I'm doing my taxes and I found that I'm only about $115 in the hole over the past 3 years for my efforts to make #HestiaPi #thermostats available to people!
This is good news because I've spent thousands of dollars on this project, so it feels really good to be almost there.
Of course if I got to $1 in the black, it'd mean I was paid a dollar for literally thousands of hours of work, but I'm just going to not think about that 🫣
#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware #IoT #GrowNostr
Building some new #HestaiPi boards today. What do you think? Look good to you?
#OpenSource #IoT #OpenHardware #FOSS #tech #FreedomTech #hacking in the old school way.
Haven't had any #HestiaPi orders for a while. If anyone is ready to ditch their #Google #Nest and go completely open source, I'd be happy go help!
No dependence on any cloud services, or even the internet for that matter. But you still get wifi contols. Pretty cool, eh?
Making sure you're not a bot!
Another Monday, another day of surfing the bug tracker for the #Terraform provider for #Proxmox. I'm short on time today, so I can't test one thing that I'd like to test, but still trying to make it clear which issues will be fixed in the upcoming version 3.0 release and what workarounds exist to get people by until the new release drops.
If you think #OpenSource development is thankless, try managing the issue tracker (linking issues, reproducing issues, finding workarounds, detemining what conditions cause the failure, etc.) on a #FOSS project!
It's still worth the effort though. ❤️ This is why we can have nice things.
For anyone who is just now discovering me, hello 👋. I build, maintain and sell #OpenSource #thermostats. They can be #WiFi controlled & respect your #privacy.
Unlike the #Google #Nest, or the #Honeywell or #Amazon ones, they don't phone home with data about you to be sold to the highest bidder.
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10% off for anyone who wants to pay in #bitcoin!
I spent some time of Proxmox tickets today and more time putting together some #HestiaPi kits.
I'm down to 4 units left in stock, but at the rate I sell them, that's about a 4 month supply. 😂
It's all good. The people who want them are able to buy them, and that's what is most important.
Selling a product that is #OpenSource, just does what it says on the tin, and is still getting upgrades nearly 5 years later isn't the type of thing people write home about, even if it is a rare gem. 😄
#OpenHardware #GrowNostr #hardware #thermostat #IoT
Wow, this one person is just being a complete ASS of the #Proxmox issue tracker lately. He just refuses to provide a simple example that illustrates the issue he claims to be having and then repeatedly insinuates that the problem is me not understanding terraform or being a bad communicator or using philosophical jargon like "simple example".
It's like... look man, I'm a contributor to the Proxmox provider for #Terraform, the project that you are posting your issue to, and I spend hours every week helping people out. I'm pretty sure I can read a terraform file.
The point is that I don't want to go through your complex production code which has a bunch of hardcoded things that I need to change to repro your issue, and a bunch more code that is not even related to your issue. But he absolutely refuses to meet me part way.
So I'm stepping away for a bit. I don't need that toxicity in my life. 🖕
I'm working on helping people with #Proxmox again. Surfing the issue tracker, testing things out and reporting back with workarounds and information that will help get a proper fix in place.
If you post on #OpenSource issue trackers:
1. Thank you
2. Please provide enough info for others to recreate the issue as easily as possible
3. If someone who is trying to help you tells you that your issue is separate from the one you commented on, and asks that you create a different issue to track that different bug, please just do it without any snide remarks
We're all volunteers here. None of us get paid for our time and effort. And we are on your side, so please try to work with us. Because eventually, our patients will wear out and we'll either snap at you, ignore your posts, or both.
Got a report about hardware not working when the person received it. I tested it after I built it, but maybe it got damaged in shipping?
The customer gave amazing debugging information and I was able to provide a workaround in my first resoonse. After getting his second message, I think we narrowed down the issue to either a bad sensor or a bad i2c controller on the pi.
I've never had troubleshooting go so smoothly.
I'm also planning on updating the troubleshooting section of the owner's manual. That way people can be more self-sufficient, and also get help after I pass away.
Another day of helping people out by surfing the issue tracker of the #terraform provider for #proxmox. Responded to some tickets. Submitted some merge requests with new/improved documentation.
It feels good to help fellow #selfhosters.
Today is Monday, so I'm going through issues on the issue tracker on the #proxmox provider for #terraform and testing out as many issues as I can and reporting back to people who had questions.
I don't have much in the way of money, so this is my way of contributing to the #OpenSource project. #FOSS for life!
I just learned that not only are #RaspberryPi Zero 2's in stock, but the limit of "one unit per order" has been lifted.
This is great news for people like me who build #OpenSource thermostats. It mean the price of the pi has dropped by about $5 each because I don't have to pay $7 shipping per device; I can pay $7 for several devices.
Hopefully I can sell 1-2 #HestiaPi #thermostats soon so I can stock up while this lasts.
If you know anyone who was on the fence, now would be a great time to buy! ❤️
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OMG, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W's are available in quantities of more than just one!
Quick, someone buy a HestiaPi or two so I can afford to put in a parts order before they sell out!
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#Selfhosting people who use #Proxmox, I'm a contributor to the terraform provider for proxmox and I need your help. Please boost.
I'd like to get access to several Proxmox servers for testing purposes. This will let me determine which issues are specific to particular versions of Proxmox and allow us to do regression testing.
Why? As you may know, there's no way to downgrade Proxmox. So if I upgraded to 8.1, I could no longer test compatibility with 7.4 or 8.0. I can't afford to buy, let alone operate 3 test servers, which is why I'm asking for your help. Lets divide up the burdon by letting me focus on software development and testing, while others in the community provide servers to test against.
I'd strongly prefer that these be dedicated test servers because I'm going to be throwing i untested code against them (by definition). But if you trust Proxmox permissions to keep me in my little area and not mess up your production VMs, that's up to you. It should work, but I err on the side of safety.
#privacy #selfreliance #opensource #foss #selfhost #selfhoster
I've been pretty quiet lately because I've been working on #OpenSource #infrastructure stuff (the #Terraform provider for #Proxmox)
It's only related to the #HestiaPi in the sense that people who #SelfHost might be using both of these projects.
It's pretty boring work to be honest, but it's also really important. It's they type of technology that makes #automation possible and that is a step closer to making self-hosting easier.
So expect me to be pretty quiet for a while longer while I #grind. If you value having these tools maintained, buy a Proxmox servers and give me access to them so I can do more testing. 😅
#grownostr #foss
Sent someone a kit to build their own smart thermostat this week.
Life is good.
I'm trying to change this "self-hosting is hard" claim (and often reality). I believe part of it is that people only use the term "self-hosted" when something is also conplex and difficult to set up.
For example, people don't call is a #SelfHosted hard drive, or synology. It's just a hard drive (or several).
The #HestiaPi is an open source wifi enabled thermostat. I don't call it "self hosted" although it absolutely is. My choice of words isn't some clever marketing ploy, it's just what I think of naturally.
I guess where I am headed with this is that I'd encourage anyone who is promoting the idea that people run their own servers think about how much knowledge and how many skills are involved. Can it be made simpler and still be useful?
I've seen some people do this with full bitcoin nodes that are plug and play, and I think that's great! I want to see more things like that.
Simple, turnkey solutions are what we should be producing. Even the people that have the skills to troubleshoot some server software probably don't *want* to spend their time doing do. So design things that are #resilliant and #simple. So fellow #builders, give me a "heck yeah" if you're with me!
Both the new clicky models worked fine in the case.
One of them only worked after I replaced the switch which had a longer-than-normal button. The button was close to the edge and the case was holding down the reset button. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on with that one. 🤣
#electronics #hardware #debugging and #testing
