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This is something my mother used to do as well. When the machine was finished she opened the door and let it vent. I asked the guy installing our machine some years ago and he told me that in newer machines that won’t be necessary and could even disable the integrated venting mechanism. But of course this depends on your machine…

alternativeto.net is also my go-to resource because they have a good filtering system and are not solely focused on open source.

Don’t starve

The new automation editor is nice. I have some automations that are quite complex and it is always a pain to edit them (especially on mobile devices).

There is Cesium. But the thing you actually need is the actual maps. There are free maps (many of them based on OpenStreetMap), but the fidelity you know from Google Earth is usually not free. Also if you also want to self-host the actual maps you need a tile server for that and lots of disk space because these tiles take up a lot of it…

What is that thing in the announcement picture? I can’t identify this device type…

We launch over a thousand weather balloons per day?

I also have several of these as a replacement for some Tuya sensors I added a power supply to because they ate through batteries. The Sonoff not only has a way better battery life, they also feel and look nicer and the readings are far better. The Tuya sensors were all off by several degrees and the Sonoff are way closer to the real temperature. I cannot recommend them enough.

For the power state monitoring I can recommend this blueprint, which does everything for you (and maybe even more): https://github.com/leofabri/hassio_appliance-status-monitor

There’s a reason for that and it’s explained in the video: AI still needs input. If you want to create something really new you need new input and artists to provide that input. That’s what the guy is telling the whole video.

You can now use templates and still maintain the visual editor for the rest of the component. Very nice!

I think what he means is that if your backup is triggered from your main server and your main server is compromised the backups can also be attacked immediately. If the backup is requested from the backup machine you will at least have the time between the attack and the next backup to prevent the attack from reaching your backup machines.

For me it was KitchenOwl. It’s shopping list works and looks similar to Bring, which we had used before and made the transition for my wife easier.

That might be tricky. Imagine there is an absolute amount of requests a single player may be able to send just by paying the base game. And now you times this by six to get your max requests per game. But it might also be enough to let 10 players play a “normal” game. So you either lower your limit further and therefore make the game worse for some player or you leave it up there and may not achieve anything.

I also think it may be the browser not using the DNS provided by the router. This is often called Safe Browsing or Secure DNS in browser settings.

I don’t know if Home Assistant is so niche. Everyone who does some form of smart home comes to the point where there are several manufacturers forcing you to use their own app. If you’re lucky you can use something like Google Home or Siri to have a unified control interface, but these are usually very basic. You can try to stick to one system for as long as possible, but sooner or later that will fail. A system like Home Assistant is the inevitable solution to these problems and it is a very good thing that HA exists as a strong and open software to solve this problem.

I have an Intel NUC (3rd gen I think - it’s several years old by now) which runs Proxmox, which runs several VMs including Home Assistant on HAOS. The only thing I did was upgrade the RAM as the VMs eat this quickly…

Other services I run on this small box are AdGuard, Paperless-ngx, KitchenOwl, tt-rss and two Nightscout instances.

While almost everyone here seems to hate AI (maybe for the wrong reason, but who am I to judge) I like to have AI as it is able to provide answers a simple search engine cannot.

What I don’t see is hosting something like this myself. The managing of source and indexing them would take too much of my, my server’s and the web servers to be indexed energy (maybe I am wrong).

There are already good solutions (OpenWebUI with Ollama) that can be tweaked to almost do what you’re describing and the AI models get better every month, so I don’t think a custom AI search engine could keep up with it.

The two on left are like: I don’t like flies! I only like plain noodles - with Ketchup!

For a general guide on how to make ssh more secure I stick to https://www.sshaudit.com/

You can check your config and they also provide step by step guides for several distros…