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Got the 24VAC lower section all wired up today. It's basically done except for a few odds and ends.

I bought a three pack of the ESP 32 boards. I need to come up with some other projetcs.

Okay, it's all wired up and all relays function. Just have to wire the actual solenoids to the other side of the relays. I tested out an automation that would simulate automatic watering by time of day and it works perfect.

I was playing around with open sprinkler on a Raspberry pi I had laying around. Although you can integrate open sprinkler into Home assistant via HACS, I wanted to use ESPHome and build my own dashboard.

Okay I got it all mocked up on my desk. I only added one entity (Zone 1) to the ESP32 so far. I can now click relay one manually. Fun stuff!!

Exactly what I was wanting to do. There are so many different ESP32 boards online to choose from. Are they all pretty much the same? Here's a list of what I was thinking...

Has anyone built their own smart sprinkler controller for home assistant? I know you can purchase smart controllers that are drop in replacements but building one appeals to me. I'd really like to incorporate something into ESPHome on my home assistant setup. Has anyone done this?

Mine are still going strong after months of every night use. I will say the included little PSU's are under powered in my opinion. One of my units would occasionally turn off, then back on occasionally. It was the PSU. I bought more robust PSU's and never had any issues after that. Oh, and...

Did you get that pic from KiddNapperCarl's You tube channel?

I agree, the kick plate is on the wrong side of the wall. Here's one of mine.

I just started using Home assistant at the beginning of the year. Absolutely love it. Replacing my two Amazon echo/Show devices is high on my list of things to do. I have never heard of the Echo Atoms but they look great!

Yep looks like a tweaker all right. It was probably a waste of time giving her food. Her body probably rejected it.

Welcome!

Definitely got the tower to yourself! Are you using the T-Mobile gateway included with the service?

I've been using an old spare system for my BI setup since day one. It's an Intel i5-4440 and has 16GB of RAM. I did gut the power hungry graphics card out of it, because it was used for gaming previously. It has worked great and has been on 24/7 since I installed BI.

So from my reading more on the Yubikey it appears that it's not supported by most banking institutions. But, if your email provider supports it wouldn't that be all you need? Just set up your two factor authentication codes to go to email only and you would use the Yubikey then to sign into...

I've been reading about these Yubikeys this afternoon. Pretty cool stuff.

My point exactly. Even if you use long complicated passwords and change them often, if the damn teller is the one stealing your credentials then you're wasting your time. At my bank it's all a bunch of young kids basically working there. I think some of them look at their wrist watch and...

I have the same concerns. My bank account got hacked a few years ago. I just happened to be in the office on my PC and started getting emailed bombed. I mean someone was just spamming my inbox. I started deleting the emails in blocks as they were coming in. All of a sudden I get an email...

I've had my credit card hacked three or four times over the years. My business CC was part of a data breach that Home Depot had years ago. Somebody charged over $9,000.00 in roofing materials on my card. The CC company had to eat it. That's why I use CC......it's not my money. It's really...

Yep, owned the Cheetah for awhile but sold it. Also had the same guys Ninja, and had issues so I returned it. Alfredo is a good guy though and does have some good products. I've also tried a few different Suncomm units.

They have a support forum as well which is very active. Yeah I read about that guy that claims his SIM got fried......whatever. I have tried so many different alternative routers/gateways. This Spitz is the closest thing to set it and forget it that I have ever used. I'm not trying to sell...

Great thread!!! I've been using T-Mobile home internet since it first came out with the little white LTE gateway. My setup has really morphed over time. I abandoned the stock gateways because they lack features and control. The white router is the Glinet Spitz GL-X3000. You can adjust TTL...

Great thread!!! I've been using T-Mobile home internet since it first came out with the little white LTE gateway. My setup has really morphed over time. I abandoned the stock gateways because they lack features and control. I get a 500 down and 70 up at my location and it's been rock solid...

Cool......I will continuing tinkering then!

So I installed VirtualBox on my Win 11 machine and I'm trying out Home assistant on it. It's pretty impressive so far. My lady is getting me an Intel NUC for Christmas to run HA on as a permanent home for it. I was wondering if it's possible to set everything up on my Windows PC, do a backup...

I'm assuming that HA would run fine then virtualized with say my Channels DVR also running on the same box? HA as well as others recommend a NUC for installation. Even the low end models seem overkill to run just HA. So that's why I ask. Right now I run my Channels DVR on a Raspberry pi...

These look affordable. https://www.ebay.com/itm/115944308310

Any particular ones you suggest?

There's also the option to install a smart Plug where the garage door opener plugs in. Add a converter that wires into the wall mount switch terminals of the garage door opener and plugs into the smart plug. Now you can open and close it from whatever dash board....phone/tablet etc. I did...