Problem Displaying live video feed from the Dahua camera / NVR in a home assistant dashboard. Using the Dahua integration and the WebRTC card (custom:webrtc-camera). The video is delayed or freezes, the “MSE mode” label is displayed in the corner.
Problem When python-miio (0.5.4) is used to query status of a Xiaomi Air Purifier 3 (zhimi.airpurifier.mb3) the AQI returned by the library may appear constant and differ from the AQI displayed on the device.
Short Version If your Akka-based application is using too much memory and your heap dump indicates that LightArrayRevolverScheduler is retaining a lot of heap, the reason may be that the code is calling system.scheduler.scheduleOnce(...) with an argument that references a lot of other objects.
My wife has recently bought a 13,3” Dell Inspiron 5370 laptop with Windows 10. We had some issues with it that turned out to be caused by the preinstalled SmartByte software.
I finally got round to learning how to create a browser extension. The idea for my first project was very simple: an extension that changes browser theme when particular URLs are open in the active tab. I thought that could be useful to, for example, make browser window red when programmer visits a production environment instead of a test environment.
Even though I’ve been programming in Java for a few years, there are still cases when its syntax surprises me. Let me share a few examples that I thought would not compile when I first saw them, but they did.
A few months ago I decided to give Signal a try as I loved the idea of end-to-end encrypted communication where servers are not able to see my messages. There were parts I really liked about Signal. The UI is quite simple and the app seems to be lightweight (especially in contrast to Facebook Messenger). I used it a lot and most of the time it worked quite well. Unfortunately, recently I felt that…
Hibernate maps String fields to varchar(255) database columns by default. Sometimes it’s just OK, sometimes it can be tailored by changing the column length to a larger value. Unfortunately, sometimes the length of a user input shouldn’t be limited at all. That was the scope of the ticket I needed to resolve – to allow using the text of unlimited length in some specific fields.