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Share your favorite automations

I’ve been running HA for a while, and it’s been working well; I haven’t had to change much in a few months. That being said, it’s fun to tinker with it, and I’m curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of...

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What’s a mud room?

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  • if the sun has set and my partner isn’t home from work (phone not connected to WiFi), turn the hallway light on
  • close the blinds when the sun sets, but only if the TV isn’t currently on so as not to make noise during a TV programme
  • when I turn the bedroom lamp on, turn the bedroom ceiling light off
  • if my front door opens when neither me nor my partner are home, send a snapshot of the doorbell camera to my notifications
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What does using a good firewall mean exactly? As I understand it a port is either open or closed right? So what does a good firewall do that a bad one doesn’t?

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“Matter Casting” is not a very catchy name

Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will...

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Pihole is great for blocking on things that you can’t install a local adblocker on. It does have downsides though, it can be annoying and block things you don’t want it to. It might not block ads well on your tv or might impair the functionality in weird ways. It can depend lot on which lists you add, but there are many available and they are usually quite well documented about their intentions.

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Upvote my comment and I’ll upvote yours

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There’s something really depressing about an AI telling a suicidal person they’re not alone and referring them to the vague notion of “national resources” or “a helpline”

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The Linux community loves to put the responsibility on the user to understand every facet of what they’re trying to do without explaining it

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Docker is a messy and not ideal but it was born out of a necessity, getting multiple services to coexist together outside of a container can be a nightmare, updating and moving configuration is a nightmare and removing things can leave stuff behind which gets messier and messier over time. Docker just standardises most of the configuration whilst requiring minimal effort from the developer

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What’s crowded? I am having trouble searching for it because of its name

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Ah thank you

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A tool that can track price changes on any website automatically is difficult since there isn’t a standard way that prices are presented on a website. As has already been said, changedetection is your best bet

Can anyone recommend a wireless doorbell that works with home assistant?

I currently have a ring doorbell that I pay a yearly fee for but I want to get away from Amazon and a subscription fee. I would prefer if it used the Wi-Fi and it was able to connect with my house doorbell. Edit: I’d also like to add that I would like it to have the ability to stream and record video.

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They do but I don’t know if it’s available on their official store anymore. It’s just called the G4 Doorbell rather than the G4 pro

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Ah, yeah it does require that. I assume that’s what OP wants because they said they want to connect to their house doorbell

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Unifi protect doorbell, but I do believe you need a unifi protect instance in order to record

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Ikea makes some of the best smart home stuff IMO. Really well built, decently priced and no stupid lock in or cloud only stuff.

How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?

I work in tech and am constantly finding solutions to problems, often on other people’s tech blogs, that I think “I should write that down somewhere” and, well, I want to actually start doing that, but I don’t want to pay someone else to host it....

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If you’re exposing via cloudflare tunnels instead of pointing at your public IP then eveything other people have said covers it. If you are using your public IP then it’s worth blocking non-cloudflare IPs from accessing the site directly

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Have you got English and Unspecified selected as languages in your settings?

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It’s getting frustrating seeing instance admins disappear with no warning.

Expect to see this happen a lot. The benefits of federation also lead to these downsides

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The general vibe around r/childfree on reddit wasn’t a positive one

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I’m sure that is gonna end well

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Even if you run your own instance, if you’re federated with other instances then your posts, comments and upvotes could still be scraped by someone else

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Performance, security, reliability, other quality of life features, better UX, there are 374 issues open on their github: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

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Turn them all into men and end the human race

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