thehatfox

I’m using a Drayton Wiser thermostat, which uses WiFi but has a fully local integration via HACS. Has worked great for me so far.

Maybe it’s just me but it’s felt like a particular bleak January and February this year.

Happy to see some sun even if that also comes with the start of allergy season.

I have a smart water meter installed by the utility provider with a cloud integration, unfortunately the readings have a 24-48h delay so it’s no use for real time monitoring.

Unfortunately many parts of Sailfish are proprietary though.

Quite a different result from what the polls were predicting.

As a British person that's something I thought I'd never see.

Arrested on his birthday too.

Well that's something I thought I would never see.

The school thing is a good point. We called hot meals at school dinners, that were served by dinner ladies.

But we also had packed lunches that we ate out of lunchboxes.

BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.

I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.

Tea. Dinner only used for Sundays or Christmas.

Mostly Zigbee. Depending on the sensor, location and activity I'm getting between 6-18 months per battery, but I do have a lot of sensor, so there's a regular churn of batteries.

Having passive sensors for smart home use would save me lot of time and money changing batteries. Interesting to see where this goes.