That's a solid starting point, it did kind of seem like thats where the online sources were pointing, just nice to hear it from a human.

Re: Dust: The basement is only a few steps up from "root cellar". It's got stone walls and a concrete floor, but it still generates some decent dust. I wouldn't mind having a clean-ish space to work with stuff when I'm down there.

God damnit. Semi-experienced hobbyist getting ready to drop money on a multi-head unit and this has been hard to research.

From my digging Prusa is overpriced except you can't beat the quality and reliability except for when you have to tweak it which is all the time and there are other brands that are a better deal unless you're looking for unbeatable performance, then you go prusa. Their commitment to upgrades is great except for the XL+ which is now a dead end but still getting updates and certainly its great how much YOU own you're unit except its not FOSS/H... Best to go with the Chinese brands that 1000% lock you in.

This is a great video but I've seen other great reviews basically saying theoppisitte. Hell there's that in this THREAD.

Just taking my $4k and hiring someone to train a squrielle to glue together some filament.

Mileage varys. I absolutely hate it. If the dev lived in my town I'd tell everyone they were being treated for simian chlamydia after buying a season pass to the zoo.

I've got whatever their first one is. Its worked great, my only gripe is their cloud service requires google login. But it served its job which was to give me remote KVM when I was learning how to setup reliable RDP.

Its now attached to a box I use as a relays at a friends who has fiber. That box has a startup warning that I could never quite get to go away that requires one hit literally any key to finish boot. So I paid $70 for that...

I've slowly but surely added more and more. I don't know when all those crazy cheap tablets that were everywhere in the early 2010s disappeared but I'd like about 5 now. Don't even care about the spyware they'll never see the internet.

I guess that makes sense, if the YAML is essentially instructions on how to write the code using a specific code base, I can see things going wrong when it's two code bases that weren't made to work with each other. I may not combine them right away, but I definitely want to dig deeply into ESPectre. There just has to be some fun you can have integrating multiple signals.

Thank you for taking the time, it makes my own reading a lot more productive!

This is fantastic, thank you. I had YAML backwards, as something that deeper code body referenced, not what are essentially the instructions for constructing that deeper code body. Very cool and makes some of the different YAML functions make much more sense now.

That also helped me understand the github structure: the YAML will have instructions that are specifc to the code in that data base. Question though: Why isnt it as simple as using an "include" the way you would with other libraries? If thats not an easy one I'll do reading, this is crazy helpful.

Even though it's not as simple as mashing together the two projects, I think I can Frankenstein the two together from their respective code. In particular I want to dig in a lot deeper into ESPecter. It works pretty but there are some quirks. IE: If I walk between my router and my bedroom, easy to do as they're on different floors, by bedroom will register motion and turn on the underbed lighting. So the positioning that you mentioned does matter, a lot, although closer to the ceiling might honestly give better sensitivity. It is finicky but I have been really impressed so far and it's an active project. Highly recommend a spin if you're OK with something that isn't perfect.

The number of ESP-32s I have deployed keeps growing, and ESPecter works pretty well as it is, I think if I dig in enough I can maybe do some clever stuff using the logic/info from multiple. With ~12 deployed, and plans for ~10+, that's a lot work with.

Figured it out! It was as simple as making sure the security keys were generated. I thought I had but they failed to take in ZwaveJS. So for posterity:

• Check the battery mode
• If it looks like data is flowing the way it should, but you're missing entities associated with the device: thats a security feature. Either no keys or other security issues will keep the device from exposing the entities you want.

Big thanks to @besmtt@lemmy.world and @tburkhol@lemmy.world . I learned a ton more because of your input. Oh also matter is no working as is ESPectre across a dozen or so ESP32-C3s I had. So all in all we got some major upgrades done today!

Great suggestions but it wound up being even more simple and even more stupid: Security keys. Writing a top level note for anyone after right now.

Re: Icon: Understood, but still grateful for the clarity! Unraid working proper again, I didn't realize how much there was to Ipv6... another day. Have to take care of some things but succesfully back to baseline. I'll try repovisioning this evening and see what happens! (I'll post here for posterity)

Unfortunately this is my first and currently only z-wave device; I'll snag some "fool proof" ones for exactly what you're saying.

This is a solid lead and I suspect you're right! Although some stuff that doesn't add up:

• The device isn't showing the under "wifi" signal icon
• The device is in "battery mode", but regarding the procedure to change power mode: It was running on battery during original inclusion, and in fact has never been hooked to AC.

I think you've gotten me on the right track, but I gave myself another wrinkle. I'm also trying to get matter working for the first time, and in the process of troubleshooting a provisioning, I put my unraid server (with HA) to communicate via IP6 only. It now is no longer online and also inaccessible via a directly connected monitor... So I need to solve that before I can do anything else with Z-wave...

Happy Sunday...

Well, sort of. ACA plan carriers are private, but the advanced premium subsidies are provided by the tax payer. There are totally private companies that act as healthcare "navigators" essentially helping people navigate their ACA benefits. Those firms receive a payout on a per-sign up basis in most cases. I've applied both directly and with one of those firms, and it did make things significantly easier. I have no doubt there are sketchy ones that sign people up for services they're not eligible for or make people up entirely. It's no different from fraud medical device companies that collect the money from medicare for "selling" someone a mobility scooter or the like, but there's no scooter and sometimes no person. Fraud does happen.

But it's a distraction to the biggest fraud which is that private plans are funded by the US government in the first place. We have socialized healthcare already in the USA, just in the most painful, cruel, ass backwards, inefficient way possible.