Did you read breaking changes? The ports changed recently. Also looks like you’re redirecting two ports to one.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/setting-up-minecraft-srv-records-on-cloudflare-connect-via-your-domain-name/636757

It takes special setting in addition to your normal domain DNS settings.

Yeah it’s been in there for a while now. I think I’ve had them setup for the last two winters.

Thanks for the info. After all the ads and tracking nonsense I just took mine off the network all together. I’m lucky enough to have the harmony and Android tv states to fall back on for automations. But this is good information in case my setup ever changes.

It should be restricted. I wonder if the host is a lawyer.

The only proprietary battery thing I’ve come across using APC for decades was a connector that combined two standard batteries. It was attached to them and bound them together with stickers and connected to the terminals of each with normal terminal connectors. I just bought 2 standard replacement batteries and put the adapter on them. It all fit right back in and ran like new.

I agree that you would want a VPN for that. Look into something like tailscale.

Those 14TB WD drives are workhorses. I run refurbished ones in my home server and have never had any issues. And they are significantly faster than the rest of my spinning rust drives.

Some manufacturers have lower failure rates overall. But yes, you do have to mind the specific model.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

The only side I’m going to come down on is that a lot of the home assistant maintainer community have a serious attitude problem.

They want to outwardly act as if they want to build a user friendly home automation system for all. But there’s a lot of self important snark in the forums when devs cause problems and users complain. They still act as if they are building this software for free and if anyone doesn’t like how they are doing things they can sod off. But now they have a decent sized paid staff and a mission statement to make the software for every day users.

Their documentation also leaves a lot to be desired and they don’t seem to have any procedures in place for getting it updated before breaking changes.

I have tried them all, it’s Navidrome. It’s actually less resources for me to run 4 instances of Navidrome for my different users than it is to use any of the other servers that allow for separate user libraries. Just make sure you alter the folder scan interval, it’s stupidly frequent by default.

This guy does some good roundups of HACS components. https://youtube.com/@beardedtinker

I have no formal IT education. But I grew up on computers when command line was how you got things done.

I switched to cloud flare because of the downtime duckdns has. Sometimes it can get really bad.

The admins of your instance defend the right of governments to drive over protestors with tanks and that comment is upsetting?

Thank you for respecting the integrity of our elections, at least what’s left of it.

Sounds like that carve out could easily be abused to defeat the entire purpose.

The word you’re looking for is “petty.”

I mean… We already have a very well built fork.