An update to Tally, my desktop app for Plausible Analytics, is incoming! Tally 3.2.1 refreshes the visuals a bit, and I really like the more subtle look with the header bar. This addresses some feedback that the old look was too bold.
@reesericci I mean, that's a completely different service that I don't use and so can't test. It's a simple enough app that someone could probably throw something similar together, though.
Alright #HomeAssistant nerds, I have a question. I would like to set up a standard way to get a derived value back from a number of sensors; for example, given a sensor’s PM2.5, PM10, Ozone, CO, SO2, and/or NO2 reading, I would like to return an estimated air quality index (AQI). Ideally I could also have a standard way to map any given AQI value to a category string, e.g. 10 = Good, 75 = Moderate, 175 = Unhealthy, etc.
This seems like it should be very simple to define a function somewhere, but I can't figure it out! The closest I’ve come is to create new template sensor entities for each sensor, which is a pain. Blueprints seem to be for automations and scripts, not Helpers. 😩
Am I missing something? I don’t really want to have to figure out how to make a new HACS integration, but then again, automatically adding these entities to any relevant sensors (like how Battery Notes works) would be pretty dope…
I’ve been playing with air quality sensors and purifiers in Home Assistant. Here’s my current layout on my dashboard; I want to improve it a bit more, but I am loving the glancable styling powered by the sensor values. :)
I wish Justin of starwarsfonts was here on the fediverse, because I have a question!!
Any idea what the font used in the text graphics is here? It’s driving my wife crazy; she thinks it might be Albertus Nova, but we aren’t sure—and something just looks… wrong with the text.
Can (and should) I provide a door code for our front door for deliveries to our house when we’re not home? I’m sick of deliveries being put smack in the middle of the front step on a perfect pedestal for porch pirates…
I can set up a specific code for each delivery company and make it only work during certain hours/days when a delivery is expected, so the security implications aren’t too bad imho. My bigger question is: will delivery companies even bother with it?
@cassidy There are alternative delivery options as well where FedEx, UPS, etc will hold your package at a nearby retail location for later pickup. Amazon also has locker pickup. I'd do that before giving delivery drivers access to the house.
@cjw2001 yeah, that becomes a whole lot less convenient, then. Luckily porch pirates have not been a huge issue; I think we had something stolen a couple years ago and then got a small deck box for packages and it hasn't been an issue since. But today FedEx delivered a big box right on our porch while we were out, and it got me thinking.
I forgot how much I loved this whole album. A song from it came up on my radio today so of course I’m just listening to the whole album on repeat again.
I was curious if a niche blog post of mine had been slurped up by #ChatGPT so I asked a leading question—what I discovered is much worse. So far, it has told me:
• use apt-get on Endless OS
• preview a Jekyll site locally by opening files w/a web browser (w/o building)
• install several non-existent #Flatpak “packages” & extensions
It feels exactly like chatting w/someone talking out of their ass but trying to sound authoritative. #LLMs need to learn to say, “I don’t know.”
@cassidy "#LLMs need to learn to say, 'I don’t know.'"
Doing that properly might require... something that isn't an LLM. I'd say the LLM generates something that (statistically) looks like an answer, because that's what its trained to do.
Actually modeling some understanding of truth and knowledge might be a different and more difficult task than modeling language.
@ids1024 yeah, fair point. Which is why I try to constantly use “LLM” instead of “AI,” because people seem to miss the “artificial” part of artificial intelligence. It’s artificial in that it is not intelligent!
This race to use LLMs for everything is so misguided; LLMs can be super cool for very specific things like summarizing a long text, typing suggestions, describing images, etc. but I genuinely think that chat model is just a terrible idea that needs to die.
@pootriarch I went with the IKEA VINDSTYRKA one because it was relatively affordable and works with Home Assistant over Zigbee. It's just a PM2.5 sensor (plus temperature and humidity), nothing fancy like a CO2 sensor—but it works as a start for understanding general air quality.
Honestly, I kind of miss this. The software feels much more human and organic, not just because of the depth and shadow, but thanks to the earthy color tones.
I would love to be able to ship accent colors in GNOME to give people more control over the look and feel over their computers in a well-defined way that doesn’t leave them or app developers with broken promises.
@windowsonwindows@cassidy I’ve thought of recreating my desktop environments from the mid-1990s in a VM. A big part is the color scheme and wallpaper selection.
This is the type of webcam used in recent laptops like the Dell XPS series, which only worked ootb with Windows and Ubuntu. This should mean it will be easier to guarantee webcam support across Linux distros again, soon!
Very work-in-progress, but I have started to document my smart home stuff on my website! This might end up turning into a whole subsection once I figure out how I actually want to organize it, but for now, it’s a dumping ground all on one page. 😅
@derek huzzah! I will say that the Nest camera integration is not really better with the Starling Home Hub and Home Assistant, though it was easier to set up. The cameras are really low frame rate and delayed, though. 😞
You do get all the recognition stuff exported as sensors though, which is dope; for example, you get a “motion” sensor, “unfamiliar face” sensor, and familiar face sensors for every saved face on each camera which opens up a lot of interesting stuff.
@FelicianoTech I previously posted about OneTracker specifically disappearing; I liked how it was super straightforward, didn't try to do a bunch of other things and just worked.
The others I've tried want a bunch of permissions (like access to my whole email account), advertise a bunch of other features (like a whole shopping experience, following other brands, shipping insurance…) and/or were just not well designed.
I continue to believe Zigbee delivers on the important things that Matter and Thread keep promising, but actually:
• mature
• widely available
• affordable
The one thing Matter over Thread devices can claim is that they work without a hub… except they don’t; the hub still has to be built into your Nest display, Apple HomePod, etc.
I have hundreds of low power, local-only smart devices from a dozen or so brands and it all… just works together.
• Sengled, because they’re not repeaters (so they don’t improve the network)
• OSRAM, Signify, or Sylvania: these are all from the same manufacturer and have given me nothing but trouble
Other than those that I’ve found, any Zigbee bulb ultimately should work fine—and I think my problems above are more prominent due to how many devices I have.