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  • Backfire@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldHA Doorbell
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    1 month ago

    I’ve had a Ezviz home camera for years. At some point, the RTSP stream in HA stopped working entirely, and I didn’t think much of it.

    A week ago I decided to reset the damn thing as the verification password on the bottom didn’t take in HA, only to realise that the setup flow on the app just didn’t work for configuring WiFi, and there was no feedback at all, or any support articles surround it. I’d given up for a while, plugged in ethernet temporarily instead and tried again.

    The correct WiFi setup procedure was hidden away in some menu, which I couldn’t even remember using last time (showing a QR to the camera and it silently taking the credentials). Only then I found out about how you can view the camera in the app in LAN View Mode, pray it accepts your verification password without spitting random HTTP errors, and there the RTSP toggle was to be found. I do have the stream back in HA, but my god that was a pain. I’ve been at it for hours at that point.

    Was it worth it? No, I would’ve thrown it out the window way sooner - but it beats having a paper weight for a camera which used to work fine an hour ago.
















  • Sounds like there’s a step missing somewhere.

    You should probably use a downloader such as NZBget or SABnzbd to download the whole collection of .rar archives (if it’s archived at all) and .par2 files associated with it. You’d download an NZB file for which content you wish to have, which is a simple file that tells the downloader how to download everything, fix them up when necessary and to repair the files, to finally extract a usable file for you.

    That output is something Readarr should be able to use, like an epub.



  • I’ve been using the More Purple More Better (MPMB) character sheet in combination with Adobe Reader on my Windows pc. It isn’t exactly an application replacing your char sheet, but an interactive PDF file reliant on JavaScript. It has a common recognizable layout, and is filled to the brim with macros and generation tools - you’ll be able to whip up a char sheet in no time once you get the hang of it.

    Out of the box it only has PHB content, but you can add additional scripts containing every bit of official content for 5e. It isn’t very hard to find, either, /r/MPMB for example.