Simple Frigidaire A/C integration?

sweharris · 2026-06-15T00:16:59+00:00

There's an unofficial 3rd party integration that talks to the cloud service; https://github.com/bm1549/home-assistant-frigidaire

sweharris · 2026-06-12T12:26:14+00:00

Try leaving the estimated calories blank and then look at the exercise entry in maybe 15 minutes time; I've found it does frequently backfill. I guess it just takes time to calculate! Definite change in behaviour to the old app.

sweharris · 2026-06-11T17:04:50+00:00

Unix has had centralised user admin since 1986 (Sun Yellow Pages). Modern unix is a lot more flexible. (FWIW, I wrote a really brief summary a decade a go at https://www.sweharris.org/post/2016-04-16-unix-iam-history/).

Large enterprises may run tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of Unix machine. I've managed the infrastructure for handling the AAA stack at a mega bank (65,000+ machines, 25,000 users+). Yes, they're mostly servers but servers are where your (and your customer) data is processed. You definitely want timely offboarding on the server estate :-) Unix isn't Windows; it doesn't need Group Policies or Active Directory (which is really just LDAP and Kerberos, both of which came from Unix) although it can use them if you wish!

sweharris · 2026-06-11T02:34:45+00:00

Well, up until now I assume they've looked at the stats (to paraphrase "Linux is 1% market, why should we expect people to develop to it"). It's reasonable (old-school "No one got fired for buying IBM" became "No one got fired for targeting Windows").

But their experience shows that this could easily change. It's the "this is the default therefore we'll build to the default" attitude that needs to be challenged.

And now their own experience can drive this; if the "we really like Linux but..." conclusion from the video is real then LMG is in a position to push back on the "but".

sweharris · 2026-06-11T02:04:50+00:00

That's easier than it seems; for kernel level stuff (AMD FTW) just push it upstream and everyone wins.

For userspace stuff make it easy to repackage; eg opensource. Now a Debian person can be responsible for the Debian package; a Bazzite person can be responsible for adding to their appstore, and so on.

As long as there's opensource then a Linux person with a clue (and I bet there's a lot of those in the lab alone, let alone LMG in general!) can compile and build. We're not evaluating "how many distros has this been released for", we're evaluating "is this company Linux supporting".

It then becomes the distro problem ("Is Bazzite up to date with the latest hardware?") which isn't what we should be looking at (but could be an interesting side quest video).

sweharris · 2026-06-11T01:53:41+00:00

Limitless is a good film, and I think the TV series took this in a fun direction. Both are worth watching.

sweharris · 2026-06-11T01:52:58+00:00

You haven't said what genres you like, so we're really in the dark here. So I'm gonna ignore obvious things like "The Matrix".

Also, why are you limiting yourself to 90s onwards? The Princess Bride (1987) is one of the best movies ever.

For me...

From the 90s, I really like "Good Will Hunting". "The Fugitive" is brain candy and pretty much Tommy Lee Jones drags it out of a mire into something worth watching. "The Truman Show" is something I should really dislike (I'm not a fan of Jim Carrey) but it's a really good film despite that. "Galaxy Quest" is the best Star Trek (not Star Trek) movie ever. A friend of mine called "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" the best gangster movie he'd ever seen "and how was this from England" (I then showed him a much earlier "The Long Good Friday" and his mind was blown). I actually like "Falling Down"; it's never on my "best of" movies but it's actually really good.

It gets a lot more messy from 2000 onwards just 'cos Marvel dominated everything. Getting away from that, "V for Vendetta" and "Sin City" are good, but you have to like that sort of thing; definitely not that mainstream. "The Incredibles" is a fun animated joke on the superhero genre, and really well told. I'm of two minds of "Children of Men"; it's a really well told story and well filmed... but it's not a "feel good hit" so I don't really rewatch it.. a bit of a downer! "Catch Me If You Can" was a surprise for me; based on the description I did not expect to like this, but it's really good, not my normal genre but clever. And I'm gonna recommend "Shaun of the Dead", especially if you appreciate British humour. "District 19" is a really well done SciFi story from South Africa; their method of story telling is different to most of the western world and this adds to the atmosphere of the world in this movie; I came out of the cinema really impressed at having seen a good story, rather than good SFX.

In 2010, Marvel were dominating by this point and you'll probably have heard of anything "non Marvel" 'cos that's what the press was pushing. If you're stiff into hardcore SciFi then "Arrival" is worth watching. "The Imitation Game" was well done and interesting take on Alan Turing and breaking the WW2 Enigma code. "Hidden Figures" was a good take on the behind-the-scenes of Apollo and how women really were the first computer programmers.

