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brownmustardminion

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  • Smart plugs and humid environments?

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  • It's fairly universal throughout developed countries. Might be called something different than GFCI though.

  • Looking for a zigbee power meter plug without a switch

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  • This is something I've been eyeing for the same use case: https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-zen15-power-switch/

    Ive had great experiences with Zooz products in general, but haven't used this one (yet).

    It does also control, but I'm sure if it's anything like their wall switches it has a setting to default to ON.

    EDIT: Didn't see the ZigBee part of your post. Adding a z-wave dongle isn't too difficult if you're open to it. ZigBee sucks IMO.

  • Smart plugs and humid environments?

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  • True. Also in newer homes the GFCI might be at the circuit breaker.

    Either way, as long as it's GFCI you shouldn't have any concerns.

  • Smart plugs and humid environments?

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  • Your bathroom receptacles are protected by a GFCI safety mechanism. You can confirm by noticing if the receptacle has two small buttons usually stamped with "Test" and "Reset".

    If the smart plug had a malfunction due to humidity (unlikely), the GFCI receptacle it's plugged into would instantly cut power.

    You can toss a toaster in your bathtub as long as it's plugged into a GFCI and 99.99999% chance you would be totally fine. Don't try this at home.

  • Simple camera without 3rd party apps or accounts

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  • +1 for Amcrest PoE.

    I also use a Reolink Doorbell PoE and it's better than any Nest or Ring doorbell, without the cloud bullshit attached.

    My only issue with the amcrest is that they get bad IR pollution at night and are sometimes unusable. But that's apparently an issue with most dome cameras at night.

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • Personally I use other platforms for uncensored discussions.

    Unfortunately they're filled with insufferable twats like yourself, but that's the price we pay for free speech.

    It's obvious for everybody except for you, that Lemmy isn't intended as a free speech platform, but a means to form your own community based on shared interests and values. That inherently comes with some amount of censorship at the discretion of instance operators. I'm a free speech advocate, but I value and respect individuals' right to maintain their property (Lemmy instance) as they see fit.

    If you want free speech, hop on Simplex where you can yell racial slurs until you've satisfied yourself.

    Or spin up your own lemmy instance. I'd be happy to join and engage in some debates.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • Electrical code and common practice has changed and improved drastically since ungrounded wiring was the norm.

    I've worked on many houses and each one was a potential disaster waiting to happen.

    Just sayin. Be safe.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • I had a few issues with pairing. Besides that, Phillips has made some controversial changes in the past that were anti-consumer.

    But bypassing their hub and therefore the app and online account by using a ZigBee hub avoided those concerns for me.

    Connecting and setting up a ZigBee hub was very simple. But I'm also using Home assistant so can't vouch for the process with Google.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • I would urge you to have an electrician sort out your electrical issues first.

    I helped a friend gut and rewire his kitchen and besides not being grounded, the wiring was very poorly done. I told him it was a miracle he didn't have a fire.

    Their microwave would flip a breaker if anything else was on in the kitchen. I traced the circuit to a pull string light in the basement. The ENTIRE kitchen circuit was passing through a rusty old screw terminal on the light fixture. The wire's sheathing had completely melted back exposing 4" of bare hot wire.

    Don't trust that old wiring at all. And if you can't afford to fix it asap, at least stock up on smoke alarms and have an escape plan.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • Expensive but the color quality is the best on the market.

    Wasn't a fan of their hub so I connect the bulbs directly to my ZigBee hub/dongle.

    I won't get on too high of a soap box, but strongly considering moving away from Google especially for home automation. Support open source privacy respecting systems and products (or at least products that don't push anti-consumer practices).

    I know Phillips doesn't fit that by any means, but any device that supports a local API/ZigBee/z-wave/matter is fine in my book.

  • Simple HACS Alternative

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  • Not sure. I think without having the integration explore page it would be hard to hit the limit, unless you have a serious amount of custom components.

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    Simple HACS Alternative

  • Whats everyone using for smart plugs?

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  • My personal anecdote:

    Z-wave is king. ZigBee is a far second place and WiFi / Bluetooth are a last resort.

    I'm a huge fan of Zooz products having tested many other brands and been disappointed.

    My biggest failure rate has been with Shelly products. Sonoff is alright but have also had issues here and there. I've yet to have any issues with my Zooz switches and smart plugs and I have close to 50 of them.

  • Upgrading video quality for non-English content?

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  • Join lat-team private tracker. They have everything you'd ever want.

  • Split Tunnel by Domain on Router Level?

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  • Your first suggestion is a clever one.

    I can imagine writing a small script on the host machine to listen for subdomains, forward them to pfsense to update the aliases, and possibly set them to expire after a few days for security reasons.

    Surely something like this exists. How to find it...?

  • Split Tunnel by Domain on Router Level?

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  • There's a few apps I need to split out. Top priority is the signiant app which according to their documentation requires various AWS subdomains as well as their own. Specific subdomains are not specified and are implied to change regularly/on demand.

    In an ideal world I would do my split tunneling on the device itself, but I don't trust Windows and thus I run my VPN at the router level.

    This isn't a problem for most things, but I need to utilize my full bandwidth to transfer large files to clients in a timely manner, and a VPN becomes a massive bottleneck.

    Pfsense lets you alias by domain name (I believe it regularly resolves down to an IP and uses that for filtering), but again, you need to supply the exact subdomain.

    Just wondering if there's an alternative solution to this issue. If it's external to pfsense that's not the end of the world.

    Worst case scenario, I would set up a dedicated Linux box or maybe even a VM which could share access to the file transfer NAS and split tunnel the entire box around the VPN. Definitely less convenient.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Split Tunnel by Domain on Router Level?

  • Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network?

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  • This looks promising. I'm going to investigate further. Thanks!

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    Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network?

  • Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?

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  • The question is whether they were using infrared to see through normal sunglasses. IR blocking sunglasses prevent "night vision" from seeing through the lenses. Under infared, you can see through normal dark sunglasses like they aren't even there.

  • Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?

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  • Got any further info about these more advanced methods?

    I haven't seen anything beyond the feature distance models. I have seen the models that essentially recreate you entire anatomy in 3D, place it in a database, then use that profile to match to in the future--almost like a 3D match move artist would do for visual effects. Not sure if this is just a proof of concept though.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the millimeter wave scanners at airports have been collecting 3D models of us for this database over the last decades.

  • Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?

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  • IR blocking sunglasses are the simplest and most practical solution.

    Facial recognition systems compare the distance ratios between your eyes and nose primarily. Hiding your eyes is very effective towards fucking that up. A mask alone is typically not enough.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    When is it time to switch away from youtube?

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    Buying Private tracker invites

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    Looking for Movie/TV tracker for Spanish dubs

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    What Kiosk Tablet?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Cleaning up packages?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Print-screen App

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    Overly Inquisitive Staff on Private Trackers

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    Age Restricted Youtube

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    VM Display Manager Solutions?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    PSA: Test Your Server SSH Access

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    Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt

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    Seeking Info for Specific Software Cracking

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Server Access Log Admin Dashboard?

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    Question

    Migrating and Upgrading Proxmox to New SSDs on Poweredge Safely

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Legality of OSINT and Data Aggregators Hoarding Leaked Data?

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    Spotify Downloader for Lidarr?