I freed your old unsupported SpaceMouse/Pilot/Explorer (Win)
▲ 27 r/FreeCAD

I freed your old unsupported SpaceMouse/Pilot/Explorer (Win)

3dconnexion sells 3D mice of various kind. They all share one feature: they never break. My SpacePilot is from 2007 and it just keeps working. The rubber might get sticky, so some solvent and it's gone for good, and no stickyness anymore.

Being the market a niche one, the products cost a lot, and to force new purchases the company cut support for pre-2013 models (ok that's not yesterday, but keep reading).

Not only! to "bring the best user experience to the users" I found out 3dconnexion was active introducing suport for the latest drivers into various software, at the cost of dropping support for older devices!

See PR in FreeCAD

Yes supporting old devices costs money. How much? ALMOST NOTHING, because guess what? taking USB pakets from old devices and just changing the IDs here and minor things here and there makes very old and unsuported devices recognised as (less old but still) supported devices: this small bridge (5 Euro investment) converts old devices into a Spacemouse Wireless, still supported. Latest drivers are possible!

But why being dependent on them?

Someone reimplemented from scratch the Mac drivers for old devices, and now I ported their project to Windows (via Opus 5.5).

Enjoy telemetry-free, open source, working drivers on Windows for all the unsupported USB 3D mice.

These drivers have less predefined bindings for known packages. For example the official ones allow to bind a key to "show front, left, right" in Fusion, which has no keyboard shortcut for that. This kind of bindings are not yet offered, propose PRs if you want them.

There's always the option of remapping old devices into a Spacemouse Wireless to use official drivers, obviously.

u/milerebe — 4 days ago

Battery unusable after firmware update

Solarflow 3000 Mix AC

Yesterday I performed a firmware upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.0.5 and the battery is not identified or usable anymore.

Sent an email to support, no reply yet, whole they were quicker with automated replies when I was asking information about the cables.

What is a normal response time?

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u/milerebe — 9 days ago

[Energie] Berekening import/export met dynamisch contracten

Ik heb een dynamisch contract met 15-minutenprijzen bij Zonneplan.

Hoe werkt het met import/export binnen een tariefperiode?

Stel dat ik, volgens de DSMR-meter, +1 kWh import en +1 kWh export heb binnen een 15-minuteninterval.

Ontvang ik dan 1 kWh × verkoopprijs, en betaal ik 1 kWh × inkoopprijs, of wordt het netto verrekend en houd ik binnen deze periode helemaal niks over?

Dit is belangrijk omdat de inkoop-/verkoopprijzen verschillend kunnen zijn.

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u/milerebe — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/Volvo

Wobbly sun visor attachment?

I have a V60 II (2023) and we never detached the sun visor, only opened/closed. I noticed the two attachments which can be disconnected are wobbly, see video:

Is this normal? should I jave it checked? next yearly check is in almost a year and extra checks are not cheap so I ask here first.

u/milerebe — 2 months ago

What's the difference between programs?

The title says it all.

The auger rotates at the same speed, so what's the difference between the various programs? the final temperature? multiple programs start with the same 2 bars preset on the temperature indicator.

Or are the bars on the right only an offset from a reference temperature, which changes with each preset? but then why would a program (frozen alcoholic drink, I think) start with something like 8 bars, and the other ones 2?

Maybe the alcohol vs sugar detection is activated only during certain programs?

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u/milerebe — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/Appliances+1 crossposts

What could be causing this "metallic bouncing" noise in a washing machine?

I have a 8 years old Samsung washing machine and a year ago started producing a noise which sounds like "bouncing steel balls" also during the main cycle, not particularly during final spinning.

I recorded it and saved it as MP3 in the link attached.

I also hear a sort of humming when I try to manually turn the drum, which could indicate worn out bearings, but the "metallic bouncing" noise is something new to me.

The washing machine is not "bouncing" or "walking" on its own, the dampers still seem to be doing their job perfectly.

What could be the cause?

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u/milerebe — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/immich

Can I disable zoom-in transitions in slideshows?

I'd like to use a tablet as photo frame with immich.

If I use the web interface, videos seem to always play during slideshow. It's fine, I can make video-free albums.

If I use the app, it seems I cannot turn off the zoom-in effect I get while a photo is being displayed.

Can I disable zoom-in in the app?

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u/milerebe — 3 months ago

Do I need to carry the vehicle registration card?

Here in NL I ended up not carrying my wallet anymore, since the phone is enough for payments (which shops are using exclusively cash in NL??) and with a booklet case storing work access badge, driving license and ID I cover all my use cases (the phone also works for public transport, and for musea).

I read however that the vehicle (car) registration plate should be carried along when driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Netherlands#Vehicle_registration

  1. is it correct?

  2. what if I leave it in the car? I still keep at home the code for transferring ownership, so is it safe?

  3. what if I just don't comply? what could be the fine, or would the police allow me to pick it up from home and show it to a police station? in other words, in which case would the police ask for it without allowing any delay? I remember once significantly overspeeding and they only asked for driving license and ID.

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u/milerebe — 3 months ago
▲ 4 r/wican

Can I store during trips and upload when connected via wifi?

I was looking for a device which can log data during trips and, upon detecting a known wifi, dump all the logged data to an InfluxDB server via HTTPS.

I see that WiCAN-Pro can do the CAN interface, sleep on engine-off, and so on, but it seems it's meant to only publish data realtime.

Am I correct? is there a way to store data to an SD card when offline, and dump it when internet comes back?

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u/milerebe — 4 months ago

Which Shelly meter for my use case? battery and solar panels

I (will) have a home battery near the smart meter which will be on its own group. In the electrical panel I already have two groups for solar panels, where one group only has solar panels, and one group has somewhere else a secondary electrical panel ("solar distributor box") since it shares the group with appliances.

I need to monitor the battery power and one solar panel group in the main electrical panel, and to monitor the solar panels and the other appliance in the solar distributor box.

Shelly offers various products and I'm not sure which one is the best for my application: 4x Shelly EM Mini Gen4, 2x Shelly EM + 2x 50A Clamp or 2x Shelly EM Gen3?

If relevant, I'm using Home Assistant and I prefer Wifi or LAN for connection.

u/milerebe — 5 months ago

Squeaking noise on thermostatic tap

I have a thermostatic cartridge in a shower with only one water outlet and it makes a strong squeaking noise until the water reaches the desired temperature, then the noise gets less prominent but it's still there.

I have a bathtub with a similar (maybe identical) cartridge which is completely quiet all the time. In the video I took you can see and hear the issue.

Is it a cartridge issue? Or something else? The tap is a HANSA series UNITA.

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u/milerebe — 5 months ago