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askelectronics·Ask Electronicsbytuff_wizard

A bug in the system.

Merlin rollerdoor (Australian garage door brand) stopped working, when investigating I found a bug had shorted itself across an IC (labeled HVS004).

Luckily Merlin sells the whole replacement unit for only $449AUD. Before I pull the trigger on that I was wondering if anyone here could advise me on my chances of success if I just replaced the burnt bit.

I’m happy with larger electronics but I’m struggling to even identify any fuses on the board to check.

I’m also unable to find a replacement IC online as the code on it seems to be associated with some kind of blue LED. (I also don’t know for sure if the IC needs to be programmed or if it is just standard)

The back of the board is fine, just thru-hole solder connections.

here are some more photos(new link, should work now), hopefully in good quality.

Thanks in advance

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Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/27191517

I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.

I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.

But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.

I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.

I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.

But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.

Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.

I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.

I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.

But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.

I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.

I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.

But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.

Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time

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askelectronics·Ask Electronicsbytuff_wizard

Lithium pouch cell protection circuit?

Trying to trouble shoot a cheaper wireless meat thermometer. It was working find when put away last year.

Now won't turn on or respond when put on charge.

The lithium pouch cell looks fine and reads 3.5v at the battery tabs. No voltage read on the output of the small circuit board attached to the pouch cell. A bit of googling has lead me to believe it is some kind of "battery protection circuit" or possibly a BMS or charge controller. I have found many similar ones but no exact match on AliExpress. It reads QLD-3036.

If anyone is familiar with those little boards can they let me know

If there would be any reason it would be stopping power getting from the battery to the main unit?

If there is some easy way to reset the board?

If the small board modifies the voltage of the battery at all and if not would it be ok to bypass the small board and supply dc to the main board where the red and black wires connect for testing purposes? I have a variable power supply and would have no issue with converting this unit to run connected to a power supply permanently.

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

The AWS outage hit us during the day in Australia. I didn't notice because I run my own server, btw

And then I read about someone’s smart bed that got stuck in an upright position on heat mode because of the outage. Makes me feel like all that time sourcing devices that run locally was worth it.

Are we just digital preppers?

Edit: I get it, you aren't preppers, I'm sorry I said that.

From reading your comments I have gathered that you simply want to be ready (not prepared!) for when a free service becomes paid or they shut something down that you use or you simply don't like the idea of the gubbermint or the corporations being able to look though your data.

Many of you seem aware that your concerns are considered far fetched or like non issues by the average person.

well you are preppers, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

Bitwarden and Nginx proxy manager

Hello

I installed bitwarden via their install script a while back and all was working well.

recently I wanted to start running a reverse proxy because security and also its cooler to type in a domain name instead of numbers. I disabled the ngnix instance that bitwarden had installed because it was hogging the same ports a Ngnix Proxy Manager.

Now how should I get Bitwarden accessable? I have the .conf file from the bitwarden Ngnix instance, can I just load that into NMP somewhere?

or should I just change the ports the old ngnix operates on and point NPM at it when the bitwarden subdomain is accessed?

if it was just one service it would be simple but there are many running in the bitwarden stack, all on the same port and I'm very new to ngnix so I can't fully grasp what the .conf file is doing and I'm unable to add new passwords to bitwarden until I get this sorted out.

Thanks

Edit: bitwarden is in docker container, as is Nginx Proxy Manager

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bikewrench·bike wrenchbytuff_wizard

Direct drive ebike rear wheel noise

Hi all

The rear wheel of my ebike started making an extra whirring/whining noise last time I rode it. It only made the noise when the motor was engaged and under load, not while coasting. The noise got louder as the load increased. Also this bike is relatively new, bought from ALDI's special buys. I could get a refund from them but they won't have any stock to give me a new one.

There was also some oil/lubricant coming down the hub face, either from the hub itself or from the rear sprocket which also acts as a free hub.

I thought one of the sealed bearings in the hub might have let go but they are fine. There seems to be no lubricant in the freehub/rear sprocket (Is this normal?)

I opened up the hub to see if anything is going on in there and the grease looks odd? could it have been overheated at some point? If I do replace the grease what should I use?

