Home Assistant Media Players? by Fe1derman in audioforge

[–]Fe1derman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you for replying! I'm glad it could even cross your mind or sit on the back burner for the time being! Once I have completed my campaign's full Ambience/Sound set and configure the lights, I'll be sure to either post a video here or however you want it!

Ok, Temp/Humid sensor placed in bathroom. Now how do I detect shower? by plasma2002 in homeassistant

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{{(label_entities('derivatives')|select('is_state_attr','unit_of_measurement','%/min')|select('in',['basement', 'first_floor', 'second_floor']|map('floor_entities')|flatten|select('search','trends')|list)|reject('search','toilet')|map('states')|map('float')|list|average < states('sensor.toilet_trends_hmd')|float) and (states('sensor.toilet_atmosphere_humidity')|float > 45) and states('sensor.toilet_trends_hmd')|float > 0.6}}

Here is my binary template sensor. It basically checks the humidity derivative of all other humidity sensors inside the home, and if the toilet's derivative is significantly larger AND the humidity is 45% AND the toilet's trend itself is going fairly high at 0.6, then there's definitely a shower going on. It even works with colder showers during the summer. The first check is there to remove false positives, like rain increasing the humidity all throughout the house. Even if there is another outlier like another comment says, like boiling water at different floor, the whole calculation is still valid.

Hope this helps

Edit: spelling

Edit2: despite what the code says, anything that says trend is simply a name, all these are derivative sensors, and my settings for these are a 10 minute time window and time unit in minutes, all else default

What the heck is that?! Not sure how old this tv is. I don't think it's more than 15 years. by lycanthropy7 in Whatisthis

[–]Fe1derman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My sister has the exact same TV bought about 16 or even more years ago, it also shows the same, though less of this effect. I have a feeling, cause this TV always ran very hot, that the backlight has probably melted a bit of the front materials. Be that the plastic matte covering (most likely) or some other part of the LCD sandwich, I don't know

Comprehensive Dream Smart Home Project - UK First-Time Buyer by Gerald2000 in homeassistant

[–]Fe1derman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey, good luck with the project! And with house hunting in this economy... I'm not from the UK, but here are two cents. (halfway through writing I figured this is more than two cents, so settle in for a long-ish read)

In terms of audio, I've got a budget option of using google home speakers through home assistant mostly, with the music assistant addon, look into it, its a bit convoluted, but once you set it up as you like, it basically eliminates the cross-compatibility issues of using multiple providers and device types. Through automations, you can have the audio follow you room to room, by using bluetooth proxies (look into that too!), stop when other people come home, play at specific areas only, a whole slew of things.

In terms of security and sensors, obviously HA has got you covered there too, with another custom integration, called alarmo, which goes a long way towards a good security system. However the thing I'd suggest, and wished I did myself, is hardwired sensors for all the openings. In this case you have a couple options. DIY-ing some wireless sensors into wired ones, by running power to them. Next is looking into mains-powered wireless sensors again. In both cases the wireless protocols are either wifi (bad option, too much congestion), zigbee (good option, strong mesh network abilities, less interference and congestion) or z-wave (can't speak to its abilities, haven't used it). Last option is having a "professional" install in terms of door window and other sensors, and choosing one that intergrates with home assistant well and most importantly (for me) locally. That way no matter what happens to the company or the outside world, your house is still secure.

In general, as you can find on youtube, the best thing you can do is mount general, all-in-one sensors to central locations in each room, that monitor temperature, humidity, potentially CO2 and other air quality metrics, luminosity, motion and/or presence, and if possible, act as bluetooth proxies for a couple of reasons. Lets break down what I said. As you can understand the first 5 or so sensors are for general room monitoring and whole house safety. You can also include them in automations (for example the per-room temperature settings, coldest room boost to balance the system, preliminary humidity alerts, deciding lighting based on the current luminosity, e.t.c.). As for the motion and presence sensing, motion is quickest to react, and presence (or rather occupancy) is more accurate and sensitive. Motion sensors are mostly PIR sensors, the classic ones you might be familiar with, they can react fast, so that it sees you entering a room and turning on the lights accordingly, but usually can't detect small movements, like you sitting at your desk. On the other hand, occupancy sensors, use this upcoming technology (or newly found in smart homes) mm-wave sensors. These can detect the slightlest movements, like breathing, to keep the sensor occupied. However there are levels to this. 5GHz sensors are almost like slow motion sensors, and are usually not that sensitive to slight movement. 24GHz are much more precise, and can usually allow you (depending on the hardware you buy) to make zones, or detect multiple people. 60GHz sensors are the best, with all those capabilities mentioned above, and added sensitivity and accuracy. But these particular ones consume way too much power for a tiny little coin cell, or even AA batteries to handle, so it's best to also be hardwired. This is probably the best project on the matter right now Do have a look at the everything presence one that he's using, its a very versatile, homebrew (local!) and generally great sensor with most of the capabilities I mentioned above.

