Wanna know what LEO is doing nearby? Me too.
https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/snoop-unto-them/

#snarkhome #bigear uses #ble heavily. I think I am going to build some more interesting listeners this winter. (I'm disenchanted with pure #homeassistant + #esphome as a framework. Maybe raw mqtt..)

I am also having more and more trouble saying "I don't need a ham license" with a straight face.

#defcon31 #snoopuntothem @dataparty

https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/snoop-unto-them/
#snarkhome #bigear uses #ble heavily. I think I need to build some more interesting listeners this winter...

Damn. I am having more and more trouble saying "I don't need a ham license" with a straight face.

#defcon31 #snoopuntothem

#weedlings look happy this morning

Taken with an #esp32 cam with #esphome and #homeassistant. Lights (intermittently 🤬) controlled via peanut plug. Circulation fan and exhaust fan are both reliable using switchbot. Random #ble sensor is sitting up high in the tent reporting temp/humidity to #bigear

Sunday the soil root stuff arrives and they go into little pots. The yellow 3 get ready for outside while the others stay here (gender permitting)

#weed #growyourown #homegrow #seedlings

@mharleydev Bluetooth is terrible for this I found. I'm just building #esp32 modules with an i2s amp and cheap speaker. (Google minis did work really well, but the wake chime was annoying.)

#homeassistant can't handle interruptions, so if you are streaming music it just stops playing entirely. Nicer to announce on a separate box.

I've got a box design for cheaper chips but I need to fix the prusa again to finish it up. (And v3ish will include a mic. V4 is a multi chip bus so it can be #bigear or #wled too)

My #HomeAssistant is pushing a ton of huge "danger!" warnings saying:

> To improve Bluetooth reliability and performance, we highly recommend updating esp-coffee-v4 with ESPHome 2023.6.0 or later.

You may wonder why my devices are out of date. I'm generally pretty good about updates and #BigEar uses #bluetooth a LOT.

They are out of date because I had to downgrade them. Why? **Because 2023.6.0 and later completely and totally broke bluetooth.**

Who the ~fuck~ tested this? And as a bonus, why was it not mentioned in the changelog? It is "important" enough to be pushed as an *urgent change* but nobody fucking TESTED IT first?

At least #stalebot keeps all the developers from having to see bug reports.

#snarkhome #qa

The absolute best part of the #BigEar project is that I can just buy random #BLE sensors and throw them anywhere. Security is such a joke (its just broadcast) but the threat model is "someone driving past might notice that my pool is warm." 🤷 🌡️

(I do mean REALLY anywhere though, within about 4 yards in most directions, using zero equipment outside the main house. Later I'll waterproof one and try it on the fence..)

Y'all shouldn't be buying #oralb toothbrushes or really ANY #bluetooth bathroom scale. Just saying. (And yes, I can probably see your growroom sensor too.)

#homeassistant #esp32 #security #iot #iotsecurity

@madelena

This is the one on my desk. No ads on mine 😸

Just a busted #prusa printer while I wait for them to actually ship my parts. (The extra week pre-ship delay has me irritable.)

On the right, the #bigear thinks the cat is nearby, the weather is HOT but wind/rain are low (good for flying #drones) and both the air and the pool are nasty levels of hot. (Air via #TomorrowIO, pool via a floating #BLE sensor.)

#homeassistant #googlecast #snarkhome #cast #pawscout

@mharleydev
Definitely. If it were me, I would just mad-scientist the extra fob to an #esp32 or #esp8266 and stick electrodes in it's brain. (It probably runs off 3V, so you could power it from the ESP and save batteries.) That also prevents physical alignment shifts; it won't ever accidentally push panic instead, unless you soldered it wrong.

This approach is basically what I imposed on our coffee maker. It has a #switchbot wifi plug as a current sensor purely to detect manual runs, and a little esp32+relay inside that bridges the button contacts for automatic runs. The whole thing hides under the pot (no warmer in this one) and is only visible because of the extra usb wire. (Since the #esp32 upgrade, it also participates as a #bigear #ble listening-post.)

As it has evolved over the years, I've been too lazy to look for DC inside. If I ever do V2 I will fix that, and get rid of the relay and wall-wart in favor of instrumenting the switch+led directly.

Today's total pile of horse dookie is courtesy frequent-flyer #ESPhome. The latest release completely broke #BLE (and by extension, my #bigear)

Weirdly, #homeassistant can still "see" the tags, with it's broken distance calculation (weighted average?) and useless "source" field.

I'd file a bug but I am not arguing with #stalebot again. (And even their humans are not great.)

#homeautomation #snarkhome #esp32 #ibeacon

The #BigEar status bar has ears! (Actually just a speaker for now, but room for a microphone if we want.) Featuring the newest part of my fancy #openscad lamp system.

#esphome #esp32 #wled #lamp #statusbar #snarkhome #homeassistant #5v

Today is being stressful so I think I'll make #chatgpt write descriptions for my #wled #lamp (plus some random remixes of other stuff) and get it all posted on #Printables.

Alternately I could tear the #prusa hot end apart, again, and try to stop the leak, again, but I would rather just save up to replace the whole extruder.

On the automation front, #Homeassistant has gotten more talkative with the new release. I converted all the existing #google #tts to use #selfhosted #piper and now Ryan has come to work for us.

I do miss some of our original voices though. `language: en-in` was our newscaster, `en-au` told us about weather and #BigEar cat tracker reports, etc. (If you are still using google, have some fun with #tts #accents. Try sending `language: fr` with English text. We had that voice assigned to turning off lights and reminding us to close doors, and occasionally filling in when the newscaster was "out sick".)

#3dprinting #voiceassistant #homeautomation #ai

@dis tracker located! He lost it in a neighbor's yard where a "racoon or something is living." Looks like he got surprised by the unknown resident and dumped it in a bush during his escape.

I know where my next antenna is going now! 😁🔭

#ble #bigear

Today's #bigear update: The cat lost his tracker. Off-site somewhere of course. We can get a whiff of signal from our phones, but not quite enough to find it. (And he just says "Out!!" when we ask where it is. When he goes out, he just sits down on the patio. He's often helpful like that.)

We know what direction he was walking when he went offscreen, and that is the only part of the property we get a signal, but we still can't find it. I wish I could command it to respond more than every 30 seconds, that might help.

Clearly the proper answer is many more listening antennas.

#esphome #ble #bigear #pawscout #cats #esp32

34 years ago:
Big Ear (SU)
Original title: Большой Ух
An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.
1989-02-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/218556
#BigEar #SciFi #Animation #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

34 years ago:
Big Ear (SU)
Original title: Большой Ух
An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.
1989-02-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/218556
#BigEar #SciFi #Animation #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

#Tattoo showcase:

Wow! Signal
An extra-terrestrial signal detected on 15 August 1977 by the #BigEar radio telescope. Jerry Ehman reviewed the paper readouts several days later & circled the 72 second spike #6EQUJ5 and commented #Wow!

Alphanumeric characters represent a 10 second time block & the intensity. 0-1 being the standard baseline, with the scale 1-9 then A-Z. Therefore U being 30x the baseline.

I dedicated over a decade of my spare computing power to the #SetiProject

#geek #nerd