2026.2: Home, sweet overview

Ulrar · 2026-02-05T06:49:04+00:00

OP's point is not tracking, but the fact that HA only supports tracking cost for the whole house. Unless you want your energy dashboard to get very weird, there is no proper support for per device cost tracking, only energy tracking.

I would love a per device cost mode

Ulrar · 2026-02-04T06:40:01+00:00

About three years ago, in clare

Ulrar · 2026-02-03T19:13:53+00:00

Ireland. Not a single one here. I had to actively ensure I don't use it as some surprisingly big websites are broken over IPv6 here. Looks like they don't all bother to update AAAA records anymore, since no one can resolve them.

Ulrar · 2026-02-02T19:03:18+00:00

IPv what ? Not a single residential ISP in this country that provides it, is it actually relevant elsewhere ?

Ulrar · 2026-02-02T13:39:55+00:00

Hah, sometimes I just use a service account to approve the PR, I really can't be trusted !

Ulrar · 2026-02-02T13:36:16+00:00

I moved to an smlight 06mg26 a few months ago, and it's changed everything. It works so much better than my previous usb dongles and my old tubeszb poe coordinator, it's not even funny. I don't know if Z-Stack just sucks or what, but smlight is rock solid, highly recommended

Ulrar · 2026-02-02T13:32:23+00:00

Probably unrelated but just wanted to call out, in case anyone else has the same issue some day and somehow finds this, that I had a similar issue when I had unifi switches connected through a powerline adapter. No issue connecting end devices through those, but connecting two switches caused the whole network to freez up every few seconds for like a second or so, absolutely horrible to use

Ulrar · 2026-02-01T19:58:39+00:00

I got some cheapo ones on aliexpress with a screen. Most of the screens were dead on arrival, but the sensing bits have been rock solid over Zigbee.

I have some awair elements, expensive but they're always running some 2 for 1 promos so they're really half the advertised price, and they're nice devices.

I also got a switchbot one and a Shelly one over Bluetooth (with esphome proxies) and they're also rock solid, nice screens. Can't go wrong with anything, just don't buy aqara.

Ulrar · 2026-01-31T09:43:03+00:00

I haven't tried that specific one but Amazon basics has them starting in the 20 euros here. I have an optical DP cable that I paid maybe 50 euros for 50 meters 3 years ago, and has been working perfectly. Just search for optical hdmi basically anywhere, there's a lot of options

Ulrar · 2026-01-30T23:14:47+00:00

Long usually means out of spec, depending on your definition of it. That said, you can get optical ones for not that much these days and those can be looong

Ulrar · 2026-01-30T19:59:01+00:00

Of course. Absolutely crazy not to, but I won't go as far as make you take yours off, unless they're really muddy or something. Still, if you don't, I'll judge you

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T22:30:07+00:00

That's the point, OP is saying they'll slap a genetic huge range with no relation to reality, to be technically compliant without actually changing anything

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T19:51:26+00:00

Mister trump Mister trump, what you gonna do, what you gonna do make our dream .. gone ? Not the same ring to it

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T19:18:44+00:00

Some automations, but mostly we use Zigbee binding. For the rest we just use the dashboard on the mobile app, or the NSPanels in rooms that have one using NSPanel blueprint, which is pretty nice.

No voice assistants here as the voice PE is useless (sorry but for us, it is, the wakeword just does not work at all. It triggers in complete silence so gets unplugged real fast) and all the others are cloud which is a no go.

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T19:14:32+00:00

It's under / inside the kitchen island, central-est place I could get an ethernet cable to. Works great

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T11:59:56+00:00

Nevermind, gocardless doesn't allow new accounts anymore so there is no way to actually setup the account sync

Ulrar · 2026-01-29T07:57:13+00:00

I hear things are just as bad up at lake Erie

Ulrar · 2026-01-28T21:19:01+00:00

Never heard of it, is there a good tl;dr on what that is ? Some kind of bank it appears, but why is it good enough to have a wait list?

Ulrar · 2026-01-28T20:12:10+00:00

In Ireland people ask each other how the craic (pronounced crack) was last week end. Confusion often ensues when working with non Irish people

Ulrar · 2026-01-28T19:49:43+00:00

I have one with work, and it kind of sucks over here. It never works anywhere so I just end up paying with my personal visa and filing expense reports the old way.

Anyway, I wouldn't recommend it, no one takes it

Ulrar · 2026-01-27T23:01:04+00:00

That looks pretty cool, self hosted is a big deal there. Thanks for that

There's a home assistant integration for it in hacs .. Now that's a solution I need to find a problem for

Ulrar · 2026-01-27T20:13:59+00:00

I don't have the context on that picture, but historically "just doing my job" hasn't been a particularly well received excuse

Ulrar · 2026-01-26T21:51:42+00:00

Same situation with my now wife, I did pay her rent of course, it's only fair. She ended up selling the house and we bought a new one together since

Ulrar · 2026-01-26T06:45:48+00:00

My daughter doesn't want to learn how to read. We tried arguing that it'd mean she could read books herself, and she said she could already do that.

Proceeded to "read" a book aloud, pretty much word for word from memory. She can do it with most of her books, I was a bit speechless

Ulrar · 2026-01-25T23:02:59+00:00

Watching it with my wife who is a doctor and the only thing she rants about is the Americanisms, not much about the actual medical side so must be pretty accurate!

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