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

Here is today's reminder that #Discord is NOT a forum!

@turingpi I'm looking at you. (Nice to see you here though!)

Discord is directly hostile to #opensource users.

It is not #accessible
It is not archived.
It does not allow anonymous viewing.
It is not searchable, and neither is it indexed by external search engines.
Data is walled in and unexportable.

Bonus round: Chat is also NOT a forum!

Chat is a chronological firehose, good for temporally transient information, largely ungrouped. Forums are a topical tree, good for longer-lasting information grouped by subject.

If you would write it down in real life (including email) then use a forum.

If you would only say it out loud (in the hallway or on a call) then chat is perfectly fine.

And if you say it out loud while someone else writes it down, tell your assistant to use a forum.

https://turingpi.com/tpi-case-current-status/

#turingpi #turingpi2 #rk1 #raspberrypi #snarkhome #oss

Yesterday the #weedlings got Fitbits (ok, #miflora, but they don't know the difference) and I spent a bunch of time arguing with a plant API instead of just inputting my decent-enough values from last time.

Part of the arguing involved removing the old devices. A smart person would have saved the thresholds, but I'm not that person. Doh!

Pics tomorrowish when I get back to it and build the dash.

Today was supposed to be offline, so I spent it integrating #calico and #k3s and #linkerd and such in the new #homelab. I .. am bad at not being burnt out.

Some good news. Changes involved a cluster CIDR change, so I had to reset from zero. Thank FSM for flux2. I expected pain and it basically Just Worked.

#selfhost #snarkhome #TuringPi2 #k3s #dietpi #homeassistant #fluxcd #dietpi #cannabis #growyourown #growyo

Today's #weedling and #hydrotower combo update:

The tower is waiting for Cal-Mag because @WordenPond is brilliant. (It also explains what keeps happening to our squashes in the yard.) Other than the deficiency, it is doing OK and the one cucumber continues to grow in it's odd gherkin-water-balloon way. Lots of male flowers but only a few fem still. 🤞

The weedlings are happy, and I finally found the spare #switchbot switch to replace the #securifi peanut on their grow light. That should make it MUCH more reliable.

The securifi plugs do have some serious bugs, but once set up they were generally reliable for years. Recently they have been suffering the increasing instability in the #homeassistant #zigbee2mqtt stack, exacerbated with HA's visceral hatred of "retry that obviously failed command". I'll likely reuse them in places where on/off is less critical, or as always-on power sensors.

#GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnMedicine #cannabis #hydroponics #snarkhome #gardening

I think the #hydrotower #cucumber is unhappy with the 25-on 35-off schedule and set up it's own tap. (Peering in through my access port)

Should I water the tower either more or more often? It is on from 00 to 25 every hour and everything I've checked has decent roots from their net cups.

#hydroponics #gardening #snarkhome

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

From #legalizationday . Sprouted a few and only one dud so far! Tonight some go into the tent and under the control of #homeassistant and the others (the #autoflower) go in indoor/outdoor pots.

This isn't the interesting picture. Those come soon, but this is the warmup. First better pictures of these strains, then better pictures of better strains.

Not that it works on Fedi 😸 but #shoutout to Ashton Extracts, Edible Bongs (lol, no license?) and AgriAuto for all these free seeds!

Cheetah Piss, Duct Tape and Mendo Juice.

#question4seedscore #cannabis #homegrow #snarkhome

@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

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

Finally seems to be working. Once I fix the description I'll post a new #esp32 #speaker box on #printables.

Anyone have a use for freaking 4 whole spools of out-of-spec black #pla from #Sunlu?

#homeassistant #esphome #snarkhome #prusa

My newest #3dprinting design is #LED grow light holders for my #hydroponics tower. If you have "jester cap" clip lights and your plants are all leggy and sad, I've got good news!

https://www.printables.com/model/507111-led-plant-light-holders
(Don't judge my wire routing. It slopes the right direction for now, and I'll print some clips tomorrow and fix it up.)

#hydrotower #snarkhome #smarthome #esp32 #homeassistant #esphome #3dprinter #3dprinting @3dprinting #plants

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

The #Snarkhome can now peer deeply into the #Hydrotower! (Bonus: #localtuya just fixed the edit-device #bug, which makes integrating these a LOT easier.)

#tuya #homeassistant #hydroponics #smarthome