I’m legitimately asking because I’m curious, not trying to start a flame war here…

What features are you missing in LibreOffice Calc that you use in Excel? I personally use Calc at home, but can’t get away with it a work because of imaginary numbers. (Although most things I’ve just moved to using Python + Pandas because both programs can’t handle large datasets very well)

Similar idea, but a different service if you like gotify: https://github.com/tystuyfzand/gotify-smtp

For my own morbid curiosity, why Zigbee?

If you don’t want to learn ESP Home yet, but you’re ok with Wifi, here’s a sensor that uses ESPHome, but is all pre-programmed and ready to go with Home Assistant. I haven’t used this produce yet, but the other products from Apollo are pretty awesome.

https://apolloautomation.com/products/temp-1-temperature-probe-for-home-assistant

I once heard a consultant refer to it as “The Fog” because it’s like a cloud that you’re inside of. 🤮

I’m honestly not sure. I’m doing the same kind of research myself for a new home I’m building right now and happened to stumble across this guy’s youtube channel. He does a lot of great smart home stuff. I haven’t actually purchased one of them myself yet.

It’s a year old video, but it still is pretty relevant I think.

Local Control Video Doorbells - Reolink, UniFi, Amcrest, Hikvision, Dahua. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCu6L0xn4Y&t=904s

If you’d rather read than watch the video, he has a nice companion blog. https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/local-control-video-doorbells-reolink-unifi-amcrest-hikvision-dahua/

And it’s really not as good at being a space heater as an actual space heater. 🤣

It works great with my self-hosted NextCloud!

My oldest kid is a senior in highschool and is starting to show some interest in Linux and this kind of stuff. I’m hopeful that I can change my tune soon and maybe have one of the kids to share a hobby with!

I’ve told my wife and family that if something happens to me, they need to start migrating all their stuff off my self-hosted services to cloud services because its a matter of time before something fails and nobody’s around who knows or cares to fix it.

I used to have this problem. I started pulling a version number (like 27) instead of “latest” so that I could just pull minor releases when I did updates, and then I manually step up the version in the docker-config file for major versions when I’m ready for them. (I don’t like to pull a major release version until there’s been 1 or 2 maintenance releases since my nextcloud is fairly critical for my family)