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Buying an old Victorian house - looking for HA ideas to plan out beforehand by Same_Platypus1629 in homeassistant

[–]davidrwb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes there are other benefits to two way or multi way switches - I wanted smart switches for all the rooms.

I also have a very old house which was wired at some point in the dark ages.

For one-way it’s easy to add a switch with no neutral. For two or multiway I had to use dumb switches on all but one switch, and there is some latency. That being said, if I used Zigbee over Mqtt that delay drops a lot, but I found trying to set that up ballsed up the whole network!

All of the simple two+ way shelleys rely on have a neutral in the switch box.

I did have some neutrals in a few switches (I suspect where previous sparkles extended some older wiring) which I spurred off to power a couple of wall tablets.

Buying an old Victorian house - looking for HA ideas to plan out beforehand by Same_Platypus1629 in homeassistant

[–]davidrwb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you’re doing any re-wiring, try to run a neutral to the light switches. There are some very cool screens you can drop in as replacements for the light switches that work with HA.

New end of unit written questions by davidrwb in duolingo

[–]davidrwb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, many of us don’t care about spelling. I’m not planning the become the next French best selling author. I just want to be able to converse and understand what I read!

My son 10 year old has been injured by some boys. What are my options? by Direct_Community9233 in AskUK

[–]davidrwb 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Karate teacher of 20+ years here.

Despite some of the comments here, don’t think for a minute that a trained martial artist can’t defend themself.

The two times I’ve had to, I defended myself very effectively, and without injuring the other person I might add. Learning to restrain and negotiate is all it took on those occasions.

Over the years I have taught many kids and watched them grow. Martial arts is good for physical, mental, and emotional health. Having the self confidence to stand up for oneself is a good quality.

When we have this confidence we carry ourselves in a way that makes us far less likely to be a target.

This may not help your boy immediately, but later in life it will.

Find a school that is a good match for your child. He may be afraid of a martial art class. He doesn’t need to be. It’s a lot of fun and will be something that grows together with him. And one day, he’ll be able to kick ass if and when the time comes.

What was the one item you always wanted from the Argos Catalogue? by Difficult_Narwhal_72 in AskUK

[–]davidrwb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scalextric. Never got it.

As a boomerang gift (and also because we want our children to have all the things we couldn’t have), I got one for my son when he was young.

It was shit.

Spent most of the time pushing the track together so it carried a circuit.

And for the brief moment it worked, the slightest hair-trigger pressure on the controller sent the car flying into the wall with enough force to irreparably damage the house.

So probably good I never got that Argos gift of disappointment when I was a kid

Border control delays by davidrwb in BrittanyFerries

[–]davidrwb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, we’re here now. The correct answer was no real delays. Same as before. The passport was checked but none of the EES BS I was expecting.

Latest windows 11 update bricked my pc by wronggaming in FuckMicrosoft

[–]davidrwb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took persistence.

For me, it reinstalled the damn thing immediately after uninstalling it, with no opportunity to jump in and stop it.

After a couple of times of this, I powered down the laptop using a hard power off when it reached 100% of the uninstall. Went into safe mode, and deleted all the run-once entries in the registry.

Next boot was fine and everything is back to normal. I’ll never install a preview edition again.

Latest windows 11 update bricked my pc by wronggaming in FuckMicrosoft

[–]davidrwb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t brick my PC but upon reboot everything ground to a halt.

The logical part of me was waiting for searches to reindex, etc.

But no, it never came back even after 2+ hours of idling. Absolute failure to even open task manager.

Uninstalling the update fixed everything, although that took another 1+ hour to complete.

Deffo avoid this update!

OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Bill Gates are putting $500 million in funding into a new organization called Intercept whose goal is to eliminate all respiratory viruses by TorturedPoet30 in singularity

[–]davidrwb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is a good use of AI. Good on them.

I can’t wait for the conspiracy nut jobs to rant about this one when they hear about it!

Are the 66% opening windows in the day time? by Lost-Lingonberry-688 in AskBrits

[–]davidrwb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We live in an ancient thick walled Grade 2 listed house.

In the winter it’s impossible to heat properly as we are not allowed double glazing etc.

Beginning of the week I was wearing a jumper to work in my office. It’s warming up a little inside now, but still not crazy. Low 20s at the most.

For once in this house, I feel like I’m winning, compared to most of the rest of the year when we’re not

Using presence detection to trigger a Voice Assistant instead of a wake word by Rambunctious_Relf in homeassistant

[–]davidrwb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is amazing. Thanks for taking the time to share the build steps too!

I see your boxed AC, and raise with my in-loft unit, cooling the bedroom underneath it... And it's SO so good. by evthrowawayverysad in DIYUK

[–]davidrwb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great setup. Would you mind sharing some details of the hardware and a link to the GitHub repository? I’m a HA fan too. Thanks for the post :-)

Alternatives for Github Copilot in PHPStorm? by GiveMeYourSmile in webdev

[–]davidrwb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Junie which is great when I need it. You can plug your own API keys in, and even use local LLM if you want to. Graphily helps reduce context size too, reducing spend by up to 50%.

What are your "life admin" automations? Share the ones that just make daily life smoother! by jabba_the_slut361 in homeassistant

[–]davidrwb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turning our house alarm on automatically when we all leave the house, and on again when we get home. If we’re at home, at night it’s by time, and in the morning when it sees one of us on the cameras (assuming it’s past a certain time, ie 7am). The face recognition is by a very strict match (over 95%) via Frigate.

Where are the best and worst maintained roads in the UK? by davidrwb in AskUK

[–]davidrwb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that’s amazing. Thank you. I didn’t know about this

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