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Justine SmithiesHaha I'm easily pleased. Just added the <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=hacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> add-on for adding the bin dates and which ones to the dashboard for my council area. I might colour the icons next just because.

piofthingsLol! Today morning I unplugged the wifi dongle that comes with the inverter and plugged it back in, and then <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> plugin started working again. Just like that! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SolaX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolaX</a>

piofthingsDoes anyone who follows me know if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> use virtual environment for Python dependencies? Looked like a dependency may have booked the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solax</a> plugin.

piofthingsWell my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> integration on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> is gutted! Dunno what happened but I just upgraded the plugin and it self destructed! No amount of downgrading will fix it. Time to write something up. Does anyone know of a modbus library in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Python</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lazyweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lazyweb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmartHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmartHome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solar</a>

Brian Fitzgerald🤔 WEIRD! I created a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacs</a> card to deliver the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xkcd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xkcd</a> comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and deliver a RANDOM comic on other days. I coded it, so I know it's RANDOM. But look what it popped up TODAY, just before Valentine's Day!!! @home_assistant <a href="https://github.com/Brianfit/xkcd-card-ha" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/Brianfit/xkcd-card-ha</a>

DisI do not know why the Home Assistant developers foster such a hostile environment, and I really hope it doesn't push the whole ecosystem backwards again. (This new legal entity seems like a very bad sign to me, but I've had entirely too much experience with "corporate" open source.) The "Cool Kids" clique has managed to negatively impact everything. Did you get kicked out of HACS by a malicious request? Too bad! Found a simple easy-to-reproduce bug? File an excellent report, and sit back until stalebot closes it. Oh but you have a patch? It got rejected! Don't worry though, because there is a decent chance a Cool Kid will copy it and submit it as their own. Did you find a security issue? Oh no! File it quick to protect everyone! Too bad they will tell you it is invalid, and then later they will post-date the notification so they can give tons of public credit to a Cool Kid instead. And these are just incidents that I am finding by accident as I try to use and contribute to this fucking mess. Almost every time I have to deal with the core ecosystem it turns out that the bug is old. Usually someone else already tried and got shit on (or ignored until the robot says "fuck off you don't matter".) Sometimes I get unlucky and it is my turn to get the stinky end of the stick. Usually I don't bother anymore. This is not about scale. This isn't even about <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/stalebot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stalebot</a>, although of course stalebot helps gatekeep by ignoring the Cool Kids. This isn't about misfiled tech support "bugs", or about improper disclosure. This isn't about "that mean person told me my code sucked." This is purely about the "Us vs Them" gatekeeping bullshit. I originally wrote this out with a bunch of examples, but every third word being a link to a bug or blog (or both) took something away from it. <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homeassistant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/hassio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hassio</a> <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/hacs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacs</a> <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homeautomation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeautomation</a> <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/selfhosting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfhosting</a> <a href="https://infosec.town/tags/selfhost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

Nicolas Fränkel 🇺🇦🇬🇪In the previous post of this focus, we replaced <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/PhilipsHue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilipsHue</a> automation with the one from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@homeassistant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@homeassistant</a>. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn’t automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day. We are going to address this gap.The first step when wanting to add a feature to Home Assistant is to browse through available integrations. While there was no out-of-the-box integration, I discovered an alternative: <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a>.<a href="https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/4/</a>

MichaelFor all you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parents</a> out there, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> to the rescue.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nintendo</a> does not allow you to set a start time when the daily amount of play time gets available. This is an issue in our household. Other than that only one parent can have the app to change the daily available time.With <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacs</a> there can install an extension and voila. Two automations, some helpers ...

André, R.I.P. Natenom 🕯️🖤🤔 my <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/mikrotik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mikrotik</a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/rb5009" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rb5009</a> writes 2 sectors every 30 seconds to disk although - dhcp leases and graphing to disk are disabled - no logging to disk is configured - all containers stopped - snmp disabledAny ideas?My current best guess is, <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homeassistant</a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> integration <a href="https://github.com/tomaae/homeassistant-mikrotik_router" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/tomaae/homeassistant-mikrotik_router</a> is triggering this, because it is set to update every 30 seconds

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)Also eines ist bei <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> (vermutlich*) nicht wirklich gut gelöst.Das neue Update auf 2024.08 erfordert eine Datenbankkonvertierung. Aber eine <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> Komponente will nach einem erforderlichen Update (weil auf 2024.08 gewechselt) einen Neustart.Wenn man ausversehen den Neustart auslöst, hat man dann verloren? (ja, Backup wird immer erstellt). 🤔Wäre es nicht besser, Aufforderungen zum Neustart zu verzögern (und das zu kommunizieren)? *) nicht ausprobiert

