u/maisun1983

I have been using Emby for over 10 years, in the past 2-3 years I feel there was little changes, no new functionalities or improvements. Anybody know if there is a roadmap?

It’s insane

I’m looking for a 14" MacBook Pro for personal use. Main use cases are Lightroom/photo editing, normal daily use, some coding, and experimenting with local LLMs for coding.

I’m choosing between two Apple preconfigured models:

1. MacBook Pro 14" M4 Max
   • 14-core CPU / 32-core GPU
   • 36GB unified memory
   • 1TB SSD
   • Around €3,150
2. MacBook Pro 14" M5 Max
   • 18-core CPU / 32-core GPU
   • 36GB unified memory
   • 2TB SSD
   • Around €3,900

The price difference is roughly €750.

For storage, I think 1TB is probably enough because I have a NAS, and photos are only kept locally while editing/sorting. My bigger question is whether the M5 Max is worth the extra money, especially for Lightroom and local LLM/coding use.

Since both have the same 36GB RAM, I’m wondering if the M4 Max is the better value, or if the M5 Max is worth it for the newer chip, extra CPU cores, 2TB SSD, and resale value.

I’d also like to run something like Qwen3.6 27B/Qwen2.5-Coder 32B locally for coding assistance. Is that realistic with 36GB unified memory?

Apple also claims big AI performance improvements — in some cases up to around 4x. For real local LLM usage, would the M5 Max actually feel anywhere near 4x faster than the M4 Max, or is that mostly for specific benchmark/Apple Intelligence workloads?

Which one would you buy?

Hi:
I’m seriously considering to buy a couple of FP300 sensors to control lights. I don’t have Aqara ZB 3.0 hub, neither do I have any other ZB dongles. My home automation system Home Assistant and Apple HomeKit. I’m considering to use matter mode but read some conflicting reports on functionalities exposed to Apple HomeKit, so hopefully somebody use matter mode can help me:

1. Can I pair fp300 directly to HomeKit and later share to Home Assistant as matter device?
2. In matter mode can I still configure the sensor from Aqara Home mode?
3. I read with matter it will only expose occupancy sensor - is it combined with PIR or simple just mm without PIR at all?
4. How often does light sensor update via matter? Plan to use light sensor in automation, it doesn’t need to instant but can’t be minutes either.
5. Any other major limitations that I should be aware of?
   My use case is simple - detect people and based on light level turn on/off lights.
   Any input or suggestion is appreciated!

Running cronjob as isolated from sub-agent, it worked fine yesterday after upgrade I got the error:
Cannot complete the cron payload from this environment because I do not have workspace shell or filesystem access to

OpenClaw finding:
Fresh manual run:

• job: dfbebf5f-8a62-4882-a507-cfec6fd72c1f
• runId: manual:dfbebf5f-8a62-4882-a507-cfec6fd72c1f:1779366702437:1
• session: d9ec7cc5-0b6e-4ef1-9068-5e04b4637322
• model/runtime: gpt-5.4-mini via openai-codex

What happened in the new session:

• toolCount was still 1
• the compiled tool list still only had message
• exec was still missing
• read was still missing

Any suggestion where to look?

Hi I have ChatGPT plus and during past week I observed that my weekly limit reset before the supposed end time. For example yesterday I had 25% left for remaining 3 days. This morning it goes back to 100% when remaining 6 days 22 hours. How could this happen?

Hi I have ChatGPT plus and during past week I observed that my weekly limit reset before the supposed end time. For example yesterday I had 25% left for remaining 3 days. This morning it goes back to 100% when remaining 6 days 22 hours. How could this happen?

Hi all:
I've renamed a few devices in Unifi when I swapped some cameras, after which I deleted the Unifi devices and re-added them. I quickly noticed some of device_track entity seems to stored somewhere and linked to old devices in Unifi before renaming. I then deleted Unifi integration and re-added the device that caused the issue, but unfotunately the problem still exists, so somehow the mis-mapping was remembered and there is no way I can change that.
One example is the camera, before renaming I used WiFi to connect, after renaming it uses ethernet, but device_tracker always show the device not_home, dispite that it's connected and shows "online" in Unifi. I have checked the entity in Developer Tool, it maps to the correct ip and mac address of the device. I'm not out of idea and would appreciate if anybody can give me a hand on where to look/try. I have already tried:

1. Reinstall unifi integration
2. Reconfigure the device that shows wrong state
3. Restart HAOS
4. Restart Unifi OS
   Many thanks!

