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OK #homeassistant community, has anybody ever created a mailbox sensor? I mean the one that informed you, if somebody has put something into your (physical) mailbox like ads newspaper or letter? I think about a reticulum/meshcore radio connection as my box is too far away for my WiFi.

#HomeAssistant dog owners, please help! I am getting a small dog and I am looking for a Bluetooth tag to attach to a dog collar. It should have a long battery life. I already use the Bermuda #BLE Trilateration integration for room presence so this one needs to work with that too (does it have to be iBeacon?). Should work locally. Also, I need a case that fits the tag and attaches to a dog collar. Ideally waterproof.

Any recommendations?

@homeassistant

I have recently installed an Apollo Automation AIR-1, and have setup a bunch of automation around the CO2 and VOC sensors. I have a semi-smart air purifier, that can be controlled by Home Assistant, but doesn't have a VOC sensor, so the AIR-1 is activating it. When the VOC levels goes down, the CO2 goes down as well. I have a feeling this will improve my productivity a lot!
#HomeAssistant
apolloautomation.com/products/

apolloautomation.comAIR-1 Air Quality Sensor For Home Assistant

Seit ca. 15 Jahren läuft mein #vdr auf unveränderter Hardware. Mal mehr, mal weniger in Betrieb. Aktuell, über Ostern, wieder mehr, damit #jellyfin gut gefüllt bleibt.
Immer wieder toll, was mit #opensource alles geht! 💓
- Gestern einen Button für das wake on lan des vdrs in #homeassistant eingebaut.
- Heute Morgen ein Script erstellt, das mir alle Timer per #ntfy sendet, sobald es eine Änderung bei den Timern gab.

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@bodomenke Mir geht's ähnlich. Ich nutze fast überall die Meross Steckdosen MS305 und MS310 (unschlagbarer Preis, bis 3600W und lokal in #HomeAssistant integrierbar.

Ich hab noch eine Splitklima, da kommt ein Shelly rein, der mir die Leistung misst, da sie direkt verdrahtet ist.

Den Verbrauch gesamt liefert mir mein Wechselrichter bzw. dessen Integration in HA.

Damit hab ich dann alle größeren Verbraucher abgedeckt, die paar Watt, die in Lampen und Co. fließen laufen als Grundrauschen 😉

Today's #Kubernetes #HomeLab update:

I moved the last pieces that were lingering on hypnotoad into the cluster. That includes #HomeAssistant and MQTT. I went with EMQX because it seemed pretty easy to cluster-ify, and it's working great.

No big learnings today, just a sense of accomplishment that now the important pieces of homeprod are running in k8s so I can pave hypnotoad this week and get some actual redundancy.

Anybody out there know how to root really old #Android tablets in the year 2025 CE? I have a Dell Venue 3730 that is running KitKat (4.4.2) and that's the most modern thing it can run. I've been searching around the net for options and so much of it either (a) requires Windows (which I don't have) or (b) has died because of link rot, or (c) doesn't go back as far as Android 4.

I want to point this thing at a #homeassistant dashboard and make it like a remote console. But I can't get kiosk mode on something so old without rooting it (I think).

Also, the HTML that comes natively out of Lovelace is way too complex for #Chrome 32.0, which is what I have on the tablet. It just displays the HA logo and I never see more.

So I will need a simpler, possibly not websocket-based way, to load dashboards on HA, as well.

Any #mobile or #homeautomation folks have good pointers on how to do this?

I'm using my international radio on my Home Assistant Yellow for Thread so I added a Sonoff ZigBee dongle. I really hate large USB dongles hanging out the back of things, so I took the opportunity to finally learn FreeCAD and design a new top shell that could house that dongle internally. A few painful hours of trial and error, one U-Shaped USB extension, and one short antenna extension later and it's looking much cleaner! It is a shame I don't have a resin printer or know how to use one, because it would have been nice to keep the translucent plastic aesthetic. (an atomic purple shell would be so rad!) But I'm really happy with it overall.
#HomeAssistant #Zigbee #Thread #FreeCAD #3DPrinting #Sonoff #AtomicPurple

A funny father/son moment.

In my journey with #homeassistant, I converted from a 4-year old docker installation to a VM running HAOS. I have been renaming devices and redoing touchscreens and dashboards. A few things aren’t quite right.

My college age (CS Major) son presses a button labeled “small lamp” and it lights up as active. But the lamp doesn’t come on. I say “Yeah. I renamed some devices. I think your mother’s sewing machine is turning on and off.” And he responds “I think that is the most Dad thing you’ve ever said.” 🤣

Then he makes a funny reference to The Castle ¹. He says “This home automation system is worth almost as much today as when we bought it.“ we had a laugh.

#dadlife #homeautomation

¹ It’s a hilarious and good natured Australian film. A bit of a sleeper hit or cult classic. at the beginning of the film, the house is a mess of DIY and eccentric choices. It’s at the end of a busy airport runway. And the narrator, a teen son who idolises his funny dad, narrates something along the lines of “Dad reckons the house is worth almost as much now as when he bought it.” A funny, low-key line you can miss if you’re not careful.

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Update on this project! The reason I did the Jenkins build container work was to build a custom container based on github.com/m0ngr31/genmon with some customization.

I now have an ESP32 in my generator running ESPHome based on this github.com/gregmac/Genmon-ESP3

I then have the Genmon container running in my k8s instance connect to the ESP32 via the serial bridge and monitor my generator. Was a fun project 😊