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APassenger OP ,

HA has very specifically targeted the device I mentioned. While I know ESP Home and Esp32 generally is a vast topic and catalog... There's one primary device (currently).

And it is, now, easy to set up once you find your way. When they improve the instructions, it is quite near to being a button click. And has been explained as nearly as much, hence the expectation.

APassenger OP ,

I got a few smart plugs with matter. They paired nicely with HA, but surprised me by falling into their app anyhow.

But they work. Those are Kasa/tp-link.

What're yours?

APassenger ,

Silly question:

In all of this, did you change your username or password?

APassenger ,

I recently added a kasa smart plug using matter. Then the tp-link integration noticed it and forced me to reauthenticate.

That's my closest match to your story.

It had been given my username and password before. But it needed them all over again. I've had that happen for other things before, too.

Not sure if would help or if you have done it... But it takes about a literal minute to do.

APassenger ,

Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the super charging network.

Rebrand and keep building.

I'm pretty sure there's a path to wealth in that idea. I have neither the means nor the skill. But some does. Just not Musk.

APassenger , (edited )

My current ICE may be due for replacement after over a decade of use.

I want an EV with NACS that isn't a Tesla. And so I wait. I don't need anything complicated, but I don't want to own a car with the "wrong" kind of port.

Edit: Or they could layoff the entire Super Charger team at a time the build out is most necessary and leave things super uncertain.

To car manufacturers: don't trust Musk. I don't have strong feelings about which connector "wins," I just don't want to be using the one no one else does. And that depresses the value of the car.

APassenger ,

It. Doesn’t. Matter.

Yet. Eventually a USB-C will emerge. Then only logitech (backward OEMs) won't support it.

APassenger ,

Oof. You think it will take that long? Very honest question.

If that's how long it takes, I'll be very sad. You may be right but that bums me out.

APassenger ,

My car runs and I use it infrequently. Hell, I use it so the battery doesn't die. No lie. Where I like is imminently walkable.

So I don't need to rush into anything. That's not self-defeating; it's just realism.

APassenger ,

Take home or total cost?

For instance, is there a pension to be funded with costs not included in that 100k?

APassenger ,

Cities Skylines 2 went the opposite direction.

Here's hoping lessons are learned. Entire generations have learned to be deeply skeptical even with trusted brands.

And, yes, I hope that skepticism and relationship based, authentic(?) word of mouth brings sanity for a while.

Until businesses try to optimize that into oblivion too. We gotta put guard rails in place.

APassenger ,

Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes. Improved our sleep.

Turn off the cable box every night since the dwvs love to install new updates at 3 Am which iniitaites a restart, which, in turn, illuminates the entire bedroom. An unforgivable sin.

Recently: decided we'd get curtains and make everything smart. It wasn't a bank buster to get a couple gizmos. Night is dark and daytime the curtains open when my wife comes home - giving her the natural light she covets. Makes our humble 1000 Sq ft seem larger, besides.

Now replacing our Google hub with an old old tablet. The S4 seems almost perfect and wallpanel is great. Especially if coupled with ha-Floorplan.

APassenger ,

Switchbot Curtain 3 for curtain rods. I like them, but carefully made sure they'd never have to climb the telescoping part of the rods. That... That it didn't seem awesome at.

All I did was extend the rods to the side maintaining symmetry and made sure the ridge was at mid-point.

APassenger ,

I did mine manually over a weekend. Built in variable length of time, transition periods and variable brightness vmbased on how bright it is (outside) when it runs.

There's actually 3 sets of 150+ RGBs. They're similar, but on is warmer, one is cooler, meaning the lights aren't all a match.

APassenger ,

I live in a place where clouds aren't often a factor, I only used the sun's elevation for that script.

At this point I could modify those values with cloud cover percent, but I haven't.

In short: it's calculated.

APassenger ,

And working to make voice and AI something we can all have... locally. I'm just a humble apartment dweller, but HA is embedded in a lot of our home.

Wouldn't care to have it any other way.

I pay annually and consider this the most valuable subscription we have for the family.

APassenger ,

There's multiple issues with this but a lot of them come down to: it's Google.

They will charge. They have heaps of money, they will enzhittify. They will kill and recommend a new less capable app.

They're Google and I'm moving away from them hard.

I do use YT a lot, and for now I pay. But give me a little time and that won't be as true.

APassenger ,

I was simply explaining why I'm bailing on them.

Google graveyard has happened. YT makes them a lot of money, so it's not likely destined there. But, like search, they will eventually make it more about $ extraction than value for the customer.

It hasn't happened yet. Early adopters and early leavers shape things.

APassenger ,

I have a Hub 2 but firmware is 1.5. How did you get 2.0 on yours?

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

APassenger ,

Yeah... I've been evaluating moving to Plex or Jellyfin.

Kinda getting done with a lot of this smart stuff. The Monopolies are flexing and I don't enjoy it.

APassenger ,

S3XZY?

APassenger ,

I've ordered gizmos that will work with Home Assistant to replace my minis. I'm working my way off Gmail...

I'm seriously de-googling. Apartment uses a nest thermostat, but... I may be able to get that far.

Matter devices help in many ways. De-clouding is one.

APassenger ,

Home Assistant is open source, privacy oriented and working to make local non-cloud, non-Spyware) the norm.

