These are very helpful blog posts, thank you.
I skimmed the posts and saw some shortcuts about sending Things links to Obsidian. Is that the post you’re referring to? It seems that method can be adapted to a regular URL, but I’m curious your thoughts.
Thank you, oh LWAdmin, for cleaning up the Lemmyverse.
Consolidating communities is an important part of being able to create critical mass for them to work. Appreciate this move.
About ten years ago a dear friend and I started a community radio station. In order to make our FCC license more competitive, we started internet streaming pretty early on.
We had great community buy-in, but we needed to broadcast 24/7 and decided to record and rebroadcast live shows.
We had no money, just a MacMini. So we had to do everything with things that came with MacOS or were free or near free.
We ended up creating a pretty impressive interlinking set of AppleScripts, Automator apps, and iTunes Smart Playlists, all driven by Calendar alarms. Calendar alarms would start recordings, which would use the magic import to iTunes folder to get it into iTunes. This would then move into a smart playlist that was set to look for certain tags and only have the most recent audio file with those tags in it.
When a rebroadcast would come up, it was pretty simple. A calendar alarm would trigger an AppleScript that triggered one of these Smart Playlists.
It all worked well for a long time. Ultimately we got our FCC license, and donations allowed us to improve our IT. But this station ran on iTunes, AudioHijack, AppleScript, Automator, and Calendar alarms for years.
Good luck. I literally went through something similar a few weeks ago. It took a little time but my entire network runs better now. You got this!
You can avoid that by using the same Wi-Fi network name and password that your current network uses. Your devices won’t know the difference.
I just want to reiterate what others have said: do some googling about your router make and model. Look for the instructions for “hard reset” or “factory reset”. Follow those instructions. Once you do, you should be able to find the default login online.
Once you’re able to log into your router, I’d suggest keeping it as your DHCP server and simply following the instructions to set up a pihole with it. Everything seems to work more smoothly without the pihole as DHCP server.
Do you know if your router is acting as a DHCP server? Most do, and if you’ve set up the Pi as one without logging in and turning off your router’s, you’ve set up two conflicting DHCP servers, and that would explain your issues.
I still really want to understand what those apps are doing in the background to cause this in the first place.
I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.
Makes sense. I just spent 5 days reconstructing my network due to a variety of inefficiencies. Happy to say it worked out on the end, but it was hell during.
Good luck!
Huh. Well, there goes that idea.
Next I would try removing the AppleTV from the Home. Force the HomePod to be the hub and see if scenes work.
If that doesn’t work, I’d try completely starting your Home over, with the first device you connect being the HomePod and the second being the AppleTV. I realize that’s not ideal but you’re having abnormal behavior here. I have an AppleTV, HomePod, and HomePod Mini on a network with multiple smart devices and everything works fine.
When you go to Home.app>3 dots in the upper right>Home Settings>Home Hub and Bridged, do you see the HomePod there?
Appreciate it!