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Home Automation, Internet of Things, IOT, Home Assistant, HA.
Home Automation.
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This is the first episode in a new series called Home Automation. The series is open to anyone and I encourage everyone to contribute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home. A home automation system will monitor and/or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems.
The phrase smart home refers to home automation devices that have internet access. Home automation, a broader category, includes any device that can be monitored or controlled via wireless radio signals, not just those having internet access. When connected with the Internet, home sensors and activation devices are an important constituent of the Internet of Things ("IoT").
A home automation system typically connects controlled devices to a central smart home hub (sometimes called a "gateway"). The user interface for control of the system uses either wall-mounted terminals, tablet or desktop computers, a mobile phone application, or a Web interface that may also be accessible off-site through the Internet.
I tried this out a few years ago, but after a lot of frustration with configuration of esp32 arduinos, and raspberry pi's I left it be. Recently inspired by colleagues in work, I decided to get back into it and my initial tests show that the scene has much improved over the years.
The first thing we'll need is something to control it all. Something will allow us to control our homes without requiring the cloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Assistant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation, designed to be an Internet of things (IoT) ecosystem-independent integration platform and central control system for smart home devices, with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface, by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands via a supported virtual assistant, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, and their own "Assist" (built-in local voice assistant).
The Home Assistant software application is installed as a computer appliance. After installation, it will act as a central control system for home automation (commonly called a smart home hub), that has the purpose of controlling IoT connectivity technology devices, software, applications and services from third-parties via modular integration components, including native integration components for common wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee, and Z-Wave (used to create local personal area networks with small low-power digital radios). Home Assistant as such supports controlling devices and services connected via either open and proprietary ecosystems as long they provide public access via some kind of Open API or MQTT for third-party integrations over the local area network or the Internet.
Information from all devices and their attributes (entities) that the application sees can be used and controlled from within scripts trigger automation using scheduling and "blueprint" subroutines, e.g. for controlling lighting, climate, entertainment systems and home appliances.
The following is taken from the Concepts and terminology on the Home Assistant website. It is reproduced here under the creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Integrations are pieces of software that allow Home Assistant to connect to other software and platforms. For example, a product by Philips called Hue would use the Philips Hue term integration and allow Home Assistant to talk to the hardware controller Hue Bridge. Any Home Assistant compatible term devices connected to the Hue Bridge would appear in Home Assistant as devices.
For a full list of compatible term integrations, refer to the integrations documentation.
Once an term integration has been added, the hardware and/or data are represented in Home Assistant as devices and entities.
Entities are the basic building blocks to hold data in Home Assistant. An term entity represents a term sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other term entities. An term entity is usually part of a term device or a term service. Entities have term states.
Devices are a logical grouping for one or more term entities. A term device may represent a physical term device, which can have one or more sensors. The sensors appear as entities associated with the term device. For example, a motion sensor is represented as a term device. It may provide motion detection, temperature, and light levels as term entities. Entities have states such as detected when motion is detected and clear when there is no motion.
Devices and entities are used throughout Home Assistant. To name a few examples:
An area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of term devices and
term entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical
world: your home. For example, the living room area groups
devices and entities in your living room. Areas allow you to target
service calls at an entire group of devices. For example, turning off
all the lights in the living room. Locations within your home such as
living room, dance floor, etc. Areas can be assigned to term floors.
Areas can also be used for automatically generated cards, such as the Area card.
A set of repeatable term actions that can be set up to run automatically. Automations are made of three key components:
To learn the basics about term automations, refer to the automation basics page or try creating an automation yourself.
Similar to term automations, scripts are repeatable term actions that can be run. The difference between term scripts and term automations is that term scripts do not have triggers. This means that term scripts cannot automatically run unless they are used in an term automations. Scripts are particularly useful if you perform the same term actions in different term automations or trigger them from a dashboard. For information on how to create term scripts, refer to the scripts documentation.
