GreatBlueHeron

I've got an IKEA Tradfri LED driver and a Rodret dimmer. When I first installed them I thought it would be good to also control some non-IKEA pendant lights with the same dimmer, in sync with the cabinet lights connected to the Tradfri - so, I created automations in Home Assistant corresponding to each of the actions the dimmer can perform and this is working fine. However, we've decided not to control the pendant lights in sync with the cabinet lights so it's now unnecessarily complicated. I plan to remove the automations and link the Rodret direct to the Tradfri again.

I understand that I can do this by following the IKEA procedure to pair the devices. But I'm also curious about the option in Home Assistant to bind devices.

Finally to my question - are these two methods to achieve the same result, or is IKEA pairing somehow different than Zigbee binding?

I've just installed Interstellar and think it looks great. I've been using Jerboa and browser for Lemmy. The announcement of piefed.ca suggested this as a Piefed app, so here I am.

First impression is that I think I'm going to like it a lot - almost feels like RiF that I've been missing for some time. But - I'm finding scrolling really unpleasant - it's really jumpy, or jittery and hard to look at. I'm finding it so bad that I'm surprised it's not mentioned here or on GitHub, and I'm wondering if it's just me?

Version 0.9.3 on Android 15 on a Pixel 8 Pro.

Edit - I just went to the sync status page in the Windows client and hit "Retry All" on he failed objects again - and it worked! I have not changed anything since last time it failed - but for now I'm happy!

There's probably a lot of overlap between this community and Selfhosted@lemmy.world so some of you might recall my post from yesterday sharing some frustration about Nextcloud. Well today is Joplin's turn :-)

I've been using Joplin on Android for a little while now as a proof of concept - only a 6 notes so far, each only a page or so. One of my reasons for re-trying Nextcloud was because Joplin supports it as a sync method. After the discussion about Nextcloud yesterday I decided to try some of the suggested alternatives.

First I setup Syncthing and got that working so I have some folders syncing between Android, Linux and Windows. Then I setup Joplin to sync to filesystem - into one of the folders that Syncthing is managing. Joplin on Android sync'd everything to the filesystem, but when I tried to sync that filesystem to Joplin on Windows the attachments (photos) were missing from my notes. I can see the files (by id) in the .resource folder of the filesystem sync target but the Windows Joplin client won't pull them in.

I figured this multiple sync (Joplin <-> filesystem <-> Syncthing <-> filesystem <-> Joplin) might be an issue so I decided to try WebDAV. I configured a WebDAV folder my apache2 server, setup Joplin on Android to sync to WebDAV then went to the Windows Joplin, cleared the local data and setup WebDAV sync. Same thing - no photos in my notes. I can see the files are on the WebDAV server and there are no errors in the server logs so I guess the Windows client was able to pull them - but they don't show in the notes.

I tried searching and see several very similar issues on Discourse with no resolution.

Does this work for anyone else?

Edit - I just created a test note in the Windows client with an embedded image and this sync'd correctly to Android.

• Joplin 3.2.13 (prod, win32)
• Joplin Mobile 3.2.7 (prod, android)

I tried Nextcloud a while back and was not impressed - I had issues withe the speed of the Windows sync that were determined to be "normal" with no roadmap to getting fixed. I'm now planning to move off Windows desktop so that won't be an issue - so I thought I'd try again.

I went to nextcloud.com, clicked on Download-> Nextcloud server -> All-in-one -> Docker image - Setup AIO. This took me to the github README at Docker section. I'm already running docker for other things so I read the instructions, setup a new filesystem for my data directory and ran the suggested docker command with an appropriate "--env NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR=". I'm then left with a terminal running docker in the foreground - not a great way to run a background server but ok, I've been around for a while and can figure out how to make it autostart in the background ongoing. So I move on to the next step - open my browser at the appropriate URL and I'm presented with a simple page asking me to "Log in using your Nextcloud AIO passphrase:". I don't have a Nextcloud AIO passphrase and nothing I've read so far has mentioned it. When I search for it I get some results on how to reset it, but not much help. I could probably figure that out too, but after reading some more I found that Nextcloud requires a public hostname and can't work with a local name or IP address. I'm already running my home LAN with OpenVPN and access it from anywhere as "local" - I don't really want to create a new path into my home network just for Nextcloud.

I'm sorry - I know this sounds like a disgruntled rant and I guess it is. I just want to check that I'm not missing obvious things before I give up again. All I want is a simple file sync setup like onedrive but without the microsoft.

... or are notifications just really bad on Android?

For background, we've got an old, sick, dog and my wife often needs to get help from me urgently. I'm still running an old Pixel 4a - it worked really well for me until Google crippled the battery and even now it works well enough that I'm not tempted to upgrade.

My notifications always seem to be delayed - in batches. I have 3 buildings on my property and each has a Nest doorbell. Some days I can be walking around and I'll constantly hear ding, ding, ding as I walk past each doorbell. Other days I can walk around and hear nothing, and then I'll get 5-10 notifications all at once.

