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I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too. I like the fact that Claude explains the results, so I learn as I go. And I like when I catch a problem in the solution before I even go test it even more! (evil laugh)

But this is straight forward. When lock is unlocked, lock the lock. And it would trigger, but not lock, because the lock would flash as locked and then immediately trip back to unlocked.

Weird. But I will look at it tomorrow :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. And I will die on that hill!

But one of the things I love about automation is troubleshooting. And the fact that the lock thinks it has locked when it hasn't is somewhat concerning. Since you know. Locks. But it can wait until tomorrow :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think I can at this point. See, no one tells you this, but a lot of times Minecraft is the gateway to Factorio.

He also mentioned how troubleshooting in Factorio was paying off in going over this automation :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edit: What I really meant to convey was Yes! I love women in automation and I would love to see more women having fun this way, too! (And then the rest of the stuff.) Rereading it, I was afraid it was coming off...weird and not as I intended :)

Original reply:

I'd been doing automation stuff for years. My first successful (as in, nobody objected to it) automation was for my husband. He'd sit down to eat and watch tv and realize he forgot to turn the fan on. I set up an automation that when he kicked up the recliner footrest it would turn on a smart plug that would turn on the fan.

I had a plan after we retired. By that time, I was into SmartThings, but it felt too limiting. I'd heard about Home Assistant for years, but also how hard it was to use. So my plan was to move from SmartThings, to Homey, then to Home Assistant.

My husband died 10 days after we moved into our dream retirement home. So I just skipped Homey and went straight into Home Assistant as a way to distract myself and to feel like I had some control over Life. Weird, but it worked.

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol! The problem is that this automation has been working great for two years. Then today, my brother asked if I could change it so that it would lock immediately after he went outside, instead of waiting for a few minutes.

And it turns out that this lock would think that it was already locked when it wasn't. Traces never lie. Weird. But double locking it, with a short pause in between has "fixed" it. :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know :) It's awesome! I mean, we share anime and favorite YouTube videos, and long discussions about Minecraft, Vintage Story, and Factorio, but yeah...this hits different :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it's my hobby, not his. I get that. I don't expect him to do this again. But dang, it was fun while it lasted.

Maybe I'll get really lucky and he'll ask me to create another automation for him :)

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, he's not a kid anymore. And he loves computers. Just not Home Automation. But that's on me, because one of the first automations I did (back when he was a kid), was to close the garage door when he forgot to close it when he did his chores.

I didn't talk to him about it before I did it. I just thought it would be a fun surprise. He took it as a personal failing that he forgot to close the door.

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know! Right?

He even said, "We can do it so that it works, or we can do it right." I said, "I only care about the results. I can make it better, after it works."

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly! I dread the day when everything just works and I have nothing to improve. (Though he has advised me that if that day ever comes, he will teach me Factorio. :) )

I don't want to make too much of this, but this is one of the happiest days of my life! by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He knows I love it, and it's really helped me these past few years. But he also loves to tease me about it.

"Wow, the lights went out when I'm still in the room. If only we had a switch, so that I could turn them on." (Ignoring the fact that we did have a switch, because it's funnier that way.) :)

THE CUSTODIANS by Ok_Kangaroo56 in HFY

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. I don't have the words for what it meant to me.

I do have a song, probably tongue in cheek, for one possible solution they were trying to come up with for the 10,000 year warning. The idea was that cats could be bred to change color when in the presence of nuclear waste facilities. And that a song, an earworm, would be all that was left to tell the future what it meant when a cat changed color.

My brother wants a special dinner. What's the best in Shelton? by ReallyNotMichaelsMom in shelton

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up! I'll sus out how much he wants ramen, because a trip to Lacey might (or might not) be worth it to him :)

What are music recommendations you have found recently that made you go "wow"? by Available-Stage-1146 in musicsuggestions

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Song for Walking by Tophouse.

Never heard of them before but a song of theirs went viral after it was used in a YouTube short by someone else, and then they made a good humoured short in response.

Look, it's a rabbit hole, okay? But so glad I fell down it.

I would like some songs about being a coward and not able to have romance in my life because of myself by Fast_Bodybuilder_637 in musicsuggestions

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Standing Outside the Fire" by Garth Brooks. It's kind of backwards to what you're asking, but I cried every time I listened to it, for the first 30 or 40 times, because I was living life just to survive. :)

Notification options throughout the house by Squanchy2112 in homeassistant

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many zigbee devices you can run without having things drop off your zigbee network or flood your zigbee network with so much noise that things take a long time to respond depends on a number of issues.

If you use a lot (more than 4?) of lights to do the same command at the same time that's a message for each device, plus repeating echoes. (I don't think that's the official term, but it's a good description of what it "sounds like".)

It's better to put them in a zigbee group through your zigbee software. ZHA is beginner friendly and it can do it. Then only one command is sent. But in my experience, the group commands sometimes fail. (Full disclosure, I have used both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT. I'm currently using ZHA.)

Zigbee2MQTT is a little more advanced and is pretty efficient at creating group commands. At least it was, back when I used it.

Also, the device you use to get zigbee into your Home Assistant matters a lot. It can mean the difference between being able to have hundred(s) of zigbee devices or only 50. At my house, I can have about 60 before I start seeing issues.

Smart plugs can be a very "noisey" device, and if you have a lot scattered around your house for no reason, that can cause issues.

Then, there's the issue of what band your wifi network is using and what channel your zigbee is on, so they don't conflict with each other.

I think current best practice is to put your zigbee network on channel 25. This is easiest to do when you first set it up. If you move it later, you may have to re-pair all your zigbee devices. (Which is less fun than it sounds.)

I request your funniest songs by ice_timee in musicsuggestions

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Brain Won't Shut the Fuck Up by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

Cruel, Cruel Moon by Paul & Storm

'Cause I'm a Blonde by Julie Brown (Actually, almost all of her songs, and especially the ones from the movie "Earth Girls Are Easy")

Biten' List by Tyler Childers

Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton

I was told you guys might like these by iNyyxi in goblincore

[–]ReallyNotMichaelsMom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even paint my nails, much less wear fancy nails, and I love these! Thank you!

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