u/TheProffalken

I know with the Crafter-style vans the shape of the inside can be a bit of a pain to work with, and that others (Transits?) you have to add "pods" either side at the back to get a "proper" bed.

From talking to folks who own one, the Relay, the issue seems to be getting a bike rack that you don't need to dismantle just to open the back doors.

I see loads of delivery drivers out there with Iveco Daily vans, and many "commercial" campers that are based on an Iveco truck of some kind, but very few Daily conversions.

Is there a good reason to avoid this particular model? I mainly ask because they seem to be slightly cheaper in the UK than the other base models and cost is definitely a concern for us!

I know with the Crafter-style vans the shape of the inside can be a bit of a pain to work with, and that others (Transits?) you have to add "pods" either side at the back to get a "proper" bed.

From talking to folks who own one, the Relay, the issue seems to be getting a bike rack that you don't need to dismantle just to open the back doors.

I see loads of delivery drivers out there with Iveco Daily vans, and many "commercial" campers that are based on an Iveco truck of some kind, but very few Daily conversions.

Is there a good reason to avoid this particular model? I mainly ask because they seem to be slightly cheaper in the UK than the other base models and cost is definitely a concern for us!

Other than growing them in the greenhouse that is?

I see BBQ recipes of all kinds calling for different types of fresh chilli, but no matter which supermarket I go to (I've looked everywhere from Lidl to Tesco, Waitrose to M&S) all I can find are "green", "red", "finger", and Birdseye.

Are there good stockists online for buying a specific type?

Hey folks,

I'm planning to redecorate my office and a big part of it is going to be using WLED to improve the lighting throughout the day and evening.

I already have a Elgato Keylight on my desk and zigbee-controlled downlights in the ceiling (both integrated with Home Assistant), but I can't get any cool effects out of them, nor can I adjust them to get the light levels right.

The plan is to panel the wall behind my monitors with the wood/acoustic baffle panels and run LED strips up at least three of them.

At the moment I plan for these to be controlled via a Gledopto controller, probably with the two outside strips on one channel and the middle strip on the second channel. Power will come froma 100W Meanwell PSU attached to the underside of a smart shelf that I'm building which also houses a control panel for home assistant.

Behind me, on the wall, I indent to mount some hexagon shelves that I'm in the process of building. Each shelf will have it's own LED strip and WLED controller inside it, with various things displayed on them.

The idea is that if I'm on a video call then the background can be serene and tastefully lit with warm light from the wall behind the monitors working with the keylight to make sure I'm well lit, whereas if I'm writing music or hacking on code then I can have sound-reactive lighting bouncing around the shelves and up the back wall.

I'll probably daisychain the power between the shelves from a second meanwell 100W PSU, but have I missed anything that will make this look even better or easier to wire up?

I'm more than handy with a soldering iron and have written my own plugins for Home Assistant, so I'm not worried about getting my hands dirty, I just want to make sure that I don't get bored of the lighting fx etc. in a short space of time!

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The comments are clear - I'm just giving another excuse to avoid things or pick something else.

Thanks for all the feedback, I'll try and think of something else!

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I'm trying to motivate one of my kids to do "stuff".

This ranges from getting up at a reasonable hour through to chores and filling in paperwork along with stuff that they actually enjoy doing.

I've tried all kinds of things over the years from bribery to shouting, but none of it really seems to work.

I'm now wondering if I build a wheel in the kitchen that they can spin each morning with a list of tasks they don't want to do.

They spin the wheel, it lands on a task, that's the only task they have to complete that day.

I'd test it on myself but I've got the "organisation-driven" part of my AuDHD along with 40-odd years of masking so I don't really understand why they're not just "getting up and getting on with it" like I've had to do every day of my life since starting school.

Yes, we've talked about it. Yes, we've tried everything else.

I'm not looking for advice on other solutions or options, I just want to know from the ADHD purists if something like this would work for you?

So I've managed to get myself into a bit of a situation with my Pi 5 8GB and I'm hoping someone here has seen this before.

It started when I noticed the only LED coming on was the red power LED. I'd previously migrated Home Assistant from SD to NVMe, and at some point something went wrong.

I've read the boot problems sticky and the subreddit FAQ and worked through everything in there that's relevant to the Pi 5, so hopefully this post has enough detail to avoid the usual back and forth.

