Notices by Andrew (codechimp@mastodon.online)

@courtney Thanks, most modern houses in the UK have it and it’s a right pain to get fixings, I’ve got a 60’s house where everywhere else is very hard to drill into but at least things stay up.

I created a new #HomeAssistant helper to simplify keeping track of min/max values where I wanted to have control over when they were reset, saving creating template sensors and automations to do it for each entity.
I use it for daily garden min/max temperatures, can be used for things like tracking the peak generation on solar installations and being generic it's up to you on how you use it.
First release so use with caution.
https://github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA-Periodic-Min-Max

I’ve not made a new #HomeAssistant custom component in about a year, it’s good starting something fresh and learning from all your past mistakes.

Had an issue raised about one of my #HomeAssistant custom components not running on NixOS, having now looked at why and what NixOS does I can only come to the conclusion that people running it for a home install must be complete masochists.

A little milestone reached with 20k people downloading the latest version of Battery Notes for #HomeAssistant
True usage stats are impossible but this is the figure used in HACS to indicate popularity.
Never thought I’d reach this sort of usage when I first created it but it’s been great receiving lots of positive feedback and ideas for improving it.
It does also make me very nervous releasing new versions in case I break something.

Thinking about the #HomeAssistant voice hardware, that Grove port location on the bottom would make it possible to create a stackable module that sits underneath.
Lots of option for things like a screen, additional input controls, or other sensors in a neat package.

I created a new custom integration for #HomeAssistant that allows you to attach a note to an existing device to indicate the battery type it takes, which then shows up in the Diagnostic section of the device. This allows me to go pre-armed with the right battery when a battery is getting low, which shows up using an auto-entities list on my main dashboard.

Full details here on how to add it either via a HACS custom repository or manually
https://github.com/andrew-codechimp/HA-Battery-Notes