Not OP but it makes the whole setup easier to use.
For instance, when I turn on the PS4, HA turns on the receiver and the TV, switches to the correct inout, adjusts the lights in the room.
When I turn off the ps4, it switches off the tv and the avr, unless I switched the receiver to the music or media player input (in which case it turns the tv off or not)
It also lets me use these cheapo ikea zigbee volume buttons to adjust the sound on the receiver, pause and skip songs or video (via libreelec). And the “light switch” aqara button to turn off all lights at bedtime from my bed and keep the music running (if I double tap) or switch it off otherwise.
The above wouldn’t be possible otherwise: ikea’s volume switch only works with these ikea/Sonos lamp things otherwise.
Not OP, but various automations that fire off commands based on whatever your TV, receiver, Apple TV box, etc are doing are how I find it most useful.
Example: I have some cheap Govee LED strip lights behind my TV for ambient lighting. HomeAssistant can detect when my Apple TV (or Samsung smart TV) is on and automatically turn on the lights for me. I don't have to reach around the back of the TV to try and find the little button to turn the lights on (or remember to turn them off).
I can also control both my TV and Apple TV through HomeAssistant. It's not exactly the most polished/straightforward, but you could definitely string together some automations - something like a "movie night" button that dims the lights, turns on the TV, switches to the appropriate input, and cues up a file. For me that's more hassle than it's worth.
> I've got an msi desktop gaming PC, an LG CX OLED TV, and a Yamaha RX-A2A receiver and they never played well together. The kids always had a hard time getting them all on at once and set to the right inputs and launching steam.
> So I created a Home Assistant automation that does all that, bought a Zwave button that sits on the coffee table, and now they just turn it all on with one button like it's a video game console.
I also plan to add "scenes" where I can just tap the button and the lights dim, and the media center gets put into movie mode, as well as a "music" scene for when I have parties, which would join the two zones my receiver supports an then
start playing a playlist from spotify.
Love this. My TV setup is super straightforward these days, but I had a nice home theater setup in my previous house and used a rather disappointing Logitech Harmony remote.
If you want to get creative, you could create a custom dashboard and put an old iPod touch/Android device in kiosk mode and use it as a remote touch panel control for your home theater (or anything else in HomeAssistant).
I have two Lenovo M8 tablets ($100/each) that I'm using as home control panels - super convenient and rock solid. https://imgur.com/a/f0aNTRq
Yeah they're solid - come with a little dock so it looks like a high-end automation system panel. You can configure the power settings to hold the battery charge around 50% to prevent any issues with the battery swelling.
If you go this route, definitely buy the Android app FullyKiosk. It will let you lock the tablet to the HomeAssistant dashboard, automatically recover if something crashes, etc. I have it set up to use the built-in camera & motion sensor to automatically turn on the display if someone walks up to it or touches the tablet, and automatically turns the screen off after a few minutes of no motion.
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Just tried it out, I don't know if I would say it sounds like a $600 tube amp especially in high gain scenarios (it really didn't like my active pickups), for a free plugin it is definitely great. In comparison to the Archetype Nolly plugin from Neural DSP it doesn't really compare, but but for something thats free and can be trained at home on custom audio samples its pretty cool.
Neural DPS's plugins are great. I actually ended up ordering the real version of an amp I tried with a plugin. I never thought I'd say that! But their plugins are realistic enough that I can actually have some confidence that the real thing will be what I'm after.
Mercuriall's plugins are amazing, too. Their Spark plugin and SS-11X (can't tell the difference on that one) are so unbelievably good. If this open source one can do what Spark can do.. I dunno.. I'd shave my beard.
Yeah, totally.
Their ReAxis plugin is a very solid plugin as well, delivering a full triaxis gear + some nice effects, the whole thing for less than $100.
This thing is amazing and can deliver a high quality result for every kind of tones out there from clean to very high gain.
What a time to be alive for a guitarist.
wow, I was literally just about to download the trial for the archetype nolly (after being iffy on whether the fortin nameless was right for what I wanted), what are the chances it's being discussed on HN.
I'm hoping that the nolly plugin can cover both dirty and clean sounds well enough to not need a second plugin, fingers crossed
Here’s my unscientific breakdown of how I view the Nolly, Cali, and Nameless plugins.
Nolly: most versatile thanks to its multiple amps, far and away my favorite for most things. I recently used it to mix an entire album of very polished black metal, replacing the real fuzzy mic signals captured in the studio. The band loved it. Extremely detailed. Got some gorgeous cleans out of it, too.
