Chat of Things

Aurora0001

11:22

@BenceKaulics indeed, about 150 rep more now!

Mahendra Gunawardena

11:33

How to add parental control to echo dot? Is this an appropriate question for this forum? echo dot is an IOT device, not too sure parental control is an topic. Thoughts??

Aurora0001

@MahendraGunawardena Definitely on-topic in my opinion

It seems like technical questions about devices like that are fine here

Just like these:

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Q: How do I stop an Amazon Echo from making a sound after restarting?

When booting, the Amazon Echo plays a sound and says 'hello', which is usually not a problem, but I'm concerned that if I have a power failure in the night, the Echo might reboot and play a loud sound, waking me up. One user seems to have experienced a similar problem on the Amazon forum: [O...

amazon-echo

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Q: What voice commands for Hue lamps does Amazon Echo offer?

I'm thinking about getting some Philips Hue lighting equipment. Something along the lines of this one as a starter kit. I already have an Echo Dot. The marketing buzz is great and both the Hue products highlight that they work with Amazon Echo and the Echo site state that they work with the Hue p...

amazon-echo philips-hue

So I say go ahead and post it @MahendraGunawardena, should be a great question!

Mahendra Gunawardena

@Aurora0001, OK I will compose the question

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Aurora0001

14:12

Does anyone think that client doesn't work well as a tag?

I can't write a very good tag wiki for it so I think it might not be a good tag at all

Bence Kaulics

16:03

What is the matter with server?

Helmar

16:24

I'm not very happy with those two tags either.

Aurora0001

16:49

Just seems like client and server don't really describe anything

Tags for things like amazon-echo are useful because people might be searching for Echo-related questions

I doubt anyone searches for client

Helmar

@Aurora0001 I agree in general.

At least for the client

For the server there might be a use, however, we don't have that many IoT server/service questions yet

Most are from a using/end device perspective

Aurora0001

No, I see your point there

We could always just burn client and leave server as it is for now

Tag creation will go up to 150 rep soon anyway

Helmar

@BenceKaulics, what do you think? You created both.

Aurora0001

Also, I wish @Helmar's tag wiki blueprint could be kept in some sort of FAQ so I didn't have to keep digging to find it

Also, 20 rep until I get tag wiki edit privileges!

Aurora0001

17:24

I do love it when you flag a comment and the system deletes it instantly

It's somehow quite satisfying

Aurora0001

18:43

Hooray! I'm now a "trusted user"

Until we graduate to public beta

Bence Kaulics

@Aurora0001 Grats 2k.

Aurora0001

Thanks!

Next target: 2.5k for the analytics access

Bence Kaulics

@Helmar The question is: Shall we have tag level indications of server and client or it is enough if it is mentioned in the question body? Probably it does not make much difference. For example an MQTT expert will answer a question of both and will subscribe to the mqtt tag. Clients and servers can vary by protocols and technologies so there wont be client or server experts, there wont be subscribers.

We can delete them I think. They were early tags from me. I reconsidered.

I use tags to have the relevant questions highlighted in the feed and subscribe and get emails of new question with that tag. I would not subscribe to client or server or make them favourite as they are too broad.

Aurora0001

Sounds like a good plan to me @BenceKaulics

Bence Kaulics

18:59

20 suggested review today. No more for 5 hours.

Aurora0001

It's alright, they're only my tag wiki edits

I can now insta-approve anything ;)

Bence Kaulics

Then I redirect my energy to the Sir Ask-A-Lot it is pretty close now.

Aurora0001

That's good - more questions are always good!

Also, I think I got about 40 rep today just from tag wiki edits

Bence Kaulics

Yep. And 3 still pending?

Or more.

Still have 6 notificqtions.

Aurora0001

3 pending I think

The counter shows as 3 for me

5 pending actually

Ghanima

20:38

howdy

how are you kids doing?

Aurora0001

Hi @Ghanima

His Madnificence now has 'trusted user' privileges

Which are, admittedly, only useful in certain cases

Ghanima

yeah!

Aurora0001

And I'll also lose the privileges in about a week

Oh well

Ghanima

we'll see about that

I mean, you know, they might come to the conclusion that you are worthy

Aurora0001

Might is the key word there

Might not too :P

Ghanima

20:49

we'll see ;)

Aurora0001

You have the possible advantage of prior mod experience though

Which I'm sure would be helpful to the other pro tems

Ghanima

it's probably my only ace in the sleeve

Aurora0001

Plus the highest combined SE rep

Ghanima

they're not into network flair I guess but more into domain knowledge

which is where you and helmar rank highest

Aurora0001

Well, in fairness, I have no real IoT experience

Just a decent amount of programming experience which carries over nicely

Ghanima

20:53

but you try hard to provide Qs and As

Aurora0001

That's true

I do wonder if they might pick @anonymous2 though because of the timezones

Ghanima

uhm sorry try hard could be read differently than what I was going for ;)