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

SOLVED: Self Hosting Bitwarden, STMP Issues

Hi guy, I've managed to get bitwarden up and running in a docker instance as per the instructions provided by bitwarden here.

Its up and available inside and outside the local network but I can't figure out how to get it to connect to an email provider so it can send verification emails and invitations. I used my Microsoft hosted email, lets call it [email protected] (domain provided by a 3rd party).

I've edited the global.override.env file to suit the values given by Microsoft and opened port 587 in my router, (unclear whether they want SSL or TLS but I've tried both)

I've also tried to connect with my gmail but no luck. When I try to verify my email I just get "An unhandled server error has occurred"

Bitwarden is also accessed through bitwarden.mydomain.com.au in this example.

Can anyone point me in the right direction, or even let me know where I might find relevant logs. the stuff in the /bwdata/ folder hasn't been very helpful.

The only thing I can think of is that when I run "docker ps" in the terminal, none of the bitwarden related containers seem to be specifically passing port 587 through, but that was never mentioned in the guide, and I don't know which container would need it.

Thanks

EDIT: I've closed port 587. I also ran the recommended telnet commands to check if I could get to the STMP server and got back a response including STARTTLS so that all good

I found these log entries in the api folder.

With my Microsoft account info

2023-09-10 12:12:42.840 +00:00 [Information] Api started.
2023-09-10 12:13:36.357 +00:00 [Error] 535: 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully. Contact your administrator>

MailKit.Security.AuthenticationException: 535: 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully. Contact your administrator>

 ---> MailKit.Net.Smtp.SmtpCommandException: 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully. Contact your administrator>
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

With google info

2023-09-10 12:00:34.585 +00:00 [Error] 534: 5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at
5.7.9  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=InvalidSecondFactor i8-20020a17090a2ac800b002696aeb72e5sm6280939pjg.2 - gsmtp

MailKit.Security.AuthenticationException: 534: 5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at
5.7.9  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=InvalidSecondFactor i8-20020a17090a2ac800b002696aeb72e5sm6280939pjg.2 - gsmtp

 ---> MailKit.Net.Smtp.SmtpCommandException: 5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at
5.7.9  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=InvalidSecondFactor i8-20020a17090a2ac800b002696aeb72e5sm6280939pjg.2 - gsmtp

I then followed the link supplied by google, it leads to a page about two factor authentication and app passwords. After enabling two factor authentication, generating an app password through gmail and using that password in the global.override.env file it's now all working.

Thanks for your help guys.

Still can't figure out how to get an app password from Microsoft though.

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

Question about data available to network management

Hello this isn't strictly 'selfhosted' material but there seems to be a lot of networking knowledge in this group.

I'm thinking of leveraging my universities network to assist in downloading "Linux ISO's" via torrent. I thought a cool little project would be and old rasberry pi with a battery pack, wifi radio and an external hdd in a box would be cool.

Considering I have to use a university supplied email and password, unique to me, to connect to the wifi (only once then it connects like normal). How obvious will it be that I am downloading "Linux ISO's"? I'd definitely be running a VPN as a base level of privacy.

Also if there is a better community for this please point me in the right direction. Reddit's adds were annoying but it was definitely easier to stumble onto relevant subreddits.

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selfhosted·Selfhostedbytuff_wizard

First steps to self hosting

Hey all

Been playing around with plex and the *arr's for a while on my main desktop.

Now looking to set up a server to run plex, downloads, pi hole and eventually some other backup's.

Unfortunately the PC I had laying around is 32bit and it seems like most things are removing support for that architecture if they haven't already. Now I'm faced with the problem/opportunity of getting something new (to me).

But I'm struggling with the absolute sea of options out there and also don't want to spend on brand new gear.

There's quite a bit of server grade hardware floating around (like a Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core for $100AUD) or even rackmount gear (probably overkill but a boy can dream).

Or should I just get a consumer case with the most drive bays I can find and build from there?

Lowish power consumption is a priority, planning on running ubuntu or similar.

Any and all tips welcome! Thanks.

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