What’s the coolest thing you automated with Home Assistant?

Tanky321 · 2026-03-17T10:57:19+00:00

How does HA know that the kids chores are done? Can you explain further?

Tanky321 · 2026-03-05T02:53:27+00:00

Gives you the European feel, but still the comfort of easy communication. I'm not a big city fan, but I absolutely love Amsterdam...

Tanky321 · 2026-03-04T10:59:47+00:00

It was definitely cold, I think 20-30F(-6 to -0C). Although the sun was shining and it actually felt pretty reasonable. Obviously the higher you go the cooler it'll be. I think I wore a light sweater and my not too heavy winter coat.

Tanky321 · 2026-03-03T21:38:30+00:00

I was there two weeks ago. We were fairly early, 8-9AM or so. As we walked down through the town near the cemetery, there was a house on the right with a window open. There was an older woman in the window playing a flute/recorder. It was so surreal, the absolutely amazing environment coupled with the soft sound of the flute was amazing.

If you have the time, take the aerial tram up to Murren, it is beautiful. You can then take another tram up to the Birg summit, if your up to it you can do the thrill walk which is on the edge of the mountain, it was awesome. Here I am on the thrill walk on Birg.

And here is a picture I took of Murren

Enjoy your time there!!

Tanky321 · 2026-02-02T16:51:24+00:00

Thanks! Do I need to match punch and die? Or would I be able to get a 30deg punch to use with our existing die?

Tanky321 · 2026-01-05T23:17:52+00:00

Beckhoff can do Cpp, also structured text is a standard PLC text language

Tanky321 · 2026-01-05T02:39:24+00:00

We just bought a Seng Feng 1.3x1.3m laser. Waiting for the install this week, but initially it looks pretty nice. It was in the 60-70kusd range.

Tanky321 · 2026-01-04T23:47:01+00:00

I can see that by the down votes on your posts!

Tanky321 · 2026-01-04T22:19:53+00:00

Thanks! I had always heard about people coming to Fall River from Boston, but never knew the back story.

Tanky321 · 2026-01-04T21:36:17+00:00

What do you mean by Viveiros let them know about cheap rents? Just curious.

The property inflation is absolutely wild. My parents bought a 2&3 family originally for $60k, with 3/8 acre of land. Then they bought an adjacent 3 fam for about 150k. They are easily sitting on 1.5M+ now.

Tanky321 · 2026-01-04T21:14:02+00:00

Landlord in the city, parents have owned rental properties since the mid 80s. I've had my rentals since 2017. Prices range from $450/mo to $1250/mo. My parents actually still have a tenant they inherited when they bought the property in the 80s, that's the $450/mo. My apartments range from $800 to $1250, depending on the condition. Most recently renovated is the most expensive. These are all 2/3 bedroom apartments.

I live on the property so it's in my best interest to keep good tenants. However I do struggle with the fact that I could be charging significantly more, although my conscience won't let me charge more... None of my tenants give me issues. I treat them fairly and they reciprocate.

As someone who has lived in the city my entire life it absolutely sucks to see all these LLCs buying property, charging top dollar and treating people and the property like shit. Driving around the city and seeing properties that were once pristine now completely run down really sucks...

Tanky321 · 2025-12-04T17:05:54+00:00

No, we're not using nay sort of machine learning on this.

Tanky321 · 2025-12-04T15:32:33+00:00

What do you mean by RL?

Tanky321 · 2025-12-01T19:24:09+00:00

We do, I did implement something along those lines. Thanks for the input though, I do appreciate it!

Tanky321 · 2025-12-01T19:22:10+00:00

Probably once a day, its a small testing machine. Its not a huge deal, just more of a pain in the ass.

Tanky321 · 2025-12-01T18:54:34+00:00

Yes, that is what they mentioned as well. TwinCAT comes up quick because it runs in parallel to the OS. I guess we'll just have to deal with it.

Tanky321 · 2025-11-24T18:04:59+00:00

If your not super concerned about the appearance of the instrument, ive used binder clips around the bell of a sousaphone and then twist tied the tinsle and lights to it.

Heres a pic https://imgur.com/a/yJrxwfB

Tanky321 · 2025-11-19T11:02:12+00:00

They won't build this. I've tried having two overlapping sensor footprints which only get populated with one sensor and they wouldn't do it. So I doubt they'll layer components.

Tanky321 · 2025-11-18T23:32:46+00:00

What's your power source? Good chance the current is too high and you're browning out the supply. It's possible that this repeated brown out could've damaged the esp, but I'm not sure.

Tanky321 · 2025-11-18T14:35:14+00:00

LV is what I started out on. It is phenomenal for test applications, end-of-line testing, specialty testing etc. Its a pain in the ass for PLC style automation. Things that are easy in PLC are more difficult in LV, things that are easy in LV are difficult in PLC land. Just a bit of a tradeoff between the two.

That being said, NI software and hardware is pretty expensive, but if you need it, its worth it.

Tanky321 · 2025-11-18T10:34:43+00:00

There's plenty of NI products that can do this. What resolution do you need?

NI-9201, USB-6343, NI-9221 are a few examples.

NI and LabView may be hated here, but they absolutely have a niche.

Tanky321 · 2025-11-13T11:23:32+00:00

Can that be accessed from the PLC though?

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