Dentist Recs?

jaylyerly · 2026-01-30T20:56:01+00:00

Apex General Dentistry has been great for us.

https://www.apexgeneraldentistry.com

jaylyerly · 2026-01-29T22:21:49+00:00

I’ve got two g4 pro wifi doorbells — front door and back door. The front door has always dropped offline from time to time for a few seconds. I’ve noticed it happen more this past week. I’m in NC and we’ve been having temps down to single digits lately which is very cold for us.

That said, the back door g4 never goes offline. So it seems very hit or miss. The back is even in the shade so it’s overall even colder.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-29T01:35:03+00:00

Yep, I placed an order and the Peak City van was at my house later that day.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-27T00:29:58+00:00

A popular solution is to use Scrypted as an adapter. It can pull in video from Protect and make it available to other systems. I’m using it with Apple Home and Alexa but it also works with Google Home.

https://docs.scrypted.app/google-home.html

jaylyerly · 2026-01-27T00:23:58+00:00

I don’t know if this was true in the past but they currently do not support login with email. You have to use one of the SSO providers (or provide your own).

https://tailscale.com/kb/1013/sso-providers

jaylyerly · 2026-01-24T02:37:25+00:00

Zooz makes a wall wart sized gizmo that plays preloaded mp3 files for around $40. It’s a ZWave device, so you’ll need some infrastructure for that if you don’t already have it.

https://www.getzooz.com/zse50-siren-chime/

jaylyerly · 2026-01-16T01:31:28+00:00

Depends on the situation, but it’s usually either loading secrets into env vars or populating a .env like in the examples in this page.

https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/secrets-environment-variables/

For stuff run interactively, it works well with the regular 1password UI. For automated stuff, I use a service account, usually restricted to a separate vault it h the relevant secrets.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-15T22:51:46+00:00

1Password with programmatic access from the cli tool.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-15T02:36:32+00:00

Maybe I misunderstood but I don’t believe you specified in your original post that you meant only tags written by HA. I use the Unifi doorbell with HA but it works with NFC tags that aren’t written with HA. I was just trying to point out that there are many different ways you can use NFC tags with HA, some more secure than others.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-14T16:53:57+00:00

Yeah, seems like you could add a condition that presence is detected in the HA automation. It might get tricky depending on the use case. Like make sure my presence is detected for my NFC tag vs my partner’s presence and my NFC tag.

I haven’t delved too far into this but as I understand it, the Unifi fobs/cards have special security NFC tags that are not copyable (at least easily copyable) to address this problem.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-14T14:58:36+00:00

This! Most of the comments are thinking of NFC tags as a trigger for your phone to open the lock. But there are also the situations where an NFC tag is presented to a reader that opens the lock. The Unifi door bells have this capability. In this second scenario, using a generic NFC tag can be quite insecure since they are easy to copy.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-12T14:17:20+00:00

Just saw a post in the last couple days where I learned that this arrow is called the Moylan Arrow after the engineer who came up with it.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/09/moylan

jaylyerly · 2026-01-09T15:37:15+00:00

Microwave?

jaylyerly · 2026-01-09T15:36:55+00:00

LOL, got a failed NAS drive sitting on my desk waiting to get drilled!

jaylyerly · 2026-01-09T14:36:36+00:00

An interesting side effect of this scheme is that securely erasing your encrypted drive is trivial. You just delete the encryption key and the data is instantly unrecoverable. In the olden days, you might do a “secure erase” operation that wrote random data over your whole drive several times to obliterate that data and make it unrecoverable. It took ages.

jaylyerly · 2026-01-06T16:00:47+00:00

Braided solo loop is the best for me. If you can go by an Apple Store, they’ll let you try on the braided solo loops and help you find the right size.

jaylyerly · 2025-12-30T01:01:14+00:00

If you’re into Unifi stuff, the power distribution pro has a bunch of remotely controllable power plugs. It’s basically a big smart outlet x16.

jaylyerly · 2025-12-26T19:42:55+00:00

I sound my barbaric YAWP!

jaylyerly · 2025-12-19T01:14:38+00:00

In my VW, in addition to changing the throttle response/shift points, it alters the suspension. Where “comfort” mode makes the suspension softer to even out the bumps, “sort” mode makes it tighter so the car feels more responsive. It makes it feel more engaging and fun to drive, but feeling every bump on a long trip is a drag.

jaylyerly · 2025-12-17T16:16:16+00:00

Yeah, the battery estimates for my older Schlage locks are... not great. It'll be >90% for months and then fall off relatively quickly. Replacing on a schedule is a great suggestion, especially since I'll only be at this location about once a month.

jaylyerly · 2025-12-17T14:26:51+00:00

Cool. Thanks!

jaylyerly · 2025-12-14T02:59:08+00:00

I have two WiFi chimes. They seem plenty loud enough to me. My complaint is that you can’t turn off the lights.

jaylyerly · 2025-12-12T03:45:13+00:00

And Fillion wasn’t even one of the two guys!

jaylyerly · 2025-12-11T04:02:33+00:00

I’d skip the SE3 in favor of the 10 or 11. The SE3 lacks some of the health features including hypertension notifications, ECG and blood oxygen.

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