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that’s what the U3 is supposed to be, but I haven’t played with that newer one to know if its any good. I think its still not a full activity thing with power and input state tracking, but just a more advanced macro based system.
Would work for 90% of people though,
The U2, which is the one that is portable, I.e. no base station, doesn’t have activities, but you can fudge activity behaviour with macros. Its handy to just throw some codes onto it from the app and go.
The x1s and X do have activities but they are more expensive and need a base station.
The sofabatons are imperfect, but they’re as close to harmony as you will get
perhaps something like a Sofabaton U2 would do well for you? you can put in a device preset for the shield and for your home devices plus anything else you need, but also pull a codeset for the hotel TV and swap it out as needed from their app when travelling. you rarely need exact model number matches, usually just something from the right era from the right manufacturer gets you all the commands you need. Add a Flirc USB to use IR on the shield with more control (or on shields without built in IR), you can use any IR codes then, and map keyboard macros and such, or use the sofabatons built in Bluetooth support for a native remote.
Nothing selfhostable in that regard, and most of the solutions that do exist are either terribly tedious, or rely on chinese server at some point.
Outside of that, i’m playing with an Astrion remote at home at the moment, which also uses Chinese servers, but you can block all of that and connect it directly to home assistant. it’s far from perfect and a lot of features are still in the development timeline, but they are keeping their word so far with version drops, and the majority of the code is public on their github. Hardly an option for travelling with though.
I’ve played with it for Home Assistant integration, but I just dont have much interest in it, the whole thing is too inefficient at the moment, and the tiny models that can run in a few gigs of system ram on an ipgu or npu arent good enough in quality or speed to rely on.
Hopefully some future generation micro-models will be more useful for the way I want to use it (aka , ultra light, no dedicated hardware etc.), but for now it’s a lot of compute resources, plus heat and energy for a gimmick.
dont mix and match, since you mention there is an Ethernet link from downstairs to upstairs, get a multi-node mesh system and use that Ethernet as a backbone link between two nodes.
I use Komga, but only as an OPDS server for Mihon on my phone and Boox tablet. I rarely actually look at the server software itself.
I haven’t dug into metadata management because the files I source all seem to have good metadata, all I need to do occasionally is change out a cover image or rename some files in batches.
if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.
I would like the rules to make clear what is acceptable.
self promotion of a FOSS project is acceptable in my opinion, as long as it is clearly titled as self promotion and isn’t done in a spamming way (such as carpet bombing multiple communities with bot posts). I’d also say that donation-seeking in those posts should be kept to the creators own web pages, not in the posts themselves too.
there is a pretty easy line to draw for what is blatant advertising and what is genuine discussion of a paid service. that’s not that hard to moderate, especially when accounts are new, and carpet bombing the same posts to multiple communities, that is clearly spam.
if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.
However, I’m not 100% opposed to closed source/paid software being discussed here, but it should clearly marked as such, with a flair that people can filter out if they so choose.
If someone posts asking about whether there are any alternatives to a paid closed source program, that’s a totally valid conversation, and if it turns out there is no FOSS alternative, then we have to talk about paid closed alternatives, find the one that offers the best value and vet for trustworthiness.
The rules say nothing about selling a paid service, but maybe “no spam” should be updated with some clarity on self promotion, so perhaps you can self promote your FOSS service with the appropriate flair, but if you are selling a paid closed service it shouldn’t be allowed?
I want to be able to take illegal uploads down when they get reported
never underestimate how fucked up the internet can be, and how quickly they can ruin things.
Sorry, misworded that, I meant it isn’t as good as a dedicated self hosted FOSS tracking service. meaning HA has access to my location data but i’ve also put lots of third party addons and integrations into HA that have to be trusted with access to that information too.
A dedicated service would be a bit easier for peace of mind as it would be isolated.
Even when set up “correctly” there are going to be a few shows where things are wrong, just due to different groups classifying series differently in some cases.
for the basics, you just need to ensure you have the right folder structure and the standard episode numbering in the filename, usually “/libraryroot/Show Title/Season 01/Show title - Episode Name - S01E01.file”
there are cases where a show has multiple seasons but some are classified as a separate show, some are separate single cour seasons, some are multiple cour seasons, specials etc. and that changes based on where you get your metadata and often differs from what the release groups will use.
So to tidy it up in those situations I use TinyMediaManager to manually build the metadata and write that to a file that jellyfin will use above all other providers.
I’ve only needed to do that in full detail for Monogatari series though, since I have my preferred way to arrange that abominable mess. pretty much everything else I stick with whatever the AniDB plugin wants and adjust my files to suit.
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yes I was on the latest firmware that only came out in the last month and even when on the same subnet it was 1-2 seconds of delay, dropouts, mic issues. I had to have the thing replaced (under warranty) at one point because the two way audio just refused to work at all.
swapping it for the Unifi doorbell lite as soon as I get a 45 degree mount for it.
I’ve tested it and it’s miles better, the video quality is fine too, I though it would be noticeably worse but it’s perfectly decent for a doorbell, I’ve got other cameras on the front of the house anyway.
it is on a separate miniPC, but that is also a proxmox box that does a couple of of other things. I did have it on a Pi4 previously but I outgrew that. might need to go back to having HA as a dedicated appliance, not running Nodered and other things on it, keep all of that on the other servers.
my whole setup needs a rebuild soon anyway.
I’ve tried to use a Reolink POE doorbell for a while, and while the camera itself and chimes are just fine (and I have it recording to my Unifi UDM-PRO) the actual doorbell call and chat functionality is pretty awful, high delay, poor audio, buggy.
I know there are ways to DIY the call and chat function through HA and Frigate, but I need an app that works reliably whether my HA server is running or not so that non-technical users can figure it out and the doorbell doesnt go dead when i’m working on my servers.
So i’m moving to one of the new unifi doorbell lites until I find a better solution, or bite the bullet and buy a higher end one.
Perhaps I just go back to a basic doorbell, plus a separate camera and intercom system but orchestrate it with HA manually, but again, I want this to be separate from HA so it can work at any time, so it’s unifi for now.
I have a stack of PCBs and some parts from an early revision but never got around to it.