Give me Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus!

If you want to skip wiring all together, pick up two Aurora Dimmers and put Hue bulbs in all your sockets. It’s not the cheapest or most privacy friendly if you’re using their hub. But going this way, you can put the dimmer near the fixture you want to control, you have no wiring whatsoever, connection to HA, and you’re completely up and running inside of 30 minutes.

If you are set on not having someone look at it, at least take a look at your condensation line. It will be a PVC pipe coming off your inside unit and going to a drain. It probaby also has a u-shaped trap so that it can operate under negative pressure.

The issue is that algae can build up over time and cause water to back up and drain in places you don’t want. A service person doing a tune up would take of this task… But at a price higher than what you’d want to pay.

Have link to learn more…

Alright. Let’s get the ratgdo guy on this. I’d pre-order a rathvac today.

Show us the hands! Willie, in the public domain, doesn’t wear gloves. Mickey, still Disney IP, does wear gloves.

Double Z’s will save and then exit. The command on until board will exit without saving changes.

I’ve got physical buttons attached to several ESPHome projects. It’d be trivial to make one just a momentary push button. Beware of ESPHome though, once you start down that path, you’re going to want to build sensors yourself and start automating things that don’t need automation.

Take a look at this post. It covers some names and stories about contributions that make modern interfaces what they are today.

Xerox did so much for modern computing. If only people knew.

Stallman prefers to refer to it as Coffee + Creamer.

I did this at my house too. I’ve also got a card for turning off the the TV and the lights when the kids are done in that room.

Give Linux Mint Debian Edition a look!

I’ve done my fair share of distro hopping. Mint is the distribution that I have to do the least amount of configuring starting from a clean install.

I’m running the most recent version, based on Bookworm, as my daily driver.

The best thing I ever did with home automation and children is to setup motion sensors in the hallway and tie it to my WLED strips. If anyone in the house leaves a bedroom at night, led light strips in the hallway, along the stairs, and downstairs turn on low and red for 5 minutes. There’s no turning on lights or forgetting to turn them off. It’s bright enough to see but not so bright that is jarring. Also, using red light doesn’t kill your night vision when you go back to a dark room.

Are there certain features you’ve grown to rely on?

I use plaintext documents with markdown. There’s a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.

Let’s keep going down the rabbit hole! You can build your own using ESPHome.