the-water-cooler

[last cedar]

the hardware must be 15 years old now

[static schooner]

You can use bitcoin mining intensity as a sort of heating control

Make money while heating your house. Can't lose

Power companies don't want you to know this one trick...

[minor bobcat]

There used to be a Panel Heater that mined bitcoin as the heat source

[solar zealot]

[stuck mortar]

Put the pellets inside the server case and shut off the fans. Hybrid heating!

[grizzled gull]

I just discovered a use for the 9 dollar 2k camera's from black friday, using them for my entryway so the stupid cats stop triggering false positives lol at 930 at night when I'm trying to watch a movie, disabling the motion sensor

[ocean oar]

My current best use of the camera is also cat related

Get to watch the boy smacking the robot vacuum like it owes him money

[grizzled gull]

lol your vac have a camera?

Mine do, they cats just ignore it though as they grew up with them

They don't even move out of the way

[ocean oar]

It does, but also just the camera in the lounge

[static schooner]

Even my skittish cat doesn't pay attention to the Roborock. It's weird

[ocean oar]

I need to figure out if I can automate copying the "obstacle" camera pictures from the vacuum, so I can have an ever-growing image gallery of the cat who's not yet figured out that if he just sits on a chair it can't reach him

Yet to capture a single picture of our other cat, but I have a dozen pictures like these already

[grizzled gull]

whoo person detection works in sub 1 second, thats awseome

now lets see how it does in low ligh...

[grizzled gull]

Using claude to clean up my automatons..... omg I'm horrible about making efficient automatons, but combining 3 entries into 1 by copy pasting is awesome lol

[dawn badge]

Just won my battle with a reolink camera. It was convinced it was up to date and refused to get latest firmware. managed to manually download it and then flash it using the "Reolink Client" for Windows.

[grizzled gull]

congrats

[high remnant]

the void stares back

[unborn merlin]

How long does it take to charge 4x 280ah cells?

The answer is yes

[dawn badge]

RTSP/ONVIF now working though 🙂

[dawn badge]

All of the time 😛

[unborn merlin]

Yeah the battery eta was..

Thereabouts..

[quaint kelp]

I haven't really touched esphome in a few years, where has the code and yaml gone? I have some old devices I need to tweak
the ui is a bit annoying actually

[static schooner]

https://discord.gg/8ywHp5bN6

[atomic delta]

You see my vid of my cat smacking the robo litter box with similar enthusiasm?

[ocean oar]

Lol, yep

[atomic delta]

Cats man, they're nuts.

[robust flicker]

Mine still hasn't figured out that when he uses his claws in my shoulder to attempt to climb onto said shoulder, I react poorly and make him get out of my lap. He's 14. And he still sulks like I've murdered his best friend when he forgets to keep his claws in...

[exotic yoke]

im forced to interact with esphome cause the easiest way to do a local voice assistant is a linux-voice-assistant with the esphome protocol lmao

like i dont need it to be a sattelite

but

whatever

[static schooner]

Well, did you?

[steel pumice]

why didn't I know about this???

dang it I forgot to make a support thread since I'm asking a question

[lean hornet]

Hey, can someone confirm I am an idiot please, Running 2026.2.3 in docker and wanting to restart HA, nothing under system is says to restart, only dev tools allows it, unless I am totally blind and an idiot I can not find it

[steel pumice]

prob here?

but you know you can just restart from the settings menu with that 3 dot icon right

[lean hornet]

thanks

[lean hornet]

I did not

[steel pumice]

well you will now

[young sigil]

Not knowing something does not make you an idiot. Asking in a non support channel on the other hand...

[lean hornet]

ehh

[last cedar]

Finally!

[arctic quarry]

yay!

[solar zealot]

resolute raccoon? they really made raccoons sound boring

[plain pendant]

Is there a newbie area for asking questions? Or if I have a question on why my devices keep showing up in favorites? Should I post in configuration??

I went ahead and posted my newbie question in configuration, I found the newbie tag

[steel pumice]

You can check the details and purpose of each channel with #find-support

If you don't know then just ask in #find-a-channel next time

[scenic radish]

Why didn't you know about...what?

[oblique zinc]

for a simple button card can i not add multiple scripts to run...i see i can have a button run 1 script but i want it to run multiple at the same time

[scenic radish]

You'll want to make a post in #1284965988642590891

[steel pumice]

That Wyoming is a state

I thought it was just home assistant stuff

Help 😭

[ornate cosmos]

I need help. I'm running Home Assistant on Ubuntu Linux and it was working great for about 2 months. But something happened and now it's not showing up at all. I think I partially nuke Docker by accident, even though it's showing it's still running.

[iron granite]

#find-support

[scenic radish]

ohhh gotcha lol, that makes sense

yeah not sure why the open home foundation chose that name for the protocol

then again, why is anything named anything

[stuck mortar]

Wyoming satellites are actually just someone in a call center in Wyoming

[iron granite]

Someone from Wyoming working on the International Space Station.

[scenic radish]

also, I flashed almost all of my amcrest IP cameras with Dahua firmware a few months ago which enabled a few features such as ROI (region of interest). I learned if I select the entire frame as an ROI, it brings the bitrate beyond the maximum configurable bitrate on the camera lol

like... 3-4 times the max bitrate

[dawn badge]

Is it actually functionally better? Or is it just writing the same data to a bigger file?

[scenic radish]

it does look better

[steel pumice]

Which makes me wonder...

Why isn't open home foundation named "opin hum fondant"?

[iron granite]

Isn't it?

[scenic radish]

[grizzled gull]

Stupid amazon, "wired" in their minds means you plug it in, not network wise...

[scenic radish]

amazon 🤢

[high remnant]

scamazon

[grizzled gull]

Trying to find a small camera POE that also has night vision, I can find 2/3 but not 3/3

either small and POE without night vision or POE and night vision but not small, or Night vision and small but no POE lol

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/ui-gif-26279220

[scenic radish]

Wyze cam v3 flashed with Thingino plus the UCTRONICS microUSB-PoE adapter

But that adapter really can't go outside of its operating temp range, otherwise weird shit starts happening

[grizzled gull]

this is inside the front door

[scenic radish]

wat

[grizzled gull]

I'm using it for person detection to turn on a light, because the cats keep triggering the other motion detectors lol

[scenic radish]

silly bois

flip the motion sensors upside down maybe?

[grizzled gull]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh thingino works on my crappy cinnado I've been trying to use...

Maybe I'll try that first

[scenic radish]

doit

[grizzled gull]

now I wish I had an SD card laying around lol

[scenic radish]

download one

[glacial knot]

build one

[scenic radish]

they should really make an SD to microSD converter

[static schooner]

I've seen one!

[scenic radish]

[static schooner]

any sort of interposer generally sucks because the signals don't like to be extended and re-routed

[scenic radish]

lazy signals

[static schooner]

<I spent a few years supporting SD/MMC cards and their descendents>

[scenic radish]

I remember paying way too much for a 16 MB MemoryStick back in the day

[static schooner]

I saw quite a lot of nonsense that people use. I also worked on USB for several years and there's a ton of nonsense there as well. People will design and sell any old crap and other people are happy to buy it

[grizzled gull]

hmmm thingio lists my camera as a 1080p but camera reports being 2k....

[scenic radish]

2K as in 1440p? I've seen 1080p referred to as 2K (2 megapickles)

and I've also seen it referred to as 1440p which is... confusing, to say the least

[grizzled gull]

that doesn't seem like 2k to me lol

hmmm if this flash makes it reliable, 12 dollars for person detection inside isn't so bad

[grizzled gull]

This just showed up on my facebook feed

[peak slate]

Well why is it called universal serial bus if the adapters aren't going to work!

[grizzled gull]

is that an LPT printer port its plugged into?

[peak slate]

Looks like a parallel port to me, which I think was the common for printers

[grizzled gull]

yes

[peak slate]

Ope Google says those are the same

[grizzled gull]

so paralllel to serial to usb to ps2

wait no usb

so parrelle to serial to ps2 I think

[peak slate]

Parallel to parallel to serial to PS2 to usb

[grizzled gull]

lol

[peak slate]

I think the last adapter in the chain is just for the lulz

[grizzled gull]

Now the real question, did it actually work?

