dmtalon

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[–] dmtalon 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I get alerts from BI Motion in HA (via mqtt)... I'll look at it a bit to jog my memory and see if I can give any tips. It'll likely be tomorrow or so as I'm traveling today

[–] dmtalon 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still rocking YNAB4 (even on my Macbook m2) thanks to smart people haha!

Just did my month end bill paying while on vacation with my MBP.

Will cry when this breaks down / people cannot get it working with dropbox/android etc... But so far I'm rocking!

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, this was awful for a variety of reasons

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a humidity switch in ours a while ago (not smart) and it would turn on too much even if a shower wasn't running but our windows were open. And, enough humidity was in the air. So that didn't work out great.

It was a self contained deal not a smart switch though

[–] dmtalon 7 points 1 year ago

I'm no facebook fanboy by any measure. I miss Forums, but everyone moved to FB groups. (at least 90% of the people/content). I am on FB, I manage my FB feed. I unfollow/unfriend "crackheads" as someone else called them. I only follow people that mainly post their own content, not forward shit, or post news etc.

I was mainly there to share public "stuff" with my remote family (both parents were 300-600 miles from us) and we had a young child (both parents first grandchild).

I now mainly use FB for groups of my interest, because that's where the people are. I also sell stuff on FB market place, because craigslist is a ghost town.

Between managing my feed/friends, using 'social fixer' browser extension and Pihole I rarely see ads on there. Certainly not on my PC. The the App can sneak in some, but I hide/report any ad I see.

It works for me. I don't live on there by any means but go there for interest groups.

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if I've tried doing any PTZ stuff, but all the other settings for sure. The cameras I have all have SD cards so you could manage everything right from the UI and just have it record locally.

They want to connect to the mothership and destroy log files trying to get there.

[–] dmtalon 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All of the Amcrest "management" I do is within blue iris. I have a ptz IP4M-1041B but do not do any ptz stuff via HA. I use blue iris to send stream/alerts to HA via MQTT. This allows me to do notifications on motion. I would assume if you have location presets setup in BI you could call them from HA but that's a guess.

I messed around with presets (camera location) in blue iris a bit bit didn't have a real use case for it so I am not sure how robust it is.

I block internet access to all Amcrest cameras directly but can still access their local IP. I have access to my cameras again via blue iris which runs on a dedicated windows machine.

[–] dmtalon 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Been using enbrighten switches from Jasco. I use their Zwave but I think they have ZigBee too.

I use the ones that look like toggle switches over the paddle style to match the rest of the house .

I have them on all our bathroom fans too so they can be left on (steam / smell disposal) and auto shut off after 30 min.

[–] dmtalon 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You would think nearly half the voting population would agree and not support those that do. But here we are. Boggles the mind.

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago

I was more aminable when I was paying $14.99 for YT Red Family plan. At $23/mo it's pretty expensive and I want new features/controls for that money

[–] dmtalon 1 points 1 year ago

Ya, just an infrastructure where their ads have to go into blocks within the video (inserted wherever but tagged as such)

[–] dmtalon 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Generally an Unpopular opinion, but I think this should include creator ads (or at least an option per creator to support them by turning on their own ads).

Defaulted to off , I don't want to watch a random videos AG1 ad. That said there are a couple creators I watch I would be willing to enable theirs strictly to support them.

Because if I'm paying for ad removal it should be complete ad removal.

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