The shelf is fine, it was like that when I bought it (new). But I am definitely considering reinforcement.

I would absolutely buy this just to fuck with it and see if I could get an RTSP stream.

Ah, klugerblickdummkopf

Oh for sure. I’ve got a handful of SFFs and mini PCs making up my little “homelab”:

(Yes, that’s the furnace. No, it’s not hot there. Ever. I’ve checked on it many, many times.)

I’ve also got another pair of Optiplex 9020s, an Optiplex 3040, and my old trusty HP Elite 8100 SFF w/8300 SFF mobo, i7-3770/32GB, and modded BIOS that supports booting from NVMe (via it.s M.2 PCIe card). Those are sitting in the closet just taking up space at the moment.

eBay supplied the 7050 and the mini PCs. My sister gave me the other Optiplexen from her work office.

A 35W i7-7700T mini PC from 2017 will absolutely spank a modern N150 in single and multi–threaded applications, and uses very little extra power to do so.

Mini PC is the way to go.

I like ThirdReality’s zigbee bulbs.

More or less.

I don’t recall having to log into my github account to install HACS.

Github did start clamping down on things a while ago and started requiring logins for certain things (I forget exactly what, but one of my Docker VMs complained about it once and that’s what I found), but that’s not anything HACS can control.

Absolutely 100%. Two of our cars have garage door openers built in anyway (Toyota), so that makes it even easier.

My doorbell was out for a few hours yesterday. Pretty dumb. I’m replacing my Ring shit though, I’ve got a Frigate NVR set up and am working on getting a reliable stream from local wifi cameras… Can’t exactly run new cable drops wherever I want in a rental.

I’ve also consider but don’t really have a second door I can use as backup. My first priority is always local operation but you still risk dead battery or misconfiguration. If there were two independent smart locks, they probably won’t have issues at the same time. Unfortunately other entrances are sliders where there is no external lock

Every keyless smart lock I’ve seen typically has a keyed version as well. My sister has a Yale lock, she says it’ll warn her about a low battery months before it actually dies, so I guess there’s that, but still. I’d rather just stick with a key.

I really need to get my garage door functional

My garage door opener has wifi, but it’s a Chamberlain MyQ unit, and we all know how Chamberlain feels about HA users… I rarely use that function these days. Looking into ratdgo now.

I would go for something that tells me about the status of a lock. Like a door open/close sensor. But I wouldn’t give it any control.

I’ve got a Zigbee power metering plug on our washing machine. Set up an automation for it to notify us when it’s done. Just that sold my wife on HA, she’s asking for other things like this now.

I’ve thought about smart locks.

That’s about as far as I got. Critical things like that I prefer to be fully manual. Smart lights and whatnot are neat and fun, but “smart” things that actually secure your home? No thanks.

OMV has dark mode.

Until you lose that piece of paper in the thousands of other pieces of paper that were supposed to help you with this.

Apologies for the reddit link, but this is the dev explaining it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/18zjwl9/i_made_lubelogger_an_selfhosted_vehicle/kgia4jg/?context=10000

That makes more sense.

Oh. Well then.

Nabu Casa is still encouraging people to buy what’s left of Yellow stock.