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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • HA has very specifically targeted the device I mentioned. While I know ESP Home and Esp32 generally is a vast topic and catalog… There’s one primary device (currently).

    And it is, now, easy to set up once you find your way. When they improve the instructions, it is quite near to being a button click. And has been explained as nearly as much, hence the expectation.




  • I recently added a kasa smart plug using matter. Then the tp-link integration noticed it and forced me to reauthenticate.

    That’s my closest match to your story.

    It had been given my username and password before. But it needed them all over again. I’ve had that happen for other things before, too.

    Not sure if would help or if you have done it… But it takes about a literal minute to do.







  • Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes. Improved our sleep.

    Turn off the cable box every night since the dwvs love to install new updates at 3 Am which iniitaites a restart, which, in turn, illuminates the entire bedroom. An unforgivable sin.

    Recently: decided we’d get curtains and make everything smart. It wasn’t a bank buster to get a couple gizmos. Night is dark and daytime the curtains open when my wife comes home - giving her the natural light she covets. Makes our humble 1000 Sq ft seem larger, besides.

    Now replacing our Google hub with an old old tablet. The S4 seems almost perfect and wallpanel is great. Especially if coupled with ha-Floorplan.




  • FS may be under significant stress. But they are also telling stories with unadulterated disdain and toxin. Stories that, if discovered by the individuals, would cause serious harm to well… Their whole family.

    This isn’t the place, I wouldn’t think, to vent ones toxins. But that’s what’s happened here, and to a sympathetic, accepting audience.

    Someone was going to have enough with the toxin. Enough with the idea that mom isn’t good enough while trying to be helpful.

    Ive been through shit too. The people around me were going through it too. Compassion was in order on all sides.

    Edit: I understand that my message isn’t the most delightful, but the down votes further indicate: lemmy has a maturity issue.

    Getting care at one of the best medical institutions (despite imperfections, and yes doctors are people too) at moms expense of money, time, and emotional work. And the issue is that she’s just entirely annoying. C’mon.

    I get it. But it’s the price of admission or stay home. If these threads make it to mom, it’s a problem. And it’s immortalized on the internet.

    Any troll could f this up. It. Is. Immature. Fool hardy. And it’s being given a welcoming platform.

    I get that the resolution was not satisfying, but there was very little gratitude in those posts. He’s not the only person on this ride.




  • Thanks, I like the look and implementation of that. My hub replacement may (or may not) have voice built in. Either way, this may be the way to go.

    As conext: I’ve been planning to use the new on-device wake word tech with a few ESP32-S3-BOX-3 scheduled for delivery later this month. Since I posted the above, I’ve learned the planned ship date has moved to late May. (shrug) Now my local voice assistant plan is delayed.

    The ESP32s would be my voice & presence detection devices (if they work as I expect). The hub replacement can almost be dumb, although I am picturing it running in a full-screen browser window - like found in what you linked and possibly using that very solution.