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  • God damnit. Semi-experienced hobbyist getting ready to drop money on a multi-head unit and this has been hard to research.

    From my digging Prusa is overpriced except you can’t beat the quality and reliability except for when you have to tweak it which is all the time and there are other brands that are a better deal unless you’re looking for unbeatable performance, then you go prusa. Their commitment to upgrades is great except for the XL+ which is now a dead end but still getting updates and certainly its great how much YOU own you’re unit except its not FOSS/H… Best to go with the Chinese brands that 1000% lock you in.

    This is a great video but I’ve seen other great reviews basically saying theoppisitte. Hell there’s that in this THREAD.

    Just taking my $4k and hiring someone to train a squrielle to glue together some filament.


  • I’ve got whatever their first one is. Its worked great, my only gripe is their cloud service requires google login. But it served its job which was to give me remote KVM when I was learning how to setup reliable RDP.

    Its now attached to a box I use as a relays at a friends who has fiber. That box has a startup warning that I could never quite get to go away that requires one hit literally any key to finish boot. So I paid $70 for that…



  • Figured it out! It was as simple as making sure the security keys were generated. I thought I had but they failed to take in ZwaveJS. So for posterity:

    • Check the battery mode
    • If it looks like data is flowing the way it should, but you’re missing entities associated with the device: thats a security feature. Either no keys or other security issues will keep the device from exposing the entities you want.

    Big thanks to @besmtt@lemmy.world and @tburkhol@lemmy.world . I learned a ton more because of your input. Oh also matter is no working as is ESPectre across a dozen or so ESP32-C3s I had. So all in all we got some major upgrades done today!




  • Unfortunately this is my first and currently only z-wave device; I’ll snag some “fool proof” ones for exactly what you’re saying.

    This is a solid lead and I suspect you’re right! Although some stuff that doesn’t add up:

    • The device isn’t showing the under “wifi” signal icon
    • The device is in “battery mode”, but regarding the procedure to change power mode: It was running on battery during original inclusion, and in fact has never been hooked to AC.

    I think you’ve gotten me on the right track, but I gave myself another wrinkle. I’m also trying to get matter working for the first time, and in the process of troubleshooting a provisioning, I put my unraid server (with HA) to communicate via IP6 only. It now is no longer online and also inaccessible via a directly connected monitor… So I need to solve that before I can do anything else with Z-wave…

    Happy Sunday…












  • Thanks for your quick description! Did some reading and I can see why people are excited now. Right now I’m renting and doing a smaller area that my one router/zigbee radio covers pretty well, but I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on Matter over Thread. Based on what I read looks like a great protocol system as I get into widespread coverage. It’s exciting Matter is becoming a standard for all manufacturers and is compatible with local only stuff!






  • Not sure what type of humidifier that is but you may need a rotary one to get lower. There’s a technology connections video on them. They essentially are silica that’s constantly dis/recharging. They’re very energy inefficient but don’t have the same performance limits as compressor based systems.

    I got one earmarked for exactly this before I moved. They’re simple enough I was planning gutting it and adding smarts using ESPHome. But moisture hasn’t been an issue for me so the project is a low priority.


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    I have been mostly happy with my flashforge AD5X starting as a newbie. Its got a good range of material capabilities, but 95% of the time I’m printing PLA anyway. PLA is the most common filament by far.

    I will say I have had two hot ends (the part the filiment comes out of) get covered in enough filament they broke during a misprint ($40 repair each).

    I don’t really have experience with other makes/models but that is my loose endorsement of the AD5X. My only real complaint is how expensive the nozzles are compared to other brands.