Lucky he passed those particular piss flaps on his way into the world

I did it all in Node Red so unfortunately I can't share the automation, but I can point you at this HACS integration https://github.com/meichthys/uptime_kuma

Set that up and all your nodes will be visible in HA then it's just a case of "if node X is off for X minutes" - "notify"

I think I'm a step behind you. I use Uptime Kuma for monitoring and it worked really well. Just have it running on a pi separate from my main machine.

I worked out how to get it sending me emails when things are down and up, and now my email inbox is a fucking hot mess of notifications.

So I've just this weekend integrated it into Home Assistant and set it to notify me when things are down for 5 minutes or more.

My next step was going to be finding some way of integrating Portainer into Home Assistant so I can restart stopped containers, and maybe Proxmox so I can reboot VMs from HA. Not sure it's possible yet though.

Ultimately I want to have HA send me a notification with actionable buttons with "reboot container" and "reboot VM" which, when pressed, will sort the issue out.

However this will not help when one of my drives goes down. They're HDDs plugged in by USB3 which isn't great and my server is behind the coat rack so sometimes the kids just throw their coats on and it falls onto my server, which then heats up and goes silly.

I hear you, I'm 40 and never gonna compete. But I still compete with every solve I do, with myself.

The serotonin dump I get when I get a PB is enough for me to spend time learning a new alg here and there. I was trying to learn a new alg a day at one point, then just a new one a week, and it's since dropped off a bit and my solves have plateaued.

So the decision to spend some time teaching myself better look ahead was exactly the kick up the arse I needed to care a bit more about cubing

I may not get the best times, but I do know that I was excited to be getting solves under a minute using 2 look and now I'm excited to be getting some in the 20-25 range.

The fact you're getting sub 30 solves without that is quite impressive to me and so i just wonder how much faster you would be with all the algs in your head.

I started by just learning a couple. When those cases showed up I'd get a little giddy and shave loads off my normal times, and that pushed me to learn a few more.

Thing is, some you already know, you just add an extra move or two onto the beginning or end.

Anyway you do you, but I do honestly think you'll be glad you learned at least a few full algs

I would fully recommend taking the time to learn full OLL or as much as you can.

I used Jperm's website to learn OLL/PLL it's a great resource when you learn that you can click on the picture of the case you're learning to mark it as learning or learned, then go into the timer and set it to just show you cases you're learning.

I did similar cases at the same time and tried remembering them in the trainer. If you forget the alg you can make it show up move by move with a keyboard press.

I took have tried learning EO but it blags my head. It's a slow process but kills time

Slow solves have helped me drastically improve my look ahead though, and taking time to plan my cross. That was hard to start with, I'd plan 3 edges and wing the last one but that took time I didn't need to lose.

This week I've been planning my cross fully and even occasionally (on easy ones) planning my first pair. When I say that, I mean I'd have a pair in mind to start with, but not quite what the orientation of the pair will look like yet.

So next steps are planning first pair into my cross (and learning dot cases I guess).

Do you know full PLL/OLL?

Not full no. I know most of them but I gave up when I felt like I had enough to get good times.

I do know full PLL

Dot cases I don't know in OLL. I just do a fat Sexy on them and then I can go from there.

I guess I could do with sitting down and learning those when I have one of those mornings when my IBS gets me up at 6am and nobody else will be up until 10...

I've had the opposite experience with the cube, but I use Zigbee2MQTT so I'm maybe that made the difference.

It's a fantastic concept and I think everyone should buy one just because it's so cool and so fucking useless at the same time.

So you have turn like a knob function, then changing sides, a knock knock, a slide and a drop sensor.

I programmed the drop sensor to toggle my room lights then showed a bunch of 40+ year old kids, who had great fun for a full 5 minutes playing epileptic catch.

The problem is that it has all these functions, but you only know what they are because you spent the time programming them. So it's fucking useless to anyone else, and by the time you've set the thing down you've forgotten what you set it to do yourself.

I've had the turn like a knob set to brighten and dim my lights, then decided it should control the volume on the speaker when it's playing music too, which lead to a little project in node red. But nobody else in the house even knows that's what it does.

I should stop this wall of text, get one, it's useless!

I'm gonna assume you're not using Home Assistant yet.

There is an app for Home Assistant but from your comment I'm assuming you're talking about something like Smart Life.

Home Assistant takes all these different companies and creates a central hub for them all. So we have Hue bulbs and Nest cameras all talking to each other via Home Assistant.

If you're already using Home Assistant then disregard and have look into PIR and Mm Wave sensor.

I've moved up a level and recently made a bed sensor.

What's amusing is I'm long time stoner. As such, I have a shit memory. I do not remember writing this comment. Nor do I remember even struggling with this. I do know that I had a bunch of .crypt domains for a while.

So your comment is hilarious because I frequently find my own comments when I'm struggling through that thing I once did that I don't remember, documenting what I did.

I do it to help others, I call it "leaving breadcrumbs for those further back on the path" but those breadcrumbs are great when a server dies and you have to re set it up.

Kudos for being a great guy and leaving breadcrumbs. Karma likes to remind you that you're a wonderful person sometimes, so just enjoy it, and don't let the bastards grind you down.

Rereading my own comment, I do this, I thank people hoping they're still active at some point. I really do believe in thanking those that help me, even if they may not see it until 10 months later, if at all. You must have been the post that slotted it all into place.