Hi 👋 I have a cronjob that simply forward different reports in md format from sub-agents. The cronjob works fine but now it can only send one message to telegram/whatsapp at a time. Is there any way to make it send multiple messages to telegram/whatsapp in one run?

Thanks 🙏

Ok I must confess that I’m really confused by different ways of setting us multiple agent - ChatGPT and a few YT videos made me even more confused.
I understand what are sub-agent and persistent agent, but don’t understand how I could use them.
The idea is simple: I have a project manager that coordinates all agents for delivery, I have a developer, a tester and a security specialist who should always challenge and review risky operations.
I want those roles to have different workspace because they should have different agents and soul MD files. Even more importantly I want them to have different skills. So every document I read suggest I should create persistent agent here.
However I only want to chat with the main agent who delegate work to sub-agent, and I don’t want the sub-agents to talk to each other.
I watched a YT video showing that the main agent can spawn sub-agent based on another persistent agent, is that really what everybody is doing with this setup?
Many thanks

When to use which and why?

I’m trying to use OpenClaw browser automation, but the browser connection keeps getting blocked by pairing / scope-upgrade approval.

Symptoms:

• openclaw browser status fails with gateway closed (1008): pairing required
• the pending request ID keeps changing because the browser keeps retrying
• openclaw devices approve <requestId> often returns unknown requestId by the time I run it
• openclaw devices approve --latest only previews the request, it doesn’t approve it

Anybody have done this can give me some hints? (yes I have tried to delete devices/identity folder).

Example of the error:

$ openclaw devices approve --latest

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.5.7 (eeef486) — Somewhere between 'hello world' and 'oh god what have I built.'

Selected pending device request 51ee3b74-3576-40fb-b747-89e4b90ef34e

Device: 0b0f26a3325b091c56655a507c2e40c9cb97c7116ab556ce8f5a1012b72f9c07

Requested: roles: operator; scopes: operator.admin, operator.approvals, operator.pairing, operator.read, operator.talk.secrets, operator.write

Approved: roles: operator; scopes: operator.pairing

Note: Already paired. Requested scopes exceed the current approval, so reconnect stays blocked until you approve this upgrade.

Approve this exact request with: openclaw devices approve 51ee3b74-3576-40fb-b747-89e4b90ef34e

As the title says - how can I gather some statistics about LLM model usage for all activities with OpenClaw? Basically I’d like to know how much tokens it sends/receives when interacting with LLM so I can estimate cost and do “what if I switch to this model” analysis.

I have ChatGPT plus and as you can imagine during the setup of OpenClaw I quickly approach the 5H and weekly limit (I'm now on day 2 and already 86% of weekly usage).

My question: if I continue with codex OAuth but switch model to GPT5.4 mini, will the smaller model burn less credit?

Brace was recommended but now it’s not free and I’m not comfortable to give my credit card.
DuckDuckGo seems to have some antibot machnism and search result isn’t very good.
Is there any free web search tool suitable for clawbot?

Is that such a bad idea from privacy and security perspective to give openclaw read access of my private email? Read many horror stories around this ø, shall I do it or not?

Hi: I’d like to t try openclaw on my windows laptop and see what it’s capable of. Right now it doesn’t need to run 24x7. I have defined some simple goals I’d like to implement in first iteration:

1. Monitor and filter emails - no action needed just summarise and notify me if something important
2. Watch home assistant log and alert me if repeating errors. Step 2 I’d like it to find a solution by itself or online, but for now just check and alert
3. Compare invoices and check if any amount not agreed or fishy
4. Poll news from specific rss feeds/websites and send me daily on what could be interesting
5. run summery of YouTube channel I subscribe to if new video available
6. It should also help me to implement those goals of course

I’m aware opus is strongest model perhaps, but don’t want to burn a lot of cash for PoC. So what my choices are:

1. Subscribe to ChatGPT Plus 20usd per month and connect codex to OpenClaw
2. Use Gemma or Gemini Flash free models from Google
3. Create an openrouter account and use DeekSeek 3.x or MiniMax 2.x models

I don’t have big graphics card so can’t run anything locally. Which direction would work best for my use-case as beginner?

Appreciate your input!

It was definately possible to backup/restore settings under a dedicated section in ControlPanel, but now it's gone?! Instead the surverllance settings page opens camera settings and there I can only download a csv for backup? WTH?

Anybody use Tapo c230 with Scrypted can share your experience? I own Tapo c320ws and it’s 2k h264 stream works fine with HomeKit. However c230 is 3K and I’m not sure if it plays well with HKSV or does it require transcoding? Thanks

It’s much cheaper than fp300 here in Europe. Dose it work in Europe if I order fp310 from China market?