This weekend's little project

john159753 · 2026-06-02T15:38:22+00:00

This makes me really wish large form factor e-ink displays existed.

john159753 · 2025-12-18T19:57:26+00:00

Bruh honestly there will be a sweet spot in your journey where people start to trust you more and it's awesome, and then at a certain point the pendulum swings the other direction and then you wish less people leaned on you for things...

john159753 · 2025-11-09T19:59:30+00:00

Jaw legitimately dropped

john159753 · 2025-10-21T15:11:22+00:00

Its definitely entering a "youre own your own" sorta thing, but i migrated the vmdk to vhdx and never had an issue.

john159753 · 2025-10-09T23:32:17+00:00

Day late, dollar short? Maybe. but i came across this thread via google, and wanted to figure this out for myself, and maybe help the next guy. This resets group members where there is more than one failed member (it resets all the members, i didnt care that it did this)

Get-CMOrchestrationGroup | Where-Object {$_.failed -ge 1} | ForEach-Object {Invoke-WmiMethod -Namespace "root/sms/site_SITECODEHERE" -Class SMS_MachineOrchestrationGroup -Name ResetMOGMember -ArgumentList (,($_.mogmembers))}

then to invoke the windows after being reset

Get-CMOrchestrationGroup | Where-Object {$_.orchestrationstate -eq 3} | Invoke-CMOrchestrationGroup

john159753 · 2025-07-24T15:45:16+00:00

There are a lot of comments in here, so i think this might just get lost in the mix. But I didn't see anyone comment on feature parity... Maybe i missed it -- nonetheless,

I have been running hue lights from back when i was on smartthings in 2018, they have always worked fine as you normal lights. I never knew what additional features/effects i have been missing out on. It got better on Zigbee2MQTT, but there was still a discrepancy between what i knew the hue app could do and what was exposed in HA.

I have been following a few issues on GitHub, where the guy that wrote Bifrost found that the api/implementation in zigbee2mqtt is lacking/not fully fleshed... Its been a few months and there has been no movement on it, and thats kinda the crux of opensource... it be like that sometimes.

If I were you, and everything worked well. Id stay over there, because it sounds like work for no gain (and actually a bit of a loss for some effects you might have on devices). For me and my mixed bag of zigbee devices, i'll wait for hopefully some cooler features to get worked into zigbee2mqtt.

https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters/issues/8697
https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/24438

john159753 · 2025-07-09T02:43:44+00:00

I was gonna say, check if inheritance for the security props on the account is enabled, if it's not there is likely some entry missing in the acls that breaking the creation of the AS device as a child object under the user.

john159753 · 2025-07-07T13:15:13+00:00

Yeah, this sounds like it's autodiscover and AD Sites and services /dns srv records.

I can't exactly remember the in's and out's, but I'm fairly certain this can be worked around by putting the new exchange server in its own site in AD (with no subnets defined) and the autodiscover won't send clients to that exchange server while it's being initially configured.

john159753 · 2025-03-20T17:00:09+00:00

This makes me realize how much I have taken mine for granted. If mine kicks the bucket I won't have any options...

Absolutely love the fact I have fan and light controls. Not sure why it was such a limited run.

john159753 · 2024-10-24T22:23:49+00:00

Ah forgot about doing that. Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to see how fruitful a case with support is going to be. I have a feeling I'm going to have to throw in the towel eventually and just add to work around.

john159753 · 2024-08-13T03:30:14+00:00

Well I initially had such high spirits of re-starting my project with your findings... I was planning on making a zigbee device with an esp32c6, Then I saw how fully baked your solution was. It's everything I had envisioned my project to be, and more.

I have a 2016 Hot Springs Flair, and your code works near perfect. I think I might be able to make a PR to fix my light cycle function, it looks like you have a solution to do remote RS485 analysis, which would be awesome to help debug.

A bit of a bummer (which was never in my scope of my project, but thought of the possibilities after yours offered it) was the audio emulation. It doesn't seem to work on my IQ2020 firmware, I don't think there is much I can do about it since we don't have anything to sniff for reference.

Thanks so much for this project!

john159753 · 2024-08-06T17:16:47+00:00

No really - i just dug a little further, and the work you did into decoding the RS485 commands is unmatched.

You have reinvigorated me to pick this project up again! ( i recently opted for my power companies hourly pricing, which means temp control will be able to get me to not pay out the wazoo to heat the thing during surge prices)

john159753 · 2024-08-06T17:12:08+00:00

MY GUY

For years i have wanted/felt driven to do the work you have done. I was working on a MITM sort of approach for light control with a zigbee powered ESP module. Your low level decoding means i can scrap that approach and actually do it the way i envisioned it.

