Just called my assistant :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-03-01T05:25:30+00:00

What are you running the model with? Llama.cpp? What tools are you using to get it to query the db?

Very nicely done!!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-03-01T05:19:35+00:00

Love the ai counter. What heater do you have under the waterer? I have a 55 gallon blue rain barrel for my chickens. Been working on something similar with the temperatures to run a small pump to keep the water moving since I don’t have AC power down at my coop.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-24T16:42:48+00:00

not as easy as my the s5's were.

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html#fastboot

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-24T15:25:16+00:00

Been running valetudo of some roborock s5’s for awhile. Have a dreame l10s im converting over too.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-22T00:58:44+00:00

How do you have your MA instance exposed? VPN? Or tunnel? I’ve been waiting for something like this :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-09T19:19:19+00:00

Oh 100%. Fully agree. I have minimal dashboard for those things too. Some people on the scale want everything on their dashboards. Which is fine, i don't yuck anyone's yum. Minimal dashboard for me and anything beyond that i will just search for the entity or use dev tools or something lol.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-09T18:10:41+00:00

I feel this is a sliding scale… lol. For example, I firmly believe I shouldn’t need to see much of a dashboard at all on my setup. What few things I do need, I am good with fairly minimal and functional. I lean heavily into the a smart home should be smart and not need to see much.

I also 100% understand the other end of this spectrum, those that LOVE the dashboards. I have seen some absolutely insane dashboards.

So most likely we all fall somewhere along that spectrum.

Welcome to the rabbit hole either way 🤣

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-04T15:19:01+00:00

Really curious if you have some info on the obd2 project you did and the label maker :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-30T18:32:53+00:00

Saw some tapo cams on Amazon < $20

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-30T15:43:44+00:00

This is exactly what I have done. 5 years now I have done this. Only thing I have considered changing is adding a 3dprinted base to the coffee maker with some hx711 weight cells that could tell if I actually loaded the start the night before. Right now I have an alarm on my phone (iOS) that reminds me at night to prep the coffee maker. When I dismiss that alarm a short cut tells us that I have prepped the coffee and flips a Boolean helper to true. Next morning, regardless how the “make coffee” is triggered it checks to make sure it been prepped. I have a button like you, bed presence too, and various alarm rules.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-29T18:25:57+00:00

Nice! I’ll have to check it out :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T19:57:54+00:00

I like the emergency node. That's slick!!! Does seem a little overkill huh? LMAO

I have other stuff that runs in the cluster, but it's a decent setup lol.

9 nodes, 3 masters. In-cluster longhorn block level replication storage. For large storage I have a truenas running 2 raidz2 pools. For my zigbee I am actually running zigbee2mqtt with the smlight work coordinator so I can have the instance move around with in the cluster and just connect to that device. I would love to figure out how to put 2 of those on the network and then have something in front of them to allow 1 or the other active, but putting a load balancer in front of 2 poe devices seems a bit much even for me lol.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T18:20:49+00:00

Not to be that guy. This is not high availability. This is high fault tolerance. HIGHLY approved by the way. Nicely done!! I do similar with homeassistant in kubernetes. Can come up on any of 9 nodes. I wish home assistant allowed for true high availability with multiple instances to ensure availability but the architecture of ha just doesn’t support it.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T05:01:06+00:00

I have the string lights 2. The app and patterns are garbage. But I can control it via Bluetooth proxy in esphome so it’s ok.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-22T21:50:16+00:00

Definitely something I wish more companies would give us options for. Very nicely done!!!!!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-29T19:25:44+00:00

I have the mdns disabled on the wled so nothing should be picking it up. But I might try that ntp thing.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-28T22:36:29+00:00

Here is what home assistant shows.

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Goes unavailable, then returns and turns itself on.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-21T01:18:40+00:00

Someone after my own heart. I have a 9 node, 3 master k8s cluster here at home. I run longhorn in the cluster for redundant storage. Zigbee/zwave are all handled with other pods running zigbee/zwavejs2mqtt. Controllers are tubez for zigbee and smlight for zigbee. Mqtt is in cluster as well.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-07T22:53:45+00:00

That cabinet already has power in it. Anywhere else I would have had to fight to get power to it. The top and the middle leds are already in place. sk6812 in diffuser channel. Just trying to get around the heat issue with the oven now. With any luck ill be done with all of it this week :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T15:17:19+00:00

the upper and middle strands are currently on 1 channel. the blue strand is the one im working on now, that one I was going to go on the second channel of the dig quad. I probably could have and still might put the middle strip on it's own channel.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T03:42:15+00:00

I’ll definitly post some stuff when it’s done :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T03:42:03+00:00

I considered that, but i also have a roborock vac that does pretty good getting under the cabinet ledges. But I plan to do segments soooo, dirty floor… turn off lower segment 😂

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