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that’s what the U3 is supposed to be, but I haven’t played with that newer one to know if its any good. I think its still not a full activity thing with power and input state tracking, but just a more advanced macro based system.
Would work for 90% of people though,
The U2, which is the one that is portable, I.e. no base station, doesn’t have activities, but you can fudge activity behaviour with macros. Its handy to just throw some codes onto it from the app and go.
The x1s and X do have activities but they are more expensive and need a base station.
The sofabatons are imperfect, but they’re as close to harmony as you will get
perhaps something like a Sofabaton U2 would do well for you? you can put in a device preset for the shield and for your home devices plus anything else you need, but also pull a codeset for the hotel TV and swap it out as needed from their app when travelling. you rarely need exact model number matches, usually just something from the right era from the right manufacturer gets you all the commands you need. Add a Flirc USB to use IR on the shield with more control (or on shields without built in IR), you can use any IR codes then, and map keyboard macros and such, or use the sofabatons built in Bluetooth support for a native remote.
Nothing selfhostable in that regard, and most of the solutions that do exist are either terribly tedious, or rely on chinese server at some point.
Outside of that, i’m playing with an Astrion remote at home at the moment, which also uses Chinese servers, but you can block all of that and connect it directly to home assistant. it’s far from perfect and a lot of features are still in the development timeline, but they are keeping their word so far with version drops, and the majority of the code is public on their github. Hardly an option for travelling with though.
I’ve played with it for Home Assistant integration, but I just dont have much interest in it, the whole thing is too inefficient at the moment, and the tiny models that can run in a few gigs of system ram on an ipgu or npu arent good enough in quality or speed to rely on.
Hopefully some future generation micro-models will be more useful for the way I want to use it (aka , ultra light, no dedicated hardware etc.), but for now it’s a lot of compute resources, plus heat and energy for a gimmick.
dont mix and match, since you mention there is an Ethernet link from downstairs to upstairs, get a multi-node mesh system and use that Ethernet as a backbone link between two nodes.
Haven’t used Lastpass since the logmein deal rubbed me the wrong way, went to dashlane for many years but they had some security scares just recently. now I self host Vaultwarden, which is a bitwarden compatable server.
for maximum security I could have it local only and connect to it via VPN directly, but I put it behind nginx, with SSL, fail2ban with only my IPs whitelisted and a geofilter on top of that. so even if someone did manage to make it to the login page of the admin panel, they’d need a 30 digit passphrase and an email address username that only exists for that one application, get it wrong once and you are blacklisted.
I use Komga, but only as an OPDS server for Mihon on my phone and Boox tablet. I rarely actually look at the server software itself.
I haven’t dug into metadata management because the files I source all seem to have good metadata, all I need to do occasionally is change out a cover image or rename some files in batches.
if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.
I would like the rules to make clear what is acceptable.
self promotion of a FOSS project is acceptable in my opinion, as long as it is clearly titled as self promotion and isn’t done in a spamming way (such as carpet bombing multiple communities with bot posts). I’d also say that donation-seeking in those posts should be kept to the creators own web pages, not in the posts themselves too.
there is a pretty easy line to draw for what is blatant advertising and what is genuine discussion of a paid service. that’s not that hard to moderate, especially when accounts are new, and carpet bombing the same posts to multiple communities, that is clearly spam.
if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.
However, I’m not 100% opposed to closed source/paid software being discussed here, but it should clearly marked as such, with a flair that people can filter out if they so choose.
If someone posts asking about whether there are any alternatives to a paid closed source program, that’s a totally valid conversation, and if it turns out there is no FOSS alternative, then we have to talk about paid closed alternatives, find the one that offers the best value and vet for trustworthiness.
The rules say nothing about selling a paid service, but maybe “no spam” should be updated with some clarity on self promotion, so perhaps you can self promote your FOSS service with the appropriate flair, but if you are selling a paid closed service it shouldn’t be allowed?
I have a stack of PCBs and some parts from an early revision but never got around to it.