Scenes allow you to create predefined settings for your term devices. Similar to a driving mode on phones, or driver profiles in cars, it can change an environment to suit you. For example, your watching films term scene may dim the lighting, switch on the TV and increase its volume. This can be saved as a term scene and used without having to set individual term devices every time.
To learn how to use term scenes, refer to the scene documentation.
Depending on your installation type, you can install third party add-ons. Add-ons are usually apps that can be run with Home Assistant but provide a quick and easy way to install, configure, and run within Home Assistant. Add-ons provide additional functionality whereas term integrations connect Home Assistant to other apps.
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This was an unscheduled recording I made after my GPS failed part way into a long cross country trip. I did not make any notes. :(
Effectively, this is a "Back in my day" old man rant.
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Just me explaining why I think the robots will take our jobs.
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The programs and software I mentioned in this episode:
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linux, windows.
general.
3.
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In this episode I go through the pros and cons of running Linux when you switch over from a Windows machine.
I'll cover topics like:
and much more.
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linux, mobile, pine64, pinephone, postmarketos, pmos.
general.
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Hosted by Some Guy On The Internet on 2024-04-09 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
mens health, bidets, fiber.
Health and Healthcare.
2.
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Tags: mens health, bidets, fiber
Source: hellotushy: We’re a team of toilet
crusaders, fighting for clean bums and reduced global
wastefulness.
Supporting source: hellotushy: TUSHY Classic
3.0
Source: metamucil:
Metamucil is the only leading fiber supplement that
contains natural psyllium fiber.
Supporting source: metamucil:
Metamucil Real Sugar Orange Smooth Powder.
Supporting source: wikipedia:
Dietary fiber (fibre in Commonwealth English) or
roughage is the portion of plant-derived food that cannot be completely
broken down by human digestive enzymes.
Supporting source: wikipedia:
Psyllium, is the common name used for several members
of the plant genus Plantago whose seeds are used commercially for the
production of mucilage.
Supporting source: wikipedia: Fibre
supplements are widely available, and can be found in forms
such as powders, tablets, and capsules. Consumption of fibre supplements
may be for: improving dietary intake, lowering blood cholesterol,
alleviating irritable bowel syndrome, reducing the risk of colon cancer,
and increasing feelings of satiety.
Supporting source: walmart:
Equate Multi-Health Daily Fiber Supplement, Orange
Flavored Powder, Value Size (48.2 oz)
Supporting source: samsclub:
Member's Mark 100% Psyllium Husk Fiber Capsules, 400 ct./pk., 2
pk.
Supporting source: hackerpublicradio: hpr4083
:: Drivecast: Man-talk.
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hpr3048 :: Alternatives to toilet paper
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hpr2345 :: Fixing a toilet roll holder
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hpr2111 :: HPR Community News for August 2016
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hpr_info.pytest_hpr_info.pytest_hpr_info.py
import hpr_infoRun pytest
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'hpr_info'touch hpr_info.py pytest
============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux -- Python 3.11.8, pytest-7.4.4, pluggy-1.4.0
rootdir: /tmp/Demo
collected 0 itemstest_hpr_info.py with a single
line to import hpr_infohpr_info.py and pytest ran without an
error.test_hpr_info.py and tried
to execute its testshpr_info.pyassert tests if a statement is trueasert 1==1In pytest, we can use assert to check a function returns a specific value
assert module.function() == "Desired Output"Without doing a comparison operator, we can also use assert to check if something exists without specifying a specific value
assert dictionary.keyhpr_info.pyhpr_info.py by
prepending the name with hpr_info. for examplehpr_info.HPR_FEEDimport hpr_info
def test_hpr_feed_url():
assert hpr_info.HPR_FEED == "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php"AttributeError: module 'hpr_info' has no attribute 'HPR_FEED'hpr_info.py to get the
test to passHPR_FEED = "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php"1 passed indicating the
pytest found 1 test which passeddef test_get_show_data():
show_data = hpr_info.get_show_data()
assert show_data.status == 2001 failed, 1 passed and we
can see the error
AttributeError: module 'hpr_info' has no attribute 'get_show_data'feedparser python module to make it
easier to parse the rss feed.hpr_info.py looks like thisimport feedparser
HPR_FEED = "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php"
def get_show_data():
showdata = feedparser.parse(HPR_FEED)
return showdata
-v flag so I can see each test as it runs.test_hpr_info.py::test_hpr_feed_url PASSED [ 50%]
