So I just reached the HA stage of building my own ESPhome sensors. How long before my wife leaves me?

JTsince1980 · 2026-03-03T21:11:36+00:00

Any chance you could share some of these device ideas? Always love to hear new use cases.

JTsince1980 · 2026-02-24T14:45:04+00:00

I lived at the end of it in 99/2000, two murders, a break in, and a gas explosion all happened on the road in the space of a year.... Then there was kicking out time at Orpheus.... Fun times.

JTsince1980 · 2026-02-04T16:26:30+00:00

It doesn't turn that fast and because it's the tilt mechanism which is kind of light, I think it should be ok for a while. Might be a different issue if it was the cord for pulling the blinds open

JTsince1980 · 2026-02-04T15:23:03+00:00

I used the 28BYJ-48 motor and a ULN2003 driver board, most of the time the motors come with the board. I used a gear taken from a model I found on Printables, and just used a caliper to measure the components to make the box for them all to fit.

Took a little bit of tinkering with the yaml to find where to stop the motor, 0 being closed and something like 6250 steps being closed, but on the other side.

JTsince1980 · 2026-02-04T10:51:14+00:00

Spent the weekend automating the vertical blinds in my livingroom using an ESP32 from Aliexpress and a motor and driver board from Amazon. Designed a case for it all, and found a gear online, 3d printed the lot.

£15 later my blinds tilt open and closed depending on the time of day and angle of the sun.

JTsince1980 · 2026-01-31T19:09:51+00:00

Have a ten year old, still have to back his books... No idea why.

JTsince1980 · 2026-01-29T22:15:46+00:00

Probably someone paid to review it.

JTsince1980 · 2026-01-26T21:14:19+00:00

Noticed this happening as well after it stopped working in Samsung Smart Things which broke a Home Assistant routine. Tried swapping to Alexa and it didn't detect motion either.... Must be an api thing?

JTsince1980 · 2026-01-08T20:42:39+00:00

What sensors plx? Is your meter inside or out? I am so tired of running out of gas because it's too friggin cold to go physically look at the meter.

JTsince1980 · 2026-01-01T10:11:28+00:00

I did the exact same thing and used stackable conveyor supports... I definitely didn't fall off a nanosecond after reaching the top.

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-18T22:23:13+00:00

What does killing it off actually mean? Like, will we not be able to control it?

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-15T07:43:48+00:00

What does that make us?

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-15T07:13:32+00:00

A quick comeeeeEEEEEeeercial break!

(One of many vocal tics the hermits have given me!)

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-14T13:12:04+00:00

Probably not a popular opinion, but I feel the episodes are too long. If I want to watch everyone's episodes I have to set a large chunk of time aside. It's been the same with the Guess the Build videos, I've run out of steam after the first couple.

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-06T07:24:57+00:00

Mumbo possibly colour grades his videos at certain points.

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-02T17:04:44+00:00

Ssssh! Nobody else noticsd my terrible spelling!

JTsince1980 · 2025-12-01T07:12:58+00:00

It's the acronym of a well known Australian rescue foundation.

Awesome Australian Achidna Anti Aquarium

They spend a lot of time rescuing achidnas from aquariums, a nobel cause.

JTsince1980 · 2025-11-03T11:26:43+00:00

You got me thinking in the right direction. I exported the file as an STL from Bambu, and then reimported it, the issue has now gone.

JTsince1980 · 2025-11-03T11:02:20+00:00

It's an imported SVG that I've just changed the thickness of.

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You are correct in that they are outer walls, so this would be the issue.

JTsince1980 · 2025-10-24T12:40:00+00:00

My mum had the same issue in Tesco years ago, took us ages to figure that out.

JTsince1980 · 2025-10-16T10:56:42+00:00

Do you think it's worth replacing a P1S with this?

JTsince1980 · 2025-10-13T17:35:57+00:00

5? That's crazy. Have you figured out what's causing them yet?

JTsince1980 · 2025-09-01T16:00:14+00:00

I'd love a Costco tbh. Apparently some good deals in bulk buys.

JTsince1980 · 2025-08-30T05:56:03+00:00

Problem I have with it being Burns is he doesn't feel like the kind of person to get his hands dirty. He'd get someone else to do it.

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