Here's what I've tried so far:

• Booting from a fresh SD card - no joy, still solid red
• Reflashing the bootloader using Raspberry Pi Imager - got two orange flashes and solid green first time, which seemed promising, but it didn't stick
• Downloaded the correct 2712 recovery image directly from the rpi-eeprom GitHub releases page (after discovering Imager may have been flashing Pi 4 files), verified the README confirms it's the Pi 5 image, flashed via dd with wipefs beforehand - still only one orange flash then solid red
• Built rpiboot from source (the apt version is from 2022 and doesn't know about recovery5 or bootcode5.bin)
• The Pi does enter rpiboot mode when I hold the power button on plug-in - dmesg shows BCM2712 Boot being detected with the correct VID/PID

The problem is it consistently drops the USB connection after around 200ms, before rpiboot can transfer anything. The verbose output shows "Device located successfully" followed immediately by "Failed to open the requested device":

[144241.586487] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 25 using xhci_hcd
[144241.710467] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=2712, bcdDevice= 0.00
[144241.710472] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[144241.710473] usb 1-2: Product: BCM2712 Boot
[144241.710474] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Broadcom
[144241.710475] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: becc6523
[144242.243537] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 25

I've tried different USB ports, a udev rule to set permissions on the device, running with -l to loop, and different timing on the power button release. I'm aware that the ThinkPad USB port may not be supplying enough current during the boot ROM phase, but I don't have a powered hub available to test that theory.

The Pi is running off a MacBook Air charger for testing (although I see the same thing with multiple other PD PSU's), no NVMe attached, no SD card, nothing else connected to either the Pi or the ThinkPad I'm using as the host.

Is this recoverable, or am I looking at a dead board? Any suggestions welcome.

So I've managed to get myself into a bit of a situation with my Pi 5 8GB and I'm hoping someone here has seen this before.

It started when I noticed the only LED coming on was the red power LED. I'd previously migrated Home Assistant from SD to NVMe, and at some point something went wrong.

I've read the boot problems sticky and the subreddit FAQ and worked through everything in there that's relevant to the Pi 5, so hopefully this post has enough detail to avoid the usual back and forth.

Here's what I've tried so far:

• Booting from a fresh SD card - no joy, still solid red
• Reflashing the bootloader using Raspberry Pi Imager - got two orange flashes and solid green first time, which seemed promising, but it didn't stick
• Downloaded the correct 2712 recovery image directly from the rpi-eeprom GitHub releases page (after discovering Imager may have been flashing Pi 4 files), verified the README confirms it's the Pi 5 image, flashed via dd with wipefs beforehand - still only one orange flash then solid red
• Built rpiboot from source (the apt version is from 2022 and doesn't know about recovery5 or bootcode5.bin)
• The Pi does enter rpiboot mode when I hold the power button on plug-in - dmesg shows BCM2712 Boot being detected with the correct VID/PID

The problem is it consistently drops the USB connection after around 200ms, before rpiboot can transfer anything. The verbose output shows "Device located successfully" followed immediately by "Failed to open the requested device":

[144241.586487] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 25 using xhci_hcd
[144241.710467] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=2712, bcdDevice= 0.00
[144241.710472] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[144241.710473] usb 1-2: Product: BCM2712 Boot
[144241.710474] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Broadcom
[144241.710475] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: becc6523
[144242.243537] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 25

I've tried different USB ports, a udev rule to set permissions on the device, running with -l to loop, and different timing on the power button release. I'm aware that the ThinkPad USB port may not be supplying enough current during the boot ROM phase, but I don't have a powered hub available to test that theory.

The Pi is running off a MacBook Air charger for testing (although I see the same thing with multiple other PD PSU's), no NVMe attached, no SD card, nothing else connected to either the Pi or the ThinkPad I'm using as the host.

Is this recoverable, or am I looking at a dead board? Any suggestions welcome.

Heading to near Ilfracombe (specifically near Combe Martin) in a few weeks time, just wondering if there are any recommended spots nearby?

Hey folks,

Five years ago I asked about unlocking my head-unit to allow Android Auto.

About 18 months ago, the touchscreen started to fail in the middle, so I figured I'd finally bite the bullet and order one of the £50 "unlock" SD cards.

This worked really well in the sense that I can now see two buttons when I connect my phone (Android Auto and SmartLink).

Unfortunately, my phone doesn't support SmartLink and the Android Auto button is right in the middle of the dead-zone on the screen.

Is there any way to say "I don't care about SmartLink, always use Android Auto" when the touchscreen is damaged like this?

We love the Yeti, it's a fantastic car, but I don't really want to spend more money on a new head-unit and then take the dashboard apart to fit it!

At school I was obsessed with Shakespeare (I still am tbh), but especially the prologue to Henry V.

There's a line in it that goes something like "Then should the war-like Harry, as himself assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, leashed in like hounds, fire, sword, and famine crouch for employment".

More recently I've been listening to "Drinking song for the socially anxious" by The Amazing Devil (who both happen to be RSC actors when they're not playing music!) with the lyrics "Cause though my jokes are my armour, And my kindness is my sword", and it's made me think about all the times I've "donned my armour" to get through the day, whether that's a suit, a nurses tunic (thanks ADHD for such a random career path!), or patterned shirts to make sure I fit in and there's some kind of talking point that isn't my awkwardness.

