Contemplating adding a SkyConnect Zigbee dongle to our Home Assistant. Seems to be pretty ok, or at least as reliable as Zigbee in general gets. Initially just a couple of basic Aqara sensors to test with. Anything larger will need routers/repeaters for better reach.
@holgerschurig I’ve seen that people prefer that over ZHA. Not exactly sure how it works though. It gets the Z data and then shoves it into Mosquitto from which another part of HA gets it? Sounds a bit complicated? We do have a Mosquitto running already for some other stuff so setup would be easy.
It is not so easy to come up with a name for a game, so I put this question in the closet. The project has a code name, but until there is at least some gameplay or alpha of the game, there is no steam page. Sometimes I try to squeeze a name out of myself, but so far nothing comes out
@maxim I very much prefer simple one or two word names. All those long ones either hint at a long series of many games across decades of years, or they just look pretentious and daft.
@maxamillion When it just works it’s perfectly fine. But when things don’t work as you expect it’s really hard to debug. As it’s so immensely complex it’s easy to do things the wrong way.
@cerebralcoding@simonbs I feel like Apple is very conservative in what they feature. They mostly pick old known apps or new apps made by celebrity developers. I feel like my money should be used to help me promote my stuff, that’s at least what Apple pretends that the App Store is for.
@cerebralcoding@simonbs As for media I understand it pretty well. Easier and safer to write yet another article about a known name that readers may recognize than about some unknown developer. But Apple shouldn’t be bound by those rules.
I guess now could be a good time to see what’s new in iOS 17. At this stage Apple has fixed all the bugs they ever will fix and it’s as stable as it’ll ever be. My app has so far required 16, so I don’t think there will be any issues with porting. However I can’t remember a single interesting feature in 17 that I actually wanted as a developer? Was there anything new at all? Not talking about minor convenience updates to some old API:s, but brand new stuff. Anything?
@MuseumShuffle No, they don’t really fit. But I made a small personal app to track electricity prices and it uses the charts. Weren’t they added in 2022 though? The bar charts I used were a bit buggy, but kind of worked ok with some caveats.
Seems Home Assistant nowadays has to be installed either in a virtual machine or by reformatting an entire PC. Not ideal if I already have a machine that is supposed to perform some other tasks too. I assumed one could just install some packages from a 3rd party repository like in the good old days.
@ikkeT@larsmb I've never tested podman myself, but it looks interesting. Is this version one that can do everything or is it, like the Core version(?), limited in some ways?
@larsmb@ikkeT So you run Core? I do have my own Mosquito running already where various sensors, solar panels and electricity prices are sent and then saved by a service.
Whoa—just realized that on Sonoma, screenshots you capture sometimes have the “hidden” flag set. They don't show up in the Finder at all, unless you reveal them with ⌘-period.
So over the months, I've accumulated over 40 screenshots that never showed up! That actually explains a lot 😅
@Cykelero Not yet seen this myself, but I tend to copy my screenshots to the clipboard from the small "preview" that's shown directly after you take a screenshot, and then delete them. Maybe your script renames the file before all metadata (?) has been fully written or similar, causing it to sometimes be lost?