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If they have abundant resources and energy, sending probes wouldn’t be a challenge.

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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 got a few smart plugs with matter. They paired nicely with HA, but surprised me by falling into their app anyhow.

But they work. Those are Kasa/tp-link.

What’re yours?

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.

Silly question:

In all of this, did you change your username or password?

I live in a place where clouds aren’t often a factor, I only used the sun’s elevation for that script.

At this point I could modify those values with cloud cover percent, but I haven’t.

In short: it’s calculated.

I did mine manually over a weekend. Built in variable length of time, transition periods and variable brightness vmbased on how bright it is (outside) when it runs.

There’s actually 3 sets of 150+ RGBs. They’re similar, but on is warmer, one is cooler, meaning the lights aren’t all a match.

Switchbot Curtain 3 for curtain rods. I like them, but carefully made sure they’d never have to climb the telescoping part of the rods. That… That it didn’t seem awesome at.

All I did was extend the rods to the side maintaining symmetry and made sure the ridge was at mid-point.

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.

And working to make voice and AI something we can all have… locally. I’m just a humble apartment dweller, but HA is embedded in a lot of our home.

Wouldn’t care to have it any other way.

I pay annually and consider this the most valuable subscription we have for the family.

I have a Hub 2 but firmware is 1.5. How did you get 2.0 on yours?

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.

I’ll add: ideally I’d like the slideshow to work while we’re in the area, and for the screen to go dark after a set time and/or HA knows we’re in bed. I can have a radar/sensor flag if we’re in the room, so any hardware wouldn’t need to have it.

I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I found an online image of the colors of the sky through the day, pasted it into excel, and then capture 160+ rgb values for the sunset. It was a tedious process, but no math got it right.

I set all those values (and a warmer and cooler set) in the script and then pass in the desired duration. Most nights we have a 45 minute sunset play out across 6 total lights. Three sets of values, so the bulbs don’t match.

Starts as soft white ending in the darkest twilight blue my bulbs can provide. We remark on it regularly and I think it’s helped ease us into the right frame of mind for sleep.

I run the same values in reverse for sunrise.

Clearly, its my favorite one.

Sunset and sunrise automations. Lights on and off, vacuum run times - all adapted to presence.

Made the litter-robot auto-repair when it enters trouble states. Better history of all elements controlled.

Quick nofe: Albertsons and Kroger want to be one company. Soon.

Sync for Lemmy. It’s just super easy to do what I want - and to customize.

Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, it’s a, duck-blur!

I’m curious where Nothing goes if they can keep momentum.