Home Assistant Restart Issues

September 26th, 2023

I have struggled with Home Assistant restarts for quite some time.  One of the issues I see is that MQTT switches show lightning bolts until they are power cycled.  Here are some links to address that issue:

Sliders revert back to lightning bolts after Restart
Fix Random Switching in Tasmota by Adjusting Retain Settings
End random “ghost switching” for good by fixing your retain settings in tasmota and home assistant

No-Sag Gate Builds

September 26th, 2023

Tower Pi

September 25th, 2023

Loading UltraMap (Programmable Joystick Map) from LaunchBox on Z-Cade

August 28th, 2023

Navigate to: Edit Metadata -> Additional Apps

Add an app with the following information:

Application Name: UltraMap
Application Path: D:\Program Files (x86)\UltraMap\UltraMap.exe
Application Command-Line Parameters: D:\misc\4-way.ugc
Automatically Run Before Main Application: checked

Either:

1. Start the game, go to MAME settings and add the joystick (Joy2 at the time of this writing)

or

2. Copy the following section to the game config file (D:\Emulators\MAME\cfg\*.cfg)

<input>
<port tab=":IN0" type="P1_JOYSTICK_UP" mask="1" defvalue="0">
<newseq type="standard">
KEYCODE_UP OR JOYCODE_1_XAXIS_UP_SWITCH OR JOYCODE_2_XAXIS_UP_SWITCH
</newseq>
</port>
<port tag=":IN0" type="P1_JOYSTICK_RIGHT" mask="1" defvalue="0">
<newseq type="standard">
KEYCODE_RIGHT OR JOYCODE_1_XAXIS_RIGHT_SWITCH OR JOYCODE_2_XAXIS_RIGHT_SWITCH
</newseq>
</port>
<port tag=":IN0" type="P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT" mask="2" defvalue="0">
<newseq type="standard">
KEYCODE_LEFT OR JOYCODE_1_XAXIS_LEFT_SWITCH OR JOYCODE_2_XAXIS_LEFT_SWITCH
</newseq>
</port>
<port tag=":IN0" type="P1_JOYSTICK_DOWN" mask="8" defvalue="0">
<newseq type="standard">
KEYCODE_DOWN OR JOYCODE_1_YAXIS_DOWN_SWITCH OR JOYCODE_2_YAXIS_DOWN_SWITCH
</newseq>
</port>
</input>

Predator 3500 Generator Information

June 8th, 2023