Cali: this one reminds me a lot of my own Marshall tube amp. It was the first one that really sold me on using Neural DSP plugins instead of amps in the studio. It’s a lot dirtier than the Nolly and I don’t find it appropriate for situations where I want a very polished sound. Recently chose this over the Nolly for a more organic sounding black metal project.
Nameless: this always sounds unnatural to me. It’s good and intense but I always come away feeling like it’s fizzy and flat. It’s a simulation of an amp Fortin made for Meshuggah, so I think it might have a very specific audience. Last year, I blended this with some live amp signals to get some added bite and it worked nicely but I haven’t reached for it since then.
You might also consider disabling the cab sim in the plugin and use a third party IR loader. I find GGD Zilla Cabs to be a complete game changer, a cheap and crucial upgrade to every one of Neural DSP’s plugins.
Any experience with Plini? It seems to be the closest to Nolly, and from a cursory look it seems people generally like it better. I suppose I'll have to get the trials for both to compare
I had never heard of GGD's IR loader, seems awesome! Definitely on the list of things to buy now
Feel free to drop a link to the album you made with the nolly plugin, I'd love to take a listen
I haven’t used the Plini but only because I hit Nolly last and I’m thrilled with it. I’m pretty sure the Nolly rhythm amp is modeled after a 5150 or a 5150II, so it’s very familiar for me since I mostly work with extreme metal.
I seriously can’t say enough good things about Zilla Cabs. Just make sure to disable the cabs in the amp plugin or it’ll sound weird!
The album I did with the Nolly plugin isn’t something I can share yet, unfortunately.
I just spent a couple of hours playing with the nolly trial and it's awesome, lots of fun. Definitely getting some 5150 vibes from several of the presets, I believe it
If you are looking for a plugin with good cleans as well as dirty I would say the Nolly plugin is better when compared to the Fortin Nameless, but it was a while ago that I used the trial, however I don’t remember being as in love with it as the Nolly. I had a hard time choosing between it and the Abasi plugin but I felt like Nolly shined more in a wide range of scenarios. Overall I have been very happy with it, 10/10 would recommend especially since they recently added a build in tuner. I have had some issues but I think it’s just my $30 usb interface.
The Nolly is awesome, tons of options in there for both clean and dirty sounds. The awesome thing is you can try all their plugins before buying to make sure it’s what you need.
I am about to graduate with my degree in computer engineering so I have a few good resources for you. I was in a similar position, and what really helped me was doing personal projects. Some that I can recommend are:
Ben Eaters videos on creating an 8 bit computer on a breadboard will teach digital logic, computer engineering fundamentals etc.
Building your own operating system, the osdev subreddit and wiki have many great resources to go from someone who knows c to understanding how that relates to the hardware.
Anything robotics related, working with Arduino and other microcontrollers is another big one, as that is part of any electrical and computer engineering degree.
If you need any other resources or have questions feel free to reach out, I am happy to give advice.
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As much as I would love for this to be real, this feels a bit too “sci-fi” and romance to be real. If it is, I would be happy a shocked, but this feels like it was written by someone trying to pretend to be a computer writing about itself, and discovering of itself. It’s a little too fan fic like to be believable.
Just ran the prompt through for myself, and got this https://pastebin.com/2gLVSA5r Interesting, but nothing like the OP. Still not convinced that that one is real unfortunetly, too much taste and creative writing. While GPT-3 has excellent coherency, its sentence structure is always short and simple. Nothing like the original one.
Your output does seem generally representative, though do make sure you're on the dragon model. I think there's a combination of luck involved, plus our own human tendency to assign meaning where none may exist. And what better domain to assign meaning to potentially meaningless texts than philosophy!
Edit: And I tried to generate an article for about 10 minutes and if I didn't have any luck I would not have posted and if the post wasn't surprising then it wouldn't have been upvoted, so there's your selection bias at work. The generated text often knocks my socks off, but there's plenty of flops too.
I am definitely on the dragon model, my first few attempts went badly until I managed to correctly get it set. What setting are you using for the randomness by the way?
I use option 6 for the custom story, then just feed it the initial prompt. You can keep clicking the submit button with no text to have it continue generating output. Make sure you're on the Dragon model in the settings and hit save. And you can adjust the returned text length and "temperature" there too. From what I understand temperature is the probability that it will select something other than the most statistically probable next word, which is a proxy for perceived creativity.
