ESPHome + DHT22 or DSB1820 + ESP32-C6 and a small hobby box plus power supply (old USB phone charger) and you can build your own.

https://esphome.io/components/zigbee/

Probably...

How is the raspberry pi connected to the router? Have you used it for other projects in the past? What are you using for storage? Is the storage name brand or the cheapest thing you could buy? Did you use the storage for something else first? If yes how long? Have you connected the raspberry pi to a monitor and checked the logs/ made sure it's running properly? Did you set a static ip address in HomeAssistant or set a static reservation in your router?

What steps have you taken to troubleshoot?

When you have no safety net it's pretty easy to keep going no matter how tough or boring it is. I striped the shingles (4 layers), pulled the nails, fixed the 1x4 slats where needed, sheathed, and reroofed about 2500 sq ft with my own two hands. I had one person as ground support.

I broke it up into sections I could complete in about a week when the weather would cooperate.

The entire house is a major project. I call it a slum lord house. There was zero insulation, the windows suck, the electrical system was still mostly knob and tube, the roof was basically shot, the roof was saddling in one area, the plumbing lines switched randomly between steel, pvc, and cpvc, plus the water heater was plumbed backwards. I've still got to replace the windows, insulate the floor joists, and fix a few other things but it's in a lot better condition than when we moved in.

Simply put, how do you eat an elephant alone? One bite at a time. When you take on a big project you have to keep working at it. You may need breaks but you keep going back for more.

My view is simple: complete personal liberty until your actions impact someone else.

If someone wants to sit at home and use drugs, even severe ones, without harming anyone, that's their business. But the moment you get behind the wheel or cause harm to others while under the influence (whether it's meth, alcohol, or prescriptions), it should act as a major sentencing modifier.

We allow people to destroy their own physical property, like taking a sledgehammer to their own car in their driveway, as long as it doesn't harm neighbors or commit fraud. The government shouldn't treat a person's body with less autonomy than their personal property.

The one built in to Caddy for anything that doesn't really have authentication. Everything else uses its own and i only have a couple services accessible outside the home.

Most everything is only accessible within my home and my guest wifi is on its own vLAN. Even then I'm the only person who actually uses most things that I setup.

I'm not sure if there is an official term for it, but it falls under pure "spitefulness" or a "dog in the manger" mindset.

Everyone did stupid stuff when they were young, but there's a big line between kids making noise out of boredom and people acting with total spite toward total strangers. Doing things that can cause direct physical harm to others and acting indifferent about it seems to be more common these days. The number of hit-and-runs in the news is a simple way to track it, IMHO.

Some people care about nothing but themselves, once they are done with something they will destroy it or damage it so nobody else can have it or the use of it. It's kinda like the kid who would spit on their food even if they didn't want it so nobody else would want it.

Reminds me of the crap that happened a few years ago with teens going into stores and recording themselves opening up the ice cream, licking it, then putting it back in the freezer.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738938037/police-identify-the-blue-bell-licker-in-viral-video

Since she was a juvenile she only got 30 days. But it encouraged others to do the same thing for their attempt at 5 minutes of fame.

It's one of the reasons why getting a SAS controller is really nice, backplanes make it even better.

I was preforming a burn with 10 X 8TB drives on a controller that already had a couple operating ZFS pools totaling 18 X 4TB drives and a couple SSD's and there was no slow downs. A SAS3008 controller can support over 6000 MB/s and has a PCI Express X8 3.0 bus.

I've been building my servers and network out of old enterprise gear for a while now. It uses more power but the things you can do are truly amazing. Sadly the ai boom drove prices way up compared to a couple years ago, what I bought for 900 in 2024 is running around 1500 today.

Quite a bit. It's the adult thing to do.

In April I was diving in Cozumel. Being able to see things like this was truly amazing.

I would have stood up for myself way sooner, both by reporting the environment I was dealing with at home and by fighting back against the school bullies.