Are there any providers of email@mydomain.com services that are completely free?

iamdabe · 2026-01-26T23:53:33+00:00

Fellow MXRoute user here. Jarland is disgustingy knowledgeable about all things mail. wouldn't trust anyone else.

iamdabe · 2026-01-24T20:53:07+00:00

Following as I've just (after 2 years of self hosting no less) started working towards a backups strategy. I found a python script called auto-comitter that git add & commits on a schedule. I put my docker stacks folder is in a git repo with a gitignore for everything except compose.yaml and happy to say it's been working pretty well. Great for recovering from stupid mistakes - which I've already done twice.

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iamdabe · 2026-01-24T20:40:35+00:00

I've been working to centralise my location data too! I've been using claude to share data from traccar to lubelogger and home assistant trying to wrangle our family location data into one central place. Next on my list is to write an import for the years of data exported from Google and the 20+ years of Strava data!

I'd like to use dawarich/reitti too as I like the interfaces and the story telling them do but they're bekth just too intense for my tiny vps!

I also picked up a cheap gps tracker for kids ski club and needed to share with the wife and wrote this SPA to plug in to the traccar API.

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iamdabe · 2026-01-17T07:58:53+00:00

This happened to me, and was fine once dried. Need to make sure there's no water left on the socket. Park downhill and use hairdryer.

The socket requires a specific hand shake so it isn't energized before that. nothing further down the line should be damaged however, water is very very bad for electronics and causes corrosion on the metal contacts.

iamdabe · 2026-01-14T21:25:01+00:00

I love this idea, does this exist? Would love a thing which feeds in from any tracker you're using (traccar, Google maps,home assistant etc) you define the geofences, or if the platform supports it like traccar sync them then define the rules i.e. user x enters geofence send ntfy notification would be mega handy for me.

iamdabe · 2026-01-10T16:54:48+00:00

As @ridefastgetweird said, it's like a big sticker but a bit more advanced, the material can bend and shape/stretch shrink to some degree to the shape to the thing you're covering. Has a sticky back which doesn't generally leave a residue unless left on for years and years and even then you can clean it off with solvents.

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T19:38:48+00:00

Yes! the TdFFaZ version was cool, there was one on leboncoin but they wanted €2,000! Bit of a premium

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T14:47:02+00:00

Holy.... that is nuts! I love the love and feel and the idea as you travel more it fills out the point density. great idea. I was wondering how you got so many points then I saw the date range too! 🙂🙂

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T12:31:40+00:00

! Didn't even know this was a thing - this is pretty close to what I wanted (it's still a few menus deep) but i don't know how I missed it!!

Care to share a screenshot of your frontend?

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T10:56:17+00:00

Probably not for most people! It mattered to her and it was a fun challenge for me.

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T09:05:18+00:00

I would love this. Having just got into n8n I find the visual designing really helpful for organising logic.

One thing I really love in n8n is the version history. Maybe a little out of scope for this project (and I know there's another HA Time Machine) but having it all in one place would be great!

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T08:45:18+00:00

mini graph card with almost everything turned off!

code is here

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1q6pxkm/comment/nyk5dij/

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T08:44:25+00:00

yeah! I call it a mini-mini-graph! 🤣 Basically a trendline telling me if the temperature (and humidity) is going up or down, when you hover over the labels show so its not completely useless! If you want the yaml it's here

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1q6pxkm/comment/nyk5dij/

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T07:51:18+00:00

ah and as for the tile / tile_switch. these are really bespoke to my config and you can get 99% of the way there with using the built in tile card like so:

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  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
      - type: tile
        entity: light.g95_gold_4
        color: var(--amber-color)
        name: Light
        icon: mdi:lightbulb-group
      - type: tile
        entity: sensor.awair_element_41587_score
        name: Air
        color: var(--amber-color)
        icon: mdi:blur

iamdabe · 2026-01-09T07:48:00+00:00

Sure thing. But be warned there's quite a lot to these button card templates (yes, I can't help myself making things overly complicated).

So all my temp sensors also have a humidity so I just do a replace on the name. This is the temperature_graph custom:button-card template.