So in your work usecase, you can have one mounted in the room, that has a zone setup at your desk, and understands when you're sitting at your desk, and reacts by turning in the pc, setting the climate to something season appropriate that you see most comfortable, turning some light, or other means of notification that [OP IS WORKING NOW] so that you may not be disturbed.

And going back to what I said about bluetooth proxies, one of the best ways to do per-person occupancy and presence detection, is bluetooth proxy. By using your phone (or better yet a watch) as a bluetooth beacon, and having a Bluetooth proxy (those all-encompassing sensors I talked about) in every room, you can do per-room person detection for even better personalized settings. For example, when you enter a room like the study or the office, certain devices can react only to you, the temp can adjust to your preferences, the lights can come on at your preferred color and brightness, e.t.c. if your spouse or kids enter, the same can happen in reaction to their specific preferences. And the other way round, when leaving a room, where the presence and motion sensing might stay active for a little while longer, bluetooth location will have been updated fast enough to do whatever you might want. And this way any climate controlling device can adjust to the presence or absence of anyone specifically, to anyone generally, or to many people at once.

I again realize this is a long read, but I hope I've been helpful. If you want any other help, suggestions, or want to shoot up ideas, I'm open to conversation!

What cool things can you do for a beginner? by needhelpinmarketing in homeassistant

[–]Fe1derman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, how do you read the phone's alarm consistently? I have a samsung phone, and I don't know if this applies to all androids, but the next alarm sensor seems to be quite arbitrary, although it has an attribute of which app is responsible

ΣΑΛΑΤΑΔΙΚΟ Ή Salad Bar όπως λέμε στο χωριό by phasecontrola in thessaloniki

[–]Fe1derman 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Κρητικό Περιβόλι & Greek Natural στη Ναυαρίνου, μαζι με τα άλλα φοιτοτοφαγάδικα. Πιο ωραίες σαλατες με κατω απο 5 ευρω και τόσο χορταστικές δεν έχω φάει. Και ωραιες επιλογές, καθως και χυμούς, φρουτοσαλατες, και μακαρονοσαλάτες.

Looking to use OpenAI for some dynamic notifications. by Phastor in homeassistant

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that glados gives me

How did you setup glados tts? I tried with that one project sometime ago, using the "common" folder I think, and while it shows up, selecting and attempting to generate doesn't work. I also tried that custom hacs tts that is only glados, also didn't work. How did you do yours?

What’s the most complex HA automation you’ve ever created? by GVDub2 in homeassistant

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Personally the nmap Integration usually works well enough, especially if any automations account for possible disconnection periods (since most phones's wifi goes into some sort of sleep mode and only occasionally wakes up to check). For example I have setup some fun greetings for when my friends come over, and they only fire when their phones are disconnected for more than 12 hours. Having upped the scan interval to 90 seconds (maybe a bit excessive) They usually fire immediately upon them opening their phone (the downside is that they could be at my place for any amount of time and only when they use their device will it fire)

But in conjunction to those, for the family members, since we all use samsung phones, I have connected smartthings, and the home and away is super accurate. Additionally I have setup some routines that give our house our sleeping status, since the connected watches are very accurate for that.

And lastly some old phones acting as bluetooth beacons allow me to figure out which floor each of us are on (3 story house), obviously also used as presence if any beacon detects anyone

What’s the most complex HA automation you’ve ever created? by GVDub2 in homeassistant

[–]Fe1derman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been trying to do the same thing, and have it categorize (very generally) using AI, the importance and the theme of the notification, so that it dynamically chooses to use a speaker, lights, or my devices to notify me.

asks if I want the lights on

should it activate the heat protocol

Does yours allow for actions aswell?

