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Z2M slow since 2025.3

https://lemmy.world/post/26693981

Z2M slow since 2025.3 - Lemmy.World

Anyone else finding their z2m mesh is going slow? Can’t work out the cause, wondering if it is related to recent patch.

Help guiding my son through his exams

https://lemmy.world/post/26231771

Help guiding my son through his exams - Lemmy.World

Hi folks. I think my 16yo son has ADHD. He shows a lot of the classic behaviours. (Not listed for brevity) He’s smart, performs well in class, but struggles badly with exams, detail. He is also struggling with revision. He’s been a high performing up until now but he’s hit hit the limit of his abilities. His exams are 2 months away, we won’t get a diagnosis in time 😔 Can anyone here suggest resources or personal insights that could help me help him through this period? Thanks!

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.

https://lemmy.world/post/25253827

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. - Lemmy.World

I’m pulling my hair out over this. I’ve got a proxmox homelab, an LXC running technitium installed from TTeck’s script. The DNS server is also doing DHCP for my network. I have an authoritative zone for ‘.lan’ I can get NS, SOA, TXT records from the DNS server, but no A records! The DNS query logs show that it gives an answer, and if I am on the DNS server itself I get an answer, but no other machines on the network hear the reply. I think this means the DNS server is working properly. There are no FWs in the way as I can resolve other types. Where else can I look, or how can I diagnose this? I am completely at a loss.

Hardware Recovery Strategies

https://lemmy.world/post/22640955

Hardware Recovery Strategies - Lemmy.World

I had a bit of a scare this week. My setup is HAOS running on Proxmox. I have a Sonoff USB Zigbee gateway. (also a coral for Frigate, and a USB SSD attached to Proxmox) Friday night, the server stops for no reason. I dig it out from the cupboard and I can hear the fan short cycling. I disconnect everything and take it to a screen so I can see what’s happening - it boots fine, WTH? Must be a USB thing. Add them back one by one and when I connect the gateway back problem is back. Now I get worried. Switch USB port and remap to HAOS and boom! back up and running. Panic over, cold house (radiators are zigbee) and angry wife and children avoided. All of which has lead me to consider that my HA set up is really ‘Mission Critical’ and I need some recovery strategies beyond a daily backup. I think the gateway can be swapped but I’m not sure if the key to the zigbee mesh is hardware encoded or software. This is the question - What are your recovery strategies? Do they include hardware or just software? I’m thinking maybe I need a second dongle and a couple of low powered machines in the Proxmox cluster. I won’t be able to get my homely back up immediately, but if I can get HA running again on a different node with a backup dongle I’d be OK.

'Touch points' in HA - Lemmy.World

I was reading the HA roadmap and thinking about the points where everyone (else) interacts with my HA environment. I’ve wanted displays/dashboards for a long time but mostly have either battery powered buttons or smart wall switches. These are good in that I can automate them but with two teenage children we have a lot of variability. Tell me how everyone else uses HA in your house. Do they love it? Do they see only that buttons ‘do things’? Do they read dashboards and crave data?

when is the best time to go to the dentist?

https://lemmy.world/post/4305725

when is the best time to go to the dentist? - Lemmy.world

Two-Thirty!

Help building a homebrew NVR

https://lemmy.world/post/1771762

Help building a homebrew NVR - Lemmy.world

I’ve got a project in mind I’d like to test with the community before going ok deep on. I’d like to put together a face-recognising NVR closely tied to homeassistant. I’m thinking of using an RPi4 with a coral attached. Then installing docker and including the following: - frigate - doubletake - compreface (unless others recommend a better detector?) I have an MQTT server in HA but also wondering if it makes sense to have a local MQTT server for the NVR. As usual, I’m working on the edge of what I know, so any suggestions/comments on things that might trip me up would be warmly welcomed.