Nate

While this is the ideal outcome, in reality people are just going to throw their trash in the bushes.

I want to agree with all of this, but now I think it’s just a ploy to get me to switch to AMERICAS FASTEST 5G NETWORK

:(

There a pretty big one in Washington DC

You can register with any number, it just defaults to +86

Not OP, but I believe he means he restricted outside internet access to that device (restricted communications to the thermostats MAC address to other internal devices)

I’ve had my eye on this for a while, haven’t dropped the dough on a PCB order

https://github.com/justLV/onju-voice

A hackable AI home assistant platform using the Google Nest Mini (2nd gen) form factor, consisting of:

a custom PCB designed to be a drop-in replacement to the original, using the ESP32-S3 for audio processing

a server for handling the transcription, response generation and Text-to-Speech from multiple devices on the same network

I ripped one on a pew during a Christmas eve service once

…I just put a Zigbee contact sensor on my mailbox lid and called it a day…

I have a similar thing, it just sends me a notification to my phone on Tuesday night and it won’t let me clear it unless I mark the trash as taken out

I just moved into a house with my friend and he gave me full reign to smart home the house. Every light has an Innr Zigbee bulb, which are great for having colors during parties and color temperature throughout the day (Adaptive Lighting in HACS), as well as motion controls in the hallway (which has a broken 2 way switch) and kitchen. The front porch light turns on when I come home if I’m on foot, and the back porch light comes on if I’m driving. The lights in the living room turn down if something’s playing and it pauses if I leave the room. We’ve got an old android tablet I stole from the trash on the kitchen wall for a shopping list as well as an overview of the house. They washer and dryer have vibration sensors so we get an alert on our Google homes when our load is finished (we’re both forgetful as fuck). I had an extra contact sensor left over from the doors that I put on the mailbox, so we get a nice AOL “you’ve got mail” when the mailman comes.

Frankly I don’t know how I survived without automation. I forget things so much less now.

Avoid Sengled. I switched to Innr Zigbee bulbs for repeater functionality & they’re better than the Sengleds in every way (except price, like $25/bulb but it’s worth it)

Not the original question, but if you have just a normal “Nest Thermostat” (Not learning or E) it has matter support and you can add it over matter without paying $5

In America I just use my buddy Carl. He’s also my doctor.

LocalTuya on HACS, it’s a bit of a pain to setup and requires you to make a tuya dev account (free) but as far as I can tell you can delete it after, it’s just to get the security keys to actually control the devices, and then issue them locally. My devices were much more responsive after doing so

Just gave it a shot, literally miles above AirLink. Not s single stutter or laggy movement or anything. I thought my network was just shit depsite being WiFi 6 for the longest time and I hated playing VR. It’s much higher res than AirLink, and it actually fucking works instead of my having to reinstall the oculus app on my desktop

I can sometimes sense cops or deer when I’m driving.

I’ll be sitting at a red light for a while with nobody coming, I think to myself “yeah I can probably just run this, nobody’s around. I won’t in case a cop…” and then one will pass the light. It’s happened multiple times to me.

When I hit a deer with my car I was coming home from work at like 2am, I suddenly got a really strange urge that there was something up ahead and I dismissed it right before I plowed into it. I’ve gotten the same feeling a few times after that, and I’ll always look to the sides of the road and see deer somewhere in the distance. Terrifies the shit outta me

There’s a guy that throws his trash out the window on TikTok. If it makes it in the can it’s a good week and if he misses it’s a bad week. Calls it the garboscope. My point here is that you can at least skip the stairs

Sheetz if you’re in the North East US

Saw a TikTok where a guy got Waldo tatted on his taint