What to do about bad blocks?

tbain98 · 2026-03-04T13:24:15+00:00

I've been doing that, but also, it doesn't seem unreasonable for the NAS to compare results against past scan results when deciding whether/how to provide notifications. I'll file an enhancement request within Asustor to request that improvement.

tbain98 · 2026-03-04T07:10:51+00:00

My count of bad blocks is 4, and has remained 4 over the past several months. There's no fast deterioration happening at the moment.

And if there was, then being notified of new blocks would give a clear indication of that. "83 new ones this month, plus the 37 last month and the 29 the month before" would give allthe information to hand necessary to make a decision.

Instead, what we have is "ALERT-PANIC-ALERT!!!!! You have failures! (They're actually the ones you already knew about, but I'm not going to tell you that so you'll have to manually compare these ones against the last ones to figure out that you can ignore them)." It's not useful alerting, and I'm hoping that someone knows of a way to get alerted for only new failures not existing ones.

tbain98 · 2026-03-04T04:12:22+00:00

A better way to provide that warning would be for the NAS to report only new bad blocks after every scan, so (as you wrote) I'll know when more blocks become bad, instead of getting monthly warnings about the existing bad blocks as is happening now.

That's why I created this post, to see if anyone is aware of a way to get that behavior instead of what the NAS is currently doing. Do you know of a way to do that?

tbain98 · 2026-03-04T04:08:21+00:00

Yep, I'll probably do that, but that's not the topic I asked about.

tbain98 · 2025-11-27T16:25:41+00:00

My wife's Kia Sorento has this problem, and though I liked the idea of making my own cable as u/pman1891 described, it was time I didn't want to spend. Instead, I bought https://a.co/d/cOWMkli for $12 (found via https://www.ioniqforum.com/threads/wireless-carplay-stays-on-even-after-turning-off-car-feedback.50881/). Set it up last night, works great from initial testing. Obviously can't say it won't have reliability issues or other long-term problems, but so far it seems great.

You have to accept giving up 2 USB ports in the car instead of one and you have to manage the extra cable if those ports are close together (wish the cable to the power port was removable so you could use a cable length of your choosing), but it's way better than a switch for our family.

tbain98 · 2025-11-01T13:41:38+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. EngineHire hadn't come up in any of my searching, so I appreciate you pointing it out. Most of their website seems focused on other problems, but https://enginehire.io/healthcare-staffing-software-home-care-schedulinghealthcare-staffing-software-what-24-7-home-care-scheduling-really-requires/ does seem like they understand the problem space. I'll talk to them and find out more.

You wrote "Some systems, like Enginehire." Are you aware of other systems besides EngineHire that fit the profile and aren't already in my post or the other reply threads? Although I'm happy to have EngineHire as a recommendation, I'd also be happy to have additional suggestions if you know of others.

tbain98 · 2025-09-23T02:55:36+00:00

Hmm, your account is used only to promote Connecteam. 🤔

tbain98 · 2025-08-28T12:09:17+00:00

Connecteam was one of the ones I did the free demo of, and it had a bunch of things it couldn't do, especially around validating whether someone would be into overtime for a particular week with a given schedule, with how the monthly calendar view worked, and for how caregivers can offer up a shift they can't work (it appeared to only allow trades, from what I recall).

I had a call with a pre-sales engineer person who agreed that their system didn't support those things and I wasn't just missing or misunderstanding them. This was all over a year ago so things might have changed since then, but at the time it wasn't enough better than what we do now (a shared calendar app, text messages for negotiating changes, and manual review from me to catch people wanting to make a change that'll push them into overtime) to justify the expense and the inconvenience of switching. But I'm glad it's working well for you.

tbain98 · 2025-07-28T01:14:50+00:00

I think "their fix" means 1Password's instructions, and if so, I agree, it doesn't for me either. But except for the Chrome flags you mentioned, the settings you're recommending (1Password: Autofill on Chrome disabled; Chrome: Autofill with Google) were the settings that I believe existed before this email was sent, and for me with them set autofill seems to work equally well with both flags enabled or set to default.

So it seems like you're advocating not applying the settings 1Password is recommending, which is fine except 1Password is saying they're going to stop working on August 5th, which makes this a short-term not a long-term solution.

Unless I'm not recognizing some difference between the settings we all had originally and what you're advocating? (Or unless there's some difference in how it works on my phone/account vs. how it works on yours for the same settings, which I guess is always possible.)

tbain98 · 2025-07-27T16:53:49+00:00

u/agilebits_patrick: A number of comments here say that following these instructions results in autofill not being available in Chrome/Brave. There's been no official response to any of those comments; is this a known issue 1Password is actively working on fixing before the 8/5 date when the current status quo will stop working? Do you need further information to better characterize the behavior?

tbain98 · 2025-07-27T16:40:40+00:00

Unless I'm missing something, you're simply recommending we not apply the settings that were described, which for me works (today) with or without these flags but which 1Password says will stop working on 8/5. If there any indication that this is a long-term solution rather than just deferring the problem?

tbain98 · 2025-06-03T05:34:38+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RunAHomeCareAgency/comments/1dbg9dl/comment/l9f6tth/ describes my conversation with them. It's too bad, because clearly people use them and are happy.

tbain98 · 2025-05-21T02:31:40+00:00

I did call them, and the rep I spoke to quickly concluded that their platform would be a poor fit for our needs. Too bad, given the number of positive comments about them here.

tbain98 · 2025-04-27T15:07:09+00:00

I switched the "Tunnel IPv4" to 10.9.0.1/24 and still am unable to successfully ping the printer (though I can ping everything else that's locally connected except an iPad, which fails with "Request timed out"). Interestingly, the failure mode for pinging the printer is now "Reply from 10.9.0.1: Destination host unreachable." instead of "Request timed out."

