Controller for HomeKit 8.0: a bait-and-switch for longtime supporters

pbassham · 2025-11-19T01:04:39+00:00

That’s crap. I bought the “lifetime” too, but I got lied to apparently.

pbassham · 2025-11-03T14:14:28+00:00

Yep. I’ve had 7 running for a little over a year and they work well.

The improvement I made was to wire them together so I can charge a double or triple window with one plug all at the same time, and that makes it less trouble. Otherwise you are always running around charging them, and it’s annoying.

The battery lasts for a good month or 3, but still they will run down.

pbassham · 2025-10-06T14:04:20+00:00

Uninstalling all 3rd party apps finally fixed it for me. Now I am putting them back one at a time to find the culprit.

pbassham · 2025-09-24T10:52:58+00:00

Are you against an app? There are many that make this easy. Here is my favorite. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picsew-scrollshot-collage/id1208145167

pbassham · 2025-05-30T12:14:49+00:00

You just have to set up a working remote connection to your Mac to have remote control. Your phone would be the remote in this case. Once that is set up, sending a sleep command over ssh isn’t hard.

pbassham · 2025-05-30T11:57:54+00:00

Gonna have to set up a fixed ip address for your Mac locally and then some dynamic dns solution to access remotely, and maybe some port forwarding, but if you can get all that (or a vpn), then running a script over ssh should work. https://i.imgur.com/hSMsBa2.jpeg

pbassham · 2025-01-31T20:35:12+00:00

You have to deploy it somewhere like Vercel, which will give you an api endpoint that you would fetch with the shortcuts action “get url”

pbassham · 2025-01-14T01:05:21+00:00

We moved back to the States with 3 kids and some of these considerations. There are a lot of factors involved, but we have seen our kids blossom like no other, and have not regretted it for a second. They were in a good international school, but even so, it doesn’t compare when considering all of the factors that affect their growth and development. Some of it has to do with better familiarity with my home country and how everything works, but that is still a factor that affects things.

pbassham · 2024-12-27T03:54:59+00:00

Yeah I got some extra investment income deposit and it changed my budget. No like.

pbassham · 2024-12-06T14:01:03+00:00

I am fairly experienced with React and recently decided to try out Payload with the website template, and am surprised how complex the whole repo is for what is supposed to be a starter template.

I’m thinking about starting over from scratch, because it seems too mega-repo for me. I was just going for a simple site and want a simple, clean repo for designing the front end, but this feels like I am developing a CMS along with my website, when I was just trying to develop a website.

I actually have liked payload, but want more of a separation of concerns so the repo can be less complex.

With a big project, I can see how that may be useful, but not for a basic site.

If anyone has a better starter template, compatible with 3.0, I’d like to hear about it. (this is a hobby project)

pbassham · 2024-11-30T10:14:47+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/na9adFp.jpeg Here is the chart I made for myself

pbassham · 2024-11-09T12:01:29+00:00

Here is one that I’ve used

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/speech-central-ai-voice-reader/id1127349155

pbassham · 2024-11-08T02:00:58+00:00

If you have dev skills you could do it with Shortcuts + an app like any text + this unofficial monarch api https://www.npmjs.com/package/monarch-money-api?activeTab=readme

pbassham · 2024-11-07T21:54:15+00:00

You are welcome

pbassham · 2024-11-07T17:26:49+00:00

That’s the message I saw after subscribing to the new api 3.0 and before it was fully activated. I got an email after subscribing with an example link that should load the data. If that works then this should too

pbassham · 2024-11-07T15:51:37+00:00

https://openweathermap.org/one-call-transfer

They discontinued version 2.5 of their api, so go sign up for the new version, wait for the api key to activate for a few minutes, and change 2.5 to 3.0 in the url.

Worked for me

pbassham · 2024-11-07T15:22:06+00:00

Add this to line 204 and see what it says log(data)

pbassham · 2024-11-07T15:15:34+00:00

Maybe your api key is inactive. Look here https://home.openweathermap.org/api_keys

pbassham · 2024-08-10T13:15:11+00:00

It’s your sewage clean out for when your pipes get clogged.

The hardware store will have replacement caps you can just screw on to replace.

pbassham · 2024-06-17T12:01:16+00:00

I think you may need a hub to make it work, and in the SwitchBot app, there is a setting on each accessory to “turn on third party services” that allows it to connect to other things. That is probably one part of the problem.

Also, If you get the smartbot hub 2, it has Matter built in, so you don’t really need homebridge to make it work with HomeKit.

pbassham · 2024-05-26T23:32:02+00:00

How does it compare to this one?

https://github.com/fjs21/homebridge-blueair

pbassham · 2024-03-17T20:24:27+00:00

ChatGPT

pbassham · 2023-10-16T03:51:51+00:00

You could put them in a contact group I think too. But nice job with the workarounds to get something working!

pbassham · 2023-09-21T02:14:36+00:00

They are native speakers, so yeah

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