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ottaross Ross of Ottawa @mastodon.social

An Ottawa-based Ross who is inspired by people who have interests and pursue them.

Physics degreed, engineering careered. Enthusiastic about makerism, science, food, culture and art/design. Inordinately fond of breadmaking and chair design.

Trivialities, ephemera and daily activities. \#Ottawa #Canada #maker

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Simple video doorbell software recommendations?
  • @GreatAlbatross @Heavybell the person detection is very nice.

    I have HA play a gentle tune in basement stairwell when that detection fires. It allowing us to detect the delivery guys who don't bother pressing the doorbell, and thus avoid the risk of pkgs sitting in view of passers-by all day.

  • Simple video doorbell software recommendations?
  • @keyez @OminousOrange I've got the reolink doorbell cam too, but just block the WAN at the router, and unblock when I'm out of town, which is pretty rare these days. Seems to function pretty well that way.

  • I was wrong to ignore Zigbee and Z-Wave. They’re the best part of my smart home.
  • @RobotToaster @GreatAlbatross oh man, X10 was such junk. Terrible reliability, expensive, clunky. Always awkward as the units plugged into receptacles with little positioning flexibility, and a restrictive ecosystem with inflexible players tying it up in patents for so long. A couple of hundred bucks I blew there was totally wasted …about 20yrs.

  • Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration
  • @SharkAttak @Dehydrated way to ensure all internet searches on your brand deliver a "not compatible with stuff" impression to all prospective customers.

  • Hey (https://lemmy.world/c/homeassistant) (https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeAssistant) people, sometimes editing my config yaml file and need to reload it over an over

    Hey @homeassistant #HomeAssistant people, sometimes editing my config yaml file and need to reload it over an over again as one does.

    It takes navigation to settings and five or six mouse clicks to restart HA each time (reload yaml doesn't seem to reload config items) so I'd like to have a command line capability to do that.

    Tried "ha restart" but that doesn't seem to be a thing.

    Is there an HA command for that, or is the web UI the only way to do it?

    [ running HASSIO on an RPi4B ]

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    Is there a causal relationship between electricity consumption and obesity, or is it just an illusory correlation❓
  • @LabPlot @science @dataisbeautiful @health seems like a classic graphic for illustrating the wrong variables being compared. To stick a trend line in the there should result in a loss of coffee room privileges for a week.