In File Explorer, in left sidebar, right click on ‘This PC’ and select ‘Add a network location’. This brings up a wizard - press next twice and you’ll get to a page where you have a box to specify the location. Type the following to add your Pictures share for example but use your local nas address obviously:
\\192.168.0.60\Pictures
Repeat as required for any other shares you want to access.
Each user has one name, which works on multiple boxes. Microsoft family is actually quite good then, although it doesn’t play very well with Xbox Game Pass, which is kinda annoying.
But I agree on Samba, it’s not great in Linux and worse in Windows. NFS seems to work much better, time will tell how annoyed I get with it!
Accomplished some delightful nerdery today that Michael Spicer would be proud of.
Found a way to integrate my energy tariff, home battery and car charging using Home Assistant and an MQTT broker called Giv_TCP (no me neither) which basically allows me local control of my solar/battery invertor.
My tariff is Intelligent Octopus, which has fixed off-peak times plus potential additional off-peak times if Octopus decides charging outside these times is lower carbon intensity/cheaper for them.
Unlike Agile, where rates are set nationally each day, Intelligent effectively gives you a personalised custom energy tariff. You set a % charge you want for the car and time you want it for, then their algorithm works it all out and controls the charging via the Tesla API turning charging on and off in that window you specify.
All well and good, but during those extra off peak hours, if my home battery is charged up, then the car charge pulls from the grid and the home battery, leaving less available for general home use during the day. Inefficient!
Home Assistant is a highly customisable IoT and home automation portal. I have a configuration that pulls my Octopus API - which contains my daily off peak slots as decided by the algorithm. This then triggers a couple of API calls to my battery to pause and resume battery discharging during the same times as the Intelligent Octopus slots.