Adding to the chorus of voices telling you to get a Sonoff stick.

The Conbee II is very old at this point and shouldn’t be used for new setups.

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

Nice, I missed that! I have Apple TVs in every room at my place, so that’s a big upgrade for me.

I worry about your mental health if you implement your button though 😆

Sounds like maybe there’s a little refinement needed for that functionality but, like you said, it’s a step in the right direction!

Lots of cool stuff in this release. I could see some very cool automations being built using the new service responses.

Are you really that worried about someone overwriting your tags?

There’s no one in my family or friends that would even realize they’re writable, let alone actually figure out how to do it.

Ah, yes, the ole’ “backup a database to telegram” trick. Who hasn’t used that one?!?

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.

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.

Those are very original!

How do you detect the zoomies?!?

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.

Hi @NXZAS8CA@discuss.tchncs.de!

These are Zigbee, so they are entirely local as long as you control them with a control software such as Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA that doesn’t interact with the cloud.

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.

That’s pretty cool! I haven’t dove into the world of air purifiers yet.

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.

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.

I found the same if I try to log in too often. I found that it doesn’t hit me with a captcha when I set the cadence to hourly.

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.