Bluesheep

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[–] Bluesheep 2 points 4 days ago

Some cool examples there, I’m going to think about them. I particularly like the walking ones.

I want to love dashboards. I love the idea of a control centre in each room but I just can’t get to the point of winning with them

[–] Bluesheep 1 points 4 days ago

I totally understand mission critical motivations, but I reached a different conclusion from you. I’ve been HA’ing for a long time and everything dies eventually.

Do you have a backup HA green in the cupboard? my wife would murder me if I couldn’t get the house back in 24 hours. I want to use hardware that you can buy literally anywhere so I don’t need to keep a backup.

I’m not there yet, but I havve moved to running HA on a proxmox server and have used my HA backup to recover from a software failure. I’m now thinking about what the same would look like for a hardware failure, either the mini pc or the zigbee dongle.

[–] Bluesheep 1 points 4 days ago

I like this, but I don’t like that rooms are cold unless I hang out in them. I live in an old stone house and I’d rather have a room schedule than a room presence sensor.

I’ve done something similar. I use the excellent scheduler from Niels Faber. I have room radiator TRVs. I have a helper entity that counts the number of radiators that have an open valve, and an automation that triggers when this changes to/from zero. This automation adjusts the central nest thermostat, converting it to more or less a posh switch.

My radiator valves use Better Thermostat and external temperature sensors, and the whole thing keeps my house warm in every room. I need to write a GH blog post about it, but happy to answer questions/share bits of config

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'Touch points' in HA (self.homeassistant)
submitted 4 days ago by Bluesheep to c/homeassistant
 

I was reading the HA roadmap and thinking about the points where everyone (else) interacts with my HA environment. I’ve wanted displays/dashboards for a long time but mostly have either battery powered buttons or smart wall switches. These are good in that I can automate them but with two teenage children we have a lot of variability.

Tell me how everyone else uses HA in your house. Do they love it? Do they see only that buttons ‘do things’? Do they read dashboards and crave data?

[–] Bluesheep 5 points 2 weeks ago

Big shout out to Adaptive Lighting. Absolutely love this integration

[–] Bluesheep 32 points 1 month ago

I feel like almost everyone with ADHD could have told them that.

[–] Bluesheep 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can’t exactly solve your problem, but when I wanted to get HA running on proxmox I used these scripts

Tteck

Completely painless and running in almost as little time as it took to download the files.

[–] Bluesheep 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you’ve got access to the file system I think you could remove the custom component there - can’t exhausted resources if there’s no code!

[–] Bluesheep 1 points 1 month ago

I did wonder if that was the one that did it. That’ll teach me to update multiple things at once.

The only thing I lost was a day of recorder data and since I repaired it before bed I guess if I went and recovered the previous build I’d lose what I had overnight in the switch back.

Thanks for letting me know though, I’ll warn my friends before they update.

[–] Bluesheep 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This happened to me, I’m running HAOS on proxmox. Ended up restoring from backup. Rollback from the CLI didn’t fix it either.

[–] Bluesheep 1 points 3 months ago

It’s hard to not make them sound trivial, but you’ll see some of them in the memes that pass through here. Off the top of my head though:

  • the importance of routine/consistency. He got up at the same time almost every day for 50 years. He went to the gym before anything got in the way, that sort of thing.
  • he pushes conscious decision making, of following through on things and being definite. Do not let yourself be guided by what you want in the moment, be guided by what you plan and intend.
  • put things in the same place. Put things back where you got them from. Don’t rely on your memory, rely on your habits.

When I write these they seem silly and trivial, but they help me a lot.

[–] Bluesheep 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s hard though. A key criteria (at least in the UK) how much it affects you day-to-day. My father probably has it and passed along a lot of guidance that I now recognise as coping mechanisms/symptom management strategies. Day to day I’ve got it in hand, it’s only when the big storms come that I struggle, and that doesn’t fit with the diagnostic approach.

[–] Bluesheep 2 points 4 months ago

I don’t know how tech savvy you are, but I’m assuming since your on lemmy it’s pretty good :)

The way we’ve solved this sort of problem in the office is by using the LLM’s JSON response, and a prompt that essentially keeps a set of JSON objects alongside the actual chat response.

In the DND example, this would be a set character sheets that get returned every response but only changed when the narrative changes them. More expensive, and needing a larger context window, but reasonably effective.

 

Two-Thirty!

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Help building a homebrew NVR (self.homeassistant)
submitted 1 year ago by Bluesheep to c/homeassistant
 

I’ve got a project in mind I’d like to test with the community before going ok deep on.

I’d like to put together a face-recognising NVR closely tied to homeassistant. I’m thinking of using an RPi4 with a coral attached. Then installing docker and including the following:

  • frigate
  • doubletake
  • compreface (unless others recommend a better detector?)

I have an MQTT server in HA but also wondering if it makes sense to have a local MQTT server for the NVR.

As usual, I’m working on the edge of what I know, so any suggestions/comments on things that might trip me up would be warmly welcomed.

 

There is a key to lock it closed, and the same key will lock it either on or off. In keeping with a Victorian Bell/Butler Board but not near it in the house.

I guess it must be some kind of isolator switch, but I know nothing of its history.

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