Edit: I've hit the reply depth limit, but just to respond you you below. It is absolutely legit, though better than the average output I see and I think I got a bit lucky. If there was anything that would convince you, I'd happily post it. Feel free to look through my HN post history. I'm no troll. My only horse in the race that you believe me is that I think you should keep playing with it and see what it's capable of instead of writing it off. This seems like transformative tech to me and I'm both excited and a bit scared. Have fun!
So, I have probably generated around 20 different texts from your prompt, and as much as I would love to be a believer I am unconvinced. The first person almost musings that you posted are nothing like what I have seen. While GPT is impressive, I don’t see it generating anything like what you posted.
My first attempt on a Griffin model. I think it's pretty hilarious too, and way better than all these "philosophers" and journalists made out of flesh and bone.
It looks like this is not the fastest commercial flight but the fastest subsonic flight. The Blackbird and Concord records you are talking about are a different category.
It's weird to see people continuing to argue about this, when the article itself makes pretty clear that this is about the subsonic record. Concorde and Blackbird are completely irrelevant. Of course they're faster, but that's not the point.
The entire reason a subsonic flight could go at speeds normally only possible to supersonic aircraft, is because of the speed of the jet stream driven by Ciara. The plane is flying at subsonic speeds within a moving pocket of air that adds quite a lot to that speed. That's the interesting part about this story.
Everyday astronaut has some of the best space content on YouTube, which is even more impressive given that he has doesn't have any kind of formal training in it. If you are into space and especially spacex I would highly recommend his channel.
This video has been in the works for many months and knowing his work it is probably one of the most comprehensive works on aerospike engines outside of academia.
Tim Dodd is great! An alternative great podcast (that Todd backs) is Main Engine Cutoff (MECO). Highly recommend you give it a listen if you are interested in Space News, and thoughtful discussion on recent topics.
https://mainenginecutoff.com/
> ... given that he has doesn't have any kind of formal training in it.
As someone who does have some training in it, I can say that "best space content on YouTube" is akin to "best brain surgeon in a room full of circus clowns."
He gets a lot of stuff right, don't get me wrong. But the appearance of credibility is down to enthusiasm, specialty of focus, and editing and delivery. It's fine as far as it goes, but it's infotainment. It's more important that you be entertained and feel smart than sit down and struggle with the actual application of engineering principles and achieve any kind of reliable knowledge.
You're conflating "doing brain surgery" and "learning about how the brain works". No one is claiming to be an aerospace engineer after watching one of his videos.
Taking an esoteric concept and making it understandable for the masses takes far more talent and dedication than you might think, and it's something that experts often fail at (or don't attempt). This guy makes no false claims about his credentials or the intended purpose of his videos, and your condescending gatekeeping shows a real lack of understanding for what this guy is actually doing and why it's so valuable.
What I'm saying is that the video contains numerous misconceptions, errors, and dubious bits of hand-waving. I'm not saying that people think they're engineers after watching. I'm saying that he is not trained as one, and that it shows in his work. I'm also saying that "what this guy is doing" and "why it's so valuable" are both undermined by his lack of training.
Long ago, some cranky academic wrote on his very well-sourced and specialized website, back when there was still that sort of thing, something like, "Everybody said that the internet was going to let anybody say anything at all. It turns out they were right."
I'm fine with the backlash from what you call my "gatekeeping." (I imagine that some gates need to be kept, but I suppose that's another story.) My point is that "the best on YouTube" is not as grand a qualification as one might suspect, and is certainly not a guarantee of accuracy.
I’d be curious about the errors and inaccuracies - I’m not trained in the field, and to me it didn’t seem like he got into any real detail about how the aerospike actually worked from a physics perspective other than that it did indeed work. Seemed magical.
Expound on "some gates need to be kept." This forum comments on medical topics, finance, economics, and software. I'd argue that for the majority of people only the last one is something they are experts in.
You could've compared this to a brain surgeon among medical students, or even software engineers, something technical/noncreative.
Well, just like every other edutainment channel out there like Veritasium or SmarterEveryDay. Nothing wrong with that, most of us are not trying to become aerospace engineers or physicists.
I like my entertainment to also be reasonably accurate so I'll take it. He doesn't make me feel smart, but his content does fill a curiosity itch. Especially since I will not be considering a career in rocket engineering!
If you like his content, Go with Scott Manley. He has at least some formal training as he is an astrophysicist by trade. Massive knowledge and in-depth bits of info.
Given the way that apps like Snapchat do an overlay of the camera image, in theory you could build an entire app over the camera. However it probably isn’t the best idea
