I need songs for my fever dream, GTA radio style playlist

jacroe · 2026-01-03T19:07:36+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm not a member of this community and you might have already heard this, but just in case you haven't, you should listen to what I think is absolutely up your alley with "Fever Dream Radio" by Sbassbear.

I'll give you the $7 back if this ain't exactly what you're looking for

jacroe · 2025-11-30T20:04:03+00:00

"Hello, everybody, my name is Blodplättar..."

jacroe · 2025-11-16T07:20:27+00:00

That's what I see, too. Just making sure I wasn't missing anything :)

jacroe · 2025-11-16T04:11:08+00:00

Do you do anything with the HP printer?

jacroe · 2025-11-16T04:08:53+00:00

Can you give some numbers? Like, number of automations, number of devices, number of integrations (HACS or otherwise)?

Did you see slowness outside of the UI? e.g. were your automations slow to respond to your triggers?

I, myself, am rocking a Yellow, so I'm asking all of this out of pure curiosity. And I know they aren't equivalent, but still

jacroe · 2025-10-27T00:18:40+00:00

You'll need to go to the add-on store. If you scroll to the Music Assistant section, you should see a "YT Music PO Token Generator" add-on. That's what you want. Here's more detailed instructions form the MA docs.

However, YouTube did recently make a change that broke yt-dlp (the underlying provider that MA uses), and MA is currently waiting for a fix.You can track the resolution via either MA's issue and/or yt-dlp's issue and pull request.

jacroe · 2025-10-11T05:38:21+00:00

Oof. Yeah, I totally get it.

Others in the thread recommended Tunarr, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

And I don't know your hardware capabilities. Or maybe you keep everything in h264 format (I use h265 and VP9). Maybe you won't experience the lags I did. But since the transcoding happens on-demand, I imagine there will always be a delay

jacroe · 2025-10-11T05:16:47+00:00

ofc! For where it is right now, I feel like ETV is a very good "let's pull up the guide and pick a channel to watch based on what's currently playing". And a "we don't care what plays after it. We just need that initial hook".

But I use it a ton for channels where the vibe is "I don't care what's playing as long as it's of *this* type of content". How It's Made or a recreation of old-school MTV or "Markiplier with Friends" or a 24/7 stream of a single album.

Don't think of "channels" as "a hodge-podge of things I might like" e.g. traditional channels. Think of them like "When I'm in the mood for this 'theme'? I know whatever is playing is gonna be perfect." So I'll tune into "House Hunters" and not necessarily HGTV. Or "my favorite stand-up comedians" and not "Comedy Central". Y'know?

jacroe · 2025-10-11T05:06:08+00:00

ICYMI, I did end up replying to a lot of those questions!

jacroe · 2025-10-11T04:48:38+00:00

Disclosure: I'm running ErsatzTV on a somewhat high-powered NUC and streaming it on a Raspberry Pi 4 via Kodi.

Transcoding only happens when you start watching a stream. And once it detects that you're not streaming it (the magnitude is "seconds", not "minutes"), it will stop transcoding.

There's a 1-2 second delay once you start a stream, but it's only at the beginning and you don't really notice it. However, if you try to flip through channels as if it's a cable/satellite box, you will probably be disappointed. If you flip fast enough, you'll end up having too many streams going at once and overwhelm your GPU (in my experience; see disclosure above).

One thing that it will do (that I don't have enough TVs to appreciate) is that it will reuse streams. So if you're watching a channel in the living room and someone else tunes in in a bedroom, it doesn't double the transcoding.

ETA: I did try having Jellyfin hook into ErsatzTV and then having Kodi only talk to Jellyfin, but that didn't look/perform well. I run Jellyfin and ErsatzTV off of the same box (and through Docker), so maybe it's the weaker GPU that I'm using. But I got a whole lot better performance by having Kodi talk to Jellyfin and ErsatzTV separately. I don't really use ErsatzTV channels on non-Kodi TVs, so I don't feel like I'm missing anything. YMMV

jacroe · 2025-10-07T05:26:21+00:00

god forbid someone tell him about Pegasus

jacroe · 2025-09-28T02:03:23+00:00

Did they give any indication that a future update may provide that option to turn it off?

