That must be why it stopped working ;-)

Does 48 hours not getting a reverse proxy working count?

It’s FreeNAS and I don’t really hoast anything but the plex server… so 48 hours.

If deleting files counts 10 days a year, if not 1 day a year.

I turned to coffee maker on from my bed this morning :-)

Yeah… I don’t think there’s any reason for concern after reading it either. I kind of assumed everything was set up this way already :-)

My gut reaction to the title was also fear.

Can be handy for jumping around in something that doesn’t have thumbnails generated yet. But I agree, it’s a bit of an anachronism at this point.

I’ve never even heard of curlftpfs, but I can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t work. You should try it out and let us know… I tried NFS once and didn’t like it.

Because insecure FTP access is already enabled on the NAS ;-)

Not quite sure what functions you’re looking for? If you want to maintain a wishlist next to a list of your existing media Radarr and Sonarr are probably the best free software out there. Just don’t set up the downloading portion.

They will index, sort and, rename what you have, download subs. You can add stuff you want, and the calendar will tell you when it’s been released.

There are front ends like Tautly but I think they depend the arr’s for some of their features.

Data export from history to a CSV file! I love that there are always features I didn’t even know I wanted until someone else thought of them ;-)

It might be a WiFi connection issue. My devices connect perfectly after I flash a new configuration, but my AP seems to reject the next few login attempts. They eventually connect, but it takes a few minutes.

So… and this is probably debatable, the point of a dedicated seed box is that there are a metric-shitton of other seed boxes on the local network (at the datacenter).

I’d argue the point of self hosting is to be able to set it up however you please. It sounds like you know what to do to be safe.

I use Mulvad for general VPN duty, though I can’t personally speak to its torrent support/speed I do see many recommend it in combination with a wireguard supporting container image. Spin a few up and let us know which ones you like and why.

I’ve yet to mess around with any of the liquid level sensing tech, so I don’t have any specific recommendations… but ESPHome has a huge array of different sensor filtering options which should really help. I think sensor noise and settling time are a lot of what complicate the task.

ESPHome has support for a few sensors that might get the job done… would weighing the tank be an option, or are you looking for something more off-the-shelf?

No.

There’s no shame in a nice plywood patch, as long as it’s temporary.

Plastic probably isn’t a great long term solution anyway, unless you have a handy neighborhood Tap Plastics… those are large panels that need to be cut from a big sheet. It’s probably acrylic which starts out fragile and just get more brittle with sun exposure, cleaning chemicals, air, etc. ;-)

You could try to replace them with polycarbonate but I’d check on the price of getting some glass cut and laminated. You could even just turn it back into a window. Definitely seek advice on how to “reglaze” the windows from YouTube…

I tried to substitute modern silicone caulk for crummy window putty once. Then I cracked the glass and spent a week scraping out the very tenacious caulk. Turns out sometimes the old ways do work best.

Good luck.

I’m not seeing anything obvious from this side, are you sure there’s no access from the inside?

If not I would guess that you need to remove the strips from around the edges, similarly to deglazing a window.

Judging from the age of the surrounding hardware you’re going to be lucky if you find fluorescent tubes and an old “magnetic” ballast. Consider changing that out for some LED strip lights, it will be similar in cost and last much longer.

I’m going to pontificate a bit.

I get the impression that there just isn’t quite as much “just works” on offer as there use to be. In the 3ish years I’ve been playing with HA I’ve seen several of them vanish and not return. This has gone hand-in-hand with “improvements” in IoT security.

Personally I have no problem with insecure APIs on my local network. But I’m 20 years out of date, the threat landscape is infinitely more vast and people I’ve never met are looking to fuck my shit up for a fraction of 1 bitcoin ;-)

Secure local access shouldn’t really be a problem, but ultimately it will always require a non-zero amount of maintenance. Either from you (if you’re lucky) or the manufacturer (if they’re still in business).

Working off all that Zigbee is probably going to be your best bet. It just works pretty good, but I have yet to find a list of all the basics that always work perfectly for everyone. But most of it is cheap and plentiful enough that you can just try another device if needed.

Some folks seem to get away without repeaters, some don’t. So repeaters and devices don’t seem to be compatible, and that makes the notion of a self-healing automatically optimized mesh more of a theoretical ideal. Start with small test deployments and scale up gradually. RF isn’t easy, there’s going to be glitches. Devices with a graceful fallback are good… every bulb in your bedroom coming on at 3:00AM when the power hiccups may be an acceptable compromise to you, but might not be for the person you’re sleeping next to ;-)

And this has devolved into barely coherent rambling, so I’m out. Sorry I couldn’t answer your question, but hopefully I don’t completely waste your time.

Same. I figured the price would come down over time… boy was I dumb.

Who wants to pay $50 plus for a dim bulb that incapable of making saturated colors?

I found a lot of folks for whom everything seemed to just work… my experience wasn’t terrible but I did buy a few hundred bucks worth of Aqura sensors before realizing they weren’t super reliable.

So I’m kinda glad I didn’t get caught up in the Hue TOS fervor. It drives me nanners when they miss a beat ;-)

Sorry I don’t have real tips.

I’ve been using HA for a years or two now and still found Zigbee stuff difficult to troubleshoot :-)