Yay! I got a notif that there was a new track "Comedy 42" out by one of my favorite bands "Um, Jennifer?" so of course I had to buy it on #Bandcamp and add it on #MusicBrainz
🎶🤩🎶
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/a1c55dfb-27b1-4576-b666-eb272828f2a7
It looks like those require a little bit of soldering, yeah?
Yeah, if there's better options I'm open. I'm just trying to have temperature sensors in 3 different rooms that I can all have linked into Home Assistant
Any tips on where to go from here? Maybe there's some sort of adapter for the sizes? Or maybe I just picked the wrong sensor boards and need to try again?
Bah, I am not doing so hot on getting temperature sensors for my #HomeAssistant DIY project.
This time I have the BME280 shuttle board (rather than just the sensor) but the pins are very tiny. Smaller than the jumper wire ports I have.
Hah, I'm still struggling with it 😬 i liked He and They yesterday but i don't think anything happened so I liked reset, then He/They
Ah well, it still says in bio just not as label 🤷♂️🤷
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
Night two of #PDXWLF we went to the Electric Blocks in SE #Portland 🤩
I hadn't yet, but I have now! Another banger! 🤩🤩🤩
The ESP32 + AM2302 works! So far I've only gotten #HomeAssistant to read/write if it's directly connected to the #RaspberryPi via USB but at least it's a start!
Here's a plot of the temperature on the floor near the window in my living room 🥶
The first night of #PDXWLF (Portland Winter Light Festival) was so fun!
I somehow totally missed hearing about it last year and I'm glad I didnt miss it this time 🤩
I think I did ok on the ESP32s but for the BME280 I ordered the teeny tiny sensors by themselves rather than on little boards so I can connect wires 🤦♂️
I might try to get one of the ESP32s working with an old AM2302 while I wait for BME280s I can use
Well, I did a bit of an oopsie trying to order sensors for the next step in my #HomeAssistant tinkering 😭
I tried to order a few BME280 sensors and some ESP32 Dev boards so I can get temperature and humidity in the living room, bedroom, office
I think this is a great, common-sense idea! Thank you Elana!
It seems the folks at KATU maybe have different thoughts based on the full URL of the article from them you linked.
Looks like the reporting at KOIN has a bit less bias:
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
I learned that when you hit the Up or Down buttons it actually sends a full state for the heat pump (i.e. mode: heat, set point: 72 deg F, fan level: med, fan swing: off). It would be SO MANY codes so I just picked a few temperature + fan settings and called it a day
I got an IR Blaster (i.e. Universal Remote) so that I can have #HomeAssistant control my heat pump.
I thought I'd need to "teach" the IR blaster maybe three codes (Power, Temp Up, Temp Down).
But no... it couldn't be that easy...
As she points out, the Crypto political lobby has now exceeded the spending scale of Big Oil and Big Pharma. If we're not watching we're going to get caught off guard.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115985900612754173
Molly White's work documenting the underbelly of the Crypto space is going to be hugely important moving forward.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat/115957672014548440
These people have been doing forensic video and image analysis in war zones and protests for years.
They're a great resource to cut through the propaganda and confusion.
Me: Shut up! You're not the boss of me 😡
Me at 10:01am: Fiiiine, I'll get a water, I should probably take my drugs too... 😅
Nerdy graph time! 📊
My #HomeAssistant chores tracker is working! Five days in a row of doing all the things! 🙌
I think one of the key pieces is setting reminders that only fire if I'm off track.
Me: *doom-scrolling unhydrated*
HA at 10am: No water yet today?
It can be hard to follow what's going on with all the chaos in the US right now. One source I watch is Chris Geiner aka "Law Dork". He covers the issues of the day through the lense of all the court developments.
Here's his latest:
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-killing-of-alex-pretti-the
My #NFC stickers had already arrived so once HA was up and running I wrote tags on them with the HA app, and placed them near their related task.
Took under 5 minutes to set up the little automations and now I can see if I've done my routines on a dashboard!
Update! 🤖
The #RaspberryPi 3 was sadly too old to run #HomeAssistant in any configuration I tried (took days of futzing, ugh) 😭
So I bought a RPi 5 and that worked right out of the gate!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gairdeachas/115925495524328398
Nice! I immediately went and did this too! Thanks for the tip 😘
More adventures as we head down the coast toward Newport 🏄♂️🦭
Sunset by the firepit overlooking the beach 🔥
Checking out the tide pools at Lincoln City beach 🪸🐚🦀
RE: https://pug.ninja/@motoridersd/115913171100662308
Ahhh! So many pups! 🤩🐶🤩 I love it!
