Casey LissOh no I installed home assistant goodbye productivity
Update: I’m now learning about MQTT.
Descent velocity down this rabbit hole is increasing.
Mutesplash@caseyliss Enterprise catnip
David Schuetz ** looking for work **@caseyliss It can be fun. Noticing a luminance sensor in my stream today just led to a music play/pause automation for my basement office.
Ste Grainer
Neil@caseyliss one nice project I did recently was #pimoroni #picow Skully with #cheerlights controlled using the mqtt integration. Want to go further and get it in Zigbee2Mqtt (via publishing direct to broker) as a light so it shows up in #homrassistant - that way I can automate it further and integrate it with other lights or sounds etc 😆
David Michaels@caseyliss Ah yes I see the future ATP topics spinning out of control
Michael Critz@caseyliss I’m not sure if it’s helpful or just one more hat-on-a-hat, but I recommend NodeRED if you’re doing anything heavy with MQTT.
Get y’self a nodeRED docker container running on a Raspberry Pi to double check those MQTT messages and behaviors.
Brandon Butler@caseyliss I’m using MQTT for reasons it never could have imagined :)
Daniel Nelson@caseyliss welcome friend. May you find fortune in your time in the home automation mines
Tom Wilson@caseyliss the next step is esphome
Mitch@caseyliss I have done a bunch of work with MQTT lately. In particular integration woth home assistant. Feel free to ask any questions. https://github.com/mitchell-johnson/mqtt-presence-sensor
Matt@caseyliss Tools like zigbee2mqtt will let you HomeKit-ify almost anything including inexpensive but reasonably good sensors and accessories from IKEA
Jerrod Hofferth@caseyliss Right there with you, brother. Trying to find a way to bridge my ESP32-based smart dog door (!) into HomeKit. It has a Telnet interface. There’s a Telnet->MQTT bridge script for HA, but I’d rather avoid that and adapt a Homebridge plugin instead. Wish me luck.
Len Whitten@caseyliss make sure you add Node-Red!!
Carlos Chacon@caseyliss I only wish you would’ve jumped straight into the Proxmox rabbit hole
Dinos@caseyliss as a fellow ex dotnet dev, I would like to nerd swipe you with a project idea. Linq2mqtt. It’s a post it note on the wall at the bottom of this rabbit hole.
Stuart McHattie 👨🏼💻@caseyliss one might say the RabbitMQ hole
gormster@sdjmchattie @caseyliss 👏 very fine
Duclearc@caseyliss 😄 me too (for work)
LordMortis@caseyliss oh no. But hey I’m doing the home assistant thing but I have a much smaller residence than you :D good luck!
Unai HerranWe are loosing @caseyliss Run away before it’s too late
Christopher O’R@caseyliss Mongoose OS flashed onto Shelly devices for HomeKit integration… say goodbye to your life!
Jerome (He/Him)@caseyliss I installed Scrypted for my non-homekit cameras and I am now just its docker pull secretary.
Tony Snyder@jeromechoo @caseyliss Watchtower is your friend. I don’t even think about it anymore. I have notifications about updates pipe to a family Slack instance for viz
@swguru2004 @caseyliss I'll have to take another look at it. It's hard to test and I've never been able to get it work correctly.
@jeromechoo @caseyliss any chance you are running this on a Synology? If so I can send you the guide I worked off of.
@swguru2004 @caseyliss I am! Would love it!
@jeromechoo @caseyliss I used this guide from MariusHosting. (Side Note: His site is AMAZING for Synology tips and tricks) https://mariushosting.com/synology-30-second-watchtower-install-using-task-scheduler-docker/
And I added the extra slack notification flags to the command manually.
@swguru2004 @caseyliss thanks mate! I’ll give it a go!
@jeromechoo of course (removing poor Casey to save his notifications)
But I meant to share earlier. This is how I see what Watchtower has been doing via Slack.
Benjamin Herrin@caseyliss You've only shifted your productivity from everything else into show topics for the next N number of years!
Ken Disbrow@caseyliss condolences. I’m still down that rabbit hole.
