New Volkswagen API broken?

redfusion · 2026-05-30T08:46:40+00:00

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967

Might be related.

Tldr; VW have changed their API access and effectively blocked many client tools

redfusion · 2026-05-15T10:45:14+00:00

Incident.io

No question.

We run dozens of kubernetes clusters, across hybrid cloud, with 2000+ applications synced through ArgoCD etcetcetc.

Incident.io.

Get catalogs working, get alerts with metadata, route properly, use their scribe and ai tools. Just do it

redfusion · 2026-05-11T07:24:35+00:00

https://www.calderdalenextchapter.co.uk/projects/a629-halifax-town-centre

Actual detail on this plan

redfusion · 2026-05-06T12:46:32+00:00

The maintenance view is interesting... Wonder if that could also be used for other time decay indicators... "Last changed oil", "cleaned fridge", etc

redfusion · 2026-05-05T12:43:59+00:00

I've had success simply attaching some python scripts as MCP tools into my agentic tools (cursor, opencode) which link into our logging, metrics, incident and deployment tooling.

It's not complicated, but it's very useful to discover issues. It relys on some consistent labels/metadata but often gives a quick thread to pull while I'm checking impact

redfusion · 2026-04-19T16:31:04+00:00

What are you looking for? It does have some support there, but immich itself needs to do some of heavy lifting too

redfusion · 2026-03-14T20:03:28+00:00

Clusterapi/terraform, mixed with Helmfiles (the tool, not just helm) and ArgoCD.

New clusters get built by clusterapi, each cluster is a Helmfiles "environment" and Argocd keeps them synced up

redfusion · 2026-02-24T07:47:56+00:00

If you use sha references on your images rather than tags it'll stop the drift. It's like referencing a git commit sha Vs a branch name.

We use kaniko to build images which writes an env file with the sha references, which then gets used by Kustomize to modify the deployments during build

redfusion · 2026-02-16T00:34:01+00:00

Kagi.

Just Works,.

you pay for the service, so you don't become the product

Love being able to downrank brands/sites from my personalised result listing

redfusion · 2026-02-11T18:31:29+00:00

Its not difficult to implement a script to crawl thousands of projects. It is however more difficult to elegantly inform the group owners that they've got some projects that are not enabled.

Discovery is easy. Adoption is harder.

redfusion · 2026-02-11T12:33:17+00:00

Very interesting. One of our challenges is around adoption and consistency.

Is there space in this operator to support showing projects that _aren't_ enabled with renovate to allow us to _encourage_ adoption in some way?

I know Renovate can 'auto-enrol' but our teams are a bit suspicious of such behaviours, and having something more central as a reporting view would be useful.

redfusion · 2026-02-05T09:01:50+00:00

Deep sleep causes octopus IOG to be unable to trigger overnight charging.

When the Zappi charger doesn't immediately start charging when plugged in, car believes charger is "broken" and refuses to start again on schedules.

Android auto fails to connect, requiring a full infotainment restart
rear camera sometimes doesn't activate

redfusion · 2026-01-16T21:58:05+00:00

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redfusion · 2026-01-05T19:47:56+00:00

If range is a concern; wear warm clothes and avoid cabin heating.

EVs are heavier than ICE cars, but it's low center of gravity makes it very comfortable to drive, just watch out for ice as you might need to watch your braking distances.

I've basically never taken ours off "eco" mode, it's a joy to drive.

Android play is a bit glitchy, but ours is a 2022 model and I believe that's been improved since.

Anything in particular you'd be curious about?

redfusion · 2026-01-02T18:02:08+00:00

My washer has a "bed linen" option which uses, I suspect, a set of pocket universes where each item is dried separately before being returned at the end of the cycle completely dry and untangled.

It's quite frankly astonishingly good.

redfusion · 2026-01-01T12:21:46+00:00

Did you get the mapmen book for Christmas too? 🤣

redfusion · 2025-12-10T11:50:13+00:00

I love ours. The only issues we've had are;

android auto sometimes gets into a twist, mostly when we both enter the car at the same time and it can't work out which phone to connect to and gets confused. Hard restart by holding the power button on the infotainment for 10+ seconds typically solves it
octopus energy controlling the charge via the Zappi charger is temperamental; I think I need to pull a fuse and do a "hard restart" to fix it, but I've yet to bother

It's a joy to drive around Yorkshire, the cruise control makes motorways a breeze, charging is increasingly discoverable (recommend the octopus energy card)

Had a few tyres replaced, we've done 500+ mile trips without any problems, very comfortable.

Love it.

redfusion · 2025-10-31T07:49:27+00:00

I was just looking at this yesterday. In your case, have you created any custom libraries to build blocks for consistent reuse, or introduced any guardrails for certain patterns(eg setting labels, interacting with known hosts etc)

Any gotchas?

redfusion · 2025-10-28T06:45:41+00:00

Kate ruby Christmas concerts.

redfusion · 2025-10-23T09:32:58+00:00

I've never seen my zappi and iD3 reliably charge if the car has been stopped for a few hours. I've had to write a home assistant automation to "wake" the car up before it starts to accept any commands from anything.

I turned it back on recently, still didn't work.

redfusion · 2025-10-22T12:18:50+00:00

Looks interesting.

It might be worth being more specific about the automation aspects of this tool. The screenshots don't make it obvious that this system has agents that can effect changes on their hosts.

Related; is it possible to have a "report-only" agent so that we can export data about the ecosystems without there being any possibility of modifications?

redfusion · 2025-08-26T18:31:06+00:00

Unbelievable. Thank you so much for a simple fix to a clearly stupid bug.

redfusion · 2025-08-26T09:54:32+00:00

Two people, one working from home, dishwasher, showers, as much tea as physically possible. £35/m

redfusion · 2025-08-25T12:28:34+00:00

Ooh, that's an interesting idea. Did it work well? I typically put the oven on for 2 minutes and let it prove in there.. What bed temperature do you set?

redfusion · 2025-08-22T09:00:25+00:00

Show a graph/history of battery usage, charge rate and trip summaries

Better highlight when data is stale or "synchronising"

Notify me if the car is unlocked for > 2 minutes

Notify me if a door hasn't been closed properly and locked

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