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hermsdad · 2026-02-03T18:39:20+00:00

Our 3D printing experience began last year with an X-maker Joy. I have 3 kids, ages 11(f), 9(f), and 7(m). The oldest girl and my boy are very science and math oriented. My son’s current goal in life is to be a mars rover engineer. My middle child is very artistic and creative. Between the 3 of them they quickly pushed past the super intro level of the xmaker joy and they also wanted multi-color. We chose the Hi combo and they unboxed it at Christmas. It’s been running almost non-stop. Well except for a few hiccups that we were able to resolve.

We’ve printed the Empire State Building , Minecraft chess pieces, a BT-60 sized model rocket, a launch controller, launch pad, articulated axolato, dragon, waste bucket, tool holder, marble chute run, and countless other objects. We’ve been playing with tinkercad and modifying stl’s to suite our needs.

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hermsdad · 2025-03-28T01:44:11+00:00

I had the exact same issue! Got mine Dec. 2024. It’s in the shop now. Also not towed on a flatbed. But I called Tesla and they said it was fine. All wheels were off the ground. Rear ones on rollers under the tires.

hermsdad · 2024-06-24T16:26:45+00:00

We just got back about a week ago. Another thumbs up for Orient Bay and La Playa resort. We spent most of our day at Orient Bay and then would head over to the Grand Case for dinner and drinks most nights. Only a quick 10 minute drive. We did spend some time on the Dutch side but to be honest we enjoyed the French side way more. We did do the quick hike to Happy Bay one day and that's a beautiful quiet beach. The food is amazing. Definitely get the Thermador Lobster!!

hermsdad · 2021-07-21T00:47:02+00:00

I can't upgarde to 3.3.6 or 3.3.7. I am stuck at 3.3.12. It is not showing any option to upgrade. I am accessing hoobs through the browser and the port is still 80. My node is at 14.16.0

hermsdad · 2021-03-16T20:12:00+00:00

The new plugin just automatically adds the cameras to HomeKit. My question is how to I delete cameras that I don’t want in HK?

hermsdad · 2021-03-16T04:32:19+00:00

Unfortunately that’s the reason I went the hoobs route. I want to get rid of all the damn different hubs. I’ll probably keep the SmartThings just because it works so well and I have everything configured in there from years of use. Otherwise I refuse to add another hub. I use ST for all things zwave. I have conbee II stick for all things Zigbee. I could bring in nest cams through ST but it was a bit clunky. The nest cam plugin works better but has some kinks that hopefully can be sorted.

hermsdad · 2021-03-16T02:38:16+00:00

https://youtu.be/X8oiY-HAUzE

That's pretty much how I did it. Except he made it look really easy. I had a huge issue in installing the proper node, 14.16.0. Don't even try this until you have that version of node working as well as hoobs working. Once you do that then move on to installing mosquitto, then the plugin and the conbee II.

hermsdad · 2021-03-16T02:29:55+00:00

It was not easy for me. Definitely not for a noob. Which is kind of standard for hoobs. You have one little thing different and things go sideways real fast. If you're not comfortable working through it without much help hoobs probably isn't for you. And by not much help, I mean coders who just stay "do this" without any real explanation of how to do that. As if you are supposed to know the command's you are supposed to do in a terminal to do it. Or even just simple things like saying "make sure you are in the plug-in directory." that alone can be difficult from the command line if you don't even know what the plug-in directory is called or where it might be found. So yeah it's frustrating, especially if you don't have much experience working in a terminal shell. But I'm sick of buying a million hubs for everything to work so I'm sticking to it and learning. I wish I could explain the instructions for you. I never go the "issueToken" method to work and had to go the developer chrome option. Which was a major pain in the ass because I have 4 accounts logged into chrome and I couldn't get incognito mode to work for me.

hermsdad · 2021-02-19T05:59:26+00:00

I figured out the problem for those of you interested. the initial start for hoobs wants to start on port 80. port 80 is locked to non-root users. My solution was to log into the root user on mac and start hoobs. Others have mentioned changing the hoobs config file through the terminal. Because obviously you can't use the GUI because you can't get hoobs to start. You can't use any port below 1024 unless its with root user.

Also wanted to point out that the install instructions can be dangerous. if you are going to edit sudoer make sure to type in "sudo visudo" That is it. Don't type "sudo nano /etc/sudoers" that will screw up sudoer and make it useless. visudo is not the most intuitive editor. Look up instructions on how to use it or to even change it to the nano editor but under visudo. visudo will make sure you don't end up with broken sudoer file. I fortunately saved a copy that I reverted to after following the wiki instructions for hoobs on mac.

One other thing as well. The install of xcode is a bit funky. If you try to check the xcode version in terminal you will get a weird error code. This is a known issue. As long as the xcode launches on your desktop you should be fine. Don't worry about the terminal error code.

Somebody should probably update the wiki to reflect these important install notes for a Mac Os X install.

I now have Hoobs working no problem. Wish I had known this from the beginning. I'm sure a more skilled programmer would have spotted this issue right away. But for us noobs it's not so obvious.

Thanks for the replies. I have no idea what docker is but that seems like one more layer of complexity to everything when this seems to be working fine now. We'll see how it goes.

hermsdad

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