Is this voice assistant something I can install on Android? I didn’t realize there was any alternative to Google or Siri (or Bixby).

Yeah I run HAOS in a VM but I keep a backup on an SD card that I can pop into a raspi if for whatever reason the server is down.

I’ve actually encountered a lot of free radio streams with human DJs for at least the majority of the day. Two off the top of my head:

https://www.nts.live/

https://www.thelotradio.com/ (this one even has a camera on the DJ)

Do these have actual human djs? Not a criticism, just wondering

They got bought and a majority of the staff was laid off.

Oh I fully agree, but for someone who needs to make money, it makes more sense to post to multiple places including PeerTube instead of just PeerTube.

Vimeo is on the way out, so Peertube is probably your best bet but it’s nowhere near what anyone who relies on an audience would consider adequate.

The conversation topic was unintuitive aspects of HA, I’m aware hacky workarounds exist, but I find this (pretty central) behavior quite clunky.

I also find it crazy that you’ve never wanted to dim or brighten more than one light at a time lol but then again, diversity is the spice of FOSS!

I know how it works, I’m just saying it’s unintuitive. It’s not how any other smart home system works.

I use adaptive brightness too, actually. But nearly every time I’m manually adjusting a room’s existing brightness, I don’t want every single unpowered devices to turn on, too.

99% of the time I want to adjust the current lighting, I don’t want to first turn on all lights and then adjust all of those lights to a uniform standard before individually toggling them all individually. Powering on all unpowered lights when adjusting brightness should be the edge case, IMO (also again not just my opinion, but the industry standard)

For the record all other smart home systems treat room groups the way I am describing (like a dimmer knob and power switches). But there isn’t even an option in HA for rooms to “only adjust devices currently in use”. The smart home companies seem to have researched how people naturally intuit such things.

I would expect it to behave like all other smart home systems, or like a physical dimmer switch/power switch.

The fact that dimming a room turns ON all the lights in the room is actually wild

right lol

This one broke zigbee2mqtt for me but I’m not sure why. I rolled back for now.

I also just want to add the batteries in most of those zigbee buttons last on the order of years

Yeah that’s probably the simplest way!

Helpful! Thank you I will look into it.

If they don’t have power, they drop from the network or mesh.

That’s the problem, they don’t drop, the entity remains in a zombie state. Is there really no way to test if a device is still connected or not?

EDIT: Or just manually set an entity to “off”?

This is it exactly.

“But how can we know if it’s a bot?”

We probably can’t based on a single comment or post, which is why rules need to be constructed around maintaining a level of effort and quality.

The right tool for the right job… LLMs can’t do a lot, and can make a lot of things worse when misapplied, but that doesn’t mean the technology is wholly useless.