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Any other Home Assistant users migrating over from Reddit with all the api BS that's going on? If so, what's your current project? Mine is to convert my Docker instance over to HAOS.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, came over from reddit. Spinning up my own Lemmy to contribute something to the Fediverse, and trying to set up monitors for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Reddit native app is crap.

Not a project but I'm currently adding my TV as a device and play around with casting media.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

I just used the Android TV Remote integration to replace my Chromecast Ultra remote. It's awesome. So much more functionality than the remote. The only problem I've had is getting Jellyfin to be launched in one button press. There's some problem, that I don't fully understand, having to do with the Jellyfin app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha, doing the same thing right now. Both the Reddit and converting from Docker to Home Assistant OS part.

Bought an Odroid-M1 that's waiting just for this. Currently using a Pi 4 with Docker.

[–] Valon_Blue 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha. Great Minds, I guess. I'm trying to switch TO an RPI4. I love the docker version, but I want better uptime and addons. Eventually, I want to move to a Yellow, but the CM4s are still so hard to find at the moment. Just ordered a SkyConnect too. Gotta see how that shakes out.

I got HAOS installed on the RPI4, but the thing won't connect to my network for some reason. Using POE an due need to troubleshoot.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

Finally fixed this. It turns out hassos won't boot from a hard drive when you have it plugged into the 3.0 ports.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My current project is an ESP-based irrigation system for the garden. But I am still reading up on solenoid vavlves and havent bought any hardware yet.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

That's another one that I've been itching to get started on. Have you looked into the OpenSprinkler integration?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm here from reddit as well.

Over the past couple days I've been working on getting my Amcrest cameras working and displaying on the dashboard along with general tinkering like adding Adaptive Lighting to test out.

I'd like to dig deeper into custom dashboards but it's a steep learning curve and I've gotten overwhelmed and discouraged each time I've tried it. I wish they would create a theme store or way to import other people dashboards so that you can just add your own entities and you're good to go.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have an Amcrest doorbell. Do you? I've heard good things about them, but haven't bought one yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't. So far just the POE cameras which are great. The NVR works fine but the software/UI leaves a lot to be desired

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

I'm planning on using one of the Amcrest doorbell cameras, the $150 one if I remember correctly, with Frigate for my NVR. I tested Frigate out with a Reolink POE camera and really liked it. The camera had good reviews concerning Home Assistant and the integration said that local only was an option. Just gotta get my house all wired up correctly. I'm in a hose from the 70s and it needs a serious update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, the second Sync stopped working I stopped visiting. As for projects my current long-term one is working on getting away from a RasPi + docker setup to either a bare metal or proxmox with HAOS. For my short term I'm working on modifying the chore tracker by u/maceinjar on Reddit to allow you to switch from an interval of days to hours, and enabling recurrence based on the due date, not the completed date.

[–] Naratetama 2 points 1 year ago

Still trying. Got mixed feelings though.

My current project is to improve my dashboard UI and also fix Tuya connection problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just did that and came over to lemmy. One of my current projects is to integrate an rss news feed so that my piper tts engine can give me the news everytime I ask

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, deleted Relay earlier this week and have been exploring here. Don't really miss it although a bit interested in the drama and if Reddit will have any true ramifications. I was there for the Digg to Reddit exodus and this feels very similar.

My next project is to get my entity naming fixed and consistent. I've not started yet and I'm not even sure what the right approach long term approach is....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If it's any help I typically name things by Company > Location > Function like Aqara bedroom light switch or WLED coffee table

Not sure if this is the best approach either but with 50+ devices and countless entities, its going okay so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the first time I've have to leave somewhere (digg 2.0), but this is different and new to me.

My current project is to fix my VPN network so I can re-expose my network.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

I'm working on that as well. Currently some of my self-hosted sites are just exposed and I want to put the behind a Wireguard VPN to further protect them and make sure I can access some of them remotely that I don't expose to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another Reddit refugee here. I have to say I miss the much busier traffic in Reddit though for not just this community, but all communities in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea I just checked whether this community might exist and here it is. I don't have any current big project. Just running my homeasistant yellow pretty happily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Another rexxitor checking in!

Im already on HAOS as a VM on my main desktop. Currently waiting on a Coral edge TPU to ship later this month so I can finish setting up my outdoor security cameras, and write some smarter automation around my security lights.

I also want to set up more indoor presence and air quality sensors. I'm considering an ESP32 project to make an all-in-one sensor with millimeter radar, light, temp, humidity and notice sensors, possibly also CO, CO2, H2S and PM2.5 sensors.

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds awesome! I just made my first esphome project a bit ago. Seems like that would be a pretty fun one to set up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep moving over here as well. Currently waiting on my coral to decide if I need more hardware or not since frigates pegging my NUCs CPU with the detection

[–] Valon_Blue 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. I still need to get one of those and get my cameras set up. My server is better equipped to handle Frigate, but that's not all I want to do with it.

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