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|discussion|tags| | <p>I want to provide some basic reminders regarding tags. As many of you will know from the other SE sites you participate in, tags are not on the top of the pile functionality wise in the SE sites. However if we keep it a sensible taxonomy from the start we have a good chance to make it better.</p>
<p>Let me start ou... | <p>In some other SE's I frequent, a good rule of thumb when referencing a language-specific tool is to drop the <code>.py</code> and <code>.js</code> where they aren't necessary. Also making proper use of hyphens (<code>-</code>) will save a lot of formatting headaches down the line.</p>
<p>Particularly for IoT builde... | 43 | 2016-12-06T22:23:33.217 | Keeping tags clean from the start |
|discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smartthings" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'smartthings'" rel="tag">smartthings</a> has been created and I get an annoying warning when trying to change it to <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smart-things" class="p... | <p><a href="http://www.smartthings.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SmartThings</a> is a proper noun, not a concept. It's spelled as a single word.</p>
<p>As the brand is getting confused with the concept, I've suggested an edit to change the tag to <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/samsung-smartt... | 44 | 2016-12-06T23:31:14.953 | Smart-Things vs Smartthings |
|discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p>Finally we've got a chance to have a site for this long-standing out of scope topic! Thanks guys!</p>
<p>I would like to propose the creation of a "philips-hue" tag. While it's a very specific vendor-related tag, there are many Hug devices in the world, so probably many visitors will benefit from it.</p>
| <p>The only way to create a tag is to apply it to a question, either when initially posting the question or by editing the question. Tags are not created preemptively, and conversely tags are deleted automatically (after a small delay) if they are removed from every question.</p>
<p>So if you think that a question sho... | 50 | 2016-12-07T07:00:24.163 | I would like to propose a tag for Philips Hue |
|discussion|tags| | <p>While wireless and Wi-Fi do not mean the same (one could reasonably consider wireless as a hypernym of Wi-Fi), they are often used as synonyms. This poses a certain problem for our emerging taxonomy.</p>
<p>Either we edit posts tagged with either with prejudice and make sure the tag <a href="https://iot.stackexchan... | <p>WiFi is basically a technology for Wireless LAN based 802.11 standards so it is a subset of wireless.</p>
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<p>Either we edit posts tagged with either with prejudice and make sure
the tag wifi is only used for 802.11 related questions</p>
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<p>If the user tags a question with <a href="ht... | 55 | 2016-12-07T08:49:23.603 | Wi-Fi vs. Wireless Tags |
|discussion|tags| | <p>So there is this initiative about <a href="https://iot.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43/keeping-tags-clean-from-the-start">Keeping tags clean from start</a>. I think this includes adding tag descriptions and excerpts as soon as possible. There will be tags, there are tags which are already presented on other SE s... | <p>There are two aspects to consider when copying from other tag wikis. </p>
<p>Firstly, attribution. While SE operates generally on a license that allows copying its contents it does require attribution. So for a verbatim copy of another person's work you'll need some basic attribution to the source.</p>
<p>Secondly... | 57 | 2016-12-07T09:58:04.703 | When is it acceptable to copy edit a tag wiki excerpt and description from other SE site? |
|discussion|site-scope|vote-to-close| | <p>We already have post regarding regular votes (<a href="https://iot.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/vote-early-vote-often-seriously">Vote Early, Vote Often (Seriously)</a>), but I want to cast a special light on close votes. Private beta is about making the scope of the site more clear. Thus, trying to close quest... | <p>It seem important at this stage to differentiate between down-voting an on-topic but poorly researched question, and voting to close. I tend to vote <code>unclear</code> maybe too frequently on other sites - I think we need to make special effort here, this week, to rescue weak questions (which means more comments o... | 58 | 2016-12-07T10:16:01.780 | You have the power. Use your close votes! |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>A few recent questions have asked about how a specific IoT device should be constructed, like so:</p>
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<p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/32/how-could-i-create-an-lpg-indicator">How could I create an LPG indicator?</a></p>
