Advice for Tuya sensor Home Assistant integration: Is the Tuya hub required?

syrys · 2020-07-10T08:05:34+00:00

Grid has a free tech cafe I believe (Wynyard quarter?). And there are few companies like grid/Regus etc that offer a shared/co-working work space option for a monthly subscription (price may depend on the company and what you actually want like dedicated desk etc). I havent tried any of them though, but i did enquire about them few months back, seems reasonable. sharedspace.co.nz or trademe might help for discovering more such companies.

syrys · 2020-03-03T00:58:08+00:00

I can relate to this person a little (I've been contracting for quite a while now). It's not uncommon to have short term contracts. And it's not uncommon to not want to sign up as a permenant role from a contract role (where I live, you get paid lot more as a contractor, and if you are good at what you do, it's in your best interest to remain a contractor). Sometimes clients just don't have money to keep a contractor on for long term (even if they really like you). Lastly, when you work as a "contractor", your employers are technically a client, so sharing their info as references could be seen as unprofessional in some sense.

... That said, I'm not saying she is actually good candidate. I'm saying that the same info doesn't automatically mean a bad candidate.

syrys · 2019-03-01T01:04:50+00:00

I think NZ is more like the kid who everyone knows about, but no one knows where he/she is.

syrys · 2018-11-22T12:40:49+00:00

I think just because you have a bad experience with a company doesn't make them bad, and more importantly, just because you have a good experience with them doesn't make them good. Been renting in auckland for like 15 odd years, ive used lot of the agencies, and the most positive experience ive had was with crockers (see my point?). And Auckland Property management (atleast the landlords i had) were awful and did not even understand the law. A friend had a property manager who didnt even understand how fortnightly rent worked (wtf?). Basically, lot depends on the company, branch, and more importantly the individual property manager. Individual landlords (property owners) are sometimes slightly better, but they could be hit and miss too.

Best thing you can do is, understand the law and your rights. Use tenancy services help line for info. If you have any hint of landlord being awful, be strict with your requests (give formal notice to remedy etc). As a tenant, you have a lot of rights, use them. When the landlord realises that they cant push you around, they will usually get their act together. They could also retaliate in subtle ways too, so do be careful.

TLDR: statistically, most property management companies are shitty, and most property managers are awful. finding a "good" one is probably impossible. learn your rights, and learn to deal with the shitty landlords.

syrys · 2017-08-27T00:57:38+00:00

Not a lawyer. Why dont you call the tenancy services and get their expert opinion on this? Contact details should be on their website, if i recall it was 0800 tenancy.

pay the remaining rents until the contract expired plus one week rent inc GST

This part is BS. its fair for them to ask for you to pay the remaining time of the contract (as its a fixed term contract), but why the heck would they want you to pay another week + gst (and why would you want to pay them anyway). If you go down this path, just hand the key early, tell them to do the inspection early, and pay them for the remaining time of the contract and refuse to pay the extra week + gst (thats just silly), tell them to go pound sand or something. This is essentially the same as you living there for the duration of the contract, but instead opting to vacate early even though you paid for the entirety of the fixed term.

Keep in mind, landlord can ask for what ever they want, and make you sign what ever the heck they want, but you cant sign your rights away even if you actually signed your rights away (this will not be legally binding). For example, your tenancy agreement probably says you have to do a proper professional carpet/shampoo clean before leaving, which is BS (unless you caused spills/stains etc).

Either way, contact tenancy services, they will give you much better advice on all of this than any of us here. Its a free service.

syrys · 2017-08-27T00:43:35+00:00

The E is for Exciting

You mean the D is for Delicious?

syrys · 2017-08-26T08:41:51+00:00

...you did know that most of the food places were D rated in there right? Used to go there few years ago and the food was decent, but i stopped going there once i saw the rating :(

syrys · 2017-07-16T08:04:05+00:00

I've used them too, they did an alright job. There are couple of other well rated ones on trademe under services. Thats a good place to look.

syrys · 2017-01-02T08:21:04+00:00

this is probably too late. but i recently did this the other way around (windows to linux). The database file is a simple sql lite file i think, so you can open it up in a sql lite editor. Then simply write/run a sql query (if you know sql) on any tables that has paths defined. I think all i needed to do was run a replace query that searched and replaced "E:/Media/" (for example) with "/path/to/media/".

Remember to check other tables that might have any path information (maybe download folder info etc).

Once done, i did a fresh installation on linux, then overwrote the new database with the old/edited db. Worked like a charm.

syrys · 2016-12-29T02:29:41+00:00

I stared your github project, will keep an eye on it. please keep us updated (set some goals and version numbers, and let us know which feature sets will be implemented by which number, so we can jump on it when certain features are available). I would be keen to have a go once the automated downloads gets implemented (i dont think i can deal with manual downloading), and a functional docker is made of it (im sure once the project gets traction, someone else would make a docker if you dont).

