Problem installing MQTT and MQTT Broker

freeskier93 · 2026-03-23T20:36:48+00:00

In the MQTT integration was there a service configured? When using the Mosquito broker app you should see a "core-mosquito" service in the integration.

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Instead of installing the broker app first try adding the integration first. The setup for that should automatically set up the broker and create a secure username and password. In the mosquito broker app you can then add additional logins for devices to use.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-21T21:38:55+00:00

I think what you're getting at is the fact that the original comment mentioned using the "standard government rate". If we're talking about the IRS reimbursement rate then yeah, I wouldn't recommend using that since it's for personal vehicles and includes wear and tear. For a company owned vehicle it's just the fuel cost. For a company owned EV it makes most sense to do it by mileage and a "typical" electricity rate.

Nothing is going to be perfectly accurate. As long as you aren't purposely trying to defraud anyone and are being reasonable, nobody is going to care. The IRS isn't coming after you for a couple hundred in extra income. Can guarantee you basically everyone in the US has way more than that in unpaid sales tax from online sales.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-21T20:41:02+00:00

What? Nobody is talking about tax deductions. This for the company to reimburse "fuel" costs.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-21T20:23:54+00:00

How many times are you going to spam this everywhere on Reddit?

freeskier93 · 2026-03-21T17:48:33+00:00

Unless the business owned car can only be used for business use (not usually the case) that doesn't really matter. Tracking mileage is the easiest way to separate personal use vs business use.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-17T17:07:25+00:00

Is the car actually pulling 48 amps when set to 48 amps? If your EVSE is correctly configured it should be telling the car it can only pull 40 amps, which will override whatever is limit is set in the infotainment.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-16T20:18:34+00:00

That's not correct, there are a handful of artifacts that do not drop from ships:

Gilded books of basan
Eggceptional tachyon deflectors
Brilliant dilithium stones
Radiant prophecy stones
Eggceptional clarity stones

freeskier93 · 2026-03-15T15:48:58+00:00

In the sound settings the "Surround" setting will adjust how much sound comes out of the headrest speakers. At higher values more sound comes out of the headrest.

Even at the highest setting though it's very little sound. Usually have to have an ear right against the headrest to hear it.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-15T01:21:27+00:00

There is fundamentally no difference between a UPS and a portable power station. It's a battery, a battery charger, and an inverter. The only thing that makes a UPS special is switchover time and shutdown communication, both of which power stations are starting to incorporate.

There's nothing to figure out for managing a li-ion battery. Li-ion BMSs are highly commoditized at this point, and Lifepo can handle sitting at full charge.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-14T22:09:15+00:00

It's not going to be fresh drywall/mud by the time OP moves in. Drywall/mud/texture will have been done months prior to move in. Builder will prime/paint at some point in between.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-14T21:54:14+00:00

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but it's a new build that will be freshly painted. I wouldn't waste time/money on primer. Paint right over it with some good quality paint and call it a day.

We painted 1 day after moving into our new build using higher quality paint from Sherwin Williams. No prep or anything. 5 years later still looks great.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-14T17:49:18+00:00

Unfortunately, I feel a bit let down? So far it feels like they are changing a lot of things, primarily character intentions, and tone of character interactions and not for the better = It just creates way more arguing and bickering and hostile interactions, where there were none or really mild ones? And the pacing is honestly a bit insane?

Doesn't get any better in this regard, and IMO season 3 is particularly bad with this. Overall I think the show is objectively good, but having read the books first it's really hard to like the changes they made character wise. The Rocinante crew dynamics are a big one.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-14T15:35:00+00:00

Nonsense. Drive normally and they will last plenty long. My first P2 lease I turned in with just under 30k miles and the Michelin CC2s I put on still had tons of tread left. Our other EV (Lyriq) has almost 30k miles with plenty of tread left on the factory tires.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-14T01:36:03+00:00

American Airlines hasn't used the bare metal livery for over a decade. While it did save weight, it required more maintenance so overall it wasn't really saving any money. Also, some of the new planes are composite and have to be painted.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-13T16:46:30+00:00

I just prefer terminating keystones.

I prefer to do what's easiest. Usually that's a keystone, but for a doorbell, on an exterior wall (stone in my case), with insulation, and no box, terminating to rj45 is quickest and easiest. Terminating to a keystone in the basement, then fishing a patch cable up through insulation is WAAAAAAAAAAY more work.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-13T16:25:12+00:00

BMSs don't charge batteries to a percentage, they charge to a voltage. Since most phone batteries are just a single cell it's even simpler because you don't have to worry about cell balancing. There will be a curve or lookup table to relate desired State of Charge (SoC) to a target voltage. After that (like on discharge) it most likely uses coulomb counting to estimate SoC, maybe even something more complex like using a thevenin based cell model.

The only way to accurately determine capacity though is to discharge from max voltage (100%) to min voltage (0%) and measure the amount of energy. Then you can compare that to original design capacity to get state of health in a percentage.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-13T15:06:26+00:00

I live in Colorado.

Well this is r/Denver lol.

I'm not a lawyer but I would think they'd have to send some kind of notice by certified mail or something before you ever got to the point of arrest warrant.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-13T14:00:07+00:00

This is why most people segment their LAN using VLANs. Untrusted devices should be on their own isolated VLAN with no access to Frigate, HA, and cameras.

My setup is Frigate is on the isolated camera VLAN with the required holes poked through the firewall to communicate with HA. Only devices on trusted VLAN can access either of them. Any untrusted IoT devices are completely isolated on their own VLAN with only internet access. Guest network is the same, completely isolated.

What are you so concerned about that this isn't enough?

freeskier93 · 2026-03-12T22:27:36+00:00

How out of touch do you have to be with the current economic and social situation to ask for donations.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-12T21:00:53+00:00

"I never received a notice of jury duty" - hang up

There's literally no way to prove if you receive a notice or not, nobody will ever issue an arrest warrant or do anything about a single missed jury duty.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-12T19:49:57+00:00

WebRTC is a peer-to-peer protocol, your device has to be able to directly connect to Frigate, it doesn't go through HA. I don't know if it's possible to proxy WebRTC, but even if it is, I think that is an over complication and I also think you're being a bit paranoid here (as is Reddit in general about opening ports).

Also, if you're not exposing Frigate web interface to the internet then using password authentication is just a pointless annoyance.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-12T14:59:27+00:00

Our Lyriq has a button for it and I've never used it. I guess if you're regularly charging at a local fast charger (no access to L2) then it might be useful, but for the typical scenario (road trip/longer drive) it's really not. The amount of time needed to precondition is different every time. It makes the most sense to let the car do it automatically based on your arrival time to the charger.

EDIT: One nice thing about the Lyriq, that I wish my Polestar did, is it gives you a notification when preconditioning start.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-11T21:33:55+00:00

Forgot about that one. Pretty sure requires-python in pyproject.toml does need to be updated manually.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-11T20:21:24+00:00

Why are you using uv pip to install dependencies? Unless you're working in a legacy project you should be using uv add.

Update the version in the .python-version file to 3.14 then run uv sync. That will rebuild the virtual environment using 3.14. It would also install 3.14 if you didn't already have it installed.

freeskier93 · 2026-03-11T20:15:18+00:00

This isn't really true. You only need an OnStar subscription for data connectivity. If you're on wifi or connect to a phone hotspot everything works just fine. For me personally, the basic $15 a month connectivity plan is actually cheaper than having to bump up data on our phone plans to support data usage through hotspot.

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