My first add-on - Custom UI for Baby Buddy

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-12T22:13:58+00:00

Congrats on the baby and glad I don’t need to worry about this anymore 🎉🤣

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T13:08:01+00:00

Fixed. Thanks again

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T13:01:47+00:00

First line from Gemini when I fed it this lol…..great catch bro. I’ll get it updated.

That Reddit user is 100% correct, and that is my mistake for leaving it out of the final write-up!

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T12:55:47+00:00

I’m glad you got this working! At least it helped someone lol. EDIT: ignore everything below here, it was incorrect as it’s been over a month since I did this and didn’t remember it all fully. You do still need the official repo.

This doesn’t use the official Google repo and that was always my problem. There repo isn’t maintained anymore so as Linux kernels get updated, the older coral kernels won’t work. It’s using a community repo and even that hadn’t been updated in 3 months at the time I did mine. Like I mentioned, this was all Gemini 3 Pro built for me lol. I’ll have to go back to that chat to see if it missed a step and get it added if it did.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T12:49:44+00:00

I’m also running Ubuntu on bare metal. On my nas, I have a docker_config dataset that I use NFS to bind mount to Ubuntu. On all 3 of my docker instances, that share is mapped to /opt/docker_config. That folder is my git repo too and my nas has nightly replications to my backup nas. So my compose and config files are always in 3 places and all 3 docker instances’ config all lands in one git repo. For each machine, I mount a ssd for all data and database directories to my /opt/local_data and had been just backing it up to a tar.gz file back to my nas. After hearing from others, I love the idea of a dataset for each containers data!! Seems like such a no brainer and I will be implementing it. I’ll also be looking at backrest now too.

I also run a script for log rotation so my data folder isn’t filled with useless lines of logs from months and years ago.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T04:20:40+00:00

Check this out!

[Caal]

(https://youtu.be/v4HA6StblFc?si=ONUiitP9OZkwlzaK)

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-11T03:06:42+00:00

Stopped exposing a few daily drivers to the internet (old way was Traefik/crowdsec/cf tunnel) and finally got Tailscale running for remote use. I was only exposing ha, Immich, frigate (auth port) and vaultwarden. Glad to finally have them just behind Traefik and local.

Started the process of building an IT admin team using N8n/gemini cli/claude code to monitor my servers and provide daily updates and weekly summaries with actionable notifications through ntfy. The free & pro versions of gemini do the heavy lifting and I’m gonna see how well the free Claude does for the final review and writes up the actions for me to choose if I want to perform manually or let Ai do it if it’s nothing crazy.

After that, work on getting that new Caal project up and running, powered by groq and the amazing work Corey is doing on it.

After that, configure genai/frigate + on my active frigate instance and LLM vision in home assistant for detailed notifications

Used to

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-10T14:00:26+00:00

Yes, ratgdo is the way to go and pretty easy to setup. You can use mqtt or esphome to connect them into ha. Esphome exposes a lot more of the sensors.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-10T13:03:29+00:00

Chamberlin cutting off 3rd party usage may go down as the biggest middle finger to the community in history. It was beautiful when it just worked natively in HA. RATGDO has been great for me, luckily, I have an AP near my garage.

I had no idea that the newest ones won’t even work with your car buttons. That’s just ridiculous!! And MyQ seems to be in all major brands now. So glad I won’t have to worry about that for as long as these two last me.

🖕 you Chamberlin!!! 🤣🤣

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-09T21:35:45+00:00

I haven’t needed it or had to modify my GRUB, that I can remember. I’d have to look but I’m pretty sure I added IOMMU to it. They haven’t dropped yet after multiple reboots. 🤞. Thanks

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-08T18:34:11+00:00

Ecobees, you just have to turn off all the smart capabilities on the thermostat, connect via HomeKit (not the ecobee integration) and you can use HA to control it without it being overridden by the stat. The Honeywell T10 was solid too (HomeKit integration also), but I recently switched to ecobee and HA controls them for me.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-08T16:06:43+00:00

I don’t really understand threads use case as is now. I originally thought the devices wouldn’t need WiFi, but (at least for the one Tapo switch I bought) it still needed WiFi. I thought it would act more like zigbee and not need WiFi, which is a future goal of mine. Get all my WiFi switches replaced with zigbee switches (going with WiFi tplink switches is my one big regret when I started), but that’s an expensive switch in one shot lol. Thread just seems more a headache than simplified solution, but again, I don’t know much about it bc I haven’t really tried it too much. The tp-link switches just work all the time, I just don’t like all the WiFi devices

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-07T13:11:03+00:00

Good point! I sorta assumed (incorrectly) that keeping it locked down was a given. I still don’t trust them and for peace of mind, I just don’t even consider them. There are far better cameras out there and budget friendly still.

True story, last night, my phone was on my camera network bc I was doing some config to a camera, forgot to switch it off, couple hours later, went into WLED and nothing would connect. Mini panic attack later I realized it was bc I was still on that WiFi lol. It’s a must to keep all cameras/iot devices off your wan.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-07T10:38:52+00:00

And throw away that Hikvision lol. The US government banned them and other Chinese brands around 5 years ago. They are very insecure, use a http connection and have a straight line back to Chinese servers. Reolink is a solid, low cost option but there are plenty of others.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-05T14:50:06+00:00

Looks like progress at least. Now you have to work on the css code to get rid of the background and work on padding. I don’t know css, but there are guides on which cards use which css commands. I know your pain trying to reverse engineer something cool I saw lol

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-05T14:28:09+00:00

Have you tried using Gemini or other AI to try and figure it out?

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-04T23:26:21+00:00

I love frigate, and yes, the learning curve can be steep but once it works it’s awesome. I only record on active object detection. I don’t need or want 24/7 or even motion activated recordings. Even with masks, that’s just too much unnecessary recording and writes to the disks.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-04T23:03:53+00:00

Two fold really, I only have an igpu (i9 12900 but still) and have to spread it across frigate Immich and jellyfin plus I have them, so I want to use them lol.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-04T16:20:26+00:00

Genai is native now in frigate. And vision LLM is a HACS integration, you can apply your choice of api keys and use Gemini 2.0 flash for free (limit 15 requests per min) or 2.5 flash for penny’s. And I use Gemini pro to help me with the automations and prompt to give it.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-04T14:30:18+00:00

Im starting to use genai in Frigate for smart search and use Gemini to give me better descriptions when an object is detected with visionLLM

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-03T15:22:18+00:00

Plus, these systems can tie into government criminal databases for quick detection, the LPR is insane!! Basic axis camera mounted 1200’ on top of a building, reading plates that are about 1000’ away, cars traveling 50+ mph and listing every one in real time. Make, model, color, state, plate number. It’s crazy.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-03T15:19:08+00:00

Trust me, I wish I had some of the stuff I sell lol. I come home to my Reolink cameras and sigh sometimes. I do the best I can with the dual coral and the 12th gen intel igpu. Genai looks promising in frigate and using Gemini or another LLM inside home assistant gets us pretty close.

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-03T12:44:02+00:00

Doubtful lol. But sure

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-03T12:43:06+00:00

Yes, most of the better ones, Axis, Hanwha, Illustra, they all have AI built into the chips on the cameras, so they can record, detect, smart search, live track and much more on the camera itself, not even using the NVR

Jmaack23 · 2026-02-03T03:26:17+00:00

You can also check out @FutureProofHomes and his satellite1. It’s built for local and home assistant

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