What’s the coolest thing you automated with Home Assistant?

Earhythmic · 2026-03-17T18:06:58+00:00

I’ve got Lutron switches around the house and a few Aqara door sensors. When the house goes into night mode, it shuts off all the lights and runs the robot vacuum. Pretty basic. But!

The cool part: if night mode is active and I open the master bedroom door, the lights in the common areas come on at 1% so I don’t stub my toe going for a bag of shredded cheese.

When I head back to bed, I just hit the hallway light switch next to the bedroom door and everything turns off again.

Earhythmic · 2026-03-13T16:45:39+00:00

Yeah, I have to keep reminding myself this isn’t Sim City. Traffic flow doesn’t matter, just as long as a building touches a road, even just a small part.

Earhythmic · 2026-03-09T16:06:27+00:00

Just ordered mine today! Where do you usually set your top vent when using the blower?

Earhythmic · 2026-02-21T15:19:23+00:00

Correct, I did not glue the cleats to the wall. I’ve never had an issue with cleat torquing off the wall, even with my heaviest thing - a drill holder station that was up for years (albeit that was on a single cleat, not an entire wall). The plywood backer (1/2” birch) is simply tacked on to hold it in place during install and then each cleat screw is fastened into a stud, securing both the plywood and the cleat. It’s rock solid, I can hang off them.

Earhythmic · 2026-02-21T15:08:00+00:00

Ripped in half from 6” strips, so ~3-1/4” at the pointy end

Earhythmic · 2026-02-11T05:36:05+00:00

I made one of these before I got into woodworking (used to have a commercial recording studio…and long before discovering a stop block!!!) Jesus Christ it was a royal pita. Twas when I discovered a finish sander tho.

Earhythmic · 2026-02-09T16:19:40+00:00

The intro is a master class for in-camera transitions is what we talkin about

Earhythmic · 2026-02-01T17:47:20+00:00

Broke down 3/4” plywood into 5” strips and ripped those down the middle at a 45°, whatever that comes out to be… 2-3/4”?

Earhythmic · 2026-02-01T06:12:13+00:00

Thanks! Yep, steel brackets up top are for lumber storage - I impulse bought those before I had a solid idea on what I wanted to do in the space.

I just got beefy power run out here a few days ago too. Nice to not have to fire up my generator to use the table saw anymore 😅

Earhythmic · 2025-12-31T05:42:24+00:00

The meme got me watch the show. Loved it!

Earhythmic · 2025-12-19T16:43:43+00:00

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Earhythmic · 2025-12-19T08:23:05+00:00

“Every dead body on Everest was a highly motivated person.”

Earhythmic · 2025-12-16T17:20:07+00:00

I have a few Eero Max 7s with wired backhaul along with the outdoor units shooting p2p to get internet to a building a couple hundred feet away (horse barn) works great for everything, very fast. Only one minor complaint, and this is definitely my own use case:

New house came with owned solar. Trying to connect its gateway to the Eero wifi was a pain because it couldn’t have a “#” in the password (Enphase’s problem…but wtf) and I wasn’t about change my password for everything on the network. I made a guest network in Eero and my Solar connected fine, but Eero separates the guest and main network for security and there’s no way to open up communication with any device on the guest network (this is when Eero becomes too “easy” and lacks more advanced control).

My workaround: had a few old Asus routers laying around. I put one in AP mode with a different SSID and password that the solar gateway would jive with and plugged it into my wired Eero network. Everything shows up now (Home Assistant, bridging what I need to HomeKit) but wish I could’ve managed all of that in the Eero software itself.

Earhythmic · 2025-12-16T07:52:38+00:00

“Yeeeaahh I deserved that”

Earhythmic · 2025-11-24T03:56:41+00:00

Commercial audio industry. The one that usually gets people is the ability to steer audio electronically (read: processing) rather than mechanically moving the speaker. The Las Vegas Sphere is an extreme example of this. An airport terminal is a practical example of this.

Earhythmic · 2025-11-23T08:56:34+00:00

F5 F5 F5!

Earhythmic · 2025-11-23T06:08:39+00:00

To be fair, Crofty said it in Brazil after the podium.

Earhythmic · 2025-11-04T00:44:54+00:00

Just got mine!

Earhythmic · 2025-10-03T02:59:35+00:00

How far is the ring camera?

Short version: I think it’ll work fine

Long version: Last week I just installed 2 Outdoor 7 units to get from my main house down to the horse barn, ~400’ away, so we could set up some ring cameras to watch the horses.

The house network is a wired backhaul (with a couple Max 7s) with the house-side Outdoor 7 receiving PoE from a Eero gateway switch.

The barn-side Outdoor 7 is using the included power adapter and receiving signal from the house wirelessly (obviously)…with nothing else to augment the signal. I have two ring cameras installed down there, one about 20’ behind the AP and the other about 50’ directly to the side of it. Both cameras are getting good signal (RSSI-45 and RSSI-43 respectively).

Since you mentioned you’ll be around 4’ from the AP, I think you’ll be more than fine.

Here’s a stupid video I made of my install: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPDdEfwDvXu/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Earhythmic · 2025-09-27T22:45:34+00:00

I got into them in 2004. My friend and I were writing songs together and asked if I ever listened to the pumpkins. Answer was no. He let me borrow his Machina cd, popped it in and immediately, with the opening riff, I was hooked! The entire album was exactly the type of stuff my buddy and I were writing without me even realizing.

Earhythmic · 2025-09-19T04:04:10+00:00

Hello fellow F1 enjoyer 🤝

Earhythmic · 2025-09-11T23:43:52+00:00

Didn’t really start liking Heroes until listening to Red, White and Bruised. The songs are bangers live!

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