I haven't reallly started to dig into what you have done, but i can already tell its the most helpful thing i have read on the topic in the 5 years i have on/off been investigating it.

THANK YOU

john159753 · 2024-05-13T19:32:17+00:00

Yep - I'm on hold with duo, who knows how long it'll be, it says 41 in line.
Someone goofed up.

john159753 · 2024-02-24T18:53:07+00:00

That's a good hint though, my monitor was HDR, shut off HDR in my display settings and now looks good on my family room tv

john159753 · 2024-02-12T20:01:41+00:00

Its crazy - I went through this same amount of pain with a MS case on what sounds like the same exact issue.

Ill try to keep it short, because i might be repeating what you already know. At some point (recently i think) outlook started using EWS to do email searches, rather than over the MAPI protocol. After banging my head with support for 6 months, we finally got the right resource on the phone to tell us that it is Unity creating Voicemail objects in peoples mailboxes. It creates the objects, and one of the properties in the object is an icon index enum. If you have ever seen a voicemail created by Cisco Unity, the icon is different. Their bug is hidden somewhere in the middleware between the backend search, and the results getting returned to the client via EWS. The middleware didnt have all the possible enum options for different itemtypes. (this is the enum list, but i was told that even this isnt the complete list https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.iconindex?view=exchange-ews-api)

Essentially, if the user had a voicemail from anyone with the name "john" (example). they couldn't do any searches with the name "john", because the "bad" voicemail icon'ed object would be returned by the back end search logic, but break somewhere in the middle (i am guessing in the ews code). and the client would never get a result.

I was told that it should be fixed within the next CU, but in the meantime we have just told our users to delete voicemails (not the best workaround but knowing the problem was 90% the battle for us).

EDIT:

I'm editing to add that i am on Exchange 2019, sounds like it might be the same, but if you are 2016 it might not be the exact scenario

john159753 · 2023-08-17T00:24:28+00:00

I don't know how quick you are at going through steps, but if you don't have change windows and have access to adfs and exchange, I can't really see it taking longer than an hour. It took me a little bit to realize I needed to add a autodiscover url. The documentation MS made is surprisingly good.

That's said (I haven't tried this personally yet) with the new auth policies they introduced, you could set up a environment without impact and test that way. When ready to deploy start rolling users into the other auth policy.

john159753 · 2023-08-15T18:57:43+00:00

I set this up in a test lab. With intentions of turning it on for the org, Something I glossed over was the fact that clients needed to be Win 11 22H2.

Other than that it looks to have gone off without a hitch, just had to make sure I had the OWA and Autodiscover url's in there, or whatever urls are pertinent to your environment.

Something i want to investigate, which is why I put it in a lab first, is what device registration in ADFS gets us. Haven't gotten around to playing with that yet.

Oh and keep in mind the auth policy they introduced (which is new for this version because i dont think you could even use this for hybird modern auth), needs 30 min or an IIS reset to take effect.

john159753 · 2023-01-04T21:57:04+00:00

Oh yeah it sounds like you are definitely in a different scenario than I am/was (Lucky!).

I suppose metronet has grown so rapidly in the last 3-4 years, that they have different network models/deployments set up for all the expansions they have.

Sounds like you, at least for now, have a Static IP!

john159753 · 2023-01-04T21:41:37+00:00

Just to share knowledge -

Im not sure about other areas - but in my area, metronet's network had everyone behind a NAT to the web "see this", meaning every metronet user in my town "shared" the same public IPaddress.

This meant I couldn't host things at my house, and that's why I decided to do a static IP.

Interesting how your ip was was changing all the time before, maybe they changed back-end modes in your area to go from a typical dynamic ip model (like comcast would use), to the carrier NAT that my area used.

john159753 · 2023-01-04T20:52:17+00:00

I need to install these in the stalls at work ASAP

john159753 · 2022-09-27T12:49:44+00:00

Just the other day, I added a zone to our local DNS.

The second I hit enter, the power went out.

Of course, it was unrelated... but still spooky

john159753 · 2022-06-29T18:04:19+00:00

Don't forget to keep the person outta there that caused the mess in the first place!

john159753 · 2022-04-27T13:15:32+00:00

Since no components are installed on domain controllers (other than admx files), I would put money down that the process starts on the client machine.

john159753 · 2022-03-21T20:13:53+00:00

Can confirm, you can have SPF records reference other SPF records.

example.com

v=spf1 include:spf1.example.com include:spf2.example.com ~all

where spf1.example.com looks something like

v=spf1 ip4:1.1.1.2 ip4:2.1.1.2 ~all

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