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<p>It's almost certain that these questions wil... | <p>I disagree with this approach. If I understand your proposal correctly, it sounds like questions which are initially off-topic (how do I build...?) can become on-topic by actually building them, identifying specific issues, and then reposting. That sounds like moving from <em>too broad</em> to answerable, rather tha... | 69 | 2016-12-07T15:33:53.620 | Are "how do I build X?" questions on-topic? |
|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms| | <p>We currently have the tags <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/protocol" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'protocol'" rel="tag">protocol</a> and <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beacon" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'beacon'" rel... | <p>I agree with this, primarily because the alternative of singularising tags such as <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standards" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'standards'" rel="tag">standards</a> would look totally ungrammatical (<a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/que... | 74 | 2016-12-07T22:43:25.327 | Should these tags be plural? |
|discussion|tags| | <p>Since it seems to be <em>tag review season</em> (judging by the amount of recent meta threads!), I think we need to consider whether <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/edge-device" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'edge-device'" rel="tag">edge-device</a> is appropriate for t... | <p>I'm sure we will have a need for this tag in the future, but it probably makes sense to wait till we have questions which focus specifically on the characteristics of the edge device, rather than nodes which fit in the network at this position. I'd say that would be <em>concentrator</em> or <em>cache</em> types of f... | 150 | 2016-12-22T13:06:54.623 | Where is the edge of [edge-device]? |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>Strongly related <a href="https://iot.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/on-topicness-of-embedded-programming-questions">discussion</a>. We should widen this site-scope discussion to handle all possibly emerging programming questions not just the embedded aspect.</p>
<p>We certainly will have questions about the ... | <p>I have no problem with that as long as there is a certain connectivity/IoT aspect to the use case. There might even be some APIs like the ones you list that should be generally on-topic.</p>
<p>The really generic programming stuff without IoT connection, embeddedness or the like belongs on Stack Overflow.</p>
| 186 | 2017-01-06T10:18:09.970 | On-Topicness of programming questions in general |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>There have been several questions about web services and applications recently, and some have received close votes, so I think it'd be helpful to discuss whether these questions <strong>are</strong> on-topic for the site.</p>
<p>Some examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/665/wh... | <p>This is a poorly stated question, as it imagines a category of "web services" that is entirely orthogonal to anything which matters for fitting into this this site - and groups three entirely distinct things for common attention, which they are simply too different to receive.</p>
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<li><p>Rather obviously the g... | 188 | 2017-01-07T10:12:11.510 | Are questions about web services on-topic? |
|discussion| | <p>Now all joking aside and still being new to all of this, what is beta a version of <em>Internet</em> of things? Or is beta a mix of different meanings?</p>
<p>I am assuming we had an alpha stage right?</p>
| <p><sup><em>This is largely extracurricular to the answers already posted, but this is important to provide a bit of context…</em></sup></p>
<p><strong>This site is essentially "done" — released.</strong> This is a a fully functional, launched site. It is <em>not</em> "in beta" as you've come to understand it t... | 200 | 2017-01-10T16:31:51.157 | When do we finally progress "Internet of Things" from beta to released? |
|discussion|migration| | <p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/764/could-a-blockchain-really-prevent-malware-in-the-internet-of-things">This question</a> belongs on the <a href="https://security.stackexchange.com/">Security Stack Exchange.</a></p>
<p>When I voted to close it as belonging to another site, the only option I had wa... | <p>To me, this question is clearly on topic. Maybe the answers are a bit generic, but blockchain has been proposed as relevant to IoT, and that seems relevant (regardless of the answer and how much the primary discussion which supported the question was clickbait). Security is the big IoT issue...</p>
