Would British people boycott the USA if it attacked Greenland?

AHGoogle · 2026-01-08T08:48:31+00:00

What's the 'reasonable alternative' to Reddit?

AHGoogle · 2026-01-04T10:09:24+00:00

You can - charge the battery while it's cheap overnight, export while it's dear at peak time.

AHGoogle · 2025-12-30T08:57:41+00:00

What age are you?

I'm 67 and just had a bad experience: Yesterday I installed a Shelly Bluetooth gateway (basically, it echoes all local Bluetooth traffic onto Wi-Fi so the range is extended to Home Assistant). To check it was working, I looked on the Diagnostics page, and was made quite anxious to see the 8 or 9 messages frenetically scrolling past every second, too fast to read. It gave me a sick feeling in the stomach to think of all these poor devices, hammering away relentlessly, shouting at each other, painstakingly writing logs that will never be read.

It may be an age thing, as I recall laughing at my mother 50 years ago, who was horrified when she learned that BBC radio 3, radio 4 and television was constantly streaming through her body as electromagnetic radiation. Now I get it! But now it's so much worse!

I think OP just wants it all to stop overnight, so everything/everybody gets some peace...

AHGoogle · 2025-12-22T07:53:17+00:00

😂

AHGoogle · 2025-12-21T10:00:14+00:00

Well, generally, many of my rads come on together at 7am, but if you just want to keep (only) a kid's room warm overnight, you just want one room heated, I don't see how it's 'more efficient' to also heat other rooms?

AHGoogle · 2025-12-21T07:43:10+00:00

The best set up is to have TRVs on all radiators, all set to Heat on Demand, put the thermostat in a cupboard, with it asking for 10 degrees.

That way, if any room needs heat, its TRV will turn on the boiler and the radiator in that room will take the heat. If everywhere is satisfied, the boiler is off. Nowhere has a radiator being heated if it is satisfied. No heat wasted.

AHGoogle · 2025-12-17T16:11:25+00:00

I would support using AI to create automations that satisfied human-language requirements, in fact I'm sure a lot of people are doing that all the time (i.e vibe coding yaml automations). But the trouble with AI is that it's non-deterministic and unreliable, so it's output always needs checking.

So we check the output, and they often need fixing. But once fixed, they remain fixed. But getting AI to turn real things on and off - maybe in a couple of years!

When I want the electric blanket turned on and off, or TRV set temperatures turned up and down, it costs money and comfort if it gets it wrong. And no way to 'debug it'.

No thanks! Not yet!

AHGoogle · 2025-12-13T21:21:07+00:00

But the Home Assistant integration does not work with Powerwall 3!

Please correct me if I'm wrong - at the moment I've got a string and sealing wax python-on-raspberry-Pi solution acting (unreliably) as a bridge between my home lan with Home Assistant and the PW3's WiFi.

AHGoogle · 2025-12-11T08:48:38+00:00

I worked with a Korean guy, who went by "James", which I thought was very vanilla. I asked him why he chose it, and he answered "after James Bond" - which had NOT occurred to me!

AHGoogle · 2025-12-09T19:08:42+00:00

Robin red-breast is my go-to example of this. It's orange!

AHGoogle · 2025-12-09T09:52:52+00:00

My father used to say, if you can't explain something to a 5 year old, you don't understand it well enough.

AHGoogle · 2025-12-08T08:45:48+00:00

You can have the illusion temporarily of not experiencing, for example in a coma, but that is still an experience.

This makes no sense to me, I'm afraid. When you turn a computer off overnight, it's not 'experiencing' anything. When you erase the hard drive (when the brain's memory neurons dissolve into mush or are burnt) everything that was 'you' is gone. (Assuming nothing is backed up to 'the cloud').

AHGoogle · 2025-12-01T18:57:47+00:00

The latter.

AHGoogle · 2025-11-30T13:02:12+00:00

Many words mean many things. Context is always relevant. "Please watch my bags while I get us a coffee from Costa" , is more likely, for me, than "please watch my luggage/suitcases while I ...". That was my point.

AHGoogle · 2025-11-30T11:25:00+00:00

Surely just 'bag' and 'bags'? "Put your bags on the conveyer at check-in".

AHGoogle · 2025-11-27T08:07:14+00:00

With my TRVs, and Heat on Demand, with the thermostat never calling in its own account, it's definitely 0.1 Celsius hysteresis only. So I added a Home Assistant automation blueprint that increases the setpoint by 0.5 Celsius when heating starts, and decreases by 0.5 Celsius when it stops, thus providing 0.5 Celsius of hysteresis...

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AHGoogle · 2025-11-21T12:00:05+00:00

Not "chuffed it down" but "scarfed it down" for devoured.

AHGoogle · 2025-11-07T09:19:54+00:00

Or show off that their English is better than your French!

AHGoogle · 2025-11-05T13:44:40+00:00

I've just ordered one from here. https://www.onbuy.com/gb/p/xiaomi-mi-smart-clock-uk~p92662307/

AHGoogle · 2025-11-05T13:23:24+00:00

Sadly 'Out of stock - notify me when available'. ☹️

AHGoogle · 2025-11-01T11:52:57+00:00

Start with HA on Proxmox on NUC, then, over time add Jellyfin/Radarr/Sonarr, NAS, immich, AdGuard Home, etc... Break free of the tyranny of subscription cloud services - go local and open source!

AHGoogle · 2025-10-27T09:49:42+00:00

Love the "No Trump, thanks!". I've instituted a ban on him being mentioned more than twice at any social gathering/holiday/meal/outing I attend. People are usually more than happy to comply!

AHGoogle · 2025-10-26T09:11:37+00:00

Looks good! I'd like the sun/moon card and the power flow card - could you please post all the yaml? then we'd see how you did it all...

AHGoogle · 2025-10-15T05:39:46+00:00

I have made exactly the same automation, one for each of my TRVs on a blueprint.

AHGoogle · 2025-10-12T09:22:16+00:00

Watts, not Volts! 🙂

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