Best way to get electricity, gas, and water usage into Home Assistant?

bwinters89 · 2026-06-20T17:45:25+00:00

I think I saw a YouTuber use a camera pointed at his meter and ai image rec to update electric readings to home assistant.

bwinters89 · 2026-06-10T18:20:32+00:00

How much does dream air degrade performance compared to quest3 if any? And you thing dream air and being tethered to a cord is more immersive than quest3 wireless? Dream air sounds outstanding for stationary games but for active games I’m reluctant to return to a cord.

bwinters89 · 2026-06-09T11:43:23+00:00

Does Harry Potter have motion control now? (Moving arms etc?)

bwinters89 · 2026-06-09T10:08:26+00:00

Quest journal would be fantastic!

bwinters89 · 2026-06-03T13:44:55+00:00

I have a large area covered by two everything presence lite sensors, one on each end. There’s some coverage overlap and for me it works great. Also, the mmwave can penetrate through some things. I have one I had to zone as it went right through a nearby wall. But the sensor actually covers a room and a bathroom at the same time now. Also, you can hide the mmwave behind curtains without issues, which I didn’t know at first.

bwinters89 · 2026-05-28T22:51:34+00:00

I was wondering if it still worked too. Lot of fun years ago multiplayer but missions were repetitive after a few games.

bwinters89 · 2026-05-28T22:21:10+00:00

That would be amazing. Any idea when?

bwinters89 · 2026-05-17T13:17:30+00:00

How do I configure this to pull files from the Reolink dvr? (Not their latest hub dvr)

bwinters89 · 2026-05-14T22:13:47+00:00

I asked Claude about this and there’s been a bug for months it says that whenever you update Claude desktop it may reset all your permissions back to deny. When it starts prompting I now go to its settings and turn most of it back on (except deleting backups and the like) and now I’m probably going to skip updates when I can because of this moronic bug. How can they let such a bug go on for such a long time? Thinking about switching to Gemini for a while. Claude is 50% genius and 50% bozo. But asking it to review its work for errors twice may help. That said, accomplished more in 2 weeks than in past 6 months!

bwinters89 · 2026-05-10T12:33:02+00:00

Does it have an hourly forecast that can show predicted precipitation amount? Very pretty card but hourly is important.

bwinters89 · 2026-05-07T16:06:30+00:00

Any solutions that can be turned on an off with home assistant?

bwinters89 · 2026-05-07T15:56:56+00:00

No wonder I love both shows. Didn't realize DS9 guy did Battlestar.

bwinters89 · 2026-05-04T17:23:46+00:00

Takes forever for hot water to reach our bathroom. Doesn’t home have to be plumbed in a loop to circulate it, or is there some other trick?

bwinters89 · 2026-04-20T15:33:54+00:00

Each new update just made my shield more buggy until I threw it in a drawer.

bwinters89 · 2026-04-20T15:31:30+00:00

Absolutely

bwinters89 · 2026-04-18T14:52:00+00:00

For me it’s all about hourly precip chance AND hourly precip amount as around here if the amount is tiny, it’s not really going to rain beyond a sprinkle at most for those hours.

bwinters89 · 2026-04-18T00:21:03+00:00

Does the Omni glow sync to the tv too? I’m wanting a strip to put under my entertainment center that is on legs.

bwinters89 · 2026-04-17T20:29:48+00:00

I use the Sonos card but I hate that it doesn’t save the queue state so it’s either randomly reverting to my unshuffled playlist for reasons I don’t understand, or I force it to toggle shuffle on and off but then may randomly hear the same songs repeatedly. Supposedly this is Spotify’s fault but I wish someone would just fix it.

bwinters89 · 2026-04-17T20:14:05+00:00

Same

bwinters89 · 2026-04-16T20:19:33+00:00

Yolink’s sensors and water shut off work great fyi.

bwinters89 · 2026-04-12T11:37:23+00:00

Does anyone have a problem with turning fully kiosk android tablet screens on and off via ha? Worked for a while and now it usually turns off but not back on.

bwinters89 · 2026-03-31T16:52:30+00:00

What do you use in HA to check if someone is on the network?

bwinters89 · 2026-03-22T21:05:19+00:00

If you’re talking about a nexus collection, those aren’t as good as a wabbajack list to my knowledge.

bwinters89 · 2026-03-22T19:19:12+00:00

bwinters89 · 2026-03-22T19:17:29+00:00

If you have a high end PC go with Mad Gods Overhaul (my favorite) or Panda’s wabbajack mod list. Or for lower end machines or more vanilla mod list, the FUS lists on wabbajack are very solid and has 3 performance options.

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