After watching the Gamer Nexus video of what’s practically a warranty scam by Asus, I’d never buy one and may never buy Asus again if that’s the way they treat customers. I have a few of their ROG components in my system and from what I see they are not as great as they were 30 years ago.
ESPHome is amazing - there’s so much you can do without writing a single line of code.
I have built a few projects around the platform - a boiler monitor that tells me temperatures and state of zone valves, an energy monitoring system tracking electricity usage and solar export, and a hot tub mod that inhibits the heater to reduce grid import and maximize self consumption of solar. They have all been rock-solid stable.
ZHA here. I picked it since it’s a bit easier to set up with less bits. It works for me, so I didn’t see a reason to change it. I have done channel changes a couple of times with no issue - maybe I just got lucky!
I have not encountered this with my Sonoff Zigbee plugs, for whatever that is worth (US split phase). I also haven’t put large appliance loads on them.
Nope, Plan9 is too old - I run Hurd.
(Yes, this is a joke)
I just put it in my dryer at 40C for a few hours with little regard to a target humidity. I also live in a dry climate where the ambient humidity is low, so maybe it’s not enough in wetter climates, but this works for me.
I 3D print up a custom one, sized for each project.
Yep, it’s because of that proprietary and “every device must be licensed” nature of Z-wave that I use Zigbee devices - I’ll pick an open platform everyday over a closed one, even if it has limitations.
I’ve found the same thing with regard to workflow - I find it really weird when people say it’s nothing like any other CAD programs, because it really is. You start with sketches and build up from there. Yes, the spreadsheet feature is amazing! I couldn’t believe SolidWorks forces you to buy Excel to do the same thing, which is crazy. The spreadsheet integration in FreeCAD is great - with the macro that handles the reference labels.
There’s not a single thing you can’t do in FreeCAD that you can do in other CAD programs - but you do have to understand how it works and it’s limitations.
I finally realised how freecad wants me to use it and found it much nicer to work with after that
Exactly this - once people invest the time to understand the FreeCAD flow, and get over it, they’ll find it’s an amazing and extremely productive tool.
I tried out SolidWorks and it’s a complete mess. You can’t just download and install it, it runs a bunch of weird background programs on the computer, and interacting with the multiple web sites is a nightmare. I’ve been waiting well over a month for them to refund under the promised 30 day guarantee. I’d never, ever do anything with that awful company again.
I’m really looking forward to see how Ondsel does. I’ve been using it for the last week or two, as it’s integrated 0.22 features, and I think it could be a really good thing for the FreeCAD community.
Strongly disagree. There’s nothing I can do in any of the commercial CAD programs that I can’t do in FreeCAD. Most people just don’t want to invest the time to learn it - and instead blame the tool. Yes, there’s a learning curve and it requires understanding the tool’s limitations, but if it wasn’t for FreeCAD we’d have nothing in the free, open source space for CAD.
I’m glad it was helpful. They are great little controllers and ESPHome makes them so accessible for people like me who don’t really want to write code manually.
I don’t have an exact answer to your problem, but I do have a few ideas to think about. I’ve got a few ESP32 WROOM boards running in various applications, so I’m a bit familiar. So here’s my thoughts:
Hope that helps! They are a lot of fun to integrate with HA.
Same here. Useful breakdown on tools, several of which I’ve used. I’ve invested a lot of time in FreeCAD thus far, and as I’ve learned how to do things with the right workflow to prevent errors it’s really quite nice and very powerful - and it will continue to only get better with each release. Fortunately, there are great videos and posts when I do get stuck. I can’t say enough good things about MangoJellys YouTube videos in learning how to do things the FreeCAD way - probably half of FreeCAD I’d never learn to use by just clicking around. I intend to continue down this road too, and have donated to the FreeCAD project and supported creators versus paying for commercial software. No regrets!
Nope - that’s the whole point of ZFS - you don’t need any special hardware, nor do you want that layer hiding the details since ZFS manages the drives. Plus, you probably want to use RAIDZx with spare drives to absorb failure.
Sounds like it’s not actually running. Restart the hass server and check the logs, which is the only place you’ll see if a dependency is preventing it from starting.
Blender, even with the CAD plug-in, does not have the dimensional precision required for real engineering modeling. The Blender UI is also even clunkier than FreeCAD in many ways.
Strange! Nothing jumps out at me as being an obvious problem with your setup. I’m doing something similar, though instead of rtlamr2mqtt (which I didn’t know about) I have a bash script run via cron that parses rtlamr output via jq and pipes that to mqtt (mosquitto), but there’s very little to it. I know the energy dashboard setup is picky about the energy recording entities.
Mine looks like:
state_class: total_increasing
unit_of_measurement: ft³
device_class: gas
friendly_name: Gas Meter
The name of the entity is sensor.gas_meter and the state is currently 113812 as an example.
Might be worth reading through GitHub issues for rtlamr2mqtt, including closed ones, if you haven’t already. Or maybe a hass restart? Can’t think of anything else.
Heh, typing YAML anywhere is squinty business. :-)