u/pjmarcum

Would I be completely wasting my time and money trying to make Frigate work with one or two WiFi cameras? If not can any suggest a specific model that’s known to work well?

When I bought my house about 3 years ago one of the first things I did was start down the home automation path. I had never done anything more than some smart lightbulbs that integrated with Alexa before. That turned out to be a nightmare because there was a time once when a farmer nearby was plowing a field, cut a main fiber trunk, and the entire town was without Internet, including cell service, for 4 days. I vowed to ensure this time that I would be able to turn my lights off and on without the Internet.

I install HA, bought some smart switches, garage door openers, fire tablets, locks, alarm panel, motion sensors, door sensors, etc etc. And started trying to learn HA. I'm technical, I've been working in IT for 25+ years. I thought it wouldn't be too hard. And it isn't "too hard" but it is anything but "set it and forget it" I didn't want a new hobby, and I really didn't want another full-time job I have two of those already. After a few months I'd had enough of HA. Things are fine one day and, for no apparent reason, nothing works the next day. I learned very quickly that HA is a toy for those who like to tinker, it is not off-the-shelf stable, production ready consumer product. I left everything installed but it has been sort of sitting dormant for over 18 months.

This week I decided to see what is possible by connecting Claude to my HA instance. WOW! Things that would have taken me days, or more, Claude can do in a matter of minutes. It's amazing and simple. My interest in home automation has been renewed. I think I can actually have my home automation working without spending hours and hours getting it the way I want it, and more importantly keeping it working. I am very impressed.

I know a lot of you will say things like "You shouldn't do that, AI is going to kill humanity", "If you want to use Home Assistant you really need to get in there and learn how it works and write your own YAML, make your own dashboards, etc" and things like that. So let me address those up front.... As I said, I work in IT. Since AI has become mainstream, I find my job, that I used to love, to be miserble. I hate going to work now. I despise AI. I think it will ruin the job market for all of humanity within the next 3-5 years. I think it will cause a financial collapse that makes The Great Depression looks like a bad day on Wall Street. I think it will drive suicide rates through the roof. I guess you could say I am an AI doom believer. But hey, if you can't beat 'em, join em. And like I said, I wasn't looking for a hobby or a new job, I just want my doors to unlock and open when I get home.

I try not to ask for a lot and this one is really important to me, please take 2 min out of your busy day to vote up my feedback item here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/a5f72dc8-a09d-f111-a3d0-7c1e52cf64f0

Full text of my request:

"In the Intune console on the Remediations page there is no option to add the date created nor date modified columns. This regulalrly causes problems for those of us who are of an advanced age, forgetful, and poorly document changes. Yes, I know that group of admins is an edge case but we are a federally protected group with the backing of AARP. Please make our lives easier by letting us sort by date created/modified. This is already possible on the scripts page, just not the remediations page. "

The new App Store for Intune by PowerStacks is now available from the Microsoft Marketplace. Finally, a 3rd-party app patching tool built on a foundation of security first. No agents, no client secrets, no data leaves your tenant!

https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/azure-application/powerstackscorporation1641419080242.appstoreforintune?tab=Overview

This is probably a dumb question but I haven’t found a documented answer so here it is……I published an app, let’s call it a document management platform, as a remote app from AVD. The app contains documents, emails, pdf files, etc. When thick installed users drag and drop docs into and out of the app to their desktop and back. They also open documents from inside the app. Would it be possible to do the same with the remote app version? For example open a pdf from the remote app using the pdf viewer installed on the desktop that is using the remote app? Could users drag files from their desktop and drop them directly into the remote app?