Its certainly doable, you just need to decide on where you want to start as a minimum viable product and tinker along as you go but ideally think far enough ahead about ideal situation so you don’t paint yourself into a corner and have to restart from scratch to get a certain outcome, although the Pi is pretty flexible for the power you’ll need.

I did this around 20 years ago (obviously not with a Pi back then) but as things changed I came round to the less hassle option of a phone and Bluetooth, particularly as I was often driving cars I couldn’t tinker with too much.

I had an implementation with a fold out 1 DIN touch screen which replaced the stereo and handled audio amplification etc and one with a stand alone hot plug 7" touchscreen. I had a reserve battery so that it stayed powered up for a short period of time after parking at home to do playlist and podcast synchronisation to my server in the house.

As other people have mentioned I was using Kodi and running audio from it as well as satnav etc. Mp3car was a good resource at the time.

Yeah I may be tempted back to essential depending on what gets released there

I got a few £5 credits out of it, mainly by earning points for downloading and launching specific Plus titles most of which I probably wouldn’t have downloaded - mainly downloading them and launching them from the app and then just deleting them.

I was planning on letting my Plus lapse when it us up in a few months anyway as I have never had interest in multiplayer and the “free” catalogue cycling out things has got to the point of annoying me too much.

Great thanks, also available for free on mobile app stores. I’ve loved all of the cube escape games they’ve done so appreciate something extra especially for free!

I am just a curious party on the internet and I’m looking on my phone so have done less deep digging than I would do at a desk.

Searching for Beko WMD service manual lead me to a site, elektrotanya.com where I got a file called beko_wmd_25121_t.rar which has exploded parts diagram and a fault code flowchart.

The flowchart says the following which may or may not be useful re resetting fault code.

FAILURE CODE OBSERVING MODE Entrance: Press the first auxiliary function button from the left for 6 seconds. “Run/ Pause/Cancel” led will start blinking and the program followers will start blinking as an error code for 3 seconds if any failure routine has run. After 3 seconds, the machine will return to the selection mode. Deletion of the error code: After entering the failure code observing mode, pressing and holding “Run/ Pause/Cancel” button for a short time will erase the error code from the memory. After you complete your inspection, if you are not sure that you have solved the problem and if you are going to change the electronic card group, do not erase the error code. For else cases, you may erase the error code.

The flow chart has details of the code flashings which I can give if helpful and you don’t acquire the document yourself.

Apologies if you’ve already tried something so simplistic and I totally get your frustration!

I have a similar setup with 3 different heating elements, each with it’s own different brand controller (who knows what the previous owner was thinking!).

I swapped one out a few years ago for a Heltun which seemed to meet my requirements and is designed for exactly that. It is the older discontinued model running on 500 series z-wave, their newer ones run on 700 series.

I had initially planned to replace all 3 with the same model assuming it was good - I haven’t (as yet) - it was a pretty new product and it was a bit buggy which made me hesitant. I have wood flooring on top of the concrete slab/ electric blanket in two areas and it’s advised to not heat the wood up too high as it causes shrinkage, unlike under ceramic tile, and sometimes it would not respect the max floor temperature setting. I went back and forth with their support about it and they were very helpful, giving me beta firmware to flash etc and I worked around it.

For the last couple of years it’s been mostly stable and behaving. For whatever reason, it no longer lets me directly set the target temperature in Home Assistant which it previously did - I may need to dig into that as it would be handy sometimes, but I think it meets all of your other requirements, like on device manual control, no cloud, air temp sensor and floor sensor connection etc.

There aren’t that many products out there that fit the bill, I was particularly struggling with ones that would let me set the max floor temp sensor low enough when I was comparing the spec sheets a few years back.

Yes, if I switch instance to world then its static. Thanks for your work, really love Voyager!

I’m on Android using Voyager 2.19.4 from 17th November, and its working for me

That’s annoying! I’m using Graphene and I just installed KDE Connect from F-Droid to test, which didn’t trigger, however it did bounce me for using Heliboard. Changing to default keyboard and reloading worked, ie it can only see my currently active one.

Using Shelter to set up a second profile, or the new Private Space feature on 15 may help provide isolation.

Halifax/ Bank of Scotland/ Lloyds does an integrity check that rejects Graphene or LineageOS phones completely.

I know what you mean and have an old light which does that, which was on the house when I moved in.

After frustratingly searching, I believe the terms you’re looking for are dual light level PIR, hi-lo PIR, high low PIR.

Here’s a product that has the feature although it may not be cosmetically to your taste https://www.universal-lighting.co.uk/products/dual-light-level-led-outdoor-pir-wall-half-lantern-white/ Here’s another https://www.universal-lighting.co.uk/products/dual-light-level-led-dusk-dawn-white-outdoor-pir-wall-light-wide/

No affiliation to them just they came up when searching and had two products that matched. Good luck with your hunt, they are out there!

Not OP but fully agree - I don’t enjoy video content so my personal block list would filter youtube.com and any of their shortened aliases like youtu.be and I personally would also filter x.com as if you accidentally click it you’ll likely get the you need an account to view this nonsense

Might be worth shot thanks

There’s an up to date list here - my specific problem were Lloyds group ones as mentioned on that page.

The parking app is paybyphone which I’ve only used a handful of times. Ringo which I normally have to use seems to work fine.

I’ve been transitioning over the last week or so, on a new 8 pro,which is the same dimensions as the 4.5 year old Samsung it replaced.

So far, I have two banking apps from the same UK provider that don’t work due to them checking the same flags as Google Pay (12 other banking apps I have work fine), one parking payment app that doesn’t work and I’ve been told uber has started to be glitchy with their latest update.

The work around for all of those (apart from Google Pay) is use them via the web browser where they are fine.

Do you use docker for anything else self hosted? You should give it a try. I literally had not heard of grocy till I read your post but I self host other things with docker. I googled them, visited their github looked at their docker instructions - theirs downloading a docker compose file and lsio’s which gave a run option rather than compose.

I pulled up an ssh to my server from my phone and literally entered the run command from here just modified to have my preferred storage path.

docker run -d \
  --name=grocy \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -p 9283:80 \
  -v ~/.config/grocy:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/grocy:latest```

I then opened my browser to http://ip:9283 and was prompted with a username and password. I googled and found out the default is admin/admin. I now have grocy temporarily running on my server. If I want to run it permanently I'd include it in my existing docker-compose stack or create a new one with just it in it. 

I understand it's frustrating and you may not want to use grocy after all and someone might have a good alternative, but getting to terms with docker will make your self hosting life much easier - it took me longer to type this post than it took me to get grocy up and running with docker.

You should have a look for capture the flags for penetration testing.

TryHackMe currently has a free Christmas program which has a beginner focus and outside of that they have a mix of free and paid for content (don’t be tricked into feeling you need to pay if you just want the free content, navigate about a bit)

I’ve done some of the content and CTFs at HackerOne and I have heard of people liking HackTheBox too although I haven’t done anything over there myself.

Hopefully that gives you some inspiration and guidance to get started!