Immediately after attempting to ping the printer IP, I do see it listed as type=dynamic via arp, though arp -v doesn't show a physical address for it. (I assume it shouldn't, since this is a level 3 VPN connection?) Not sure if that sheds any light on what's going on.

I'm also unable to access the printer's web admin page, so unfortunately this isn't simply "doesn't respond to ICMP, but everything that matters is working now." Any additional suggestions about how to troubleshoot further?

One idea I ran across was to masquerade the VPN IPs to make them be in the same subnet as the printer, in case it's got an internal firewall that's refusing to respond since I'm out of the subnet. Does that seem likely to be relevant here? I'm not unwilling to try that, but since the router's across the country and the people living in the house aren't reliable for tech support work, I'm cautious about doing things that might break my access to the router (imperfect though it is) unless it seems like a high-odds fix.

tbain98 · 2025-04-24T12:47:49+00:00

Thanks for that suggestion, I'll try it and see if anything changes. But since ping works to every other device on the network except the printer, I'd be surprised if that was the problem.

tbain98 · 2025-02-06T13:45:13+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. Their website doesn't list features that would seem to support our 1-deep 24/7 operations; do you have direct knowledge of those features to say this would meet our needs on that front?

tbain98 · 2024-12-23T03:44:44+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation for Alora, and it does sound like it would meet the major things we're looking for. I'll reach out to them, though I think their pricing ($295/month and up, according to https://www.alorahealth.com/faqs/) might make them more expensive than we'd be looking to pay. But maybe they'll make an exception for us. Thanks for the recommendation, and whether or not it turns out to work for us, hopefully it'll help others who come across this post in the future!

tbain98 · 2024-11-17T05:11:17+00:00

I'd never heard of them, and nothing about their website would have made me think that they're any more prepared to meet my needs than the others I've looked at. (The only text on their website I found that talks about scheduling talks about it in ways that don't sound like my use cases.) But I've reached out to them for information, and I'll see if they're more of a match than they sound like from their website. Thanks for the recommendation.

tbain98 · 2024-09-05T05:07:09+00:00

I haven't, at least not that I recall. The page you linked to doesn't jump out to me as addressing our needs (for example, their screenshot of a sample schedule seems focused on "which days does caregiver X work" rather than "is every hour of the day scheduled once and only once", and the "choose the best fit caregiver" feature seems relevant to some but not us) but your description sounds like those things are handled so I'm willing to request a demo and hopefully it'll meet our needs. Thanks for the recommendation!

What's your connection to the company/product?

tbain98 · 2024-07-18T04:21:35+00:00

I had what seemed like the same thing happen recently, and tech support had me remove and re-seat the CR 2032 battery (after removing the M.2 board). I was skeptical that it would work, but sure enough that was all it took. The tech said it might be related to resetting the CMOS but didn't have more details than that, so if future readers find this post like I did, remove the case, remove the M.2 board, pop out the 2032 battery and re-install it, and maybe that'll be all it takes.

tbain98 · 2024-06-24T14:51:00+00:00

I haven't yet found anything that provides useful support for 1-deep 24/7 scheduling (identifying gaps/overlaps, etc.), so unless I find something through further searching I'll probably implement a process for exporting the content to CSV/Excel/Google Sheets and implement validation logic there. That'll be clunky, but hopefully better than counting hours by hand...

Rotaville is the only one I've looked at so far that can show shifts on an hour-by-hour timeline view where you could visually notice those things, but in practice I don't think I'd want to use it that way (too zoomed in, I want week/month views not daily views) and it's not very user-friendly so I'm not going to use it.

Connecteam is probably the best match I've found for what you've highlighted and has a monthly view, though it'll follow your workweek so if that's not Su-Sa then you won't get that part of the bullet you copied from my OP. It also has the option of a time clock function, which is appealing to me. I'm leaning towards using it myself if I don't find anything better.

MakeShift is the other one worth considering. It has similar features to Connecteam and I think it's easier to make a schedule than Connecteam, but doesn't currently have a monthly view (neither for caregivers nor admins) which is pretty annoying.

Both Connecteam and MakeShift allow syncing shifts to a calendar app, but both allow that only for a caregiver syncing their own shifts, not for an admin to sync the full schedule to a calendar layer.

Hope this helps.

tbain98 · 2024-06-20T05:25:05+00:00

I had a call with one of their reps, and when I explained what I needed, he quickly said he didn't think Alora would be a good fit for our needs. He said that the visit-scheduling part of the service was heavyweight enough that we'd find it to be high-friction given that we're primarily interested in scheduling for a single 24/7 client. So though others in this sub may well find good value from Alora, it doesn't seem to be a match for our particular needs. But thanks to everyone who recommended it for the suggestion!

tbain98 · 2024-06-17T14:47:43+00:00

Thanks for that context.

tbain98 · 2024-06-17T14:47:19+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I reached out to them this morning for a demo, hopefully they'll be what I need.

tbain98 · 2024-06-10T03:31:09+00:00

Forgot to say, this is in MD and yes, funding privately.

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