Yeah, it’s not really a problem when I’m at home, but there are times when I’m not physically nearby the hardware and on those cases it’d be nice to have option to migrate HA to different hardware on the fly.

Also having z-wave controller on ethernet would make it a bit easier to position antenna in the middle of everything, my server isn’t the centerpiece of our living room after all.

Sort of high availability. I don’t really have the hardware right now for proper high availability setup, but I have a spare laptop running proxmox which I use for pihole and other ‘network critical’ stuff when doing maintenance for the main server. I don’t have any doubts about passtrough working, I’d just like to have flexibility on the environment and thus it’d be nice to have z-wave controller on ethernet.

But I think I’ll end up with ZWA-2, I’ll just use usb hub or something to make it physically easier to move HAOS VM between different hardware.

This would be the most effective thing around. Actually buying european stuff (at least besides online-services) doesn’t make sense right now. Due to tariffs you’ll end up funding the current circus around there and in exchange you don’t really get a lot. Sure, some (but not all) of the EU made products are better than their US counterparts, but you don’t buy winter jackets, shoes or anything like that every day.

If you really want to buy european stuff, be a part of change in your country and make it believable trade partner again and stop the orange clown with his circus. Then you’ll get better selection of our products with a cheaper price. And you don’t even really need to do that much. Just be active in your community, start a board game club or something and promote civil activism. And obviously go and vote to end this current madness, drag all your neighbors with you.

I assume it’s the usual suspects, as in aliexpress and ebay for the components. Or quality ones from mouser/something. I’m just not in the market for yet another DIY project right now, there’s plenty of unfinished ones around, like adding sensors and IR transmitter to garage for heat pump control and temperature monitoring with esp32.

Well that’s exactly what I asked for. Pretty neat thing at least on quick read up. Unfortunately the customs situation with shipments from USA to Finland (or EU in general) is a mess right now, so I wont dig up my visa card at least immediately. I need to study a bit what’s actually the situation today (and hope that it doesn’t change again after few days).

There is, but as with all hardware, it’s one thing to have something supported and another thing if it actually works in real life scenario. My current razberry7 is on supported devices list but constant jamming of the controller says that even if it’s technically supported it doesn’t really work in practise.

I’m not running LXC, so USB passtrough should not be a problem. Running zwave-js on haos requires that the hardware is visible to the OS and as razberry7 connects to raspberry pi gpio ports I’d need to move the whole installation over to rasberry which I don’t want. I’ve already burned myself with broken SD-card with that setup and even then the controller didn’t work as reliable as I’d want to.

I saw that project and it seems to be pretty promising, but as it’s on pretty experimental state I think I’ll skip that for now. The biggest headache I’ve had with home automation so far is unstable z-wave connectivity, so I’m not really interested on tinkering with experimental stuff.

But good to hear that ZWA-2 actually works as well as advertising claims.

A slightly different way to think it I guess. I’ve been also learned that intentionally pulling a trigger is not the only way to fire a gun. There’s always a possibilty for the mechanism to trigger if you accidentally bump the gun or drop it or trigger guard can get tangled with something or whatever, so the ‘laser pointer’ part is sort of included in that as you need to be aware at all times where the gun is pointing and how you move around and interact with it.

And it obviously applies to things like chambering a bullet, removing clip from the gun and so on. I’ve personally seen a .22lr pistol to fire when slide was released on reloading, it was a old gun with really dirty mechanism so just the bump from the slide hitting the frame of the gun was enough to trigger it.

But no matter what ever way or analogy you’ve been thaught to work with guns, proper handling does not kill or injure anyone, specially not in your living room.

Täällä kehäkolmosen paremmalla puolella tulee minkäänlaisia diskovaloja nähtyä tienpäällä melko harvoin ja vielä harvemmin taustapeilin kautta. Itselleni tämä tapa ei ole ainakaan iskostunut, mutta onhan tuo jo edellisen vuosituhannen puolella autokoulussa neuvottu, että hälytysajoneuvon(kaan) kanssa ei tehdä mitään äkkinäistä tai hölmöä liikenteessä.

