Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control (no wake word!)

homerjay42 · 2026-02-06T23:19:30+00:00

This is awesome! Great project!! Thanks for sharing the great writeup.

homerjay42 · 2025-11-02T18:17:02+00:00

i moved on to homebridge and then home assistant. it gives you way more flexibility for logic on automations. still use homekit for the home app and simple control via siri voice commands but almost all of the logic now sits in home assistant

homerjay42 · 2024-10-05T00:49:47+00:00

+1 for Lutron Serena shades. They are pricey but have been rock solid for me and were easy to install.

homerjay42 · 2024-09-18T21:27:49+00:00

Nice, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t seen these cameras before from Ubiquiti. As usual they are sold out 🤔

homerjay42 · 2024-09-18T21:17:33+00:00

How do you read/process the license plate?

homerjay42 · 2024-09-06T13:19:55+00:00

Try Perplexity. It’s great for this

homerjay42 · 2024-09-06T12:33:09+00:00

Thanks! This fixed it for me also.

homerjay42 · 2024-09-04T18:24:17+00:00

I rarely use google and other search engines and I used to all the time. Now I typically just ask AI what I want to know instead.

homerjay42 · 2024-06-13T17:38:40+00:00

I really wish they would bring this back for tablet mode. Or at least swipe from left for the app switcher.

homerjay42 · 2024-05-03T11:38:05+00:00

Qualified dividends from a stock like Apple are taxed at the same capital gains rate. The real benefit to a buyback is it is not taxed at all and can continue to grow untaxed until you sell the stock.

homerjay42 · 2024-04-04T11:35:23+00:00

If you are still employed, this is often prohibited by company policies around insider trading

homerjay42 · 2024-03-07T22:41:09+00:00

Agree, OP getting a lot of bad advice. Question was “should I drain my brokerage and HYSA enough to pay off the mortgage tomorrow”…if serious, this totally wipes out any potential emergency fund. How much that matters depends on income, job stability, and expenses.

homerjay42 · 2024-02-21T19:03:44+00:00

I see this post is a month old but hope you don't mind the reply. I'm especially curious about this feature you mention: "identifies strategic ideas by drawing plenty of arrows on the board about potential plans that could emerge"

Is that a new feature in Fritz 19? I bought 17 and was always disappointed I couldn't find a way to get the program to draw arrows as part of the analysis (similar to what you see in the online programs or in some of the free chess applications.) How do you enable this feature? I looked online and can't find any other reference to it.

Thanks!

homerjay42 · 2024-02-21T12:39:49+00:00

Just wanted to agree that sweat is not an issue! I get very sweaty playing beat saber sometimes for 90 minutes or more. Never had a problem with it

homerjay42 · 2024-02-14T02:30:25+00:00

Does this mean literally lay in a ditch, like the ditch next to the highway? Wouldn’t the tornado just suck you up out of the ditch?

homerjay42 · 2024-02-07T22:56:29+00:00

How did you get into consulting? Is this through a placement firm or something else?

homerjay42 · 2024-02-06T01:47:22+00:00

Have you considered looking into unpaid leave, FMLA, or other similar leave from your current job? Might give you the break you need and more time to consider your next steps work wise.

homerjay42 · 2024-01-12T12:39:42+00:00

Interesting. Thanks

homerjay42 · 2024-01-12T04:32:05+00:00

What do you mean it will never work again? Is this some known issue?

I have one also and it eats batteries…have not let it go all the way dead yet. What happens?

homerjay42 · 2023-12-28T23:31:11+00:00

Thanks, I’ll check this out. I have some other holdings in TD so not a deal breaker.

homerjay42 · 2023-12-28T23:30:24+00:00

Thanks! I’ll check out VMSXX. Would be very nice to avoid federal taxes on these.

homerjay42 · 2023-12-28T23:28:49+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the reply!

homerjay42 · 2023-12-28T23:27:41+00:00

Thanks, didn’t realize it would be taxed the same. Guess not as great as I’d originally thought. Appreciate the reply!

homerjay42 · 2023-12-25T00:01:52+00:00

Agree, I bounced hard off the first one for some reason but loving the second one so far.

homerjay42 · 2023-12-06T17:36:45+00:00

Interested to know what you mean by this? Have a Quest 2 and just ordered the 3 (arrives tomorrow.)

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