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Having some recuring issues with Home Assistant loosing the Z wave module - last time I couldn't just restart the module and had to reboot the machine to get it all working. It was suggested I should put the PC on a UPS but I don't think power line drops are the issue - everything else on the...

I have a trip to China and want to set up a VPN for my phone. I have openVPN set up for access to my home network - a server in the cloud and a client on the phone and a client on my pfsense router. I could just buy a vpn solution but wondering if I can tweak my openVPN set up to route...

Have a couple Roku streaming stick and having trouble with buffering messages appearing. The roku network test shows signal strength and speed but doesn't show more detail such as latency or jitter. I am not sure if the issue is in my local network or my ISP but guessing they are local. I...

Planning a trip to Belize and wondering about cell coverage/use. My phone is from Cricket and unlocked - Samsung A32. Have wifi calling. Downloaded google map of the area. Thinking I may not really need to get a local SIM card. I am guessing I will have access to wifi to check in from time...

Had a brief power drop at home and some of my outdoor motion lights got stuck on. I hadn't thought about this before but many motion sensor lights have a way to keep them on by switching off the power briefly and then back on. Seems like this would happen more often as we occasionally get a...

Trying to get tech up to the current century... :) EAC was recommended by a coworker. Downloaded it and installed. It seems to have trouble with my optical drive although it works fine with Windows and Linux. Tried a USB drive - it didn't see it. The forum link on the EAC web page is dead...

Does anyone know if Cricket has a gateway for text messages? I found somewhere on the net that said that [email protected] was it but it doesn't work. I tried switching .net to .com and it didn't kick it back as undeliverable but it also didn't show up on my phone.

I went to spectrum internet about 6 months ago. Seems like I have trouble every 4 - 6 weeks and often they have to send a tech out. One time they reduce the attenuator in line and another time they increase it. Last time they removed a two way splitter (used as attenuator with second line...

I recently updated my MythTV box from Ubuntu 14.04, Mythtv 0.27 (which was working fine, BTW) to Xubuntu 22.04 with mythtv 32. The system is working ok but there is one big issue with the OS. It automatically sets the resolution to a high value and the display only takes up the upper left hand...

Non-technical is not quite right but they aren't into the details of PCs and setup so thinking the VOIP BYOD solutions like using an OBI box may be difficult for them. They are looking for more plug and play solutions like magic jack, ooma, etc. What's a good one that is fairly easy to set up?

I picked up a couple older zwave switches from a local guy that has changed to zigbee. They have the site www.jascoproducts.com on the devices but that site has issues and just displays a text error message. Some googling led me to byjasco.com but I didn't find anything on units this old...

I was thinking my PC had something wrong because I started to have to click my mouse more than once and when I would click and drag to select some text when I let up the selection was gone. I tried another mouse and didn't have the same trouble so it seems to be the mouse. It's a Logitech and...

Discovered that a TP-Link switch I have isn't connecting to my pfsense box at full speed - it's getting a 100Mbps connection. So I started looking around as I have several similar switches in rooms where I have more than one network thing attached. Seems to be a common problem with 100Mbps...

Use putty to ssh to headless boxes on my network. Would be handy (just for simple things in a shell) to have something similar on my phone as I can use VPN to get to my network. Googled and got something like "best 10 putty alternatives for Android" and tried Termius. But it wants me to enter...

Was in Lowes for some other things and found a couple Eaton plug in outlet switches in the back isle clearance section for about $10 each. Even if I don't use them for switches as I understand it I could use them to extend the range of the network. Their site still shows them at full price so...

Had a big storm this weekend and my Spectrum internet is only sort of working. Called them and they said they saw issues with my connection and scheduled a tech visit. What's strange is when I do a speed test I get about 85 Mbps. Not the advertised rate but plenty for me and shouldn't cause...

Had some strong storms blow through. Took the roof off a couple buildings a few miles from here that I think made national news. It was bad here too but only some smaller limbs broken off trees. Took out power for several hours. UPS on some computer stuff including the main Spectrum box and...

Have an off the shelf atomic clock (syncs to atomic clock radio signal) with outside temp sender. Replaced batteries and now the unit is acting crazy. Have pulled the batteries overnight and tried again but same results. Our previous one lasted longer (this one is only about a year old) but...

Thinking of replacing a wired alarm system with 2 partitions. First partition has 16 zones. Second partition has 8. Have an alula for monitoring the system that would be replaced. Some sort of simple HA interface (reporting events) would be a plus but not required. Would be replacing a...

So many variations of this or at least how they are described by different sellers. Have some non-express 4k units and looking for one more. Want the user interface to be the same. See Lowes has the Express 4K+ on sale for $30 and that it has the voice input (earlier express did not and...