I took German in High school… 25+ years ago. Never got fluent and never used it after that. Now I see the memes and find myself picking out words I remember to find the funny.

You see valentines is torture and my birthday is a mess, New years a lot of noise and arbor days a pest

I used a Shelly 1 pulled into home assistant. Works perfectly. Very simple for opening and closing. I am building an ultrasonic sensor using esphome that I’ll use to know how far the door is open. Currently I just use Zigbee contact sensors. Open or closed.

I hated that time in my career. You get to talk to the worst humanity has to offer.

I see you learned to code like I did.

In the early days of my home server I remember looking at the logs and just watching them scroll with failed attempts. It was just a small box for messing about on with a dynamic IP. Older and wiser now.

My parents have it because of where they live. The only other option they had was century link DSL at 1.5Mbps. Now she can watch streaming services, work from home, etc. The service has been great, Musk is a douche.

I have the Amcrest AD410 actually. I’m pretty sure the Amcrest app uses cloud but I could be wrong. That said, it integrates with home assistant and frigate perfectly at the local level so I get instant notifications when there is motion. If they ring the doorbell I leverage home assistant to be notified immediately along with a picture of when the button was pressed. I’ve been very happy with it.

WTF?!? I don’t think about any of my kids sex lives. 3 out of 4 are adults (18-23) and I don’t give a fuck. It’s their life to live.

I’ve been using Amcrest cameras with Frigate and a Coral USB. It’s been working perfectly. My cameras are on a VLAN with no Internet access and it hasn’t caused any issues.

Yep

That’s hot.