Well, can you just give me access to the database then?

I went down a rabbit hole of shower head research recently and ended up with a Hammerhead. Been pretty happy with it.

My only contribution is to stay away from ultraloq. I have their zwave deadbolt and it’s terrible. I will probably replace it with something schlage.

Steve Buscemi

I had to look this thing up. It has a screen resolution of 3840x600. Oof.

Any recommendations for tranquilizer sentries that work with HA?

We’ve had a doozy of a day!

TIL about the auto entities card. I’ll have to try that out. Since I don’t actually know anything about that card, I don’t have anything useful to offer specific to that plugin. But coming from a different angle, I wonder if using a template sensor to invert the “default” state and hiding the original entity (+ some clever naming) would help to make it behave how you want?

This place has got everything!

I’m not totally sure what this means in practice other than maybe the continued health of the project. Which sounds good. I’ve been pretty happy with the reliability of zwave js too.

Ah nice. I just have the switches by the front and garage doors turn off everything instead of just downstairs, so we can hit them on the way out the door. I think triple taps are reserved for inclusion/exclusion mode on my switches, sadly. The delayed lock is a good idea though, might just have to add that.

Less of an automation and more of a scene control, but I have all my light switches set up so that double tapping them up or down turns on or off all the lights on that floor of the house. It’s simple but we use it all the time.

I don’t know much at all about zigbee but I’ve got a house full of zooz zwave dimmers I’ve been mostly happy with. Thesmartesthouse has them on sale often.

1. Network cables everywhere. Way easier to do that before drywalling if that’s something you want.
2. Neutrals in your switch boxes will make smart switches easier later. Though I heard that might be a code requirement for new construction anyway?
3. Also heard oversize switch boxes are a thing, which will also make smart switches easier later (assuming price difference is negligible).

Some more examples of why piracy is a service problem

One art, please!

There’s a TV+ app for chromecast, isn’t there? Or is this one of the older chromecasts that you can only use with your phone?

Seems to be only if you’re on a recommendation based playlist like discover weekly or release radar

I’m just annoyed that it replaces the repeat and shuffle buttons, but only sometimes.

You can have end to end encryption over the wire and still have all of your shit harvested at the “endpoints”