Fun fact: Even less people are aware that New Mexico was named so centuries before the country of Mexico was named.

Dear Leader gives the people a boogeyman to blame for all of their fears. Dear Leader and his cronies spout lies upon lies about their boogeyman to keep the people scared and in line.

In essence, Dear Leader creates a problem, then sells a solution.

People like that are not the brightest doorknobs in the bunch.

Edit: The admins have told me if I don’t say this was an accident then they will remove the post.

It’s is verifiably an accident. It is also extremely convenient for the people she threatened.

Dude, that’s a weak-ass response. Do yourself a favor and delete this.

Well, the coordinator is probably not the problem, and the soil sensors are probably fine, too; from what I have heard Thirdreality devices are generally quite good.

That’s what I heard, too, and my wife is very happy with being able to know exactly when to water the plants, which is nice.

I trust you are using a USB extension cable for the coordinator and don’t have it plugged in directly in the USB port?

Of course. It’s zip-tied to a plastic support on the shelving that holds everything. Well away from wifi, too.

No idea how good the smart plugs are, but if one of the soil sensors is basically next to the coordinator and still falls off the network randomly then the problem is likely not the plugs or the network mesh.

Ah that was worded weird - it’s one of the smart plugs that’s next to the coordinator. The soil sensors are all on other floors.

All things being equal I would suggest switching to zigbee2mqtt and see if that helps. Even if it doesn’t, and the culprit is something else, zigbee2mqtt is (in my experience) better in the long run, because it generally supports more devices than ZHA and is much quicker in getting new devices supported.

That was my thought as well.

I’m slowly converting everything to run on these little 1 liter PCs. I have three so far (four if you count the Mac Mini NAS), and an Optiplex 7050 SFF that’s been a bit hotrodded with a 300W XE3 PSU, Precision 3420 CPU cooler, & Noctua fans w/extra intake fan.

I like the Optiplex for obvious reasons, but it’s a bit of a power hog with the i7-7700 and 48GB RAM. I haven’t measured them individually, but if I had to guess, the Optiplex probably accounts for a solid 1/3 of the power usage in my entire homelab.

Which coordinator do you use?

Connect ZBT-1

If the network is not well meshed then the link quality could be too low for the sensors to reliably stay online. Adding repeater devices (mains powered devices like bulbs) could help here.

Running six of these over three floors (2x basement, 2x main floor, 2x upstairs): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DQTFM1T6

Soil sensors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DH25W72N

One is within a few feet of the coordinator. I try to just not look at the network visualization as it just causes more headaches, but I have zero “green” connections… Maybe those plugs are just garbage though, IDK.

For a split second I thought he was about to put himself to “sleep” with the gun 😂

We’ve got a few Echos, but these days they are mainly used as a bluetooth speaker (bedroom), kitchen timer (kitchen), and the kids’ one (basement) is used for music… and that’s about it.

I have one in the garage, too, but I’m about to throw it against the concrete floor and run it over a few times for how often it only plays one fucking song from my Spotify playlist when I’m working on my motorcycles.

That’s why my HAOS instance runs on bare metal 😁 (Lenovo M710q, G4560T, 4GB RAM)

I’m running ZHA at the moment, but some of my devices (mainly the plant humidity sensors) keep falling off the zigbee network for hours at a time. I’ve heard zigbee2mqtt resolves a lot of issues with ZHA, would that have any effect?

I like smart tech, as long as I can make it work for me and not just another data vacuum for some faceless corporation. I’ve got Home Assistant handling a lot of my stuff now, and I’m moving things over to it and replacing corporate-app-only things with things that can work locally.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. db0 account.

Do it. The only reason I’m posting from my shit account right now (I still like this place, don’t worry) is because db0 is blocked at work for “PiRaCy” 🙄🙄🙄

Yikes. Yeah I’ll look for other communities.

Boo. And for .ml, are you talking about lemmy.ml? I’m subbed to several communities there for the FOSS and selfhosting stuff, on both this account and my db0 account…

The only thing I’m really questioning is the removal of the Archos devices. I’m sure if this is legit then there are reasons for it, but those devices essentially started the entire Rockbox project.

Genuinely curious - besides that particular user causing issues, what’s the deal with hexbear in general? Full of idiots like that?

It just sounds like the one user, really… But I’m not a mod, so I’m not seeing the whole picture.

Today is still 4/1, so I’m going to wait until at least tomorrow before I form an opinion on this.

Well now I can’t unhear that, thanks.