I don’t like the heat. I hate being hot. Always have. I’m the guy who will
leave the windows open when others have already turned on the furnace. And
I used to be guy who ran the AC all the time and ran it at a very low temp.
Recently though, I’ve come to realize that as long as it’s colder in here than
it is out there, it’s all good. However, the delta has be more than just a few
degrees. And I need the fan on.
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For a while now, I’ve been automating my apartment using the
automations component
of Home Assistant. In fact, I had amassed
quite the collection of automations and was starting to have a problem keeping
track of them all and their various interactions (intentional or otherwise).
So earlier this year when Home Assistant introduced automation
debugging
I decided to sit down and refactor the whole thing.
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An update on my use Home Assistant, I’m no
longer running it inside Podman as detailed here.
In fact, I’m no longer running it on the NUC at all. Instead, I bought myself
a Home Assistant Blue. I bought the ‘dev mode’
version just in case I want to tinker with things further, but I could have
gone with the ‘Zen mode’ version just as easily.
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I finally saved up and bought myself a smart lock at the end of April. I ended up getting the August Smart Lock Pro with the Connect module. Now that I’ve used it for a month and a half, I feel like I can finally review it.
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