Yeah, unfortunately, I do not have access to the BIOS, nor can I install things on it - security restrictions. What you have done would have been a lot easier and more reliable though!

This was already asked and answered. Maybe read before replying.

I’m not sure if it’s a dock dock or a big hub. It’s a USB-C connection, so maybe the latter. It’s definitely not one of the old style with the proprietary connector.

Yeah, I’ve seen some used Dell ones cheap. But then I might want to use it for my personal non-Dell laptop, and who knows how that will work.

The one I have came from Amazon 3 years ago, and it has worked perfectly. We’ve been full-time work from home in those three years, so it has gotten a good bit of use.

Nice.

My work one, yes. They want us to shut it down every night. I just suspend my personal laptop though.

Thanks. You have to set it up in YAML - there’s no GUI. Here’s the page on it. Obviously you need to know your adapter’s MAC, but that’s not usually too hard to find.

It sets up a switch entity, which is a little odd to me, because it’s not an on-and-off device - toggling it just triggers the WoL command. But I guess that makes the most sense; I don’t think there’s a “button” entity.

Edit: It does look like the entity can track the status of the computer, but it’s not working for me. Hostname is probably not correct.

I’m checking, because I’ve been in difficult situations, too (and have posted a thread in this community about backups). Looks like I have a dozen backups on hand, most recent one is 1:35 a.m. today.

No problem here for either of mine - kvm for one, Raspberry pi 3b for the other.

Yeah, I’m okay with the YAML mode, so that’s not a major problem for me.

This is really cool. I’ve been out and about and have gotten notification the laundry is done, and it’s like, welp, that’s not very useful information right now. Thanks!

Thank you! I will look into this!

Ah, thank you! I will look into this further!

I could see that working in theory, but in reality we both still have our old phones - in fact I had to find my wife’s old phone this morning and shut off the alarm she’d left on.

Well, I’m glad to hear I’m not missing something. Thanks.

After I posted the above comment, I saw other people claiming they’ve had issues getting them to display traditional incandescent color values. I have not had that issue with them, either. There was something I had to set in HomeAssistant for the bulbs, I think, perhaps in the color picker UI, to allow the selection of those colors, but once I found that, no issue. I don’t think I even had to manually re-pair them when I switched Zigbee channel to avoid my Wifi.

Now that I’ve said this, one will probably start showing blue instead of white or something, of course.

Interesting point. The two I have are in exterior fixtures that are on the other side of the wall from the switch (which is a repeater), so for me this is a non-issue, but I can see if you’re using them indoor, it could be a big difference.

If someone can live with this limitation, they have worked fine for me.

Man I thought this was going to be some philosophical thing suggesting that esp32 could be replaced with something else!

I use a can koozie for my soda all the time. :( It keeps it colder for longer. (The koozies aren’t beer themed though.)

Why did they make the change to ping, dropping the interval setting? I looked through the linked pages but didn’t see an obvious explanation. I assume there is a reasonably good reason for it.

The suggestion to remove the recorder days is interesting. I have mine set to just a few days, because the partition the database is on its low on space, and I haven’t gotten around to dealing with it. Storing more in the same space would be good. I didn’t understand how the database would be smaller despite having more info.