Science. Threat analysis. Entertainment at our silly ways.

If they have abundant resources and energy, sending probes wouldn’t be a challenge.

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HA has very specifically targeted the device I mentioned. While I know ESP Home and Esp32 generally is a vast topic and catalog… There’s one primary device (currently).

And it is, now, easy to set up once you find your way. When they improve the instructions, it is quite near to being a button click. And has been explained as nearly as much, hence the expectation.

I got a few smart plugs with matter. They paired nicely with HA, but surprised me by falling into their app anyhow.

But they work. Those are Kasa/tp-link.

What’re yours?

I recently added a kasa smart plug using matter. Then the tp-link integration noticed it and forced me to reauthenticate.

That’s my closest match to your story.

It had been given my username and password before. But it needed them all over again. I’ve had that happen for other things before, too.

Not sure if would help or if you have done it… But it takes about a literal minute to do.

Silly question:

In all of this, did you change your username or password?

I live in a place where clouds aren’t often a factor, I only used the sun’s elevation for that script.

At this point I could modify those values with cloud cover percent, but I haven’t.

In short: it’s calculated.

I did mine manually over a weekend. Built in variable length of time, transition periods and variable brightness vmbased on how bright it is (outside) when it runs.

There’s actually 3 sets of 150+ RGBs. They’re similar, but on is warmer, one is cooler, meaning the lights aren’t all a match.

Switchbot Curtain 3 for curtain rods. I like them, but carefully made sure they’d never have to climb the telescoping part of the rods. That… That it didn’t seem awesome at.

All I did was extend the rods to the side maintaining symmetry and made sure the ridge was at mid-point.

Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes. Improved our sleep.

Turn off the cable box every night since the dwvs love to install new updates at 3 Am which iniitaites a restart, which, in turn, illuminates the entire bedroom. An unforgivable sin.

Recently: decided we’d get curtains and make everything smart. It wasn’t a bank buster to get a couple gizmos. Night is dark and daytime the curtains open when my wife comes home - giving her the natural light she covets. Makes our humble 1000 Sq ft seem larger, besides.

Now replacing our Google hub with an old old tablet. The S4 seems almost perfect and wallpanel is great. Especially if coupled with ha-Floorplan.

And working to make voice and AI something we can all have… locally. I’m just a humble apartment dweller, but HA is embedded in a lot of our home.

Wouldn’t care to have it any other way.

I pay annually and consider this the most valuable subscription we have for the family.

I’ve seen a LOT of strawman attacks. It usually seems to be honest miscommunication, but underneath that… It looks like predisposition to combative and somewhat-dismissive hot takes.

And it works. Certain members have swung entire conversations and down votes by implying a person said something they didn’t.

It’s not unique to online fora, but the concentration seems off here.

Some of this just looks like people feeling like big fish in this small pond and finding a degree of confidence or even righteousness from the voting patterns.

Why would they need us except as consumers? At a certain point automation and AI actually do get far enough.

That may take longer than people think.

I have a Hub 2 but firmware is 1.5. How did you get 2.0 on yours?

You realize your comment is ironic, yes?

I rather like mine, but would love to know it will last over a decade. There’s so much going on out there with AI and all of that, it’s hard to know what to expect.

I mean, we could always just go original Time Machine. Human sheep just existing until we don’t.

We need teachers. Many would do it, but they want respect and support.

So I’m guessing they’d need money.

This is my theory, also. But I think the average would be around replacement.

Have three grown kids. Three was probably about all I could handle. Love them, proud of them, took the best care I knew to do with what I had… But it was a lot as they got into demand extracurriculars.