[peak slate]

Probably not, or really, they're just waiting on software support

A dedicated software dev could probably make that work, back engineering the protocols

[grizzled gull]

on the plus side found a camera to use https://www.amazon.com/REVODATA-Security-Invisible-Megapixels-Surveillance/dp/B0BBKPQ2CH?th=1

if this flash doesn't work

[arctic quarry]

IT'S THAT GUY FROM PORTAL

man, how far he's fallen

[vivid wraith]

I’m leaning toward just getting some nice high CRI bulbs I like and then just getting smart switches but then I need to decide my color temp and I have unable-to-decide disease

Pray for me to find a cure

[warm helm]

Both.

Smart switches with smart bulb mode

[grizzled gull]

by bird feeder moves so much in the wind it takes more to detect it with a mask removing all surrounding movement then it takes for a reolink duo v3 accross the whole drive lol

11fps vs 5 :/

[lapis cairn]

That guy had to do modelling for janitorial equipment.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2E3PTYT/wet-floor-stand-slip-sign-slippery-clean-wet-floor-board-vector-safety-warning-2E3PTYT.jpg

[solar zealot]

gotta start somewhere after the drug abuse

[teal elbow]

what do you think about my HA vehicle card?
i only use data I can read from OBD2

/what would you have done differently

[arctic quarry]

@last cedar you should play this game today

https://metazooa.com/

[exotic yoke]

i have got to get one of those obd2 to usb things, how does yours work?

or like which one do you have

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/yearly-past-cheerful-abyssiniancat.jpg about the same

only the rest of the page displays the current location of the car and its odo

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/careless-late-quaint-americanwigeon.jpg

[teal elbow]

make sure it's a genuine elm327 if you wanna go on the cheap route. clones might not work with your vehicles ECU
i have a BLE OBD2 adapter from aliexpress that connects to torque pro (android app on my phone), and that sends all sensor data over to home assistant via the unofficial torque integration
from there on i calculate some stuyff using template sensors
i can link to my adapter if you want. it was around 7$ with shipping included

[teal elbow]

interesting. don't think i can get mileage tho. will look into it
does your car have an official HA integration?

[high remnant]

well not really but I can use the API

[teal elbow]

ah. i forgot to add connected features to my car when ordering
so i'm stuck with siphoning data out via OBD2 adapters and relaying through my phone

[high remnant]

comes as astandard lol

but fair

[teal elbow]

not on dacia sadly

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bhuys.gif

DACIA

[teal elbow]

Another Dacia

[exotic yoke]

oh my god theres a kia connect thing for HA wtf

oh wait kia uvo?

[teal elbow]

make sure your car supports it

[teal elbow]

yep
check the picture :)

[exotic yoke]

this is the kia cloud thing i think

sattelite

whatever

[high remnant]

I still have james may in my head whenever I see dacia lol

[teal elbow]

lmao
im the only one crazy enough to pay 17k on a dacia

[high remnant]

17k is not that bad for a car ngl

[teal elbow]

everyone told me to get a second hand audi or bmw
but i dont wanna be that eastern european guy with a 200k bmw

[high remnant]

I would not get another audi

[teal elbow]

i would get another dacia

see? dacia rules

[high remnant]

I get that

[exotic yoke]

i love my kia niro :)

woag...

wait i can fucking remote start it from HA
i can set an automation to start when i leave or stars by voice
ooooooh this is PEAK

[teal elbow]

thats the coolest thing i can think of

not having to go outside and wait 5m for the engine to heat up

[exotic yoke]

i mean i could already start it from the app but this is even cooler, automation

[teal elbow]

you can get your car to start when you go to tie your shoes

and also heat up your steering wheel

[exotic yoke]

yes

ill need to figure out some way to reliably detect when i leave my apartment

cause i want it to start when i go out the door, even though i go down the stairs
and when i move over the summer ill be up a ton of floors

[teal elbow]

door sensor + wifi presence
doubles as security alarm

[exotic yoke]

ah wifi presence yes thats good

will have to figure out how door sensors work

[teal elbow]

i just got tasker on my phone to trigger webhooks when i connect and disconnect from my wifi

[teal elbow]

reed sensors

[exotic yoke]

right, moreso how would i mount one (esp in an apartment, cant just go drilling holes)

[minor bobcat]

How about standard door sensors?

[unborn merlin]

command strips.

[high remnant]

I remote warm my car evey day lol

[grizzled gull]

You can drill holes, just make sure you have toothpaste available when you leave

[high remnant]

its tied to my coffeemaker: if I turn it off the car starts to preheat

[exotic yoke]

That's neat but I don't have that in the morning lol

[high remnant]

good reason to get an espresso maker lol

[teal elbow]

amazing

[hollow glacier]

what coffee maker?

i think i need to take apart a keurig and solder onto the buttons to make one smart enough to start remotely

[high remnant]

rancilico silva from the 90s

[hollow glacier]

what did you do to make it smart?

[mental peak]

My ZBT2 is stuck on OpenThread "This Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is in use by the OpenThread Border Router add-on. If you use the Thread network, make sure you have alternative border routers. Uninstall the add-on and try again."

[high remnant]

smart relais actually lol

pretty easy since its just some switch XD

[atomic delta]

Technically any device can be smart if all you check is that draw is 0 on a Shelly or a smart switch.

[smoky garden]

there a good place to kind of get an idea for automations to create when it comes to having door open/closed sensors. besides light control

[hollow glacier]

like suggestions for automations to deploy?

[grizzled gull]

hmmm thingino installed on 12 dollar camera, now I get to find out if it hardware fault or crappy software

[smoky garden]

yeah. trying to figure out what to do. I have them havent deployed them. I plan on using one to turn on lights. but outside of that trying to figure out what else i can do with these sensors.

[grizzled gull]

instead of looking at what to do, instead look at what problem are you trying to solve?

[teal elbow]

i have my voice assistant greet me and give me some information when i get home and enter my room

[hollow glacier]

i use door/window sensors with alarmo inside home assistant as my own diy alarm system it works great

i forgot to disable the alarm this morning and got startled by weewooweewoo lol

i've also heard of people automating / notifying on when ac gets turned on if windows are open

like one guy said he had the ac turn off if his wife opened the windows while ac was on haha

[grizzled gull]

Curious question for everyone, Camera with person detection(in frigate) vs PIR/microwave.... I'm thinking as long as the inference speed is fast enough, I don't see a reason not too for lighting..... I maybe missing something though lol

[grizzled gull]

in public areas like a kitchen or living room

[smoky garden]

aint got no problems 🙂 looking for inspiration on problems i didn't know i had 🙂 but really the ONLY other ides i had was to basically trigger an alert to take a snapshot from the camera that monitors that door. or even that age old annoying thing of "Front door opened" announcement

[grizzled gull]

there is ALWAYS a problem to solve, you just haven't found it yet

[smoky garden]

i know thats why im looking for inspiration

[grizzled gull]

look in the #1284980040940912641, there's always things that inspire me in there

[hollow glacier]

i use one in my mailbox to trigger the old AOL You've Got Mail sound clip on all of my homepod minis lol

i downloaded it from the shadiest website i could find so likely this comes with a free virus

[oblique zinc]

wait till you have a heated and cooled attached garage lol

[oblique zinc]

thats what i use my sensors for in garage will yell at me if door is open too long for a/c and/or heat

[static schooner]

That's quite luxurious. I was just watching an old This Old House episode where they were installing a heated driveway to melt snow and ice

[oblique zinc]

It's quite nice been working on mine for 3 years it's almost done

[hollow glacier]

Needs more RGB

[weak musk]

We had a family friend growing up that had a 1 mile long driveway, equipped with nice street lights and a heated drive for the last 8th mile. So over the top.

hello, I have a lack of sense and an abundance of cash, please help

[warm helm]

You can just light fire to money on the drive way for the same effect

[warm helm]

Less

[hollow glacier]

i have thoughts and or prayers

[weak musk]

Some of these are geo thermal

[weak musk]

Needs more osb

[hollow glacier]

needs more 3d printed hexagon walls (and RGB)

[warm helm]

Some. Others are boiler

[warm helm]

Nooooooo

[weak musk]

Some are ELECTRIC

https://tenor.com/view/burning-money-ha-danny-devito-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-gif-15954739

[warm helm]

Solar time

[stuck mortar]

Solar powered snow melting? I don’t think that’ll catch on

[weak musk]

If you live somewhere where you need a heated driveway you likely don’t have enough sun when the driveway needs to be heated

[warm helm]

With enough battery all things are possible

[ocean oar]

Geothermal is theoretically an option everywhere... what varies is how deep you have to dig the hole 😉

Here in NZ, we are frequently "blessed" by the spicy rocks being not all that far below the surface

[forest edge]

it isn't generally cost effective

[static schooner]

but...but...it's free

[forest edge]

so is solar

[static schooner]

I guess you could try throwing a black covering over the snow on your driveway and let the sun melt it

[ocean oar]

A couple of years back we stayed in an airbnb that had a geothermally heated hot tub.
Seems when it's close enough to the surface, you just dig a hole only a few tens of metres down and pump water down it, what comes back up is well past boiling

[static schooner]

Or just live a sensible place that has no such issues

[forest edge]

you mean asphalt

[static schooner]

it doesn't help if the asphalt is below the snow

[forest edge]

yea most of us aren't sitting on top the earths core

[ocean oar]

This was just down the road

[forest edge]

hell I think our deepest man made cave here only heats the air up to just below 68

[forest edge]

should go get a jug of it and drink it

[atomic delta]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-money-to-take-my-gif-25015749

That red burning money always makes me think of that scene.

