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I'm having some stability issues with a ble device, so what I'm hoping to do is connect my Bluetooth temperature sensor to two ESP32 devices, have both report temperature back to Home Assistant, but only have the newer of those two values be displayed.

I can't seem to find any examples that show anything like this. I have two entities. I want to get the last_updated value of each, and then set the state of the last updated entity.

I am at my wits end trying to get my MQTT-Bridge working between HA and my SmartThings hub. I see the MQTT-Bridge connect to my MQTT server, but I never see anything check in to the bridge from SmartThings.

At first, I was running HA in a VM, so I wondered if the MAC address wasn't registering for some reason, so I switched to a Raspberry Pi. Same issue. So, I installed Raspbian on my Pi and ran HA in Docker.

I've gone over and over this document to no avail. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/09/Smarter-Smart-Things-with-MQTT-and-Home-Assistant/

Any advise?

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Has anyone ever tried to repurpose a DL180 G6 to use as a DAS? I'm wondering if there is an easy way to power the backplane and fans while running the SAS expander to an external connection. I'd like to do something like this. The reason I'm interested in doing this is that I don't need the power consumption of the server, just the backplane.

I've been looking at No Man's Sky. The initial reviews of course were terrible, but it seems that was just due to all the hype. I'd really like to give it a chance.

The problem I'm finding though is that the game is still $60. Are there any coupon codes I can use to get this down to a reasonable price?

Does anybody know a good source of EqualLogic firmware? I have a PS6100 on 6.0.10 and a PS6000 that's only on 5.0.7. The firmwares are incompatible, so I can't add them to the same group. It looks like I need at least a 5.2 upgrade, maybe a 5.1 before I can run the 6.0.10 upgrade.

I know it's relatively inexpensive to upgrade to 10Gbps, but I have an opportunity to get a Cisco MDS 9124 switch for less than $50 with some SFP adapters. I'm seeing PCI-E cards for less than $10 on ebay.

Does this sound crazy? I'm assuming all I need are the SFP adapters, LC-LC fiber, and a PCI-E adapter, right?

It's not quite 10Gbps, but for a switch that has at minimum 8 ports unlocked, this sounds much more affordable right now.

I'm having difficulty finding a rail kit for my T710. Googling around, I'm finding that GW588 and FU436 are the kits compatible with the T710, but I can't even find those on ebay. I realize that the T710 was nowhere near as popular as the R710, but I figure I should be able to find one somewhere.

Anybody know where I can pick up a compatible kit?

Can anyone tell me if the LSI 9286CV-8e can be flashed to IT Mode? Most everything I can find says no, but then I find stuff like this that seems to indicate that it is possible. I'm interested in trying out ZFS, but I'm not going to even attempt that unless I find out for sure if it really is possible to do JBOD on this controller.

What would be a good price for a barebones R710 2.5" Gen 2? I have an offer on ebay right now for $55 + $40 shipping. That sounds reasonable to me.

I currently have an R710 Gen 1 3.5" running Proxmox, and I'm looking to add a second server to my lab. I'm thinking of getting one of these barebones machines, putting in a couple of hex core CPUs and some SSDs