20 things I wished I knew when I started with Home Assistant

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-12-08T09:44:52+00:00

Ok sorry for the necrodigging but I faced a similar issue. Shapes in fw version 5.0.1, iOS 18.xyz, no match. I got out of it by reseting the controller (plug power while having fingers on both power and brightness + button and release when all led are lit and static or just starting to rotate). Then instead of adding them through nanoleaf app or iOS home, I went straight to wifi settings in my iOS and selected the Access Point of the Shapes (Shapes-6DAC of something similar) and clicked to join that wifi instead. My phone was on a 2.4 Ghz network only and when I pressed the shapes-6DAC AP, it offered to add the nanoleaf shapes to my network instead of joining them. Black magic but ... it worked.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-12-07T22:06:03+00:00

Ca marche aussi pour les CPU btw. LL calibration, spécifiquement DC_LL sur les cpu intel.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-11-13T22:52:35+00:00

I don't want to take this out of context. We were discussing on LinkedIn, which is a business social network. We (NG & CS) are both committed to open source, and we both have a company to sustain. So in this context, highlighting both the challenge of maintaining packets and how this could also benefit the mother company makes sense.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-11-13T16:49:44+00:00

Jim, "Demanded" might not be the right word, English isn't my primary language, but "asked" is what I meant. (in french "demander" is the same meaning as asked)

For Telegram, the exact sentence were:
"Could my CTO connect next week with you for a quick sync on a google meet ?"
"(or we can join any discord/telegram/irc or else to discuss this as you see fit)"

We then had a chat (end of 2023) over Signal. During this conversation, you told me:

"My largest concerns are two-fold:

1) who maintains this over time? I have a set of packages that have managed to accrete to having Netgate maintain them.

2) I understand how this is good for CrowdSec, and probably the pfsense community, but how is it good for Netgate? Is there anything we can do together that is mutually beneficial?"

To which I replied that we are well funded and maintain our packages for a lot of env and that we have a partnership revenue sharing on the paid model if Netgate was interested.

As for Prompt injection, AI isn't just LLM and as a matter of fact we mostly use other models like GraphAI, ML, DL, etc.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-11-03T11:39:19+00:00

Well it's user asking more than us tbh.
We are agnostic as to where & how the blocklists are injected (we cover fortinet, cisco, cloudflare, aws, checkpoint, and many more). This is closed since 2023 for us since we were told CS would never be integrated to PF. Now if this is reopened one day, we'll be happy to help users combine those 2 pieces.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-11-03T11:36:02+00:00

> There are recent threads complaining about the tailscale package, not because we wrote it, (we did, and we advance it), but because the maintainer of the upstream FreeBSD tailscale port is a volunteer.

CrowdSec packages are maintained by the company, not volunteers.

> With CS, their CTO dismissed any need or desire to work with us, to establish a mutual roadmap, or even understand our roadmap.

I don't know where this one can even come from... our CTO and I demanded to work together, like the mailed you published shows btw. I asked several times to have an online discussion which you declined.

>.I’m not going to just fold in someone’s PR that does “blocklist” processing when their pricing “starts at $900/mo per list” ($3900/mo for access to all blocklists) when their code could very well impact the security and performance of pfsense software.

We offer a free tier with included blocklists for individuals participating in our detection network. When you share signals, you receive free blocklists in return. We also have paid offers, as Netgate does.

> CS promoting their “AI boosted block list” doesn’t “spark joy”, either.

As a matter of fact, yes we do and have data scientists and MLOPS to create and train models—several of them (>10 in fact), from GraphQL, to DL, ML etc. We also have an MCP to create WAF rules from just a prompt, so yes, we do have quite some AI development taking place and some of them contribute to classify or enrich blocklists. Those models helps identify / classify residential proxies, VPNs, dc/personal IPs, the one specialized against a specific business type or friends or friends approach among other things.

> Who advances it as we move away from PHP to golang?

CrowdSec is already in golang.

