We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
What about an approach where there’s a website to facilitate people donating to FOSS project, and all that website needs is a list of possible recipients of the FOSS project (e.g., app developers, libraries it uses). When I want to donate I go to this website and say “I want to donate to Lemmy”, and it shows me “Lemmy has these possible recipients: X, Y, …”. When I say “I want to donate $10” the website asks “should we distribute this evenly among all Lemmy recipients?” (which might be the default) or I have the option of unchecking some recipients or or assigning some recipients a higher percentage of my donation.
I have some of the ATOM Echos that HA describes here. They work for voice recognition but the speaker in these tiny boxes is…tiny. It’s barely audible when standing right next to the box, and completely inaudible when standing 10 feet away or if there is noise in the room....
This sounds cool, but beyond my skill set. I might be able to re-qire the speaker wire to something else (possibly not if soldering is required), but I don’t even understand what a “shutdown pin” is or what it does.
This sounds like it wouldn’t help much, and whatever increase in volume might be offest by decrease in quality due to echo. But it’s free to try (and within my skill set :) ).
I have a robot vaccum that sends an alert to HA when it’s done cleaning or when it encounters a problem. How can I intercept or re-route those notificiations? I want to post them to Matrix, which I do have an integration for....
I’ve had a problem for a year or more, so that’s through numerous Home Assistant updates: I have about 15 automations that I’ve disabled, but they always become enabled again within a few days. I haven’t been able to determine a trigger for the re-enabling....
One of my automations that was disabled but is now enabled has turned off triggered by service Automation: Turn off about a week ago in the Logbook. What does “turned off” mean for an automation?
Thanks for the explanation and example, @CondorWonder.
I used Studio Code Server to search all files for “Automation: Turn Off” and “automation.turn_off” and “automation” - there were 100s (1000s?) of results. I scanned through them and didn’t see anything that looks like it was enabling these automations. And that’s the only record in my logbook around these automations being disabled.
So now I’ve renamed some of my automations and re-disabled them. In a few days they’ll either become enabled or I’ll search my logs for errors including their previous names.
I’m trying to find a new projector for my home theater. I don’t need high end, but it should be at least 1080p (i.e., 4K isnt necessary). I mention that because of my budget: I’m looking for something around $500, but I might be able to go up to $1000. The other main requirement is that I’m able to turn it on/off via...
I’ve been researching NAS and am figuring out how one can play into my current home setup. There’s a lot I don’t know even after researching. Best I explain to clear things up....
I recently installed TrueNAS on a box with Proxmox, following these instructions. It allows the box to be your NAS and run anything else as a VM (so NextCloud, Grocy/KitchenOwl, etc., even your VPN).
I installed the Auto Backup HACS integration and I have a network storage configured in Home Assistant (FYI, I’m running HAOS). If I use HA’s Developer Tools and manually call the “Auto Backup: Backup Full” service, there is a “Location” field where I can select my network storage. The backup successfully completes...
Photostructure is a strong starter, but development is slow and it’s still missing important features like sharing. Also, it’s not ooen source.
Immich seems great but doesn’t (yet) support digikam tags ( and since my 100,000 assets are tagged/organized via digikam, I don’t want to move to immich yet and have to start over).
PhotoPrism seemed pretty good, though it also doesn’t (yet) support digikam tags. Also, their self-hosted version doesn’t have all the features of their paid versions.
Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? I’m curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good. We now have 4 cats and it would be nice to not have to clean litter boxes manually 1-2 times every day....
Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? The ability to connect one to Home Assistant doesn’t really seem useful to me - maybe it would be nice for HA to alert you when the litter box needs to be changed. But I’m really just curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good -...
I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant’s web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but...
I finally got around to this and jailbreaking the iPad was as easy as you suggested. Thanks, @Aatube!
But I don’t see how to install a newer browser. Cydia and Zebra seem to be able to install themes and tweaks. How would I get them to install Firefox or Chrome? Also, how would I install linux on the ipad?
Finally! My own working LCARs panels! (lemm.ee)
I’ve been putting this off for way too long but I finally installed the LCARs theme in my HA and got to work redesigning all my dashboards.
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We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
How to intercept Assistant voice responses?
I have some of the ATOM Echos that HA describes here. They work for voice recognition but the speaker in these tiny boxes is…tiny. It’s barely audible when standing right next to the box, and completely inaudible when standing 10 feet away or if there is noise in the room....
How to intercept HA noifications?
I have a robot vaccum that sends an alert to HA when it’s done cleaning or when it encounters a problem. How can I intercept or re-route those notificiations? I want to post them to Matrix, which I do have an integration for....
Disabled automations continually become enabled
I’ve had a problem for a year or more, so that’s through numerous Home Assistant updates: I have about 15 automations that I’ve disabled, but they always become enabled again within a few days. I haven’t been able to determine a trigger for the re-enabling....
Projector suggestions
I’m trying to find a new projector for my home theater. I don’t need high end, but it should be at least 1080p (i.e., 4K isnt necessary). I mention that because of my budget: I’m looking for something around $500, but I might be able to go up to $1000. The other main requirement is that I’m able to turn it on/off via...
Suggestions for NAS (or other hardware) solution to home setup
I’ve been researching NAS and am figuring out how one can play into my current home setup. There’s a lot I don’t know even after researching. Best I explain to clear things up....
Seeking assistance with Auto Backup HACS integration
I installed the Auto Backup HACS integration and I have a network storage configured in Home Assistant (FYI, I’m running HAOS). If I use HA’s Developer Tools and manually call the “Auto Backup: Backup Full” service, there is a “Location” field where I can select my network storage. The backup successfully completes...
Google Photos Alternative
What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I’m using Nextcloud but I’m thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution....
Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?
Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? I’m curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good. We now have 4 cats and it would be nice to not have to clean litter boxes manually 1-2 times every day....
self-cleaning litter box?
Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? The ability to connect one to Home Assistant doesn’t really seem useful to me - maybe it would be nice for HA to alert you when the litter box needs to be changed. But I’m really just curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good -...
Is it possible to flash a new OS onto an old iPad 2?
I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant’s web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but...