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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • For years I have been trying to get Home Assistant to work nicely with my garage door opener. I used a MyQ system that would constantly go offline and just recently switched to an ESP based switch.

    What makes it Apple related is that I installed HomeKit Bridge which bridges all compatible entities from Home Assistant to HomeKit. The new garage door switch is now reliable enough that I can now say “Siri open the garage door” and immediately it will open.

    Only Apple for the first 5% of the automation, but boy after all the headaches I’ve suffered to reliably open my garage door, this one feels so damn good.

    If you are wondering why I don’t just use a radio remote, I do. But no matter which remote I try, I cannot get them to work through the steel door, they will only work reliably if I am beside the garage, not in front of it. Also when I’m out for a walk or a bike I don’t usually bring the radio remote. So this automation gets used about 3-4 times per day. Plus it will remind me if the door was open for more than 3 minutes!








  • https://youtu.be/j6lT7zDkT4M?si=H0z9VljetXBb4bpr

    The thing he does wrong is set up separate shares for downloads and media. These should instead be directories in a share called data (or whatever you choose to call it). That way when NZBGet moves the file from downloads to media, it just updates the file system to change the directory. The files stay on the same physical sectors of the drive. If they are in different shares, NZBGet needs to copy the file which can take extra time, wear and tear on the drives, and energy. It’s an unnecessary and expensive step due to a misconfiguration.

    Best practice is to pass through the data directory to all your containers (and remove the movies and tv shows directories in the container since they’re included in data) and pass everything through there. It’ll work 1000x better.

    But don’t take my word for it. Use trash’s guide for this.



  • PiHole is great but as it’s a DNS server, if your unraid machine is turned off then you have no dns and cannot reasonably use the internet. Luckily you can run two instances - one in a container and another on a raspberry pi (or any other machine) so if one of them goes down then you still have DNS. Then you can point your router at both - you always have two options for DNS, the second being a backup, or used for load balancing. Even Google and Cloudflare provide two DNS servers.

    You need to maintain both simultaneously so they have the same blacklists and general settings. There is another service called GravitySync that handles that for you but I’ve never been able to get that to work.