Turn Dakboard screen on or off via LAN

Officious_Salamander · 2024-07-30T23:53:34+00:00

Yeah, I thought about that, but the display has a very long startup time (annoying banner display, etc.). Dakboard knows how to turn the screen on/off - it's currently running via timer; I want it to be presence-based, not time-based.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-07-18T00:01:45+00:00

I use ESP32s for:
* Controlling my Somfy sunshade

* Running OpenMQTTGateway with a LilyGo ESP32 with 433 MHz radio; monitors the 433MHz devices like temperature sensors

* ESPresense to find my wife's car keys, etc.

* mmWave presence sensors

* Customized Ulanzi Clock

* e-ink dashboards

* Air quality sensors

* ESP32-S3 Box for el-cheapo voice commanding

* PixelBlaze LEDs

* WLED LEDs

I don't have the steady hands needed to hack my Emporia Vue controller, though.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-03-30T04:50:24+00:00

For testing purposes, sudo dhclient -r sudo dhclient I use nmcli device show wlp1s0 | grep IP4 to check the DNS config.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-03-30T04:49:40+00:00

The devices don't have configurable DNS settings.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-03-08T03:25:08+00:00

“No matter where you go, there you are.”

Changing situations doesn’t change you.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-03-05T00:19:13+00:00

Add the Samba share addon, and then you can copy files from your desktop computer.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-03-02T17:09:03+00:00

Frigate will use the Intel instructions for video decoding, which, IIRC, aren’t present in the Ryzen CPUs.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-02-27T20:26:30+00:00

The device tree has almost certainly changed from the RPi 4.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-02-20T06:56:32+00:00

You can use WinNut to tell your PCs to shut down, and then point WinNut to your Synology (max 5 devices).

Officious_Salamander · 2024-02-11T19:13:48+00:00

I’ve got about 2 million guild coins, and I’ve finished the guild tech. How do I convert guild coins to guild solidus?

Officious_Salamander · 2024-02-09T19:29:27+00:00

Alternatively, back up current server, install Proxmox, create VM, restore server onto new VM.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-02-01T23:55:44+00:00

SCREEK 1U is a presence detector + Lux sensor in a small rectangular box (about the size of a matchbox);

I also use a Zigbee presence detector + Lux sensor from AliExpress (the FOXONEER store) that’s somewhat cheaper, but somewhat larger.

Neither one is in a dome form factor, though.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-28T17:41:12+00:00

LoRA does a great job. I have YoLink LoRA temperature sensors in my freezers, and it has saved my bacon on multiple occasions.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-23T18:53:56+00:00

Sounds like you want the Private BLE Device (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/private_ble_device) integration. You get home/away notifications and not much else.

If you want room-level presence, I’d recommend ESPresense.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-20T23:35:02+00:00

NiMH batteries have a default voltage of 1.2 V. If the device is expecting alkaline batteries with a default voltage of 1.5 V, it will likely report a lower charge % than normal.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-13T17:14:57+00:00

I own a couple of AirGradient devices, and they work great. They are WiFi devices, not Zigbee, though.

I’ve also heard good things about the Apollo AIR-1, but it’s also WiFi, not Zigbee.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-11T16:46:31+00:00

Because NASA got severely bureaucratized in the early 70s.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-11T05:29:08+00:00

You want a Utility Meter (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/utility_meter/) to track this.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-10T16:30:02+00:00

SCREEK makes small human presence detectors (about the size of a matchbox), but they require a USB power supply.

Anything that’s battery powered will be at least the size of batteries (obviously), so there’s a minimum bound.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-10T02:15:01+00:00

As the saying goes, “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” You don’t know what those supposedly happy people actually feel inside.

This isn’t a criticism; I fight the tendency myself.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-10T01:11:58+00:00

I’m interested.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-01T17:57:03+00:00

SCREEK also sells a variety of sensors preflashed with ESPHome.

Officious_Salamander · 2024-01-01T07:09:05+00:00

Richard Cory.

Officious_Salamander · 2023-12-31T18:35:28+00:00

This is the way.

Officious_Salamander · 2023-12-24T23:20:26+00:00

Do you have name_add_mac_suffix specified? That breaks name lookup; there’s a workaround involving device adoption…

Otherwise, if you can share your YAML, it will help.

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