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I have some motorized blinds in my home.  Zigbee AM43 is the type.  Occasionally, I need to reset the upper/lower limits.  The manual is located at: R:\Manuals\Household\Home Automation and the process is:

Upper Limit Setting:
Hit the setting button for 3 seconds - Indicator turns red
Press the Up button - Red indicator flashes quickly
Move the blind to the desired position
Hit the setting button for 3 seconds - Blue indicator flashes 3 times

Lower Limit Setting:

Hit the setting button for 3 seconds - Indicator turns red
Press the Down button - Red indicator flashes quickly
Move the blind to the desired position
Hit the setting button for 3 seconds - Blue indicator flashes 3 times

Wi-Fi Scanning and Bluetooth Scanning.  Turning these off don't change the ability to find and connect to known networks/bluetooth - it just impacts location services.

Spiders love to build webs in front of our security cameras - if I clean them, they often will start rebuilding almost immediately.  I ran across a recipe for a DIY peppermint oil based repellant, tweaked it with AI and am going to give it a try.  Here is the modified recipe as well as the link to the original video.

I've run into a scenario where Outlook PST files are being placed in a read only mode.  This is not ideal for managing email and keeping it for historical purposes.  

In the following keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\PST
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\PST
Setting the PSTDisableGrow to 0 will allow writing and setting it to 1 will disable writing.  

Unfortunately, these registry entries require admin to modify.

Use a policy to control PST files in Outlook
If I am not an administrator but I want to read the registry, what is easiest way to do it?

Someone built an app for Unraid on Android and iOS.  I've not been able to get it to connect to my Unraid instances yet but it does look promising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1p1ejpd/built_a_native_unraid_mobile_client_for_ios/
https://github.com/shreyaspapi/parity/releases/tag/v1.0.2
https://github.com/shreyaspapi/parity/issues