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I currently have a lot of my light automations setup by first having an automation that turns the light on at a certain time, then another that turns the light off at another time. This works, and it has for years, but I'm imagining there must be blueprints or other methods to do this on/ off behavior in a single automation rather than having them in pairs (this is not scaling very well).

Anyone have suggestions? The image is a blueprint I have for turning lights on/ off based on a time window which is very handy, and I'm hoping there's something similar out there for my needs.

I realized I have some old hue bulbs laying around, and they're working well enough with my Zigbee controller (no bridge), but if I decide to scale up I definitely don't want to pay the Hue premium.

Anyone have a Zigbee bulb brand they recommend? I hear Third Reality is nice?

I previously hacked together an Ikea sensor which worked well for the price, but was not weatherproof, and my solution caused the temperatures to be very inaccurate.

I'm looking for something that can be used offline (connects to HA via WiFi, Zigbee, etc but does not need WAN access) and is plug and play. I see some solutions like this, but am not sure if they will work in an 'offline' mode. Anyone have any suggestions? Something with wind speed, etc would be awesome.

I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I'm paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?

I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I'm paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?

I’m currently evaluating switching from Proton to Tuta and the experience has been pretty great so far. There are just a couple pain points/ questions I have before taking the plunge.

Recently, Proton recently released a calendar widget last week that has been very useful for me. Is there any change of Tuta calendar doing the same, or is this not possible to do securely?

I also use Simple Login for aliasing and have a hundreds of aliases. I know it’s possible to do the same in Tuta with custom domains, but are you also able to “pause” those aliases, or is it just create and delete? Curious as to what the management interface would be like

Let me start by saying that I am not a runner. I hope to be one day, but for now I'm just running < 1 mile after work.

After a few days of this, my knees (the tendon thing that goes down from the knee to the shin) are pretty sore. I'm wondering if I should power through this or do something differently?

A friend suggested these as he's had good luck with them, but I'm not sure if this is something the community condones or endorses.

Update: Thank you all for the suggestions! The consensus seems to be to take it easy as I begin, and run every other day (and continue to walk every day).

I just got an Apple watch S10. Before this I was using a Garmin with the Apple health app to get some insights into sleep, calories burned per day (the outer ring) etc.

Compared to the Garmin, my Apple Watch is showing a lot of awake events, even though me and my SO don't notice me waking up. Is the Apple Watch just way more sensitive? Is it catching every movement in the night and thinking that is me being awake?

I recently had my Proxmox host fail, so I re-installed and recovered all my VMs from backups.

I'm noticing that my file structure (this is on my NAS where Proxmox mounts it via SMB/CIFS) has some duplicate folders in it. The ones I highlighted are all empty. Is this normal? Can these be removed safely?

When charging a phone wirelessly, there is sometimes significant heat generated. That combined with higher charging rates that are now coming out with the Qi 2 standard make me wonder what the ideal charge for the battery would be.

Most of the time I just toss my phone onto a wireless charger before bed, and don’t really care how quickly it charges. Would it be better to use a 5W brick with a charging pad? Should wireless be avoided and usb used instead?

I see a lot of guides on setting up DoH (DNS over HTTPS) using things like cloudflared, but not many concrete ones on DoT (DNS over TLS).

Does anyone have any guides they'd recommend?

I am getting used to Ubiquiti, and recently added a VPN Client to cover one of my VLANs. Am I correct in my understanding that having no Fallback option is essentiall a Kill switch that will not allow traffic to pass outside of the VPN in the event it goes down?

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