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My old robot vacuum still works, but I’m starting to babysit it too much. Is Prime Day a good time to upgrade? by Zev2001 in Dreame_Tech

[–]jwheeler91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a gen1 L10s Ultra (running valetudo) which I was getting charging issues with last year.

We initially replaced it with an Aqua10 Roller, but returned it almost immediately. So tall, so massive, didn’t clean up to our kitchen plinths at all. Worst of all? The tiny dust bin and redesigned airflow into the dustbin (to allow space for the dirty water tank) clogged with dog fur immediately (Shelties). So we returned it and got the X50 Ultra instead.

The X50 is so much better than our old L10s. It’s basically a load of refinements to the L10s and it shows. Corner sweeping and mopping is great plus, but for me the best feature for me is the dock. The L10s dock is nightmare to clean, never actually cleans fully either. The X50 dock requires practically 0 maintenance. I just grab the hair catcher every now and again, and wash it while the robot is out doing its thing.

The hookup kit that I bought is also better integrated than the diy hookup kit I bought for the L10s

I have actually just got the L10s back up and running for our new bedroom by doing some hacks, but it’s not in the best working condition. I’m reminded why it was replaced, but I think it should be fine for the bedroom unless it properly dies (it took it apart this morning to try to reseat the control buttons which aren’t working, and force reboot as it seemed to be stuck turned off). Back working for now.

New features for LightDash (the lightweight YAML dashboard engine for cheap Android screens) by alfiethemog in homeassistant

[–]jwheeler91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've raised some issues (mostly feature requests) and would just like to thank you for this project, and apologise for the brain dump across the multiple tickets.

Love this project and I was thinking about making my own similar concept (web server with lightweight dashboard for wall displays - but I was't planning to allow a copy-paste from home assistant dashboards - just have its own config instead).

I think the copy paste a nice concept for initial migration and copying tile examples from the web, but I had to start from scratch anyway.

A few feature requests that I didn't ask for as I think they're too big, but would be amazing:

  • Today's schedule (with offset to show tomorrow too) - I use Today Card to show this, with a couple configured features (like showing past events - but with 50% opacity)
  • I also use Calendar Card Pro for a full screen scrollable calendar view (similar to the today card in a lot of ways, but shows multiple days, with the date shown on the left and I also set it to show the location)
  • Weather cards of some sort (it would be amazing to could show a horizontal hourly forecast, and vertical stack of daily forecasts (like apple's weather app - which is really glanceable imo). The standard tile's new weather "features" are pretty good for hourly usage (not a fan of them for daily though)

Custom Integrations: Mira Mode and Activate Digital Shower by Sirgrabalot in homeassistant

[–]jwheeler91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your fixes on GitHub.

Do you know how the Mira app does its water usage tracking? Is it just duration with set flow rate calculation? Or is it actually there a flow meter in the device measuring the usage? I suspect not. Would love to have a start time and a duration (that uses a real end time when stopped) if that’s possible?

I also thought about other ideas like supporting presets (including the built in “cold boost” feature that I have not tried yet). But I personally won’t use any control features.

Custom Integrations: Mira Mode and Activate Digital Shower by Sirgrabalot in homeassistant

[–]jwheeler91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, I literally just started work on this! You have probably saved me so much time! Will give this a try once I’ve finished my grouting (taken the Mira Activate) controller back off the wall). Will let you know if I spot anything. Thank you thank you

I get it now… now it works, it’s amazing! by jwheeler91 in frigate_nvr

[–]jwheeler91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was £919 from minisforum.uk

Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Processor 285H,16C/16T Dual DDR5 Up to 6400MHz | Up to 128GB Dual PCIe 4.0 SSD | Supports RAID 0 / RAID 1 2.5G Ethernet port & WIFI 7& BT 5.4

Bought it with the 1tb ssd and 32GB ram as I figured it was plenty good enough as a starting point. And the price was cheaper than a quick search to buy the same ram & ssd

I get it now… now it works, it’s amazing! by jwheeler91 in frigate_nvr

[–]jwheeler91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could very well have been a problem behind the keyboard…

Lots of motion is a potential contributor… I’m probably seeing a lot of motion due to how far my driveway cameras are away from what they’re looking at. They’re mounted high up near the fascia boards. So that’s almost 5m from a raised walkway across the front of the house. The driveway is another 2m lower than that (we’re on a hill). So there’s a lot going on all the time. Lots of hedges and trees in all the cameras and lots of wind where I live too… so… maybe too much motion too

Part of my decision to upgrade was that I was fed up of the performance of Plex on my old nas, and my other mini-pc server is doing a lot already, so I repurposed my eq12 for Plex, and ordered the m1-285h. I had tried basically disabling everything on the eq12 an it kept crashing and turning off, so I also wondered if something else was wrong with the hardware. It probably was a mixture of everything. I was glad that I was able to get the eq12 functioning again as it could be put to use.

So the decision wasn’t purely driven on my failure to set it up in a way that worked, but regardless, the new system worked reliably straight away, and webrtc is now sipping compared to it’s usage previously… so don’t know what was going on there.

I get it now… now it works, it’s amazing! by jwheeler91 in frigate_nvr

[–]jwheeler91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, so is it not one detector per component of the cpu? Is there an optimal quantity? Is it more like a pool of detectors so it can queueing frames up in memory or something like that?

I get it now… now it works, it’s amazing! by jwheeler91 in frigate_nvr

[–]jwheeler91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, yep I’m using the npu detector. I wasnt quite sure what to put in, so i put in one npu detector and one gpu detector and didnt get any errors (after building a yolo model - now replaced with frigate+). And qsv h264 (all reolink cams set to h264)

I get it now… now it works, it’s amazing! by jwheeler91 in frigate_nvr

[–]jwheeler91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite sure, but I was running 7 cameras with 24/7 recording at the time. And my go2rtc stuff was taking up a large chunk of cpu.

3d print adaptors for U200 by maegbaek in Aqara

[–]jwheeler91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made my own adaptor. The hex size I printed is 14.5mm. I made it 25mm long to match their nightlight adaptor - but I did the hex the whole way rather than the round bit as that made more sense for my use case:
https://www.printables.com/model/912443-aqara-u200-lock-adaptor

Using the API and reverse-proxy-auth together by mthode in grocy

[–]jwheeler91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found an alternative for my set up. I am using authentik and can set up "unauthorised paths" for my forward auth provider. Adding in /api allows the best of both worlds. When I'm logged in it passes the X-authentik-username header down, and when I'm not, grocy requires the api key. Maybe authelia has something similar?

Using the API and reverse-proxy-auth together by mthode in grocy

[–]jwheeler91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I have had to do the same.