ZS
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Daytime Windows sysadmin, Nighttime BSD/Linux/Home automation homelabber. ARM Mac user. Weekend volunteer train driver. Destiny 2/Diablo 4 gamer.
Andrew
Thread Group#Homey's mission has always been simple: make smart homes truly smart. By adopting #Thread and integrating it into #HomeyPro, they've created a seamless, low-power, and future-proof platform that unifies devices.
Read the full #successstory here: https://www.threadgroup.org/Portals/0/Documents/Homey%20SS.pdf
Just a TIL - if you buy a #aeotec #smartthings hub, and it was manufactured before April 2024, there's a good chance it won't work, as the SSL cert in factory images before that expired in March 2025. You will likely get an error 33-504.
Once the firmware is updated, they're fine, but getting it to update is a challenge.
Workaround is to block NTP on your firewall, so the hub doesn't know what time it is upon reset, and it'll then happily work and update.
I just got a second hub from Amazon UK and it was manufactured in 2021, so it took a bit of digging to get the thing working.
https://community.smartthings.com/t/troubleshooting-smartthings-hub-2018-and-aeotec-hub/298332
Troubleshooting SmartThings Hub 2018 and Aeotec Hub
Use this guide for troubleshooting help with onboarding your Hub. We also include Hub replacement information if necessary. Overview When encountering the 33-504 error while claiming a SmartThings Hub 2018 (IM6001-V3P) or an Aeotec SmartThings Hub, the following root causes may apply: Your hub cannot access the internet over Ethernet or Wi-Fi connections Hubs manufactured before April 2024 may not have received firmware updates after production. If a Hub has not been claimed by March 2, 2025,...
#Google rolled out their device finding network a few years ago. It's still utterly useless.
I put an #Airtag, a Samsung Smarttag and a #Chipolo Spot in the side pocket of my car.
I currently have a Samsung phone with Google's Find system set to find anywhere. Wife has an #iphone
The Airtag updates and is traceable pretty much everywhere. The Samsung Smarttag is pretty much similar, sometimes it's position is half an hour out of date, but a few refreshes later it pops up.
The Chipolo running Googles Network is bad. It hasn't seen the tracker since 2nd June. The tracker is in the car which is 3 feet away from me. Last reported position is at work, 50 miles away. I, along with the tracker visited the largest city in the country on the 4th June, where the car sat in a highly populated area for 3 hours.
The actual Cipolo is still transmitting, because I can see it in #homeassistant
Tldr; don't buy a Bluetooth tracker that relies on Google Find My network, and expect to be able yo find your thing.
3 weeks in and I can say the #homeassistant yellow works great with the CM5. All I did was pop out the CM4, move the little heatpads and flashed a new version of HAOS on to the SSD using the Pi imager.
I didn't *need* to reinstall, but my old install was severely full of cruft after years of tinkering.
The CM5 is fast. HA runs as quick as it does on a low end miniPC. Uses about 5W running off POE.
Alex Kretzschmar"there's no other podcast out there for self-hosters that do it quite like you guys do" #selfhosting #selfhosted
Self-Hosted 150. Fin.
Almost 6 years. 150 episodes. 34 guests. 1 Chris. 1 Badger. 1 podcast comes to an end. I thought it fitting to write this post, about the Self-Hosted podcast drawing to a conclusion, on the very self-hosted blog that began my self-hosting journey way back in August 2013. (blog.ktz.
YouTube Premium is £4 cheaper if you subscribe through Android or a browser than if you subscribe through the YouTube app on iOS. #AppleTax
George Monbiot1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
Out with the old, in with the new. Replaced a 4GB/32GB eMMC CM4 that was the heart of my #homeassistant Yellow, with a 8GB CM5 and a 512GB Samsung PM981 NVMe.
Very simple process:
1: Prepare the NVMe drive by installing HAOS using a cheap USB to NVMe dongle and Pi Imager.
2: Take full backup of HA
3: power down, swap the CM (don’t forget to move the heatsink pads
4: Install the NVMe
5: Boot up and restore the backup.
6: ????
7: Profit!
