I’m aware of Shelly and similar products. they are way overkill for this lamp - it’s literally 1 LED and was powered from USB before I modified it to run from a 5V wall wart. I’ve ordered a few ESP32 boards to play with. I’m pretty confident I can power my lamp from one because one of the tutorials I found for new users was literally making a light switch. The tutorial used a LED for proof of concept and said to replace the LED with a relay to switch a real light.

I know I can go read, or experiment, but I’ll ask anyway - does Immich gracefully handle changes to the external library after the initial import?

Edit - after posting I realised I’m not talking about an external library, but I hope my question makes sense?

I use it for my photos, but I have no specific needs - android app and desktop browser work for me. I’m looking to move my wife’s photos over but she needs R/W access to the photos on desktop (probably via a SMB share) for Photoshop etc. Can Immich handle that?

yeah, this isn’t a “real” salt lamp - the LED generates no heat. I have seen it dripping in particularly humid weather, so I won’t be putting the esp32 (or whatever I end up doing) anywhere near it.

I have a bit of an aversion to smart plugs - they seem like a bit of a kludge. I totally understand there are lots of cases where there’s no other option, but I don’t think this is one. I’m also looking to learn about esp32 and I’m just sanity checking that this is a reasonable thing to do with one.

I feel there must be some error in translation somewhere. The way I’m reading it, 26% of Canadians spend their winter in the US. That can’t be right! Even 26% going for a short holiday there sounds ridiculously high?

interesting how different Russia is in the two sources

I know what futo is, but I don’t understand what you’re asking for here?

It’s a hard choice - I don’t like Google, but they’re good phones. I really wanted to get something other than a Pixel when I got the battery “recall” for my 4a. Ended up with a used 8 Pro.

The irony here is that, to me at least, someone that is comfortable being themself is generally much more attractive than someone trying to look good for the sake of looking good.

This makes me so mad. If we can’t do anything to actively help stop the genocide, the very least we can do is not be complicit!

So, we’re on a boat. It starts leaking with these mysterious finger sized holes. Most people start sticking fingers in holes to stop the water, but there are a bunch of people that are worried their finger might get stuck, or a fish might come and bite it or divine intervention will save the boat - and they decide not to stick their finger in a hole, and just for good measure some of the people that won’t stick their finger in a hole go and make a few new holes. You think that’s ok? For a bunch of people to, not only not contribute to saving everyone, but actually make the situation worse? And for there to be no consequences??

I guess it comes down to your definition of “forced”. People were forced to get the vaccine in the same way they are forced to not walk around with a gun indiscriminately firing bullets - you’re welcome to do it in the privacy of your own home (as long as your home is big enough that the bullets won’t leave it) but if you want to participate in a society then you are forced to follow some rules.

OK, I’ll bite. I read the WestJet article. The person won their case because the judge decided WestJet didn’t believe they were serious in their religious basis for their exemption request and therefore didn’t consider options to give the person work in another role that wouldn’t be impacted by their lack of vaccination.

This in no way supports your position that the mandates were somehow illegitimate.

When this happened to my 4a I considered a used 6a as an upgrade - glad I didn’t!

From my reading I believe the detection models (or whatever they’re called) won’t even install unless they find appropriate hardware?

I’ve also discovered that the “AI” detection for person, vehicle and animal built into my camera works amazingly well and I’m now using that. I’ve been told I can use Frigate as a “dumb” PVR to receive, store and display the events detected by my camera, so I’m reading up on that option now. Seems overkill, but might be worth it.

yep - I was still happy with my 4a until they killed its battery. I bought a used 8 Pro. That was about 3 months ago, and it still feels too big.

I wasn’t aware when I first posted this, but am now. I’m struggling to get it working though. My automation to record video for person, vehicle etc. events was working but as I read more I learned that, as you say, it should all happen in camera. So, I’ve turned off the automation and nothing is appearing in the Reolink media folder. I’ve been through and double checked that everything is turned on - that I can find. I’m wondering if I need to turn on FTP upload, or if the Reolink HA integration pretends to be a Reolink PVR? My camera is a RLC-520A, with no SD card, which, if I understand what I’ve read correctly, should have this capability.

Edit: I’ve been reading and playing more. It seems the Reolink media folder is just populated with links to the recordings on the camera SD card. So, I’ve configured FTP upload to a folder accessible to my Jellyfin - I can now view the videos from my phone, PC and TV. That works for now - I’ll keep playing.

I said my hardware was old and I meant it :-)

Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

I just don’t see any reason to upgrade - I feel it’s doing a lot for me and spends almost all the time at least 90% idle. It was nearer to 98% until I enabled Reolink on my Home Assistant VM - I’m running the highest quality stream from the camera, just to see how it performs.

I’ve been using various versions of keepass for ever. Until recently I had the database on Google drive. It’s now local and sync’d with syncthing. It’s a bit “different”, but once you get used to it, it works very well.

Does it work if you unplug and replug?

In general, yes.

If you hit a button other than power does it wake up, or does it say “no signal” or something?

Yes.

Does the laptop see it?

I’m assuming not as it does not display on it. Next time it happens I’ll see what xrandr says.

Anything in any log?

Nothing in Xorg.0.log and nothing that seems related in the journal. I’ll keep journalctl --follow running and see if anything that I didn’t pick as being related comes up next time it happens.

Can you force a redetection from the laptop?

Probably, but I don’t know how.