dream_weasel

Any particular reason to make the switch? Arch is solving all the problems for me that I know I have… But maybe there are others

All I have to do is read the kids names and, poof, I can tell they are both idiots and narcissists.

Oh neat. I don’t think my smart plugs show power consumption.

I’ve got one esp32 board with espresence on it right now, but I sort of balked when I had to go in the HA settings and enable BLE on high power for my phone. How does it affect your battery life?

Also, as a minor annoyance, I could only flash the board from chrome when connected to a WINDOWS machine which I find pretty nasty 🤢, but I may be in the minority there.

Edit: how do you know when to send the notification btw? Did you configure some automation or script that just says how long until notify?

I don’t suppose you can dumb it down 2 notches? What do the kits do? PIR and Radar I don’t get the application for, and I don’t know the meaning of addressable led strings.

I have one esp32 I was starting to configure for room assistant and gave up. This is not your problem, but I feel like the HA world is deep and it’s easy to start in the kiddie pool end, but I can’t even understand the deep end and I don’t know how to keep moving forward with more than just more switches and more random sensors.

I guess this means I need to set up home assistant instead of lazily relying on Google… This is totally beyond my expertise and I’ve got a 42U server rack in my basement.

There’s also thingiverse.com and it’s cousins that give you plenty of things to print while you learn.

Yeah it’s neat but I never know what to do with this stuff if you made it. Like, I’m not going to go full on “stuff made here”. Hard to see the practical value.

Also arch when I can help it.

I agree! This guy is no one important and I’m also impressed.

I just got the S1 and unlike the OP I have exactly 0 clue what I’m doing lol. Do you have a STL for whatever strain relief apparatus you have? Or any recommendation?

Any other getting started tips? I’ve done the demos and some small prints that work as long as they’re in the middle of the bed, but near the edges or corners I’ve got wonky layer shift and some birds nest kinds of results…

So functionally speaking I take my 20% of other time on the mornings when I don’t want to start as opposed to it’s own day.

Working from home I need the whole space empty, but daycare for us is now $660 a week which bests out the mortgage so that may have to change.

In any event, work time is now also fun time so I pack it as densely as I can, then grind with the fan in the evenings. Weekends are pretty nice with the fam, but weeknights… Eesh.

A) daycare, B) 4 days a week for work, 1 day a week for work-related learning/projects/ideas. YMMV depending on your employer