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ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in The "safest" way of self hosting

Check out the “Open Source Security Podcast” with Kurt Siegfried and Josh Bressers. It’s not about specifics so much as how to build a mindset around security for IOT and hosting, generally dealing with opensource offerings.

ikidd, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in Never again

I think we fixed that for someone a few months ago, maybe you can scroll back and find it. I think the guys handle was user-something, might have been around May…

ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

There’s a lot of difference between a container and a VM. You can install HA on a container, all you have to do is set it up according to the manual install instructions, and work around any hardware interfacing issues that come up. You’ll save 200MB of RAM and will have to do any upgrades manually. Doesn’t seem worth it to me, but to each their own.

ikidd, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago) to homeassistant in Share your favorite automations

I’m trying this now, I see it change the state to “printing” but I can’t bring up the device in automations to act on it. If I go into the IPP devices page and try to add an automation from the device page, it tells me no devics are available for automation.

Edit: got it, it was under entities, not devices, in automations. That’s one more thing out of Node Red now, thanks!

ikidd, 1 year ago to homeassistant in Share your favorite automations

HTML scrape of CUPS web server to see if there’s a print job waiting, turn on tasmota plug for laserprinter, then turn off in 5 minutes to save power.

It’s an old LJ4000 so it’s idle power is pretty high.

ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

pulling the html of a devices web ui

I’ve done something similiar in NR to scrape the CUPS webpage on my desktop and turn on a tasmota plug for the printer when it sees a job waiting in the queue. I wouldn’t even try to do that in HA directly. But I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an integration somewhere that would do it.

ikidd, 1 year ago to homeassistant in Do I need a separate HA Cloud subscription for the cabin?

Ive always had a VPN going, but it just makes more sense to keep the control local.

ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

I started out that way, but I’ve moved to doing most of it in HA directly since they massively improves the UI. I still use NR for complicated stuff though. I’ve recently started using Pyscript for modbus integrations too.

ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

It’s half a GB of ram and virtually no CPU usage. You could run it on a Pi 3 with a 16Gb SD card and have resources to spare.

This is just weird.

ikidd, 1 year ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

Node Red.

ikidd, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in Never again

Using Discord to support code is like trying to teach sculpture over the telephone.

ikidd, 1 year ago to homeassistant in Do I need a separate HA Cloud subscription for the cabin?

If you’re using Voice Assistant, the recog and TTS are much faster and more fluent than what I’ve seen on my own system. I am running it as a VM on an old server, so hardware will matter, of course. Also, you can get remote access with Home Assistant Companion proxying your HA interface very seamlessly. There might be others, but this is what stands out to me.

ikidd, 1 year ago to comicstrips in "Outdoor Cat vs Indoor Cat" by Sarah Andersen

Never seen any cat that chose to stay inside even 50% of the time when given a choice. I’d rather they enjoy their life than make me feel better be cause they’re penned up all the time.

ikidd, 1 year ago to linux in [Fixed] Fedora 39 keeps rebooting when left idle for a long time

I’d look if there’s an updated BIOS version for your system, ACPI issues like that are usually a non-compliant subsytem in the firmware.

ikidd, 1 year ago to homeassistant in VS Code in Home Assistant: any use for this outside of editing yaml files?

No, I see all the config files in VScode, but I really don’t have much need for that since I’ve usually done that stuff via SSH. I was wondering if VSCode gave any sort of actual integration with HA like the NodeRed Companion does by exposing all the entities within the IDE so you can do your own coding.

Another commenter mentioned Pyscript which seems like it does some sort of tying together of HA and code.