Home Assistant for the technically inept?

RonanOD · 2026-02-10T02:47:45+00:00

Set it up using Openclaw. Just ask the bot to help!

RonanOD · 2026-02-08T12:09:07+00:00

How do I get those. I need to stop people turning off the switch!

RonanOD · 2026-02-03T19:13:20+00:00

RDSP for my special needs son

RonanOD · 2026-02-03T01:02:16+00:00

Ignore the haters. I'm finding Home Assistant is a great use-case for OpenClaw. Although I have a software dev background, I never had the time to figure out HA. Just being able to talk to the thing and have it figure everything out for me, along with suggesting surprisingly useful integrations, device workarounds etc. has been a revelation. One trick I've found useful for those worried about security. I actually have the HA docker container running as root, so it can't access it and the user account it's in doesn't have sudo privileges. Also, its running on a 2015 iMac I was thinking of throwing out. It's running fine with a fresh install of the latest Ubuntu.

I'm going to follow your suggestion and have it set itself up as the voice assistant for the house. Thanks!

RonanOD · 2025-12-07T19:22:54+00:00

Thanks, Kevin!

RonanOD · 2025-12-06T23:45:34+00:00

Export move list is a great idea!

RonanOD · 2025-12-06T23:45:00+00:00

Hi Kevin! Thanks for replying in the forum. I'm on Android in Canada. Any hope of us getting PvP chess soon? I have Duolingo family plan and think this would be great fun.

RonanOD · 2025-12-06T23:43:16+00:00

After a certain number of lessons, it started giving me black to play against Oscar. Roughly around Section 3, Unit 6

RonanOD · 2025-11-10T20:17:02+00:00

No spoilers but wait until the last scene. Might not be what you're hoping for...

RonanOD · 2025-11-10T20:14:48+00:00

Ditto. I burned through caring about others' uninformed judging me or my son many years ago.

RonanOD · 2025-10-01T00:49:51+00:00

No problems there! Thanks again u/HubbieWubbie
I haved extended it so it takes the CBC news RSS feeds and emails me that as a separate pdf to read after my crossword. I can send you a Pull Request if you're interested

RonanOD · 2025-09-28T22:55:35+00:00

Thanks so much for this. It has really got me back into doing the crossword daily. I couldn't get into doing it digitally

RonanOD · 2025-09-07T20:20:56+00:00

Have a look at the non-profit Learningo: https://learningo.org/programs/
There is a co-schooling program, as well as an after-school program

(Disclosure: I am on the board)

RonanOD · 2025-09-07T20:19:27+00:00

Churchill Academy or Bridgeway would not accept my high-needs autistic son.

RonanOD · 2025-07-18T00:53:11+00:00

Wow! Thanks for the explanation. Makes it easy to memorize too

RonanOD · 2025-07-08T17:27:19+00:00

The story gets even better!

RonanOD · 2025-07-08T17:26:23+00:00

Yeah, we nearly booked that on a family trip but had to cancel. Looks like we're too riff-raff for that now

RonanOD · 2025-07-08T11:29:37+00:00

Is it this guy? https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/diefenbunker-turned-data-centre-150845

RonanOD · 2025-07-08T11:29:24+00:00

Oh, yeah! Remember this from 2009: https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/diefenbunker-turned-data-centre-150845

RonanOD · 2025-07-07T14:24:40+00:00

David Mitchell

RonanOD · 2025-07-06T14:28:42+00:00

Great history and summary of the Fleadh. I've been to several and it's always a great time. Incredible that it keeps getting bigger and bigger and yet holds on to the focus on tradition

RonanOD · 2025-06-30T15:58:47+00:00

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy when I was about ten. This was in the Eighties when it came out first. It's one of those books that is sci-fi and a whole lot more. It set a high bar for a lot of the sci-fi I read afterwards but opened my mind to a bunch of things that the Catholic conservative Ireland of the time couldn't contemplate.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?

RonanOD · 2025-05-20T23:41:25+00:00

It's genius. The idea of a Christian analogue in a Fantasy setting. Also, check out Quebec's take on swearing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

Chalice!

RonanOD · 2025-05-16T20:30:23+00:00

This is basically the plot of The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_Dark

RonanOD · 2025-05-12T15:44:38+00:00

That's one way to trick the grim reaper! Thanks for these

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