| 211 | 2017-01-13T09:50:16.047 | This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network |
|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms| | <p>The tag <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emqttd" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'emqttd'" rel="tag">emqttd</a> was created lately. Since the project adopted the short name of <code>EMQ</code> a <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emq" class="post-tag"... | <p>I propose we just burninate <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emqttd" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'emqttd'" rel="tag">emqttd</a> and change all the uses of that tag to <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emq" class="post-tag" title="show questions t... | 219 | 2017-01-13T21:11:24.323 | Tag review: emqtt and emq |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>In Area51, while I was browsing, I saw 'Internet of Things' and joined this community. The description was:</p>
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<p>Beta Q&A site for everyday objects embedded with electronics to be sensed, monitored, and controlled remotely.</p>
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<p>But I can't understand the subject to be discusse... | <p><strong>Internet of Things</strong> is not a specific technology, or dependant on any specific technology. Rather it is a stage in the evolution of connected devices, enabled by the availability of two things: cheap endpoint compute, and cheap ubiquitous connectivity. We have progressed from telegram, telegraph and ... | 237 | 2017-01-27T05:19:08.113 | What is IoT (Internet of Things)? |
|discussion|status-completed|new-users|help-center| | <p>The Help Center has a section about on-topic questions for this site, called '<em><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">What topics can I ask about here?</a></em>'. At the minute, it's essentially blank, being filled with only boilerplate information:</p>
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<p>Please look around to see if ... | <p>This draft is fine. We've been discussing it on a chat event and another meta post. I don't see how waiting a little longer will benefit is at all. If we discover that changes need to be made to the text later on, we can always discuss it over again and have our mods change it.</p>
<p>For now: upload it.</p>
| 254 | 2017-02-09T20:00:43.163 | Improving the guidance in the Help Center for new users |
|discussion|close-reasons| | <p>On Robotics.SE they have the following option in the <strong>Close --> Off-Topic</strong> list.</p>
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<p><strong>Life Questions</strong> are off-topic. Questions about choosing how to spend your time (what book to read, which class to take, what robotics project to construct, what career to pursue, etc... | <p>I think it's too early to add is as a close reason. We've got only three and we should make them count. So for the time being let's go with your option one and add it to the help center if we get a few more applicable questions.</p>
<p>For the time being can use comments and too broad / primarily opinion based to h... | 260 | 2017-02-23T18:05:01.247 | Discussing if we should borrow a "Closing question as Off-Topic reason" |
|discussion|tags| | <p>The <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smart-home" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'smart-home'" rel="tag">smart-home</a> tag is by far the biggest on the site, with 62 questions (about 19% of all questions) tagged with it.</p>
<p>However, as pointed out by dsample in <a h... | <blockquote>
<p>synonymising <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/home-automation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'home-automation'" rel="tag">home-automation</a> with <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smart-home" class="post-tag" title="show questions tag... | 269 | 2017-03-22T15:38:30.747 | Is [smart-home] too broad? |
|discussion|moderation| | <p>I'm new to the IoT field and want to know about IoT. For some of the questions I need clear explanations which I don't get by google search. I'm a little afraid of down votes. Is it ok to ask very basic questions here?</p>
| <p>Basic questions are best if you can add enough detail in your post to show that you have done <em>some</em> research. This will also make it easier for people answering your question to pitch their answer at roughly the right level. There is a difference between a badly asked question, and a very basic question.</p>... | 271 | 2017-04-08T16:30:06.690 | Afraid to ask very basic questions |
