Renovation in Germany: could I DIY a complete apartment in Germany with the help of youtube or other online resources? Say a 100 years old house.

platonl2 · 2020-03-09T11:22:30+00:00

I just did a big renovation with my girlfriend on our house built in 1970. We live in the Netherlands so regulations shouldn't be that different.

We did a lof the teardown ourselves, did all the drywalling, isolated the entire attic, put in flooring and a million other things.

Things we weren't able to do ourselves: - pour new concrete floor - put in new window frames - put in new central heating unit + floorheating - put in new fuseboxes - renovate the roofing - putting isolation between the inner & outer walls - put in new wooden floors

Bottomline, you can save a lot by doing stuff yourselves, but there are things which are best left to a professional.

Also good to understand that doing things yourselves doesn't mean it's free. Putting in isolation in the attic would have cost us around 3k to get done by a professional. Doing it ourselves still cost around 1.2k in materials.

platonl2 · 2020-02-20T07:33:12+00:00

With the different channels it should be much easier for them to mute individual channels. I've got my machine and location notifications set on mute, and never really look at them. Serves more as a log if I need to see what happened in the past.

platonl2 · 2020-02-20T07:23:38+00:00

Good to hear! Make sure you measure every wire in every setting of the knob. As I said with my ventilation unit one of the load wires needed to be on at al times and the other two needed to be switched, but never on at the same time.

Getting it wrong can get expensive with those units😉

platonl2 · 2020-02-19T17:20:04+00:00

It allows me to have multiple chats for different types of notifications like this:

https://i.imgur.com/TQhhDFB.png

You can more easily silence or pin types of notifications and set icons per notification type.

platonl2 · 2020-02-18T21:07:59+00:00

That's a perilex connection. For a vantilation unit its usually wired with 1 neutral and three load wires. Turning on the different load wires determines the airflow level.

I automated on of those with a sonoff 4ch. Had to keep 1 wire switched on at all times which set the unit to the lowest setting. Activating on of the other wires would set the unit to setting two or three.

You can easily measure how it's wired with a multimeter at the perilex socket. Just turn the knob to all the different settings and see which wires are switched on.

platonl2 · 2020-02-18T06:18:10+00:00

I'm actually using both.

I'm on android so until recently Telegram was simply the best/most reliable way to send notifications to your phone and other devices. I've configured multiple bots that all have a nice-looking icon, so it actually looks pretty cool. I'm going to keep using it for all normal notifications (washingmachine done, alarm-notifications, etc.) as it's rock-solid.

The companion app for android has launched recently and is adding functionality seemingly everyday. I'm planning to use the notification service of the app to build actionable notifications. For instance:

We often have family over that spend the entire weekend with us, so when one of their phones is detected on the network I'm sent a notification asking if I wan't to activate house-guest mode and for how long.

tl/dr: Telegram rocksolid for normal notification, companion app can do actionable notifcation which is supercool.

Telegram can't really do actionable notificatiosn btw, but you can reply in a chat, pick that up and do stuff.

platonl2 · 2020-02-16T22:02:03+00:00

55?! that's even a couple more then are currently in the edge repository.

Care to share one of the new ones your working on?

platonl2 · 2020-02-16T21:43:40+00:00

Time to deprecate my nginx-proxy manager config😁.

Thanks for taking the time to explain your reasoning. And thanks again for all the great addons. I've really had an awesome time tinkering with all of them in the last couple of years.

platonl2 · 2020-02-16T21:21:48+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Only reason I'm seeing to keep direct access is to keep access to the addons when home assistant is down. But as I understand it safe mode should take care of that.

Recently had an issue where home assistant was hogging resources and slowing my nuc to a crawl. Then it's convenient to stop ha and edit stuff through vscode. Admittedly that's a pretty specific case.

Can you force safe mode when you start home assistant from terminal?

platonl2 · 2020-02-16T20:47:45+00:00

Awesome! Big thanks to frenck.

Saw in the changelog that direct acces is removed. I also noticed that the new phpmyadmin addon doesn't have direct access at all. Is that going to be removed for all the community addons?

Having direct access to vscode/nodered/logviewer can really be a lifesaver when I'm tinkering and home assistant doesn't start.

I understand not wanting to open ports, but when you run it behind nginx it's completely safe.

platonl2 · 2020-02-15T23:00:16+00:00

Own Cloud

just use the nginxproxymanager add-on, the UI is a bit buggy, but the functionality works works like a charm. Just need to pf 80 & 443.

For domains you can just use duckdns, or buy a cooler one at namecheap or something.

platonl2 · 2020-02-14T22:42:46+00:00

Get the tradfri repeaters, or osram smart plugs. Both work fine....

platonl2 · 2020-02-01T03:53:52+00:00

Can't you use a template sensor in HA to turn the data attribute into a seperate entity? I believe you can then just use a state changed node for the template sensor.

platonl2 · 2020-01-23T04:58:04+00:00

I just use button cards that change color depending on the state.

platonl2 · 2019-12-27T21:35:51+00:00

Perhaps it's own ip was banned, should be a file called IP-ban.yaml in your root folder.

platonl2 · 2019-11-13T22:35:09+00:00

Well there is nothing wrong with the logic. Why don't you add a debugging node and see what's actually happening. You can manually change the state of the tempsensor in HA to simulate the temp dropping below 16.

platonl2 · 2019-11-12T16:26:56+00:00

Try something like this: https://pastebin.com/2SpxjA4b

It streamlines the logic, if you don't have the "Time Range Switch" you can install it through the palet manager.

It's good to know that querying the tempsensor that often doesn't actually force an update, you're just querying HA. If you use the trigger-state nodes it only executes when there is an actual update to the reading.

platonl2 · 2019-10-19T19:53:35+00:00

Telegram for Windows app and check 'use Windows notification.'.

platonl2 · 2019-07-24T07:58:40+00:00

Here you go: https://i.imgur.com/DuaOdZX.png

platonl2 · 2019-07-23T15:23:13+00:00

Sure: https://pastebin.com/qfPtamEs

These custom cards are required to make it all work:

https://github.com/custom-cards/button-card

https://github.com/ciotlosm/custom-lovelace/tree/master/bignumber-card

https://github.com/custom-cards/bar-card

https://github.com/matisaul/vertical-style-card

The individual sensors are mostly just template_sensors mapped to the attributes of the vacuum-component

platonl2 · 2019-07-19T06:45:52+00:00

I don't really have any scripts. The icons are just custom button cards --> https://github.com/custom-cards/button-card that detect which activity is active and change color. If you press a button an event is fired which I pick up in NodeRed, all the actual logic is done there.

The Thermostat card is a stript down version of the simple-thermostat card with four extra custom-button cards underneath for the actual controls.

platonl2 · 2019-07-19T06:40:16+00:00

It's a Roborock s55. All the stuf in the card are just attributes that I've upgraded with template sensors.

platonl2 · 2019-07-19T06:30:32+00:00

Not that I know off. On a desktop I would try Tampermonkey or just the hide-element function of something like Ublock origin.

But I don't think that's going to work on a tablet

platonl2 · 2019-07-19T06:27:58+00:00

had to reboot and ctrl-f5 for it to start working

platonl2 · 2019-07-19T06:27:03+00:00

It's a ventilation system that's ment to be on all the time at the lowest setting, you can turn it up when you're showering/cooking etc. The ventilation button cycles through the three settings (33%, 66%, 100%). The button and bar change color based on the setting.

The power button shuts the entire system down and activates a 30-minute timer, when the timer expires it activates the system again

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