Today was a perfect example of why this is so frustrating - I'm sitting at my desk with my phone in front of me. It's plugged in an charging. My phone starts ringing and it's my wife upset that I have not responded to her messages. I go help her with the dog and come back to my phone and sure enough, 8 minutes ago there's a notification from Google Chat, 6 minutes ago there's a notification from Google Messages and 4 minutes ago there's the phone call. The Google Chat and Google Messages notifications never came through - until the phone call came in!

I've been through and made sure that all the battery optimisations are turned off for all the apps that I want instant notifications from - but that shouldn't have any impact here - my phone was plugged in.

Is this normal Android? (kinda rhetorical question - I've been running Android since my Nexus 4 and don't think this is normal but it feels like it's somehow the "new" normal)

I'm not running the stock Pixel launcher - does the launcher get involved in notification delivery at all?

I'm really disappointed with myself. I thought I would enjoy, and be good at, sharpening knives. I don't and I'm not! I have two Shapton water stones and I can get a nice edge on my chisels with a jig that maintains the angle for me, but I just can't get a good edge on a knife. I don't know if I'm not patient enough, if I just can't hold the angle well enough or what, but I give up.

My wife is, understandably, frustrated with a kitchen full of dull knives and bought one of those drag through carbide/ceramic sharpeners and I can't even make that work - I drag a blade through a few times, there is a pile of swarf in the sharpener, the blade looks sharp - but it's dull as dull, maybe even worse than before "sharpening".

We have a range of knives from grocery store mild steel, through decent consumer Mundial and Victorinox to one low end nice Global.

Appreciate any suggestions!

Some of you may recall my previous post about a ~20V potential between my electrical ground and my concrete slab. That's still not resolved - it's currently sitting just under 10V.

Today I have a new mystery - to me anyway..

I'm sitting at my desk and notice that I got a tingle from the outer shield/shell of a USB-C cable. I got my multi-meter and measured 65V from the cable to me with my bare feet on the slab! It drops to about 16V if I lift my feet off the floor. I immediately assumed the charging brick it's plugged into was faulty, but just in case I took a more measurements and found that the another similar charger has a similar offset, the "ground" part of a TRS cable plugged into an amplifier is similar, the accessible metal shield part of a USB-A port on an ASUS ChromeBox is similar. I assume that's not normal?

This is a new slab on grade build. Ground and neutral are properly bonded - I checked a few outlets and ground to neutral is ~0.3V.

Edit - I don't think there is any safety risk - I measured 0.3μA current.

I live in a small community at the end of a long line in Atlantic Canada. We get frequent power disruptions so I have installed a backup generator. I have a bit of a home lab, and don't like my server to lose power with no warning so I've recently installed a small UPS to keep it running in the gap between my power going out and the generator starting. The UPS logs data and lets me access it.

I'm wondering if I should be concerned about my input voltage. The blue line in the minimum for the hour, the amber is maximum for the hour. The zero period on the 8th of March was when I had the power turned off to do some work.

The default configuration for my UPS has it cut over to battery power at 88V, so it seems some significant variation is expected!

I tried searching my power company web site but they don't seem to publish anything about guaranteed, or even expected, supply voltage.

I'm very new to this. I have used Street Complete to do some little things over the last few months, but made my first manual edits yesterday.

I'm starting by fixing up the small community where I live. A lot of stuff has already been done by some automation using "NRCan-CanVec-7.0" data and it's really wrong for civic numbers. But, it matches the numbers in the "standard" layer in the maps. I'm happy to go around and manually draw houses and update civic numbers (I did say it's a small community) but the map is going to look confusing when the base layer shows conflicting numbers. How can I fix that?

I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?

I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we're going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.

I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?

I've just had a new house built in Atlantic Canada. This morning I noticed a bit of a tingle from my coffee machine when I touched it with wet hands. The machine has a grounded (3 pin) plug and I checked - it has 0V between the parts I touched (the entire metal outer case) and the ground socket in the outlet. So, I got curious and did some more measurements. It turns out there is 20V AC (and about 300mV DC) between the ground in my outlets and me when I'm standing on my floor (sealed concrete slab) with bare feet.

I assume this isn't good?

I'll be calling the electrician that wired the house in the morning, but I'd appreciate any insights you might have.

I've just had a new house built in Atlantic Canada. It's not performing as well as I had hoped it would - I'm getting condensation on my windows and door handles and my power bill is higher than I expected.

I know I rushed things a bit with the build, and we were on a tight budget, but I (naively?) thought that following the building code would get me a "good" house.

I've done a little research and found that I have a very generic, builder basic level, air exchanger - a FanTech Flex100. Their own documentation even only lists the efficiency as "moderate". My initial reaction to this discovery is that air exchanger efficiency is critical - it's literally bringing in colder air than it really needs to - and I should look into upgrading as soon as I can afford it.

Does this make sense, or are there other factors I should consider first.

(I know there's lots of detail missing - I didn't want to put in too much effort for a question in what appears to be a dead community. Happy to elaborate as much as needed.)