[hollow glacier]

Tux 🐈‍⬛ moving in

[static schooner]

The fact that cats have "extra" whiskers sticking out of the side of their heads is most obvious on tuxedo kitties with white whiskers

I normally think of whiskers sticking out of the snout, so it's interesting to see how many others they have elsewhere

[warm helm]

all cats have them down their whole bodies. My old Tuxedo had long ones on his back hips

[ocean oar]

My void has three ~30mm long ones on the back of his front legs

Can see a couple of them here

He has about 20 total white hairs on his body and those are the bulk of them

Face whiskers are all black

Even 17/18 of his nails are black

[stuck mortar]

Shenanigan accumulators

[static schooner]

I've found that they really don't like you to count them if it involves touching

[stuck mortar]

I also don’t like when my wife counts my gray hairs

[peak slate]

Just say that you're Egyptian and reject the truth, you're in de-nile

[vivid wraith]

They should make home assistant scales

[atomic delta]

You mean like body weight scales?

I've actually thought that before. I have one I use with OpenScale.

[vivid wraith]

ya

[glacial knot]

I use a Mi branded one iirc
Just blasts everything it measures on bt-le

[atomic delta]

That's basically what mine does too.

[forest edge]

I have the wyze scale. never thought of trying to pair it to like a shelly ble to see if I can get data off it

[forest edge]

ugh just updated from 2026.1.x. can't find my addons or developer tools /s

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/magic-money-gif-18225525608317807518

[exotic yoke]

ok chat huge progress with my voice assistant
turns out mcp assist fed via ollama is reaal buggy and the ai keeps spamming the same tool, but if i do it via ollamas openai compatability layer its much better

this is splendid

[steel pumice]

Masterpiece

[exotic yoke]

the copilot logo is weird cause i like it but idk what its supposed to be

but also its on my keyboard which means i hate it

[steel pumice]

Co-nonsense

[ocean oar]

Logos that are just blobby gradient-filled things are the style of our time apparently

Unless you're an AI company, in which case it is mandatory (somehow) for your logo to look like a stylised butthole

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

[minor bobcat]

Or a four-point star

[ocean oar]

Or Microsoft, who pulled out this absolute banger. You'd be forgiven for thinking this is someone having a laugh, but unfortunately it was very real (and also amazing)

[minor bobcat]

Wtf are Virtual Events powered by Teams anyway

MS has so many "apps" that just do some niche thing

[ocean oar]

Most of it is just word salad these days, which the nodescript icons are not helping with

The newest of the assorted new outlook icons is so stylised that not a single person I spoke to realised it was still trying to be an envelope

[exotic yoke]

I knew it was an envelope like I feel it's fairly clear but idk

Id like to think the logos I've designed are good lol

[atomic delta]

https://tenor.com/view/gesù-gesu-gesu-griffin-gesùgriffin-griffin-gif-19912789

That's all that logo makes me think of.

Though more specifically the "extendable thumb" gag, which I thought was part of that and apparently is not.

[steel pumice]

Masterpieces

[iron granite]

[steel pumice]

Ohhh righttt

I only saw hand drawn ones

Still masterpieces

[iron granite]

[teal elbow]

tf are you?
bruce wayne?

[steel pumice]

I WANT THEM

MAKE IT OPIN SOCRE

Facts BTW

[steel pumice]

Can someone count how long this hey man streak is

[steel pumice]

Ahhh feels boring but also good to be lonely

[robust flicker]

My wife sends me a screenshot of our daughter apparently at a tattoo shop at 630am. (She's on her way to school this morning and PASSED one lol) So of course I have to tease. "WTF do you think you are doing???" and her very first response is "but I wanted a tattoo.." roflmao.

[last cedar]

I will check it out!

[warm helm]

She'll learn more at the tattoo shop then school anyway

[crisp oriole]

I had a question. I looked it up. awnser is NO.
I cant restart integrations that require online polling after a period of offline time. (or offline start up)
to the feature request board

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/no-regrets-no-ragrets-same-yolo-we-are-the-millers-gif-4961595

[agile smelt]

Well then.... Salad for dinner it will be!

First time I've seen it so high lol

[glacial knot]

Ouch

[high remnant]

its not that bad

I see that more ofthen than I'd like to admit lol

[glacial knot]

Neat. SOTOH tickets are available now

[scenic radish]

https://youtube.com/shorts/a-5Ke42t-cc

[ebon basalt]

My home assistant runs on like 2% cpu of my computer, is there any way i can leverage more of my processing power, recommendations yk

[grizzled gull]

I'm confused...... why? Is it running slow?

[atomic delta]

So satisfying being able to finally reference a local sensor when saying the local stations are full of shit with their atmospheric pressure readings.

Reported pressure from my weather app: 30.11 inHg. Not even fucking close.

[dawn badge]

Assuming your sensor is accurate...

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal's Law.

[atomic delta]

The main problem is they report relative pressure, not absolute. That said, their sensors also seem to suck. I verified ours against a dual stage belt driven rotary vane vacuum pump.

So it's accurate to within... 40 microns I believe?

[unborn merlin]

vacuum sensors are not always the same as relative pressure gauges...

[mortal walrus]

are you sure you're not just 4500 ft higher than the weather station sensor? :)

[atomic delta]

Atmospheric pressure is atmospheric pressure. If 0 on the vacuum gauge = 25.52 on the barometer, then 25.52 on the vacuum gauge should be max vac. Assuming everything is calibrated properly. Minus that 40 microns or so since there's no way I'm running a diffusion pump for that.

[atomic delta]

Higher than sea level, I absolutely am. Higher than the station? I hope not...

[unborn merlin]

yes.. but what I'm saying is you get what you pay for on pressure sensors usually.. accuracy.. ranges.. etc

[atomic delta]

Well sure. But pressure really isn't that hard to measure down to that degree.

[mortal walrus]

fwiw, today my phone has been reporting air pressure 1kPa lower than what the weather station at the airport reports, and they otherwise track nicely.

[atomic delta]

Honestly it's shocking digital barometers aren't more common. Presumably they think people just don't care.

[atomic delta]

If your phone is waterproof, that may be why.

[mortal walrus]

it is, and i'm also at a somewhat higher elevation than the airport too.

but if the pressure sensor for your weather station comes from an airport, i'm sure it's accurate for what it's intended to measure (which is a reference to make sure airplanes know how high they are above the ground)

[atomic delta]

Definitely not from an airport. Most likely from a random unmaintained sensor in the mountains.

[ocean oar]

The difference between my phone's pressure sensor and the one at home is always interesting.
I live maybe 150-200m above sea level, work is about 5m. Causes some fairly obvious humps in the graph

My home one has a nice MEMS sensor though, claimed accuracy is ±1hPa

[river flame]

I love the footer on the SOTOH website

Omg it's suika game

I love this lol

[atomic delta]

I just blew money on a pile of sensors on Kickstarter and it's all HA's fault.

I don't even have a specific use in mind.

Well, other than "replace the tuya crap" anyway

[pseudo crypt]

Finally upgrading from the bottom of the barrel cheap stuff made my HA setup so much nicer to use

Very quickly went from that to HA voice and a million other things

[scenic radish]

What sensors?

[atomic delta]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/linknlink/emotion-air-tiny-4-in-1-multi-sensor-powers-real-smart-home

[scenic radish]

Powered by three triple screams I see

[atomic delta]

Huh?

[scenic radish]

AAA batteries

Triple screams

[atomic delta]

Ah, yeah

I was confused for a sec because there was a triple screen project that kept showing up in related for me and I thought it was some reference to that.

