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Noticed I was getting yellowish water from my taps at the same time that work was going on up the street. Emailed the city and got this speedy reply:

The City of Coquitlam has experienced a major water main break on Eagle Mountain. Crews are currently onsite and working to repair the main; however, the repair is expected to take a minimum of at least two more hours.

Once your water service returns, please run COLD WATER ONLY from your bathtub for approximately 45 minutes. This will help clear any sediment that may have entered the water lines during the repair. Once the water runs clear, you may return to normal water use.

Hi folks – I encountered an annoyance this morning when I found half of my devices were unresponsive. Long story short: my WiFi router had forgotten how to do 2.4Ghz overnight and that cut off the bulk of non-ZigBee devices (disabling that band and re-enabling it seems to have solved it, at least temporarily).

What surprised me was that I lost all my Nanoleaf devices too. I have both a HomePod mini and an Ikea Dirigera with Thread enabled. When I look at the Thread settings in the Ikea and Nanoleaf apps, they seem to be using the same Thread network, and Nanoleaf shows the HomePod included in that network.

I thought that Thread – being it's own radio protocol, and having two Thread-capable hubs – that the Nanoleaf devices would stay online. So either my understanding of how Thread works is wrong, or my config is. Anyone want to set me straight?

Just picked up a TCL Portable AC and was pleased to see that it had Matter and HomeKit support. I managed to get it added to Home and on/off/other function work fine. Unfortunately it shows the ambient temperature in the room as 0°C, regardless of any temperature changes. I suspect either there's a problem with the unit or it reports as being a thermometer but can't actually read that data.

It's a nuisance as the Home landing page shows my home's temp as ranging between 0°-24°C right now. Anyone else had this problem with Matter ACs?

I created this video 6 years ago now because of previous government initiative to "backdoor" encryption at the behest of law enforcement. Here we are again with Bill C-22.

Please have a watch if you want to understand some of the fundamentals of how encryption works and why it's a terrible idea to mandate "lawful access". It's still very much relevant.