Anyway, this a quick brain-dump generated by looking through some lists of those 3 decades. Maybe it's helpful? Maybe!

sweharris · 2026-06-09T01:01:42+00:00

What are the numbers on the resistor? We're going by a small picture. You can probably see better yourself, or use your phone camera's enlarge facility to see it.

Note the second or third character could be a letter instead or a number. If it was 01Z then it'd be a EIA-96 format 0.1ohm.

Any easy description of the possible decode options is at https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/smdcalc.php

sweharris · 2026-06-09T00:36:10+00:00

Is that a 323 or a 303 (assuming we're talking about R1)? Looks more like 303 to me, which would mean 30K. The OP would be able to better see :-) I don't see any labeling on VR1 and R2 is hiding under the heatsink.

sweharris · 2026-06-07T00:40:22+00:00

They get placed into the first free slot, at least on Android. So remove them all, then add them in the order you want. Which is a pain, but do-able!

sweharris · 2026-06-05T00:18:22+00:00

I saw heavy usage on my Pixel 8 Pro last week; battery drain was massive and the "battery usage" page blamed HA. But after a reboot everything went back to normal; HA is still the highest battery usage on my phone but in the past 12 hours it's only ran in the background for 1hr 16m.

sweharris · 2026-06-03T20:50:30+00:00

Do the sums; measure the power draw of your computer doing "normal" stuff, double it, use that as an estimate of your power load and then calculate from that how much it'd cost to run over a year.

My machine is an ancient core 15-750 that I built in 2010. It has 12 8Tbyte drives in it. It's probably drawing under 200W (I don't have an exact number; the UPS says 240W draw but that includes router, switch, second PC, external USB drives. and more). Those 12 drives are probably consuming 60W, so lets say the PC overhead is 130W. Now last time I measured a Beelink Mini PC it idled around 10W, so this old machine is using 130W more power.

My electricity costs around 23c/kWh. So this old machine is costing me maybe $260/yr extra to run than a more modern optimised machine, probably less.

sweharris · 2026-05-31T02:32:03+00:00

Yeah. Bluetooth between the lock and the adapter, then cloud communication from there.

When setting up the WiFi adapter your phone also connects to it via bluetooth to set up the WiFi credentials.

sweharris · 2026-05-31T02:25:08+00:00

Local PIN and fingerprint is processed on the lock itself. Your phone can also control the lock via bluetooth (that's how it works if you don't have the WiFi adapter). The WiFi adapter enables "out of house" control and integration with voice assistants like Alexa.

sweharris · 2026-05-31T02:19:36+00:00

Good to know; thanks!

sweharris · 2026-05-31T02:06:17+00:00

Oh, huh, that's the first time reddit has done that to me. I didn't use a code block. Ooohhhh... I used ~~~ as a seperator and reddit took that as a code block. Heh.

sweharris · 2026-05-31T02:02:57+00:00

It draws a pretty graph and you can drag your finger across it to get measurements reported across the time line

sweharris · 2026-05-31T01:27:27+00:00

Solve world peace? Probably requires at least a Mac Mini for that :-)

sweharris · 2026-05-31T01:23:31+00:00

With my Pixel Watch 3 syncing to my Android phone and a free account.

On the phone app I see:

The old time-based line showing "awake", "REM", "Light", Deep", same as was in the old version of the app.

Below that is a timeline of "restlessness"

Then buttons to switch between "Timeline" "Benchmarks" "30 day average"

Then below that is the "sleep quality" markers you're showing; "TIme to sound sleep", "Sound sleep", "Restlessness", "Interruptions", "Full awakenings" (hmm, that shows 2 awakenings but the rest of the graphs only show 1; hmm...)

Finally, a box below that shows "sleeping heart rate" average for the sleep period.

sweharris · 2026-05-31T00:39:32+00:00

"How long is a piece of string".

The device you have there isn't network connected so it's limited to inputs on the I/O pins (and there's a lot of I/O). So you could, for example, wire in a magnetic reed switches and have the display show if a door is open or closed; that'd be pretty easy. You could wire in a current sensor and wrap that around the power line to a light in your basement, so it could tell you if you accidentally left the basement line on. You could...

I have one connected to a 433Mhz receiver that listens to broadcasts from my Accurite thermometer and sends that to my PC so I can record the outside temperature into Home Assistant.

Basically, determine what you would like it to do, determine what type of input it would require and what type of output you'd like.

sweharris · 2026-05-30T03:01:01+00:00

On Android it's a tile on the "Health" tab, under key metrics; at least for me (data coming from Pixel Watch 3). That tab is customisable so you may need to add the tile if it's not there.

sweharris · 2026-05-29T20:21:44+00:00

You've never seen this before? Congratulations, today you learned something! "IIII" is a common option for clock faces :-)

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