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zapatos commented on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant   github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiao... · Posted by u/coherence73
qwertox · a year ago
I've been rolling my own stuff, mostly devices posting to custom python servers, storing data into influxdb and mongodb, triggering other servers on events, and lately also integrating Tasmota devices via MQTT, like the microwave, washing machine, computer monitors, small heating fans and the like. I migrated all Hue devices to zigbee2mqtt and am happy with the flexibility.

Initially (7 years ago?) I refused to use HA because I've all too often had the issue that then projects become stale and I need to migrate to something else.

But lately I've gotten the feeling that HA is really here to stay, with a community big enough for this project not to die and maintaining very good hardware support.

What I'm missing out on is an (Android) app, and I think that this would be a good reason to think about moving over to HA.

zapatos · a year ago
Same story here. Everything goes through MQTT, and a single python script has my automation logic. All redeployable via Docker Compose. I never need to worry about updates breaking things, and there’s much less context for me to try to remember.

Home Assistant never “clicked” with me. It makes some hard things easy, but some easy things hard. I just don’t love YAML enough to write logic in config files…

I also hate that HA pushes you to run their whole OS. The docs usually assume you’re running HAOS.

zapatos commented on Show HN: Product Hunt for Music   tracklist.it/... · Posted by u/ewhicher
twiss · 2 years ago
There is also https://hypem.com/, which focuses on music posted by blogs but is otherwise fairly similar. It helped me discover a lot of cool music back in the day :) Nowadays Spotify's music discovery algorithm is often "good enough", though.
zapatos · 2 years ago
Similarly there was We Are Hunted (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Hunted), before they got acquired by Twitter
zapatos commented on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment   androidpolice.com/smart-d... · Posted by u/franczesko
sameoldtune · 2 years ago
This is an intuition based on some talks I had with an Alexa engineer. When voice prompts became big, companies like Amazon and Google took a “money is no object” approach to adding more features. In practice this meant hiring lots of teams of UX and engineers for each targeted feature. There was a jokes team, a recipes team, geography team, radio team, etc. And a lot of the answers were more hard-coded than the man behind the curtain would have liked you to think.

But now we know that voice prompts did not take over the world and that Alexa is about as useful as a toaster. So fire the teams, cut features people didn’t spend money on, and replace giant, hand-rolled QA-approved NLP processing trees with all the automated tech that makes the front news of HN.

zapatos · 2 years ago
I had some custom triggers I set up in Google Home to trigger streaming NPR on my Sonos. Every dang month I had to pick a new, more obscure trigger phrase because I’m guessing someone at Google would look at a list of phrases they couldn’t match and hardcode a new rule. And your trigger phrases couldn’t match any built-in triggers…
zapatos commented on FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon   politico.com/news/2023/07... · Posted by u/jnord
zapatos · 3 years ago
Of all the "big tech" companies, Amazon's monopoly position is the one that worries me the most.

Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook - you can imagine how a clever competitor can get a foothold to compete in those markets. But Amazon's ownership over the entire physical logistics supply chain through to last-mile delivery is just such a huge moat that keeps getting larger and larger.

zapatos commented on Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?    · Posted by u/dijondreams
Costanzilla · 3 years ago
Back when 1password, 90% sure it was that, had no Linux client I was searching for a solution to store passwords and settled for Enpass.

I sync via WebDAV on my Synology NAS and I’m not really worried to lose anything since every synced device has a full copy of the data.

Thought about switching to 1password a few months back since we’re using it at work and the client is better but they don’t have an Enpass import. It supports some kind of CSV transfer but I don’t want to pay for a bunch of, worst case scenario, not really perfectly structured data so I decided to stick with what I have.

Edit: when thinking of switching I was a little nitpicky. I’m pretty happy with Enpass everything considered. 1p client is just even better but with the give them your data and your money thing, which I’m not necessarily fond of

zapatos · 3 years ago
Enpass is like Keepass but with a better UX. Which is exactly what I wanted, and it hasn’t let me down on iOS + Linux, synced via Dropbox.
zapatos commented on Update to Kagi Search Pricing   blog.kagi.com/update-kagi... · Posted by u/exists
zapatos · 3 years ago
> It used to be 1.25 cents per search. Microsoft recently increased Bing search results API cost to 2.8 cents per search

I guess Microsoft decided to switch their strategy from "help startups take market share from Google" to "kill the competition and try to get users to search on Bing"?

zapatos commented on IMAP Email Backup   smalldata.tech/blog/2020/... · Posted by u/wheresvic4
suchoudh · 6 years ago
I never was able to backup emails from gmail successfully ~ 10GB of mails right now. Everytime it fails somewhere in between because of reasons mentioned by various people elsewhere in this thread.

Every year I try and fail.

This year with the comments herein I again tried and get invalid credentials error with my Gmail.

1) Used mutt/getmail/python script ( password is correct verified it )

2) Even changed password and still same issue

3) I also tried to enable less secure apps to access email option in google settings. But keep getting the Authentication error. Can someone please point me to a good note on how to get Authentication error sorted ( maybe more to take care of ) ( I use ubuntu bionic , python 2.7.17, getmail 5.5 )

Error rahu@rahu:~/0del/_working/_backupEmail$ ./ss.sh IMAP Grab 0.1.4 --- List option selected Connecting to IMAP server via SSL Logging into IMAP server Traceback (most recent call last): File "./imapgrab.py", line 444, in <module> imapgrab() File "./imapgrab.py", line 150, in imapgrab ig_list = IG_list_mailboxes(ig_options) File "./imapgrab.py", line 193, in IG_list_mailboxes ig_imap.login(ig_options.username,ig_options.password) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 523, in login raise self.error(dat[-1]) imaplib.error: [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)

zapatos · 6 years ago
> I also tried to enable less secure apps to access email option in google settings. But keep getting the Authentication error.

Turning on 2FA and using Google's "app-specific password" eliminated errors of this sort for me recently.

zapatos commented on The World of Sports Betting in a World Without Sports   si.com/gambling/2020/05/0... · Posted by u/avoidboringppl
hogFeast · 6 years ago
It is very possible to make money betting on the obscure stuff. I am not going to say what exactly but whilst it isn't possible to get the same volume down, it is possible to have a big edge.

The craziest one was an event I backed at 2.5 in to 1.2 at closing. I have never seen anything close to this before. Just crazy stuff (that is an edge of 40% i.e. you make 40c every $1 you bet)...but you do have to be willing to do the work.

The mistake in the article and that every punter makes is to assume that events with "no information" are bad...but the person setting the odds doesn't have a secret book full of "information" either...the Russian ping pong league is rigged though.

zapatos · 6 years ago
I've heard that the online betting platforms quickly stop taking your money if you have a consistent positive return. Any truth to that?

u/zapatos

KarmaCake day34December 17, 2017View Original