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Help! - Please Fix our Living Room

We have a 23.6 square meter living room and we have played with some colour, mainly greens and browns. The north east corner where the sofa is located has views out over the deck and forest, which will only get better when our new single pane windows are installed. We want to keep the sofa, chair, and tables.

Our problem, we think, is the vast ~4.9m West wall. We're looking for suggestions on how to make the best use of the space and specifically that wall. Perhaps cabinets (?), but we would need to move the sofa forward and would lose the wonderful view through the north window.

No budget so have fun, we just can't change the structure of the room and walls. Help us Design Gods... as you can see we are design challenged. Love your YT channel BTW

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The first image is the is an annotated version of the floor plan with furniture dimensions and there is also a blank one.

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These are images from various aspects.

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  • 3-north-wall-from-south..jpeg
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These are "wide" versions for context

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u/punishingwind — 5 days ago

Single Level Home Insulation - Ballpark Costing and Advice?

We're freezing. I swear there are penguins in the garden playing with the kookaburras and cockies.

We have single story home near the Melbourne hills, double (we think) brick 1980's, and are trying to work out a very rough ballpark for cavity wall insulation, roof re-insulation, and possibly that underfloor expanding foam stuff.

  • The exterior walls total 33m length on a single story, excluding any floor to ceiling voids.
  • The roof footprint is 118sqm and will require the old blow-in crap removed before rockwool (I assume) bats are put down.
  • Same footprint of 118sqm for under floor treatment

I'm not sure how any of this is commonly priced, even that would help me when asking for quotes. So any pointers/advice at all would be greatI dont want to trades time and like to be informed enough to know evry rough costs

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u/punishingwind — 2 months ago

Unifi Network - Internet WAN Connection Monitoring

I'm trying to track and chart internet performance/connection metrics from the UniFi Network. I have a UCG Max which is appearing OK, but I can't seem to find any metrics on internet speed, throughput, state, etc. There is a state and uptime, but I can't determine if this is for the router or the connection.

Does anyone have a working implementation of this that would be willing to share some YAML?

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u/punishingwind — 2 months ago

Sigenergy + Home Assistant Energy Dashboard

Hi All,

I'm seeking some direction/pointers to a blog, YouTube or other tutorial on how to configure the Sigenergy ESS MODBUS metrics into the Home Assistant Energy dashboard.

Home Assistant is connected to the Sigenstor and I can see all the metrics in the list but I have no idea what I should be putting into the various drop-downs for Energy and Power.

There are so many metrics including some duplicates

Any advice?

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u/punishingwind — 2 months ago

Custom Time-Based Control profile?

It will let me create a Custom named Self-Consumption mode, but I can't see to get it to let me add a new Time-Based Control profile.

I'm on GloBird and I want to have

  • one time-based profile for importing during 11am-2pm and exporting full 6pm-9pm
  • a second time-based profile which imports during 11am-2pm with no evening export.

Then based on how our battery and usage is doing I can just flip between them.

I only get the option to select "Start with Self-Consumption"... or an I reading it wrong. Do I have to manually add the time-periods and action triggers? Anyone got an example?

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u/punishingwind — 3 months ago

"Failed to install DSM" - New DS225+ with 16TB WD RedPro

Before I go down a rabbit hole of getting a SATA to USB and testing this brand new WD Red Pro 16TB with this brand new DS225+, can I confirm that this isnt a drive compatibility issue

  • The DS225+ came with Firmware 7.2.2-72723
  • It's attempting to install 7.3.2-86009 onto a brand new (very expensive) 16TB WD Red Pro WD161KFGX

Please tell me they didnt sell me a dud HD. I also have a DS1525+ with 3 x 12TB WD Red Pro working no problem.

UPDATE -- After multiple people telling me the drive was DOA, I managed to diagnose it in the Synology shell after successfully booting on a new 12TB drive. The 16TB couldn't even read Sector 0 or write even 4KB. So I have RMA'ed it. Thanks to everyone who helped.

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u/punishingwind — 3 months ago

Lost Internet, App Unavailable?

So we’ve just lost NBN and I wanted to check the Sigenstor to see the battery level. Im on the same Wireless network but the app is showing stale data and nothing for the current usage and battery level.

Surely I should be able to direct connect to the system without internet?

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u/punishingwind — 3 months ago