Seems great in theory and am pretty sure mine could. However the first thing I enabled was “no remote control”. It’s a dangerous idea to allow anyone to turn on the oven when no one is home. It’s a dangerous idea to trust the security of an appliance vendor with the safety of your family

Actually I’m annoyed that it is a binary choice. I don’t want to let anyone turn on the stovetop/oven unattended. But I would prefer to be able to turn it off remotely if someone does. But disabling “burn down the house” mode also disables “stop it before it happens”

It probably helps that this oven preheats very quickly. I don’t see being tempted to save a minute or two

Alerts can be good

• did someone leave the door open?
• did something happen so your food is no longer cold/safe?
• is the stove unexpectedly on?

Sure you can live without any of these. However from the number of times my cleaner turns on the stovetop, if I had little kids i might call it important. From the number of times my mom has left the stove on, if she lived here I might consider it important

Yeah, oven is the only one I have, by accident, and it’s disappointing - my goal was induction stove, double oven with air fryer, and ST was the only choice. It’s WiFi only, cloud app only, but there’s an HA integration to the cloud app

Currently I get both ST and HA alerts when my oven is on but that’s the only useful feature. However neither interface works works well with the double oven feature

• Even in ST the timer is always 30 minutes and never moves
• even in ST it’s not clear what is on
• even worse, the app has no extra features. For all the gadgets, it doesn’t offer complex programs like pumpkin pie where you have a series of temp/time combinations
• at least it has a guardrail. I like that you control from the oven that remote access is read only. No one is going to turn my oven on remotely

Whatever life alert-like system my Mom has …. She wears it as a pendant and it has fall sensors. When it triggers, the monitoring company calls her on the base. No buttons required.

The only limitation is there can be only one base, so the volume has to be turned way up to cover her condo

I already asked about that, since I already have an ecobee and have it integrated with HA. But nope, they claim it only supports a couple specific Honeywell thermostats

The local option has a lot of uncertainty. I’d still need to get the access module installed but it has a serial port. I see writeups where people use a serial to usb adapter to connect directly to HA. I can’t do that do would need to figure an additional layer of connectivity, maybe an eco or pi zero can send that over WiFi or Zigbee or something

I would have liked it just for the integration with code reviews, but we didn’t even get a chance to try because “it’s too expensive” …… as we’re migrating from on-prem infrastructure licensed per site to cloud infrastructure charged per usage, and with no valid cost comparison

I hope not: we’re migrating from Gitlab to GitHub. I was never a fan because of the lack of enterprise features in GitHub (folders, with more granularity of settings and permissions, scalable usability), and certainly GitLab CI was extremely limited but wtf

I can’t comment on Plex vs JellyFin, but it’s an interesting perspective that $3/mon for remote access is too much

I use another piece of opensource software, where I consider that a plus. It takes the headache and security issues off my hands, while I can support the developers with a small contribution for an optional feature

I recently ordered a Trmnl, because it looks like they do what I want, and I keep not doing it as a project. I haven’t gotten it yet but ….

My impression is it’s more of a finished product, not a project. If there is a plugin doing what you want, then it’s a simple configuration. However if you want to customize, you may need to pay for a developer account

Could you share what you do find useful? I see a big catalog of plugins.

For me in HA, I have

• 6 temperature sensors. I like seeing the trends, relationships, and trying to optimize, trying to make my house more consistent and comfortable
• 3 humidity sensors and likely to increase. Humidity control s a battle I’ve been fighting and want more info and more ways to respond. Notably this past year my addition got a heat pump with a dehumidify setting
• Airthings Radon sensor - 7 different measures of air quality I can work on. Seeing trends can identify events with harmful results
• EV charger and status
• I do want to work on measuring energy usage, but haven’t gotten very far yet

But I’m really looking for the family calendar on the fridge

I definitely like seeing the data as well.

But …… I’ve got a bunch of Inovelli switches where the status led is controllable, and am hoping to turn that into an alerting system. It’s fairly low key but if every light switch is blinking yellow, for example, it should be quickly noticeable from everywhere. I have to get back to setting that up

While I’m not a fan of them using WiFi, cool idea!

I personally am not interested in touch screen. Interactive use isn’t really compatible with e-ink. I’m interested in sharing data

Edit: or I understand the limits of this technology so the uses I have in mind are not interactive.

Great question, and there’s sone good ideas here …

I don’t yet do a dashboard but have one of the Trmnl e-ink screens on order:

• I have turn off all lights as a voice command
• my thermostat displays today’s weather
• I’m hoping to display a family calendar- we use an iCloud family calendar in all of our phones and this device has at least one plugin that can do this. My biggest question is whether it can do multiple calendars
• or I might do an HA Dashboard - perhaps air quality trends, or temperature/humidity trends

I’d also like to have one or two doorbell displays, but obvious not an e-ink screen

That’s a great idea -some of the numbers people are putting out here seem so strange: last time I opened my windows, humidity shot up to 90%

Even something as simple as that has a ton of possibilities for automation, once you have bulbs or switches in HA.

This was similar to my first automation and I ended up with

• turn on dining room light 15 minutes after sunset
• dim to 50% at 9pm
• if weekday, turn off at 9:30pm
• if weekend, turn off at 10:30pm

For people who want this, you may want to try Inovelli switches they cost a bit more than others but are very configurable, including many potential actions

So it looks and works like a standard dimmer, but perhaps you could make, say, a double click cycle through the colors.

Huh, I was wondering about that. I was recently building a python base image for my developers when suddenly Rust appeared

It’s preferable to remove unused wiring.

But as long as they’re in a junction box and it’s accessible, then it’s ok. But once it’s at least safe and you forget about it, eventually someone else will have to spend the time to figure it out. You saving a little time now could be someone’s much larger expense in the future

Confession time: I have a circuit halfway removed when the project got interrupted and now it’s been a couple years. People panic at the sight of bare wires, understandably, but only I know that most of it is removed so it could never be hot. That would fail an inspection and block a home sale. Do NOT do this

Oh this is outstanding! I just mentioned in a post, about an hour before reading this, about my annoyance toward a TV I accidentally turned on by streaming to but couldn’t find a way to turn it off!