[ocean oar]

Well they are certainly reasonably priced. Hopefully they're also accurate

[atomic delta]

Long as they're precise, accuracy can be fixed...

Though one would hope they'd come calibrated too.

[stuck mortar]

Why do I scream louder when I find a device using a 1/2AA?

[static schooner]

It's a crime that a 1/2AA isn't an A

I mean, it's just math

[ocean oar]

Some of mine have 2/3AA, which is approximately an AI 🤣

[stuck mortar]

Inflation is even hitting battery sizes!

[atomic delta]

Ugh... I just went looking into CO2 sensors. I was hoping for a cheap option. So that was a fucking laugh.

Cheapest option is to ESPhome it, but that's a can of worms I've been avoiding. Still, maybe it's time.

[past lagoon]

Hi all. I'm looking for information on how to create a threaded border router with Docker. If I'm not mistaken, I'd need hardware, such as a Sky Connect and a Docker server. I haven't found much information online, so if anyone can offer some guidance, I'd be grateful.

[final sentinel]

Hi everyone I put a post in the integration channel looking for help and it's been set as resolved. It's not been resoled and I dont know how to change that?

[steel pumice]

Looks yummy

[frank olive]

am I going mad? where has all the "history" of an entity in a list gone? (I can't remember what it was called specifically). I can see the actual history page which gives a little coloured bar but it also used to tell you all the changes as text , it was also visible in the entities themselves. I assume they can't have gotten rid of it completely and have just hidden it for some reason .

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

There’s no support here - only chill. Come in, grab a drink, chat with your fellow community members! This is a space to talk to other smart home enthusiasts. If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

[robust flicker]

Good news. I finally wake up to breakfast in bed!

Bad news, it was brought by the cat.

[high remnant]

its still warm

[robust flicker]

He woke us up around 1230 this morning, chasing it. "WTF is your problem marshmallow?!" he drops it on the edge of the bed, nudges me, and as it's still dark, I didn't even see him drop it, so I reached out to scratch his chin and touched something that wasn't him. .. eurgh

[minor bobcat]

Easter Bunny dropped his Eggs early

Look at these beautiful fuel prices fml

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/possum-opossum-mad-angry-gif-13439507

[last cedar]

I think the eggs are missle shaped?

[mortal walrus]

Cheap option is an IKEA Alpstuga, but I don't recommend it if you want more than a general idea of "high/low", the Sensirion STCC4 it uses can't maintain calibration for longer than a few days :( SCD4x stuff is great tho. (unless you make yours a bit toasty by reversing VDD and GND briefly like I did; amusingly it still works, but the values aren't scaled correctly any more)

[minor bobcat]

Proper CO Sensors are just simply expensive

[tidal bronze]

Adidas 🤣

[forest edge]

Why it cut off the "carrying a gun" part?

Doors in the Dr office abnormally tall

[atomic delta]

CO2, not CO. Found the SCD41. +/-20 ppm, price under $30, and seems to stay calibrated unlike some of the other options.

So yeah, I have stuff on the way. :P

[minor bobcat]

ESP?

[atomic delta]

Yep

Well, that is just a chip, I have an ESP32S3 three pack coming.

But yeah, apparently it's already supported in esphome

[minor bobcat]

I'm planning a matching set of ESPs with atmospheric sensors like CO or CO2, light level, PM2.5 etc. One for inside and one for outside

[atomic delta]

Well, check out the SCD30 and SCD41. I saw a recommendation of the 41 specifically for indoor, not sure why, so maybe the 30 is better for outdoor for some reason. Either way, they seem like best in class options.

[minor bobcat]

I was looking at one of those sensiron all in one modules but thats not as much fun lol

[atomic delta]

Lol, true.

[minor bobcat]

I'd only need a light sensor and it's done

But I'd also have to create an outdoor enclosure with a fan hole

[atomic delta]

Your mother was a fan hole

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/qa-developer-software-development-test-gif-27432169

[tidal bronze]

Middle earth thing?

[peak slate]

I mean those doors look normal to me for height

[forest edge]

they were between 8-10ft tall

thats normal?

[peak slate]

Yeah, normal height

8ft door for 9-10 ft ceilings

[last cedar]

Canaries?!

[lapis cairn]

ZigBee and Z-Wave Canaries are very tough to find

[last cedar]

You put a motion detector near it, that triggers if it passes away from CO poisoning and the birb falls

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/birb-birbplswin-gif-17031411063756375009

[last cedar]

1000IQ

Omg I love robins

My mum tamed one

She fed it meal worms, landed on her hand and ate from it

[minor bobcat]

Now I want to make a card that turn a lil birb if CO gets too bad

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/bullish-bullish-af-buy-buy-moar-crypto-gif-4023638677059070706

[minor bobcat]

Gotta finish my sunset card first

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-dead-parrot-john-cleese-michael-palin-not-dead-gif-24087365

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/not-the-nine-o-clock-news-hi-fi-woofers-tweeters-mel-smith-gif-17189255

Absolute genius

[vivid wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-thinking-gif-18107621495886085895

[minor bobcat]

Do it!

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-its-a-trap-admiral-ackbar-gif-11760070

[warm helm]

.0

[agile smelt]

<@&330946878646517761> Crypto scam

[iron granite]

Gone.

[agile smelt]

tnkss

2 hits 5 min from each other?

[iron granite]

Yes.

[agile smelt]

I'll alert the 3D printing subreddit about that other account, apparently he's there too

[static schooner]

It's an infestation

[agile smelt]

The current fiasco with the age verification is not helping too, with fake "verification" links strewn about

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-dragon-got-drakaris-drogon-gif-10095437

[agile smelt]

I wonder if there's an open database of compromised accounts or something

[iron granite]

You need one?
-# Be careful - this is a trick question.

[agile smelt]

Oh thats what you mean lol

That took a while

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-laugh-evil-laughter-salem-cat-sabrina-the-teenage-witch-gif-8938360159161996277

[dawn badge]

Great Success! 45 Minutes of sitting in darkness later... My bulb has been converted from Tasmota to ESPHome and is working correctly. 🙂

[stuck mortar]

Pfft, it only took me 5 minutes to swap in a new smart switch… followed by 60 minutes of reinterviewing, resetting, and excluding to get the model recognized properly

[dawn badge]

Had a few things go wrong including some semi botched flashes etc... But I managed to get it working eventually. I probably should not of started with the bulb that was in this room at night...

[atomic delta]

Er... I thought the new core update was out?

[stuck mortar]

YOLO

YOLOSMBBU
You only live once so make backups before upgrading

[atomic delta]

Weirdly it's saying no updates found for me.

Maybe it just hasn't built for my architecture yet.

There we go. Rebooted it and now it sees the update.

[warm helm]

once is once too many

[robust flicker]

I may soon be able to finally cancel my starlink for good. the local telco is putting in fiber on my street...... talked to the contractors laying the conduit this afternoon.

[mossy zenith]

nice

[wet comet]

I do not know what it is with this server, but I get more random people PMing from this server then all my other servers combined

[static schooner]

Please DM a mod when this happens and we can take action. It's against the rules, and is often spam or just a form of harassment

[wet comet]

I will

[marsh plaza]

https://luciahome.net/ what ya'll think this isn't my project but im contributing to it. Starting to seem very promising

[scenic radish]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dGsL_BUYwfc

[marsh plaza]

friggin youtube like barely works for me anymore

sign in to confirm im not a bot 😛

man I just got music assist setup with musicast and it's really awesome

VA stuff really starting to match up to alexa etc

[scenic radish]

I'm a sucker and pay for YouTube Premium

But I watch a lot of YouTube videos and the unlimited music streaming is nice too

[weak musk]

Premium lite looks good if you don’t care about music

[static schooner]

Ultra pro max lite

[mossy zenith]

Did someone say unifi

[static schooner]

We can add Neo to the Apple superlatives

[ocean oar]

I'm waiting to see if people love or hate it. Can't really tell.
Things I've noticed so far:

• Only 512GB model has a fingerprint reader (that's a bit of a wtf moment)
• Two USB-C, one USB3, one USB2
• Zero mention of supporting any external displays
  For what it really is - which is an iPad with a keyboard - it seems like the rest of the specs are commensurate to the price, and I feel like they're going after Chromebooks more than "real" computers (including not wanting to cannibalise their own sales of the Air), but I just can't pick if it's going to be a fizzer

[weak musk]

I think it will do well.

