Once they rolled out ads on the home page (Shame. Shame. Shame.), I installed “Launcher manager” and “Wolf launcher” to give it an interface I really like. A big background picture, some large buttons for the commonly used apps, and then progressively smaller buttons as you scroll down the screen for the less commonly used features.

It broke once when an update rolled out, but since then has been running fine and I never once see the bloated monstrosity that is the default home screen.

The only qualm with my setup I have is that access to the configuration sidebar isn’t as intuitive as it was with the pre 9.0 version (which frankly I don’t remember anymore aside from the general impression). That’s a very minor price to pay to have an interface without ads.

Thanks for the response, that confirms my assumption, seems like I was configuring it right, but the behavior is not as expected.

• If HA is active/onscreen already, the command will do nothing.
• If HA is idle/offscreen, the command will bring HA to the forefront, but not change pages. (This is the state it is in after the “turn_off” sends the launcher intent.)
• If HA is off, the command will launch HA, and navgate to the correct page.

Is this all that is to be expected? or should I be able to get to the desired dashboard, from any previous screen or application state?

Yeah, I think I need to move that way. If it doesn’t fit in the unRAID box or the main PC. It needs to go. Whether that’s donation, selling, recycling or trash, I should just quit hoarding the parts. I’m one of those folks that saves the best weapons till the end of the game “in case I need them”, picks the neutral path instead of the dark/light path cause I don’t want to cut off my options, and would rather organize my 50 spare USB cables by size/type/length than throw them away. 🤣 It’s a thought process that pervades more than just spare PC parts after upgrade lol. Habit breaking is definitely the name of the game!

This, except the rainy weekend happens and I rarely look to my pile of old equipment as the time filler 😅

I’ve never liked dealing with excel for anything other than manual work. It’s data integrations have grown beyond my familiarity, and I’ve never liked any of the python libraries I’ve used for reading and writing excels formats. Go accessible with something like CSV, and you lose most things of value that excel can offer.

Currently though, this is my strategy. I’ve got folders of Excel sheets that I manually add exports of various things to, but I’m missing the piece that ties it all together, and I’d sure love to do less of the work manually.

Although it’s probably not great for me to be seeking out new excuses, another server implies you might have a few… Any cool uses you’d like to share?

Drives thankfully can easily have extended utility, I don’t feel bad about those cause I haven’t hit my bay limits yet. Using them in the unRAID box also means I don’t really worry about them dying and losing anything valuable.

Speaking of 5 builds worth of RAM… I found and disposed of a couple 128MB sticks the other day. Progress 😅

Perfectly logical, but somehow difficult… “I might want to turn this into a media center PC” or “maybe I should put xp on this for old SecuDrive(sp?) games”. I’ve got a little bit of a hoarder mentality with things that could turn into fun new projects!

*gestures broadly to the several stacks of psus and cases from the early 2000s in the corner of the boiler room* 🤣

Not entirely, just for some features, including data export past a certain date iirc. I probably will wind up doing just that though if I cannot figure out how to get the data off my phone. Right now the phone app is the only place I can even see that the data exists, so I’m slightly afraid of changing anything in mfp lest it ‘sync’ my data out of existence 😕

Thanks for the suggestions. At a quick glance, grafana looks to be perfect for the visualization aspect (at least in terms of capabilities). Glad to see there are free utilities for that and I might not have to resort to chicken scratch html/pyplot :-) I have yet to dig into influxDB still…

Deterrent is right. That graph is terrifying! I feel their frustration regarding getting data from Android apps. Part of what got me started thinking about this was when I realized that the years of data I entered into my fitness pal was suddenly locked behind a subscription service :-( Thanks for sharing!