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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    Tinuva- This is an old post, but do you perhaps have an export of the NodeRed flow that integrates with loadshedding.yaml package. In your text above: "Node-red manages the 3 inputs. Sometimes it gets CoCT's loadshedding level correct, if not it will be the same as eskom." If possible, I want...
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    Does anybody have a way to get the current load shedding stage for City of Cape Town as a value in an entity, or as an input in a Node Red automation, to determine the next load shedding event? I am currently using Node Red as per https://github.com/dalehumby/Eskom-Loadshedding-NodeRED but...
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    HA on mac mini

    Mine is running on a 2012 Mac Mini - I have the powerful i7 version, installed an SSD, and it has been great with standard HA baremetal install so far for over a year.
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    Cheap HA capable thermometer

    What about the Sonoff Zigbee temperature and Humidity sensor? About R200 per sensor.
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    Synology NAS reviewers needed - You get to keep the device!

    I would love to review this. I have a Synology DS918+, that is the main workhorse in the house, and I have always had the perception that the smaller Synologys like the DS220+ would be inadequate. But reviewing the specs now, it seems quite capable, and with the large hard disks you can buy...
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    DSTV Streaming Only Packages - are they working for anybody?

    Per MyBroadbansd news on 2 December, one can now buy DSTV Streaming only packages on a month to month basis. I have now been trying to subscribe in one of the DSTV Streaming packages since Saturday 5 December... No luck. Not sure if the complicating factor is that I had a DSTV dish many years...
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    DStv without a dish - How it stacks up to Netflix

    I tried to get the streaming package to try - it is month to month, so I can cancel again. But, it is impossible. I was a DSTV customer before, so still have a customer number. However, when I log in, the sys em wants me to link my customer nr to my login. The system is then supposed to send me...
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    Save me from Webafrica hell

    Good one! What I meant is that Afrihost and CoolIdeas have dedicated Forum Areas, where you have most WebSquad discussions all in one very long thread. Can you also create a dedicated forum area?
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    Save me from Webafrica hell

    Cool Ideas and Afrihost are the 2 ISPs that are the best at the moment in my opinion. They both have support here on the forum, and when you escalate here, the problem gets attended to. Websquad seems promising, but their forum presence seems to be lacking. I use Cool Ideas with Frogfoot...
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    Axxess, I'd like to kick their teeth in - bunch of clown shoe wearing muppets., wearing clown shoes.

    Go to Cool Ideas! Or Afrihost. Both these companies have active support on this forum, and they try to resolve the issues.
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    Openserve

    Wouter, Yes, Open Serve in my experience is a lot better than Frogfoot wrt stability during loadshedding. I have been with OpenServe for years (Somerset West) and it had always stayed on during Loadshedding. Not so with Frogfoot - their service dies about 20 mins before loadshedding stops. (My...
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    Frogfoot Networks - more batteries @ Milnerton Node please

    Yes, same problem in Somerset West. I use Frogfoot (200/200 Mbps) as main connection, and OpenServe (10/10Mbps) as a backup. The Frogfoot one does not survive load shedding. Yesterday with 2 loadshed occurences, Frogfoot stopped working 1h 45 mins in first occurence, and 1hr 30 mins in second...
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    Frogfoot line: Realistic speeds on 500 Mbps?

    I migrated to the 200 Mbps Frogfoot line with Cool Ideas from the previous ISP late yesterday, and all is working fine. Thanks @PBCool for assisting yesterday! This is one of the advantages of using an ISP that is also active on these forums! Below is the Home-assistant graph showing the...
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    Frogfoot line: Realistic speeds on 500 Mbps?

    I prefer not to say. It is a relatively small ISP - it is not Afrihost ;-) But I had decided to follow a different strategy now: The 500 Mbps line is an overkill. What is more important for me, given that we are working from home now, is reliability of the connection. I had a 100 Mbps...
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    Frogfoot line: Realistic speeds on 500 Mbps?

    Good! I am jealous. I placed an order with Cool Ideas to take over the Frogfoot line from 1 Aug.
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