[vivid wraith]

how come they made a mac with an iphone processor but they won't let the ipad with the mac processor do mac things

https://tenor.com/view/rrane-battal-rrane-battal-kızgın-battal-kızgın-gif-25355985

[vivid wraith]

Oh I guess it’s not the same as the iPhone processor, apparently it’s a lower binned version with less GPU cores than the iPhone version

[quasi breach]

Bought some smart switches, the manufacturer ships them with wago 221 lever nuts pre attached, this is a really nice touch

[solar zealot]

Neat, tho id be suspicious about them being genuine

[high remnant]

Someone at the office is using my shit

https://tenor.com/sFGP7UbmN4s.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmuQteX1qA

<@&330946878646517761>

[ocean oar]

You're a clown year

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bOZ9J.gif

[ocean oar]

😄

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/moderator-gif-22773151

[solar zealot]

[arctic quarry]

fucking hell

<@&330946878646517761>

[acoustic vortex]

I'M NEVER FAST ENOUGHT TO SEE THEM

I'm very sad

[arctic quarry]

lol

[acoustic vortex]

I want easy money, or crypto or whatever that one was

[arctic quarry]

this one was dropshipping

[acoustic vortex]

AH... ok then I don;t want 🤣

[arctic quarry]

yeah at least crypto is funny

"AYY SIGMA GRINDSET BROS GET READY FOR $COCK"

like

who clicks that

[calm wind]

Same here, always too late 🐌

Well, I do often see them, and do the actions for a ban, but by the time I'm finished another mod already responded to the one who reported it

[exotic bane]

Glad you like it!

[high remnant]

is this a bad time to announce that I have a new crypto?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/jerry-traped-gif-6492722808300332007

[glacial knot]

I need to buy my sotoh ticket

[vivid wraith]

Okay I modded my toilet to fit the Toto auto flush kit

Now if I get something that can emit custom radio signals I can remotely flush my toilet

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[weak musk]

Practical jokes obviously

[rugged crystal]

When I work on automations I often wish I could somehow debug them like I'm debugging a program. And no, I don't want to use node red.

Actually, related question. In many editors it's possible to press a key combo to see available configuration options. Is this possible in Home Assistant in dashboards, automations, etc? I tried pressing all of the shortcuts from muscle memory but nothing worked. It would be incredibly handy to see some hints

[iron granite]

#find-support

[last cedar]

Look at these girthy busbars, raccoon for scale

[solar zealot]

Woah

Raccoon found them as they fell off a truck

[last cedar]

Raccoon was almost not strong enough to carry them

Good thing raccoon was there to catch them tbh

[solar zealot]

[static schooner]

That was a running joke on Ally McBeal, for those of you who were alive and watching TV in the 90s

Peter MacNichol had a remote to flush the toilet in the unisex bathroom because "he liked a clean bowl"

[atomic delta]

Good gods, I haven't heard Ally McBeal referenced in some time.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/old-fart-fart-love-gif-3856190177598956680

[coral salmon]

That was fun to rewrite my lightning automations, because I been using "kelvin" 🥲

[ocean oar]

Lol, you too?

So, so many places I had to fix that

[coral salmon]

I am still pretty sure I missed some automations with it, but the time will tell

[ocean oar]

Mine was pretty obvious because most of them were linked to physical buttons, so those just did nothing until I fixed them 😄

[iron granite]

Be careful not to set it to 0K - it will kill everyone.

[ocean oar]

Like I was saying a few days ago, might have to code and send a PR for a colour temperature increment (as there is for brightness), because the worst place to fix it is where I had a template like this to increment/decrement the colour temperature:

  color_temp_kelvin: "{{ state_attr(\"light.corner_lamp\", \"color_temp_kelvin\") - 400 }}"
  brightness_step_pct: -20

[peak slate]

Is there now a color temp in Celsius?

I hope they have it at least in rankine

[ocean oar]

Just have it in percent

Where 0 is 0K

And 100 is the Planck temperature; 10^32 K

Usable range of values approximately 0.0000000000000000000000000001 - 0.0000000000000000000000000007%

[atomic delta]

It just occurred to me to wonder how people pronounce yaml and the result is cursed.

[ocean oar]

"yammle"

Less fucky than how "SQL" most often became "sequel"

[raw ginkgo]

anyone know why Plex 4k vid's ... some look very grainy

[peak slate]

S queel is best

[peak slate]

Transcoding or direct stream? File format? Hdr or not vs the opposite on your screen can also affect things

[raw ginkgo]

Res: 3840x1920
Codec: H.265 (HEVC)
FPS: 25
Bitrate: 19.7 (overall: 20.4) Mb/s
Bit depth: 10
Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.107

Direct stream from LAN

I noticed on Dolby Vision Vivid it looks like trash but on dark it looks better. not sure why

I'll try maybe comparing the same file on Plex vs jellyFin

[urban viper]

We're looking for feedback for changes we're making to the forum guidelines. Please read this forum post for more details on this as well as a link to the Form where you should submit your feedback (if you choose to provide it). 🙏

[atomic delta]

What is this, feedback? Instead of handling things like a true internet warrior and ignoring my chance to speak up only to complain about being oppressed later on?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/chefe-cozinha-gif-14636209388776641245

[grizzled gull]

I'm blind aparently, I see the orginial forum rules, but where's the changes? Am I just over worked today and missing them?

[atomic delta]

I haven't actually read through it yet, I assumed they'd be embedded in the form.

[grizzled gull]

ok needed to click the hyper link in the form,

[atomic delta]

Though I don't think I actually have a forum account, come to think of it.

I'll check through my keepass later and find out. Too lazy to move right now.

[round crystal]

I have a question, not looking for support

Does HA just load forever for anyone else in Safari or am I insane

Again, not looking for help. Looking to know if I'm insane

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

There’s no support here - only chill. Come in, grab a drink, chat with your fellow community members! This is a space to talk to other smart home enthusiasts. If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

[iron granite]

"Just a question" is support.

[round crystal]

I just want to know I'm not insane

I need a sanity check

[grizzled gull]

You're insane 😛

[atomic delta]

If it's any consolation, you're probably insane regardless.

[iron granite]

A full clinical validation would need some time.

[round crystal]

Ty

That's all I needed to know.

no help. just that I'm insane

I kept thinking my mac is possessed

and now I'm certain

[iron granite]

It still might be.

[round crystal]

working theory

Right now I'm watching a video about AI hallucinations

[grizzled gull]

I can't wait for the day AI is powerful enough that live music will just be AI slop....

The worst part about it, is if your ADHD or AUD and like to listen to teh same song on repeat you'll be screwed

[round crystal]

What are we supposed to do when the toaster starts talking?!

[atomic delta]

I'm annoyed that Amazon is down right now. I need to buy a door contact sensor. I have a door that keeps blowing open in wind storms and I don't notice because of where it is.

[atomic delta]

https://tenor.com/view/red-dwarf-toaster-god-gif-26184649

[round crystal]

Sorry bro can't help you

datacenter was hit by a missile

we're working on restoring services 🙏

[grizzled gull]

up for me in central US

[round crystal]

Canada east here, works fine

Maybe his local amazon datacenter got hit by objects

and caught fire

or just caught fire like OVH

I still remenber the great OVH fire

[atomic delta]

It's not down, it's "down". Pages glitching, things saying they're out of stock and in stock at the same time, errors on checkout, errors on trying to select your location, etc.

[round crystal]

I had a VPS in that datacentre

OVH sent me an email that the datacentre is actively on fire, so they're failing me over to another datacentre

They did it 100% transparently

[fathom sparrow]

uh where?

[round crystal]

Dubai IIRC

[atomic delta]

Yeah, still having issues.

[fathom sparrow]

ah yeah, that was probably a dumb question on my part

[round crystal]

no, not everyone follows twitter

I found out on twitter becasue it became a meme

then a second datacentre was struck and went offline

Amazon probably isn't happy.

you know. from degraded to full datacentres offline...

[atomic delta]

I mean, I'm not actually upset. This is the definition of a first world problem.

[iron granite]

Someone should rescue the RAM sticks.

[round crystal]

it is annoying tho

[atomic delta]

Yup

[round crystal]

I actually have a very stupid question

If where Amazon datacentres are located is considered unsafe now

what can Amazon do?

[atomic delta]

Yes, that dress makes your ass look fat.

[round crystal]

Like these serve that geographic location

[round crystal]

Ty, was going for that

Like what can Amazon do if their datacentres are in a dangerous area, but those are the only ones serving the geographical area?

[atomic delta]

Not a clue tbh

[round crystal]

They can't same day deliver a new datacentre... not yet...

