Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.<\/p>
My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant<\/a>, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead. <\/p> A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.<\/p> This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification<\/a> of everything, the #fediverse<\/a> is putting up a good fight.<\/p> May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-25:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/aus.social\/users\/trib\/statuses\/116241624516932800","object":{"id":"https:\/\/aus.social\/users\/trib\/statuses\/116241624516932800","objectType":"note","content":" Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.<\/p> My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant<\/a>, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead. <\/p> A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.<\/p> This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification<\/a> of everything, the #fediverse<\/a> is putting up a good fight.<\/p> May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/aus.social\/@trib\/116241624516932800","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"enshittification"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"fediverse"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"homeassistant"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-03-17:objectType=thread:nonce=201d361c552c2932","notice_info":{"local_id":"12302122","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-03-17T01:23:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/aus.social\/@trib\/116241624516932800"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6242530","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}