It's getting easier and easier to adopt and matter devices avoid cloud silliness.

APassenger ,

I haven't received these yet. They're in significant demand and order times are long.

When I ordered I was supposed to receive them about now. Now the order is pushed to June. According to those who have them, they work well enough. If I want, I can tie in an AI (cloud or local).

https://youtu.be/oSKBWtBJyDE?si=E7vqbO3GMFRDynTR

APassenger ,

My recommendation is to buy an RPi, SD card, and Mater devices as much as possible.

Voice is possible on Home Assistant and it will only get better. The devs, like many of us, prefer privacy and local control/storage.

There's a way, it's just not the path the author chose. The better path has only come about in the last year or so, tho.

Fwiw: you can tie the voice stuff into OpenAI and ask questions. It's no longer local and each query costa fraction of a cent... But if you feel like you need that, it's there.

APassenger ,

"Good boundaries" are a helluva thing.

Ergo: the person or team at fault are the ones who didn't do the specific thing that was needed.

APassenger OP ,

I'll add: ideally I'd like the slideshow to work while we're in the area, and for the screen to go dark after a set time and/or HA knows we're in bed. I can have a radar/sensor flag if we're in the room, so any hardware wouldn't need to have it.

APassenger OP , (edited )

Thanks, I like the look and implementation of that. My hub replacement may (or may not) have voice built in. Either way, this may be the way to go.

As conext: I've been planning to use the new on-device wake word tech with a few ESP32-S3-BOX-3 scheduled for delivery later this month. Since I posted the above, I've learned the planned ship date has moved to late May. (shrug) Now my local voice assistant plan is delayed.

The ESP32s would be my voice & presence detection devices (if they work as I expect). The hub replacement can almost be dumb, although I am picturing it running in a full-screen browser window - like found in what you linked and possibly using that very solution.

APassenger ,

I rather like mine, but would love to know it will last over a decade. There's so much going on out there with AI and all of that, it's hard to know what to expect.

APassenger ,

"Popcorn tastes good."

APassenger ,

Oh Geez. I didn't know this until just now?

I learned so much by reading literature... but I guess the idioms and spellings have moved on since they were written and I need to keep up.

Frustrating, but thank you for the link.

APassenger ,

Down votes don't mean what people think. Down votes mean:

  • bad source
  • incorrect content (I disagree)
  • doesn't contribute meaningfully
  • made me feel bad in some way
APassenger ,

Cool Meaney (O'Brien) reversed the polarity on the inertial dampener.

APassenger ,

Autowrong fixed my "typo..."

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APassenger ,

That's why the labor laws are "unconstitutional."

APassenger ,

They still have all the edit history. All editing does is show the last one. The servers would have every version.

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

APassenger ,

Like helping our fight against anthropogenic climate change.

APassenger ,

Is Google turning into IBM?

APassenger ,

I don't know the worth of this opinion, but it resonates for me. .

I have never worked for Google or an affiliate, so I have no inside take.

Share your favorite automations

I've been running HA for a while, and it's been working well; I haven't had to change much in a few months. That being said, it's fun to tinker with it, and I'm curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of interesting...

APassenger ,

Sunset and sunrise automations. Lights on and off, vacuum run times - all adapted to presence.

Made the litter-robot auto-repair when it enters trouble states. Better history of all elements controlled.

APassenger ,

I'm almost embarrassed to admit, I found an online image of the colors of the sky through the day, pasted it into excel, and then capture 160+ rgb values for the sunset. It was a tedious process, but no math got it right.

I set all those values (and a warmer and cooler set) in the script and then pass in the desired duration. Most nights we have a 45 minute sunset play out across 6 total lights. Three sets of values, so the bulbs don't match.

Starts as soft white ending in the darkest twilight blue my bulbs can provide. We remark on it regularly and I think it's helped ease us into the right frame of mind for sleep.

I run the same values in reverse for sunrise.

Clearly, its my favorite one.

APassenger , (edited )

They want out and haven't found a way to make money off of voice assistant. They're just slowly killing it.

It's part of why I'm pushing hard on my HA and hoping their voice efforts at least give me a solid voice experience at home.

HA = Home Assistant

Edit to say: I get that people are frustrated that previously good (mostly) free solutions are going away. I'm not defending tech, but I do see their business need here. Google has long lost my trust anyhow.

I'm not upset by the down votes, but 8 do wonder what they mean.

To me the only safe thing to do is pull back and build my own. Raspberry Pis aren't expensive.

APassenger ,

Matter. Get it adopted. Buy and implement only Matter devices in the future.

Needs a year or two, but if we can get that tech widespread, this cloud stuff will be less essential.

APassenger , (edited )

Matter works with HA and HA works with matter, keeping it local and easier (is the hope).

Edit to add: it's not really a private cloud. It's a mesh/WiFi network that transfers data based on the item type.

APassenger ,

Matter, if implemented correctly, would save them all money and allow the privacy conscious to drop the cloud.

They are losing money on their voice assistants, so they want out of the business of being the voice part of the central hub.

They'll find ways to monetize the users who are less privacy concerned, but that's not me and I think it's not a lot of people who are here.

Ediit: I didn't downvote you. I'm here for discourse and have found down votes don't help that.

APassenger ,

Quick nofe: Albertsons and Kroger want to be one company. Soon.

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