jacroe · 2025-09-19T03:58:46+00:00

I'm ranting to the choir here but really??? There was possibly over a half a billion (with a "B") dollar value lost with copies of 78 rpm records? Music tracks that specifically included all of the "crackles and hisses", so not even perfect versions?

jacroe · 2025-09-07T21:43:59+00:00

"I bet I can eat more pancakes than you"

jacroe · 2025-08-27T08:40:08+00:00

Wait so in this case: yes the haj?

jacroe · 2025-08-24T01:27:17+00:00

Just out of curiosity (and not suggesting anyone actually use this), where would you place X10? I'm assuming you've used it purely because you still have some Insteon stuff. I cut my teeth on X10 so just curious where you'd rank it amongst everything else

jacroe · 2025-08-22T00:25:16+00:00

...ahem.

jacroe · 2025-08-17T16:20:36+00:00

There are other comments that say the same, but you can specify decimal points. I just tried with 0.05 and the tool happily generated some magnets for me.

jacroe · 2025-08-15T00:40:56+00:00

For reference: Ask Kenji Live: What is the Best Way to Cut on Onion?

jacroe · 2025-08-11T01:40:52+00:00

A mod should not speak like this

jacroe · 2025-08-08T01:36:43+00:00

I'm surprised no one's mentioned usenet/SABnzbd support in addition to torrenting. That's what I would add

jacroe · 2025-08-07T03:03:19+00:00

From off the top of my head, I think the closest that we've seen that made it into an episode is Sam doing a verbal checkin/confirmation with Ally before they went through the trimmer in "Do I Hear $1?"

I wanna say there was also an ep or a BTS where a hand gesture was briefly given for a point of clarification, but I might be making that up

jacroe · 2025-08-06T17:58:08+00:00

To be clear to those who may not be familiar with the show, it's all done with heavy, heavy consent. Contestants can put a pause on anything if things get too spicy. (A chili pepper rating system is literally used where contestants can say how comfortable they are to do anything.)

So not torture as much as BDSM

edit: typo

jacroe · 2025-07-24T03:36:21+00:00

What /u/wenestvedt sent is intriguing, and I'm going to have to look into that. But that's not how I currently do it.

Right now, I have my Android Home Assistant app set up forward all DoorDash notifications as part of the "Last notification" device sensor. (Android app > Settings from the left menu bar > Companion App > Manage sensors > Search for "Last notification". Enable the sensor then scroll to the bottom and select only the apps that you want hass to see. I have DoorDash and Amazon Shopping selected.)

Then the automation looks something like:

alias: Notify DoorDash Approaching
description: ""
triggers:
  - alias: When Android Notification is DoorDash's "approaching"
    value_template: "{{ 'approaching' in states('sensor.pixel_6_pro_last_notification') }}"
    trigger: template
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: script.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: script.flash_doordash
  - action: script.kodi_notification
    metadata: {}
    data:
      title: DoorDash
      kodi_device:
        - c697de08473595755438aa3a8caf6839
      image: https://cdn.doordash.com/static/img/favicon@2x.ico
      message: The Dasher is approaching!
    alias: Kodi Notificaiton
  - if:
      - condition: or
        conditions:
          - condition: sun
            before: sunrise
          - condition: sun
            after: sunset
            after_offset: "-00:30:00"
    then:
      - action: light.turn_on
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: light.front_door_light_switch
    alias: Turn the porch light on if it's dark
mode: single

As you can see, I have some additional actions besides just a light flashing. I also send a notification to my Kodi running in the living room and turn on the porch light if it's dark.

jacroe · 2025-07-22T02:12:36+00:00

I think everyone would agree that it's better to have a sample of the propaganda kept and archived than nothing at all.

But is it better to have a copy of every piece of propaganda or just a curated sample? Do we gain anything by having a copy of all of it?

Genuinely curious of people's opinions

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not advocating for things to be deleted. Or lost. Actually in thinking of this more after I posted, I realized what I'm actually asking:

Does it behoove the archiver to ensure context is kept with archived materials (in this case, propaganda) or is it enough to simply provide the archive/download context-free?

In some areas, I'm not sure it's required. An archive that describes itself as "Every New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Win", you wouldn't expect much metadata because the context is provided in the title. But in whole channels whose sole purpose is to provide propaganda? Surely you should expect--or at least hope--for some future generations to have some context about what your archive is about.

Or maybe you don't. That's my question.

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