I am not sure, possibly not. Of course this isn’t the ideal scenario, this is why port forwarding is still recommended, but you probably still get away without using it, if you download mostly freeleach and popular torrents. That way you can 1:1 the ratio during the download.

You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

You came here asking if a vpn config is outrageous. And it may be for you, but it’s also probably the only option for that specific provider as they can’t get their own client onto the locked down apple store.

You can continue using your devices, but don’t expect people to give you solutions left and right as you are not using an open “ecosystem”, so sometimes there is no (easy) solution. All people did was suggesting a better approach that will give you a lot less headaches and you took it personally…

You should join some private trackers then. I am consistently getting 100+MB/s on many torrents from such trackers. That is of course on gigabit fibre and proper port forwarding configured.

Mall has security cameras

Live shouldn’t be used in a home setup anyway unless for something where interaction is required, like a teams call or twitch stream. Anything else can take a delay for the sake of preserving the meaning.

If you go the zigbee route I recommend this one, works well and supports direct binding too: https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Gledopto_GL-SD-001.html

Stay away from the Moes, takes like 1.5sec to get to full brightness when turning on and you can’t get rid of the delay.

If you are fine with relays as well look into Nous modules, I got a dual channel relay module from them that works very well, also supports direct binding. They might have dimmers too, but I haven’t used them myself.

All these require neutral though, can’t speak of their non-neutral versions.

Unfortunately you’ll be waiting for a while. SSDs were at the lowest last year to the point that manufacturers were almost losing money. So they reduced production. We will only see the prices going up from now, at least for a while.

Me too, I did most of my redditing on the phone. So the only redditing I do these days is when on desktop looking for various hardware recommendations, cause unfortunately I don’t know how to search lemmy that well

The aqara endpoints I have are solid. But one aqara mains powered relay is causing delays with an aqara door sensor when connected to it. Aqara implemented some strange stuff in some of their zigbee devices

Yup, as long as the pics are on screen, the scrolling is laggy. I guess it’s loading the full size pics rather than shrinked down versions.

The guide on the official website has a few recommendations for network zigbee coordinators as well: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/ I cannot recommend any as I am using a USB coordinator. But you can also jump on the official Zigbee2Mqtt discord and ask for recommendations there, you can find it linked under support on the website.

I recommend you join that discord as there might be issues that come up and there are a few people on the server that could help you with the troubleshooting.

One thing you have to keep in mind is that you can’t place the zigbee coordinator near other 2.4GHz networks like wifi APs/extenders, bluetooth adapters or microwaves. Well, you can, but you will run into many issues.

After you disconnect the VPN the interface likely goes down so qbit falls back to the actual connection I think.

If you do decide on the sonoff stick make sure you get the P version, not the E version as the later is under experimental support and better for ZHA. You can also have a look at the other zigbee recommended adapters for Zigbee2mqtt: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/

Zigbee devices are already cloudless local devices, you don’t have to flash them unless there are alternative firmwares that add functionality you desire.

They also need a coordinator to comunicate with HA. You can get a zigbee stick, depending on how you plan on integrating these devices there are some chipsets you should look for. If you want the easy route go for ZHA and maybe the skyconnect stick, otherwise you can go with zigbee2mqtt route which supports more devices and is more customizable and look at their list of recommended coordinators.

Most mains powered zigbee devices act as router and extend the newtork, not all of them do and not all that do are good at it. Some manufacturers use custom implementations of zigbee like Aqara which can cause issues.

I use zigbee2mqtt with a sonoff P stick and I am happy with it, it’s not as plug&play as ZHA, but it’s easy to add support to new devices if they are not already supported.

You can have a look at archive.org, they might have snapshots

A relay will do what a relay does, turn on and off. No matter what software you put on the smart plug, it can’t really become too dangerous. Unreliable maybe, but most of these smart plugs are just that, a dumb relay controlled via a microcontroller