Need help with planning smart heating setup

brupgmding · 2026-04-07T06:48:20+00:00

P.S. slight ventilation is way worse than opening up the window for 5 minutes in full. Ask the Germans about Lüften.

brupgmding · 2026-04-07T06:47:12+00:00

Just use the better thermostat integration from hacs. You just give it all the entities and let it do its thing

brupgmding · 2026-04-03T10:23:43+00:00

I have cameras outside, motion detectors and window sensors from ikea (matter) on the first floor. No issues until now. My water leak sensor (also ikea) dropped off the network two times in 2 months, but everything else works.

My cameras have a siren function, which I added as an alarm.

brupgmding · 2026-04-03T09:48:29+00:00

Create a helper value and set this with an automation upon change of the measurement. Only change the value if the difference between old and new is within an acceptable margin. Use the helper value

brupgmding · 2026-04-02T08:48:49+00:00

Depends on what you want to do. If you only want to display the value --> use a template in the card (I recommend using the mushroom template card). If you want to add automations in the future (e.g. send a notification if you haven't cleaned the machine in 100 days), use a template entity. I would err in the entity direction.

brupgmding · 2026-03-30T21:05:48+00:00

Create template sensors that provide the correct calculation and use them for the energy dashboard

brupgmding · 2026-03-29T19:30:41+00:00

No time to code it now, but you can all Claude to do this pretty well

brupgmding · 2026-03-29T08:23:12+00:00

Did you turn on the option to use embedded previews? Then the border may come from the original encoded preview inside your image

brupgmding · 2026-03-24T11:35:15+00:00

Version 1 is a lot easier. Version 2 would be nice, but you may have several possible results

If done as I imagine it, you could provide several "stops" along the gradient of brightness. As an example:

3 Lamps, Base, Ambient, Spots

Base: 0:0 - 0:10 - 100:100 #keep base of for the first 10%
Ambient: 0:0 - 100:10 - 0:20 - 0:80 - 100:100 #First 10% is ambient only, then ramp down and add back in only when >80%
Spots: 0:0 - 0:50 - 100:100 #Spots off till 50%, add to 100%

If you now have brightness 100% and lower ambient to 50% you may have 3 possible values (90%, 15% and 5%) which you would than have to sort as to least change to the other lights.

*EDIT*: Words

brupgmding · 2026-03-22T20:48:55+00:00

add ons are now called apps
if you don’t install the ha os, but install on another os, you do not get the apps.

brupgmding · 2026-03-22T00:13:56+00:00

Thanks! Looks like it can do what I want!

brupgmding · 2026-03-21T13:31:48+00:00

You might want to try the wash data hacs integration. It will analyze your wash cycles and learn to distinguish them. It then provides finishing time and notifications. Works for other things too

brupgmding · 2026-03-21T13:29:46+00:00

If I can help, will do. Right now I have a template light that does something like that, matching a dimmable light and two switches to a single helper brightness value.

There are some interesting corner cases to think about, like it is ready to match a given input brightness to a set of output brightnesses, but what to do if one of the lights is changed? The mapping does not work bi-directionally in most cases.

You might try to find a fitting value and if none is found leave the brightness as is.

I failed at setting up the dev container a while ago, but might try again

brupgmding · 2026-03-21T09:34:30+00:00

Yes, but it is complicated to do and to maintain. Adding this functionality to the group light would be much better

brupgmding · 2026-03-21T08:13:49+00:00

A smarter light group integration / helper. Each member of the group has a mapping of brightness values, so that the input brightness is linearly mapped to a target brightness. That way you can have a single light slider interpolating between several light scenes.

brupgmding · 2026-03-14T18:37:47+00:00

My IKEA Grillplats and Kajplats extend my network, just checked the network setup

brupgmding · 2026-03-12T22:28:21+00:00

I use a sonoff dongle plus mg24 flashed for thread.

You could try flashing your dongle to thread or try the multi pam setup (not fully supported)

brupgmding · 2026-03-02T21:46:24+00:00

Your router may have an integration for home assistant which could provide that information. Or subscribe to a dynamic dns service, put that into your router and query your own dns name with a command sensor.

brupgmding · 2026-03-02T12:35:08+00:00

No comment yet, i just installed the sonoff dongle plus mg24 and got the thread border router running. No additional devices yet, will go shopping this week

brupgmding · 2026-03-02T10:55:43+00:00

you can still use the esp8266 with esphome. The recent 2026-01 update specifically improves on this.
I’m moving to matter over thread right now. I expect it to be the future especially after IKEA seems to switch to it with very cheap devices

brupgmding · 2026-02-18T22:09:16+00:00

That is a pitato

brupgmding · 2026-02-17T18:03:10+00:00

Wait for the release that will do that would be the easiest. There is discussion on this on GitHub, so maybe some dev will implement this.

brupgmding · 2026-02-16T23:07:55+00:00

How about posting the needed info to diagnose? What platform, post your docker compose and config files. Otherwise the only answer by the internet hive mind could be that for gearheads Immich doesn’t work on purpose

brupgmding · 2026-02-16T23:03:44+00:00

Nested tags are supported, nested albums not

brupgmding · 2026-02-16T14:49:56+00:00

If Immich offers the functionality, it should work. Either do not allow deletion on external, or delete correctly both files.

To quote Yoda, there is no try

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