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Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Help guiding my son through his examsEnglish2·2 months agoThis is a good idea thanks! My wife and I talked about something similar recently. I think we’re going to try having some of our own office work scheduled for times when he is studying/revising.
My sense is that his problem isn’t particularly the understanding of the topic, it’s laying down a deep enough application of it to get the marks in the exams.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Help guiding my son through his examsEnglish2·2 months agoWe’ve talked about his situation, but not in a formal ‘he needs support’ kind of way. When he’s getting low As and Bs it’s really hard to talk about him not meeting his potential, I just look like a pushy parent.
I think what I’m mostly worrying about myself is that the future he wants for himself needs grades that he’s capable of intellectually, but not at the work rate he’s able to do today. I know that things usually work out, but it’s still hard in the moment to see that he might miss out on his dream goals.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.English1·3 months agoI switched out the router and things started working. Very weird, but I can’t tho jot anything other than it being the Virgin Media hub not liking it. Apparently they have history on this.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.English1·3 months agoYes, everything looks right. I moved dhcp resolution from the router to technitium recently, but hadn’t set up local resolution.
I’m currently thinking the router is the culprit. Here in the UK there are lots of forum posts complaining about the Virgin Media gear. Nothing specifically describes my problem but I’m going to try a new router over the weekend.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.English1·3 months agoThanks for the suggestion, I’ll grab a cap to check.
I’m running
tcpdump -i any port 53
. I can see the outbound request but not the reply. Will the cap show me anything more?
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.English2·3 months agoThanks for giving it some thought!
I have been testing using
dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan
3, 4, and 5 work for TXT, NS and SOA but doesn’t work for A records. I think this rules out a simple network issue?
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered.English1·3 months agoThanks for replying, I appreciate the response.
I’m running
dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan
from my client (a MacBook).If I run ‘dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan TXT’ I get a correct response (I have added a txt record)
If I run ‘dig @192.168.0.249 lan SOA’ or ‘NS’ I correctly get the records for the zone.
I think this eliminates the possibility of it being a routing error?
Two from me:
People took the London tube to the last public hanging - https://londonist.com/london/undergroundtoapublichanging
The University of Oxford (1096) is older than the Aztec empire (1345)
Have you ever felt tempted to put a dashboard around the place? Maybe the rest of the family aren’t bothered about longer term information etc.
I was thinking things like weather and power usage might help my family. I also thought something that showed who was home would be cool.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Hardware Recovery StrategiesEnglish2·5 months agoI’ve got a decent number of local manual controls, but not all of them. For example, some of my wall switches operate the relay because they are just turning on and off the power. Others I have disabled the relay on because the lights themselves are WW/CW tuneable and HA controls the colour during the day.
I’m wondering about having another look at zigbee groups and commands for the simpler automations in the house. I avoided these because they aren’t really visible to HA and I didn’t like having two automation ‘languages’ at the same time.
Overall, how long do you think you could cope without your HA platform before it becomes an issue?
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldOPto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Hardware Recovery StrategiesEnglish2·5 months agoI was thinking about matter yesterday, I like the idea of being able to have multiple controllers. My house is half wifi devices and half zigbee. I’d been favouring zigbee recently because I don’t want to swamp my network with device packets, but maybe that needs a rethink. At the very least my wifi devices all have esp home configs that could be configured to fall back to defaults.
Some cool examples there, I’m going to think about them. I particularly like the walking ones.
I want to love dashboards. I love the idea of a control centre in each room but I just can’t get to the point of winning with them
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•How To Install Home Assistant on a Mini PC - SmartHomeSceneEnglish1·5 months agoI totally understand mission critical motivations, but I reached a different conclusion from you. I’ve been HA’ing for a long time and everything dies eventually.
Do you have a backup HA green in the cupboard? my wife would murder me if I couldn’t get the house back in 24 hours. I want to use hardware that you can buy literally anywhere so I don’t need to keep a backup.
I’m not there yet, but I havve moved to running HA on a proxmox server and have used my HA backup to recover from a software failure. I’m now thinking about what the same would look like for a hardware failure, either the mini pc or the zigbee dongle.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•A complex smart heating system, simply built.English1·5 months agoI like this, but I don’t like that rooms are cold unless I hang out in them. I live in an old stone house and I’d rather have a room schedule than a room presence sensor.
I’ve done something similar. I use the excellent scheduler from Niels Faber. I have room radiator TRVs. I have a helper entity that counts the number of radiators that have an open valve, and an automation that triggers when this changes to/from zero. This automation adjusts the central nest thermostat, converting it to more or less a posh switch.
My radiator valves use Better Thermostat and external temperature sensors, and the whole thing keeps my house warm in every room. I need to write a GH blog post about it, but happy to answer questions/share bits of config
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Best HACS Integrations for Home Assistant 2024English5·6 months agoBig shout out to Adaptive Lighting. Absolutely love this integration
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Seeking assistance getting haos server runningEnglish3·6 months agoI can’t exactly solve your problem, but when I wanted to get HA running on proxmox I used these scripts
Completely painless and running in almost as little time as it took to download the files.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•2024.10: Heading in the right directionEnglish1·7 months agoIf you’ve got access to the file system I think you could remove the custom component there - can’t exhausted resources if there’s no code!
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•2024.10: Heading in the right directionEnglish1·7 months agoI did wonder if that was the one that did it. That’ll teach me to update multiple things at once.
The only thing I lost was a day of recorder data and since I repaired it before bed I guess if I went and recovered the previous build I’d lose what I had overnight in the switch back.
Thanks for letting me know though, I’ll warn my friends before they update.
Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•2024.10: Heading in the right directionEnglish3·7 months agoThis happened to me, I’m running HAOS on proxmox. Ended up restoring from backup. Rollback from the CLI didn’t fix it either.
Rebooted a bunch of bits and it seems to have sped up again. Weird really. I love zigbee for the low cost and low power consumption,M but as a tech nerd I hate that I don’t have the same tools as I would have with an IP device.