Well, early days, but after doing a full backup I went with the update and this appears to be doing ok so far. My recorder is working, my history and energy dashboard still exist unlike any of the .7 releases.

This allowed me to upgrade Alarmo (which had a dependency above .6) and fixes a disarm bug.

Hoping HA for me is back fully functional!

Gave me something to laugh at while eating lunch

Well that’s why you read the article :). I was just trying to showcase that

I’m guessing (without reading) there was a lot of luck there, like no rough seas. We all float better in salt water but 37 hours floating/treading water is impressive regardless of the conditions.

in BI, for each camera I have the following set under settings/alerts/on alerts

Didn’t get home til late last night… Looking at my automation. If you’ve successfully connected (via mqtt) and validated in explorer. my automation to trigger a notification on motion is quite simple.

I get alerts from BI Motion in HA (via mqtt)… I’ll look at it a bit to jog my memory and see if I can give any tips. It’ll likely be tomorrow or so as I’m traveling today

I had a humidity switch in ours a while ago (not smart) and it would turn on too much even if a shower wasn’t running but our windows were open. And, enough humidity was in the air. So that didn’t work out great.

It was a self contained deal not a smart switch though

I’m not sure if I’ve tried doing any PTZ stuff, but all the other settings for sure. The cameras I have all have SD cards so you could manage everything right from the UI and just have it record locally.

They want to connect to the mothership and destroy log files trying to get there.

All of the Amcrest “management” I do is within blue iris. I have a ptz IP4M-1041B but do not do any ptz stuff via HA. I use blue iris to send stream/alerts to HA via MQTT. This allows me to do notifications on motion. I would assume if you have location presets setup in BI you could call them from HA but that’s a guess.

I messed around with presets (camera location) in blue iris a bit bit didn’t have a real use case for it so I am not sure how robust it is.

I block internet access to all Amcrest cameras directly but can still access their local IP. I have access to my cameras again via blue iris which runs on a dedicated windows machine.

Been using enbrighten switches from Jasco. I use their Zwave but I think they have ZigBee too.

I use the ones that look like toggle switches over the paddle style to match the rest of the house .

I have them on all our bathroom fans too so they can be left on (steam / smell disposal) and auto shut off after 30 min.

I’ve got amcrest and I integrate them into HA via mqtt using blue iris.

But amcrest cameras need something like pihole to help block all their taking to the home base

Well I’m interested in this world (sailing/ living on a sailboat) so I’ve been following fairly close. I don’t believe there’s any known non aggressive way to stop them. Stopping hasn’t been shown to help that I’ve heard/seen

From all the reports I’ve seen so far, they are in fact not attacking humans, just the boats. Unless this has changed.

Stay classy Humans…

I think you’re one step too high…

Humans seem to thrive being controlled by authoritarian figures. If you look across the planet these people are getting voted in by someone.

The first one was God.

I listen to a podcast that is generally quite opposite of my political alignment, but I usually find it entertaining. One thing these guys believe or at least discuss quite often is that Biden is being given drugs at certain times to “kick start” him for things like the SOTU. So, I don’t believe this is anything new.

I add them each as their own entities but they are automatically totalled after that. You can see in my image left and right main. That’s each Emporia

Haha ya no doubt

I have two Emporia Vue 2s one in each 150a panel, flashed with esphome so they’re only reporting locally and it works great. 16 circuits per vue.