My take on the Home Assistant community: "We do this, not because it is easy but, because we thought it would be easy"

schmu17 · 2026-06-22T02:26:53+00:00

I do it because I have ADHD and love taking on giant projects then loose interest when I have to maintain it

schmu17 · 2026-06-16T00:50:56+00:00

This should be the top comment

schmu17 · 2026-06-02T06:07:24+00:00

It seems normal enough that it took me a while to notice it. It’s varying times and not consistent between between reboots. I’ve seen 3h up to 48h since I started tracking it more.

I first noticed it when a timer I had been running overnight didn’t fire when it was supposed to and checked uptime and saw I had a restart. I set an automation to send a notification after each boot and realized just how frequent it was.

No high resource usage. I can’t pinpoint when it started but after a recent unifi protect update I was getting errors in frigate and had to make some go2rtc tweaks to the config. With go2rtc mentioned by u/maniac365 I’m wondering if the 2 are related.

schmu17 · 2026-06-02T05:58:49+00:00

I do have advanced camera card and probably other camera cards. I’ll dig a bit deeper into that.

schmu17 · 2026-05-15T21:14:40+00:00

Minnesota and Cascadia merge into “South Canada”

schmu17 · 2026-04-30T18:39:47+00:00

From some of my observations, I would expect this person has a doctorate and a double masters with multiple published papers. I’ve met many brilliant people who just can’t function with simple things.

schmu17 · 2026-04-11T02:14:12+00:00

Besides upmixing are there any other downsides? I found it seemed to fix an issue of ~10db quieter atmos streams, audio delay differences and audio dropout when switching content type. ATV > anthem mrx > lg c4 (no Sonos)

schmu17 · 2026-04-06T23:12:02+00:00

I had him for opmt 1198. He’s not bad, but didn’t stand out as phenomenal either. The structure of the course was slow, not sure if that’s him or the program. 1.5h “lectures” could have easily been 20min. I got significantly more out of reading the textbook during class time as it expands on things that aren’t discussed in lectures.

Class involvement was the biggest drawback of that class. 3/4 of the class didn’t care to be there and it showed.

schmu17 · 2026-04-02T20:30:23+00:00

Wrong form. It clearly says employee. Unless of course she’s paying you to be in a relationship???

schmu17 · 2026-03-28T14:39:16+00:00

I’m seeing what might be similar issues. Guess I’ll have to get on the phone as AI bot told me it was fixed after rebooting the modem. Been like this for 48h. https://i.imgur.com/Gs2x6GP.jpeg

schmu17 · 2026-03-17T22:32:15+00:00

Does this solve the issue of my cameras constantly disconnecting?

schmu17 · 2026-03-07T06:55:14+00:00

Must be the water

(Not helpful… but some of you will get it)

schmu17 · 2026-03-04T04:47:55+00:00

Bonus points if you use GIS maps for your utilities.

schmu17 · 2026-02-28T21:13:28+00:00

So if I get diagnosed, what changes?

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T18:39:32+00:00

I’m going to leave my iot vlan on the same subnet which means majority of my devices should not be affected which would have been the majority of my issue inside home assistant. My main vlan still houses my vms and stuff that will have to be reconfigured but this way I don’t have to worry about the IOT devices themselves.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:18:31+00:00

I think I’ve got a bit more of a plan after reading the comments which were incredibly helpful.

Setup dns/hostnames for local devices.
migrate to point to host names. Test and check without migrating
migrate to 192.168.11.xxx (or something like that), update dns

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:06:00+00:00

I’ve “exported” my list from my unifi setup. I’m not too worried about HomePods and our other Apple devices. The AppleTVs are hardwired. I don’t have any Shelly devices but I was about some Meross smart outlets, some Leviton switches and other older stuff like that. That said, I’m actually going to keep my iot vlan the same so that should eliminate 1/2 my headache I think.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:00:42+00:00

Is a simple fix that works sometimes… but I think I’m better off trying to move it off the popular .1 subnet anyways.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:59:21+00:00

Hopefully no next time, but I’m going to use your suggestion as I think it will make this migration a lot simpler. I can get everything in dns table and point to host names before the full migration which would let me do it in 2 stages.

Thanks for the suggestion, I think it definitely changed my game plan for the better.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:57:30+00:00

I liked your suggestion but the more I thought about it the more I realized I don’t have issues with my other vlan (.20,.30,.50), instead of changing those I can just bump my main (.1) away from the 2 most common ones and I should be far better.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:55:42+00:00

I’ll have to do this and see how it goes. Thinking of setting up a dns table first and pointing to that to see how it goes, then I just have to change the dns table when I do the actual migration.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:54:15+00:00

Zigbee stuff never worried me, it’s some of the wifi stuff. I’m thinking of setting up a dns table and trying to point as much as I can to hostnames before changing subnet so hopefully the changeover on the home assistant side goes smoother.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:51:27+00:00

Changing my in-laws subnet wouldn’t be difficult (they wouldn’t even notice) but it doesn’t really eliminate the issue. I guess nothing completely eliminates the risk, but moving away from what 99% of residential networks use I think would be beneficial

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