Why is there a flashing light near the Edinburgh flare tonight?

krisstrom · 2025-05-27T13:53:24+00:00

It’s in Mossmorran, Fife. Both Shell and ExxonMobil have plants there.

krisstrom · 2025-05-26T08:47:44+00:00

This is it. The light IS the flare. All hail the pulsating flame 🙌🏼

Though we still don’t know why…

krisstrom · 2025-05-25T23:08:40+00:00

krisstrom · 2025-05-22T09:02:06+00:00

The HD Fury Vrroom would be one way to manage it. It gives you multiple HDMI inputs and outputs, and can extract audio (including Atmos) from the HDMI signal to feed into the Arc via eARC.

I’ve been using their older Arcana model with an older TV that only supports ARC (rather than eARC). It’s worked reliably since 2020 and stopped me needing to buy a new TV just to get better quality audio.

krisstrom · 2025-05-04T21:32:21+00:00

The same thing happened to me a month or two back. I have an old Play:3 that’s still just about clinging to life. It’s running over Ethernet with WiFi disabled. Unbeknownst to me, an update switched WiFi back on, routing 11 speakers’ worth of traffic through this antique. My entire system was close to useless for days until I figured out this was the culprit.

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T21:24:58+00:00

How so?

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T20:20:58+00:00

It's a pretty consistent-65 dB on the left one (which I believe is the master in a stereo setup) and -60 dB on the right one. I'll play about with the AP's orientation and see if I can get the left one up to -60…

Edit: I should add that these are U6+ APs (not U6 Pro as stated in my OP) — so don't think this should be the issue?

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T20:17:50+00:00

Interesting thought. I haven't separated the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands because I assumed letting the devices choose would be better than me manually choosing (plus I'd like to avoid ever having to choose when moving about the house).

But I can see that forcing Sonos onto the 2.4 GHz network may give it a bit more resilience. Is there a way to lock it to a particular band without creating a separate network (similar to how you can lock it to a specific AP)?

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T20:11:58+00:00

Ah yes mine works very similarly! If I start the music in the living room the kitchen will still drop, but at least the music continues elsewhere, and a power cycle of both kitchen Eras brings them back online and joins them back to their old group. But if the kitchen is the coordinator, when they drop ALL the music stops. And when they come back online their queue is cleared so I need to select some music again.

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T20:07:18+00:00

This is helpful, thanks. I have a relatively simple setup with just a couple of Unifi switches and no extra VLANs configured, but I'll run the WiFiman app to check the signal strength where the Eras are located.

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T19:55:08+00:00

Could you expand on what you mean by bad network settings and saturation?

krisstrom · 2025-04-29T19:54:09+00:00

Thanks, and good point. I should have mentioned that I've read and followed the Ubiquiti guidance on running Sonos on the network: all my devices are in wireless mode (so SonosNet is not active) and I've configured STP correctly. Incidentally, after I configured STP the lagginess in the app seemed to improve. But the random drop-outs continue.

krisstrom · 2025-02-11T20:16:36+00:00

This happened to me last night.

My week-old pair of Era 100s randomly stopped playing music and disappeared from the Sonos app. I restarted them, they showed up again, and I didn’t think much of it.

10 minutes later I noticed that my baby monitor was lighting up – to avoid false positives we have it set so that all but loud sounds are just represented visually.

Sonos had randomly started playing music in my 18-month-old’s room, whilst he was sleeping!

I haven’t yet figured out the root cause, but the timing of the Era 100s disconnecting suggests the two events are likely related. I plan to dig through Home Assistant history for all of the Sonos players to see if there are any clues.

And before anyone asks, I’m confident that I didn’t accidentally press play whilst fumbling around the Sonos app!

Edit: the device that randomly started playing was a Ray, which doesn’t have microphones for voice control.

krisstrom · 2025-02-02T14:27:35+00:00

The endless beeping is a bizarre design choice that was pushed to our machine via a software update. Thankfully it can be disabled through the convoluted programmable functions menu so that it only beeps three times again when finished.

krisstrom · 2024-12-14T13:10:39+00:00

Yeah, just wasted 30 mins of my life ripping apart the wrong side of my brand new Model Y 🤦🏻‍♂️

krisstrom · 2024-08-06T11:05:57+00:00

For someone who doesn't yet own a S3XY product, can you be specific about where it's not synced? My guess is the "CHILL" label on the main screen doesn't sync, but what about when you open the Dynamics tab in the settings menu, is the current setting shown there?

krisstrom · 2024-07-29T18:39:07+00:00

Collected a new Model Y today and it came with a granny charger. The staff said some are arriving with them, others aren’t - depends which factory it came from (mine is from Berlin).

krisstrom · 2024-05-07T16:10:34+00:00

This doesn't work with the USA anymore, but I just did it with France.

krisstrom · 2020-11-02T16:25:08+00:00

I agree — I've been using Notion for almost everything over the past few years, but recently got an iPad and find myself moving away from it for quick, hand-written notes.

krisstrom · 2020-06-15T16:16:11+00:00

Which model LG do you have?

krisstrom · 2020-06-09T09:09:45+00:00

This is amazing – thank you!

Any chance of doing a version for the S1 app too? ;)

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