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Are there better options for liner lock than this garbage from Amazon?
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Are there better options for liner lock than this garbage from Amazon?

My year old liner keeps popping out of the track in just a couple of spots. I can pop it back in easily by hand. I ended up buying something like 200 feet of liner lock strip from Amazon, but it doesn’t stay in, and looks like crap if it did. In the picture, you can see like a 1 foot length that I pressed in as a test. I wish the liner lock was black in color and more subtle. Any ideas short of pennies?

u/imatumahimatumah — 21 hours ago
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Just scored a Raypak 266 for $50 bucks!!

My wife doesn’t care so I have to brag somewhere. Our existing Raypak 266 is 20 years old, rusty, faded and beat up but still works perfectly. I was scrolling through Facebook marketplace and found someone a half hour away that was moving and decommissioned all of their pool equipment. 50 bucks got this 2020 model. Has hardly been used. I’m storing it for now but I’ll be ready when my current heater finally dies.

u/imatumahimatumah — 23 days ago
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Are there any apps that tie everything (cameras, garage doors, smoke detectors) together into one control panel?

We currently have a Nest Hello doorbell camera, one ancient Nest dropcam, two Nest wired floodlight cameras, and two Nest Protect smoke detectors. We also have 3 garage doors controlled by MyQ. Well, it's all falling apart on us. Of course Google bought Nest and ran it into the ground and stopped supporting a bunch of it. We have a Nest app and a Google home app depending on what you are trying to do, (along with MyQ app). Doorbell camera is failing, one floodlight camera is barely making it a year and starting to act up. Last week one of my Nest Protect smoke detectors announced it had died. It's frustrating.

I'm looking at Reolink or Ubiquiti for cameras but I don't know what replaced the nice Wi-Fi Nest Protect smoke detectors and I'm also wondering if there is an app that would support all of it, where I can pull up cameras, doorbell, smoke detectors, etc all in one place.

I think I'm frustrated because I wish there was an easy solution like Nest, where I could just go to Home Depot, put my hands on the actual items, pick out a few cameras, smoke detectors, door bell, etc, throw it in a cart and walk out for $1000 bucks and be done. Everything has to be convoluted or require an IT background. It seems like it shouldn't be this difficult to do a smart home in 2026.

Any thoughts or ideas? I appreciate all feedback.

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u/imatumahimatumah — 1 month ago
▲ 27 r/rickygervais

TIL Ricky almost died doing the famous dance scene in The Office

The crew was tasked with fanning Ricky due to his exhaustion.

u/imatumahimatumah — 1 month ago