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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • HA has very specifically targeted the device I mentioned. While I know ESP Home and Esp32 generally is a vast topic and catalog… There’s one primary device (currently).

    And it is, now, easy to set up once you find your way. When they improve the instructions, it is quite near to being a button click. And has been explained as nearly as much, hence the expectation.




  • I recently added a kasa smart plug using matter. Then the tp-link integration noticed it and forced me to reauthenticate.

    That’s my closest match to your story.

    It had been given my username and password before. But it needed them all over again. I’ve had that happen for other things before, too.

    Not sure if would help or if you have done it… But it takes about a literal minute to do.








  • Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes. Improved our sleep.

    Turn off the cable box every night since the dwvs love to install new updates at 3 Am which iniitaites a restart, which, in turn, illuminates the entire bedroom. An unforgivable sin.

    Recently: decided we’d get curtains and make everything smart. It wasn’t a bank buster to get a couple gizmos. Night is dark and daytime the curtains open when my wife comes home - giving her the natural light she covets. Makes our humble 1000 Sq ft seem larger, besides.

    Now replacing our Google hub with an old old tablet. The S4 seems almost perfect and wallpanel is great. Especially if coupled with ha-Floorplan.




  • Thanks, I like the look and implementation of that. My hub replacement may (or may not) have voice built in. Either way, this may be the way to go.

    As conext: I’ve been planning to use the new on-device wake word tech with a few ESP32-S3-BOX-3 scheduled for delivery later this month. Since I posted the above, I’ve learned the planned ship date has moved to late May. (shrug) Now my local voice assistant plan is delayed.

    The ESP32s would be my voice & presence detection devices (if they work as I expect). The hub replacement can almost be dumb, although I am picturing it running in a full-screen browser window - like found in what you linked and possibly using that very solution.




  • I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I found an online image of the colors of the sky through the day, pasted it into excel, and then capture 160+ rgb values for the sunset. It was a tedious process, but no math got it right.

    I set all those values (and a warmer and cooler set) in the script and then pass in the desired duration. Most nights we have a 45 minute sunset play out across 6 total lights. Three sets of values, so the bulbs don’t match.

    Starts as soft white ending in the darkest twilight blue my bulbs can provide. We remark on it regularly and I think it’s helped ease us into the right frame of mind for sleep.

    I run the same values in reverse for sunrise.

    Clearly, its my favorite one.