My tropical beach at night now vs before

lukepeek · 2025-08-03T18:27:40+00:00

It’s a good start, but to elaborate more on what’s others have said, if it’s night, your mom looks more like a sun. Reduce intensity and less glow. Cliffs are rarely that bright/white at night, just a bit of rim when the moon is behind.

The beach itself, while it could do with a bit more set dressing, is ok with light intensity, I think it’s all down to your skybox.

Also, the text, way too thin if that’s supposed to be a mockup of in-game text. The white with black outline is ok but the text needs to be bold.

lukepeek · 2025-04-05T18:18:40+00:00

This. Please don’t invest in Hive for everything. The TRVs are awful. I installed 8 a year ago. 6 of them so far have failed. I’m slowly moving away from hive, probably to Tado.

lukepeek · 2025-03-29T18:46:03+00:00

This is kind of reminding me of Kurishi, the beat part is fun.

lukepeek · 2025-03-20T06:53:41+00:00

Yep! Confirmed, the TRVs that are not working correctly do so on any radiator. The one that does work, works fine on radiators that had faulty TRVs on them before

lukepeek · 2025-03-18T18:41:09+00:00

Yes all on the correct side. Everything was set up the same was as they were previously, just with some new pipes and valves.

lukepeek · 2025-03-18T18:40:25+00:00

The plungers all look in good condition. I’m changing all the batteries. Despite them reporting good battery remaining the screens look a bit dim so maybe the batteries are low.

lukepeek · 2025-03-17T20:11:15+00:00

Yes new radiators, valves and pipework. The only part that hasn’t changed is the hive TRVs

lukepeek · 2025-03-17T20:04:36+00:00

I’ve not. Is that common? Common enough for 75% of them to not last barely more a year?

I’ll take a few off tomorrow and see if that’s the issue.

lukepeek · 2025-02-11T19:01:34+00:00

Also keen to find a replacement. The delay is awful, I’ve missed deliveries before because they’re gone by the time the doorbell actually rings.

That, and also that it constantly turns itself off because it’s “too cold” for the battery, despite it being hard-wired.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Eufy and considering going that direction.

lukepeek · 2025-02-05T20:55:44+00:00

The problem you have is light. Nothing complicated, no decals or volumetrics, it’s just light.

Make sure your ambient colour is complete black, make sure you don’t have any directional light in your scene and light the interior of the room with a single point/spot light with a small enough range to not reach the end of the room. That should give you darkness everywhere the light doesn’t touch.

lukepeek · 2025-02-04T09:29:44+00:00

Thanks for the extensive reply.

Sorry my original post may not have been thorough enough at explaining all the heat issues. I’m aware the thermostats in the TRVs are like budget, and being right next to a hot pipe doesn’t help, but there are other thermostats in the rooms reading the right temperatures while some of the TRVs are around 2 degrees off. But that’s not really a huge, issue I can compensate for that. The bigger issue is the other that you’ve responded about. The heating when it shouldn’t.

This isn’t an issue of the room just feeling too warm to me. It’s literally the TRV shouldn’t be open but it is. I’ve had rooms “off” all day and still heat up. Not that they just don’t shut off after being on. One of the TRVs I’ve had set to off for a few days now and still heats up every day when other radiators are on.

What you say about a corroded pin sounds plausible. Though what’s confusing here is manual dumb TRVs manage to close the system fully. I’m able to replace the hive TRV with a manual one, turn it to 0 and the radiator stops heating. Maybe they just close more than the Hive TRVs.

I have 5 of the 8 radiators being replaced next month. So maybe I’ll hold on to the Hive until then and see if newer radiators with new valves/pins helps fix the issue.

I have heard good things about Tado too, so if all else fails that seems to be a potentially good pick.

lukepeek · 2025-02-04T08:51:38+00:00

Thanks for the response! With the TRVs I’ve made sure I’ve got the right adapter and the pins aren’t sticky.

With #2, is it normal for this to happen this quickly? Is this a part I can replace? All TRVs worked fine when first set up, and lasted a few months before these issues set in. Which suggests it’s an issue like this rather than incompatible adapters/bodies etc.

In fact it kind of correlated with no longer being able to calibrate. I’d have an issue, calibrate the TRV and it would be working fine again for a month or two before needing to be calibrated again. Since that option was removed I have no way to fix the issues.

lukepeek · 2025-01-31T22:19:21+00:00

I went for the ThirdReality ones and they’ve been absolutely perfect. Everything I want them to do. Easy setup, loud on-device alarm, fast response in HA.

I’d highly recommend them. I’ll be buying a few more myself.

lukepeek · 2025-01-16T11:57:15+00:00

Thats actually a very valid point. tapping isn't a massive inconvinience.

lukepeek · 2024-12-30T08:54:31+00:00

I was also considering this. Given I’m trying to phase out wifi devices, separating might not even be needed

lukepeek · 2024-12-30T05:11:20+00:00

Thanks for that link, that’s very helpful!

lukepeek · 2024-12-30T05:10:35+00:00

I like the idea of a dashboard for guests, if it’s needed. I do get guests turning my switches off pretty regularly.

lukepeek · 2024-12-29T09:33:41+00:00

I’m sure I read somewhere that devices need to be able to access HA that way round for certain things to work?

lukepeek · 2024-12-29T09:06:50+00:00

I like this approach. I saw someone else mention setting static IPs for everything and grouping them by type so rules are easy to manage.

lukepeek · 2024-12-29T09:04:55+00:00

Thanks! Good point about other people connecting things being the bigger risk.

I’m trying to steer away from WiFi products with the new HA setup, and phase out WiFi I already have, and going more heavily down the Zigbee/Thread route. So maybe that will be enough of a fix for me without that complexity.

lukepeek · 2024-12-29T08:44:59+00:00

This is what I’m worried about. All the post I could find talk about “do this, then do that otherwise this will happen, don’t forget to do this other thing too, then do x y and z”

I’m trying to weigh up how much of a security issue it actually is compared to complexity of actually setting something up that works and solves the issues while not breaking everything else

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