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Question of the Day: What is your stance on AI?
Recent content by BlackVlad
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Pool temperature monitoring…. Ideas?
Yep - Mine died after 1.5 years - initial support was excellent. Now they want R3k for a new one, I think I can buy a lot of test kits for that price every 2 years- BlackVlad
- Post #25
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs
Sorry missed this, I am no expert (in fact very far from it) but something like this in you config binary_sensor: - platform: template sensors: water_garden: friendly_name: "Water The Garden" unit_of_measurement: '' value_template: >- {% set...- BlackVlad
- Post #3,194
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs
I would setup a template binary_sensor, say called "water_garden" and then set it to true based on your conditions, then trigger an automation on the water_garden. I do something like this for load_shedding. Advantage of using a binary_sensor is that its easy to debug as you have the sensor history.- BlackVlad
- Post #3,159
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Frigate is awesome
Tried the UK RS - they do have in stock, but dont see how to get it locally without a res-shipper - Thanks- BlackVlad
- Post #18
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Frigate is awesome
Anybody got an idea where you can source Coral USB locally (or internationally that ships here) - I have been waiting with Farnell for ages....- BlackVlad
- Post #10
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Sunsynk + Home Assistant
I am using Solar Assistant and sunsync and when I saw your HA screenshot it looks the same. So my question is did you ever get your Solar Prediction to closer match the actual - Mine looks the same - The peak and shape is good, but about 2 hours too early. Was thinking of tweaking the angles to...- BlackVlad
- Post #62
- Forum: Smart home and IoT
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Laptops In South Africa
I have now bought 3 laptops (1x basic and 2x gaming) all from Amazon. All have arrived within a week and roughly 1/2-2/3 of the local price after postage and taxes. Looking at what was available locally for the price was depressing.- BlackVlad
- Post #6
- Forum: PC Hardware and Gadgets