• I've gone full Ikea Tradfri for our bits. Mostly happy with them, but have found a couple of oddities like the kitchen lighting strips, which don't come on with a switch flick like the bulbs do.

    They seem to be a Hue based product.

    I've been poking a little at https://www.home-assistant.io/ to see if I can create a unified touch screen control panel to go by the front door that also has a load of other info on it (train/bus times, weather, etc)

  • I've been playing with this a bit. Seems pretty decent but I've been having a few issues. Main issue seems to be that the config file keeps disappearing which is a bit weird (as it seems to keep the config so the file must be somewhere); suspect this is just due to my lack of familiarity with docker so I may just install it onto a spare raspberry pi.

    Also seems a bit awkward that all the various passwords are stored in plain text, doesn't seem an easy way round that (and still having it auto-start).

  • I have HA running in a docker, with heating, energy monitor and a lamp hooked up so far.

    Also a couple of train departures (in fact just had first ever GitHub pull request accepted to add a bit to UK Transport module docs).

    There's not really a practical way to do a proper departure board with next n trains though, given free API limits. May try Google Maps module instead.

    Server is running unRAID which simplifies docker management... not opened up to remote access yet though..

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