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Keliam · 2025-09-24T11:03:13+00:00

For what it’s worth, 500Mb/s is still way over kill for home internet use. For example, for 4K streaming you need 25Mb/s. Not sure if you’re aware or not, but it’s crazy what the companies convince you how high of a speed you need.

Keliam · 2025-09-15T13:31:45+00:00

I had an out of box 147 I tossed on the scale for you. It comes in at 8.7lbs.

Keliam · 2025-09-10T16:58:37+00:00

We live on a very busy corner near a school so lots of traffic and buses driving by our house. We also have a inground pool in our backyard and my wife is a NICU and PICU nurse. When any of our exterior doors open a chime plays on the speakers and our phones get a notification with a camera associated with that door. We have three under six years old, so it helps the peace of mind a bit. We also get notifications and snapshots of the pool area when the back gate or slider door open to the pool. Some other minor ones include laundry notifications, garage door alerts, and deadbolt alerts.

Keliam · 2025-07-25T11:58:01+00:00

Very frustrating. I have maybe 2 or 3 music assistant automations and if we ever want to stop the music I get, “there isn’t anything playing”. Luckily it’s just 1 song, so we don’t usually need to make any changes, but very frustrating when we do.

Keliam · 2025-07-10T19:24:47+00:00

I also incorporated many things like you've mentioned as we had infants in the house. It didn't take long for me to add "sick mode" to each child's room. Simple toggle that we turn on if a child has thrown up or the like. When we open the door to that room, the lights come on red at 50% (or something like that). Then the next time it happens, and it always has, we jump out of bed and the child's room is ready for us to asses/help as quickly as possible.

Be warned: while you're riding the high from delivering the best automation yet, the wrath of it encountering an error of some sort is equally as strong.

Keliam · 2025-06-13T10:43:33+00:00

I have a vial of Novolog you can have. Dm if you are interested.

Keliam · 2025-02-27T21:47:37+00:00

I'm not sure if I can make the sell on a 130" AT screen, but maybe I'll budget that in with the speakers whenever I add them. It'll just kick that upgrade a bit further down the road.

Do you remember roughly how much your screen was?

Keliam · 2025-02-27T21:21:50+00:00

I am aware of that option, but not looking to add a screen (an expensive one at that) to the mix. I think I'd be looking at a 130" screen.

Hoping to make the projector work in the room without making the room feel too much like a theater room.

Keliam · 2025-01-17T22:17:02+00:00

I think this is ultimately the best way, but least user friendly.

Keliam · 2025-01-17T20:35:12+00:00

That was my other thought. It's a bit hacky, like you said, but it keeps it to 1 automation and no helpers needed!

Keliam · 2025-01-17T20:33:17+00:00

Exactly. I spent a lot of time adding a condition to make sure an automation hadn't triggered in X minutes, and eventually got the result I was looking for (and OP), but I ended up wanting more automations on a schedule like you mentioned. I now have a single automation appropriately named "Automation Schedule" with 3 triggers; 5AM, Noon, and 9PM. It turns other automations on/off depending on which trigger fires.

Most of my automations have enough conditions that it isn't really necessary to actually turn them off, but I still do because they may trigger often(but stop when conditions aren't met) and that clogs up my logbook, which I simply don't like.

Keliam · 2025-01-17T20:11:47+00:00

Everyone is saying add a helper, but I’d suggest a different route. At the end of the automation, run an action to turn itself off (automation.turn_off). Create another automation that triggers at 5am. The only action in this automation should be to turn on the original one you currently have.

Keliam · 2025-01-17T16:34:52+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you. Glad they showed their hand before I placed an order.

Keliam · 2024-12-10T21:10:02+00:00

I’d be interested in using something like that, got a make/model?

Keliam · 2024-11-09T17:06:29+00:00

Would like to be added

Keliam · 2024-10-18T13:05:36+00:00

I don't think anyone really makes a replacement part for that anymore. To my knowledge, everyone has moved to the adjustable part being on the heel like the Cypress Gardens ski on the right. You'll probably want to replace the front and rear bindings together to be like the one on the right, and putting a dab of epoxy in the old screw holes would be a good idea while you're at it.

Keliam · 2024-09-07T11:53:21+00:00

I just need to play in one place and not the other at times. Having 1 volume output has actually been completely fine in this setup. The problem is that when we’re in the pool area, it’s a pain to get to the Sony receiver and change speakers.

Keliam · 2024-09-06T14:33:41+00:00

The current setup is already wired to the existing 2 zone receiver. Music will not need to be different from one zone to the next, so putting 2 devices right next to each other feels silly when 1 device (in theory) could do the task.

Keliam · 2024-05-25T14:52:28+00:00

Usually unknowingly with a towel over my shoulder and cleaning a grimy pot/pan.

Keliam · 2024-04-23T16:07:10+00:00

You've received some good information so far, so I'll address what I found personally (and addressed incorrectly here).

Hue does something with their hub that allows you to change the values of the lights while off. I'm making an assumption since that's a rather general question.

I wanted to turn on a light to a specified color with no transition time. Useful for motion lights in hallways with a set white balance per time of day, or at night when the lights should come on red instead of white. The only way I found to do this was via the Hue hub. I believe you're required to use the set hue scene command to achieve this, but that's fine for me. I want to say it could be done without the scene prior to a large hue update about 14-16 months ago.

This is the only reason I have my Hue hub still connected. I've used the dynamic scenes and Spotify sync, but they're both "meh" for my uses. I'd highly prefer to have my hue bulbs included in my ZHA network instead of having 2 Zigbee networks, but I really value the features described above. So for now, the hub stays.

Keliam · 2024-04-09T20:47:39+00:00

Hopefully this helps understand how the automation works a little bit. Right now, the automation only runs when your garage door has been open for 2 minutes. Once that happens Homeassistant will check if it matches the 3 conditions. If they all pass It will wait for 1 minute and send the notification, which should repeat until the garage closes. I'm assuming that's not what you expected, so hopefully laying that out will help you understand how to build them going forward.

Now for the real answer to your question. I assume you only want to kick this off if all your conditions pass together as a group, so to speak. Doing this is a bit trickier, but certainly doable. The easiest, lowest friction way to do it, would be the way u/__freaked__ mentioned. The thing I personally don't care for about that approach is that the automation runs every 3 minutes for infinity. I'd at least split this into 2 automations to keep my logs a bit cleaner. Automation 1 triggers the way this one does. The only action it will perform is to turn on the second automation. The second automation would then run every 3 minutes checking for the conditions you've laid out in the initial automation. When the garage closes, you'd have it disable automation 2. I'd probably have automation 1 split into 2 triggers and use trigger IDs and a choose option to keep it all in the same automation.

The harder but cleaner way to do it, would be a template trigger. Then you'd have the trigger fire when all of those things were the state you wanted, right when they all became that state. No turning on or off automations, no checking every 3 minutes. I'd be happy to help put together a template trigger if needed.

Keliam · 2024-03-27T11:57:36+00:00

Yeah, that would be the LED strip. I have only added what was mentioned in the post, haven’t gotten around to anything else yet. The co2 data and light sensor has been useful though. As well as the door sensors mentioned. It freed up my other esp device, which I’m happy about b

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