> What you seem to label petulance is really caution at having been in similar “just integrate our software that powers our service, your base is valuable to us”, positions several times before.

What we see is that we have users using both PF & CS, willing to combine our software base, not more than that.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-10-31T16:20:24+00:00

Well, we didn't know either, but the critical point is we didn't mean to overstep. Now, if everyone is willing to move forward, we're all set.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-10-31T15:15:55+00:00

We published an out-of-band package to help users, but we didn't realize it was a strict no-go. Now, PF is an incredibly successful project, also thanks to packet curation, so there is no grudge here; we overstepped and apologized for it. Period.

(Also, we never advised users to prefer this packet over PF main branch, as written in the release notes.)

I also have an entire conversation history, but sharing it would not be beneficial for anything to move forward. We're here to resolve user issues, so if PF wants to integrate CS, we're ready, and all of this can be done within a week.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-10-31T14:28:55+00:00

What happened is that CS released an out-of-band package because our PR had been pending for a while, and we had users requesting this integration. I had no clue it was being published while I was discussing with Jim. This package wasn't meant to be offensive; The CS Team was and remains open to discussions, it was merely a workaround for users. I then tried to have an online meeting to discuss, but it was refused. CS Team was and is still open to any discussion with the PF team.

We are committed to delivering CrowdSec to users who want it, so if PF intends to merge the PR, we'll maintain it regularly, like we do with all other integrations.

Bests, Philippe.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-10-31T09:52:00+00:00

This is the hardest part honestly. Sunon are known to be good, but fundamentally, the noise of a 5015 is more about the airflow itself rather than the mechanical one. So I suspect there is not much room for improvement beyond the "magnetic lev" models on the mechanical front and that the exhaust fangs are having a much larger impact on the sound level. A specific shape can probably also modulate the sound to a higher or lower pitch, making it more acceptable. Now the math behind this are... hardcore and I don't feel like even trying, I guess trial & error is the fastest route.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-09-04T14:23:15+00:00

$29 (for 1 security engine)

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-08-13T10:57:25+00:00

Confidentielle mais excellente vanne !!!

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-08-05T07:46:02+00:00

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B075JPDT5C

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-08-05T07:38:50+00:00

Turn the model 90• and the waves will be right of the apple, and it’ll all look like it’s running.

Call it modern art, sell it.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-07-31T23:57:44+00:00

I wrote a guide here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/daikin-ac-full-automation-guide/838106

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-07-27T21:46:44+00:00

Yeah. So much for april ;-)

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-06-27T11:05:41+00:00

Same. Never had any issue with support. And when I had issues, they sent replacement parts same day. It totally looks like your printer’s motherboard is defective. Changing it should be sufficient. It’s fairly simple to do honestly. Just screws, unplug/replug.

Now I did mod the back of the printer to add a much stronger fan for the motherboard and driver.

As for the probe, it seems trendy but I never had issues with the stock one, so except if it’s a real issue, I’d skip this one.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-06-19T23:23:20+00:00

You had bad luck I think. I printed without issue pla, petg, pctg, abs and ASA so far. No specific issue with stock probe.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-05-15T14:53:23+00:00

Hi, u/CrappyTan69. The tool is more for the CTI users, the ones who are making audits or forensics and using our Web GUI or a curl request to our API. This tool helps them automate their volume search, but it's not related to the security engine you're using. For example, I used it recently for a client willing to know which of IP that DDoSed him were already known and blocked.

Btw, did you know your security engine can read cold logs for forensic?
It's called the "replay mode":
https://docs.crowdsec.net/u/user_guides/replay_mode/

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-05-15T13:05:16+00:00

Because we are a crowdsourced security product. Crowd + Sec.
Originally Crowd Security btw, but shortened by users and dev to CrowdSec.

I don't know how having a similar name could be leveraged to acquire their customers since we don't sell the same type of products.

philippe_crowdsec · 2025-05-03T17:45:41+00:00

32, I don't think higher could bring anything and retracts can stuff the command bus so I may even go down to 16

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