I wish I had some water meters that I could monitor to take advantage of the Energy dashboard, but sadly I don’t have a submeter I can access.

Home Assistant just keeps methodically getting better!

I use the HA Voice Preview in two different rooms and got rid of my Alexa Dots. I’ve been trying both speech-to-phrase and whisper with medium.en running on the GPU for STT, tried llama3.2 and granite4 for the LLM with local command handling

I’ve been trying to get it working better, but it’s been a struggle. The wake word responds to me, but not my girlfriend’s voice. I try setting timers, and it says done, but never triggers the timer.

I’d love to improve operating performance of my assistant, but want to know what options work well for others. I’ve been experimenting with an intermediary STT proxy to send it to both whisper and speech-to-phrase to see which one has more confidence.

I’d love for my HA Voice Preview to be sufficient to replace my Alexa/Google devices. I even unplugged my Alexa devices. However, it’s been rough going for me. It never responds to my girlfriend speaking the wake word and doesn’t set timers. There’s a number of knobs that define how well it works including the physical hardware (there’s obviously the Voice Preview, but also some community made versions with better mics,) wake word model, conservation LLM model and the speech to text model (whisper vs speech to phrase). If it works well for you, can you share your configuration you’re using?

That’s the option to publish it. I was curious about the aggregated results.

Is there a place to view the device database yet or is that coming soon?

EDIT: Found it here

Are you trying to make an offline website? If so, you could look into using a Service Worker which would give you full control over when the content gets refreshed.

I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

If you’ve got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It’s a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

EDIT: I’m not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.

Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

You’re describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it’s just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you’re not burning down enough points or why you haven’t met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.

Maybe you’ve avoided it but I’ve seen it first hand.

Pretty cool. I played around with Dafny at work for some security-related software and I was pondering if Dafny could be effective for other problems like complex web-app state management or even more standard services.

I use it to play music from Jellyfin to my Sonos speakers. It won’t fix a Jellyfin library that has bad data, but it can pull in music from multiple different sources and push to different players.

It works well enough. Some issues where songs get interrupted, but I think that’s issue with the Music Assistant/Sonos integration.

Can’t be a passive adapter or else that would mean DisplayPort and HDMI have to protocol compatible. If they were then we wouldn’t have this issue. Apparently I was wrong.

Just an update. Firefox 146 just dropped with:

• Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

After upgrading to 146 and natively using Wayland, it feels faster. Some fade animations are still choppier, but on average it’s at least tolerable.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

• MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
• MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It’s hard to tell.

It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.

Yep, both are plugged into the graphics card. Other programs and games are a lot faster.

If the app is just a WebView wrapper around the application, then the challenge page would load and try to be evaluated.

If it’s a native Android/iOS app, then it probably wouldn’t work because the app would try to make HTTP API calls and get back something unexpected.

Unless you’re running VLANs, in which case the inter VLAN is normally handled by the router. I also expose my home lab services over BGP so all my traffic hits the router then comes back to my lab services.

Every WiFi router and network has something called an SSID and a BSSID. The SSID is the friendly name that you use to show off your puns to your neighbors. The BSSID is a 6 byte MAC address. All devices use the BSSID when connecting and communicating.

With a non hidden SSID, your router broadcasts the SSID and BSSID.

The BSSID doesn’t change even if you change your SSID (Though APs with support for multiple SSID create a different BSSID per network) and it’s what is actually used for geo location.

When it’s hidden, it doesn’t send the SSID out, but sends out packets with the BSSID. Clients then scream out to the void “anybody know the SSID ‘My Secret SSID??’” Then it’ll respond.

So basically hidden networks still send out the unique identifying address and then when you take your phone with you, you’re just telling everybody what your home WiFi is called.

Hidden SSIDs are not that useful.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

According to this post, it was partly that and lack of maintainers. Given there’s maintainers for a fork, I’m curious why they didn’t bring them into the main project.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

We’re sort of in this situation because the official project decided not to continue providing an official Android app, yet people want to use it on Android forcing unofficial versions to be created and maintained.

I get that they don’t want to deal with Google Play anymore, but somebody has to deal with it and them not owning the app is putting users at risk.