|feature-request|status-completed| | <p>We've had quite a few questions involving code on the site now:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/1387/recapture-reset-the-first-frame-every-n-second">Recapture/reset the first frame from a motion detector every N seconds</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/ques... | <p>I have edited our posts so far to enable the fitting code syntax highlighting. It seems like we don't have a real conclusive tag which we could set to a definitive language. If there is a more clear correlation in the future just shoot a notice to the mod team and we will set the proper default for the tag.</p>
| 274 | 2017-04-20T15:20:11.290 | Enable syntax highlighting for code blocks |
|bug|status-bydesign|badges| | <p>In my <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/users/1800/mico?tab=topactivity">profile</a> I have to follow smartHome badge instead of for example networking badge, which is my top tag.</p>
<p>The selector does not give any other option, it has only that one value.</p>
<p>What is wrong?</p>
| <p>It is said <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/335754/select-next-badge-tag-badge-not-showing">on meta stackoverflow</a>, that tag must have at least 100 questions before a badge is able to be earned.</p>
<p>It appears that this site is such a young one that only smartHome (and maybe some few others I... | 362 | 2018-03-09T08:25:06.610 | Cannot select what ever tag for "Next tag badge" selector |
|discussion| | <p>If not, then how can word it? If not possible to be on topic here, then where?</p>
<p>Tl;dr - how can I detect the presence of a Xiaomi Mi Band 3?</p>
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<p>The full story:</p>
<p>As you can see from <a href="https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/10368/wearable-wifi-with-long-battery-life-12-hours">... | <p>The question would be better with more generic phrasing, I think - as it stands, the reader is lead mistakenly to the specific brand/device.</p>
<p>Asking how to monitor a population of bluetooth devices (in any of the various possible states) seems perfectly in scope, and also brings in the meta/derrived sensing a... | 377 | 2019-01-06T09:55:47.067 | Is device detection on-topic? |
|discussion| | <p>I am looking for a board, and think that I need someone to say that they have used it, rather than googling for it, and can confirm that it does what I want.</p>
<p>I would like to program in Ada, so the STM32 looks ideal (I am also aware that the BBC micro:bit has good Ada support, but ...) I would like a board wi... | <p>You can ask 'does PIO support all Cortex-M, or only specific devices'. That wouldn't be an IoT question, and I'm not sure who would answer, other than the developer. This answer does seem to be 'yes' though.</p>
<p>Overall, I think these sorts of selection questions are best asked by identifying the selection crite... | 385 | 2019-08-12T07:23:53.517 | Seeking an STM32 - is the question on-topic? |
|discussion|voting| | <p>The following question is pretty obviously (at least to me) unsalvageable, the edit was made to point out how badly written the question was and doesn't improve it at all (apart from to make it even clearer to the OP what was wrong with it).</p>
<p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/3354/bluetooth-low... | <p>I see a 2nd question (not a clear case for deletion, but still in need of work) is gaining re-open votes after a minor edit. As per the suggestion above, I flagged it.</p>
| 369 | 2018-09-06T08:18:20.437 | Reopen vote on question that should be deleted |
|feature-request|status-deferred| | <p>When looking at accounts on my profile, we have a generic logo. Lots of other stacks have cool designs.</p>
<p>Is anyone accepting design concepts for an IoT logo?</p>
| <p>You're absolutely right that many sites have nicer logos - and actually full themes - than we do. The reason is because we are still in beta. As it stands currently, beta sites don't have a full site theme, and all follow the theme mentioned in <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126185/new-stack-exc... | 365 | 2018-04-19T11:35:42.290 | Iot Stack logo addition? |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p><a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/my-thing-connected-to-aws-iot-but-it-does-not-publish-messages">This question</a> is the second by the same author asking for code only help for Amazon Web Services.</p>
<p>Here is my comment :</p>
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<p>As I said in my accepted answer to your previ... | <p>The OP is trying to set up <em>AWS IoT</em>. That should be in scope. Short reason: It's right there in the name.</p>
<p>Also on-topic are any coding questions which have an IoT purpose. Stack Exchange gave us a site <em>to help out people who want to create or use IoT stuff.</em> Something along our definition of ... | 356 | 2018-01-22T07:50:56.187 | Are Pure Coding Questions On-Topic? |
|support| | <p>Is there any way to follow my favorite questions to get notifications (answer, comment) to my messages inbox such as the question I asked?</p>
<p>If there is not, could you add this feature?</p>
