Dave

I'm looking at getting a gateway device to replace the ISP router that sits between the internet connection and the mesh WiFi.

I am running pi-hole on a (very old) raspberry pi, but I know some gateways get quite fancy so I'm wondering if it's possible to have pi-hole on the gateway itself, to run as DNS and DHCP servers?

Other things I'm looking for in a gateway are VPN as a client (preferably Wireguard) and PoE ports for cameras.

If it's possible to host something like pi-hole directly on the gateway then hardware recommendations are appreciated!

I have a server that is also plugged into my TV. It's running Ubuntu server, but then I installed the DE when I started trying to use it with the TV as well.

For the TV I'm using Kodi synced with Jellyfin. Unfortunately it's not very stable. Most of the time it's fine, but with specific files Kodi will crash, often bringing down the whole system. I expect this is at least partly because the DE was an afterthought and it's not running a full DE.

I'm looking at doing a full refresh of the server, and am wondering if there is a distro that is particularly good for this use case. I also want to be able to play games on occasion with xbox controllers.

TL;DR: Can you suggest a distro to run on a PC connected to a TV, used mainly to run Kodi and as a server via docker containers, but also for games via wine/proton with controller support?

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I've been reading through the documentation and looked at several tutorials, but I can't get actionable notifications working.

Here's an example YAML that was originally done in the GUI. It's intented to send an actionable notification with two options, and when you click one, it should send another notification to confirm it worked.

It sends the notification fine, and when I tap the button the wait for trigger section in Home Assistant lights up to indicate that it's been triggered. But nothing further happens.

Any help appreciated!

alias: Actionable notification test
description: ""
trigger: []
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.notify
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: Message me?
      data:
        actions:
          - action: ACTION_NOTIFY
            title: Message me
          - action: ACTION_IGNORE
            title: Ignore
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: ACTION_NOTIFY
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: ACTION_IGNORE
    continue_on_timeout: false
    timeout:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - alias: Perform the action
    choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == \"ACTION_NOTIFY\" }}"
        sequence:
          - service: notify.notify
            metadata: {}
            data:
              message: Requested message
mode: single

I'd like to add a smart button to my HA setup. I don't have zigbee signal nearby, so I'm wondering what the best way to do this would be.

I'm using a Skyconnect dongle. There's wifi nearby. I want to control a smart switch nearby, which would also have zigbee but that also wouldn't reach the distance I need.

Is Matter a solution here? With a hub connected to wifi that bridges to the button?

Any suggestions on hardware?

Or any other suggestions?

The Assist instructions just say go to assist and start talking. But mine only allows me to type in what I want to say, I don't get a voice option.

What am I doing wrong?

Does anyone know of a self hosted service that does kids sticker charts? Here's what I had in mind:

Kid interface:

• Tablet with browser open, shows a column per kid with name at the top plus how many stickers are available
• Kid can click the + button and choose a sticker to add to their sticker chart (unless they have run out)

Adult interface:

• Log in
• Ability to add to the available stickers for a child

Basically, kid does something good, adult adds an available sticker for the kid, kid gets to choose the sicker and see it on the sticker chart.

Anyone got any suggestions for anything that even remotely resembles what I'm looking for?

The whole time Canvas has been running the Aussies have been trying to make their big flag in the bottom left corner. They probably bit off more than they can chew, but they were working hard regardless.

Now I come in and find some dicks have gone and changed a bunch of their red to blue for no reason whatsoever?

I'm done with my projects so I thought I'd put my efforts into helping them. Anyone else want to help?

There is stuff all over the flag, leave it there, don't break what others have done, just do the flag "underneath" or around the other things. I don't have a template, but you can see where the union jack goes, and the outline of the white stars, so the rest just needs to be blue.

I find you can cover more ground with a checker pattern. Then if there is time we can fill in the white parts of the checker pattern.

Bottom left: