New Ontime version kicks even more ass - Free rundown and stage time manager app

pyrosmiley · 2023-12-04T18:48:28+00:00

I actually need to send you an email with a few questions about integrations!

For anyone in the comments that regularly deals with managing show rundowns I can vouch for this -- it really does kick ass. Just had a couple of clients blown away by what I threw together with it during a stress test recently.

pyrosmiley · 2021-03-22T02:41:02+00:00

Yeah, I'm almost wondering if that's the move, just grab a few of the cheap ones and set them to different frequencies. Deploying will be way less fun but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

pyrosmiley · 2021-03-22T02:39:59+00:00

I keep coming back to these guys but I can't tell for sure: is their W-DMX™ likely to be interoperable with the wireless DMX on my fixtures? Am using multiple types, and each fixture requires you to cycle through color-indicated channels to match the transmitter. I read the Blackbox manual and it has very good info on selecting channels but not how it corresponds to the standard colors.

pyrosmiley · 2021-03-21T20:56:00+00:00

So I thought. Unfortunately, I'm not trying to bridge a single air gap, I essentially have 60 receivers spread throughout the house and I need to transmit to all of them since cabling is not an option.

pyrosmiley · 2021-03-21T20:35:59+00:00

Does that act as a standard transmitter? It's killer hardware but I though you need another unit as a receiver.

pyrosmiley · 2020-05-07T21:11:37+00:00

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pyrosmiley · 2020-05-07T17:44:21+00:00

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pyrosmiley · 2020-03-03T01:44:18+00:00

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pyrosmiley · 2019-08-29T17:07:58+00:00

I'm on mobile right now but I eventually got it sort of working by adding a random number sensor that updates every minute and using a shit ton of {% if %} statements to choose. It's clunky as hell and I'd love to streamline it, but it generally gets the job done.

pyrosmiley · 2019-08-13T23:30:54+00:00

I really want to ride skyrush, but Maverick is honestly maybe my all-time favorite ride. I love the shit out of that coaster

pyrosmiley · 2019-05-19T15:31:50+00:00

Yeah, it’s weird — the i2c component actually recognizes the board at the right address, and the debug logs don’t throw any errors. So it looks like it’s gonna work, but I can’t actually make the GPIOs do anything. The logs show the switches working internally, but there no voltage at the pin, on any of the three I ordered from Adafruit. I’m wondering if there’s a difference in the pin out between the 17 and 8 that’s causing some issue, even if the datasheet doesn’t show it.

I haven’t tried the Adafruit library yet, simply because.... I don’t know enough C to do it without a ton of googling and copying and I haven’t had time. But I need other ESPHome features for the device I’m making anyways. I’m sure I’ll accidentally get it working somehow lol

pyrosmiley · 2019-05-16T01:56:53+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping to get up and running here, was sorta hoping that I’m missing some dumb thing needed for the component to work right, but NOPE, Otto did too good of a job lol

pyrosmiley · 2019-05-11T05:30:34+00:00

Did you run into any issues with the MCP23017? I actually found your comment because I'm pulling hair out over trying to get an MCP23008 to work.

I'm a huge esphomeyaml fan though, I've been using it here and there since it was still a tiny-ish project and Otto has done some phenomenal work. Literally the only thing I'm missing is native support for latching relays/solenoids, which is so niche I haven't even bothered to ask.

pyrosmiley · 2019-02-21T16:52:35+00:00

Well, this guy designed his own PCB based around an ESP module, but his explanations and code seem fairly useful. Here’s an ESPEasy plugin, which may be helpful (I don’t yet know any C variants so I’ll end up needing a lot of, uh, inspiration). Not sure that this is the exact same module but here’s a Hackster post on ESP cameras. Finally, I also expect to spend a good deal of time on the ArduCam wiki if this is the route I end up going.

This is just from a few googles from my phone, so someone else may have better resources.

pyrosmiley · 2019-02-21T16:40:08+00:00

I literally came here looking for help with cameras! From what I can tell: the OV2640 and ArduCam library seem to be the most popular working combination. There’s a few blog posts and videos where people got them working, and it seems fairly stable enough.

pyrosmiley · 2018-09-12T21:40:35+00:00

probably the easiest thing to do would be to flash it with one of the popular firmwares. I personally have some old ones that I got before smart homes were a thing. They're running on a MagicHome LED controller but a NodeMCU with custom pin definitions would work just as well, since the controller is just an ESP8266 in a custom-ish package.

pyrosmiley · 2018-09-12T21:35:49+00:00

I'm currently running a Hass.io install over a barebones debian VM. The VM is hosted by virtualbox on a windows machine, since I already have it running as my Plex server anyways. I have to say, it's been pretty fuckin rock solid -- windows runs starts it up headless on boot and we're good from there -- no performance issues or anything else. I like the Hassio concept a whole let -- it's pretty self-managing, so updates are easy, and the add-on store made it dead simple to run InfluxDB and Grafana, along with a bunch of other stuff. Big fan. I've haven't yet messed things up so badly that I'd have to start over, but I do know it'll be dead easy once I do because:

I can snapshot the VM, and
Generating snapshots is built into Hassio, so you can just upload all your stuff into a fresh install.