TomiLast month I learned about the integration which helps track battery change status in various devices connected to <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/homeassistant/" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a>.Today I installed <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/hacs/" target="_blank">#HACS</a> integration (<a href="https://github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA-Battery-Notes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">source</a>) called ‘Battery Notes‘. After the installation and HA restart, it automatically found my <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/aqara/" target="_blank">#Aqara</a> battery devices (#Zigbee buttons, magnetic door sensors, temperature and humidity):These devices now have 3 new entities: Battery replaced (date), Last replaced (time since replacement), and Battery Type (e. g. CR….). The status of the battery’s last replacement is shown like this:… and the type of the battery like this:This integration is surely useful because I always forget what type of CR…. batteries should I buy.I just hope I will remember to press ‘battery replaced’ in HA when changing the batteries.<a href="https://blog.rozman.info/when-did-i-change-the-batteries-in-my-sensors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.rozman.info/when-did-i-change-the-batteries-in-my-sensors/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/aqara/" target="_blank">#Aqara</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/hacs/" target="_blank">#HACS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.rozman.info/tag/homeassistant/" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a>

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️<a href="https://mstdn.io/@tpheine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tpheine</a> Well, I'm not sure about what you want to do, but I've been running Home Assistant for years without ever using HACS. I have a bunch of switches, bulbs, ESP devices, Miflora style plants sensors and I'm experimenting with the voice assistant stack.None of this has required HACS.Maybe you're trying to do something more niche that is only covered by some HACS extension, but other than that, it's really not an issue.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a>

Kieran MurphyNew house, new bin schedule. New Home assistant integration of course. <a href="https://github.com/mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule/commit/cc822676ac694a4bc656a17a76180b0664eb08e8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule/commit/cc822676ac694a4bc656a17a76180b0664eb08e8</a>For anyone else living in Shellharbour NSW. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a>

Franck NijhofSpook 👻 v1.2.0 is now available in your local HACS! 🎉An inverse helper that flips your binary sensors or switches and brand new services to dynamically manage the device trackers of persons using automations.<a href="https://github.com/frenck/spook/releases/tag/v1.2.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/frenck/spook/releases/tag/v1.2.0</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a>

DisI'm super disappointed in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> for using <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#git</a> repositories as the base object, and then just NOT cloning them properly, but I think <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> core might be worse. Lets examine the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/blueprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blueprint</a> update process. These <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/blueprints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blueprints</a> are installed inside the UI by pasting a URL into a box and clicking "go". Using them is a simple web form. Both are VERY easy.The update page STARTS with "Blueprints might change only once or twice." HA is the update-breakingest app I've ever used and I used to run Win95 as a satellite internet gateway.AHEM. Anyway. Lets update a broken blueprint. From the docs: First you need to find the raw blueprint files. Good luck. But wait! By default there is NO ACCESS to those files! So step zero is to figure that out. Oh, and step 1/2 is to get an editor, which may involve redoing step zero.OK. Editor and files. Now you just need to ... know how to edit code without breaking it. A lot harder than "paste this url and answer questions".<a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/using_blueprints/#keeping-blueprints-up-to-date" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/using_blueprints/#keeping-blueprints-up-to-date</a>

DisHey you! If you ever, ever, use <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#github</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gitlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gitlab</a> (etc) you need to read this. Every <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maker</a>, and most everyone else, ESPECIALLY those of you who are NOT <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#developers</a>. (Contributors/devs usually have local copies already.) The first hour of my day was just wasted chasing down an error in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a> that turns out to be "Dev deleted their repositories on github and now <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeassistant</a> is mad"The problem is not that the developer chose to stop supporting their work. That is their prerogative and my only role is to be sad. The problem is that we learned nothing from <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIT</a> ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN COPY. The downloads and tarballs are not the same thing. They are partial copies at best. Even "forking" (on the same site) can be deleted at the original author's whim. To actually have your own copy, it needs to be somewhere else. On a new site (if the original is on <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#github</a> you can put your copy on <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gitlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gitlab</a>) or even your laptop. And when you can, use your copy instead.👿

kaybeeque 🍁💪💪🍁<a href="https://mas.to/@jitteringrunt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jitteringrunt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@zrail" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zrail</a> the core integrations gave me a near unmanageable number of entities.Then I installed <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HACS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACS</a>... 😂

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