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  • I agree about the USB Ethernet dongle. Unless you only require short distance wifi range (eg hotel room temp router) the radio in the pi isn’t going to be enough

    I built a pi4 router a few years ago, and it’s still running great, I recommend the project. But unfortunately I can’t find the HOWTO and it was before I started taking good notes. I assume your current router is a phone company supplied modem/router?

    My setup is cable modem–>pi router–>switch–> old netgear router in Access point only mode

    Being that your router/modem is upstream of router, I’m not sure if you could pass-through the WAN to the pi router, and pass back the LAN to the router/modem for the wifi… maybe someone on here can shed some light?









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    7 months ago

    This thought came to me this morning. I have 4 machines both because the BEAST grows organically, and because we’re always trying to avoid that single point of failure. Then a scenario comes along that makes you question your whole way of thinking, diversifying may actually create more problems


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    7 months ago

    I didn’t mean to imply that Services actually broke. Only that they didn’t come back after a reboot. A clean reboot may have caused some of the same issues because, I’m learning as I go. Some services are restarted by systemctl, some by cron, some…manual. This is certainly a wake up call that I need standardize and simplify the way the services are started.




  • Your problem may differ from mine, but whenever I’ve been greeted with the command line in grub the solution has actually been in bios. I’ll leave you with my notes, which are a bit snarky after spending a lot of time trying to figure out hot to repair grub, when the solution was 3 clicks in bios:

    "Inspiron won’t boot

    Goes to the grub command prompt

    Don’t fuck with that thing

    Restart, F2 to get into bios

    Change boot sequence to start the SSD first, not ubuntu

    Reboot, itll do it a couple times, but should boot right into normal grub"

    I hope your solution is the same





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    9 months ago

    The problem with a good running automation is you end up used to them, I forget they’re even there most if the time.

    I end up appreciating my once-in-awhile automations more. A couple times a month I need to get up extra early, skip my normal routine and go straight to work. But I’m American, this can’t be done without coffee. The night before I prepare the coffee maker and scan an NFC on the top that turns off the plug and waits for my next alarm, then turns it back on. Once it runs it disables the automation, so I dont accidently burn the house down. Worth a million bucks

    In the summer in the northeast US most evenings are cool enough to sleep with just a fan in the window. For the nights that stay too warm past bedtime I scan an NFC on my AC that triggers an automation to shutoff the AC and turn on the window fan at a specified outdoor temp. Saves on electricity and who doesn’t love fresh air??


  • Btop adds temperature, which htop doesn’t offer… There are a bunch of other *top programs you could check out but btop is a nice one I learned about on Lemmy

    The only metric you’ll likely have trouble with is power consumption, I dont think the pi has a sensor for that. You would have to plug it in through a killawatt or smart plug





  • Maybe click on that lux entity in the dashboard and see if it has been consistently transmitting its data (on the history graph)? I’m pretty sure you’ll get this warning if the state reads “unavailable” which could be a reception issue or a dying sensor.

    I recently saw this happen to an animation of mine and I think this was the cause



  • I would spend the money on smart switches before smart outlets. I personally find that I want smart control over almost all of my lights/ fans but only some of my outlets.

    Another reason for my avoidance of smart outlets is they are much more expensive than smart plugs and it’s rare that you want to control both plugs in an outlet anyways.

    As far as wiring if you want window/ door sensors or motion sensors you might consider running power to those locations. Much better than changing button batteries constantly.

    Use conduit to future proof any network cables you run…

    That’s all that comes to mind at the moment