I literally can't imagine relocating a entire datacentre

[iron granite]

Serve these locations from datacenters of another region.

[round crystal]

but latency

[iron granite]

Bad latency might be more preferable than no service at all.

[lone dagger]

This guy gets it. 😂

I know better with you guys.

[round crystal]

I wonder if amazon is gonna pull these back out of retirement

And literally haul the data out of there

[iron granite]

They send the data by fax. Much quicker.

[round crystal]

that's not very green, have they considered carrier pigeon?

packet loss due to cats should be at an acceptable rate

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-fired-fired-printing-gif-15157506

[atomic delta]

No, they use special fax machines with green ink.

[round crystal]

Doesn't AT&T have a datacentre on wheels for natural disasters?

I swear AT&T showed one off in the news decades ago

Either way, if Amazon just virtualized their datacentre on proxmox this wouldn't be a problem 🙄

Hell, use HyperV

or VMWare VSphere

[atomic delta]

So I just found out about Shelly's leak sensor and I'm kinda stoked that I have a legit use for it. Though I should find out what their return policy is, because I'm tempted to buy 150m of cord and return what I don't use.

[fathom sparrow]

if you have zwave, the zooz ones are dirt cheap and rock solid

[round crystal]

@atomic delta you don't need anything more than https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/badring-water-leak-sensor-smart-90504360/

no one needs more than 640k of ram.

[stuck mortar]

The cloud is just someone else’s server, so Amazon just needs to rent time in someone else’s cloud

[round crystal]

Elmo, I think Tuya has good water leak sensors

[stuck mortar]

Also

[atomic delta]

Nah, Shelly's is key here for the attic. 5000 sq.ft. house, stretch the cord along the swamp cooler vents and such so I know if one starts leaking again before the ceiling falls in.

[round crystal]

swamp cooler? for a home?

[atomic delta]

Basically Shelly's is an extendable cord up to 150m instead of a point leak sensor.

[round crystal]

The thing that uses evaporative cooling?

[atomic delta]

Yeah, we have three.

[round crystal]

that works for a entire house?!

[atomic delta]

Yes

[grizzled gull]

if its dry enough out

[round crystal]

TIL there's swamp coolers for a entire house

[grizzled gull]

yep there are

[atomic delta]

Humidity here drops to single digits at times.

[round crystal]

So you put them on your roof?

[atomic delta]

Yep

[round crystal]

Same here, but we are also frozen almost half the year.

But isn't water expensive in places that dry?

[grizzled gull]

some people cool shops with them by mounting them to a wall and just having a furnace blower move air

[atomic delta]

We have a well. Water is free.

[grizzled gull]

its not THAT much water

in the grand scheme of things

[atomic delta]

And yeah, it's not much water.

[round crystal]

I'm assuming you're both USA?

[atomic delta]

Yes

[round crystal]

heh

when I went to georgia it was so hot, and my buddy introduced us to the concept of AC in georgia

His car was almost as cold as a canadian winter.

Our car AC can't do that

Our car heating can become a brutal oven though :)

[atomic delta]

I'm in northern Nevada. High desert.

[grizzled gull]

7 gallons an hour of water on average for swamp coolers btw

[round crystal]

26L/h

That's basically my gas tank

624L/day sounds like a lot for cooling but I feel like we waste more with taps, dishwashers, and washing machines

So wait, if humidity is single digits, is static a huge issue?

[grizzled gull]

probably the same as us(Minnesota here) in the winter lol

Why I don't wear socks in the winter

[atomic delta]

Eh, it can be. Usually not terrible though. Just don't drag your socks on the carpet.

[round crystal]

oof. that sucks. Minnesota is supposed to have winters like us in Ontario

Since you're in nevada, how often do your cows get abducted by aliens escaping area 51?

(/s)

Lol add a entity to the HA dashboard to track UFO spottings that day

[grizzled gull]

I think winters are similar, I think our summers are hotter though, could be wrong though, we need both teh AC and the heat

[atomic delta]

Well, sometimes they change it up and the cows escape area 51 and abduct the aliens. Gotta keep from getting bored.

[round crystal]

Why not you abduct the aliens with the cows?

Sounds more fun

[atomic delta]

The smell mostly.

[round crystal]

Have you seen a UAP?

Genuine question

Not saying aliens are real, but like have you seen weird flying things since area 51 is within reach of you technically

[atomic delta]

I've seen some aircraft that were unidentifiable, but they were definitely human. :P

[round crystal]

Wait, have you seen a SR-71 blackbird?

[atomic delta]

Actually yes

[round crystal]

what about a B2?

[atomic delta]

No

[round crystal]

aw

I want to see the flying dorito one day

It's one of the things I love about the USA, while the rest of the world develops special angled surfaces, coatings, and metals to be stealthy the USA decided hold my beer and makes a flying dorito

You only hear of this shit out of the USA

Here in Canada we can't even get a LRT opened lmfao

[grizzled gull]

meh angled surfaces are sooooo 1980's

[round crystal]

oh one thing I have to say the USA does poorly is airplanes.

after riding multiple AirBus A320 Neos and A380s, I can't go back to riding on Boeing

It's like going from a Rolls Royce to KIA

[atomic delta]

Yeah, but Canada invented 100% odorless marijuana. That shit's amazing. And the US lost their goddamn minds over it because drug dogs couldn't smell it.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/orion-raumpatrouille-ufo-gif-27520115

[round crystal]

wait I missed this lmfao

what?!

Did we do powdered alcohol or was that you guys?

[atomic delta]

I think it's still trapped in a lab because the US threw a fit over it.

[round crystal]

I remember powdered alcohol

[atomic delta]

I dunno about powdered alcohol

[round crystal]

If you want you're welcome to come to Canada and get blazed out of your mind

[grizzled gull]

that have powdered THC, I wonder how much that smells if at all

[round crystal]

We have weapons grade gummies

[round crystal]

please do not sniff that

You'll be in for a very bad time

[grizzled gull]

personal experience?

[atomic delta]

I'm allergic to marijuana, so that would not end well for me.

[round crystal]

no, really strong edibles. greened out. I can't imagine accidentally snorting straight THC

[grizzled gull]

What makes me the most annoyed about the whole gummy thing is the goverment wants to limit the mg per gummies, its not like people aren't just going to take more of them... I think it's just th raise taxes

[round crystal]

lol

come to Canada, we were so busy making stronger gummies we never stopped to ask if we should.

[grizzled gull]

ok you are limited to 5mg per gummy, ok then people will just take whatever they need

[atomic delta]

Speaking of being annoyed at the government, you hear they're trying to mandate age checks in operating systems now, including Linux? That shit's hilarious to me.

[grizzled gull]

In California, it will never work

[round crystal]

Hey

age check before sending messages

HA should have mandatory age checks

[atomic delta]

California, Colorado, UK, a few South American countries, it's spreading fast.

[round crystal]

I wonder if our privacy laws prevent it

our privacy laws killed Google Sidewalk Labs

Brutally.

[grizzled gull]

there will be so many forks of linux and work arounds, lawmaker's arent' to bright

Next it will be VPN's

[atomic delta]

Lawmakers not understanding tech. Shocker.

[round crystal]

age verification for driving your own car

[grizzled gull]

Then we will be like North Korea

[round crystal]

north korea isn't even this bad

age verification in an OS is insane

Like why

who does this aid?!

[grizzled gull]

Big media...

[atomic delta]

Palantit

[round crystal]

lol palantit

[atomic delta]

Y'know, I'm leaving that typo

[round crystal]

what a bunch of tits at that company

I wonder how this is gonna work in the age of AI

I can deepfake myself in real time.

[grizzled gull]

Honestly, the age verification thing doesn't bother me that much, it bothers me in a ideological sense but not physical if that makes sense?

[round crystal]

I get that

[atomic delta]

The reason it bothers me is because it's inherently identity verification.

[round crystal]

my work uses facial recognition to sign in

they don't trust us to not sign in when not at work

🙃

[grizzled gull]

I'm Salary, with a work computer, and a work phone, they don't care when I work :/

[round crystal]

my parnter has 2 jobs right now

one job (american company) cares

the other (canadian) doesn't

The work culture between our countries is insanely different

[grizzled gull]

Honestly if you can do both, why does it matter

[round crystal]

Exactly

[atomic delta]

I'm currently unemployed, being paid a reasonable amount by my parents to take care of them and drive them around as needed, while paying no rent, utilities, or insurance. It's a strange situation.

