Aaron Parecki

Monday, January 29, 2018

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  Portland, Oregon, USA

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 4:35am -08:00
• Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil   •   Jan 29

  Outfitted the remaining shared spaces in my house with Lutron Caseta dimmers and switches today. Oh, and for good measure, I set up an automation to dim my lights when I start watching something on @Plex in my living room. 🤩🎉
  

  Yes! I have my lights set to turn to a certain scene when Plex starts, pauses, and stops! It's the best. Only trick is when I watch something while chopping food and then I can't see!

  Portland, Oregon • 47°F

  1 reply

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 5:08am -08:00
• Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil   •   Jan 29

  @aaronparecki.com Haha, same issue here. It’s a bit too aggressive on transitions at the moment, too. I’m thinking of adding a delay or some additional smarts. Fun stuff. Are you using homebridge?
  

  Nah, I have Hue lights which have a nice (local) hub with an HTTP API, so I made a little PHP script that Plex hits as a web hook and it talks to the Hue bridge directly.
  
  I'm not sure what other information I could use to avoid blacking out the room at inopportune times. Maybe a motion sensor in the kitchen? Tho my kitchen and living room are basically the same room. Maybe a motion sensor aimed just at the kitchen counter?

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 7:23am -08:00
• Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil   •   Jan 29

  @aaronparecki.com I like the idea of a motion detector. Amazon AWS released these inexpensive cameras with onboard ML/AI a few months ago. Maybe I’ll give that a spin.
  
  I have the same layout in my living/dining/kitchen, so I’d have to get creative.
  

  well that's an idea... train it to recognize whether there is a person in the kitchen. That seems doable actually!

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 7:46am -08:00

• Elgato Cam Link

  3 out of 5

  Doesn't work with the 2016 13" MacBook Pro

  Elgato Cam Link Aaron Parecki 2018-01-29T11:59:54-08:00 permalink

  This would be such a great device, but unfortunately it doesn't work on the 2016 13" MacBook Pro. Apparently it requires a quad-core processor, and the 13" only has two cores. Everything else about the device is great though. My mac did recognize it without installing any drivers, but the video was stuttering a lot. I just wish they could have made it work on dual-core machines.

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 11:59am -08:00
• GDPR and Google Analytics (adactio.com)

  "Blaine—who really needs to get a blog—shared his concerns in the form of the online equivalent of interpretive dance …a twitter thread"

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 12:25pm -08:00 #indieweb
• keith•j•grant https://keithjgrant.com

  Found in the footer of a page that copied one of my articles, whole-hog, without attribution 🙄

  

  Portland, Oregon • 51°F

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 3:29pm -05:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 29, 2018 12:42pm -08:00)
• Jan 19

  Introducing Sidecar
  

  This is fantastic! Looking forward to importing some of these into BarBot! https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/26/18/day-68-barbot-recipes

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 51°F

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 12:49pm -08:00 #barbot
• Gert Claus https://gertclaus.github.io

  Fiddling with http://schema.org to create a simple event for about 1 hour. Was @microformats too easy and too readable for the big boys to come up with the exact opposite...? 🙄

  Portland, Oregon • 51°F

  Mon, Jan 29, 2018 9:58pm +01:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 29, 2018 12:59pm -08:00)
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