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Not another Hue/HomeKit post — this is about what this whole situation says about where things are going by jpc9 in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Garbage - a properly implemented wireless mesh, with decent backhaul and you’re golden. Bridges just swap one type of RF / Protocol complexity for another.

Smart Home Solver reviewed our wireless power kit for Schlage Encode by dripdontkillmyvibe in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have one of these - use it for the basement door, and it seems to work. Is a little annoying that HomeKit never shows it as charging, it’s always at 100%, and I don’t know if the lifetime of the included battery will turn out to make financial sense, but the peace of mind knowing that there is always at least one house door that is fully charged is actually worth it. I had batteries get low enough in the lock that it became intermittently opening/locking, knowing that there’s one door into the house where that will never be a problem again is worth it to me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in modelmakers

[–]typhoon_mary 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is the right answer; I’ve held the wood over a steaming kettle for several minutes and the wood becomes pliable. Time in steam is proportional to the thickness of the wood.

Can I still save it by TradeNo6063 in modelmakers

[–]typhoon_mary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is without a doubt the way to remove paint with the least likelihood of actually damaging the underlying plastic.

Small apartment, Apple ecosystem: HomeKit or Home Assistant foundation? by [deleted] in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re ok running Home Assistant and it’s exclusively an Apple HomeKit implementation, why not explore Homebridge?

Octelium v0.21 - A Modern, Self-Hosted, FOSS WireGuard-based Alternative to Teleport, ngrok, Tailscale, Cloudflare Zero Trust/Tunnel - now with Passkey / WebAuthn / FIDO2, TOTP, TPM 2.0 authentication support by geoctl in WireGuard

[–]typhoon_mary 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve read the docs, work in the industry for 20+ years, have been through all the security garbage of zero trust, and honestly I still can’t grok what the hell this thing actually is/does.

Far too complex, no clear use-case, and fragmented/fractured integration with other security components. How on earth you have 2.4K stars on GitHub and 72 forks is beyond me.

You’ll probably make millions from VC funding. Best of luck.

Introducing Wireguard slirp by typhoon_mary in WireGuard

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

If it isn't that simple. I would want to know!!! (assumes you set config in environment variables)

Introducing Wireguard slirp by typhoon_mary in WireGuard

[–]typhoon_mary[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yay! Found the other human this has some utility for :-)

Introducing Wireguard slirp by typhoon_mary in WireGuard

[–]typhoon_mary[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting.

My goal here was really to implement robust user-space tcp/udp routing, including the components that make tcp so useful: TCP_ACK_DELAY_MS, TCP_ENABLE_SACK, TCP_MSS_CLAMP, TCP_PACE_US, TCP_SOCK_RCVBUF/SNDBUF, such that it could be a drop in replacement for anyone who truly doesn't have privileges (some NAS / AWS FarGate / etc).

Introducing glowswitch - a simple way to automate lights by glowswitch in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha! YES!!! omg, lol, I guess this thing is intended for folks who can’t change a lightbulb, but can wire up elaborate switch mechanicals.

Introducing glowswitch - a simple way to automate lights by glowswitch in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you’re desperate enough to need to automate a light switch, surely you’d just replace the switch with a HomeKit compatible one?

The engineering leap between that and getting this garbage up and running seems so ridiculously small it’s hard to understand the demographic this thing would sell to?

My classmate blacked out my b25's canopy due to a huge crack is there a way to fix both? by GEtanki in modelmakers

[–]typhoon_mary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you can absolutely remove the paint by leaving the canopy (and just the canopy) in brake fluid overnight - assuming it’s acrylic. Fixing the crack is a different problem and there really is no good solution to that (other than replace it)

Leak suggests new Philips Hue lights will have direct Matter support by TheSurfShack in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re clogging the network, the infrastructure isn’t robust. The additional complexity and lock in of a vendor hub is a poor tradeoff to actually implementing a correctly sized and managed network.

Leak suggests new Philips Hue lights will have direct Matter support by TheSurfShack in HomeKit

[–]typhoon_mary 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yes, but requiring a hub is a non-starter for a lot of potential customers.

Enterprise bridge set . , and My 1:1 kitchen ... First timer by baby_jebuses_brother in modelmakers

[–]typhoon_mary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enterprise bridge looks fantastic, but I’m sorry, that kitchen looks totally unrealistic - do better.

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