| <p>There's currently no way to get notifications for favourite questions (starred questions). You can mark favourite questions like this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lrXem.png" alt="Click star icon"></p>
<p>The <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/users/current/?tab=favorites">'favorites' tab</a> in ... | 352 | 2018-01-13T15:29:37.100 | Can I get notifications for my favorite questions? |
|support|reputation| | <p>For this answer... <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/a/2215/3640">https://iot.stackexchange.com/a/2215/3640</a></p>
<p>Admittedly not a great answer, but why does the Achievements rep shows +6 for this answer but the answer itself shows -1. How can that be?</p>
| <p>Reputation:</p>
<pre><code>One upvote: +10
Two downvotes: -4
Total: +6
</code></pre>
<p>Net vote count: -1</p>
| 332 | 2017-10-19T15:59:05.267 | Why does header show +6 but Answer show -1 |
|support|closed-questions|exact-duplicates| | <p>I noted that the question: <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/1916/remote-access-through-carrier-grade-nat">Remote access through carrier-grade NAT</a></p>
<p>is answered, but not via a answer but via a reference to another answer.</p>
<p>The thing is that it is still marked as "0" answers and status... | <p>That question is <strong>closed</strong> as a duplicate of a different question. There isn't any need to "mark it as answered" in any way, for a couple of reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Users who aren't logged in (and, for example, find that question through search results) <strong>will automatically be redirected</stron... | 328 | 2017-08-22T15:51:28.637 | Closing or mark questions as answered |
|discussion| | <p>Today, when I was looking in the Area 51, I found that the number of questions asked in this site seems to be 1 per day, which it says to be poor.</p>
<p>As I have noticed, SE will has removed sites from beta earlier due to low performance.</p>
<p>I don't mean to pump in low quality questions into the platform, I ... | <p>Activity seems to be kind of level - we get good views, but not so many questions now. As a new field, its not unreasonable that we take time to grow - particularly since there is some overlap with existing sites (different ones depending on the questions). What will help is more <strong>good</strong> questions, mor... | 324 | 2017-08-14T09:14:14.113 | Will we go down with the number of questions each day? |
|discussion| | <p>I don't know if the question belongs here, but I have faced this mostly in this site.</p>
<p>When a question is overly difficult to answer and there is no easy way to tell who is correct, instead of up and down votes or new answers or constructive comments I see two opposite opinions starting to battle under the qu... | <p>First things first. You're in the right place.</p>
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<p>I don't know if the question belongs here, but I have faced this mostly in this site.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>To tell that answer is wrong you can vote down and comment, but if things go arguing, I would go to chat. My first meta post was such case, then... | 316 | 2017-07-22T17:44:54.537 | Correct way and place for arguing |
|discussion|site-scope|answers| | <p>There is a vast discussion around <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/1764/with-a-smartthings-system-what-is-the-result-of-marking-an-alert-as-a-false-ala/1789">this question and its answers</a>, where it is difficult to say who is wrong and right.</p>
<p>The question is about a function in a software,... | <blockquote>
<p>Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better. - <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer">The help center of every... | 304 | 2017-07-12T05:22:03.560 | How to answer question when not much information about the issue is available and you cannot fetch it by yourself? |
|discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p>I do see a <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-cameras">digital-cameras</a> tag that is used to tag questions related to surveillance cameras.</p>
<p>I am proposing a separate <em>surveillance-cameras</em> tag which can be used to tag questions related to surveillance-cameras that have f... | <p>Yes. I agree that this would be useful. Feel free to edit that tag in to any relevant questions (the first use of the tag will create it).</p>
<p>Since surveillance cameras typically have more functionality than a typical camera might, it makes sense to have a specific tag. Having product-related tags may also be w... | 301 | 2017-07-11T06:17:11.890 | Should we have a tag for surveillance cameras? |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>There have over the past several months been many questions about CSR Bluetooth chips posted, all by the same user. Many of these have gone unanswered, and there's no clear relevance to classic IoT goals or issues in any of them. </p>
