Home Improvement

  I've scraped and painted all the exterior wall surface I can reach on foot or using a 13ft ladder. Years ago, I got climbing ropes, carabiners, webbing, etc. gear for working off the ground. I bought a couple of eye-bolts and placed one on each end of the house at the apex. I can suspend from these bolts with the rope. I learned some time ago how to fashion a climbing harness from webbing. This webbibg harness used with carabiners and the rope climb gear allow me to climb up a rope, or down, without slipping. Two large carabiners, not intended for high loads, are used as rope climbing handles. Rope can be wound around one three times, or so, increase the friction of the rope, making the climb safer. The single bolt makes a one-point contact. A two point-contact using a second bolt may make the West end easier to work. The two bolts would be placed on the same level and lower than the apex. Think ellipse with two pencils and a loop of string. A couple of holes drilled in my scrape...

  I replaced Debian 12 Bookworm with Debian 13 Trixie. Prior to that, I had major issues installing HA. With the new install, I added Docker and the HA Docker container without problems.  There were a couple of issues iin HA once I gto it running and installing devices. The bluetooth module integration needed permissions. I searched GoogleAI and made a few changes. The Matter integration failed since the Matter Server container was not installed. Again, I queried GoogleAI and made changes, installed the Matter container. Home Assistant is running on my RPi4/Trixie. Initially I used HAOS on a second RPi4 but decided that was a waste of energy and resources. I then tried the Python installation but had major issues with age incompatible resources.