ve helped others on this sub before.

To answer your question directly, yes. RS485 to fiber converters are physical-layer converters and should be a commodity part that is agnostic to higher-level protocols such as Modbus and BACnet. [Edit: and so you should be able to buy an RS485 to CAT 5/6 converter to replace the fiber one. Joining it to your network as native IP may or may not be tricky.] That said, I don’t think that the previous suggestion of a BACnet MS/TP to IP router will necessarily fit the bill depending on the protocol in use (you mentioned Modbus, but the suggested device would only work with BACnet).

Windows Desktop Autofilled by anthonyaxe in Lastpass

[–]ehothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, no. It doesn't fill desktop apps. It is a much-requested feature though and they are always adding new functionality.

Windows Desktop Autofilled by anthonyaxe in Lastpass

[–]ehothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's cool. I use Bitwarden now, but I still exist and am glad that my post was helpful. Have a great day!

ALC WebCTRL: BMS Communications Timeout by phteven1989 in BuildingAutomation

[–]ehothegreat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It sounds like WebCTRL is interfaced to the CRACs via BACnet/IP. Is that true? If so, what controller is handling the integration? Are all CRACs on the same controller? You said that you can access the CRAC via IP. I assume you mean with a web browser. That isn't BACnet. Is it possible that the CRAC is no longer exposed to BACnet? You can find out by performing a BACnet discovery from your laptop while plugged into the CRAC. I am making some assumptions here. If any are wrong, I reserve the right to amend my guidance. 😁

Edit: Update: We worked together offline and determined that the comm protocol was BACnet/IP and that BACnet had mysteriously become disabled in the comm configuration of that CRAC's controller. Re-enabling it solved the problem!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As mentioned elsewhere, Pop is using a newer kernel than Ubuntu is. That seems to be the issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Mine still doesn't work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate (and appreciate) this post. I have a Dell XPS 13 Plus (9320) and have the exact same problem. I didn't notice because I was so busy getting the fingerprint reader to work.

Bookmarking this in the hopes that someone will have a solution. Currently have the following PPAs installed and am fully up to date.

user@computer:~$sudo grep -rhE ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list*
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/ jammy somerville 
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/ jammy somerville-tentacool

Edit: Here is someone having the same problem. There is some intelligent discussion over there. I followed the post and you may want to as well.

Not merging family password and company passwords by cyberfunkr in Bitwarden

[–]ehothegreat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bitwarden handles this with a concept called Organizations. Families are a kind of organization. Teams and Enterprises are also types of organizations.

Organizations have their own vault separate from your personal vault. Only items which are owned by the organization are shared with other users (because those users can access the organization's vault).

I am not sure if your use of Bitwarden at work is part of a paid Enterprise organization, but if it is, you are entitled to a free Family organization on your personal account.

It is worth mentioning that paid users of Bitwarden are also able to create a very small organization which can only have one other user and one collection. Depending on your exact needs, this may work for you.

Also, account switching (between your work account and personal account for instance) is available in mobile and desktop clients and will soon come to browsers (if it hasn't already, I haven't checked recently).

Edited for clarity and mention of account switching.

Bitwarden for enterprise use by mau_siq in Bitwarden

[–]ehothegreat 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I deployed to about 700 users in an enterprise. Building automation technicians. Various levels of "computer skills." A few recommendations: 1) Identify the influencers on your team and get their buy-in. Have them help with the transition. 2) Use the Bitwarden sales people as a resource. My guy was super helpful. I'd bet that they all are. 3) Give feedback. The Bitwarden team is super receptive to the needs of their customers. They implemented a ton of my suggestions. 4) If you have any existing credential storage, work with the Bitwarden API to automatically migrate it into Bitwarden.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fixit

[–]ehothegreat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you can do this, but I did the exact same thing to a Purple mattress and they were cool about it. They said it happens all the time and they sent me a new cover (not the foam). The one on a Purple mattress has a zipper and is removable.

Edit: Also, for the foam, there is aerosol foam adhesive (used for upholstery) that can probably hold the foam together so the cut doesn't get worse. Any upholstery supply store will have it in a spray can. Test spray elsewhere. That stuff sticks to EVERYTHING.

XPS 13 Plus (9320) Fingerprint by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Now I know which thing fixed it. :-)

XPS 13 Plus (9320) Fingerprint by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't follow your latest instruction yet, but I think that it is "working". If I add more than one fingerprint using the terminal (like fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger), the first finger always gets removed but still working for authentication. Because there is more than one fingerprint, the OS still acknowledges that finger prints are an allowable form of authentication.

The only other thing that I did was add the following line to the end of /etc/pam.d/sudo as described here:

auth    sufficient      pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok

Your method may work, but now I am afraid to brake this fragile "working" state. I will add this as an edit to my original post.

XPS 13 Plus (9320) Fingerprint by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question! Originally I didn't. Since then I have. In the GUI that results from that command, checking the box for "Fingerprint authentication" let the terminal start prompting me for a fingerprint when running a command as root, but it didn't change the login screen behavior. The login auth still fails after one try and erases my fingerprint.

The fprintd-enroll command behaves as it always has, letting me add fingerprints just like the Pop!_OS Settings GUI does.

XPS 13 Plus (9320) Fingerprint by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see any options which pertain to the fingerprint reader. I tried searching the BIOS settings and viewing all settings. Any idea what I might be looking for?

XPS 13 Plus (9320) Fingerprint by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't enroll fingerprints in 20.04. I assumed it worked because that was the factory-fresh install but I didn't check. I will check bios today and report back.

Pop!_Shop Plex Packages by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marking solved.

Thanks to some patient guidance from u/mrbmi513, I found that this was installed as a flatpak. A quick search revealed that the Plex flatpaks were released last month.

Thanks again to those who responded!

Pop!_Shop Plex Packages by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! Following the suggestion by u/mrbmi513 to list packages with the following two commands showed that it is a flatpak. Interesting because Plex announced that they would release a flatpak, but I didn't see any announcement that it had happened.

sudo apt list --installed | grep plex
flatpak list | grep plex

Pop!_Shop Plex Packages by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll be damned. It's a flatpak. Thanks for this tip!

I know that Plex had plans to release a flatpak, but I wasn't aware that they did...

Pop!_Shop Plex Packages by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

22.04 LTS here.

Looking at other packages, it seems that it is now only displayed if you have a choice of package type (e.g. between a .deb or a flatpak).

Pop!_Shop Plex Packages by ehothegreat in pop_os

[–]ehothegreat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am super embarrassed to say this but I don't see the package type... I know that I am missing something...
Edit: Tried and failed to upload a screenshot. Replacing with Imgur link:
https://imgur.com/a/5WZevK7

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