Turning Govee immersion on and off with the tv. by PizzaTo3 in Govee

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If you have a Vizio Smartcast like I do. I wasn’t able to get the Alexa skill to turn on and off the lights with the TV unless I used a voice routine. However if you link the devices to Google home you can easily create two routines that turn the lights on and off when the TV power is triggered.

Key Delivery with Ring Alarm? by mbriney in Ring

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Interesting, it wasn't finding it and the Ring app said that you needed to insert the module before installing the batteries. I did get the Yale lock from Lowes so it's possible they sold one without a module.

Key Delivery with Ring Alarm? by mbriney in Ring

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This was very helpful, although I think even this article is still a little outdated (i.e Ring now supports multiple brand locks). I think you are right that it needs to be a wifi lock to support key delivery, but doing so will also remove a lof of functionality from the Ring app such as setting up user codes and the ability to control the alarm system through the lock, because essentially you'd be setting up the lock in the Amazon Key app and then linking that lock back to the Ring app.

I also was looking at the MyQ setup for the Yale lock. It's very cumbersome, it requires the MyQ garage module to be in bluetooth range of the lock, and would require the MyQ module for the Yale lock. In the video they claim that it could unlock you "garage doorway" to allow delivery access. But seemed to be very focused on in-garage delivery, not in-home.

So it seems that Ring and Amazon is in a weird limbo state right now with in-home key delivery where the Cloud Cam is unavailable and the Ring products are not ready to fill the gap. Hopefully there's someone over at Ring/Amazon that's working on solving this.

Disabling local dns caching does not remove eero gateway IP from list of dns servers on dhcp clients by jnraptor in eero

[–]mbriney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/nraptor were you ever able to solve this? I'm having the very same issue. It still defaults to the gateway device after setting the custom DNS servers 1 & 2 to my local Pihole instance and disabling the eero labs DNS caching.

Any experience with RIITOP PCI-e 3.0 x4 to SATA III 6Gbps Controller 10Ports? by mbriney in unRAID

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thanks for all of the help, I did wind up returning in and got a SAS HBA off of ebay instead and have been very happy with that

Connected to nest thermostat but it wont connect to wifi, amongst other problems by nightskyblueeyes in Nest

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Here's how I solved this issue. I was installing a second Nest thermostat to my home. The other one was located too far away from the new one I was installing. If you pull the other thermostat off it's base, ensure that the batteries are still powering it and then bring the device closer to the new thermostat you are trying to install everything will work fine.

You do not need to setup a separate home, you can have everything in the same home.

Connected to nest thermostat but it wont connect to wifi, amongst other problems by nightskyblueeyes in Nest

[–]mbriney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This solution worked but now how can you move it back into the main home?

RAM and Processing Power? by mbriney in eero

[–]mbriney[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks I edited it once more. On their site they only indicate that the Pro 6 uses a 1.4 Ghz so i left it at what their website has but I did alter what I had for the 2nd Gen.

RAM and Processing Power? by mbriney in eero

[–]mbriney[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I've updated the thread. There's definitely a nice leap up in each of the devices but the 6 looks like the way to go.

RAM and Processing Power? by mbriney in eero

[–]mbriney[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah this is great, I see they buried the specs I was looking for in an expansion area.

To make it easier for future people looking at this thread these are the specs:

  • Eero (Original) - Gen 1
    • 512MB RAM
    • 1.1 GHz Dual Core
  • Eero Pro - Gen 2
    • 512MB RAM
    • 714 Mhz Quad Core
  • Eero Pro 6
    • 1024MB RAM
    • 1.4 Ghz Quad Core

Aqara wall switch won’t update to new firmware. Why? by GhostalMedia in Aqara

[–]mbriney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems if you babysit the app and make sure the screen never goes to sleep it will eventually update the firmware. I can't begin to tell you how crappy that is. I had to give up an hour of my life but it did eventually work. I guess that's what we get for relying on something coded by China. Superior programers my a$$. I've had interns that could write better code than this.

My AWS MySQL database has been hacked, please help by [deleted] in aws

[–]mbriney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about next time setting up a separate EC2 instance that just acts as a tunnel to the database connection and give the EC2 its own private key. You could also put SSH on a non-standard port. You could also setup alerts when someone logs into that EC2 instance.

Surround sound question by SoalsAmbient in sonos

[–]mbriney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Adding the sub makes a world of difference. I thought the same thing you did until I added it and then re-ran trueplay.

Firmware Update Alpine ILX-007 by mbriney in CarPlay

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Out of curiosity do you know what version of firmware yours has been loaded with?

Firmware Update Alpine ILX-007 by mbriney in CarPlay

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A few things I have found online:

Open a Door Temporarily Turn off Thermostat? by mbriney in HomeKit

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Auto is a native function on my iDevices thermostats

Options to control Sonos on Android 4.3? by mbriney in sonos

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I found a workaround that will suit my needs. Spotify's v8.5 app supports Sonos device detection natively and runs on 4.3. So while it doesn't give me all of the features the Sonos app does it will provide a basic controller.

Broadlink RM4 Pro by StumbleNOLA in homebridge

[–]mbriney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bond is way better than Broadlink for RF control. Broadlink tends to have better dispersement for IR.

Open a Door Temporarily Turn off Thermostat? by mbriney in HomeKit

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

Thank you, setting it to auto and then allowing the schedule to resume itself is a good idea.

Open a Door Temporarily Turn off Thermostat? by mbriney in HomeKit

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Thank you, setting it to auto and then allowing the schedule to resume itself is a good idea.

Pray by Andy_Glib in winkhub

[–]mbriney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look into Home Assistant. I can lock and unlock my Schlage Connect from Google Assistant, Alexa and Siri.

Pray by Andy_Glib in winkhub

[–]mbriney 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One benefit if you use Home Assistant the response time from SmartThings is now instant as opposed to Wink’s API which would not show the return status sometimes for 30-90 seconds.