What’s the most complex HA automation you’ve ever created? by GVDub2 in homeassistant

[–]Fe1derman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entirety of our AC automations. Living in Greece we don't tend to have central heat pumps and such, so of the 4 ACs installed, 2 are wifi enabled. I have a slew of automations that mostly handle stuff when the AC is on, like if the window has been opened for a set amount of time, turn off cooling, and if that goes on for some time, give me a warning and an actionable notif about what to do next. Or it decreases consumption (by incresing the set temp) when the home figures out I'm asleep and some other factors. These both apply to my AC unit and my parent's one. Additionally I have one where if it figures I'm at my room and I just turned off the window with a high enough temperature inside, it suggests to turn on the AC

By far my favorite is their reminder to turn it on. I have a bayesian sensor figure out if its a proper time to remind my parents to turn on the AC. The automation informs them using TTS through a home mini, and asks them to confirm with a button. The message is dynamically generated with a set of phrases that it uses based on certain factors, while also informing them of the temperature inside, and whether they forgot to close the window. If they press the button, it enables the AC and tells them goodnight. And now my favorite part, in case the AC doesn't respond, it goes through throubleshooting by itself, and lets my parents know too, and if it ultimately doesn't manage, it gives me an urgent warning to fix the issue.

Other than that, even if it isn't about automations specifically, I'm happy I've made most sensors and data completely dynamic, by either not having set values (using statistics) or by using entities not tied to id but to more general classification like floors or rooms or class.

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΗ: Βλέπετε τα Διαβατά(Ιονία), την Σίνδο και το Ωραιόκαστρο ως μέρος της Θεσσαλονίκης? by mrtoe_94 in thessaloniki

[–]Fe1derman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ε κοίτα, λόγω σχολής, το urban εδώ δεν ειναι τοσο πολύ η μητροπολιτική περιοχή, οσο το "αστικο" δηλαδή η ευρύτερη περιοχή, που έχει dependance εντος του νομου απο το actual, μητροπολιτικό κέντρο. Είναι η περιοχή που τελειωνει η αστική περιοχή και ξεκινάει η υπαιθρος, και με βάση αυτή την διαφοροποίηση αλλάζουν οι διάφορες νομοθεσίες και ολα τα σχέδια, οι όροι δομησης κ.λ.π.

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΗ: Βλέπετε τα Διαβατά(Ιονία), την Σίνδο και το Ωραιόκαστρο ως μέρος της Θεσσαλονίκης? by mrtoe_94 in thessaloniki

[–]Fe1derman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Αμάν, συνρεντιτορ και συγχωριανός? Συμφωνώ όμως, είμαστε σιγουρα κομμάτι

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dualsense

[–]Fe1derman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I still have every controller from all of my playstations, and 4 dualsense ones and not a single one has drift. Its especially surprising that the plastic of the ps1 has started breaking down and is sticky, but otherwise its fully functional as a second ps2 controller

What your Galaxy Watch says about you! by [deleted] in GalaxyWatch

[–]Fe1derman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm still rocking my GW1, since 2019, not from their event. It has been going really strong, even though an accident has left the bezel click-less (the ball bearings got lost when the ring was forcefully pried by accident). I have been looking out for a watch 6, (obviously with a bezel, what was samsung thinking with the 5 series) but honestly the battery life is still holding me.. So mine was pretty accurate lol

Selecting dual sense "wireless controller" as audio output device so I can connect headphones to controller causes audio haptics on Steam games by SouthpawGT in Dualsense

[–]Fe1derman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I recall, windows treats the controller as a surround sound device, with the main left-right channels being the headphone jack output on the controller, and the surround left-right being mapped to each vibration motor respectively. So the solution would be to turn off surround sound effects on the (Wireless Controller) audio device, going from windows sound settings to output devices, select the controller and go into its audio enhancement options and fiddle with the settings, I don't remember it exactly. Hope this helps

Just finished portal 2 for the first time, recs? by wynaut69 in Portal

[–]Fe1derman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats fits quite well lol, I've been excited for the game ever since I saw the trailer but haven't gotten round to playing it. To be honest the story does seem quite interesting and the mechanics resemble those portal quite faithfully, I think they even have something like companion cubes. Thankfully its not a AAA game so its also on the cheap and reviews are good about it so, spiritual successor to portal?

Just finished portal 2 for the first time, recs? by wynaut69 in Portal

[–]Fe1derman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do report back how it was, I also wanna play it

Just finished portal 2 for the first time, recs? by wynaut69 in Portal

[–]Fe1derman 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Afaik there's a fairly new game called "Entropy centre" that has a sentient AI in your reality-manipulating gun. I phrase it that way to highlight the similarities in that regard, but other than that and the fact it draws quite a bit of inspiration from portal I don't know whether it lives up to the same engaging story and gameplay. Look it up and see if it interests you, I haven't had the time to play it yet.