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    Mios dashboard isn't displaying anything. Anyone know what is going on?
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    Not really Smart Home stuff, but going to ask as we have smart people... Bear with me on this one. Asking here because of the font of knowledge! For many eek years I have had a Virgin V6 box and a Raspberry Pi running Kodi connected to my TV through a cheap *** HDMI switch. It all worked beautifully but the absolutely critical thing was that the TV remote passed the signals back to the Pi to allow remote control of Kodi. Couple of changes of late: Installed a soundbar on the TV using the ARC (audio return channel). That then turns the soundbar on and off when the TV turns on and off and the TV volume control controls the soundbar volume direct. Everything continues to work Upgraded the software of the Tivo box to Virgin 360. This is literally software only. You get sent a snacky new Bluetooth remote hit 'upgrade' on the screen and off it goes. Now, things are not playing well. Typically when I turn on to watch Kodi the soundbar comes on (as it should) but the TV either puts out sound through its own speakers and the soundbar, or just the soundbar. It's not possible to control the volume of the soundbar through the TV. Also it's not longer possible to control Kodi using the TV remote. If I turn the TV360 box off, i.e. power it down, before turning on to watch Kodi, everything is fine. This makes little to no sense to me. My assumption is that the cheap *** HDMI switch is getting something from the TV360 connection that it didn't used to get when the software was Tivo and that's screwing up the HDMI communications. I'm upgrading the switch to something a little less chap, but wondered if anyone could validate my theory at all? TIA C
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    What is the trigger for the Apple Home automation? Any screen shots might help C
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    Why use any individual scene code at all? Per the reference docs you cited, if you define a scene_prolog global (presumably with the exact same code as your existing executeSceneNumber) that should work directly.
  • Hardware related - Small board computer to IP Camera and technologies like Zigbee or Zwave!

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    For the FP300 apparently the features of ZIgbee2MQQT are far greater than the standard ZHA install. May as well get over the hump first off rather than have to go back to it. Cheers C
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    @toggledbits I tried the Clear Local Storage and a hard-refresh and still have the same result. I am attaching a new screenshot of the web inspector where I saw some errors just in case it means something to you. [image: 1765418734262-screenshot-2025-12-10-at-5.47.00-pm.png] I don't know why it works for some on Safari but seems work for all with other browsers. Is there anything else you can think of for me to check? Thank you for responding with your experiences @CatmanV2 @therealdb and @gwp1 !
  • The goodness of vera without the bad. Discuss installation problems and improvements.

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    "AK: Your best bet would surely be to register a callback handler to listen for messages on a specific address?" Yep - that seems the most obvious method - just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed some other turn of events. With your own callback handler, you can clearly sort out any email encodings, etc. On the Doco - Goggle doesn't seem to index github io pages. Seems to me you need to have some sort of URL redirect, that looks like say https://smarthome.community/openluup, that would get indexed? ie via the web server set up or similar.
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    When I'm working on my laptop, this section on the right takes up about 25% of my screen width, and I never look at it or touch anything in it. Is there a way to turn it off? I've been tinkering in the settings but not finding anything effective so far. [image: 1764095136947-3720b582-eae4-4731-b0fd-8ac167b24f01-image.png]
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    The locksmith is trying to persuade me to purchase the BE-TECH K35 touchscreen lock with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, claiming it's better than the Yale Assure Lock 2. What are your thoughts on this? Which one would you recommend? Here is the link to the Chinese brand BE-TECH: BE-TECH Smart Deadbolt K3S. The other smart lock I am considering is the Schlage Encode Plus. Thank you!

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