[round crystal]

With the american company, people are staying up until 2 am messaging group chats genuinely expecting replies

The canadian company? everyone is gone by 7 at the latest

They end at 5.

[grizzled gull]

I honestly work about 3 hours a day hard work, but its because I've setup my routines and am a subject matter expert

[round crystal]

Exactly. You're getting paid for your skills, not your time.

🙏

[atomic delta]

That's basically what I was doing.

[grizzled gull]

I have my work monitor above me, a 34" ultrawide below it and a 27" beside the ultrawide, only 1 monitor has work and its the 27" up high

[round crystal]

oof(?)

you got a pic? I can't visualize it

[grizzled gull]

not above me, above the 34"

[round crystal]

if you don't mind sharing of course

[atomic delta]

Lol, I thought you meant me for a second and I was confused as all fuck

[round crystal]

no but what car are you driving?

[grizzled gull]

so 34" is same height as 27" to the right of it, and above the 34" is a 27"

[round crystal]

so you have two super wide side by side

and a super wide above

[atomic delta]

Usually my Toyota Highlander, sometimes my parents' Dodge Grand Caravan.

[grizzled gull]

no 27" is 16:9 both of them

ultrawide is 32:10 or something like that

[ocean oar]

I really want one of the new Dell 52" 6K 21:9 displays (the one they announced at CES)

I just don't want to pay for it

[grizzled gull]

maybe its 21:9 I dunno lol

[atomic delta]

Funny how often this is my problem.

[grizzled gull]

so 16:9 uptop then 21:9 below and 16:9 to the right of the 21:9

[ocean oar]

The last monitor I bought (32" 4K 16:9, also Dell) cost me $1350 (NZD) in December 2019. That 52" is $4700, and I'm just not sure I want to spend that much on a monitor

[steel pumice]

Hello bird

[stuck mortar]

allegedly

[last cedar]

This deer is ruining me

[ocean oar]

Have you thought about a taller pole?

There's one distinguishing feature that differentiates deer from birds

[arctic quarry]

pff ever heard of springboards

[solar zealot]

springboards? that's not what the cool kids use

[arctic quarry]

I mean, a deer doing a Triple Backslash Dumbfuck Reverse Somersault to get one mouthful of bird seed would certainly qualify as cool in my book but hey

[ocean oar]

https://tenor.com/view/deer-trampoline-ouch-fall-deer-trampoline-gif-17336894075994993965

[high remnant]

The cake is a lie

[iron granite]

But waffles aren't.

[weak berry]

Hi there everyone! I have come here as I do not know where else 🙂 with the last update, 2026.03, the energy dashboad has lost a widget, the one showing the flow of energy between grid, solar, battery and home

any idea where I can go and dig for getting this one back ?

[iron granite]

#find-support

[last cedar]

I won't be able to reach it then 🤣

Would Darwin be proud over my changing the species to eat bird food?

[weak musk]

Get a pole with a hook, to remove the feeder from the pole

https://tenor.com/view/peanutbuttergamer-pbg-grab-gif-18369306

Or this

[last cedar]

Maybe the deer would come with a snorkel?

[robust flicker]

So the senior radio tech at the county where I work just showed up to the shop and he's already heading out. I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was headed to the other side of the county to do some antenna stuff, and said "wanna tag along?" Hell yeah I do, but we have the intercom inspection project at the jail. Ugh lol

"We'll do it another time then, later" I say "senior" radio tech, but really he's the ONLY one. He maintains all the radios for animal control vehicles, inspector's vehicles, etc.

He used to do the 911 and police fire radios, but the last 911 expansion took those out of the purview of the county and moved them to state, so...

[dusty mica]

that would be something for darwin 😉

[minor bobcat]

Drone Deers, 2026 baby

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/robotics-robot-dog-gif-10910919

[warm helm]

Or a rifle

[static schooner]

Pretty sure this is how elephants evolved to have trunks and giraffes grew long necks. You could build new animals!

[tidal bronze]

AI thinks "AI magic" is not good? 😂

[lapis cairn]

Could just hire a giraffe, unemployment is unreasonably high amongst them.

[exotic yoke]

no i dont want to make a scene thatd be so embarrasing

[exotic yoke]

AIs train on so much ai critisism i think theyre self depping now

[scenic radish]

you're making a scene. people are staring.

[stuck mortar]

AI writes sloppy code because they learned from us

[tidal bronze]

Agent to code check agents

[scenic radish]

ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for bolognese

[stuck mortar]

Phrasing is key. Don’t ask skynet to make you a recipe for bolognese

[tidal bronze]

They are more grounded now.

[exotic yoke]

honestly the way im fucking with scenes in my bedroom lights i wonder if someone is curious

[minor bobcat]

I reset my Hue Hub once and my Neighbor knocked, asking if that's some kind of alarm lol

[tawdry stirrup]

Anyone had issues with ZHA / Conbee2 adapter after HA update? I have never had any issues and now when updated in rush then no lights in the whole house 🙁

[warm helm]

Ai induced psychotic break incoming

[tawdry stirrup]

Hmm, a bit of complaining and couple of restarts and it works again \o/

[static schooner]

This is what happens when you don't provide reasonable work accommodations in the office

[simple gazelle]

Sleep as Android has a Test Hue function that does a full on lightswitch rave

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge https://youtu.be/5qEHne1iiaA?si=UsX7LoTZ-pvCSro9

Message from California l!

[orchid rose]

Piaccer Dj

[round crystal]

@acoustic spoke I saw that

[iron granite]

[last cedar]

He sounds like a wealth of information and learning

[last cedar]

Sometimes my zigbee buttons take 2 or 3 presses to wake them up and get them working after a battery change, etc. Could just be that it hadn't tried to actually route anything and the signals were just not getting to where they should.

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/far-zany-fantastic-asianelephant.jpg 👀

[tawdry stirrup]

The ZHA gave actually some error, Unknown command, or whatever it was. But suddently started to work now.

[last cedar]

Ok that changes things

Obviously #find-support is the right channel if it happens again anyway!

[weak finch]

Cool Music Assistant Sendspin -> AirPlay -> Cast and my room based presence music automation that joins the house speakers if they are playing and I walk in bedroom bathroom or patio and unjoins when I leave.

[high remnant]

<@&330946878646517761>

[scenic radish]

Gone

[fathom sparrow]

I was faster

[high remnant]

for the mods that feel left out and want to read the message I have a screenshot

[stuck mortar]

15 ft ceilings are a micro aggression

[high remnant]

last time there were complaints

[static schooner]

My spam crosses space and time

[high remnant]

with bacon and eggs?

[static schooner]

Inter dimensional spam

[scenic radish]

You might not realize this now, but you insulted yourself

[high remnant]

was

[fathom sparrow]

that's what the first loser always says

[swift prism]

When I talked about Xbox 360 console support for IoT

[forest edge]

dude that was shit like for real lol

thats what you get when some rich kid gets all the expensive toys they want to make music and they churn out crap like that

[ocean oar]

That isn't specific to music

[arctic quarry]

SCENE: NIGHT, calm, peaceful neighborhood, everyone's asleep

SPEAKER: BZZT🎸 BACK IN BLACK, I HIT THE SACK 🎶
(several neighbor windows light up)
STEVE: TURN IT DOWN, CHRIS
ABBY: I'VE GOT WORK TOMORROW
CHRIS: what in god's name
(opens patio door, turns on light)
DEER: 👀
RACCOON: :headbang:
SQUIRREL: LOVE THIS PART (frantic air guitar)

[tidal bronze]

You like it don't ya?

[forest edge]

if you are saying that dr basscube is your stage name i'd suggest you don't quit your day job

[tidal bronze]

You made my energy drop 😢

[forest edge]

wtf you plugged into ekg machine lol

[tidal bronze]

Something like that

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-neo-red-pill-wake-up-licking-stamps-from-strangers-gif-14478454

Welcome to the Real World

[round crystal]

Button skill issue.

[robust flicker]

The original books had the AIs using our brains as organic computers, btw.

[viral shuttle]

is it just me or did HA 2026.3.0 break lights turning on to a specific color? when i open doors it triggers sensors which then trigger a workflow, now i get "extra keys not allowed @ data['color_temp']"

[dawn badge]

There was a breaking change about that in the patch notes.

[viral shuttle]

is it planning to be unbroken?

[dawn badge]

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/161777

[dawn badge]

No, If you are effected then you will need to update your broken stuff.

[viral shuttle]

or a job that will convert scripts/yaml from the old to new?

[dawn badge]

Sounds like what you just signed up for.

