Halloween is the one night of the year that I get to hand candy out to children, who I do not know and it is socially acceptable. So tonight is the night I get to do it!
I have also gotten into the hobby of Homelabbing, so it is Halloween and I could not figure out why my Ring light was not staying on. Home Assistant could not turn it on nothing, I was spinning the gears in my head what was not working? I looked at it and I saw the little blue light flashing, I thought that was weird why is it flashing. I found my phone and went into the Ring app and it was saying it could not find the light? Then I thought well I will just need to maybe turn it off and on again, nope the blue light just kept flashing. So than I thought I would just reset it and make it join wifi again, when I turned it on into pairing mode I remembered that I had yet to give it access to my IoT wifi network. So it had been working on its schedule and motion detection with no way of telling me anything and I did not realize this over sight until today. So always remember that you need to get everything to rejoin your wifi if you make changes, like adding a IoT subnet!
On top of that I was panicking that I could not find the wifi code in the stupid theme I have on OpenWRT, luckily there is a command for that “cat /etc/config/wireless” entered that and I could get the password easy peasy.
I hope people are downvoting the Ring and not the joy of Halloween.
I am guessing so
Thanks for adding all those children to Amazon’s tracking network.
I have that blocked, things in my IoT subnet do not have access to the internet.
If you want to hand out candy to children year round, you could consider becoming a tree? Saw this guy on the weekend, handing out lollipops to kids at the playground while playing the saxophone: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-07-2022/have-you-seen-the-walking-talking-tree-of-wellington
Full disclosure, doing this may get you shot in the US, and this is not that unusual for Wellington NZ, we’re just kinda like this.
I didn’t know HA could pilot Ring stuff.
Sure can, but because it is not attached to the internet video is not offered. I am sure I could find a way to do it but I do not care enough to do that.
Ah. Thanks for letting me know.
What does your IoT network look like? A second wifi router? Mesh?
I have a Flint 2 with a vanilla install of OpenWRT with 4 or 5 different AP, than 8 or 9 different vLANs.
Why the fuck anyone need to use software to turn on light
This is not the right community to ask “why?” in.
I love this remark!
If you can’t think of a reason, you’re lacking creativity.
Because software allows you to turn it on remote or automatically according to some logic (scheduling, presence detection etc.) rather than having to manually connect a circuit at a predefined physical location.
I dunno, businesses have done it for decades.
Intregrating it with HA and keeping control totally on our own systems sounds convenient.
