John Redlich

Looking to manage a pool using home assistant, does anyone have any good resources for devices and integrations?

The gauge idea is nice, I am thinking a manager that has info about the plants already in it to help manage or give tips about the type of plant it is.

Starting to get some soil sensors for home assistant. Are there any good plant manager plugins for HA?

First round of batteries for my Zigbee devices since installing. I wish there was better reporting for when a device runs out. Took a few days to realize the problem.

Got my Everything Presence Lite today. Can't wait to mess around with this thing. Does anyone have any tips or #homeassistant automation suggestion?

Already got my order in. Cannot wait to give this a try! No more proxying voice command through Google!

I have done a few experiments with yaml config using ChatGPT. I have been looking at AppDaemon hoping I can think of all the automations as one big program that runs my house and not a bunch of small events.

Has anyone else feel like you have outgrown the UI for #HomeAssistant Automations? Have you considered switching to something else? I know there’s Node Red, but it’s still quite UI-focused. Have you had any luck with an alternative?

How is everyone automating your holiday lighting? This year I am using labels to group my disparate devices together. This allows me to have a single automation that toggles. I can quickly configure them from the device by adding the label to the entity. Pretty cool new feature. #homeassistant

Oh man @home-assistant.io, the new scene review page is great but still not being able to edit the values without affecting the status of the devices in my house is still driving my family nuts. Lol

Cool I will take a second look. The background location updates on iOS are unreliable for automations that might help. Thanks.

Ugh I remember when I was at that point with my Mom in 2011. Driving back and forth an hr to hospice, The Wiskey Media family of podcasts got me through a lot of those drives. Always wanted to mail and kind of thank you all but never got the chance.

I have it installed but do need to take a closer look at it. How are you using it?

Works good so far, just need to find a good use for it. So far I just have it remind me if i left the AC on in the summer. Any suggestions?

A work around I use is to expose my away mode sensor to HomeKit then I created an automation that flips the status once the last person leaves the house.

Does anyone else have an issue with creating an away mode sensor in #HomeAssistant in iOS? It either takes forever to update or just doesn't because iOS requires you to open the app.

True but I have more statuses than sun up or sun down. I have a status for after my kids should be in bed and one for when everyone is asleep. The sun down and sun up event set num night mode and morning modes.

There are and always will be 4 lights!

Does anyone else set a #HomeAssistant sensor to set different home statuses throughout the day? This way you can have a single check for time of day in your automations. An automation just needs to check if it’s night mode to start turning on lights.

I moved over to Proxmox this year. I am running it on an old dell mini desktop and it’s definitely worth it. I run HAOS and have a few other services running in LXCs. Jellyfin, Adguard + unbound, zigbee2mqtt and a few testing projects. Easy backups and separation of services. It’s nice.

Not sure how I want to use this account, I’m a father of 2 , an IT pro, Apple fan, Star Trek and lotr nerd, video games, cooking, diy home improvements and landscaping, Home assistant user and husband. What should I talk about…