Aaron Parecki

Sunday, September 1, 2019

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  Portland, Oregon, USA

  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 7:01am -07:00
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  Just made my first Node-RED flow to detect whether the litter box is dirty or clean!
  
  1: When motion in the litter box is detected, wait 5 seconds, check if the door is closed, and if so, set to "dirty"
  2: When the door is opened, set to "clean"
  
  Took a bit to figure out all the Node-RED terminology and figuring out how to "think" in that model, but I do appreciate not having to write code to do this now!

  

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 9:48am -07:00 #homeautomation
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  Contributions from: France, Germany, Philippines, Serbia, United States

  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 11:44am -07:00
• handy https://micro.blog/handy   •   Sep 1

  @aaronpk you've fallen for my evil plan. To have you build cool ideas like this i can swipe!
  

  Please do! The ideas are the easy part! 😉

  Portland, Oregon

  2 replies

  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 12:50pm -07:00
• handy https://micro.blog/handy   •   Sep 1

  @aaronpk next plan. Have Aaron share his catboxcode
  

  that's the brilliant part about this node-red platform, no coding required! As much as I'm happy to write code to make stuff work, it's nice when I don't have to!

  Portland, Oregon

  1 reply

  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 12:52pm -07:00
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  and now the light behind the litter box glows red when it's dirty and green when it's clean! No more needing to peer into the little door to look for stuff in the box!

  

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 1:01pm -07:00 #homeautomation
• Nurse McHurt :nb_crossbow: https://kitty.town/@nursemchurt   •   Sep 1

  @aaronpk Woah this is really cool, how did you do it?
  

  motion sensor in the box, door contact sensor on the door, connected to home-assistant. node-RED flow to watch for motion without the door opening (dirty), door opens (clean), tells home-assistant to turn the light different colors!
  
  took quite a bit to get to this point but I'm pretty happy with how quick it is to make rules like this now!

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 3:21pm -07:00
• Hello IndieWeb. I'm here with a new website. It's really basic, but based on a new improved version of my engine and should be blazing fast! I also had a hardware upgrade - now I'm using an old notebook instead of a Raspberry Pi. The RPi itself is ok, just needs a software upgrade.

  Portland, Oregon

  Mon, Sep 2, 2019 12:11am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Sep 1, 2019 5:14pm -07:00) #IndieWeb #server #pyindieblog
• The Everyday Dad https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Aug 20

  Probably the best thing on the G7XIII is the lens.
  
  I wish this lens was on every point and shoot from now on. 24-100 1.8-2.8 🔥🔥

  
  

  I know you don't have this anymore, but did you see the weird thing when taking a picture, the screen would continue to show the live view for a second before the preview of the photo appeared? The previous gen didn't do that. I can't figure out if there's a setting somewhere...

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 6:09pm -07:00
• The Everyday Dad https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Sep 2

  I didn’t notice that unfortunately sorry.
  

  sounds like I might have another video to make tomorrow then 😂

  Portland, Oregon

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  Sun, Sep 1, 2019 6:21pm -07:00