RPi Digital Signage is really good. Binaryemotions.com. it’s built thoughtfully for a bunch of different situations. The kiosk mode paired with some sort of start page would work.

If you have a Google account you can setup webhooks to a chat space. That’s the best way if it supports it. If you continue to have this problem with email only you could setup n8n to receive notifications via other methods and forward them to a webhook.

The Ikea stuff works fine. When it comes to smart plugs, The IKEA switches make a louder solenoid “chonk” sound when they turn on. Xiaomi plugs are quieter and the smallest I’ve seen. Means you are more likely to fit something next to it. They are a little bit more expensive but I think worth it.

Looks a little pricey but probably would work fine. I bought my first zstack based Texas for $25. Worked fine for a couple of years till I realized it had a limit on how many devices it could handle. so I upgraded it to the next model up for another $25. That’s when I found out if you change methods you have to re adopt everything. But if I kept it on the same method (zstack Texas zha) all I did was swap the dongle and everything kept rolling just with a higher limit of devices.

If you VPS it, remember to add a snapshot backup. Such as $5 vultr VPS always add the $2 snapshot backup option.

You can connect a headscale derp server to a tailscale environment.

Instructions unclear, now my NAS’s voice is squeaky.

1. Entropy is a law of our universe. All data wants to be lost given a long enough timeline and without attention.

2. Divide your data into what you can’t do without and what you may not care about losing.

3. Take a backup out of your hands, make it as automatic as possible.

4. I sync to encrypted folders on Google drive then use msp360 cloud to automatically copy everything in that drive to another cheap cloud storage that is client side encrypted.

For the protection it gives me, it’s cheap.

This post doesn’t benefit me at all but I love how long it is.

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HD Clone X cloner Or MSP360 (Cloud Berry) Standalone Backup

Both cost money but not a lot and are very reliable.

Local Send. I got it from Techno Tim recommends.

I’ve used “getdataback” many times by Runtime software and it has worked the best for me over others I’ve tried.