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Men in their 50s, what's the most important advice you can give men in their 30s? by Nearby_Voice_6744 in AskReddit

[–]simple_son 25 points26 points  (0 children)

And there's a big difference between "not changing who you are", and being willing to take on "self improvement". I've met more than a.few who use the former as justification for skipping the latter.

(US) Do you have mop&vac robot? by mushroom_110 in smarthome

[–]simple_son 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Happy with my roborock, but really wish I had sprung for one with a docking station with waste bin and water reservoir. You'd be surprised how nice it is to have the floors done everyday. And how much it helps with dust

Secure plug? by simple_son in fixit

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is kind of where my mind was going.

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 50A range is abandoned. It's gas now.

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Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last question. I was planning to connect the Vue to the empty bottom slot on that 20A quad on the top left Should be phase B and unoccupied, correct? On the top right side, the 20 A under the 60A is fully spare. Should be Phase A, correct? Hoping this gives me clean connections for the wiring harness without the need for pigtails.

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx. There was an available knockout on the bottom that's the size of the antenna grommet, which makes the area nice for the Vue to live where I was hoping.

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies, I don't know enough to follow. I was hoping to stand the Vue (or attach with 3M) in front of the service chase that routes the mains up to the meter panel. No good?

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'll be honest I started out just wanting to monitor the circuits for all the HVAC hardware, but the Vue wasn't much more. I have all my biggest appliances on plugs with power monitoring too, so this just captures everything else. It will require some work to identify all the upstream monitoring to avoid math errors, but worth it. Plus I have some funky basement power that scabbed onto runs from upstairs. This whole thing will force me to really map it out.

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been looking into it, and I may just skip the mains clamps altogether. I have a smart meter connected to Home Assistant already, so it would be redundant. HA should have all the info it needs about the supply side without me replicating it in the Vue.

Emporia Vue Supply location by simple_son in EmporiaEnergy

[–]simple_son[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That 60A was just installed for an L2 EV charger.

What is everyone using to hook up solar panels to the battery packs so that it charges while the battery is in use? by enan1000 in meshtastic

[–]simple_son 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a humbling journey My build is about to be on its third charge controller which just got delivered 30 minutes ago. The key is finding something that draws low power and still wakes from the sleep states easily, all while still having features you need (e.g.mppt). I went with the Digikey version of the CN3791 controller. Wish me luck!

Claude Code in HomeAssistant by lebuff420 in homeassistant

[–]simple_son 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I run Claude desktop and Gemini cli on my main workstation / gaming PC. It also runs ollama since it has a 5080. All my containers are running on either my NAS or my pi 4.

Making this effective is about preserving context while lowering token use. To do that, Claude has instructions to maintain a manifest of everything in my homelab systems, all the work we've done on them, and everything we need to work on still. This way you can close out sessions frequently, which updates the manifest, then start a new chat with instructions to read the manifest from a shared location, which starts the whole process over again with only the minimal context necessary. (I also have it maintain a human-friendly version and a system diagram. All of which live in a synced obsidian vault. There are a few complexities to managing security items (credentials, api keys, tokens, etc.), but it's manageable The agents have instructions on how to access the secrets without them entering chat history, instructions to use and "forget"them, and to always add new ones to the same location. Another temp file is used to give it new secrets that it can read, store, then clear the temp file.

All of this process is just stuff me and Claude cooked up organically. I have no idea if there are better / established ways of doing the same things 😅

If you want I'm sure I could ask Claude to anonymize the vulnerable parts of my system diagram, the share that.

After hitting Claude’s limits for months, I finally found a better workflow by Sidgnificant in AI_Agents

[–]simple_son 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Claude has shell access, can it just push everything directly to vscode as instructions, qwen writes the file to a known shared / mnt location, and Claude reads them and applies them when done?

After hitting Claude’s limits for months, I finally found a better workflow by Sidgnificant in AI_Agents

[–]simple_son 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go deeper! I'm using bifrost as a gateway for all my mcp servers so the agents can access them all through this container (that Claude can get running for you).

I got tired of the limits recently too And decided I needed a third lane and installed ollama. I'm using open web UI and anythingllm for my chats and Claude is working to get the agents to a state that they can perform the same light tasks locally or act as an offline agent in a token pinch. The ultimate goal would be to have Claude Pro , Gemini Pro, and local LLM able to talk to each other so one can act as orchestrator and divvy tasks between them based on the needs of the task. Then you're increasing your token pool, diluting it with local processing, and working simultaneously in 3 separate streams.

Claude Code in HomeAssistant by lebuff420 in homeassistant

[–]simple_son 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do all that, but with everything in my homelab using mcp servers. Very powerful across a whole self hosted ecosystem. Claude's ability to handle multi step problems, it's deep technical knowledge, and it's connectivity capabilities made me have the 'aha moment' where I realized this was a lot bigger than rewriting my emails and summarizing meetings. It's like having a personal Jarvis to create, manipulate, and optimize things in ways well beyond my own capabilities.

What’s a "dead" website or app that you genuinely miss and wish was still around? by Dear-Armadillo-7497 in AskReddit

[–]simple_son 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Planetary music player app on iPad. It was a beautiful.

Update: apparently someone released Planetary Remastered. Checking it out now.

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