There seem to be some 3rd party music capable devices in the works but nothing ready made in production.
I am waiting for a better overall speaker and I need a new server that can at least run a small lllm to run the assistant as intents are too ridged
I have some gen 1 devices but at this point the hardware probably is worth replacing I think the mics are going bad on a few I have.
There are 3rd parties that appear to be working on the LACK of music quality speaker with alternatives to the voice only PE.
As I said the PE has a bad speaker… My existing devices are in 5 different rooms and mostly used for casual music listening. I have no intent on purchasing PEs + external speakers for every room. Particularly to clutter night stands.
I am waiting for something more like this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yNEhcAjWU
Or something like a amazon dot or google mini with an OK music speaker
I have refused to purchase one, hoping a better speaker comes out as I have several rooms to replace google devices in.
I have seen cheap external computer speakers suggested several times, you can often find them dirt cheap at second hand and surplus stores.
Going to find out if things improved when I pull them out for Christmas again this year.
Picked up the Christmas lights 2 last year mattter allowed for on off and solid color control not much else. Nothing like scenes or patterns.
I used Govee2mqtt to control them instead from HA as the built in integration didn’t support that model yet last year and G2M just had way more features .
I’ve since revoked that access.
A few releases ago they made it so you can DEFAULT new entities NOT to be controlled by the VA… I cleared ALL entities and changed the setting. I only add things one at a time to voice control now.
SO many integrations ad switches it is a high risk to default the VA to have access to all new ones.
In my home lab I have them separate the OPNSense box has full performance on its own HW, only needs to be patched once in a while and is super stable.
I have managed to crash / lockup one of my proxmox hosts at least once while messing around with HW past though or by giving a guest enough cores to slow the whole box down.
Family never gets interrupted playing games or streaming Netflix with my lab separate from the critical internet service.
New versions of OPNsense installed with ZFS support snapshots before upgrading natively sort of taking one of the promox vm tricks out of the pro list making it neutral.
I run Unbound on my opnsense firewall.
The official documentation?
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html#dns-over-tls
There isn’t much to it
The ones I need, otherwise I always prefer core HA elements if possible.
With recently UI improvements in HA I have actually removed several HACS
I get 550Mbps on 5 ghz (80Mhz wide) with my iPhone 13 and I get 800-850Mbps on an iPad pro on 6Ghz (160Mhz wide). When in the same room as the AP. When not in the same room speeds are a bit all over the map.
This is via the speedtest.net app on a 1Gbit fibre connection.
I am using new U7 Pro Wall APs.
He opens the video with “over the years I have used ZHA and Zigbee2mqtt” so I made a little assumption. but that makes it worse if he was already using Zigbee2mqtt when he picked up the Sky Connect and didn’t check compatibility.
If you are using a supported NON experimental adaptor / chipset and you have powered devices with strong connections to it, you should be fine. The only optimization I would do is put your USB stick on an extension cable and get it a little ways away from the computer as when they are jacked directly into a pi/computer the USB port can actually cause a little interference.
To save you going 5 min into the video… He was using an adapter with zigbee2mqtt that was listed as experimental.
It is less about the network adaptor and more that he switches from zha to zigbee2mqtt with the skyconnect / homeassistant adaptor that is still not fully supported in zigbee2mqtt.
Using a coordinator more central to your network can help but as long as a large number of your powered relay devices have a strong connection there isn’t anything wrong with using the USB ones.
The ONLY issue with the USB ones is that it is recommended you put them on an extension cable as the USB port it self can cause interference, and putting a little distance from the antenna helps.
So his solution DOES all that, and is a good solution, but I wouldn’t just go toss your USB stick in the bin…
RAID isn’t backup it is high availability.
40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target
RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.
Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?
iSCSI is block level storage where NFS/SMB are file level… When you browse a folder with SMB/NFS it is going to ask the remote service for the meta file list then cache the whole thing till it thinks it needs it refreshed… iSCSI is going to go read a set of blocks to read the metadata off the remote file system. iSCSI can be considerably more chatty between the two hosts as it is lower level.
I think a variation on the multi community might be a good idea but implemented differently.
Community’s could opt into a meta community (somethings that are the same name arn’t the same thing).
Then on the user client side when you subscribe you can choose to subscribe to the meta community. When your feed is constructed it doesn’t include de-federated etc. when you post it is via your instance to the meta community and a shortcut is posted to all the meta community members, and replies go to your meta post in your instance.
Tuya makes zigbee devices that are cheap. It is the only tuya stuff I tend to use.
I highly dislike wifi dependant devices unless they are larger more complex devices that get stable updates.