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Synestine Aug 6, 2025

Collections Empty on 10.10.7

https://sh.itjust.works/post/43570092

Collections Empty on 10.10.7 - sh.itjust.works

I’ve been running Jellyfin stable on Linux for a while now. I’m up to 10.10.7 and I’ve noticed a problem I cannot fix: my Collections are now empty. They used to be fully populated, would self-update whenever I added a new movie that belongs to a Collection, and all my movies are still here and work fine, but when I went into Collections, every single Collection had no items in it. I tried refreshing various libraries (That one, Movies, etc), and even removed and re-created my Collections library, but nothing has worked. Worse, now my Collections has no Collections in it. Movies are still fine though. I’ve scoured the web, using various search terms (And wading through AI crap), but nothing has worked. I have very few plugins enabled, and none related to Collections. My movies are fine, but Collections refuses to repopulate. Has anyone else run into a problem like this? If so, were you able to get it resolved?

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Synestine Jan 21, 2025

Follow up:

(Hello future reader!)

The selection is really not great at the moment, but I was able to find a factory-refurbished Amcrest AD-410, which arrives today.

Wish me luck.

Synestine Jan 7, 2025

HA Doorbell

https://sh.itjust.works/post/30754132

HA Doorbell - sh.itjust.works

Until recently I had been using an EZVIZ DB1C doorbell. I researched before I got it, and it worked immediately when bought. Then the company started playing dirty pool. Over the next two firmware updates (WIth nothing in the notes beyond “bugfixes and imrprovements”) they stripped out the ability to use a local RTSP stream then they stripped out the ability to use their Windows-only software to even re-enable any functionality. Then they jerked me around for over a month before they finally copped to what the company had done. And of course there’s no way back to a working firmware. I know people have mentioned Reolink and Amcrest before, but those models are no longer available. Is there anything in the way of wired, mechanical-bell compatible doorbell cameras that work with HomeAssistant? I’m so sick of companies that sell you one thing, then strip out the functionality that made it useful, shoving you into their cloud/app shit or leaving you stranded on whatever firmware the thing came with. GRR

Synestine May 16, 2024

Smart-ening Window Blinds

https://sh.itjust.works/post/19397092

Smart-ening Window Blinds - sh.itjust.works

I’ve got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn’t want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them “smart”, let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now… I’ve done numerous searches, but have not found anything decent that I could use to retrofit to add any sort of automation to these blinds. The best I could find were purpose-built and/or roller shades. Is anyone here aware of any projects or products that can be added to a set of blinds to locally automate any of their features? I’m running latest stable Home Assistant in a container, if that helps. TIA!