Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[OzSTEEZ]

So even @APRIL likes this one. I can now say, "Alexa, vacuum the kitchen", or any other room, and my Xiaomi vacuum will clean it right up! Home Assistant is so fucking awesome.

I love tech but home automation would drive me insane. This is why I won't have Google Home or Alexa in my house.

 

[fly]

I love tech but home automation would drive me insane. This is why I won't have Google Home or Alexa in my house.

oman, I'm full nerd boner for this shit.

 

[Petunia]

oman, I'm full nerd boner for this shit.

its so creepy how much you and CEO have in common

 

[fly]

its so creepy how much you and CEO have in common

Shall I start regularly banning you from the forum and not speaking to you?

 

[Petunia]

Shall I start regularly banning you from the forum and not speaking to you?

yesssss!
dont forget to change my password to lock me out the forum when i post a “triggering word” that i have no clue about cuz everyday you pull out a new word that triggers youuuuuu

 

[fly]

yesssss!
dont forget to change my password to lock me out the forum when i post a “triggering word” that i have no clue about cuz everyday you pull out a new word that triggers youuuuuu

omg that actually used to be a thing on [M]. You could buy a trigger word and anyone that used it was banned for xx hours.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

omg that actually used to be a thing on [M]. You could buy a trigger word and anyone that used it was banned for xx hours.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

oman, I'm full nerd boner for this shit.

lol hey i've been meaning to ask you. do you have something setup (e.g. Proxy) on your network to block requests to known add servers? I want to block ads on youtube and anything else without paying for their service.

 

[Petunia]

omg that actually used to be a thing on [M]. You could buy a trigger word and anyone that used it was banned for xx hours.

THIS IS FUCKING BRILLIANT

 

[Domon]

Installed three new sprinkler zones, 7 heads, leveled with 20 tons of topsoil, scarified, slit seeded 200lbs of seed, fertilized and now am watering 3 times a day and patiently waiting for 25,000 sqft of new lawn that is actually made of grass and not weeds and dirt.

 

[Domon]

lol hey i've been meaning to ask you. do you have something setup (e.g. Proxy) on your network to block requests to known add servers? I want to block ads on youtube and anything else without paying for their service.

Pihole is what you're looking for.

 

[Domon]

its so creepy how much you and CEO have in common

He never comes across as smart or stable or patient enough to learn anything from your descriptions

 

[HipHugHer]

Well stable anyway.
You don't get rich by being stupid.
Patience can be virtue or vice depending...

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Pihole is what you're looking for.

I saw the LTT episode where Linus put one of those together. Is that the best solution?

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Well stable anyway.
You don't get rich by being stupid.
Patience can be virtue or vice depending...

So you know how to get rich, you just chose otherwise.

 

[HipHugHer]

So you know how to get rich, you just chose otherwise.

Priorities, man.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Priorities, man.

Let's just face it. We suck at life.

 

[HipHugHer]

Let's just face it. We suck at life.

Well there's that too.

 

[fly]

Not a lot of love for OpenSprinkler in this thread.

 

[Jehannum]

Not a lot of love for OpenSprinkler in this thread.

Interesting.

I like the OS for the exact reason he doesn't: the open source code base. Yes, cloud services come and go, but it's a hop, skip, and jump to re-flash the unit with newer firmware, so I'm not bothered by switching services.

I kind of agree with him on the setup for the time adjustments - I didn't know what the options to modify zone watering time meant. It was the work of about 5 minutes to educate myself though. It helped too that I already had a base watering time in mind for each zone when I started, so I didn't have to step through the dumb wizards asking me about soil type or vegetation type, since I've had grass growing well for 5 years already.