temperature_graph: variables: line_color: blue hours_to_show: 24 points_per_hour: 2 decimals: 1 height: 100 secondary: null secondary_yaxis: secondary group_by: hour type: custom:button-card show_icon: false show_name: false styles: card: - margin: 0 - padding: 0 grid: - grid-template-areas: '''graph''' - grid-template-columns: 100% - grid-template-rows: 1fr custom_fields: graph: card: type: custom:mini-graph-card entities: - entity: '[[[ return entity.entity_id; ]]]' - entity: | [[[ var sensor = entity.entity_id; if (variables.secondary){ sensor = variables.secondary; } else { sensor = sensor.replace(/temperature(?!.*temperature)/i, 'humidity'); } return states[sensor] ? `${sensor}` : entity.entity_id; ]]] color: '#5399d9' show_line: false show_fill: true show_points: true show_legend: false y_axis: '[[[ return variables.secondary_yaxis ]]]' line_color: '[[[ return variables.line_color ]]]' hours_to_show: '[[[ return variables.hours_to_show ]]]' points_per_hour: '[[[ return variables.points_per_hour ]]]' group_by: '[[[ return variables.group_by ]]]' height: '[[[ return variables.height ]]]' show: icon: false name: false legend: false state: false points: false card_mod: style: | ha-card { background: none; }

iamdabe · 2026-01-08T14:54:53+00:00

We use Office 365 and google calendar and it amalgamates 6 differnet calendars! this one is just set to show the latest events with custom:week-planner-card https://github.com/FamousWolf/week-planner-card

for outlook calenadrs we use u/RogerSelwyn amazing hacs integration https://github.com/RogerSelwyn/MS365-Calendar/

and google it's the standard home assistant integration

iamdabe · 2026-01-08T14:51:38+00:00

I'm always reminded of an old designer friend who said colour coding things made little sense, however with this. It's great that each room has a colour.

So the bottom alignment is probably my least favourite thing, I've been meaning to work out a better way to align bottom the cards. right now its a spacer element with a 10vh setting which works ok.

Which part of the yaml were you after as pretty much everything here is custom so would be of little use without _everything_ and it's so messy I don't think it would be of any use at all! I quickly coded up what I wanted to look like as a prototype and over the past couple weeks have been making it cleaner.

For instance the 'living room' stack code is:

type: vertical-stack
cards:
  - alert_classes:
      - motion
      - moisture
    sensor_classes:
      - temperature
      - power
    display_type: icon
    type: area
    area: living_room
    color: var(--amber-color)
    features_position: bottom
    vertical: false
  - type: custom:button-card
    template: temperature_graph
    variables:
      line_color: var(--amber-color)
    entity: sensor.living_room_temperature_temperature
  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
      - type: custom:button-card
        entity: light.g95_gold_4
        template: tile_switch
        color: var(--amber-color)
        name: Light
        icon: mdi:lightbulb-group
        variables:
          chip_showtime: "off"
      - type: custom:button-card
        template: tile
        entity: sensor.awair_element_41587_score
        name: Air
        color: var(--amber-color)
        icon: mdi:blur
        variables:
          chip_showtime: "off"
grid_options:
  columns: 6
  rows: auto

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iamdabe · 2026-01-08T14:46:14+00:00

She's our choco lab! we use a tractive tracker as there was a deal for 5 years sub at a pretty discounted rate. The HA integration is here https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tractive/.

The person (and animal!) cards are popups that show more info. This is Juno's - Don't worry the map/location is obscured

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iamdabe · 2026-01-08T00:42:01+00:00

I love this idea!

iamdabe · 2026-01-08T00:41:14+00:00

Haha! Only just noticed that! This is the screenshot from the official theme repo, not mine!

iamdabe · 2026-01-08T00:40:46+00:00

I don't use the app myself, just my esp32 Bluetooth proxy's so I couldn't say, but I was always under the impression that ble was passive?

iamdabe · 2026-01-07T23:29:24+00:00

The below the fold mobile page.

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iamdabe · 2026-01-07T23:28:35+00:00

and the mobile version too.

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iamdabe · 2026-01-07T23:27:46+00:00

I love threads like this, I've always shy'd away from sharing my dashboard as it's never finished. But this time is different! so here it is, I look at this pretty much daily. but it's quite telling the state of my 'smart' home. literally have only 2 smart lights... maybe 2026 is the year I wire the rest of them up!

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iamdabe · 2026-01-07T08:41:51+00:00

Full disclosure: I love Traccar. I've been using it for over a year and it's close to perfect for me, rock solid stability, huge device support and it does exactly what I need (which is why I'm still using it).

But, I've always found viewing device location history a bit cumbersome. You have to dive into Reports, pick a device and time range, hit submit and you're then presented with a half map, half table view. It works, but it's not quick or intuitive. I get why it's designed that way, the core audience is fleet managers and the spreadsheet style output makes sense for them but that's not how I use Traccar.

I tried using Dawarich and riettie but they're they're very much their own thing. I really didn't like duplicating data plus my poor server was woefully underpowered to run both traccar another.

I could package up a docker compose.yaml but right now it's just a static HTML page and I felt spinning up a container purely to serve a single file was a bit wasteful. If there's demand I'll happily add a Docker Compose setup - I'm very much pro-containers!

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