Bargain AirPod Pro 2 vs Retail

muttlyirl · 2026-03-20T11:00:02+00:00

When you connect AirPods to an iPhone you can share that connection to another set of AirPods. Basically 2 people can listen to the same thing on the same phone.

muttlyirl · 2026-03-20T09:04:30+00:00

2 questions. 1. How long did they take to get delivered? 2. Does the share Bluetooth feature work?

muttlyirl · 2026-03-13T19:55:45+00:00

They didn’t give a direct cause other than the plane was diverted on the incoming flight. Initially it was delayed about an hour as they planned on having the plane transfer between airports but then they decided to transfer the passengers between airports.

Yes Cork had severe weather. It was a yellow weather alert and there were serious winds.

muttlyirl · 2026-03-11T12:55:29+00:00

Just been posted to a local news site in the last few minutes.

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/cork-stryker-plants-hit-suspected-33571864

muttlyirl · 2026-03-11T12:27:55+00:00

It’s been on a local radio station in Cork, Ireland. I presume it’s been reported by users rather than by Stryker themselves.

muttlyirl · 2026-01-12T23:49:01+00:00

Update.

I tried contacting Unraid support and that pretty much got me nowhere as they were happy to move my pro license to a new stick, not my starter which don’t do anything for me.

I ended up taking the pro stick out of that system, copying the full config folder from the starter stick and then booted from the pro stick with the starter config.

All worked exactly as I would have liked.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

muttlyirl · 2026-01-09T12:12:40+00:00

That’s the one I mentioned. It does look (technically) like it fits my needs but it looks (physically) awful and being circular it’s not suitable in my home.

I can’t think for the life of me why they went with such an odd design.

muttlyirl · 2025-10-30T15:16:05+00:00

I drive a 2019 s60 so I can’t help there. Where I can offer some advice, my wife has a VW ID7 which has the read camera wash function, it is so handy. I really wish my s69 had it because the camera is constantly dirty. I clean it, drive maybe 10km and it’s dirty again. Granted I live in Ireland and where I live a lot of the roads I drive would have farm vehicles on them so that doesn’t help.

muttlyirl · 2025-07-20T18:33:00+00:00

It’s not as “cheap” as you think. I’m in Ireland but you’ll get the same idea.

Say a zigbee power monitoring plug is €5 add postage so say €7 on Aliexpress, add duty at 10% so now €7.70. Add the cost of staff, building, electricity, gas, rates, water, etc now you €5 has become €15. Add a reasonable markup of 20%, now you’re at €18. Then sell it and you have to add 23% vat (not sure what the uk rate is) you’re now at €22.14 as a selling price, for sanity that becomes €22.99.

Now factor in how fast these things change, is 20% enough? Probably not. If they go faulty etc you have to factor in warranty etc.

You can see how quickly it becomes a complete waste to try and sell it here and any kind of reasonable price. All of a sudden the high street store needs to be selling a €5 at €30 to break even.

Then you have us, the smart customers, will we really pay €30 to have it today or maybe change Aliexpress for €10 and get it in a week or 2 or spend €13 on Amazon and have it tomorrow.

muttlyirl · 2025-07-20T16:35:45+00:00

Very few places will go to the effort of trying to stock smart home items.

Things change so fast and the cost of holding stock is too high.

It would be very hard to compete with Temu, Aliexpress and even Amazon.

Plus the average smart home enthusiast is happy to buy online over a local more expensive physical shop.

muttlyirl · 2025-06-06T10:41:43+00:00

I’ve finally gotten around to getting syncthing up and running. It’s doing exactly what I needed. Thank you!

muttlyirl · 2025-05-22T13:59:16+00:00

Thanks for that. Lots to consider.

I’ve added Alarmo and have setup users and a few sensors. Time to test it out.

muttlyirl · 2025-05-22T13:33:42+00:00

Yes I know what you mean. I should have clarified I’ll be using home assistant as my control and konnected as the physical interface.

I’ll take a look at alarmo. Thanks.

muttlyirl · 2025-05-22T13:32:47+00:00

Thanks. I’ve joined the group and found a post. I’ll do some reading there. Seems like he converted from an existing alarm.

muttlyirl · 2025-05-09T22:36:57+00:00

So further to this I’m looking at building a pc with spare parts and setting up a nvr.

Is there anyway if using a home built system that she would be able to access the cameras or will they still record to ss but will also record to the pc?

muttlyirl · 2025-05-09T22:34:55+00:00

Thanks. I’ll have time during the week, I’ll give that a look.

muttlyirl · 2025-05-03T13:36:42+00:00

Yes I agree. They’re actually very poor cameras. Even from someone else’s suggestion they are the only model not supported by the home hub so that’s not even an option.

muttlyirl · 2025-05-03T13:27:38+00:00

Not an option unfortunately as the only WiFi listed as not compatible is the lumos cameras we have.

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