Aaron Parecki

Contributions from: Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, United States

Thu, Aug 22, 2019 1:59am -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Aug 21
Adding a couple new sensors tonight. Attempting a sound level sensor (should report roughly how noisy it is inside), and a color temperature sensor, which I'm hoping can tell me how cloudy it is outside and how much sun is coming in the window.

Update:

Not getting anything off the sound sensor yet. Will have to debug with a multimeter next.

Light sensor is up and running with the default config, and will take a look at the results after 24 hours. There's a setting to control how long the "shutter" stays open, so we'll see if the default 2.4ms is good for detecting daylight.

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 11:40pm -07:00
handy https://micro.blog/handy • Aug 22
@aaronpk I found this gentleman on YouTube and this video (skip to :58) helped me understand what was possible. I am not a Dev (only a cobbler growth marketer) and I also build chatbots for business, so the "flows" make sense.

Prepping for a new house so nothing "production" yet.

Thanks for the recommendation! That video did an excellent job of giving me an intro! This looks like exactly the kinds of chained rules I want to make, and was really struggling with doing it via just YAML in Home Assistant.

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 9:59pm -07:00
Negroni

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 9:20pm -07:00
Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/
Why We All Need a Personal Website – Plus Practical Tips for How to Build One - Adobe 99U

August 22nd, 2019

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Portland, Oregon

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Thu, Aug 22, 2019 3:17am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 21, 2019 8:41pm -07:00)
Contributions from: Poland, United Kingdom, United States

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 8:31pm -07:00
Beer

Portland, Oregon, USA

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 8:29pm -07:00
Veggie Pizza

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 8:28pm -07:00
Adding a couple new sensors tonight. Attempting a sound level sensor (should report roughly how noisy it is inside), and a color temperature sensor, which I'm hoping can tell me how cloudy it is outside and how much sun is coming in the window.

Portland, Oregon

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#homeautomation

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 8:13pm -07:00
handy https://micro.blog/handy • Aug 22
@aaronpk I found this gentleman on YouTube and this video (skip to :58) helped me understand what was possible. I am not a Dev (only a cobbler growth marketer) and I also build chatbots for business, so the "flows" make sense.

Prepping for a new house so nothing "production" yet.

Awesome, I'm gonna watch that. I've also been struggling to debug automations written entirely in YAML, and I really want to get into some fancier automations based on states of various components.

I'm also prepping for a new house, but it's a long term plan, so I'm putting this "into production" in my apartment right now!

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 7:17pm -07:00
handy https://micro.blog/handy • Aug 22
@aaronpk I just got my pi 4 and have been experimenting too. I have node-red, home assistant, Rocket.chat all running on it. Probably too much, but having fun

Nice! What are you doing with node-red? I haven't found a need for that yet, or at least I don't yet know what it can do that Home Assistant can't.

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 21, 2019 7:08pm -07:00
the home automation experiments continue tonight...

now attempting to disable the on-board bluetooth of the raspberry pi and replace it with a USB dongle to see if that improves things

Portland, Oregon

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#homeautomation

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 6:38pm -07:00
jeff_mcfadden https://micro.blog/jeff_mcfadden • Aug 21
@aaronpk what board/dongle are you using for ZWave?

The GoControl HUSBZB-1. I think I saw it mentioned on the Home Assistant forums.

Portland, Oregon

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 6:30pm -07:00
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Aug 21
Does anyone know a secret way to get a refund on a price drop (price match) on amazon? An old Slate article explained how via phone, but I just got off the phone hearing a big NO. Was told to return and repurchase the same items! 🤯 Price dropped $30ea on 4 hard drives… $120!

They used to do it pretty often for me over the phone, but lately I've been getting a strong "no". Return and re-purchase is the only option, which seems a bit drastic and like it costs them more. 🤷‍♂️

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 21, 2019 6:25pm -07:00
Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

"Mastodon, another popular IndieWeb service"
Are we really IndieWeb? I always thought IndieWeb were the people who self-host blogs with like, microformats and pingbacks

Portland, Oregon

Sat, May 18, 2019 4:40pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 21, 2019 4:02pm -07:00)
Jacky Alciné https://playvicious.social/@jalcine

@Gargron nah it's more than that. it can be self-hostable, it can be a service (https://withknown.com/), etc.
and lol no one uses pingback (willingly) in the space, webmentions replaced that

Portland, Oregon

Sat, May 18, 2019 7:11pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 21, 2019 4:01pm -07:00)
Djoerd Hiemstra https://mastodon.utwente.nl/@hiemstra

@Gargron I am at an http://indieweb.org meeting today wearing my Mastodon shirt. 😀
Lot's of sympathy here for Mastodon, but yes, the focus is on self-hosting. Lot's of overlap in solutions for sharing favorites, replies, boosts, etc.

Portland, Oregon

Sat, May 18, 2019 4:53pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Aug 21, 2019 4:01pm -07:00)
Spicy Peanuts

Portland, Oregon, USA

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 2:07pm -07:00
Americano

Portland, Oregon, USA

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 11:31am -07:00
Veggie Quiche

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Aaron Parecki

Why We All Need a Personal Website – Plus Practical Tips for How to Build One - Adobe 99U

August 22nd, 2019