Expand on this. How do you properly prepare a green banana?

Fuck. I almost wish I didn’t read this.

There’s a great automation integration in home assistant that uses the suns position and time of day to automagically set the color temp throughout the day. It’s super nice to have the color temp get warmer as the sun sets.

For sure. That one is a bit harder to get right, but is good to keep testing and striving for.

Pretty hard to replace weather info without internet. I don’t have any automations that rely on weather info, and I have a cheap rain gauge that a friend 3d printed for me. It uses a simple zigbee door sensor to detect rain accumulation. Pretty clever device (not my invention.)

So eventually I want to automate the watering of my garden, and I intend to use the rain sensor to help there. But honestly, it never rains in the summer here in the PNW, so my 3rd reality moisture sensors are more useful than actual weather data.

Tasmota is awesome. I flashed all my early Shelly devices with it. But now the native Shelly firmware is amazing, and it allows you to turn on local mqtt only. So I’ve stopped using Tasmota for everything besides the few devices flashed early and behind my wall switches. (I’m too lazy to pull them out)

Is it hard to flash bulbs with Tasmota? Don’t you usually need access to the pins? Or have an OTA option for updating the firmware?

Like the other user mentioned: depends on your setup.

I have recessed lighting throughout my house, so swapping to bulbs for all of them would have been an expensive pain. So I opted for smart switches. I got innovelli reds, because they were the best there was at the time. You can get them with any protocol you want (zigbee/zwave/wifi)

With a smart switch, you can control lots of lights with only one device. Originally I just added Shelly relays behind each switch, but I wanted the dimming capability of the innoveli.

If you do still want bulbs, nothing beats hue. But they are by far the most expensive.

I think you gotta fix the door before you can have complete confidence.

My automated deadbolt can ‘force’ its way shut when it has full battery. But when it gets low on juice, the door needs to be ‘fully shut’

So your best bet is to better align your strike plate so the door doesn’t need shimmied to close fully.

Door locks and garage door openers are sweet to automate. My instance knows if I left by car/bike/foot, and welcomes me home with the proper unlocking/opening.

Also, never having to worry about if I left the door unlocked or garage door open is nice.

You can tell it’s an IT guy’s home assistant if there’s no hardware that requires someone else’s cloud.

My home automation philosophy is that everything in the house should work with or without internet. It’s going well so far.

Thanks! I’ll check it out

You got any more specific info on how to do this? I spun up my caliber web container on my home server, but once I realized you can’t download books over the wifi, you still had to connect to a PC, I stopped hosting it.

What ebook readers are capable of this magic?

If you like running, join a running group.

If you like biking, join a biking group.

If you like _____, join a _____ group.

Yeah, the people in those groups won’t all be your age, but there is likely to be some variance, and you already have one interest in common.

Yes! That’s exactly what I meant. I simply do not like the 3D look for these purposes.

I think that’s a pretty common theme for home assistant projects. I’ve been known to take things way too far on several occasions.

This is very similar to how I did my ghetto manual version of this on a picture elements card. Except I did it in 2D, which I actually find to be cleaner and easier for me to interpret at a glance.

But I really like the reactivity of your lights in color and brightness. Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

Okay, I was looking through the schedule’s logs, and it looked like every day had the schedule triggered when it was supposed to. So I went to my thermostat and changed it to ‘non programmable’ so there is no day/night cycle on the thermostat itself. I will see if this fixes the missed days.

I am curious though, because I had always been under the assumption that using the scheduler is better than simple time triggered automations because if the system or entity is unavailable at the exact moment the automation triggers, you could miss it. This could lead to irrigation pumps being left on for hours instead of minutes, and furnaces running the wrong temp all day/night, etc. It appears to me that the scheduler integration is simply running an automation at every breakpoint in the defined schedule.

looks like it might be another trip down KDE tinkering lane for me! Thanks for all the tips.

I had this same setup with my Eero router integration, but I found that if my laptop or desktop was accidentally left on, and the sleep timer was inactivated, HA would think I was home. So I’m just using GPS of my phone to do my person stuff now.

I do like the idea of different triggers for different zones. Especially zones for commonly visited locations (work, gym, grocery, etc). I really don’t have many automations that trigger by my presence/absence, as all my lights are pretty much automatic. I like the house to look like I’m home, even if I’m not.

This has brought up another issue I have been battling - my ‘home’ zone refuses to be resized… I shrink it down, and literally the next time I leave, it triggers at the same damn spot, and when I open my config, it shows the same size circle. I think I just need to do some cleanup and updates to my system. It’s been a while.