I know, and I fully understand if you stay far away from PIA for those reasons. But like I said, PIA has proven (in court) that they actually provide anonymity.

I know this was all a big deal when PIA was taken over, and everybody was afraid PIA would be ruined. But none of that happened. Maybe it’s just a matter of time, who knows.

Interesting read!

PIA has port forwarding and have proven not to log user data too.

I use both and let the “arr suite” decide which one to chose. I mainly use torrents for international stuff like movies, usenet for local (Dutch) stuff like TV series.

Why don’t you host your own server? You need as much as NUC or Raspberry Pi even combined with a couple of harddisks or SSD’S.

I feel your pain, I wish pi’s could be powered with PoE without modifications.

Yes I think you’ll need Home Assistant for that. You can add any Zigbee device to Homekit if it’s connected to Home Assistant; that’ll bypass the Hue account requirement.

Just buy a Zigbee stick and you don’t have to change all your existing hardware.

Shelly works with Wi-Fi which I don’t prefer personally.

I appreciate the transparency, but isn’t posting that fediseer link just the same as posting collection of CSAM instances, and thus unwanted in any possible way?

It was part of the 2023.6 update: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/06/07/release-20236/#connect-and-use-your-existing-network-storage

Do you still need that plugin since you can backup to samba shares natively now?

My aqara lux sensor actually works , but I use it to determine when it gets dark; not if it’s cloudy or not.

First hit on Google when searching for “audiocast ali homeassistant”. It has some useful links.

Thanks that’s reassuring. Saw the error and had no idea what to do.

I have tried Docker and some alternatives, but I think I’m too stupid to understand them. Proxmox is really straightforward and relatively noob friendly. It’s also very reliable. It just works every time.