A structural engineer would want to box my ears for this, but honestly…If it’s a freebie like that I’d be tempted to just put down a couple of courses of concrete blocks, then mount it on that!

Though I guess a trench, MOT, and C10 is only a weekend’s worth with a spade and a mixer.

It’s always interesting spotting the UKCA symbol, and going “ah, this is 2020 or later”

Also, regarding not getting a straight answer out of anywhere…Honestly, if you got 4 builders to make plans, you wouldn’t get a consensus.
Unless you go down the path of putting down extension grade foundations (taking into account nearby trees, slope, clay type), filling a nice wide trench with MOT and concrete is going to be fine for a greenhouse.

What are the greenhouse plans, out of curiosity? I’ve always fancied building a wooden one.

Imo, it’s always worth making the right mix for the job.
Am I correct in assuming that you want to do foundations around the outside, then have the middle be bare soil to plant into?
Rather than having a slab, and raised beds on top?

Around the outside, maybe dig 400mm down, put in 200mm of compacted MOT, and 200mm of C10 concrete mix.
And put some rebar in if you’re feeling extra (it’s not that expensive). Just remember that if you put rebar in, it is an absolute arseache to rip the concrete up afterwards.
Though tbh, unless you’re really keen for the plants to root into the ground, I’d do a slab!

I have alerts that push out when the fridge door is open.
And another that flashes all the lights in the house when the doorbell rings.

I feel like this is going to be a deciding factor in how comfortable countries are in the third quarter of the 21st century.
“Did they start to get their renewable shit in order by 2025?”

Maybe I’m just a datahoarder, but for me the really obscure stuff is the most worth keeping originals of.

The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just homer-simpson’d into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.

To be honest, part of the reason I leaned towards having the radios on the same box, was simplicity.
I have a box, with a VM, VM is backed up, new box could be stood up if needed and restored from a backup.
The other was, when I knock over the network (don’t ask…), I don’t lose logged data from the various sensors.

If you did want to be able to fail over quickly, so long as you make the USB device paths match (ie, have them on the same device in proxmox), you should be able to swap things over inside 10 minutes.

“Bots? No, no, those are active users. They also don’t use adblockers, so they’ve better than regular users!”

Is there a particular reason you want to put your z-wave controller on the network, rather than just plugging it into the proxmox hardware? (Assuming I’ve read your post correctly). Are you looking to do high availability on the VM or something?

I found running HAOS in a VM, and passing through USB devices worked really well, and I just bought the bog-standard z-wave dongle from Aeotec.

I haven’t had a single zigbee button need a battery replacement yet.

Plus, the terrain near the coast here is an absolute bastard for point-to-point roads.
You’d struggle to make the alternative road any more efficient than the existing b-roads.

Does being catholic give you access to church time in prison? As that might be a nice perk that people would go for.

Very accurate.
When we had the northern lights here, we pulled over on the way to the dark-sky location, and the aurora filled the sky.
After it died back a bit, we drove on to the dark-sky, where we spent 3 hours sitting in the dark working out if the green bits were going to spike up again.

The 2010s gutting of social services also contributed to this.
Services that might have helped the elderly continue to live in their own homes, or supported in their community, got ripped up.
So everything slides until they hit the one thing that can’t be cut, a hospital bed.

Do you have rtl_433 mqtt auto-discovery set up?

That’s crazy. I wonder what needed so much spending.
I know that when the host costs for feddit.uk were looked into, standard cloud hosting was going to be significantly more expensive than a cheapie hetzner box.

I reckon culture-grown meat will be the big one that shifts people away from slaughter meat.

Sure, growing it from a culture will still have people refusing on ethics grounds, but it’s damned sight less suffering.

That was the conclusion I reached a little while ago. So I’ve just stopped eating shellfish as a result.

I’m now trying to reduce the amount of cow I eat.