Taajamamerkkien väljemmällä puolella hälytysajoneuvojen kanssa yleensä riittää että ajaa niin oikealle kuin vain asfalttia riitää reunaviivasta välittämättä, mutta toki jos tilanne antaa mahdollisuuden esim turvallisesti väistää bussipysäkille niin sitten vilkkua päälle ja alta pois. Kaupungissa tarvitaan usein pelisilmää vähän enemmän, mutta samat säännöt ne sielläkin pätee, liikenne on yhteispeliä ja siinä penkin ja ratin välissä tulee huolehtia että muutkin tienkäyttäjät ymmärtävät mitä olet tekemässä ja milloin.

A pretty good analogy. I’ve been taught that the gun is always loaded and ready to go unless it’s fully disassembled. Only exception is when you personally checked that it is not and the gun haven’t left your hands after checking it. And even then you don’t point it to anything you don’t want a hole in.

And the same rule applies no matter the type of gun you’re holding. A bb-gun, .22 or .308, pistol or long barrel or whatever, they are all always loaded.

Team expects, may be useful, could be used, prototype, are currently investigating and so on. Cool piece of technolgy, but no even mention when they’d expect that to be commercially available, if it’s even possible to manufacture in commercial scale. Like many other new battery chemistries and technologies, it shows promise and makes a good headline, but at this point that’s pretty much it.

That’s just wild from my perspective. In here pretty much everything works with your SSN and some way you can prove it’s yours. Healthcare, pensions, schools/education in general, taxes, benefits and nearly all publicly funded things require that you can prove you are who you claim to be. Hell, I can’t even get certain type of packages out of the post office without a valid ID.

Sure, there’s some burecrautic annoyance to actually get valid ID card or passport, but compared on what you’re saying it’s walk in the park. Last time I renewed mine it was enough to submit application for it digitally and then visit a police station to actually confirm my identity for that application, but in total with traveling it took 2-3 hours.

And also I can verify my identity online pretty easily either via my bank credentials or with a phone service. For me and a lot of other people it’s really convenient, but obviously in here we also have people who can’t (or won’t learn to) use all the new tech so for them some things have gotten more difficult.

A fun side-note is that today my driving license actually doesn’t qualify as valid identification. On some cases it’s still enough and it used to be as good as actual ID card but with a ton of EU drivers licenses from other countries around it’s not ‘strong’ enough identification anymore.

I’m not in the USA, but in here government ID has been a requirement to vote as long as we’ve been independent. Same goes with driving license, registration of a car, guns obviously, bank accounts and a ton of other everyday stuff and it’s not really a problem. Sure, you need to take care that specially the new ID card they hand out is valid (5 years at the time if I remember correctly) since it’s often (one might argue too often) required to validate your identity.

And when done correctly it’s mostly a good thing. Last time I voted it took maybe 10 minutes and I had several days to pick one which suits me. I gave my ID card to the clerk who then checked a box that I already voted (so that they won’t give me second ballot) and then I filled the ballot and cast my vote. That’s it. And of course there’s mechanism so that you can vote even if you’re hospitalized or out of the country or something else preventing you from voting “the normal” way.

Current government at the USA seems to do everything they can to make voting more difficult, but requiring a valid ID to do so isn’t really the biggest issue you have out there.

For me personally that did work. However I was 18-19 when I had kinda shitty factory job for a while before starting at university (of sorts), not 10 years old. Also I appreciate the experience of that shitty job, at least for me it was a good lesson on life, but again I was not a freaking toddler at the time.

Eikös se pitäisi olla Kuopijo ja Jojensuu?

Being correct and PITA are not mutually exclusive.

Armbian works on most, if not all, raspberry pi compatible boards. I meant that support from vendor is often a lot shorter than from raspberry and it can cause problems/bugs with bootloaders and drivers unless vendor is actively working with armbian/kernel development for their chipset.

Orangepi and other “clones” often use rockchip on their boards which isn’t as well supported as Raspberry equivalent so it’s not direct replacement. Also their supported lifespan is often much less than rpi.

Article paints a slightly optimistic image on what we’re doing here, but for the most parts it’s pretty accurate. Specially after Russia started an open war in Ukraine we’ve had programs to verify that the shelters are in good condition and specially on the 3rd sector there’s a ton of work going on so that we as a society can be more resilient against all kinds of disturptions.

But what wasn’t mentioned on the article is that nearly all of this stuff is not only for war or anything that extreme. People need shelter, warmth, water and other stuff taken care of even if there’s a storm cutting power or floods forcing people to leave their houses. Managing those kind of situations isn’t that different regardless of what is causing it and as there’s more opportunities to test the system (gladly still not too frequently) it’s easier to train people and learn from real world situations.