ilikedatsyuk

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What are you reading this week? [July 3-July 9, 2023] in c/books@lemmy.ml
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently reading The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb. It’s a good read so far!

Home Assistant 2023.7 released in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! Let's make this place feel like home 🙂

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Home Assistant 2023.7 released (www.home-assistant.io)
What does your infrastructure look like? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A combo of both. I group all my media apps like Sonarr, Radarr, SABnzbd, etc together in one compose since I consider each of them to be a part of the same “machine”, but most of my apps have their own compose.

What does your infrastructure look like? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have an HP DL380 Gen8 and then a PC I bought from the local university and use as a server.

My DL380 runs ESXi. My PC runs Ubuntu on bare metal.

All of my apps are either fully VM-based (Home Assistant OS) or run in containers. Containers are far easier to build, upgrade, and migrate, and also make file management a lot easier.

I use Docker Compose. No Swarm or Kubernetes at this point.

Hopefully this is at least a good start! Let me know if you have any questions.

What are your favorite automations? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are very original!

How do you detect the zoomies?!?

Sourcing Local Network Only, HA Friendly Devices in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like to shop at https://cloudfree.shop/ when I can. Their pre-flashed Tasmota smart plugs are nice and support MQTT/fully local integrations.

What are your favorite automations? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have some arbitrary temps in my system too. I also have our bed warmer automated to turn on each night, but only if it's <=60 F outside.

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Microsoft announces new $350, 1 TB Carbon Black Xbox Series S (arstechnica.com)
What are your favorite automations? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No special addon. I use a Node-RED flow to query the Paperless-NGx API to find the number of documents with the "intake" tag. Here's a template.

Instructions:

  1. Create an API token for Paperless-NGx by going to http://<PAPERLESS_URL_WITH_PORT>/admin/authtoken/tokenproxy/ and clicking Add Token
  2. Import the flow into Node-RED
  3. Take the token you've created in step 1 and paste it over the <PAPERLESS_TOKEN> placeholder in the "Headers" function node
  4. Change the URL in the "Make API Request" HTTP node to point towards your Paperless-NGx installation
  5. Replace the debug node at the end with whatever you want. I personally use a Sensor node to import the value into Home Assistant.
What are your favorite automations? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That’s a great one! We have an automation like that too, though we sometimes wish we could remain blissfully ignorant that the laundry is done.

Looking to migrate from raspberry pi to SFF PC. What are good options in 2023? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you have a college or university near you, search online to see if they have a property disposition department.

I just got an HP Z2 SFF from my local university for $182. It has a Core i7-8700, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512GB NVME SSD.

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What are your favorite automations? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I figured we could all share some of the cooler things we've done to get the conversation moving in here.

Here are some of the automations I'm proud of and get the most use out of.

Blinds and Lighting

  • Open and close the blinds (Ikea Fyrtur) according to the light levels outside
  • If a window is open, the blind will only close to 50%, but it will close automatically after the window is closed
  • Turn all lights off when the blinds are opened, and turn lights on in occupied rooms when the blinds are closed
  • Automatically close the blinds in the bedroom and bathroom when the shower is on. Open them after we leave the master suite.

Websites

  • (Selenium) Auto login to Amazon to check on the status of my Kindle daily reading streak and notify me if I forget to read. We must keep the streak intact!
  • Auto categorize new transactions in YouNeedABudget and mark them as approved, as well as pull my net worth into Home Assistant
  • Get my most-listened to tracks and artists from Last.FM and pull those into Home Assistant
  • Notify me if there are documents in my Paperless-NGx server that need to be categorized and filed

Reminders

  • When I walk in the door, announce any outstanding Todoist tasks marked with the @alert label so I know to do it before I sit down. Examples are to change the furnace filter or Venmo my friend for Youtube TV
  • I run OCR on the camera feed from my garage camera to determine whether the bins are in the garage. The bins say Trash and Recycling on top, so I look for those words in the image. If they are in the garage in the evening before trash day, I receive an alert

Media and Torrenting

  • Notify me and display a badge in Home Assistant when there is a pending request in Overseerr
  • (Selenium) Log into my favorite private torrent tracker website from Node-RED to check whether I need to take any actions

HVAC

  • Preheat or pre-cool the house prior to peak electricity pricing going into effect. During peak hours, auto adjust the thermostat to prevent it from running
  • Turn the thermostat off if there are windows open. Automatically restore previous setting (cool or heat) when all windows are closed.
  • Turn the bathroom fan on after the shower is turned off and no one is around. Turn it off after 80 minutes or the humidity in the bathroom is within 10% of the humidity in the bedroom, whichever comes first.

Misc

  • Node-RED monitors the status of my UPSes for my servers. If the battery drops below 50% while the power is out, it initiates graceful shutdowns of my Synology and other servers
  • Auto sort the Home Assistant grocery list upon adding a new item