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Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
Apparently it's now "code" to have the furnace set up on a concrete plinth that extends out 30 inches from the base instead of being installed on the garage floor.
Dunno how they expect people to use their garages with effectively 6 feet of it being hacked out for "safety".
Dunno how they expect people to use their garages with effectively 6 feet of it being hacked out for "safety".
ugg, sounds pita. I can see it for directly under the unit, they should never sit directly on concrete, tend to be a rot point in some locales. I've seen a few that were left on the wooden shipper. Hope you can figure something out for that. How high a plinth?
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
The inspector suggested a "curb" 30 inches away from the outline on the floor of the unit.
Seems like a big-ass tripping hazard to me.
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
At least you'd have something to stomp that fuckers head on when he comes back for the inspection.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
That's the worst part, he wasn't even there. He did it "virtually". The installer sent someone out, and they did it on a video call.
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
Yep. Use it for the vacuum, about to start using it for room tracking and for managing our pet door.
Cool cool. Ive got the mosquitto broker addon installed, the mqtt integration added (and auto configured), and one client pointed at the broker, but its not picking up any topics automatically. Gotta mess with it more, but i like the concept of mqtt as the "tcp/ip" stack of IOT. Point all the devices to it, whether theyre zigbee, zwave, wifi, whatever, have all their message converted to mqtt, and only talk that.
Abstraction layer style.
Yeah, while I understand what MQTT is, I've no real idea how it integrates into HA. I just type in what people tell me.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I've only been using the "status" side of it in OpenHAB, as that's where my room sensors shit out their occupancy, temp, and humidity data.
Eventually I'm going to use the "command" channels to send events to the duct baffles to redirect air as needed. First I need to design duct baffles though.
ESP32-mqtt-room
An ESP32 based presence detection node for use with the Home Assistant mqtt_room component for localized device presence detection.
jptrsn.github.io
This is one of my next projects. I really only care for home/away status, but thought this might eventually be neat anyway. I'm hoping to be able to key into the BLE in our Fitbits.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I already did that one, but with DHT and 501 sensors:
Code:
// Required libraries (sketch -> include library -> manage libraries)
// - PubSubClient by Nick ‘O Leary
// - DHT sensor library by Adafruit
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <PubSubClient.h>
#include <DHT.h>
#define wifi_ssid "FistingForJesus"
#define wifi_password "NewWifiWhoDis"
#define mqtt_server "192.168.0.2"
#define client_name "masterBedroom"
#define humidity_topic "humidity"
#define ctemperature_topic "c_temperature"
#define ftemperature_topic "f_temperature"
#define motion_topic "motion"
#define DHTTYPE DHT11
#define DHTPIN 14
#define MPIN 13
WiFiClient espClient;
PubSubClient client(espClient);
DHT dht(DHTPIN, DHTTYPE, 11); // 11 works fine for ESP8266
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
dht.begin();
setup_wifi();
client.setServer(mqtt_server, 1883);
}
void setup_wifi() {
delay(10);
// We start by connecting to a WiFi network
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Connecting to ");
Serial.println(wifi_ssid);
WiFi.begin(wifi_ssid, wifi_password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
}
Serial.println("");
Serial.println("WiFi connected");
Serial.println("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
}
void reconnect() {
// Loop until we're reconnected
while (!client.connected()) {
Serial.print("Attempting MQTT reconnection...");
// Attempt to connect
// If you do not want to use a username and password, change next line to
// if (client.connect("ESP8266Client")) {
//if (client.connect("ESP8266Client", mqtt_user, mqtt_password)) {
if (client.connect(client_name)) {
Serial.println("connected");
if (client.connected())
Serial.println("connected");
delay(5000);
} else {
Serial.print("failed, rc=");
Serial.print(client.state());
Serial.println(" try again in 5 seconds");
// Wait 5 seconds before retrying
delay(5000);
}
}
}
bool checkBound(float newValue, float prevValue, float maxDiff) {
return !isnan(newValue) &&
(newValue < prevValue - maxDiff || newValue > prevValue + maxDiff);
}
long lastMsg = 0;
long ft = 0;
float temp = 0.0;
float hum = 0.0;
float diff = 0.5;
long state = LOW;
void loop() {
char tName[40];
if (!client.connected()) {
Serial.println("client not connected");
reconnect();
}
client.loop();
long now = millis();
if (now - lastMsg > 2000) {
lastMsg = now;
Serial.println("getting new reading");
float newTemp = dht.readTemperature();
float newHum = dht.readHumidity();
long newState = digitalRead(MPIN);
if (checkBound(newTemp, temp, diff)) {
temp = newTemp;
Serial.print("New temperature: ");
Serial.print(String(temp).c_str());
Serial.print("C, ");
Serial.print(String(dht.convertCtoF(temp)).c_str());
Serial.println("F");
sprintf(tName, "%s/%s", client_name, ctemperature_topic);
client.publish(tName, String(temp).c_str(), true);
sprintf(tName, "%s/%s", client_name, ftemperature_topic);
client.publish(tName, String(dht.convertCtoF(temp)).c_str(), true);
}
if (checkBound(newHum, hum, diff)) {
hum = newHum;
Serial.print("New humidity: ");
Serial.println(String(hum).c_str());
sprintf(tName, "%s/%s", client_name, humidity_topic);
client.publish(tName, String(hum).c_str(), true);
}
if (newState != state || ft == 0) {
if (ft == 0)
ft = 1;
state = newState;
Serial.print("Motion: ");
if (state == LOW) {
Serial.println("Not detected");
sprintf(tName, "%s/%s", client_name, motion_topic);
client.publish(tName, "FALSE");
} else {
Serial.println("Detected");
sprintf(tName, "%s/%s", client_name, motion_topic);
client.publish(tName, "TRUE");
}
}
}
}Im pushing all the attributes of my Eufy cameras to mqtt so that i can build off them, push data into graphana or influxdb.
I got them to do fuckin' face recognition on the cats! Theyre two black cats, but the AI in the eufy cam can tell them apart most the time. So i have a log of the cats location and the last room they were seen in
I got them to do fuckin' face recognition on the cats! Theyre two black cats, but the AI in the eufy cam can tell them apart most the time. So i have a log of the cats location and the last room they were seen in
Holy shit. There's face detection shit you can add to HA. I've been meaning to do that with my Wyze RTSP cams.Im pushing all the attributes of my Eufy cameras to mqtt so that i can build off them, push data into graphana or influxdb.
I got them to do fuckin' face recognition on the cats! Theyre two black cats, but the AI in the eufy cam can tell them apart most the time. So i have a log of the cats location and the last room they were seen in