GreatBlueHeron

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First ever upgrade issue - lost zwave controller in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Did you read my post, or just the subject? I'm not asking for help, just sharing an observation - just in case I got a bunch of "me too"s.

I resolved my issue by unplugging and replugging my Zooz USB stick.

First ever upgrade issue - lost zwave controller in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It seemed to be a hardware issue - the blue light on the controller was out until I removed and replaced it. It's too much of a coincidence for me though that I just happened to have this hardware issue at the time when the software that uses that hardware was being updated.

I use Vendor/Product ID to access it:

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 10c4:ea60 Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1a86:55d4 QinHeng Electronics 800 Z-Wave Stick
...


<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>
      <source>
        <vendor id='0x1a86'/>
        <product id='0x55d4'/>
      </source>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </hostdev>
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First ever upgrade issue - lost zwave controller (piefed.ca)
 

I've been running Home Assistant for about a year now and always installed every update as soon as it's released and never had any issues at all.

Yesterday some time in either the zwave js 15.6.0 or core 2025.6.0 update (I am too complacent and did them both in quick succession without testing anything) I lost my Zooz 800 zwave controller. Reloading HA didn't bring it back. I had unplug and replug the Zooz USB stick and then reload again.

Not a big deal, just sharing FYI.

Discussion: Ideas to take the movement further in c/fuckyourheadlights@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I feel that this battle is lost. Many of the cars that blind me are newer models with (presumably) the headlights they came from the factory with. Yes, the lifted redneck trucks with ill adjusted LED "bulbs" in reflectors that were made for halogens, are worse - but not a lot.

As long as design regulations allow it, they will build it. So, anyone wanting to do anything about this should focus their energy on lobbying their relevant government agency.

Maybe someone might invent night driving glasses that can filter the particularly annoying wavelengths.

Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not a server admin., just a user. The Lemmy instance I'm on setup a Piefed instance in parallel and is giving users the option to use either, or both. I'm still trying to get my head around the history and the pros/cons of each but for now it seems like I'm switching to Piefed. I imagine that if most users move then the Lemmy instance might get shutdown in the future.

Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging UK policy on Gaza in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

and added the government had “rigorously applied international law” in relation to the war in Gaza.

I'm no lawyer, but if the law allows for the continued sale of weapons to a government when there is an active arrest warrant for the leader of said government, for misuse of those weapons - then the law is broken.

And it's not just any arrest warrant - the warrant is issued by the ICC, and the UK is a state party to the Rome Accord, which is the treaty that gives the ICC authority.

I didn't know all that, I went and looked it up for this comment. The Wikipedia page was interesting reading.

PCIe M.2 adapters in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah, I need a TPU - my CPU is 5 generations too old

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How can I identify this 1Mbps being generated by my UDR? (piefed.ca)
 

In my home network I have a UniFi Dream Router connected to an EdgeRouter X. The UDR is not being used as designed - I'm using it as a combo WiFi access point and 4 port switch. It also runs my UniFi Network application to manage my other UniFi APs. It complains that it has no internet access, but still does the job I need it to do.

I'm seeing fairly consistent 1Mbps traffic being generated by the UDR. I say it's generated by the UDR because when I look at the ethernet ports and connected WiFi devices I can't see it coming from anywhere - I can see it going out the port connected to the EdgeRouter X, and on the EdgeRouter I can see it coming in from the UDR but I can't see where it goes from there - it's into my main Cisco switch and mixed with all my other traffic.

I was hoping to be able to identify it by turning on Traffic Analysis on ERX, but I see nothing at all. I suspect because the ERX is not routing - it's configured as a switch? Similarly, when I ssh into the ERX and run tcpdump, I only see the broadcast and multicast traffic from the UDR - I can't see anything that might be this 1Mbps.

As I was typing this I thought maybe it's the UniFi Network application updating the browser page I have open to it all the time so I closed that and it made no difference.

Any suggestions what this traffic might be or suggestions for how to identify it?

PCIe M.2 adapters in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 5 days ago

but not really sure what you are doing?

I want to install one of these in a machine that doesn't have an M.2 slot.

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PCIe M.2 adapters (piefed.ca)
 

This isn't specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I'll give that a go.

I don't really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

Toggle Unread/All view? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
Can I condense the feed in browser? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes - I should have noted that I'm using "Compact UI" = "Yes - thumbnails only".

I should also add that the current layout has advantages. When scrolling other platforms in "mindless meme mode" it's frustrating to click on a thumbnail expecting to expand the image and instead following a link to an article.

Ideally Image posts and other posts should appear subtly different in the feed - different enough that you know what you're clicking on, but not so different that they interfere with the visual flow of the feed page. I have no design skills and can't suggest how that might be implemented, but I'll know it when I see it :-)

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Toggle Unread/All view? (media.piefed.ca)
 

Just started using piefed yesterday and something I immediately miss from lemmy is the ability to toggle between All posts or just Unread/Unhidden posts. There's a really convenient spot for the buttons right between the view selection buttons and the topic selection buttons.

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Can I condense the feed in browser? (media.piefed.ca)
 

I've had a bit of a play and configured custom CSS to move the image preview, for Image posts, to the right, rather than centre. What I'd really like is for the preview to be smaller and up, inline with the header text, like the preview image from a Link post. In the attached example, I'd like the 4chan image text to appear similar to the whitehouse logo in the post below it. This would remove a lot of whitespace and condense the whole feed.

This is beyond my CSS ability. Is it even possible with custom CSS on the settings, or would it need a change to the backend?