Bryan065

WOW… we were trying to hunt down why my buddy’s forestor’s battery kept dying…

We even disconnected the wire that tells the alternator to stop charging the battery…

There’s another trick I use sometimes when nothing else works…

• Use ANOTHER computer to install Windows onto the the original laptop drive. (make sure that computer you’re using has no other drives plugged in).

• once the installation process is complete, during the reboot countdown, turn off the computer instead, don’t let it reboot.

• install the drive back into the original computer

I’ve used that method to get around off lease or auction laptops where I couldn’t reset/remove/clear/reflash the bios password and all the boot stuff/order is locked down

oh I forgot about Plexamp. Its been my main music app since it also does Android auto.

It just works so well and nothing else comes close so far.

This was the security report from awhile back:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Lot’s of things have been fixed but theres still much to do. The issue was broken down to smaller issues for tracking and I check back every once in a while.

Even if there were no security issues, exposing jellyfin is also another can… choice of:

1. open up ports
2. cloudflare (and potential ban for video content on the free tier, even if caching is disabled)
3. vps with enough bandwidth

There’s still a bunch of outstanding API security issues last I checked, so it’s not secure enough for me to open to the web.

Teaching friends and family to use it with a VPN is a whole another can. Also, you’ll have to make sure the VPN is secure and users don’t have access to the rest of your network…

and then you’ll have to deal with client apps/access for mobile, android boxes, TVs, and Chromecasts…

I got lucky with the Plex Pass too so I can only ride this out to the end until Jellyfin catches up. (also, I’m not good to contribute code)

what happened with CWA? I was thinking of using it

Did nextcloud ever fix the bug that would randomly destroy date metadata on photos and reset it to 1970? I had about 20% of my library affected (thank backup of backups!)

I was never able to get .heic previews working properly 2 years back either.

I’m using Immich now and its a lot less of a hassle after leaving beta and breaking changes behind

nice! what’s that first card you used for the home security?

i would probably do it with two+ automations. Something like:

ON automation:

• trigger:
  • time pattern - beginning of every 3 hours
• then:
  • start timer with duration 37 minutes (select your timer helper)
  • Turn on AC unit

OFF automation:

• trigger:
  • Manual Event
    • event type: timer.finished (case sensitive!)
    • event data : entity_id: timer.[timer_helper_entity]
• then:
  • turn off AC unit

STARTUP_CHECK automation:

• trigger:
  • when home assistant is started
• if:
  • state - timer helper is idle
  • AC is on
• then:
  • turn AC off

Note 1: make sure the timer helper has restore state and time when HA starts enabled

note 2: automations using the timer.finished event will not trigger on startup if the timer expires when Home Assistant is not running.

note 2a: the third automation is for your edge case that you reboot/shutdown HA when the OFF automation was supposed to fire. it should ensure the AC turns off after the timer was supposed to be finished and HA is started. this automation does not account for if the AC is turned on manually and you restart HA.

i can get you the .YAML or pictures when I’m at a computer.