My parents and I were at the store last week, coming back to our car in a handicap spot (my mom recently had knee surgery). Two assholes had already dropped their carts off in the blue painted areas next to our car blocking the door, and another asshole literally pushed his cart in front of us to join the pile.
The store's entrance where all the carts were was literally a dozen steps away.
I was steaming mad all day, absolutely ruined my outlook on humanity for a few days
Nah, I just put a relay and esp32 together and connected it alongside the garage door switch (super old school). It sits on top of the opener in a little enclosure. I originally controlled it with mqtt, but later reflashed the esp with esphome.
My people! I knew I was starting to get into it when I built some multisensors and a garage door switch controlled by esp32s. Still haven't done too many very complex things with automations, basically situational lighting and so on.
Cool, I've never used hall effect sensors but I'll look into them too. Let us know how it works 😁
I've been thinking about this recently too!
I kind of have a very crude version of this, by simply mounting my garage door tilt sensor as high up on the door as I could. Since it would go horizontal along with the very first section of the door, it triggers as soon as the door is open about 1/5 of the way.
Response isn't very fast, though, so if I wanted more precise control I was thinking about building 3 ESP distance/ultrasonic sensors mounted to the ceiling pointed downwards, one at the end of the track, one about 1/4 of the way from the end of the track, and one at the start (where the top of the door stops when it's completely open).
So the sensors would detect in order of sensors triggered, "closed -> cracked -> slightly open/ing -> open".
Tracking the previous state of the door in a variable would let me know the direction the door is moving as the sensors get triggered too.
I was going to suggest this too. A magnetic white board on a conspicuous wall in a common space. It's what my wife and I use for her cottage food business. Whiteboard marker, post-its, or notes affixed by magnets.
Thanks! Although I'm using Android; and since I need aliases with mailbox.org anyway, presumably I have that covered with K-9. For MacOS I'm happy with the default Mail client anyhow; it's nice enough to hold all my stuff that isn't browser based.
Their web client seemed kind of crappy, but usable at least, if I remember right. Not often I need to log in from a computer that I don't own, but once in a while it comes in handy.
Could you elaborate on what features are missing? I'm currently using mailbox.org as an email host, but considering swapping over to iCloud+
Thank you for this post; there's a lot of this that I didn't know, and I've always had a vague anti-PETA sentiment without really knowing why.
My favorite place to get coffee when we visited Florence was in the santambrogio market (https://maps.app.goo.gl/DQpFQyF3yJp5RztNA). There's a little coffee counter where the locals belly up and chat over espressos. 2EUR (when we were there) for a cup, they have wine and the neighboring vendors in the same building have epic food and snacks for sale too.
I'd been hoping for a beefier processor in a surface go form factor; unfortunately MS lost me to an m-series MBA but if not I'd take a pretty close look at the Go 4!