I just picture a conversation between a mother and son, many years ago, going “but you could do more!”

isn’t that a lot like the film industry though? Maybe thats the model that makes sense.

you are correct. On holiday with a few beers I’m surprised I got that close lol

For anyone in that spot of being savvy-ish but having fellow users that finally got used to plex:

A work around is Xteve and owncast. I was successfully able to make an owncast broadcast into a “DVR channel”.

Its cluegy but it does work. My tech level in this stuff is spotty. I’m used to stacks of tech but more for physical control systems (NOT consumer facing). But I was able to get that to work.

Edit: little bit of clarification: Xteve will let you add DVR to your plex server. It’s possible to tie owncast into Xteve. That allows users to cue into a “DVR” channel which is kind of “simulcasting” whatever you’re pointing owncast to. In my case it was a screen share of sportsball, but it could be whatever.

I thought I was the only one…

As someone who lived through Cheny, you’re not wrong. But the present is so much worse. I’m sorry there was no alterative, I truly am. But there wasn’t.

oh this seems like the worst thing ever. I used to have a lot spaghetti stuff reporting. I did not need to be spending this kind of money on ESPs…

thanks, the fact that there’s this level of insight in the community makes me comfortable of going down this road. I’ll keep an eye on integrations.

And it’s explicitly “not all data”? I’m really impressed by the community, I’d assume if a Philips lightbulb was getting access to geolocation data via HA someone would have noticed.

Clear answer, thank you so much. Glad to hear there’s a community. Worst case scenario I can always make it so a self-hosted voice to text triggers a script on a local device through a spotify API.

Glad to hear it, it’s not so much suspicious as the principle. It’s weird, I just hate the notion that if I bump up my thermostat a degree or two someone who I pay to give me music is keeping track.

this is fantastic, I’m really excited. I do have a follow up on non-hardware integrations though. I know when I download anything on my phone, it’s sharing all sorts of crap. Does HA allow integrations to do that? Going back to spotify example, I understand spotify can obviously track things on their end (what song they’re giving me etc), but integrations don’t let them see humidity in my basement right?

ESPhome is exactly the kind of platform I was looking to use. My hope was to standardize a design or two so I could have some I deployed where needed (garage, basement, etc). That’s fantastic, thank you!

This is PERFECT. Thank you. I need figure out Tailscale, I’m much better at the device level than networking, but your answers gave me what I’m looking for: Keep an eye on the device and how it’s used and it’s workable. Thank you!

I have some computer memory I’m still learning the the right terms to describe. It’s a criss-cross of wires with spinning ferro magnetic beads. I also know it’s not only volatile (the information gone on power down) but destructive (information gone on read). It’s about the foot print of an index card, with a ton of connections on every side, maybe 1.5-2cm thick.

Neat little bit of how it used to be.

Speaking from personal experience, you might be surprised at just how far up the economic ladder medicare goes. Not billionaires, but certainly millionaires. Why spend money on dumb doctors when YOUR’RE obviously healthy as an ox. YOU’RE never going to get sick. YOU are a demi-god in their prime. It’s like when people complain about COBRA being it expensive. It was always that expensive, you’re just paying it now. There are a lot of people with multiple homes financial advisors’ include medicare as part of that planning.

I tried to get a photo in front of the gate with a donught. Apparently it’s just not a very popular pastry in Germany, or at least it wasn’t at the time (not suprised given what I ate there… Don’t know why you’d settle). IIRC even the dunkins nearby didn’t have one.

Endangered by my vote? I don’t like the splatter I’m getting. In fact I hate it, but I do own it. I tried to get less of it to wipe off.

I’m done with this, but no, there was not. I respect and acknowledge anyone choosing a protest, I really do. I’m a registered libertarian for gods sakes. There we two choices, one was going to win, the other wasn’t. If the reason someone allowed people to die was because less people would die in the future so be it, when it came down to it, that was the only choice on the table. Would have loved if it was different, but it wasn’t. You don’t get to avoid the splatter.

doesn’t make much difference to the bodies