So what's your armour? What do you take with you into battle on a daily or frequent basis, and do you have a specific thing for the end of level boss?

Others have mentioned this elsewhere, but I thought I'd try and bring it to the attention of the mods with a new post!

I've loved these selfies and the way they humanise all of us in a world where so many seem intent on making us look and feel "substandard".

I do, however, fully understand that for some people it's not their thing or even makes them feel uncomfortable.

I don't want to see this disappearing in to a "mega thread" because that's where topics go to die in all the other subs I'm in (especially those where object permanence is an issue! 😅), so I'd like to propose that one day a week it is encouraged for anyone who feels comfortable doing so to post selfies.

If you don't or can't take part, that's fine, we won't judge you for it, and having it on a specific day (maybe even with a specific subject line?) means that you can filter out those posts so they don't affect you?

This is how we challenge the conventional thinking on what Autism looks like.

This is how we show the positive side of who we are.

This is how we stand together as a community.

This is how we defeat the worrying trend in the US, UK, and other parts of the world to dehumanise us.

Thank you, and can we make this a regular thing, even if it's just one day a week ("Selfie-Sunday")?

I love seeing you all in all your uniqueness, it's way more interesting than anything in Vogue or the "this season's fashion" ads on Insta/TikTok, keep being you!

EDIT: Apparently I need to point out that I want this to be a fully-automated solution, not one that relies on me inputting the data myself. I didn't think that would be needed given this is a Home AUTOMATION sub, but here we are...

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Hey folks,

We've got subscriptions to most of the major streaming providers in our house including NowTV, BB iPlayer, Netflix, Apple TV+, and Disney+

As a result, we've also got various TV series that we're watching across all those platforms, and remembering what we're watching at any given time and which service it's on is a real headache.

Does anyone have a system (ideally using Home Assistant!) that tracks what's being watched where? It would make it significantly faster each night to make the decision and switch to the appropriate channel!

I've got a Bradley Original and it's consistently producing some of the best smokes I've ever done.

I knew when I bought it I wouldn't be able to fit a full packer inside it, but it was the only smoker that would fit in the space I had available.

I could cut the brisket up (presumably I'd do this into flat and point sections, with the flat at the top of the smoker to get the most of the heat as it rises?) but I'm also wondering if I could hang it from some butchers hooks inside the cabinet with all the shelves removed because it's a lot taller than it is wide!

My main concern is that as the brisket "relaxes" the hooks would rip through the meat and I'd just end up with the full weight of a packer trying to force its way through the grease pan at the bottom!

All help appreciated!

OK, so I asked about this two months ago and only one person had really used it, but at the price I was able to get it for (£28 on Amazon thanks to a £15 gift card!) I figured it was worth a shot.

I'll keep this brief, because I hate reading long reviews (or recipies!) with a life-story before they get to the point!

The first thing is that it arrived dented in a badly damaged box. I complained and they sent me a new one, so excellent customer service but it shouldn't have been in this state in the first place.

The second one was also in a damaged box, but it wasn't damaged itself so I kept it.

It's a long hotplate that plugs in, which is fine because we always try to camp with a hookup and I have plug sockets in the backgarden.

I bought it as a replacement for my gas grill that had caught light in September last year, and planned to do smash burgers on it, and maybe some other things.

So far I've done smash burgers (worked so well that I didn't manage to get a photo before they were eaten!), steak, veg, and even pancakes (see photos below).

It does distort in the heat, so you end up moving things around to make sure they're cooking properly, but it also does a great job of cooking things and, if you turn the dial down, a really good job of keeping them warm as well.

It's got a massive cooking surface given the price, and once you get the hang of moving stuff around it's a fantastic bit of kit.

My wife recently bought me a Cobb grill. This has basically replaced the "fire" element of the BBQ, and with these two bits of kit along with my Pizza oven, it's enabled me to buy a smoker (it arrives this week).

I use the Cobb and Scran

XL when camping, but I've also found them to be excellent in the garden for cooking a BBQ too.

In short, for the price, any shortcomings with the distortion etc are easily forgiven, and the food is really good quality!

The first unit - you can see some of the scratches and an outline where it looks like the heating element had been overused

The second unit was in much better condition!

American-style pancakes - these are approx 4\" in diameter

More pancakes!

Bacon cooked on the Cobb, pancakes from the ScranXL

Loads of veg!

Greens on the ScranXL, everything else on the Cobb

Cheeky steak sandwich for lunch, because this thing is so easy to heat up and pack away!

https://preview.redd.it/jgntw9oj0rxg1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f77ccc72a33474b07ab538a04b8c14fe3cdbc3e9