Re: [PLUG] Looking for a laser cutter PLUG talk... (laser cutter included!)

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Dexter
Update: I have a tentative taker for the Z820. Neither of us are clear if that roped them into a talk! BUT... they've put in their time. All good. Michael On 2/1/22 1:15 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: Hey! Perhaps against my better judgement, I bought one of these on sale:

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Chuck Hast
Tomas, Now that I know how to deal with it, I think it is worth it. I do not have to get up and go to the tstat to make a temperature change, I just grab my phone or computer and do it, If I want to reach it from the outside that is what VPN's are for. Most of the IoT devices (thermostats) are

Re: [PLUG] Audio help needed: no audacity output

2022-02-01 Thread King Beowulf
On 2/1/22 08:20, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> What have I missed? > Still clueless on the source of the problem. However, aplay -L shows all > available audio cards, sound-test produces its default sound, and mplayer > produces output from the podcast .mp3 I

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Bill Barry
On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 2:08 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > Tomas, > Now that I know how to deal with it, I think it > is worth it. I do not have to get up and go to > One good way to handle unknown devices like that is too create an interface on your router for those devices and firewall it off from

[PLUG] Looking for a laser cutter PLUG talk... (laser cutter included!)

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Dexter
Hey! Perhaps against my better judgement, I bought one of these on sale: https://www.newegg.com/p/288-00CG-00018?Item=9SIB14AFN61298 Product: ATOMSTACK A5 Pro Laser Engraver, 40W Laser Engraving Cutting Machine for Metal and Wood, 5.5W Output Power, Compressed Spot CNC Carving DIY Laser

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Tony Schlemmer
I recently installed a Nest thermostat. The basic Nest thermostat would not work based on the attached wires on our old thermostat unless I bought a extra harness with a small box attached to it. The Nest Learning Thermostat would work so got one for $50 off back in November. Given the cold

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Tony Schlemmer
I recently installed a Nest thermostat. The basic Nest thermostat would not work based on the attached wires on our old thermostat unless I bought a extra harness with a small box attached to it. The Nest Learning Thermostat would work so got one for $50 off back in November. Given the cold

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Chuck Hast
Tony, I intentionally avoid those types of tstats, they only work through cloud applications, for various reasons I do not want that sort of thing being under the control of someone's cloud system. Now that I have found out how to deal with the connection issue I no longer have problems with it.

Re: [PLUG] Audio help needed: no audacity output [FIXED]

2022-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, King Beowulf wrote: In Slackware 14.2, older audacity and pulse easily confuse each other. Sometimes setting the playback hw:x,y confuses the heck out of pulseaudio.  Here I set: Host = ALSA Playback Device = pulse Recording device = default: Front microphone:0 Thanks,

Re: [PLUG] Audio help needed: no audacity output

2022-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: What have I missed? Still clueless on the source of the problem. However, aplay -L shows all available audio cards, sound-test produces its default sound, and mplayer produces output from the podcast .mp3 I downloaded to the speakers and the Yamaha

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Chuck Hast
The actual fix was even easier, there is an advanced page on the thermostat web page, you go there and it has the address it is to aim its queries at, all I did was change it to a local IP on my network and that cooked it's goose. I now have had not time changes for almost 2 days, whereas before

Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-02-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thanks for sharing this journey Chuck, This is like inviting some real nasty individual home, who tries to get more of his friends in all the time. Put aside the network engineering challenge, I am rhetorically asking, is this worth the hassle, risk, time to even consider these devices? Diy

[PLUG] Audio help needed: no audacity output

2022-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
It's been a while since I last used audacity and I'm not able to fix why it's not producing output to the Creative Pebble speakers, the Yamaha CM500 or MPOW HC headsets. Music played with audacious has no problems so the issue is strictly audacity and I've not found a solution in my web