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This is great because it will help avoid the rate-limiting issue (and probably save HASS a good amount of money).
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What type of smart theromstat allow local only operation? The popular ones I've looked at (nest, ecobee, honeywell) all look like they require internet connection to work.
I would not recommend ecobee, it does not allow you to apply simple actions you may want to do. For example, using HA I am monitoring co2 in the bedroom, if the level rises above 1000ppm I wanted to turn on house fan until level reaches a value. You cannot simply turn central house fan on/off at will, you can only apply a hourly duty cycle controlled by ecobee. I wish I would have purchased a thermostat with basic ap…
Has Home Assistant settled on what you can configure via YAML and what needs to be done via the web UI yet? I left the ecosystem last year after the split became too hard to mentally keep track of.
Of course not. Now there's a third way - Blueprints. I've bitched about HA before and won't rehash all of it. The project requires a lot of time investment and the devs care mainly about playing with the latest tooling. From introducing and sunsetting a major installation method in the span of ~4 years to dropping Python 3.7 despite it not being EOL until 2023, I don't have time or patience to relearn everything with…
Can you expand on your move to Hubitat? How’s the support for non-native integrations?
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I do this too. What are the downsides to this solution?
Probably none. But Synology software updates could brick anything at any time.
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> either you run their closed down Docker image or their even more closed down Linux distro where you can’t enable ssh without an add on What would you suggest? For their target audience (people who are tech savvy, but don't necessarily know anything about Linux or programming) this seems like the ideal way to distribute it. Their website also has virtual machine images in various formats, and instructions to manuall…
I also wish there was an option for people wanting to have a bit more control or fit it more tidily into an existing home stack. I hacked my own container image so that I could run it in my home k8s, but it wasn't easy — there are lots of undocumented dependencies, and there's no clear separation of state and config. It has by far the untidiest architecture of all the software I run on my home servers. Once it's up a…
You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible?
There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notifications to my phone once in a blue moon… (bonus if it would work while I’m talking a walk outside the range of my network too, but it’s not that important).
Tangentially related: I frequently start long-running shell commands and go make a coffee. Is there an easy way to send a notification from my Mac to my iPhone? You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible? There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notification…
Tangentially related: I frequently start long-running shell commands and go make a coffee. Is there an easy way to send a notification from my Mac to my iPhone? You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible? There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notification…
Is not enterprisey, the personal version is a one-time purchase.
Tangentially related: I frequently start long-running shell commands and go make a coffee. Is there an easy way to send a notification from my Mac to my iPhone? You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible? There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notification…
The easiest might be via slack. Dead simple to write some python with their library, and you can set up a free account for yourself.