Aurora0001

@Ghanima but you still leave the mystery about which meaning you intended ;)

Ghanima

to be very honest, I have no hard feelings if the do not pick me, I am willing to contribute in the role of a pro tem and I will be happy if the chose me but I'll take it with a certain degree of sportmanship if the (for whatever reasons) pick you ;)

@Aurora0001 try hard and do well

Aurora0001

@Ghanima likewise, I wouldn't be at all upset if you were picked

Anyway, it wouldn't be terrible for me since I have enough rep to keep the important powers :P

And I'll keep promoting either way

Ghanima

20:58

yep, that is certainly an important thing

to have at least a few of active high rep users that process the review queues

Aurora0001

I hardly get chance though! By the time I get on, everyone else has already reviewed everything

Ghanima

but it will be more important during open beta

Aurora0001

Yeah, I've noticed some reviewers don't really participate other than that

Especially in the Close Votes queue

Ghanima

I'll never get that hat on RPi, they just don't vote over there

Aurora0001

I'll take a look round and vote on stuff (not just yours, of course!)

You could really do with a few more editors couldn't you?

Ghanima

21:01

of course

@Aurora0001 at RPi?

Aurora0001

Yeah

Ghanima

we could use more users on the high rep queues, like close and re-open

Aurora0001

Well, I can't help you with that - is it 3k there because it's graduated?

Ghanima

the thing as a mod is that you do not want to hammer things down with your single vote but instead encourage community votes

yeah, it's quite high

Aurora0001

@Ghanima indeed, that'd be my worry if I did become a pro tem

Honestly it would make more sense to scale privileges differently based on site activity

Ghanima

21:04

@Aurora0001 certainly

Aurora0001

Getting 3k at RPi will be much harder than 3k at SO

Ghanima

it was quite the change for after graduation... but not for long

Aurora0001

And it took me about 3 months to get 3k on SO

The Community user is also bumping loads of stuff @Ghanima

on RPi

Probably because no-one votes on answers

Ghanima

@Aurora0001 yeah, community is pretty active

Aurora0001

If only people would upvote answers so it didn't keep bumping

Ghanima

21:08

it generates "activity" as there are somedays only a few questions

Aurora0001

On the topic of questions, Area 51 now says we're at 2.8/day

And I now own over 20% of all questions :P

The Community Ads seem to have been completely useless so far too

Ghanima

I think that many users don't see them

Aurora0001

Yeah

2 clicks here: meta.electronics.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5576

Maybe we need more distinctive ads to attract people

The area 51 ads aren't exactly compelling

The other stats are pretty good though

95% answered

1.6 answer ratio

Visits/day are stable which is really good

Ghanima

answer ratio could be a little higher

but it's not SO

Aurora0001

Well, it's within the acceptable range

Less than 1 'needs work'

2.5 is 'good'

Ghanima

21:19

less than 1 ;)

Aurora0001

Well, you have to factor in the terrible answers that some people contribute, which are of course 10% of an answer

Therefore making the average answer ratio 0.9-ish

Ghanima

I guess they don't factor that in at area51 stats

Aurora0001

Time for AuroraStats then :P

We've had AuroraHats, and AuroraQuestions

Ghanima

I was afraid of that

Aurora0001

Why be afraid? Everything that starts with an Aurora- is great!

Apart from the slight discrepancy that I'm in the lead for AuroraHats

Definitely not by design

Ghanima

21:23

definitely not

nobody would even dare to suggest that

Aurora0001

AuroraHats End Date: January 3rd, 18:00 GMT

I could just leave it running forever to be fair

But all good things must come to an end, so I'll get rid of them on that date.

Ghanima

jupp

Aurora0001

Did you just repin that?

Or am I going mad?

Ghanima

I really need to write just two more funny comments here to earn yet another fancy AuroraHat

no, I did not pin a thing

do I have to change my name to when getting the "black hole" hat?

Aurora0001

I didn't (but I probably should have done!)

I recommend it

Since the pinning won't work:

"Please note that with the anticipated slowdown in traffic during the end-of-year holidays, we will not be evaluating this site for public launch until after the new year. – Robert Cartaino♦"

Ghanima

21:36

@Aurora0001 ... and don't any of you take it as an excuse to not contribute high quality content to the site

Aurora0001

Quite the opposite for me: 1 question per day (at least), no exceptions

Also @Ghanima your hat is on its way

Anyway, I have to go now - bye!

Ghanima

yeah, me too

see you

Henry WH Hack v2.0

23:40

Henry WH Hack v2.0

23:57

@anonymous2 Hi! :)

anonymous2

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Hi!

Henry WH Hack v2.0

What are you up to?

anonymous2

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Celebrating Christmas: visiting Grandpa & Grandmas, etc... :)

Henry WH Hack v2.0

:)

anonymous2

And trying out my new SSD.

:))))

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Yourself?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

23:59

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