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I want AI to review, clean up and possibly rebuild my HA instance - entities, dashboards, automations, the works... I don't need it for any kind of voice or natural language control of my home just yet... just to clean up the mess that I built over the years and make it better/prettier/stabler.

I've looked at YT videos, scoured github and searched this forum and the Facebook forum, but the AI world moves fast and hard, so it's hard to find up to date info.

So what does the (human) hivemind suggest is the best MCP server plugin/integration to use to achieve what I'm trying to achieve?

… just randomly wandering round village streets.

I was born and raised here and for a good 30+ years of my life I had never seen a chicken that’s not packed in styrofoam and plastic, but for the last 10 years or so it’s become common to see flocks of chickens just randomly chilling around streets.

Where did they come from?

Why are they here?

What do they want?

Will they shut the fuck up?

Are they better in a stew or grilled?

We live in Spain, wife is Spanish, I’m Maltese. Our community language is Spanish, but wife and I sometimes speak English between us (mainly when I’m having difficulty explaining myself in Spanish).

4 year old daughter now speaks 100% Spanish. She’s a very good, strong communicator as long as it’s in Spanish. She has never put together a basic sentence in English, limiting herself to yes, no, hello, bye. My native languages are Maltese and English, so I would love for my daughter to be as fluent in English - both for my relationship with her but also for her future personal life and career.

I know it’s mostly my fault because I always communicated with her in Spanish. I pushed for having the cartoons and movies always be in English, but once she figured out we can change the audio language she doesn’t want to watch anything in English anymore.

Has anyone been through this? How can I fix it?

Has anyone found a place in or around Seville where they serve something along the lines of good ol’ Nando’s?

Working on a group of restaurants where a single Fortigate will be shared between 2 or 3 outlets. Each outlet has its own branding, so we need to set up an SSID/VLAN for each outlet and a captive portal for Guest Wi-Fi. It will be a simple portal with a single shared guest access code.

In other words:
- Bob's Fish & Chips Guest Wi-Fi -> VLAN 20 -> blue and yellow coloured captive portal

- Jerry's Caviar House Guest Wi-Fi -> VLAN 30 -> gold and silver coloured captive portal.

Ideally they would also use separate login codes for each, so Bob's login code would be "vinegar" and Jerry's login code would be "crackers".

Is there a way to create multiple captive portals each one with a different design on the same FG?

UPDATE: Claude figured it out...

config system global
set gui-replacement-message-groups enable
end

I’m working on a large project with another vendor and one of the side jobs we’ll handle is installing something like 20x 8 port switches connected to an aggregation switch. Simple flat network, couple of VLANs and some DANTE tweaks.
Routing, firewall, DHCP and all that jazz will be handled by FortiGates and MikroTiks.

So how would you go about controlling these switches? Would you still go for a hardware controller like a UCK-G2, or would you just plonk a Linux VM and run UOS there? I’m leaning towards the latter, but I’m open to be talked out of it.

We deploy large public network WiFi. Most of the time the patch panel ports are unlabelled, so we have to do a port hunt, sequentially plugging in every patch panel port into the switch until one lights up.

Does anyone know of a device which will quickly tell us if there’s a device at the other end? Just a simple “yes, something is closing the circuit” vs “no, it’s just a dead cable” is enough, but it needs to be as fast as possible, ideally sub-1s

Doing it on the switch works, but it can take a good 5-7 seconds for the switch to detect Poe and bring up the port… an eternity when you have to do hundreds of them in a rack.

EDIT: **FOUND IT**
https://www.trendnet.com/products/poe-cable-tester/inline-poe-tester-TC-NTP1

It has a “amp” and “wattage” mode. Pair this with a 48v passive Poe injector like one of those “mini UPS” and we can instantly see when there’s a device at the other end pulling power.