Perhaps don’t do it directly. But have the system assume he is home based on various things. Motion sensors, media playing, lights on or changing states. Things like that.

There are inline screw terminal connectors. A quick Google of ch2 and ch3 connector will give you an idea.

When I come home after sunset or the garage door opens after sunset, the lights between the garage and the house then on for 15 minutes.

At sunrise, all outdoor lights turn off in case I left any on the night before.

I have a button near my chair in the living room that turns on and off. all 4 lights in the room.

When I leave the house, the robot vacuum does it’s thing.

I have a single button that turns off all lights in the house.

I just picked up a 4u supermicro chassis that holds 36 3.5" disks and 2 2.5" disks.

Unixsurplus.com has some pre built ones for truenas (I’ll be running unraid.) I’m moving from a 12 bay dell with 200tb useable. Once I max out this new chassis, then I’ll be adding a jbod shelf. Those can basically double my storage without having to do much.

https://unixsurplus.com/supermicro-6048R-X10DRi-T4

I don’t have many, I find home assistant is a tool in search of a need.

• Run the robot vacuum when I leave the house.
• When I arrive home or open the garage door after sunset, turns on the rear porch lights and then turns it off after 15 minutes. (I have a detached garage.)
• Turn on select outdoor lights at sunset.
• Turns off all outdoor lights at sunrise, so if I forget to turn off the lights around my deck they eventually do get turned off.
• I have a button near where I sit in the living room that controls all four lights in the living room.
• I have a button on my dashboard that just turns off all the lights in my house.
• I have a button near my bar that turns on multiple lights and a neon sign. I was intending to add effects and scenes around the bar too so I could press another button and have a show go off.

Yes, they should have read the update notes. But I don’t see much in the way of documentation regarding the data_field cli option in their documentation even now.

I’m still using an almost 10 year old printer. I do this any time I have to make adjustments. And it’s with a fucking allen wrench. Such a pain in the ass.

Monoprice mini v2

Down to fuck

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

It gets worse when I start trying to organize them by material and head shape as well.

Do I keep the identical ones together? Sure there are only 5 of them, but does that need it’s own bin or baggie? I go back and forth, sometimes I’ll organize them separately and then a month or two later I’ll think that’s crazy and combine them. Then I’ll look for a few identical screws and decide I should separate them again. The most minor differences in screws in the same project will annoy me so much.

It’s a futile project and it drives me insane.

Shapeways.com and printathing.com

Usually can upload a file and they will print and ship to you