<p>Additionally, many of the older questions seem to be about Bluetooth Audio -... | <p>No. Generic Bluetooth Questions which do not actually invoke any IoT-specific application are, <strong>off topic</strong> and should be closed unless edited to show a specific relevance of the question actually asked.</p>
<p>This would be in keeping with Wifi and similar generic <em>communication</em> questions wh... | 299 | 2017-07-07T15:19:00.950 | Are Generic Bluetooth Questions on Topic Here? |
|discussion|site-scope|closed-questions| | <p>Referring to comments in question <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/q/976/571">"How can I find Narrow band IoT module or chipset? [on hold]"</a></p>
<p>In the comments it is argued that "it is of an essentially transient value. In other words, the answer cannot remain the same long-term".</p>
<p>Surely you ca... | <p>Sometimes, the stated close reason is a shorthand for saying <em>you don't seem to have put any real thought into reasearching this subject, or maybe you are just really out of your depth</em>. </p>
<p>The trade-off is really in working out how to encourage people to do more work before asking a question. If these ... | 249 | 2017-02-08T19:22:41.077 | Should questions be closed as off-topic because "any answer will be of transient value"? |
|support|badges|voting| | <p>I was fairly intensely running through a bunch of older posts this morning and used up all 40 of my votes. When I try to upvote a question, I see:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QjvtC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QjvtC.png" alt="vote limit error message"></a></p>
<... | <p>You <strong>aren't guaranteed 40 votes per day</strong>, which may seem confusing (and I think it <em>is</em>!), so here are the rules, summarised from <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5212/what-are-the-limits-on-how-i-can-cast-change-and-retract-votes"><em>What are the limits on how I can cast, cha... | 158 | 2016-12-23T16:32:31.043 | Vox Populi Badge not given |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>I saw <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/312/wiring-regulations-for-self-made-electrical-equipment-uk">this question</a> asking about the UK regulations for making your own electrical equipment, and it got me thinking: if someone answers it one way and gets it wrong, and the guy's house burns down or ... | <h2>Liability<sup><sup><sub>1</sub></sup></sup></h2>
<p>According to the bottom of the page of every SE site:</p>
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<p>site design / logo © 2016 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required</p>
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<p>Everything any user posts is cc by-sa 3.0 lic... | 154 | 2016-12-22T19:23:03.973 | Should legal or code questions be off-topic? |
|support|status-completed| | <p>Do we really need an <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unmanned-aerial-vehicle" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'unmanned-aerial-vehicle'" rel="tag">unmanned-aerial-vehicle</a> and a <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drones" class="post-tag" title="sh... | <p>I have <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/tags/drones/synonyms">proposed synonymisation</a> of <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drones" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'drones'" rel="tag">drones</a> and <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unmanned-... | 148 | 2016-12-22T12:00:18.113 | Tag review: [tag:unmanned-aerial-vehicle], [tag:drones] |
|discussion| | <p><a href="https://iot.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133/accepting-nominations-who-should-moderate-this-site#comment234_133">Since we won't be going public until 2017</a>, we as private beta users should make every effort to keep the fire burning until the site does get opened to the general public.</p>
<p>There i... | <blockquote>
<p>Good news, everyone! The new Internet of Things Stack Exchange site is now open to the public.</p>
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<p>Congrats and thank you to all <strong><em>nineteen</strong> honorees</em> and everyone else who helped us get here. Let's keep getting more people involved, asking more great questions ... | 145 | 2016-12-21T13:46:10.980 | Take Your Once-in-a-Lifetime "Beta"-Badge Opportunity in Private Beta! |
|discussion|site-promotion| | <p>Looks like we are not going public this year due to holidays.</p>
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<p><a href="https://iot.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133/accepting-nominations-who-should-moderate-this-site#comment234_133"><strong>Please note</strong> that with the anticipated slowdown in traffic during the end-of-year holidays... | <p>I tweeted this image, and gained one user (with only 200 odd followers).</p>
