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Re: How to Setup the Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to work with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Thu, 05 May 2022 15:11:36 -0000

What I think I've discovered is that even though the two ports (80 http and 1501 sas3) are both open on the device by default, when you use either of those ports as the `socket://` connection port during configuration, Home Assistant makes a valid connection to the device, but not to the Serial Port "port" assignment. Since all that's needed is a valid connection, HA configures all of the supposed connections/media_players but there's not actually a bi-directional connection happening, so all media_players report "unknown" under controls. I had this up and running at one point, but I can't for the life of me figure out how I opened up the right ports on the Serial Connector settings of the device. nmap just reports nothing open other than 80 and 1501.

Re: How to Setup the Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to work with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:10:48 -0000

I'm still waiting for someone to respond to "hello world." I've said it a thousand times, but I never get a response, so I don't go any further. Back to solitaire.

Re: How to Setup the Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to work with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:15:04 -0000

At this point, I'm still remodeling the rest of the house, so while I tested it months ago and was able to control the zones from HA, it's not currently installed. I'll probably update the details when I jump back into it when I pre-wire the house and mount the equipment.

Re: How to Setup the Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to work with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:53:26 -0000

Mystery solved. I actually linked to the wrong unit. There are converters that have female connectors, but mine (as I've fixed the link) has a male connector on it. ;). Thanks for the heads up on the error.

Re: How to Setup the Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to work with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:26:49 -0000

Uhhhhhhh...hmmm...I'm looking at the pics for the Monoprice and the back panel shows that there's a female connection also. I'll have to check my hardware and get back to you. There certainly must be a reason I was so clear about that particular point, but I don't know why at the moment.

Re: How to install Octoprint on Ubuntu Server - The Griffith Home Automation Project

Jon Griffith — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:55:26 -0000

Thank you. Fixed.

Re: Replacing my IFTTT Applets with Node-RED and Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:46:05 -0000

Hell yeah. I didn't even read the article...just the title. I recently gave IFTTT the finger and ditched any and all automations I had through them. I am also using HA with NodeRED, etc. etc. etc. Been in the HA community for about 3 or 4 years now. What part of the world are you in?

Re: 502 Bad Gateway Errors In HASS.io - Chateau De Bleep

Jon Griffith — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 23:35:47 -0000

Glad this helped you.

Re: Redirecting Folders on Apple OSX | Apple | MarkC on UC

Jon Griffith — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:41:25 -0000

Let's say that your new location is unavailable at any given time. How do you manage that?

Re: Creating a DIY Smart Thermostat with Home Assistant

Jon Griffith — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:11:45 -0000

Well, the unit is sitting on one of my shelves waiting for the consensus on the changes that are coming to the climate integrations in HA. (Climate Cleanup) Until then, I'm going to hold off on trying to implement the thermostat feature. I hadn't used MQTT for it. It was just the thermostat component and a few switches that were auto detected by ESPHome.

Re: Installing Home-Assistant.io on a Synology Diskstation NAS

Jon Griffith — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 03:47:10 -0000

What the!!!!!!!!! They have houses there? Doesn't everything go in a counter-clockwise direction? Awwwwww....crrrrrap! Our first stop when we finally get to Australia is going to be Sydney. Bummer dude...you're 8 hours away from there...oh well. ;). Maybe we'll make it a 2 week trip ;) some day.

Oh...one other thing...I just got my mkdocs site up and running: https://homeassistant.jongr.... Stop by and say hey.

Re: Installing Home-Assistant.io on a Synology Diskstation NAS

Jon Griffith — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 01:56:15 -0000

Truth. Thanks for the quick responses though. :)... in what part of the world are you?

Re: Installing Home-Assistant.io on a Synology Diskstation NAS

Jon Griffith — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:08:56 -0000

I'm a moron. I realized that I had created a config folder for zwave: but forgot to add the zwave: include into the configuration.yaml file. Then I realized that my indentation was off in the yaml. It's all working without fail now. Although now I'm having trouble with ingress producing bad gateway errors...grrrr. ;).

Re: Installing Home-Assistant.io on a Synology Diskstation NAS

Jon Griffith — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:23:23 -0000

Hey Phil. Thanks for the link to this info. I'm stuck, however, because I don't run a docker command to start Hass.io. I installed HASS.io on my Ubuntu box using a script by Frenck. https://gist.github.com/fre.... At the end of the script, the start command is a systemctl command that fires up something called `hassio-supervisor.service`. So, if the issue is making the USB port accessible to the Docker container via a command line adjustment, I don't know where that would go. I find it strange that the hardware report in the System tab of HASS.io shows the Aeotec Stick on /dev/ttyACM0 just like it was on my RPi3 (which worked fine), but won't initialize the Zwave interface in HASS.io. Ideas?

