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Oi ! (expletive deleted)er !

Like I made any errors…….. ☺️

Changed my mind to an o droid m1

@joe90 ; been so careful but missed this until I put the door on and swore ….

Did a major (expletive deleted) up . Missed the fact a cupboard door couldn’t open as hitting a corner plinth . Solution ? - move all the wall units back 18mm - (expletive deleted) that ! Company can have a custom corner plinth made that’s 18mm narrower …. Phew !

Gone for home assistant green as an out of the box solution . Did consider some kind of NUC . Had 2 modern i7 Nucs before ( mame and homeseer ) - both failed out of warranty 😕 I could offload my ip camera stuff to my Synology nas ( been rock solid ) but resent paying a license for cameras

Does that matter ? . The mesh just rebuilds anyway . What I mean is ; even if the zigbee mesh stays intact no HA processing is going to happen until home assistant is back up. Or is it you’re simply trying to minimise the ‘down’ time ?

Didn’t know about the edge tpu . For my cameras I don’t really need ( yet ! ) any advanced object detection / ML - just standard zone / masking for movement. I use that to control lighting ; far better than 20 movement sensors in a room . Really want to bin my windows based system . So slowly migrating across is the plan . All must happen without SWMBO noticing !!!

Thanks . That’s handy to know . Do you find home assistant stable ? Homeseer on windows always has issues when windows decides it’s update time . What’s the advantage of zigbee2mqtt over just home assistant seeing zigbee devices ? I also use blue iris - really good but again windows based . I believe an “ equivalent “ is frigate ???

Yep . It’s all very trendy

Considering migrating away from homeseer ( always hated it running in windows )to home assistant green . Want to move over zigbee devices 1 at a time - so I can test and be confident. This doable ? . Any home assistant people here ? Thinking to try node red

I think the way this design works is really clever . Live cables ( support cables ) roll over a metal wheel . So you just pull , cut to suit . Metal wheel each side acts as conductor . But like GhostBusters - don’t cross the beams .

SWMBO got a present from the postman once …

I’ve not seen one like this before . I’ve only seen support cables AND then a power cable . This unit seems to achieve both in 1 cable at each end . There were zero instructions chinglish or otherwise .

Well - I’m going to do it anyway !

Got one of these . Where it appears the support cables are actually live off the led dimmer . I suspect this as a cable touched the metal housing and gave me a nice spark . The cables are much too long . No obvious built in method to shorten them . As the support cable is the power cable presume I can cut and wago ( connector is in the ceiling so not visible ) - basically cut to length . Yeah ?

Erm , ummm - I’ll get back to you on that …

It ain’t for no water cooler ….

Don’t you worry ! . Once I do my magic you won’t be looking at the ceiling !!

It’s like reservoir dogs ; no one wanted to be mr. Brown The sales guy and SWMBO both liked it ( as if the sales guy wouldn’t ) I said it looks like brown He responded that it might be the light in the showroom , so we will take a sample outside . It still looked like brown No one wants brown - because it’s shit colour so everyone calls it rustic red - stupid mofo’s

Here’s the red I’m wearing tonight https://www.elitecolours.co.uk/rusticred

That’s shit brown colour also

Nah , shit . Shit certainly isn’t red ( or shouldn’t be ) .

Before anyone says the colour is “ rustic red “ . I think it looks brown like shit . SWMBO likes it though 🙄