At least on Android, you can make TTS go through your alarm channel on your phone at max volume, to really make sure you don’t miss it. I do this for my alarm and doorbell (only when I’m at home).

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

I got a NUC on ebay for about the same price, maybe a little less. Has more I/O and an SSD.

Can you share your redacted frigate config?

I use scenes to control my lights and use those in my automations instead. This lets me create “groups” of lights to control.

Friends don’t let friends use Snap.

Reolink has a wifi video doorbell that works great, it has an integration with Home Assistant but also with Frigate. I use Frigate personally, since it’s better at person detection and I can record directly to my server. If you don’t use Frigate, you can record to an SD card that you slot into the back of the doorbell.

This thread on the inovelli forums has the wiring you need to do, but you can directly associate z-wave bulbs with the z-wave dimmer. I have the inovelli blue dimmers, and do exactly that (except with Zigbee, easier to find the lights for those though)

And this site has z-wave devices, you can probably find compatible bulbs there.

Was about to mention Mikrotik. They even have a 100GBit switch for under $800 (CRS504-4XQ-IN).

Frigate + reolink is a great combo.

It connects directly to my Silicon Labs Zigbee/Zwave combo stick. That’s the great thing about Zigbee, you aren’t stuck on someone’s hub.

I use the VINDSTYRKA from Ikea inside. Notably it doesn’t follow AQI so if you’re looking for that it won’t be able to do it, at least not directly. You’d need to write your own AQI function based loosely on the PM of the sensor.

Oh sorry! I have three of the STARKVIND model with charcoal filters.

My solution is a bit DIY’d; I use my Zigbee devices with Home Assistant & a Silicon Labs Zigbee/Z-Wave combo stick.

I have a few of their air quality sensors, too! They seem to work pretty well, it does take them a minute to calibrate once they’re plugged in though. I also don’t really have anything to compare them to (other than the onboard air quality sensors in the air purifiers).

Always happy to see more Zigbee-controlled fixtures, love my Ikea air purifiers.

You can redirect all DNS traffic to your own DNS server to get around this.

I’m curious where you run into there not being a YAML option? There’s almost always Open in YAML somewhere.

Is there an advantage with Apexcharts as opposed to using Grafana and embedding the graphs that way?

Sure! I have three, in different spots in different gardens. I do find them to be pretty darn accurate, especially if you calibrate them like the instructions say. I don’t have anything to compare them to, but their data makes pretty graphs in home assistant and their backend.

Hey there, I have an Ecowitt system. I use it to tell me when to close the curtains based on sunlight, use it to tell me when to open or close the windows, and I also have some of their soil moisture sensors in my garden to tell me when to water. I plan on expanding that last one to an automatic irrigation system!

The one catch is that you’ll want to lock it down on Ecowitt’s site, otherwise other people can see your sensors.