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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • My recommendation, look for smart locks that work locally with no need for online connectivity. Also choose something that does not replace the deadbolt but only replaces the latch on the inside of the house.

    This means if you need to change deadbolts you can always replace it without getting a whole new smartlock, and if the smart lock fails you can always open the lock with a regular key.

    As for local control, loom for something that works on ZigBee, matter, or zwave and something that you can potentially hardwire, batteries can sometimes last six months on some smart locks but it was a hassle for me, and rechargable batteries only last about 2-3 months.

    As for me I choose the August Smart Lock Pro, 3rd Gen with Z-Wave, Silver (AUG-SL03-M03-S03).

    I chose this as it had z-wave and is able to connect with homeassistant without the need for online connectivity. One item to note, this locks zwave function is reported to drop by many users, I personally have had no issues, but I run everything through HomeAssistant.

    There is also integrated bluetooth which can resolve those issues with bluetooth relays noted on some places online.

    As for hardwiring these locks, if they use batteries you can use something called "battery eliminators” which are basically power supplies connected to an equivalent number of dummy batteries, so in this case a 6V supply and 4 AA batteries, one of which connects to the supply. Just make sure to get your voltage correct, you can use a voltage regulator to do this.






  • When you host something on LAN only you are not exposing the service to the wider internet directly.

    This means someone would need access to your LAN or local area network first (such as your WiFi password) before being able to reach said service.

    Now when you expose something directly to the internet, in a way that for example it displays a publicly accessible webpage, it makes it easier for anyone to reach that webpage, and potentially figure out your login and password information through brute force. Or some other type of exploit that allows full bypass of the login credentials.

    Some self-hoster’s choose to keep their “more sensitive” services on the LAN only, and then use a VPN (that’s hosted privately) to access their LAN remotely from anywhere in the world.

    With a VPN hosted on your LAN it provides a good layer of security as someone would first need to have access to your VPN to then potentially try and get access into your services.








  • What you are looking for is under Settings > Download Clients > Torrent Blackhole

    This helps create a “blackhole” folder that is now monitored for any completed files. Radar or Sonarr will then try and import these files if the naming matches anything in your library that’s missing.

    So in theory you can manually add torrents to your client which you can categorize in such a way that they move to this blackhole folder on completion.

    Obviously the folder or category can be called anything, but I just call them blackhole_movies, blackhole_series.