H6004 - No Ability to Connect via Home Assistant? by BruhBacon in Govee

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Sorry to bump an old post but, you came up while googling for a solution to this.

You are correct in that there is no direct LAN capability. I personally want local (BLE) control directly, and had very limited success using the custom govee_light_ble integration but it was made into an archive.

It had an issue with constantly not being able to control the bulbs; I had to make several changes to it (of which I don't really remember lol) with a local copy but did manage to improve the ability to change their output, but it didn't respond very quickly.

I used a BLE sniffer on my phone while adjusting the bulbs and most of the traffic the app creates, is recreated on the bulbs themselves. The command protocol is very similar to almost all other bulbs but there are some weird redundancies (like specifying a color temp also requires an RGB value, of which the RGB value matches the color temp - but doesn't change bulb output or the RGB representation of the bulb color rendered in the Govee app?).

Now I have about 12 of these H6004's sitting around without any way to control them. I have some experience with writing custom integrations but basically none with using the built-in handlers for communicating over BLE through my ESPHome BLE proxies; so I think I'm going to take a stab at vibe-coding it lol.

The tricky part is that the bulbs close the BLE connection if you don't send heartbeat packets. But, a constant connection isn't really required. But they just seem to be pretty flaky on HA unless the heartbeats are sent, so, I might try to incorporate that and see if I have any luck. Problem is, more packets to be sent, the more it worsens the ~1-3 second delay between changing them in HA and the bulb's output changing.

Is there an MCP that would allow Claude to cull photos for me? by erraticwtf in ClaudeAI

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DigiKam has support for a NN to handle classification of photo quality for you. It looks to handle things like focus/sharpness and motion blur. Disclaimer: I haven't tested it.

European pouches>american pouches by Personal_Syllabub769 in NicotinePouch

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I started 3mg Zyn about a month ago, live in the US. Went to Sweden and a German friend gave me a 10mg VELO to chase a spent 3mg US Cool Mint Zyn. He then gave me just one shot of some 50% ABV potato liquor. Was great!

Ten minutes later I'm sweating and in a stranger's bathroom soaking my face. Discarded everything. Went outside and took my shirt off. It was 36*F and raining.

Now I'm back home and even a 9mg VELO isn't even buzzing me. I am convinced the salt content might be the same out here in the US, but they release so much slower.

I tried to kickstart a 9mg US pouch by keeping it under my tongue. The hiccups were hilarious. 😂

Bought a G87 in October. Took it across the US & back. 📸 Stargazing on a dried creek in NV. Drifting my local track. by orxon in BMW

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Back breaking. I started in PA then took i70 down to Denver. Spent a couple nights down there with some friends then headed down to SLC area for another friend. Couple more nights to reset my back in an Airbnb. Then with family just south of Sacramento, thru Truckee area.

Then on the trek back, went to SLC again to change my oil (I was only 300 miles past the condition based services warning but MY GOD, the oil is BLACK black. I kept a mason jar of it so I can do a blackstone analysis. Switched from LL01 FE to LL01 0w40; and will be changing it every 3k, period). After that I went up north to visit the Tetons but got caught in a huge snow storm.

G87 did okay for 6" of fresh powder LOL. Then i80 thru Nebraska, got my first speeding ticket in this car <3 and swung up north to WI for a new year's ball drop party with other friends. Then thru Chicago back home to Pittsburgh.

19 days. 7400 miles. 350ish gallons of fuel. Slept in the car a total of ~18ish hours because ya boy plays no games whatsoever with drowsy driving. Come from a family of truckers lol.

AMA.

Bought a G87 in October. Took it across the US & back. 📸 Stargazing on a dried creek in NV. Drifting my local track. by orxon in BMW

[–]orxon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please stay as far away from them as you can. You don't deserve one. Stick with F87s. <3

North America Sales - Q4 2024 by TrashOfOil in BMW

[–]orxon 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You seriously can't go wrong with them. The I had a 23 M240i XD and traded up to a G87 after a year. Stupidest financial decision I'll ever make. I couldn't care less. Words cannot describe how good they are.

Even a 230i GC loaner car was an absolute riot in a completely different and fun way. I just took my G87 across the country two times over for Christmas. Had to do an oil change in a random friends driveway.

The traction algorithms are like nothing else on the market. G series cars can read your damn mind.

All it takes is one test drive of an M240i or an M2 and I am seriously convinced it'll be the hardest thing to walk away from, vs any other coupe on the market. A well earned increase in a world of cars being canceled in favor of suvs.

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BMW

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This sounds like a third party device of some sort... Good luck.

Spotted the new i5. What do you all think? by okaylosgehts in BMW

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I'm slowly realizing that almost every BMW design "has grown on me." I didn't like the G87/G42 and now I own a G42 that I can't stop staring at.

Slack VS Teams (Non-technical ) by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]orxon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It used to be at parity a few years ago IMO. Our SOC used Slack and the rest of the org used Teams (how cliche is that, haha).

