So this marks the end of the year of the voice I guess?

I installed it and so far so good.

I’m most interested in the new Thermostat Card features, but haven’t been able to figure out how to enable it. The post said it’s disabled by default.

Edit: the “New version of the front end is available” pop up eventually showed itself, and now the option is there. Cool!

I was excited for the Roborock map. Unfortunately it isn’t live and doesn’t appear to be interactive. A good step in the right direction, though!

Why did they make the change to ping, dropping the interval setting? I looked through the linked pages but didn’t see an obvious explanation. I assume there is a reasonably good reason for it.

The suggestion to remove the recorder days is interesting. I have mine set to just a few days, because the partition the database is on its low on space, and I haven’t gotten around to dealing with it. Storing more in the same space would be good. I didn’t understand how the database would be smaller despite having more info.

SO: Next door have got their lights up, why haven’t we? Me: (Enable NodeRed flows for gutter and pergola light strings that switches them on at dusk and off late evening) Right, that’s the missus pacified for a week or so. I should probably get BigTimer to sort that out itself.

Employee: I’ve got all the printers for <customer> monitored using an auto entries card. (Good skills) Me: (Installs an addon that can use VoIP to do text to speech to a phone) We warn off the customer and now they get a phone call from “things” that tells them what consumables to buy and also sends an email.

When I finally get around to sorting out my glasses so I can see what my soldering iron is up to, I’ll get many more gadgets installed. My computer room at work needs a tiny ESP8266 and four 1 wire Dallas SC temperature sensors, a bit of vero board, a resistor, power and probably a buck convertor and a case, which I’ll print.

I adore HA.