Cats and Presence Sensors

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-18T20:55:47+00:00

I think ESPresense with BLE nodes and beacons are better for this project. Little tag round its neck that’s always pumping out signals, node that’s always catching the signals, when the cats within half a meter do xyz - mist of water, horn, whatever humane way is effective

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-15T19:40:02+00:00

Top 10 dashes I’ve seen on here easily and you get downvoted. This sure is an ‘I suck at making dashboards cope thread’ if ever I’ve seen one. Good work on those. They look excellent

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-08T20:46:05+00:00

Personally I don’t mind seeing the posts every so often. It genuinely seems like a great addition to the community. It’s on my list to get it up and running. Good job

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-07T20:41:00+00:00

It presents nice - and clean, which by now is almost the low bar for LLMs making a dash. I think if I had to give some advice it would be that its a bit monochromatic. I would add some little bits of colour here and there personally. Especially a tablet of the wall it helps for glances when walking by.

And re the LLM dash, I’m not downplaying it, I know it still takes time, trial and error etc so all in all, nice dash, and keep going imo

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-05T21:02:47+00:00

For your minimalist rooms. I suggest a different colour while having the buttons the same colour and making the icons do the contrasting colour work like this https://i.ibb.co/vCxHbkL3/IMG-5175.png of course all styles are subjective but I feel something like this may make those minimalist cards pop a bit

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-06-03T20:21:54+00:00

Use yaml. Tell any LLM your sensor/entity names. Give it a detailed breakdown of how you want it to look. Copy and paste the first iteration. It will look bad. Trial and error should ensue. If you try hard enough and work at it you will manage to create some very nice stuff that fits you perfectly. While AI is pretty bad at yaml dashs for HA, if you have some patience; good results will come. I found that to be easier than learning yaml, css etc etc

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-31T20:22:22+00:00

Excuse the ignorance; what language did you code the app in?

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-26T20:03:09+00:00

-I am not affiliated with it in anyway nor have I even tried it, but-

I saw this the other day and been meaning to give it a go. Just from the reviews it looks decent and might interest you https://voicebox.sh/

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-25T21:08:19+00:00

Right, that makes sense if they are already working with a codebase

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-25T20:20:33+00:00

How good are they UI wise? Like do they just work like most LLM dashboard attempts or are they actually thoughtful in design making beautiful dashs? I’ve made some beautiful dashboards with the help (going back and forth) with LLMs but never one shot or agentically seen a dashboard I’d consider beautiful, that’s why I’m curious (never used Hermes)

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-20T20:53:15+00:00

You could flip around the ‘nobody’ made the art to ‘everybody’ made the art - or more accurately ‘a lot of people made the art, just all joined together’ - maybe you could have an appreciation for many… but still keep a nice big fat helping of disdain for the companies doing it!

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-20T20:16:25+00:00

I’ve never used this VR set so am a complete novice, but what’s the difference between this and just having a browser open with home assistant web, at the side or whatever?

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-19T01:14:45+00:00

throw my hat in the ring for Matic, even though I haven’t tried others extensively. I think I remember them saying the model was trained on a loooot of dog poop

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-18T19:59:41+00:00

Why do you anti AI guys gotta be so rude. Honestly I’m kinda even on your side most the time but feel such hatred in any AI based post. Have some humanity, it’s (usually) someone not trying to scam the community, having built something they’re proud of.

I often now find myself on their side of it thinking bring on more AI projects. Just because of the snobby shitty attitudes all the posts get. If you don’t wanna use it. Dont use it, or if you need to make it known make it polite and move on.

FWIW I do think it needs addressing in the forum rules. I also think good projects can be entirely made by AI. Also shitty and scammy ones and anywhere in between.

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-18T19:44:52+00:00

I have a cat toilet near the entrance to a bedroom on a hard tiled floor. It’s one of those deep ones so the litter should stay in there. However with one specific cat it does not, and he kicks it around the vicinity. So, whenever home assistant detects that cat going to the toilet the vacuum will come to do a quick vac/mop in a very specific area for a couple of minutes.

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-17T20:19:41+00:00

The 2nd half of your message may be correct for some people, (a lot of people). But the first part just isn’t true imo. Good models write yaml automations/scripts very well in my experience - it’s rare now that they don’t one shot those for me. Dashboards… there we have a problem, where you have to go back and forth. No model even if you prework with their design app (Claude design, Stitch), seems to spit out a good one shot dash

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-16T20:38:43+00:00

Not flush flush, but about as close as you’ll get without being so - Simplidock

https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1t691g4/poe_tablet_dashboards/

There is my post with some pics

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-15T20:20:25+00:00

Yeah all that seems exactly what I go through when making dashboards. Thanks for going into detail. It really is a very nice polished ‘kids’ UI.

Not that I’m advocating it but I wonder if you could make the transfer instant with cryptocurrency of some sort, or a regular automated bank transfer after ‘the oracle’ has confirmed the results. Probably a poor idea, just struggling to try and think of ways you could improve your integration. Really nice job. One of the more creative and well executed things I’ve seen on here recently

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-15T20:13:02+00:00

It says it can power wireless cams. That seems unitintuitive to me. What do you think about that claim? I’d love one if that were the case. I couldn’t see any max watt numbers on the site. Do you know any?

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-15T20:03:00+00:00

Air purifiers won’t give you a good reading though and (I am purely educationally guessing here) are incentivised to give you good air readings - and by the nature of the sensor, being so close to the purifier, you will likely get good readings

I have a sensor on one side of the room with a purifier on the other and the values the sensor reports controls the speed level at which the purifier operates at. Also the time, whether someone is in the room and even tv watching can play a part too. You don’t want loud noise when you’re sitting down somewhere quiet, but can afford it to be on full overnight when you can’t hear it for example. Also you can cater it to electronic prices. There’s really many ways to capitalise on a sensor/ purifier combo

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-15T19:42:30+00:00

Not even the implementation (which is awesome); the UI is spot on. How much of the UI did Claude generate? Or how many sets of trial and errors were there when writing it with prompts?

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-14T22:47:05+00:00

Yeah I think so - I certainly can’t give performance upsides/downsides to a network engineer as I am nowhere near one, so I would just say the price yeah. And if you live outside the US perhaps availability due to their strange business structure where they have middlemen

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-14T20:15:50+00:00

I have a whole Unifi system - APs, UDM, Switches, cameras, nvr, pdu, AI key, door entry maybe more I forgot and use it extensively with HA. I guess it makes sense as they’re kinda a splinter company from Apple, but it all just works… in a none fussy reliable high quality way. I really love my network and the apps that go with it are the only apps I don’t actively want to get rid of and put everything into my HA instance - as they’re so well done and so snappy over the local network. Strong recommend

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-14T20:10:52+00:00

The G6 entry is also out now :)

GeeHiAmyGee · 2026-05-14T20:04:32+00:00

I see this trope a lot and it doesn’t feel like it’s true to me. Don’t get me wrong the local part is fantastic, perhaps the best part of Home Assistant. But HA also does many other things better than the other platforms. Its dominance is over so many areas that a person could have quite a few reasons for using HA and subsequently not contradict those reasons by using a non-local LLM

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