| 134 | 2016-12-20T21:29:41.797 | How do we get the people who desperately want to use their new Christmas IoT stuff on the site? |
|discussion|site-promotion| | <p>As suggested in <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/">A Recipe to Promote your Site</a>, we need to start taking small, focused steps to start getting the word out about Internet of Things Stack Exchange.</p>
<p>To help the site to grow, I think we should try to reach out to ot... | <p>Here are some ideas:</p>
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<li><a href="http://askubuntu.com">Ask Ubuntu</a> (as per comments, I've drawn a couple over from there)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=CMYIOT736" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Internet of Things Community, IEEE</a... | 130 | 2016-12-19T18:40:49.080 | Which blogs and IoT communities might be interested in this site? |
|discussion| | <p>Over this question <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/revisions/329/1">What does the Lively Medical Alert Watch Monitor?</a> (prior to any edits) the following issue has been risen:</p>
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<p>Why the upvotes for someone who can't be bothered to Google? The information requested is easily discoverabl... | <p>I'll be brutally honest in what I say below, since I think this is an issue which can <strong>easily</strong> lead to driving users away from the site if we don't handle it carefully. </p>
<p>I think if a question is on-topic (i.e. it is about IoT), well-written (clear, not too broad or opinion based) and is likely... | 114 | 2016-12-15T13:57:54.830 | Easy questions - or: Are there questions just too simple for this site? |
|discussion| | <p>I have noticed that the more prolific users of this site tend to accept the first answer to their question quite fast. Now there is obviously nothing wrong in accepting any good and thorough answers that address the question properly and solve the issue at hand. It encourages the user who gave said answer to proceed... | <p>I tend to accept answers relatively quickly, under certain criteria:</p>
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<li>does the answer cover <strong>all</strong> of the question in enough detail?</li>
<li>am I happy that I don't want any further clarification that another answer might provide?</li>
<li>is the question old enough (<strong>definitely</s... | 111 | 2016-12-14T20:26:08.460 | How fast should I be accepting an answer? |
|discussion| | <p>I was recently discussing self-answers in the IoT chat with Ghanima, and I think it's a good idea to bring this to everyone's attention: if you've recently encountered a problem and found your own solution (especially a problem that made you think, "surely someone else had this problem!"), <strong>asking and answeri... | <p>I also agree with self-answering. But I would like to ask everyone to take time and write as detailed answers as possible.</p>
<p>I have seen some self-answers over EE.SE which was just a brief summary and the exact solution could not be reproduced based on that. While it is better than not answering at all, it may... | 109 | 2016-12-14T17:01:00.050 | There's no shame in self-answering! |
|support|status-completed| | <p>Since I reached 1k I have an annoying all-time present suggested edits indicator stuck at 8.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UA5wb.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UA5wb.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
<p>It's stuck at eight. At first I thought it might ... | <p>Now that you have the <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools">“moderator tools” a.k.a. “10k” privilege</a> (1000 rep in private beta, 2000 in public beta, 10,000 (hence the nickname) on graduated sites such as ELU), the indicator shows the total number of pending reviews, not just the... | 106 | 2016-12-13T22:33:32.723 | Annoying suggested edits indicator |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>Recently, there was an IoT related question about WiFi modules on EE.SE.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/274690/wifi-enabled-iot-boards-with-ap-mode-and-ssl">Wifi-enabled IoT boards with AP mode and SSL</a></p>
<p>The question itself has been closed as primary opinion based, which i... | <p>While I don't think that this questions shows a lack of research its two major problems are being too broad and still somewhat opinion based. </p>
<p>First important thing to make it a better fit would be to focus on a single issue - <em>reasonably scoped</em>. Right now it is asking ten questions and that's not a ... | 103 | 2016-12-13T11:46:32.277 | IoT questions on other sites we can learn from |
|discussion|site-promotion| | <p><strong>Where - and related: how - can we get more experts to join this site either now during private beta or later during open beta?</strong></p>
