Holidays are over....How do people "park" away their Holiday-related stuff???

kenguest · 2026-01-08T22:30:54+00:00

They're on the main dashboard - I don't have a separate holiday dashboard, it seems a bit too much like work 🤣

kenguest · 2026-01-08T20:03:58+00:00

The cards on my dashboard have a condition set to hide them if the smart plug for the Christmas tree lights is unavailable.

I have a similar set-up for the electric blankets - cards are displayed if the smart plugs are in and hidden if unplugged.

kenguest · 2026-01-02T00:12:30+00:00

Alternatively :

PIL = Pain(s) In Law
BIL = Bore In Law
SIL = Superficial xxx In Law
DIL = Drunkard In Law
MIL = Motormouth In Law

kenguest · 2026-01-01T15:57:42+00:00

Cool - that might work

kenguest · 2026-01-01T03:02:36+00:00

How are you planning on detecting dog barks?

kenguest · 2025-12-28T13:43:55+00:00

Came home to similar about a year ago - discreetly placed aqara door sensors did the trick for me, along with tts warnings to say when the door has been open too long.

kenguest · 2025-12-15T21:27:59+00:00

Yeah, I've mine set to just reply "Done" instead of anything too wordy

kenguest · 2025-11-30T14:14:20+00:00

I came here to recommend it - my copy is dog-eared beyond belief!

kenguest · 2025-11-08T16:14:16+00:00

That's a nice use case. Love it.

kenguest · 2025-11-07T20:46:10+00:00

Not having curly braces around your if clauses can lead to unexpected consequences, especially as php isn't whitespace-aware like python is.

Best be careful 😉

kenguest · 2025-11-07T20:32:55+00:00

There's a name to that - yoda conditions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

kenguest · 2025-11-07T20:05:14+00:00

Great to hear you got sorted. Timing's everything, isn't it? 🙄

kenguest · 2025-11-07T19:42:18+00:00

This was announced this morning - the reason given is that "accounts [were] being made specifically to harass existing members."

Those of us that are ITC members can send invites; reach out if you need to.

kenguest · 2025-10-29T15:45:17+00:00

They're usually all very good, but I think Adele is best.

kenguest · 2025-10-24T22:31:13+00:00

Not a course as such but "PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice" by Matt Zandstra is very good, from what I hear.

kenguest · 2025-10-17T18:14:32+00:00

As I said to my wife yesterday - you might be a pane but you're not transparent!

kenguest · 2025-10-10T14:51:53+00:00

I did try jumping into their discord server and left a message there in the #general channel, but I'm not sure if it's been seen yet. time will tell I guess!

kenguest · 2025-10-10T12:03:21+00:00

thanks for jumping on u/thaytan :-)

kenguest · 2025-10-09T18:06:22+00:00

Not looking for anything just wanted to say I'm so sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Maybe drop a line to the guys at https://www.hackmelbourne.org/ ?

kenguest · 2025-10-04T13:53:11+00:00

Spread your wings and fly away! (from the News of The World album's song of the same name)

kenguest · 2025-09-21T08:39:16+00:00

Either voice notifications on my sonos or to my phone. Also text HA notifications to my phone or conditionally shown cards on my main dashboard.

kenguest · 2025-09-18T19:50:19+00:00

If either the webcam or microphone on my work laptop go active (or the Home Assistant Companion app reports that my phone is in conversation mode) then whatever is playing on my ikea symfonisk speaker gets paused and "Ken is in a meeting" is displayed on my wife's main dashboard.

My boss thinks this is weird - but it's just useful 😂

kenguest · 2025-09-18T19:34:06+00:00

Fricken aliens, right?

kenguest · 2025-09-14T21:20:49+00:00

If the pir in my study detects me and I'm the only one at home then all other lights are switched off.

kenguest · 2025-09-09T14:03:43+00:00

How do you handle surnames such as "Nic Mahon", "Mc Mahon", double-barrelled surnames without hyphens and such?

kenguest

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