I can just imagine how awkward dentist appointments are going to be...
Yes, in more recent times I've seen comments about the Tailwind. Unfortunately it's not sold in Australia so I'd have to import it. It does rate really well, so you chose wisely!
Yeah sometimes simple is best. Certainly a lot of folks have suggested this. I tend to wear different jackets as the seasons vary wildly here, so not quite as easy an option for me.
Oh my regular door responds to remotes, the meross is just there to add internet capability. I'm one of those who keeps worrying they haven't closed the garage door and is already so far away it's a bit awkward to turn around.
I also don't want a remote attached to my bike that's easily recognisable as one, in case the bike is ever stolen. This is why my interest was in modules like the FlashToPass, as it's not easily recognisable as being a garage remote.
Yeah I really should set up Home Assistant, especially as I have some other devices that would greatly benefit from it.
This will do me for now... until I want to really screw with more of my "smart" devices.
I figure I might as well post some stuff to the Fediverse.
I have a Meross MSG100 to add "smart" connectivity to my otherwise dumb powered garage door. To my pleasant surprise, Meross can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings, and you can set a routine for when you arrive within a certain radius of home (100m is the smallest), it can then open the garage door. It can even be set to note if you've been gone long enough (I have mine set to 10 minutes).
For more precise location detection, you have to do a little finangling to get it to be hooked up to the Modes and Routines app where you can then also set a location setting that includes connecting to your home wifi.
The finangling involves setting up a virtual switch in SmartThings (as garage door openers aren't "supported" by M&R, but a switch is), and having a routine in ST linking the switch's state to the garage door.
If you don't have ST Labs (only available in USA and KR), then you can make a virtual switch using Samsung's own web ui: https://my.smartthings.com/advanced/devices
Anyway, we tested it this afternoon and it worked fine.
For those without a Samsung phone, this will be a lot harder to set up (if not impossible).
My backup options were:
- Getting my Cardo set up (whenever it arrives) and yelling Hey Google open the garage door, waiting for it to go 'sure, what's your pin', and yelling that at it... from like two roundabouts away from home.
- Buying and installing a Riders Magic Touch
- Buying and installing a Mo-Door
- Buying and installing the Garage Door Opener from Vizi-Tec (hooks up to brake line), apparently you do a zip-zip-zip-braaake on your brake and it activates it?
- Taking apart a garage remote and making my own version of any of the above, including like the FlashToPass/FlashToOpen (they don't exist anymore sadly) which activated when you flashed your high beams
- Tucking a remote into my tank bag and smashing the shit out of it
- Do what I've been doing which was stopping, glove off, open jacket pocket, fish out remote and press button, shove it back into pocket, glove back on, roll into garage
Anyone got any other unique ways of managing their garage door whilst on the motorcycle?
They did something similar with some transformers here in Australia, and unfortunately there were some possibly associated traffic incidents where people might have not been going the right speed and got rear-ended. One man died, even.
Please avoid the route, even when it is pulled over to "rest", as your fellow motorists may not be able to resist rubbernecking.
The pink carbo one isn't bad. Definitely has other flavours in there, not just spicy. That said, I also don't add the entire sachet of hot sauce...
The bit about not being able to go outside is because people were using it as a pretext to explain why they weren't at home... when really they were off socialising and increasing possible infection points.
It's why they closed children's playgrounds here in Australia, parents were using their children playing to gather around, then held empty coffee cups to explain why their masks were off. I've never seen so many people desperately swigging at water bottles in a supermarket in my life, or young men clutching at low dose asthma inhalers either. Somewhat amusingly, none of these behaviours have shown up since.
If people could have shown any level of responsibility... but there we have it, don't we? They can't see beyond the end of their own nose, and this is why we are here, finding out.
Clover is one... but you might not like the dev.
Hmm google suggests this: https://www.minitool.com/news/enable-tabs-in-file-explorer-on-windows-10.html
There's a lot of gay men who don't even consider that these laws will apply to them. It doesn't help that a lot of people will say "oh those laws only apply to locals, they won't enforce them on international people".
Connect has been my favourite. Boost is another, as has Sync. I should probably check out Jerboa, apparently it's improved a lot.
I saw you posted this in another app's comments. I know Connect does 'scrolling past post marks as read', and also has 'hide read posts'. Not sure if that might be up your alley.
Oh yes I do vote for hope. Sadly I'm in a very blue/teal area, and the constituents openly mock the very idea of voting for Labor let alone the Greens (they get very offended if you even ask if they did, like one who was complaining about [policy they wish existed but only the Greens had campaigned on]).
Someone else asked this a few months ago, perhaps these leads might help? The solution was 2 broke girls, so...
Yeah, I gotta get that DNR stuff set up.
My risk analysis prior was that it wasn't worth it. That has since changed.
Retirement plan for me is dead by 60, because climate change will have made living an absolute misery.
This is why I now have a motorcycle.
Used to be able to get $1 cheeseburgers. The loose change menu was a huge thing here, you could actually wander in with some coins and walk out with some food.
At $1 a burger, in less than 3 minutes, that's way cheaper, "tastier" (subjective), faster, and no cleaning up, than having a pot of lentil curry.
A British couple died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on holiday at a luxury resort in Egypt after the room next door was sprayed with pesticide to kill bed bugs, a coroner has found.
The British activist has demanded opposition leader John Pesutto and his leadership team apologise and compensate her for false claims made against her.
The context:
The British activist, who also goes by pseudonym Posie Parker, spoke at a "Let Women Speak" event outside Victorian parliament in March that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, who joined the anti-trans rights demonstrators and repeatedly performed the Nazi salute.
MP Moira Deeming's involvement in the "Let Women Speak" rally led to her suspension and eventual expulsion from the Liberal party.