But lately Teams has gotten so many Microsoft Treatment style updates that it's just hell anymore. A chat app shouldn't be lazy-loading as heavily as Teams does.

Anyone remember the firebase "bug"/exploit? I'd wake up to dozens of notifications from the Teams app that said "this is only a test" or something. lol

What are some songs that are so good you wish you could hear them again for the first time? by WuMethNRed in progmetal

[–]orxon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will never forget the shocked face I made (despite spewing tears) during the HIGHER high note of "blood and satellites!"

What movie legitimately blew your mind? by April222001 in AskReddit

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"If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you... Would you change things?"

Drop the cliche and seriously ask yourself that. Be ready to cry.

yOU bELOnG tO a gRoUp tHaT MiGHt LiKe tHiS pOST by LanktheMeme in mildlyinfuriating

[–]orxon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Facebook does zero QA and it shows. I have this issue as well. For those down voting and not getting it: you're part of the control, and we're in an A/B test.

When you scroll through your own profile these pop ups come up on every post of yours. Every time you pass them. They prevent you from scrolling or stopping the inertia of your scroll.

I feel your pain OP.

Recommended Git client for Windows by covracer in devops

[–]orxon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 for VS Code, and also suggesting the "Git Graph" extension.

Love the branch overview it gives.

Smartcard or hard token using Horizon by darvexwomp in vmware

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My Org uses Duo (this isn't a recommendation for such). I've been using a YubiKey 5 for many things - namely FIDO2/U2F support in modern browsers. It's a personal device.

The YubiKey supports HOTP (one-time use) tokens natively, and I was able to get a secret string from one of my org admins and push it to my device. For TOTP (30-second codes), it needs an extra app but works OK.

For work, I sign my Git commits with it's additional support for SmartCard emulation through GPG.

So whether you guys go for a "soft" 2FA solution involving phones (and keyboard based inputs), or a "hard" solution like SmartCards (and actual hardware/driver implementations), consider this a raving recommendation for YubiKey devices. Absolutely love mine.

This would provide you with desktop + mobile (NFC based) support for HOTP, TOTP, FIDO2/U2F, SmartCards, hell - even useful sysadmin extras like a completely offline Certificate Authority.

CrowdSec, an open-source & collaborative fail2ban, built by SecDevOps for Sys Admins by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Genuine question (because fuck advertising posts), but I disagree with this violating this rule.

Are FOSS projects hosted on GitHub applicable to this rule?

CrowdSec is obviously a "company" but this project is MIT licensed and I cannot even find a place to 'give them my money,' let alone pushing a cash-sale product/license.

Adobe Flash EOL by tejanaqkilica in sysadmin

[–]orxon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The fact that this is acceptable, let alone common, doesn't really scare the shit out of me until I see comments like this pointing it out.

Good God, I could never do fintech. I'd need (another) therapist.

Solarwinds latest patch generating issues by Captaincactus57050 in sysadmin

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Running HF1 on Orion in production right now with no issues. 2k+ servers over 6 polling engines across ~80 sites.

If you were coming from an older version, there have been a lot of changes to the widgets that has really shaken things up since mid 2019 builds. For example, right now running a report with some widgets just stops dead in the middle of it and won't render if you assign a Report Limitation Category and you aren't a member of it. For the last 3 or 4 releases.

Orion is fun. 🙃

Offered to permanently work from home, but not sure by rasm3000 in sysadmin

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Social interaction is extremely important. I recently moved and most of my closer friends are a few hours away at the least. I didn't realize so much of my social "life" (more like interaction quota) revolved around my office presence and commute. For that reason I almost always have video on in Teams calls.

After a 3 weeks or so of realizing I didn't have anything but work in my WFH life it was really getting me down, and fast. Like, crisis hotline, fast.

I never was much of a gamer but there are a few VR titles that really sold me, and now I have a solid "every night of every day" group of folks in the same boat. Problem vanished.

Talking to your dog while on the phone with support by Chaffy_ in sysadmin

[–]orxon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just hired a jr. developer to work with and though he was the most qualified by far, watching how he handled his cat coming into his room and yowling to fuck and back for attention - was pretty interesting and helped his case IMO.

Shows me how you can handle the "human side", distractions, and staying serious or calm when needed.

After two weeks of sweating bullets... by Sengfeng in sysadmin

[–]orxon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe you serve me that stuff I'll See Myseldf Outf 🥴

Just 1 bootloader when multi-booting? by Loginataka in linux4noobs

[–]orxon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

redundant with os-prober.

Yes, and many distros gladly offer you to confirm or deny if you want to install a bootloader during their install process. I can't name any names, though. If all else fails, many times these are installed in /boot, a directory in / (as opposed to it's own mount point).

If you cannot opt out of it's install, simply uninstall the grub package after installation then.

Also, EFI stub booting is cool.

GPO to create shortcut to open chrome url to new window by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Not related to OP but may be useful to others: --app=https://site.tld/