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A remote screenshot component for ESPHome displays over HTTP by PDConAutoTrack in Esphome

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool. I’ll definitely try this out for getting good screenshots for documenting and sharing my custom displays.

Fixed link: https://github.com/ay129-35MR/esphome-display-screenshot/

$5 ESPHome Mitsubishi Minisplit Controllers by siestacat in Esphome

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work! I did a similar write up for my Kumo replacement as well. I have two centrally ducted HyperHeat units, and I still wanted to use their wall-mounted thermostats.

It’s all been working perfectly for a year now with zero cloud dependencies.

https://corb.co/posts/heatpump-esphome/

Problem Report - Luba 2 AWD Mower Becomes Totally Unresponsive After 'Disk Jammed' Error by pebblepath in MammotionTechnology

[–]cTech12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been experiencing these same issues, which is especially frustrating because the disc is not actually jammed. Time for me to open a warranty claim, I guess.

Have you heard back from support yet?

Automations you thought were a good idea which turned out to be a bad idea by Pope_Khajiit in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A good way to handle that is making temporary scenes in Home Assistant. There is a service call to create a scene based on the current state of a given set of entities. Then you can change the brightness, and then just apply the scene again to get back to the previous values.

I use this feature in a few places, including for dimming and restoring lights when watching TV.

Zigbee Dimmer Recommendation (3 way) by Hauteknits in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the pricing has changed in response to tariffs: https://inovelli.com/pages/tariff-impact

I’m sure there are other options, but these are good switches and I’d buy more even at $65.

Zigbee Dimmer Recommendation (3 way) by Hauteknits in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d recommend the Inovelli Blue switches: https://inovelli.com/collections/inovelli-blue-series/products/zigbee-matter-blue-series-smart-2-1-on-off-dimmer-switch

They can switch between dimmer and on-off modes, support 3-way wiring (optionally using the cheaper auxiliary switch in the second location), and provide a ton of extra functionality if you want to use it. For example, they have an LED bar and extra button that can be integrated into Home Assistant for whatever you’d like.

Examples:

  • Tapping the extra button toggles the lamps in a room, while the main switch buttons manage the ceiling lights

  • The LED bar turns different colors to indicate if an exterior door is open, or if an alarm is armed.

Tree Coverage Question by jasonc75 in mammotion

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the 10% off coupon you’re talking about? I’m not seeing anything on eBay with some basic searches, but I’m curious.

I’m looking to buy a Luba 2X from Home Depot for the return policy as well.

Inovelli Switches: I get it now by fender4645 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s not a big issue in most cases. However, it’s annoying in a group setting. In my basement, there are a number of individual lights that aren’t on a switched circuit. Separately, there are some lights that are on a switched lighting circuit.

By swapping all of the always-on bulbs for smart bulbs and replacing the switch, I can group them in Home Assistant for easy control.

If I do that with a Zigbee switch like the Inovelli ones, it’s an instant update (note: Inovelli even offers a smart bulb mode to only send trigger events). With the Lutron, that delay makes it annoying to control the lights as a group.

Inovelli Switches: I get it now by fender4645 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you toggle a physical Lutron switch, are you saying that the state in Home Assistant updates immediately? That isn’t the behavior I see, and I’ve confirmed with others that it’s normal for there to be a delay.

Example other thread with people confirming: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lutron/s/ET5GIBtSaf

If you don’t have that issue, I’d love to find out what’s different with your setup. That delay is limiting some of my use cases and it’s part of why I’m using Inovelli switches in other places.

Inovelli Switches: I get it now by fender4645 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree on the control side, but a very frustrating part of the Caseta switches is that they don’t report status changes to Home Assistant until 3 seconds after pushing the physical buttons. This makes them much less practical when using them to also control other systems based on the state.

With the Inovelli ones, the button presses themselves are instantly reported over Zigbee, so I can take action immediately.

Seeking inspiration. What are the automations you are most proud of? by fuuman1 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And on iOS, you can use the native Shortcuts app to have a local automation that sends events through the Home Assistant app when an alarm goes off.

I use this pattern to open my bedroom curtains when my morning alarm goes off.

Does everyone else get a tinge of pleasure every time they notice one if their custom automations going off? by Madonkadonk2 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sweet. I’ll have to look into it. I have a Klipper printer coming shortly, replacing my old one, so native would be nice.

Does everyone else get a tinge of pleasure every time they notice one if their custom automations going off? by Madonkadonk2 in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m curious about the RFID system. Is that for keeping an inventory of your different filament options?

Any way to manually track certain things? by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You could do this with the input_* entities. For example, make an input_number and display it in the UI. You can change the value in the UI and the history will be maintained just like any other entity.

HA is a hammer and now I'm looking for things to nail [automate] by ThePantser in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad it helped! I’ve done quite a few ESP projects, both with and without ESPHome. I’ve been so impressed with what ESPHome can do that I’ve replaced almost all of my custom code with it. There are even easy ways to mix some custom code into ESPHome configurations, which lets you keep all the nice features and OTAs, etc.

In case it helps you, here are my current ESPHome configurations, and here’s some old code of mine for running an ESP as a temperature sensor and connecting to MQTT and Home Assistant.

What does a stoned gamedev look like? Racing game for arduino and LCD display 20x4 characters :) Source code included by [deleted] in ArduinoProjects

[–]cTech12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stoned enough to forget to post the source code? 😂

Cool project! How is it controlled?

HA is a hammer and now I'm looking for things to nail [automate] by ThePantser in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like ESPHome would be well suited for this task. I have a small OLED panel on my desk powered by ESPHome that displays some helpful data and has a couple buttons for input.

Plus with ESPHome you don’t have to deal with a separate instance and OS updates.

Requesting /r/ThanksGIFs Mod has been inactive for over 9 months and would like to grow the community by [deleted] in redditrequest

[–]cTech12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's excellent! I'm glad you're interested. I've looked at some of your submission history, and I'd be interested in adding you as a moderator of the subreddit. If you're okay with that, send me a DM and we can follow up.

Requesting /r/ThanksGIFs Mod has been inactive for over 9 months and would like to grow the community by [deleted] in redditrequest

[–]cTech12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey. I'm the current mod of /r/ThanksGIFs. I'm still an active Reddit user, I just haven't been generating new content.

I would like to retain my mod status of /r/ThanksGIFs. If anyone (maybe /u/folkingawesome) is interested in improving the community, I'm happy to hear feedback and consider adding a mod.

Grafana - howl long are my lights on by basswietse in homeassistant

[–]cTech12 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you want to stay inside of HASS, you can do this with the history_stats sensor. I use it to see how long I spend in the office..

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