u/loose_as_a_moose

Wanting to add another data point to my cost / performance calcs. Anyone able to indicate how much in additional hardware, planning, and labour will be if I was to find someone willing to install supplied equipment?

Bonus questions:

1. Any experience from people using micromall batteries?
2. Any electricians in the lower north recommended for this work?

What’s the best way to source multiple cubes of mulch or chip? 5-20m3.

I need a lot of mulch to help establish my planting. I live on sand. It’s almost essential for moisture retention and stopping any exposed sand blowing everywhere. The issue is I need a lot - landscape stores pricing makes sense for smaller projects but I have a lot of ground to cover.

Being sand, the soil is poor too - so I plan on regularly spreading a few cm of it across future beds so by the time I get to planting it’ll have decomposed a bit and added some brown matter to the soil.

Is this the sort of thing you make friends with an arborist for? I don’t mind paying them if it’s a commodity, or making the property available to dispose of excess if it’s convenient. It’ll probably be an ongoing thing. I don’t see myself running out of uses super fast (depending on how much gets delivered)

Reviewing the guests documentation today and noted the following, which I am struggling to rationalise:

* Guests are free of charge (up to 5 per paid user).
* Total number of users can’t exceed your site limit

If I’ve interpreted it correctly; if we have 4000 Jira software licenses, 3900 utilised, I can only have 100 guests. If that’s true, why bother with the guest accounts? The guest users are effectively claiming a paid seat without the functionality of a paid seat.

Everyone in the org has access to our “main” site, so it has 98% license occupancy, but we can’t add guests there. Weirdly by the stated logic, we could make a new site and fill it with 3999 guests and a site admin.

Am I a thicky thicky dumb dumb admin - or is this feature designed poorly or with wide multi-site orgs in mind?

I am CONVINCED that I am approaching this problem incorrectly. Am I thinking about this incorrectly, is there a better solution, have I just not searched correctly?

Goal:
Display state information from HA on a device. Offer limited interaction, like toggle states.

“I want an way to display information from HA and potentially other sources on a device without logging in “

“I want a simple way for people to perform simple actions, like scenes or toggling states, without logging in or exposing additional functionality”

Use case:
- FireStick dashboard: shows reminders, weather, house state, any context options)
- Guest devices: Information, basic toggles
- Children’s devices: basic toggles (launch jellyfin, set scene, push notification to adult device)

Achieved by:
single page web app in the HA WWW directory, web sockets, authed by access token, client side JS.

Why it seems wrong:

I can’t find any blueprints of someone doing this before. It seems too damn simple, I feel like someone should have done this, there should be templates, heck it should be a documented feature.

This is really easy to build for a competent web dev. It works around the RBAC limitation, it allows you to expose information to anything that can render a modern web page.

I mean, this is fun project for me to expand my skills and meet a specific want - but what’s the “better” solution? Or is this it and I just haven’t come across the projects using it.

What’s the go when considering buying a car with repaired (allegedly) structural damage recorded against it? I’m not massively panicked by the idea, but I’d be keen to hear your thoughts on potential gotchas, pitfalls and other things to look out for.

Now I am well accustomed to buying rusty iron and projects, but this is a newer car, so a bit more on line cash wise. It’s an EV, so cautious of the seller offloading into a frothy market.

Private seller states it was repaired by the dealer they bought it off and it’s “minor damage” - zero trust model, so I’m taking that as a very generous application of the word “minor”, but also mindful that , repairable damage can trigger SD.

Talk me out of it, talk me into it.