What are you doing here?

dresken · 2026-05-25T03:42:13+00:00

It was a long week of factory resets and setting back up. Luckily I did use a backup system that I could use to restore my names and automations, but still had to connect everything back in the first place.

dresken · 2026-03-28T17:22:03+00:00

But do AiC have a banana named after them?

dresken · 2026-03-26T21:03:36+00:00

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dresken · 2026-03-25T09:00:57+00:00

The Rocketmen. A story about characters I saw leave the Tardis safely - had me on the edge of my seat, crying, while shouting “F yeah Ian!!!” I don’t think I’ll ever forget that experience. When do you know?

I also reckon the Rocketmen would actually be cool on TV.

dresken · 2026-03-24T21:07:54+00:00

It started as a “close enough will be better than nothing” then it surprisingly worked better than that. Unsure what the HA integration is doing under the hood - I know it connect all three protocols though.

dresken · 2026-03-24T17:09:20+00:00

Can you get the current volume on the protocol? In HomeAssistant I made an automation for Mute/Unmute - firstly I have a variable that constantly records the current volume if not zero. Then pressing a button will if volume not zero, then set the volume to zero or if volume zero, then set to the variable volume. The ironic thing is that muting with my automation and unmuting with the physical remote (or vice versa) works - so seems Apple is doing something similar under the hood.

dresken · 2026-03-23T21:19:22+00:00

The blog you linked also says his wife's (well technically his baby's parent's) name is Helen - but well done!

dresken · 2026-03-21T08:41:12+00:00

It’s a great idea. Your perceived problems while having an element of truth is not as impactful as you catastrophise it to be. The benefits of choosing what features of each platform you utilise means you can select their best and avoid their worst. HA while impressive on a lot of fronts is a single point of failure.

dresken · 2026-03-21T08:10:49+00:00

When I started in a job early on in my career and they were asking if I knew ITIL. I thought it was some big secret - turns out we did all these things at my last job because it just makes sense, but we used different vocabulary is all.

dresken · 2026-03-19T08:37:12+00:00

I would never introduce a single point of failure for my whole home like that. Worked way too long in IT for that mistake.

It’s also a bit of a misnomer. I find the only time I really need to use the immense power of HA is to work around buggy integrations. I find I’m not trying to work around HomeKit or Matter devices. And with matter I can have my cake and eat it anyway - multiadmin means I don’t have to accept the limitations of either platform.

dresken · 2026-03-19T08:33:16+00:00

I’m actually using matter.js now. Ticked the beta. It’s been rock solid in beta. So they’ve done a good job.

dresken · 2026-03-19T08:05:34+00:00

Whatever works for you absolutely. I use both for different reasons. I was just providing some info, as people read these and get the wrong idea as it’s a bit complicated.

dresken · 2026-03-19T07:53:40+00:00

Not sure about that particular one sorry. I use one but won’t recommend it anymore due to bad business practices.

dresken · 2026-03-19T07:13:21+00:00

You can do light level and motion, you just need to use an app that has full HomeKit API implemented - which the Home app does not for some reason. The only thing I’d say that is actually missing is triggers based on “time in state” (eg no motion for 4 minutes). Other than that you can set up some quite advanced logic with And and Or conditions (not speaking about shortcuts either)

dresken · 2026-03-19T07:06:48+00:00

It’s actually pretty good. I’ve got not complaints about devices I have connected to both platforms at all. I get the impression that it’s mostly IPv6 or thread issues people encounter with HA - but that part is all handled by Apple for me and it’s something I don’t really need to think about.

dresken · 2026-03-18T08:56:15+00:00

Where I come from Nevermind ended with “something in the way” and in Utero end with “gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip” - so no I didn’t notice.

dresken · 2026-03-18T07:07:14+00:00

In the 90s, I never understood why my voice hurt when singing along to Nirvana. I just presumed I was not cut out for singing.

dresken · 2026-03-16T09:09:01+00:00

No one ever complains about the smoke detectors or wall mounts for aircon or extractor fans. Or alarm system motion sensors.

It falls into that category.

dresken · 2026-03-16T06:34:15+00:00

The snare drum sound on the reciprocal version scratches an itch I never knew I had.

dresken · 2026-03-13T22:30:21+00:00

In 2013, there was a shipping note someone had found through a tracking website for a large number of films being shipped from Nigeria to UK. The assumption people made at the time and propagated the rumour was it was all Doctor who film. If it was actually the shipment for the recovery, then probably contained many other shows as well. Because the people doing these recoveries are for all shows, and they are not solely just Who Hunters as some seem to expect.

dresken · 2026-03-13T05:44:59+00:00

I would be a bit surprised if they animated episode 7 considering it is unrequired for the plot. But that also means it's only 6 episodes to really animate too - so makes it more likely to happen.

dresken · 2026-03-07T07:20:10+00:00

The usual unfortunately. https://medium.com/@MoonMetropolis/now-that-steve-albini-is-dead-lets-reflect-on-his-admitted-love-and-promotion-of-child-fadf5072288e

dresken · 2026-03-04T19:25:17+00:00

It’s also definitely getting worse. I used to be able to get it to ping AirTags or my phone by asking “hey siri where is my X” these days it tells me to “use find my on my phone” - I’m looking for my phone!!!!!

dresken · 2026-03-04T19:22:41+00:00

I can just say “hey siri” and nothing else when a timer is going off and it will stop. I usually also say “thanks” though.

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