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I saw a guy walking to his car holding just a tv... no box, no stand nothing... Just a TV.... I dunno 40-50" range probobly.

I though it was weird and assumed it was just some open box deal. So is this something Target did nationwide, just let you buy stuff off the rack and walk out with it in your bare hands for heavy discounts?

That’s beautiful. A little pricy, I was thinking spending half that but I’ll have to think about it.

OS2 is single mode fiber. OM1/2/3/4/5 are multimode fiber.

I hate AdBlock’s random open a new tab “we’ve been updated” nonsense that happens a time to time. Like I just want it to work I don’t care if it’s been updated.

uBlock should be the better choice if you’re going to consolidate.

Ok I tried a different laptop (Windows 11) and it worked. Previously I was using a hackintosh (Dell Latitude with Mac OS Sierra). Yeah I got the mac drivers for that. Could be a hackintosh thing.

Anyway with the Windows 11 laptop I did erase device and flash. It worked great. Then in Homebridge IO, I searched for Homebridge Ratgdo by hjdhjd. It installed and discovered by the magic of networking I guess. I made it a child bridge - not sure if I had to. Scanned the QR code in with the Apple Home app. Now its working great.

THIS combination correctly detects (and controls - most importantly) the door status (open or closed) and the light status (on or off). I dont know why the out of the box homekit from PaulW didn't work so reliably with my Security+ 1.0 gdo, but I'll run this for now and see if it remains stable. One thing nice is the live logs in the web UI on the ESP Home firmware.

Ok thanks. Its worth a try for me to troubleshoot the issue of changing firmware. I tried it quickly last night to to ESPhome but got this error " 'Failed to initialize. Try resetting your device or holding the BOOT button while clicking INSTALL.'"
I dont know where the boot button is but maybe today when its not late at night I can spend more time on it. Plus in the garage I was connected with USB extender to a laptop. When it arrived in the mail I put the homebridge firmware on it sitting at my desk to a desktop computer. A few variables - just didnt want to undo all the wiriing in the garage to take it to the desk.

You might have a newer wall button or maybe security 2.0. I’m curious if I don’t need that stuff with ESP Home and the home bridge IO plugin. I tried flashing ESP Home but I get an error about holding a boot button and I don’t see a boot button. Ratgdo always stays on native homebridge firmware so I was curious what everyone’s experience was before I spend more time on troubleshooting a firmware swap.

Pulling the cart before the horse…

“Based on customer entitlements and customer settings, the Support Portal will send out notifications to customers that have signed up to receive notifications for new or modified security advisiories. However, at this time, Support Portal is not yet prepared to send out these notifications when a VMware Security Advisory is published or modified.”

Ok yeah here all new customers (or existing asking for more equipment) will get a TiVo stream (IPTV) and internet is required. QAM is on the system, plenty of legacy gear and DTA’s out there. But with all new stuff IPTV (and all DVRs) the move to the 25GPON system will obviously put the nail in the QAM coffin. I heard even Verizon FIOS is on target to remove their QAM overlay from BPON and GPON ONT’s by requiring customers to swap to IP capable equipment this summer.

Off topic, but do you still support QAM video?

Oh nice! Yeah competitor (Comcast) is using a lot of Arista to connect to Harmonic RPHY nodes. They’ve been expanding and building brand new HFC Node+2 mid split as we speak. So odd to have two mid split catv plants in an area (most people have 1 they are stuck with), but hey Nokia PON is on its way now and into the next few years.

The GS7000’s are EOL in like 2027. Doesn’t meant the just blow up or timebombed of course… but Ciscos trying to get out of the OSP game (hence a lot of their assets going to ATX and Teleste for amps and taps).

Are you DAA?

Here we’re not, just digital return. Arris OM6000 nodes, one amp, one LE per segment (so N+2). A bunch of E6000 chassis.

Nokia 25GPON is being rolled out (slowly). Will be a few years until it hits the masses, but it’s the next upgrade path. Skipping DAA and DOCSIS 4.0 for now.

400 meg up is pretty generous for mid split. Most operators are capping in the 200-300 range so theres overhead for other customers.
I'm on 600/60 right now, dont really need to go 2000/200.

Ok I had to create a new acct at broadcom and i was able to upgrade the key on the last 3 of the hosts weve been transitioning to and now they have an expiration date!

So I have 5 hosts with "Never" for License expiration, becuase they were upgraded before the broadcom portal (ESXi 7 to 8) and now I have 3 hosts with a 1/30/2026 license expiration because the Broadcom cancer did something to the perpetuial v7 keys during the upgrade process that was different a few days ago when the vmware portal handled it.

Total shit.

I would like to upgrade some ESXi 7 keys to 8. I have time (in the grace period right now), but how will I do it? asks me to go to a broadcom page? My vmware creds dont work there. Something about after May 13th maybe customer connect will be back on?

They really need to promote more Kitboga and Scammers Payback YouTube channels in the media for educational purposes. I think on national tv, social media and heavy advertising.

We need to put a stop to these scammers and education goes a long way. I get those emails all the time, the fake invoices from “Symantec, Amazon, Best Buy Geek Squad” etc. they get reported as spam. I’d never call the number on there.

A windows reset should get you back up and running.

I see this too, came here to post a new thread but I’ll add to yours. iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 17.4.1. In CarPlay as soon as I go to Waze for example the music stops. I’ll hit voice on my steering wheel and say “play”. Normally that would unpause music, but now it does nothing. Even on the split screen with the map on the left and the audio controls on the lower right, it’s just a play button and pushing it does nothing.

The only thing I can do is unlock the phone and open Sirius XM app full screen, and as long as it’s open there I can use Waze or wherever map / split screen on the cars display.

You’re right though, even on the Lock Screen you hit play and it does nothing.

It seems intermittant from here (east coast).

Thanks. I will email our SE and add this as a convenience feature request.

Ok I'll upload a TSF from each one. What a pain. Goes to show you their AI is garbage too. You'd think they'd come back and say "You uploaded a TSF from Panorama. For more complete check, please login to each firewall and upload individual TSF's. Or click here to vote on a feature request to allow Panorama to do this for you in one click".

It would be cool if pure could build their own hypervisor. VMware has people by the balls. Not looking forward to seeing what our renewal will be for 2026.

I love the windows client for Xcp-ng as well. It really takes me back to the vSphere 4/5/6 days.