u/Nebarik

Outbound Osko payments are down. Looks like it's actually Bendigo Bank's issue.

I have a urgent loan settlement payment to make today. I'm so stressed about this. I can't even just do a normal transfer without Osko. I'm so screwed if this doesn't get resovled soon.

The worst part is Up's uptime page https://up.com.au/up-time (last section) specifically says that outages exclude the inability to initiate a bank transfer. Complete actual lie.

>Ability of Up to process bank account transfers, with funds becoming available to the recipient on the next business day or later. Includes account-to-account transfers (Pay Anyone) and scheduled payments (for example, direct debits, and payroll payments by businesses) not made as fast payments through NPP/Osko, and BPAY payments. Outages exclude the inability to initiate payments due to unavailability of web or app banking channels, or a branch.

There has to be consequences for this kind of misinformation. Is there like a ACCC but for banks.

Support disagrees with me about what those words mean. Am I blinded by stress and reading it wrong? Because it seems super clear cut to me.

https://i.imgur.com/YNQmYIh.png

A little while back I posted here the dumbest question ever about how to get a media playing automation to even begin to work, and you guys were really nice and helpful.

After much self learning and work. I finally got the completed solution done. And it works surprisingly well, it's seamless and a very cool party trick.
I have NFC tags stuck to the underside of the CD spindle (fits like a glove). I put the CD case on a nice little bamboo phone stand (that has the NFC reader hidden behind it), and basically instantly that album starts playing on the nearby Nest Hub like magic.

I've came back so others don't have to go through what I did, sharing a few simple files (literally only 3 in the repo) and a straight forward walkthrough. I say straight forward, it does assume beginner level command line experience, or at least the ability to comprehend any errors you run into enough to ask your favourite LLM for help.

I've included both how to wire and program the NFC reader. And a script that automatically matches tag names (that you've named the album names) to the album IDs in Music Assistant, and then updates the single automation rule in Home Assistant directly. Adding new tags is as simple as scanning it, naming it, and rerunning the script.

Here's the project. Enjoy.

https://github.com/Nebarik/esp32-nfc-reader