<p>We have to face it, IoT is a very wide field and contains myriads of different physical devices, technologies, protocols, systems, and so on. It is therefore imperat... | <p>I've done some further research around this question, because it is almost certainly the <strong>most important question</strong> of this beta.</p>
<p>I can summarise almost all the sources and opinions I've read into three simple words, though, despite this being an enormously complex topic: <a href="http://www.cra... | 101 | 2016-12-12T19:10:50.567 | Where can we get more Subject Matter Experts? |
|discussion|site-scope| | <p>I recently <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/288/whats-the-purpose-of-a-gadget-snap-in-ubuntu-core">asked a question</a> about a technical feature of Ubuntu Core (and specifically its package manager, Snappy). Some users voted to close this, so I think we should start a bigger discussion about whether... | <p>Software and hardware tools used for IoT should be on-topic here as long as the particular use case is directly related to IoT. </p>
<p>There will be an overlap with other branches of SE these tools will often be used for other non-IoT applications as well. This overlap is unavoidable and a redirection to other sit... | 99 | 2016-12-12T17:16:35.920 | Are questions about software/hardware primarily related to the Internet of Things on-topic? |
|support|deleted-questions| | <p>Has the question about monitoring IoT devices on plane been auto-deleted? Here is the <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/201/could-iot-devices-be-monitored-real-time-while-on-a-plane"><strong>link to the original post</strong></a>.</p>
<p>I assume this post was removed because <a href="https://meta.st... | <p>Yes, the question <em>was</em> originally removed because of the down-votes when the user requested their account be deleted. The handling of that question was unfortunate; I restored the post. </p>
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<p>Unnecessary snarkiness in the comments. This is not a welcoming site. </p>
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<p>The us... | 97 | 2016-12-12T12:36:39.580 | Where's the question about monitoring IoT devices from a plane? |
|support|status-completed| | <p>I noticed that we have both <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cameras" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'cameras'" rel="tag">cameras</a> and <a href="https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-cameras" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'digital-c... | <p>No. It's unfortunate that this action appears to already have been taken, as it was probably mistaken.</p>
<p>"digital-camera" tends to refer devices that are specifically alternative to film cameras, which generally means handheld and human operated. These would only infrequently be on-topic in an IoT context, a... | 86 | 2016-12-09T16:53:35.570 | Merge [cameras] and [digital-cameras] |
|bug|status-completed| | <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GCfYo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GCfYo.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
<p>All my icons for network questions apear as the little 3D icon...? Is anyone else having this problem?</p>
<p>Seems like this is not a problem just w... | <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/287848/164356">All Stack Exchange site logos are showing up as the 3D Printing one REDUX</a>:</p>
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<p>I actually managed to screw this up in a new and exciting way as we moved favicon generation around. Due to caching on dev, we missed it. It was a grep for favic... | 29 | 2016-12-06T21:16:33.517 | All icons are broken |
|discussion|support| | <p>Some posts I see here are lower quality. However, if I downvote, I'll lose reputation and lose privileges.</p>
<p>Is there a way for me to express my opinion on this new site without the loss of rep?</p>
| <p>If the post is low quality, you've the following possibilities:</p>
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<li><p>Answers: If other users share your opinion and the vote has zero or negative score, you can flag it as '<em>very low quality</em>'.</p>
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<p>This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be ... | 21 | 2016-12-06T20:21:45.157 | I'm afraid to downvote because I will lose reputation |
|discussion|chat| | <p>Unable to find the general chat room for this new site and thus assuming it does not yet exist: </p>
<p>How should our main chat room be named? It is custom to use a clever play of words on the topic of the site.</p>
| <h3>Connected People</h3>
<p>The Internet of things are also referred to as "connected devices", so room with "connected people" using "connected devices" would be great.</p>
| 7 | 2016-12-06T18:38:31.237 | How should this site's general chat room be named? |
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