Making suggestions about their heritage seems to really get the blood pressure up.

It may be simplest to move it to a hosted server. Depending on the length of outages, your comfort with electrical things, and your budget, you could get a bigger battery and use the inverter in the UPS (there are caveats-the inverter in the UPS is not rated for higher end of its load past the battery capacity it’s got and may burn itself out, and the charger may not work properly with the larger battery or with different chemistry), or get a battery/inverter box like a Ecoflow or that sort of thing. Solar may be a good bet too.

I don’t know about matrix but failing over between public IPs probably requires a HA sync of some type and also DNS failover.

Conservatively, using the land currently used for fuel ethanol production in the USA for solar instead would add more generating capacity than the entire capacity of the USA today. It’s a terrible use of land, not to mention energy and chemical inputs.

That someone thought Electron was a not just a reasonable approach but a good idea, when it sucks down a gig of RAM for what amounts to mIRC with GIFs, is a strong support of your claim.

Wow. Blast from the past. I see znc is still a thing too

We need new chips because number needs to go up.

Also because someone thinks JavaScript is a good language in which to create applications, and CPU and RAM are cheaper than a SWE that can optimise their code.

Yeah it’s just time and motion. I don’t like it to be honest, but my sensors are either not great or in a bad spot. I am interested in the mmWave sensors but not rushing.

There is a reason that cloud services are popular with businesses. How does self-hosting this provide value to your customers in line with the time that you spend on IT tasks instead of your product? Do you have enough faith in your build that it will be secure and reliable? If you have downtime, does your business have flexibility to accommodate you doing IT work for hours without loss of revenue? If you go on vacation, who is on call?

I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but do consider the time investment and risks. There are alternatives to M365 and Google.

The way I have it set up, HomeKit (hey siri) has full control over the stuff people want to control. So hey Google open the blinds/turn on the lights always works. But the blinds might still close 30 seconds later if that’s when the trigger occurs. Homeassistant is my coordinator.

Generally there’s limited use of HomeKit in my house because there’s a lot of automations. HomeKit only is a bunch of switches. I would set up Google the same way.

I don’t have smart switches if I can’t easily come up with a good automation - either motion based (which doesn’t work if the sensor doesn’t face enough of the room or if there isn’t enough motion to trigger it eg sitting in office chair) or time based (you positively know that between x and y hrs you need the lights on). And the automation needs to be pretty reliable; if I’m overriding constantly I’ve done it wrong. The convenience factor of being able to turn it off from my bedroom doesn’t add up in my case.

I also expose some switches to HomeKit that toggle things eg a water recirculating pump to toggle before starting the shower for instant hot water. But I’m a nerd.

Run everything through HA as the first step, and the frontend that your family uses is somewhat secondary.

I use HomePods and the home app as a front end. I assume you can do the same idea with Google.

There’s nothing wrong with setting up smart switches and using the physical buttons. If you don’t have an automation set up for the activity of the moment, just hit the button. That’s how it should work.

Pfsense is shady on the OSS side these days. I think. I haven’t gotten into the drama. Opnsense is a popular fork.

Yes. If there’s another open source project that has the coverage I’m not aware of it.

I use my thermostat to handle that, and override as needed from HA. The other thing I do, if it’s a cloud api, is make the change, wait a period of time that’s reasonable for the update to occur, and check the state. If state is not what I want it to be, set again, wait a random back off and check again. There’s a service you can call to update an entity, too.

Homeassistant, as far as I’ve been able to figure out, doesn’t do desired states natively. You can’t declare “from 19-21h I want it to be 17°C”. You have to build it yourself.

I do the person enters zone.

Proximity adds a fourth way.

They tend to hold some value, but occasionally they pop up. Good luck! For the rowers, all versions will give a good workout, but the monitor has changed over the years. You can check the production era for all the models (A through D/E).

As this is BIFL, at a significant increase in price, I’m a fan of Concept2 products. It’s a good company, making good products. As far as I can tell, they sell all the parts for their equipment going back 30+ years. I personally have over 6 million meters on qmy bike erg in addition to my family members. For me it was a bit of a dance getting it shipped out, but if you’re in USA it’ll be fine.

The BikeErg is a basic machine (compared to a peloton with screen), is moderately costly, and makes white noise, but it is good quality and effective. Their rowers are the established standard, and worth considering as well.

This person packed captain Morgan’s to drink neat, and spam.

I do not want to go camping with this gastronomist.

Low tech options: a smart plug that power cycles if it can’t ping eg google and have your edge devices plugged in there, or a timer that reboots the firewall at 0200 daily. I haven’t implemented either of these, despite having a network other people rely on about 400km from my house. I should remediate that…

I have decided dual firewalls are silly without dual internet and dual power, as both those things go down more often than my FW.

I have two instances of pihole on two hosts, because I block dns outbound to the best of my ability.

No idea. Apparently this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-loss

Leaving the theatre with zero seats sold is so much better than spelling rude things.