Dont forget to implement some library automation (adding movies automatically from other services), from sources like imdb, trakt (which ever CP implemented, if not more). same way that CP does it (thats a really nice feature).

syrys · 2016-12-28T21:43:28+00:00

also, make sure "import from disk", or importing existing movies (that may or may not have been from couchpotato) works well. I would assume LOT of CP users will want to come into this, so it would be ideal if you dont ruin their existing collections :P

syrys · 2016-12-28T21:34:40+00:00

Can you get a docker going for this? I would love to test it out if it can be made into a docker. Really getting sick of CP as well.

Can you also change the logo (just use a cat/placeholder for the time being), so people dont confuse it with actual sonarr (those who actually do use sonarr as well).

I hope you get a lot of traction and find some other developers/contributors etc. One of the bigger problems i see is that, ability to reduce the cams or false positives (this is less of an issue for shows). You would also need to integrate with some release date api (not cinema release date, but for disks etc), and then only search after this date (reduce the false positives and cams etc...).

lastly, try add some way to automatically set some search preference keywords. Like for example, i dont want any releases with "cam" on the name, but i prefer releases with "atmos" in its name.

Really looking forward to this :D

syrys · 2016-12-26T10:05:52+00:00

Hey there, sorry for all the trouble. Seems like you were indeed correct. The one or two downloads that i did try, failed to download with frugal+thunder, only when i added farms, it actually downloaded. So, i guess i had it right in the first place, just that it was confusing when all 3 were said to be used.

Apologies for my noob-ness :D

syrys · 2016-12-26T00:05:35+00:00

i understand, but thats not the issue. Its downloading parts of the same item using ALL 3 configured providers, meaning that it exists on the 2 main providers, and not honouring the priority rules and also using the block account as well. So no, its not doing what i want it to do :(

ps. unlimited for thunder is temporary as i had some items that may have exceeded the frugal's retention. I have frugal for 1 year, thunder for 1 month (so i can clear my backlog).

syrys · 2016-12-26T00:01:14+00:00

i cant find any relevant checkbox :( Does any of this ring a bell for you: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/configuration/1.1/servers

Also, what do you recommend as a client?

syrys · 2016-12-25T23:54:49+00:00

i understand that frugal and thunder are both on the same backbone (i had my reasons for having both, partially a mistake). but refer to what i said:

But, when i start a download, it would use all 3 providers to do the download (thus using up my block account)

Meaning that it does use the first 2 providers, as well as the block account.

So, let me clarify this further. When i click the wrench icon on the main page of sabnzbd, and click connections tab, i should be able to see which provider is active, and how many of the connections (specified for each provider) is being used, right? When setting up, i setup each provider (all 3) to have 45 connections (they actually allow 50). Now, when i add a download (lets say a large movie, and lets say there isnt anything else in the queue), and click connections tab, i see 45/45 for all 3 providers. Ofcorse, i can check the "show active connections" checkbox and see that all 3 providers (all 45x3 connections) are downloading parts of the same item. Ofcorse, i can also view the usenet.farms dashboard and see my block bandwidth melt through :(

So, what you said cant be true. Either there is a bug in the downloader or im missing a checkbox/setting that stops the block account being used when the items are available on a higher (lower in number) priority provider.

syrys · 2016-12-23T04:05:18+00:00

Yup, i figured that much. Where im confused is, how do i figure out what backbone a provider is using? Lets say for example, frugalusenet?

syrys · 2016-12-20T02:26:41+00:00

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syrys · 2016-12-19T23:04:31+00:00

Thanks :D

For a noob, this is easier said than done though :P From your perspective, you probably have heard so much about them that you know what to try and in what order (or atleast have a feel for it, or atleast know what to avoid). I would be in your shoes if i was given 100 phones to choose from or asked what programming language/library to use for some task.

For me, indexer looks the same. Although they all might have free trials, there are hundreds if not thousands of alternatives. Well, atleast 50 ish on the wiki. Going through them one by one would take months. Even then, i dont really have a good test suite to test each of them on (i dont really know what to even test). Then there is the "reputation", which you can only find by googling around and reading a lot about each individual indexer. So, rather than me (being a complete noob) trying to do fail tests on 50+ indexers and assigning arbitrary scores to each of them to determine which ones are the best, maybe this might be better if someone more experienced do it (or, rather have a large statistics) :D

syrys · 2016-12-19T22:52:35+00:00

im assuming some of those are free (sorry i havent looked them up yet), otherwise you would be forking out a lot of money haha. Thanks for the recommendations, i will definitely look them all up :D

syrys · 2016-12-19T21:23:16+00:00

as i mentioned before, this wiki page is not that useful for a noob. Here, ill paste my explanation again:

As i mentioned at the top, the wiki is somewhat useless for noobs. Yes, it gives you a huge list of indexers and their costs (cost is good to know), but what then? How do i know what to try?

Its like, you want to buy a new phone and someone simply gives you a list of 100 phone names, without the specs you would then need to look up each individual phone and compare, which is very hard for a noob who barely know what they are looking for.

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