Big shout out to Adaptive Lighting. Absolutely love this integration

I can’t exactly solve your problem, but when I wanted to get HA running on proxmox I used these scripts

Tteck

Completely painless and running in almost as little time as it took to download the files.

If you’ve got access to the file system I think you could remove the custom component there - can’t exhausted resources if there’s no code!

I did wonder if that was the one that did it. That’ll teach me to update multiple things at once.

The only thing I lost was a day of recorder data and since I repaired it before bed I guess if I went and recovered the previous build I’d lose what I had overnight in the switch back.

Thanks for letting me know though, I’ll warn my friends before they update.

This happened to me, I’m running HAOS on proxmox. Ended up restoring from backup. Rollback from the CLI didn’t fix it either.

I don’t know how tech savvy you are, but I’m assuming since your on lemmy it’s pretty good :)

The way we’ve solved this sort of problem in the office is by using the LLM’s JSON response, and a prompt that essentially keeps a set of JSON objects alongside the actual chat response.

In the DND example, this would be a set character sheets that get returned every response but only changed when the narrative changes them. More expensive, and needing a larger context window, but reasonably effective.

It’s got a nice component to go with it, so setting up is easier. I particularly use it for scheduling thermostats, and find it much more user friendly. Sure I could do it with automations, but I’d either have one, massively unwieldy one with lots of states and triggers, or lots of individual ones.

This custom component is what I use and love - https://github.com/nielsfaber/scheduler-component

Without going to whole hog and hosting my own infrastructure, what are some good alternatives?

I suspect this is a rendering/process thing rather than an accuracy thing. Have you tested if the logic of the first one isn’t listening to the other fields?

Thinking it through, in an ‘and’ test, you do only have to watch for the the state of the first clause, because so long as that is false, it doesn’t matter what the rest say. In the ‘or’ clause, you need to watch for the value of all of them.

It does! They added it a while ago, you need to tick the restore check box when you create it and it will survive reboots. It’s very clever.

Nice tutorial! You used a date time helper. I did something similar using a timer helper instead.

You set the timer for your duration, then every time you turn on/off the boiler you ‘reset’ the timer. You can then have a trigger in your automation for when the timer reaches zero. Same solution but without the need to work with templates and other ‘codish’ things.

Timer Helper

You need Alexa Media Player

This integration will allow you to call a service that does TTS for whatever text you send it. I use it to announce when my wife gets home if I’m in the study at the back of the house. I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”

Is this your site? If it is, thanks! It’s usually my go to for figuring out what is supported, links to what the pairing process is etc.

I’ve been using HA for a long time. I love that it is capable of aggregating all the data sources and orchestrating all the different sensors that are on the market. I haven’t used everything below, but I have used a lot of it and can give some pointers.

Instead of a Conbee II I would suggest the Sonoff Dongle. I reached a point when I had a lot of devices that the conbee couldn’t quite keep up.

I have smart bulbs from ikea, innr, linkind, Aldi. They all paired to the zigbee mesh pretty well. I also had some Osram ones that didn’t behave as relays so I took them out.

The BT sensors look nice, and I believe they integrate with HA well, but your HA needs to be in BT range for them to be able to communicate. You could also look at the Sonoff environment sensors. I use these tucked away in different rooms and they are great.

Cameras, the general advice is to make sure they support RTSP and ONVIF, with brands being Hikvision, Dahua or Amcrest. Everyone will say you should feed your cameras into a Network recorder first, with options often recommended being BlueIris, Frigate. I use Frigate.

Feel free to ask any follow up questions, I’ll do my best to guide.

I’m currently in the middle of a renovation so my HA instance is down, but let me give you some pointers. I think it’s possible but it’s getting right into the guts of what makes HA powerful (and complicated)

Firstly, template lights this is how you can surface a light that reads values from other elements and presents them as light settings.

Then the attribute you want is rgb_color and you want to parse out the red value (for the red channel) and convert it to a brightness for the template lamp.

Lastly you’ll need to work how to update the red value of the led strip when the brightness of the light changes. This will involve pulling back the green and blue values of the led strip and updating the strip’s rgb_color with the combined list. this page has examples.

I’m sorry I can’t give you any sample code but this hopefully gets you started.