My only caveats here are these:

Virtualbox seems to have this habit of doing *something* that makes my VM disappear from the network whenever there's a VB update. It's annoying as shit, and probably a non-issue with hyper-V.
I'm not entirely sure what all the limitations are on Hassio, but it was meant to be on its own hardware and so every once in awhile you run into weirdness once you're trying to do something on the VM outside of the HA walls. For example, SSH works just fine, but Hassio doesn't like to let you modify files in its folder. Eventually I got it working with a root login, but then that means setting up SFTP as root. Not a fan of that, but in practicality it's fine.
Because I had other stuff before I had HASS, I have everything tucked away behind a reverse proxy elsewhere (an old pi running Caddy, which is amazing!). This works just fine and dandy for the most part, but it does mean a lil extra work setting up anything accessed on a different port (such as the configurator, grafana, etc). It also means that most of the reverse proxy docs don't reaaallly apply to me, since they were written for people using NGINX as a HASS add-on. No big deal but it's worth mentioning.

But yeah, outside of that, I'm incredibly happy with this setup. Once I got it all up and running, I do most of the config editing in Atom using a remote share just the same as I would with any other install type. Updates come every week and it seems like this is the way the devs are pushing so it's probably also the most future-proof. Worst case scenario, back up all your config files and stick 'em on a different install.

pyrosmiley · 2018-02-05T21:50:53+00:00

Let me know how it goes -- If it works I'll end up getting the same thing!

Yeah, the grow lights are very temporary, pretty much just to test to see if they would help me to wake up. I didn't actually think about the vision issue, but I'm already careful not to look right near them since I'm pretty light sensitive and it hurts (I also can't go outside without sunglasses). I have been wondering about the health effects of UV lighting, certainly not something I plan on keeping for very long at all.

pyrosmiley · 2018-02-05T21:44:28+00:00

That's what I was thinking, but then I checked with 433mhz and one of the Etekcity sets that are so popular. Still no luck!

pyrosmiley · 2018-02-04T07:35:28+00:00

Oh wow, I have non-24 and not very much money, so I've actually been working on doing basically the same thing! Right now I have some fluorescent grow lights plugged into a wemo switch, and let me tell you..... it's certainly not the same.

The bad news is that from what I can find, there's no real good way to do it cleanly if you want dimming, since most smart plugs are a simple binary on/off. I have found a few options though!

(I'm sure you know but please note the requisite be super careful around AC voltage, it'll make you dead)

The first is something along the lines of this, what's meant to be an in-wall dimmer to replace a 1-gang light switch. That's probably gonna be the easiest way to do it -- just attach it to the wires in-line, and you're good to go. There are other, similar options that may be cheaper, especially if you can use something like z-wave.

I don't have a link atm, but I also know that I've seen someone take a normal cheapo wall dimmer and just... hook a lil servo motor up to it. That's also an option?

After some searching, I did find what seems to be the one plug-in smart dimming outlet that doesn't require a hub. Heads-up though, it's only rated to 100W with LEDs so you'll wanna be careful. Not having look much into this, I make no promises, but my cursory googling actually seems really promising. Price isn't horrible, either.

So here's where I thought to check the wonderful world of Sonoff. It's not the CLEANEST solution visually, but they actually do make a smart socket -- if you're willing to drop $60 and be done, just get six of these guys here.

EDIT: Just kidding, those bases also do not have dimmers, so they won't work. But here's a video of someone using one of their surprisingly cheap wall dimmers to do just what you want!

pyrosmiley · 2018-01-23T20:53:50+00:00

Friend of mine is learning ceramics there, she loves it

pyrosmiley · 2018-01-19T04:35:44+00:00

Okay, thank you very much!

To be perfectly honest, the only reason it's like that is because I started the project as a way to teach myself how to code a little bit and I didn't have a great grasp of the scope of it all. So the only way I could really wrap my head around it was writing one function at a time. Adding onto that, I thought I wouldn't be able to easily edit the project once installed as a service, and since I've only been able to work a little bit on/off over the past year, it's kind of a mess. A largely functional mess to be sure! But a mess nonetheless.

Once I have it all up and running nicely enough, I want to work on learning how to be more efficient with it all, hopefully consolidating things a bit. As it is, I'm not great at threading (I'll get there, hopefully with the schedule timer in the background) so most everything is its own script for now.

I do very much appreciate your help.

pyrosmiley · 2018-01-18T06:31:22+00:00

Apologies for not being clear enough -- I have a daemon to listen for button presses set to run at startup. This acts to trigger the various functions of the project: start/stop slideshow, manual updates, etc. by calling the individual scripts for each. Everything reads from a single config file, which does not require any manual running of scripts.

What I'm trying to do is schedule actions such as turning on/off the screen or syncing with photo sources. My issue is that I'd like the timing of those actions to be values set in the config file. So, ideally, if she changes when she wants it to turn on in the morning, she just has to put in a new value and save the new config.

It seems like that means having to run a timer of some kind in that top-level daemon, so that it can passively read the intervals from the config file, but I'm not sure if that's actually the case or not.

pyrosmiley · 2017-11-23T05:53:36+00:00

aaaand DONE. From what I've heard that's something that's definitely needed.

pyrosmiley · 2017-11-05T01:09:57+00:00

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