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  • I’ve got a decent number of local manual controls, but not all of them. For example, some of my wall switches operate the relay because they are just turning on and off the power. Others I have disabled the relay on because the lights themselves are WW/CW tuneable and HA controls the colour during the day.

    I’m wondering about having another look at zigbee groups and commands for the simpler automations in the house. I avoided these because they aren’t really visible to HA and I didn’t like having two automation ‘languages’ at the same time.

    Overall, how long do you think you could cope without your HA platform before it becomes an issue?


  • I was thinking about matter yesterday, I like the idea of being able to have multiple controllers. My house is half wifi devices and half zigbee. I’d been favouring zigbee recently because I don’t want to swamp my network with device packets, but maybe that needs a rethink. At the very least my wifi devices all have esp home configs that could be configured to fall back to defaults.




  • I like this, but I don’t like that rooms are cold unless I hang out in them. I live in an old stone house and I’d rather have a room schedule than a room presence sensor.

    I’ve done something similar. I use the excellent scheduler from Niels Faber. I have room radiator TRVs. I have a helper entity that counts the number of radiators that have an open valve, and an automation that triggers when this changes to/from zero. This automation adjusts the central nest thermostat, converting it to more or less a posh switch.

    My radiator valves use Better Thermostat and external temperature sensors, and the whole thing keeps my house warm in every room. I need to write a GH blog post about it, but happy to answer questions/share bits of config









  • Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneADHD Rule
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    5 months ago

    It’s hard to not make them sound trivial, but you’ll see some of them in the memes that pass through here. Off the top of my head though:

    • the importance of routine/consistency. He got up at the same time almost every day for 50 years. He went to the gym before anything got in the way, that sort of thing.
    • he pushes conscious decision making, of following through on things and being definite. Do not let yourself be guided by what you want in the moment, be guided by what you plan and intend.
    • put things in the same place. Put things back where you got them from. Don’t rely on your memory, rely on your habits.

    When I write these they seem silly and trivial, but they help me a lot.


  • Bluesheep@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneADHD Rule
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    5 months ago

    It’s hard though. A key criteria (at least in the UK) how much it affects you day-to-day. My father probably has it and passed along a lot of guidance that I now recognise as coping mechanisms/symptom management strategies. Day to day I’ve got it in hand, it’s only when the big storms come that I struggle, and that doesn’t fit with the diagnostic approach.