HarngoMan

joined 1 year ago
[–] HarngoMan@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

Never actually read Marcus Aurelius starter pack

[–] HarngoMan@piefed.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm looking forward to the release of paralives (this year hopefully). Been watching the development for a few years, seems like the devs care about the project.

From the dev videos, the main difference between Inzoi and Paralives is the personality and art design of both the world and the sims. Inzoi tries too hard to be realistic and loses all quirkiness and fun that came with the Sims. The animations and interactions in paralives are very well designed.

[–] HarngoMan@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow thanks for such a thorough answer!

It seems like as of right now meshtastic devices don't have the ability to finely control LEDs/button actions to work for my use case. Which is a shame since I was hoping I could just buy a meshtastic device that has some programmable buttons inside a pre-built enclosure.

Seems like I'll have to go down a more advanced route of getting a microcontroller, wiring up buttons and LEDs and getting a custom built enclosure.

Seems like I could get something simple like this heltec device, which is arduino compatible so I could program the buttons and LEDs, then just find/make a case.

 

Hi everyone, I'm very new to LORA and Meshtastic and I'm looking to see if it can help me with a bit of home automation.

Currently I can control my entrance gate with a relay on a local MQTT network, however mobile internet near my house is very unreliable so opening the gate while I'm outside doesn't always work well.

What I'd like to be able to do is open/close my gate with a meshtastic device that I could keep in my car. I understand that I could use a POE wisblock in my house as the meshtastic server that interacts with my local MQTT network, then I could use a device in the car to send the signal to open/close the gate to the wisblock server device which would be located about 50m away.

My question is, is there a device I can get for my car capable of displaying custom text such as below that would tell me when I'm in range of the wisblock and whether or not the gate is currently open?

Eg:

GATE: Connected  
GATE STATUS: OPEN  

Alternatively, instead of text this could probably be achieved with 2 controllable LEDs

As well as the text, I'd like to have two buttons on the device which can send a message to open/close the gate. I understand that a lot of the meshtastic functionality like sending messages is done through the app, but I'd rather not depend on a phone at all if I don't have to.

I'm happy to figure out all the programming myself, such as configuring the text, and automatically sending messages from the server to update the gate status. I'd just like to know if a device like this exists in the meshtastic space.

Thanks

[–] HarngoMan@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's kodi I'm not big on, it works fine but the jellyfin addon isn't fantastic for me, it frequently loses connection when using NFS, if not using NFS, I find it very slow to load media.

[–] HarngoMan@piefed.social 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The Vero.

It's the only open source offering, works great with 4k and HDR. Does use OSMC which I'm not a fan of but it works.