Another example of #Apple “intelligence” totally messing up. Nowhere in the email was £100 mentioned, I wish it was as that would have been a far cheaper visit.
I dread the day when this comes to my work email, I’ll spend half my time correcting people that only read the misinformation.
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A little milestone reached with 20k people downloading the latest version of Battery Notes for #HomeAssistant
True usage stats are impossible but this is the figure used in HACS to indicate popularity.
Never thought I’d reach this sort of usage when I first created it but it’s been great receiving lots of positive feedback and ideas for improving it.
It does also make me very nervous releasing new versions in case I break something.
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Moved my Ulanzi clock from EspHoMaTriXv2 to Awtrix 3 as it seems the more maintained solution now.
Rather than blueprints I wanted to vary the mechanism for refreshing data so created some simple scripts in #HomeAssistant for adding an app, deleting an app, and creating a notification which I can call regardless of what trigger I want to use.
The scripts have common defaults and if I ever need anything unusual I can just use an MQTT publish directly.
https://gist.github.com/andrew-codechimp/5802f492f0b3968d3f0d529274d2d61f
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Finally removed the deprecated code in #HomeAssistant core for the yaml config of the Mastodon integration ready for the 2025.2 release, that's one less backward compatibility to consider when creating new features.
Most deprecations hangs around for 6 months, during which time you'll get warnings or issues raised. If you leave updating your instance too long you'll miss these early notifications and things will break with no explanation, so try to keep within a few months.
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My #HomeAssistant Voice device arrived and I'm putting it to work in the kitchen, the most demanding place for frequent use to add items to Mealie and also suffers the most background noise.
I've been a bit spoilt with Onju Voice (Google Mini's with custom PCB's) which have a far better speaker but don't have the ability to play and listen at the same time, which the HA Voice can due to two I2S buses so timers, wake sounds and interruptions are possible.
Getting closer to replacing the Echo.
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Thinking about the #HomeAssistant voice hardware, that Grove port location on the bottom would make it possible to create a stackable module that sits underneath.
Lots of option for things like a screen, additional input controls, or other sensors in a neat package.
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Watching the #HomeAssistant Voice Preview Edition launch video and Okay Nabu kept triggering my speaker and switching off my lights.
Because I watch on my Apple TV I knocked up a quick little automation to disable the wake word on my speaker whilst You Tube is playing a Home Assistant video and enabling it again after.
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Checking my #HomeAssistant logs and I’d missed the handy max_exceeded: silent yaml from an automation and then had to go look up the syntax, which prompted my third WTH submission.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-is-there-no-way-to-configure-automation-mode-parameters-max-exceeded-and-max-in-the-ui/812480?u=codechimp
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Another Shelly relay going in over the xmas period so I thought I'd do as much wiring as I could at my desk.
It's going to replace a really old security light that has those silly dials for sensitivity that seem to do nothing.
I don't know why I bought a blue rather than a PM red, the double live connection is just annoying and for low amp/same voltage use the PM is easier to wire.
Already integrated with #HomeAssistant so just a small automation to link it to the existing motion sensor.
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The label's in #HomeAssistant have saved me some hassle yet again.
I have a fair few sensors in storage awaiting a new use, but I also have events that fire when any device is unreported or has a low battery.
A new label of unused on those devices and a condition in the automation filters those devices out of notifications
{{ trigger.event.data.device_id not in label_devices('unused') }}
They can remain forgotten in the box and not bug me now.
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It has taken 5 sensors in a #HomeAssistant automation to detect Amazon drivers dumping parcels.
Driveway detects motion
Porch detects motion (and driveway is active)
Door not open
Doorbell not rang
Letterbox not opened
Then there's an Amazon parcel, or a cat has crossed both motion sensors.
I could run POE ethernet, install a camera, install and learn a person detecting camera container app to rule out the cat but it hasn't happened yet and that would be a whole extra project and expense.
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Guess when I discovered #CloudFlare cache rules after I went live with the Battery Notes library being stored on R2 storage.
I wouldn't have had issues on the free tier even at that level without cache, but with the library changing infrequently and a simple call to clear the cache when it does I can now achieve only dozens of reads from the store a day.
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Well 3 hours of carefully editing yaml and I have half my button blueprints moved over, had to go for the MQTT device trigger method as the experimental HA event entity method doesn't seem to be working on the devices I tested.
This is going to be one big mess for those that have auto update of Z2M switched on and have grabbed some old blueprints without understanding them.
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Here's the link to the deprecated button click method to check if you are using it, I'm planning to jump straight to the HA Event entity method as that will become recommended in 2.0.
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/usage/integrations/home_assistant.html#via-home-assistant-sensor-entity-deprecated-will-be-removed-in-2-0-0 (2/2)
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For those using #zigbee2mqtt with #HomeAssistant there's some big breaking changes coming with the 2.0 release on January 3rd, its totally passed me by!
I've been using a long deprecated method for my various button blueprints so will have to rework them, there's a LOT of blueprints out there using this method.
Also most of my motion sensors illuminance_lux will be going away and illuminance will be used with a different scale so that will require tweaking.
https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/discussions/24198%E2%80%A6 (1/2)
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The newly refined integration quality scale within #HomeAssistant has had some real thought and effort put into it.
Its been fun to raise some PR's and tick off some low hanging fruit for the integrations I'm an owner of and even got me thinking about how I can improve my custom ones, even though they don't get an official quality scale.
I think with little effort I'll be aiming at bronze or silver due to larger constraints, but they will have a higher polish.
https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/integration-quality-scale/
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I've been playing with R2 storage buckets on #Cloudflare this last week, effectively an S3 clone but without egress fees, very cool to learn something new.
As Battery Notes for #HomeAssistant user numbers are growing I worry about serving the library file from GitHub directly with all users getting updates every day since there's no documented limits on serving files this way.
I have the library updates pushing to R2 and I'll run it for a while myself before switching everyone to it.
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The new Aqara T1 water or gas tap controller is going to sell really well.
They clamp over the top of your existing little valves where your washing machine etc is attached and turn the lever via zigbee control.
Will need to check the amount of space around my valves as their example installations aren’t anything like a typical cupboard under the sink.
https://www.aqara-shop.co.uk/product/aqara-valve-controller-t1/
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Created my first ever repair flow within #HomeAssistant, the developer docs on this give you all the info required without resorting to looking at a core implementation.
I've had a few support issues where a Battery Note gets orphaned so this will help deal with those once released after some thorough testing.
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A new #HomeAssistant Green tucked nicely in my rack for dev/test purposes. The Dell is my production system running our prod HA and a lot of other applications, all containerised.
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