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vik

@vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Aged RepRap core developer, ex- firefighter, emergency medic, longhair coder, Incident Creator at the Masterton Fab Lab, and a Twitter refugee.

"Si potest non bonum esse, cave."

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Further adventures with #HomeAssistant and #ESPhome show that a Dallas 1-wire temperature sensor can be wired up via a 4K7 and it just works! Greenhouse temperature now monitored, option to send "It's bloody cold out here you know" messages enabled. NZ-compliant wifi socket for the heater on order...

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@RoboticistDuck I'd need a bot more range for that.

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@RoboticistDuck I have BLE devices, and they don't reach where I want to go.

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@RoboticistDuck I have BLE devices, and they don't reach where I want to go.

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@RoboticistDuck I'd rather go the Zigbee route. Much pre-made stuff there, and I have other projects on!

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Hey @Unixbigot !
I wondered what that multi-microphone home assistant module was as per presentation? Went and installed didn't I? Can give it up any time I like...

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@Unixbigot Korvo looks good. Is there a speaker you'd recommend? Can the speaker go in the same box without crapping on the microphone?

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@Unixbigot Ah, The Light of My Life has one of those. Might surprise her :)

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Configured an #ESPhome #HomeAssistant device up with two buttons on it, and an 18650 battery. Battery doesn't last overnight, which is a bit disappointing. I need something I can stick on a wall that runs forever off a CR2032 (used to have those with the ancient X10 system).

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@tj @zrail Problem here is that the thing has to reconnect to the wifi before my light turns on. Meanwhiles here's me standing in the dark...

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@zrail @tj Yeah, might be doing silly things with 433MHz wireless and cheap ardweenies or pis.

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@amoose136 @stooovie Ah, don't have a Yellow, just my own Pi 5. Haven't got a Zigbee dongle and as they're $75 in this neck of the woods it'll have to wait a bit 'cos I have other toys to sort out first :)

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@amoose136 @stooovie I think I'll try the 433MHz things first, and see if "red light lightens."

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@Volkershochschule Interesting! Light and temperature power conversion according to Wikipedia. Several companies using the standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnOcean

vik, to random
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Wee jolt there. That one would have been quite sharp in .

vik, to esp32
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Does anyone make an module in a solar powered box or is this always a DIY job?

vik, to random
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Today I carved a rather nice dibber for Suz out of an olive branch. She is now loaded for vampire.

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Today I carved a rather nice dibber for Suz out of an olive branch. She is now loaded for vampire.

vik, to random
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Tried sending an APK to a mate on his gmail account. Google blocked it as "spam."

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Happy to report the Diamond Age solar farm just saved its first tonne of CO2.

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Hey, there are two #MicroPython capable dev boards in the #oshwa24 swag bag!

  • Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect

  • Soldered InkPlate 2 (ESP32 / colour e-paper screen)

vik,
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@scruss InkPlate 2? Hmmmmm...

(Discovered ESPhome and everything looks like an appliance!)

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@scruss Just out of interest, would it be hard to port the Quirkey Accessibility Keyboard code from to ? https://github.com/VikOlliver/Quirkey

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@scruss Fair enough. Just curious, not trying to dump a project on you honest.

vik, to homeassistant
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What they shouldn't tell you in the manual: Use the Supervisor Panel. It no longer exists. The Control Panel a quick web search tells you to use instead no longer exists either...

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@frenck
Looking up how to program ESPhome devices. Want me to dig up a URL tomorrow?

vik,
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@frenck Looks like the first one I found was an ESPhome tutorial rather than a HA manual per se so probably out of your control? https://esphome.io/guides/getting_started_hassio.html

On the plus side, I did get it working!

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