What is the purpose of this plastic piece? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] Daaric 1 points 1 month ago

Also, at some point during manufacturing they hang it by the holes.

Any suggestions for a Wi-Fi ipcam I can use as a baby monitor? in c/homeassistant

[–] Daaric 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I too have a tp-link tapo indoor camera with said hacs component. I have set alerts for sound and movement, both work well, it need some tuning tough, like mic sensitivity...
For live video feed I use a webrtc camera from hacs as it has much better latency.
As a child monitor it works really well.

What's something you used to dislike that you have come to enjoy? in c/asklemmy

[–] Daaric 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Olives

Chat surveillance law by the EU Parliament? in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 7 points 5 months ago

Never, they'll try again and again with different names, covered by different purposes and stuck to another law.

Post your Servernames! in c/selfhosted

[–] Daaric 1 points 6 months ago

Nice ones! Since it ain't a server I haven't mentioned it, but I had my WiFi ssids named CLACKS.

Post your Servernames! in c/selfhosted

[–] Daaric 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Since I'm kinda fan of Terry Pratchett, I naturally have HEX at home.

How did you get your username? in c/asklemmy

[–] Daaric 3 points 8 months ago

It used to be the name of my character back when I played DnD, and the very origin was some online dwarvish names generator.

Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend? in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same boat here, I have the 5 II and I absolutely love it. Great size, the camera is OK on auto but can do wonders in manual mode (depending on your skill).
The lack of software support is a bummer though. I was surprised it's not in LineageOS' official support anymore...

Do you use any custom ROM on your Xperia?

words search in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 1 points 1 year ago

Gnome cleric

What VPN do you use and why? in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 3 points 1 year ago

PIA

I asked them to delete my data, they said "Install our app" in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 4 points 1 year ago

An X is an X, the social network shall be known as X, formerly Twitter /J

Mishaal Rahman: Here's how Google (actually) addressed the spike in false 911 calls placed by Android phones in c/[email protected]

[–] Daaric 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely not intentional. Even if you are fidgeting with the power button, while being bored, the phone makes so much fuzz about it, when you hit the right combo. You would need to be deaf, blind or dead not to notice you're just about to call emergency. Or startled by the noise, panic and throw your phone out the window followed by a brick, hammer and grand piano...

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Does aeropress fit on top of chemex? (self.coffee)

submitted 1 year ago by Daaric to c/coffee

9 comments fedilink

Hi guys, Can someone with access to chemex and aeropress at the same time check, if aeropress fit on top of chemex?
I use the aeropress for myself and I would like to buy chemex for when I want to brew larger batches of 4-6 cups.
But I would also like to use it as a karafe only, brewing 2-3 cups with my aeropress.

Hence my question. Will classic regular size hexagon-based aeropress fit safely on top of chemex to brew coffee in it? Cheers

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Looking for shared storage with access without loging in (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by Daaric to c/selfhosted

15 comments fedilink

Hi guys, this might or might not be entirely off topic. I am looking for a solution that would in a civilized manner allow me to gather photos and maybe videos from a bunch off poeple.

Background

There will be an anniversary at our local community and we are preparing a printed publication. Due to us being a bunch of incompetent, naive fools, all photos are spread across our memberbase. We don't have any collective storage or album.
We want to use these photos for our publication, thus we need to collect them from our members and to make things worse, it is really on short notice, we have like 14 days to pull this off.

What do we need right now?

Online upload
about 50 users
ages from teens to seniors
mostly Windows users, mixed Android, iOS and dumbphone
possible mobile app
Anybody with URL shall upload and edit folders
Shouldn't need to create account or log in
preferably folder structure (no AI sorting nonsense)
total size unknown - my estimate is <100GB
I don't care right now if it is FOSS or not

Right now preferably not self hosted

Wrong community, I know. But, my home server is not accessible outside LAN and I am afraid that I wouldn't set VPS fully working in time. I would be very happy and grateful for both advice for our current situation and for (FOSS) selfhosted solution we could use in the future. Hopefully I can finally convince everyone, we really need at least NAS, so there will be no next time... Cheers

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Split zigbee RGBW dimmer into two separate CCT lights (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Daaric to c/homeassistant

2 comments fedilink

Hey guys,
Yesterday I have finished installing two LED strips to my kitchen. Both strips are CCT, connected to separate outputs on 5 channel dimLED zigbee dimmer. The dimmer can work in single colour, CCT, rgb, rgbw and rgbww modes.
If I set it to CCT mode, it shows up in HA as single light and both strips are controlled in tandem. instead of replacing it with two 2ch dimmers, my idea is to switch it to rgbw mode and somehow convince HA to see them as two CCT lights.
Honestly though, I am confused with how empty my config file is. There aren't any of my zigbee divices. (I guess i was experimenting with HA long time ago and mostly with ESP devices).
Has anyone tried something like this? I am using a Sonoff zigbee USB stick and ZHA integration.
Cheers