[orchid rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrAz1YLh8nY

[ocean oar]

Oh man, the number of places I had buried that syntax over the years

Definitely a good opportunity to clean up some other stuff while you're there though

[exotic yoke]

holy fucking shit

idk how many of yall had dealt with blueair

but

i think they now send the api endpoint over bluetooth setup

which means like

if i or someone else could reverse engineer this

[exotic yoke]

i think its literally stock standard esp espressif provisioning

there is no way

[steel pumice]

What's that? Seems interesting

[last cedar]

My servers and UPS had triplets last night

[glacial knot]

which one's for me?

That's rack mounted batteries for PV I assume?

[last cedar]

If I survive connecting and setting it all up

That was what the girthy bus bars was for

[glacial knot]

also, not mounted with the same spacing

looks like the bottom ones are roughly one 🦝 apart. How many A do those fuse to?

[steel pumice]

Man I wish I had a setup like that

Right now I only have a optiplex with 12 gigs of ddr3 ram and a 4 core cpu

[solar zealot]

A like all of them

[last cedar]

Each battery has its own 120A bms fuse, 125A breaker.

Going to run 95mm2 cable fused to 250A

Inverters can pull 70A each (x3) for 12000W output

[glacial knot]

Nice

[last cedar]

At those currents, the instantanious fault current is probably enough to make molten copper, so I hope the fuses work

[glacial knot]

Ehhh. If it's thick enough

[ebon basalt]

it's not slow, HA is just too efficent

i want to bloat my HA so it at least has something to do

[last cedar]

Run it on a raspberry pi and sd card, it will be fighting for survival before you even install HAOS

[scenic radish]

I just installed an outdoor AP on our back patio, and the view from the bottom makes me uncomfortable

|| Access pointussy ||

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/bCuiB.gif

[scenic radish]

Yes

[simple gazelle]

On a related note the term "cable gland" always feels suspicious

[last cedar]

Generally I feel uncomfortable looking up anythings bum, so I can agree with you on this.

[minor bobcat]

You talking about flying deer again?

[shy plinth]

join us

[last cedar]

@shy plinth That is so clean, omg

I should have bought that rack though

[shy plinth]

i'm glad i did, the built in bus bars are nice

[last cedar]

I had to get my own....

[shy plinth]

i scooped one of their ebay deals that came with the rack for free w/ 4 batteries. downside atm is i need to get it into HA

sol-ark integrations through wifi are kinda meh

[last cedar]

We have access to the old rack without the busbars here

hence not grabbing that one

[shy plinth]

very good reason

[last cedar]

https://de.eco-worthy.com/collections/batterie-zubehor-1/products/eco-worthy-6-lagiges-19-zoll-server-farm-rack?_gl=1*r3bhwm*_up*MQ.._gaODI3Mjk2NTE1LjE3NzI5MDY3NDI._ga_95RW75XJTBczE3NzI5MDY3MzMkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzI5MDY3NjYkajI3JGwwJGgxMjI2MTM0OTY2*_ga_K7G5X8DHX5*czE3NzI5MDY3NDMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzI5MDY3NjYkajM3JGwwJGgxMDQ1MTQ3Mjkx

holy link batman

Sol ark is Deye right?

[shy plinth]

yeah

[last cedar]

It looks similar to the Deye inverters on the front

[shy plinth]

iirc deye is exclusively branded and sold as sol-ark in the us

[simple gazelle]

Can I get some Fs in chat for my first smart home retiree, as that lighting circuit now has a neutral.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-sir-yes-boss-military-salute-giving-honor-rip-gif-23161689

[last cedar]

I am looking to run Victron stuff, want to keep it European ideally

[last cedar]

Oh, has it now become Swiss?!

[simple gazelle]

It's also now a two-way so I need to rejig the box anyway, but that's a story for another time thread

[shy plinth]

Understandable. I had a company handle the main install so went with what they recommended that fit my requirements

Then bought the batteries after the fact and installed em myself

[warm helm]

I'm trying but money and install cost and time

[last cedar]

Sounds solid to be honest!

I am hoping to do all of the install myself and getting an electrician in to do the final hook up of the 3 phase power

Have some other changes to make to the house system too, so might as well make the most of it

Planning to heat my cellar with the waste heat from all the equipment 😄

[shy plinth]

i know my limitations haha

plus was up against the tax credit deadline here

[last cedar]

That makes good sense also

I work with low voltage stuff for a living, door entry, cameras, alarms etc so I feel fairly comfortable with that bit

it is just slightly thicker cable

[glacial knot]

Finally got control of my Roborock back 🎉 2026.3 🎉

[shy plinth]

def an advantage. the 48V was ok for me, i didn't want to get up on the roof and deal with mounting and all that. and they did a really clean install so i'm happy with it

[shy plinth]

i did overengineer my battery connection though and went for 4/0 cable when 2/0 would've been a lot easier to work with

[last cedar]

I am probably going to mount on the wall of my house and on the ground, we get a reasonable amount of snow and were are at 59* North here so very low sun in the winter

Front of house would work for later in the day to charge electric car etc though, so will eventually have some on the roof too

[shy plinth]

ooh yeah, i had some slight HOA limitations where could probably have done a ground mount but they wouldn't have been keen on it

[last cedar]

I think (as a person living in Sweden) that HOA just seems like a complete and massive steaming pile of BS

[shy plinth]

and they are very chill otherwise so no need to annoy them

mine is very minimal on cost and they provide a playground, splash pad for kids and some other common areas plus do some movie nights and food truck events so not too bad

[last cedar]

I understand the need for people not building skyscrapers and giant pink gerbils for houses, but I have seen some nightmare stuff on youtube etc

[shy plinth]

oh 100%

[last cedar]

That doesn't sound bad at all tbh

[exotic yoke]

i live at uni so i cant do this but also i dont remember a single time the power has gone out in the 3 years ive been here

will be moving to a real apartment soon and hope it will be the same

[last cedar]

We don't get problems with power cuts either, for me it is about saving money long term and also having a backup power source in emergencies 2nd

[exotic yoke]

ah fair enough

god my childhood home had quite regular power outages

usually were short

but i swear any bad enough storm could knock out some crucial power line and leave us withgout for hours

[last cedar]

I am planning to run 35mm2 (100A) to everything apart from the batteries, that will be 95mm2 (fused 250A)

[forest edge]

You should feel uncomfortable knowing your mind went that direction at all

[last cedar]

Ask over in #1284966353798697001

[dawn badge]

<@&330946878646517761>

[last cedar]

This minecraft raccoon is giving me nightmares

[orchid rose]

Seems chill

[dawn badge]

My JetKVM died, big sad. Luckily I have a spare for the job at hand, But it is still a big sad.
Life just wanted to punish me as I has literally taking to a friend 30 minutes before it happened and was saying how great its been and recommending it.

[peak slate]

mine is still working thankfully, that was a massive PITA to install on that box (i soldered jumpers onto the mainboard to get access to the power switch and LED, and had to add some resistors to get it all to work)

[dawn badge]

mine was mounted into my work in progress mini rack I had to pull a bunch of stuff out to switch it out.

have been making some really nice progress on the project today then get knocked back

[peak slate]

dang that is a PITA to replace too then

[dawn badge]

then apprantly i didnt push the mini hdmi in the entire way so had to pull it out again 🙁

i guess better now then when the thing is in production...

Seems to be my story at the moment, I have a bunch of unfished projects before stuff keeps going wrong randomly.

[ocean oar]

I bought one of the USB ones (https://wiki.sipeed.com/nanokvmusb), more useful to me the majority of the time than the network kind

It highlighted a poor assumption I had made in one of my automations

I was playing with HASS.Agent on my pc, so when I'm on video calls the panel light above the monitor can turn on automatically

Well guess what masquerades as a webcam and turns the light on 😆

[dawn badge]

yeah i get them being useful is some situations but network is needed for me.

[young sigil]

So it was a false alarm? Not dead?

[dawn badge]

no it was dead, this was the 2nd jetkvm that i replaced the dead one with.

[young sigil]

Did you hit them up for warranty? I have two that I am going to rely on for the next 12 months.

[dawn badge]

I emailed them, Hopefully can get something sorted.

[silent dove]

@sudden heath I converted your message into a file since it's above 15 lines :+1:

The topic of this channel is:

@sudden heath There’s no support here - only chill. Come in, grab a drink, chat with your fellow community members! This is a space to talk to other smart home enthusiasts. If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

[iron granite]

It is.

If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support.