test_hpr_info.py::test_get_show_data PASSED [100%]def test_get_latest_entry():
latest_entry = hpr_info.get_latest_entry()
assert latest_entry["title"]
assert latest_entry["published"]hpr_info.py and pytest -v
will show 3 passing tests.def get_latest_entry():
showdata = get_show_data()
return showdata["entries"][0]def test_get_entry_data():
entry_data = hpr_info.get_entry_data(hpr_info.get_latest_entry())
assert entry_data["title"]
assert entry_data["host"]
assert entry_data["published"]
assert entry_data["file"]And then code to get the test to pass
def get_entry_data(entry):
for link in entry["links"]:
if link.get("rel") == "enclosure":
enclosure = link.get("href")
return {
"title": entry["title"],
"host": entry["authors"][0]["name"],
"published": entry["published"],
"file": enclosure,
}Now that we have tested that we can, get all the info we want from
the most recent episode lets add the last bit of code to
hpr_info.py to print the episode info
if __name__ == "__main__":
most_recent_show = get_entry_data(get_latest_entry())
print()
print(f"Most Recent HPR Episode")
for x in most_recent_show:
print(f"{x}: {most_recent_show.get(x)}")if __name__ == "__main__": ensures code inside this
block will only run when the script is called directly, and not when
imported by test_hpr_info.py
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Computer games, strategy games, Civilization III.
Computer Strategy Games.
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This starts our look at the details of playing Civilization III. This was a great advance on Civilization II, and we will see how this happens as we look at the Cities, and at the terrain types on the tiles.
In this episode I describe my experience of fixing some Python code with some help from ChatGPT.
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Sgoti talks about supplying options to bash scripts
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I will give you some suggestions to getting started with digiKam based on my experience.
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HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in March 2024
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operat0r tells you how to get past no ADB and blocking of 3rd party APKS
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My experience trying to train a model online
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Sgoti discusses men's issues, while driving.
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MrX and Dave Morriss bring you more chit-chat from Edinburgh
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Sgoti gives us some moral panic ridden pearl clutching nonsense.
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We visit the beautiful city of Savannah, Georgia, and then move on to Charleston, South Carolina.
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Free as in Freedom is dead. Long live The Corresponding Source
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The basics of pitch in musical notation
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In this episode, I explain how to use FFMGEG to join and split media files
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I talk about setting up year around house lights !!
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norrist uses the pomodoro method to keep from getting fired.
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My experience playing Jade Empire
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In which Trixter covers the pros and cons of an old hacker watching old hacker media
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Archer72 talks about Piper TTS using a Piper voice
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I describe how I migrated from Adobe Photoshop Elements to digiKam as my photo catalog software.
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We start our look at the next game in the Civilization franchise.
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Sgoti talks about passwords and Bitwarden.
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In this episode I record myself replacing a blown lightbulb in a microwave Oven.
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Listening to a TWIML AI podcast and reading Accelerondo (SciFi novel) I learned of 4 ways to hack AI
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HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in February 2024
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I give a review of the Framework 13 laptop (13th gen Intel). The review is very positive.
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What are they good for?
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A response to hpr3983, in which Ken argued that shows using chatGPT output can't be posted to HPR
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Fred Black Pitches an idea for a Series of music being shared, and teaches a tune
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Setting an ad blocker and extra security using a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole
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We wrap up our Florida adventure and move up to Georgia.
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