Right, but the opener is already there and installed. Plus, it does give you all the information and control over that interface. Buying a ratgdo for $30 and adding it into your Liftmaster opener is still a better situation than a dumb opener and a dumb switch. The dumb switch doesn’t give you open/closed/stopped status, lights, etc.

If I were to buy a new opener, I would probably get a liftmaster + ratgdo again anyway

I don’t know about him, but I really don’t want to be screwing around replacing my openers

That would be neat, but I really doubt it will ever happen

What don’t you like about ratgdo? It seems pretty good on paper, I’ve not yet got one in my hands. Hopefully soon

What I can’t figure out now is if I want to replace OpenGarage when my Ratgdo arrives. It has a lot more features, but do I care now I have OpenGarage setup? Unsure

Oh jeeeeez! That’s what I get for copying and pasting a million times

EDIT: FIXED!

Not really, I just update containers via Portainer and update the OS with a bash script. Once every few weeks I just roll through them all, only takes 30 mins at most

So powering on and powering off will eventually be handled by a Powershell script I use to kick of the backups (More than just Borg goes into my offsite/offline backups) and the reason it gets powered off is that the external drive I connect to my desktop computer gets shared out, and sometimes Windows mixes the drive letters up, or the Share permissions get out of whack. I find that if the VM is on when its screwed up, Debian really doesn’t like the mount and ends up causing some weird issues. So if I just leave it off until I have my ducks in a row with the backup drive, it all works perfectly. I guess there is also no point it in sitting there powered on 24/7, when I only do the backups monthly too

As for why its a dedicated VM, a few years ago I noticed I was constantly moving backup software, trying other solutions etc, which just doesn’t work. If you change backup software every 6 months, you don’t really have any real long term backups. So I decided Borg and the VM its installed on needs to stay very stable, so I settled on just throwing it in own VM. This way I never need to move it, migrate it, etc. Its always just there and it works

I have not, but now I’m going to have to!

Thanks!

Interesting, I’ll admit its been a little while since I went in there. My main concern was the ability to upload files. Text I don’t care about too much, but when random people start uploading files, thats a problem

Thanks! I’ll check Caddy out

I am on the floor laughing

Yeah that’s on my to do list, I’m looking for some ATS PDU’s for cheap, like the CyberPower PDU20MHVT10AT

I do wish I had some white velcro though!

I’m too ugly for plastic surgery

The grid both is and isn’t unreliable. I’ve not had many random outages, but I have had 2 x day long outages on hot Friday’s when they were replacing power poles, which the generator of course kept me through. Working from home, and being in the Texas heat, that would be bad. And I like many people now have really bad power outage PTSD after the 2021 Texas Freeze where we all lost power. I’ll never let that happen again! And turning everything off is such a hassle, I want it to to all stay on no matter what. Since I work from home, that adds another layer too. Plus, I just like cool things

I really think so too, really looking forward to getting it properly deployed

What the heck! Not for me. Got a screenshot?

Check out the Lenovo Tiny’s, can get them used on eBay for quite cheap. I’m running a M720q with 64GB of RAM, an in i7-8700T, with Dual 10GB NIC’s. Uses hardly any power!

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