Re: I Was America’s First ‘Non-Binary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.

Jon Griffith — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:27:15 -0000

It's good to know you've landed.

Re: Search configuration | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:55:22 -0000

I think I made some headway with my search problem. Here's what I discovered, but I'm not sure why it happens. If you add something like `permalink:` to the front-matter default configuration in the _config.yml file, adding two quotes `permalink: ""` causes the search.json file to not render. I'm wondering what purpose empty quotes would have or if they're needed at all. So, I just removed them and it seems to be working.

Re: Search configuration | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:47:56 -0000

Hey Tom. Hope you're having a great day. You know, I ran into a strange problem that I can't nail down. I'm running this theme on two separate sites on virtual servers on the same box. When I browse to search.json in the root of one of the sites, I see the resulting file, and I'm able to validate it for searching, but on the other site, the search.json file isn't being rendered by Jekyll. So I've at least nailed it down to that. Now, what I'm trying to figure out is if there's a config setting in the Jekyll setup that is preventing json files from being rendered to the _site folder, or if Jekyll will fail to render the file if there's a problem with one of the other files. Either way, I've lost my ability to search my site and I can't nail it down to which file caused it, or which config setting may be preventing it from working. Any ideas?

Re: A Jekyll TOC in Liquid only

Jon Griffith — Mon, 21 May 2018 12:27:17 -0000

Hmmm...works great when included in a page layout that contains {{ content }} but what would we do if we wanted the TOC to show up in a sidebar included in a page layout? Thanks!

Re: $65,000 Isn’t Enough in Today’s Market

Jon Griffith — Sat, 05 May 2018 12:36:30 -0000

Thanks Sissy! That was a smart move! Although, based on what we spoke about before, it sounds like it's neither here nor there since you're attacking the balance of the note so intensely. Nice work. I can't wait to hear about your paid off house!

Re: Getting started with the Documentation Theme for Jekyll

Jon Griffith — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:51:46 -0000

Not sure what happened, but I had a few problems that weren't evident that seemed to have been caused by my attempt to implement collections. I disabled the collections in config and everything returned to normal. The feed.xml files that I had created were also not rendering, and all of the posts weren't rendering either. Not sure of the exact details, but everything seems to be working.

Re: Getting started with the Documentation Theme for Jekyll

Jon Griffith — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:58:09 -0000

Whew...well, after using this theme for a long time and enjoying it, I ran into a problem. Out of the blue, search.json reported as not being able to be found. So, I decided to download the entire repo, drop it into a new folder, and run bundle exec jekyll serve to see if maybe something I had done to my setup caused the problem. I was met with a ton of errors showing files not available as shown here: https://hastebin.com/cuyoro... just based upon the repo as it is now.

At this point, I'm completely at a loss...and it's just got to be something simple that I've overlooked. Any ideas?

Re: Troubleshooting | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:24:43 -0000

What would cause the following: ERROR `/search.json' not found. search.json is in fact in the root of the site...and I don't think I've changed anything...

Re: Sidebar Navigation | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 01:06:46 -0000

I may have updated the page since you clicked it. I can't reproduce what you've mentioned. It seems to be working. What isn't working, however, is that the menu isn't staying open, highlighting the page that's being addressed like the main sidebar does...so...that's a challenge. :)

Re: Sidebar Navigation | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:26:34 -0000

Tom, I just scored a win on the idea I had. The thought was... what if I need to create a page that doesn't just utilize the data from one menu in the _data folder, but more than one menu. Sort of like including html in the content...only it would be like including menus in the sidebar. Well, I just created a sidebar_2 menu, added some code to the CSS and javascript, and voila! Now I can add sidebar_2: to the front matter and insert a specific sidebar on specific pages stacked on top of each other.

I might try to take it a shade further and start determining which menu is displayed based upon the document's category or a given tag that's attached.

Here's a page that shows the menu...

https://newvalleychurch.git...

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: Tags | Jekyll theme for documentation

Jon Griffith — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:26:48 -0000

Hey Tom. Did you set up the tags such that if I add a tag to a page or post, if the tag isn't in the _data/tags.yml file it won't display at all anywhere, or is it setup such that it is only filtered out by the taglogic and thus not displayed on the tag grouping table?