@caseyliss welcome, we have cookies (as an entity)
Mike Taffet
Will Richardson@caseyliss what noise is Marco going to use when you start bringing it up constantly 😆
Jon Mullins@caseyliss I went down this rabbit hole of home automation after installing ProxMox, which led me down the LXC rabbit hole in ProxMox. I haven't had a haircut in 45+ days, and the lights are so bright when I check the mail……
@caseyliss I had to do Home Assistant because my Mini Splits are made by Daikin, show up in the Ecobee App, but aren’t HomeKit compatible. And homebridge didn’t have a compatible plugin. Home Assistant is incredibly clever/powerful. You can literally build custom remote control interfaces for TV/Entertainment/Lights etc. Very flexible
Dr. Joe Sarsero, Ph.D.@caseyliss
I’ve spent four years trying to get HOOBS/Homebridge to work without any luck…
I’ve spent four years trying to get HOOBS/Homebridge to work without any luck…
Random Participation@caseyliss you’ve made a HUGE mistake
John Warne@caseyliss It’s been fun to watch your journey with Tailscale, and I’m looking forward to the HA updates. Godspeed.
Coda@caseyliss I wonder what @marcoarment's percussion instrument of choice will be for this one
Steve Mintsioulis@caseyliss me too…really looking forward to hearing how you approach the Great Migration from HomeKit into HA. I feel like I’m over thinking it
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@caseyliss No but Casey anything you do that you can talk about on ATP is “work” “for the show” and therefore by definition productive.
Ondřej Mirtes@caseyliss Best usages in our home:
* Get a notification when dishwasher/washing machine is done thanks to a smart plug
* Open/close garage door from phone
* Made dumb doorbell smart with ESP32 and getting notifications for it too
* Home alarm gets armed when I put my phone to Sleep mode
* If I want to automate something but not every time it triggers, I get a notification that offers me to do something via an action. (Getting closer to home - offer to open the gate).
jaredharley@OndrejMirtes @caseyliss I have a temperature sensor taped to the side of the dryer vent, a "derivative" helper sensor, and a "dryer state" helper - an automation watches for the sharp rise (on) and fall (off) of the vent to tell when the clothes dryer is running.
My favorite use case is my cheap Fire tablet stuck to the side of my fridge (magnets glued on the back) which shows the weather, family calendar, and has touch control over everything: https://xtremeownage.com/2022/07/08/fire-tablet-as-home-assistant-kiosk/
Miroslav Stankic@caseyliss endless possibilities and capabilities… but you are going to have the time of your life trying to make HA do exactly what you want to.
Welcome, and enjoy the ride.
Jonathan LaCour@caseyliss It’s insanely complicated, but man, so much power. Before long you’ll be building custom switch plates using openHASP like me! It’s an absolute blast and it works incredibly well with HomeKit, both by allowing you to link in HomeKit devices and to bridge non-HomeKit stuff back into HomeKit.
Mieszko Ślusarczyk@caseyliss You’re doomed. I love my HA, but it does take a lot of time to set up, and you’re never done - there’s always something more to integrate, automate, improve. And then there’s DIY aspect - starting with ESPHome, that lets you do so much more;)
Myke Hurley
Karan J@caseyliss I can't wait to hear about getting your garage door status into your HA dashboard
Tomer Shemesh@caseyliss you won’t regret it, I migrated my entire smart home setup to HA last year and was the best thing I ever did.
One of those things I wouldn’t recommend to someone who is non-technical, but for us nerds it’s absolutely amazing and they’ve really put in a lot of work into making the UI amazing and easy to use. I am also a code maintainer for the official Lutron HA extension so let me know if you have any issues on that side!
One of those things I wouldn’t recommend to someone who is non-technical, but for us nerds it’s absolutely amazing and they’ve really put in a lot of work into making the UI amazing and easy to use. I am also a code maintainer for the official Lutron HA extension so let me know if you have any issues on that side!
Mike Roest@caseyliss Aftershow topic!
Brad@caseyliss Finally Casey, finally. Now time for ESP32
@caseyliss oh no. lol
djuewhan@caseyliss it’s the best time sink. But run it using HassOS on a dedicated machine or VM. It has layers of polish that the docker version just doesn’t have
Bill Vinson
Julian Gamble@caseyliss I can’t wait to hear about the use-cases you aim for vs the use-cases that get family adoption.
Mike Wren@caseyliss welcome to the club, we’ve been waiting.
I’m a resource if you have any ungoogleable questions.
Lee@caseyliss Did you install on your Synology or one of your Mac’s?