u/wioneo — reddlx

Clearing Weep Hole Tubes

We purchased a new construction home with brick facade and what is to my understanding an air gap between the brick and the siding of the house. My understanding is that these plastic weep hole tubes are placed to let moisture drain out instead of getting trapped and leading to mold and other issues.

Weep hole tubes

The problem is that they are mostly full of masonry material. This was noticed during inspection, but it looks like the builder only ended up clearing the few that I happened to check again during walk through.

I tried using a small drill bit to manually scrape out the insides, but it seems like the tubes are a bit longer than I expected and it doesn't seem like I'm reaching to the other side, but I am seeing some moisture at the tip making me worried that there is water already actively building up.

What's the best way to clear these without damaging the system? Someone else posted about replacing these with metal, filtered tubes, but I'm not sure that's needed and I worry about breaking the plastic tubes during removal.

u/wioneo — 8 hours ago

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Paying Off Student Loans

Has anyone had luck using the student loan payment redemption option?

For me it says...

> We're in the process of enabling Bilt Point redemptions for this student loan servicer. Our coverage is expanding — check back soon.

My federal loans are serviced by EdFinancial. Is there a list of services that it actually works with? I've been considering refinancing these.

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u/wioneo — 24 days ago

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[Question] Use App Factory to Intercept URLs

Is it possible to use app factory to make a kid app that purely serves to intercept specific URLs? Under "Set as default" in the app settings for some apps, there is the option to "Open supported links" and a list of "Supported web addresses". I want to create a kid app that can be set to intercept a given URL, e.g. https://tasker_redirect.com/apple, so that when such a link is navigated to I could then activate the Tasker command system. I would probably do something like url_redirect=:=apple.

To my understanding, supported web addresses have to be part of the app's manifest, so I assume it's not possible with app factory. However it would be great to know if it is, and if so what would be the best way to set that up. If not possible, I assume I can make the tiny app myself and hook into Tasker's intent system somehow.

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u/wioneo — 2 months ago

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Is it possible to "catch" ANY Tasker error? Fairly regularly, I get errors that I frankly don't understand that I believe to be sourced from some a Java code action somewhere. Here are a few examples...

> tasker got system event (2000) with no relevant conIDs > > storeJavaObject bad object name: 0

The issue is that things work as expected, and I only ever become aware of the errors (often several of the same one) when I happen to open the Tasker app and get a popup. Is there some way to log the currently running Task and Action number whenever an error occurs? Ideally I'd want to have a toast pop up with relevant information right then so I could tell what situation was causing it, but maybe that is too much to ask.

I assume the run log would be a good way to identify issues like this, but I honestly have no idea how to usefully parse that.

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u/wioneo — 2 months ago