No problem. It would of been one response but I miss understood what you where asking for, figured it was useful information still and left it up.

What I did was flash my esp on the esp home website. You might have to give your USB permission and use a chromium based browser for the web installer to see it. Once its flashed you download esphome builder and that’s where you actually make your esp home script.

You can use the templets on the side, or download a templet and then you lable what pins do what and what’s on each pin. Esphome handles the rest, its not like working with arudino ide where you need the resources for each sensor, and the right board selected.

I know its shameful but wire up your screen, sensors and whatever else like buttons to it, and tell google ai to generates you a script, I promise it will work. Its really low stakes, everything is a templet anyways. Just make sure to note what screen/sensor/model it is.

Then all you have to do is add your ssid and password and you have it up and going, should be really easy to find in home assistant and you can then flash it over air which is nice.

I havent gotten into what making a proper home assistant graphical display looks like so I can’t help you there. But making it display text values to the 16x2 display is just pointing it at home assistant values and referencing the services you have in there.

You can also add automations inside of home assistant that chain or work with your esp home so you get a lot of flexibility in what your stuff does. One of the pages on me 16x2 display acts as a message board, where you can change the text input in home assistwnt and it will send a little message to the display, or on garbage day it sends a notification to the display and then switches to that screen page instead of time/date page it defaults to.

It kind of depends on which manufacturer you go with, each esp kind of has its own quirks and features. Some pins you can only use in high/low mode to avoid turning on some other feature or changing boot functions. Some of the olderboards pins have very specific usecases.

So I’m not sure where to point you honestly. I would start with the official documentation that the manufacturers provide you.

I also think you mistake me for someone that knows what I am doing. I want to express how simple esp home is. You can just download or use the temples in esp home builder and its literally just filling out text boxes. I’m not a read the documentation guy, my spelling and reading comprehension are horrible. I’ll follow guides off YouTube and throw errors at google and try to find a video/post about it or get googles ai to summarize it if I can’t access the site like reddit.

But like I said there are quirks for each model which you should read. My esp8266 wouldn’t boot properly if I had something in one of the pins. Some boards have specific pin outs, the xiao I have can turn any pin into anything, analog, pwm, etc. Boards have high and low states on the pins which have some secret functionality. My espc6 I can adjust the antenna range by changing the high/low state of one of the pins. Its weird stuff like that you really want to look over the manufacturers docs for.

I don’t have a real screen but I just updated my esp8266 to a xiao esp32c6 for my home assistant box. I wanted zigbe and matter access but half the things I wanted to interact with are proprietary, so I need a new hub and to rebuy a few things.

Just use esp home its stupid easy don’t really have to do anything besides point it at your pin outs and label them. You can probably buy everything you want and add on more stuff. The largest cost will be a eink display probably starting at 50usd for a tiny one, you can get esp boards in 5 packs for maybe 10 USD. But I recommend xiao just because I recently bought from them and am blown away with what feels like a premium board compared to the older ones I have. They all kind of have their own use cases and quirks, I wanted the c5 for better WiFi but the c6 came in a 3 pack for much cheaper.

I use a 16x2 LCD display you get in starter kits made for kids and just simple buttons and splurged on a decent temp sensor. Its also controls a led strip under the counter that used to be controlled with a remote but I hated using the remote. Just be careful you pretty much need a separate power source for that and to make sure the pins don’t get fried by 5v. I’ll stay awake at night thinking over if I wired it correctly even though I know I did so it feels weird trusting that because I’m an idiot.

I plan on buying a 5 pack of 1 inch oled screens and upgrading it, I just have so many other little things to buy on my list I haven’t gotten back around to finishing it.

Edit* you can also just use an old android phone the home assistant apk has a setting for it. You can also buy a pi or use a old computer, but esphome is cheaper, gives you more flexibility, and is smaller so you can design and make a smaller product and choose if you want to power it via USB or just directly wire it into something. The Xiao’s I got have battery terminals and handle charging very slowly so ive been excited to try that out.

I wouldn’t 100% trust ai to blindly copy paste whatever it gave me into my terminal, but one of the beautiful things about Linux is the ability for you to get tech help via cli.

I have older relatives that ask me for their problems with windows and I’m actually hitting dead ends with them more and more where due to lack of vocabulary on their end and suffering through windows GUI you can’t really guide someone through a fix. That and more and more I’m becoming alienated from windows and don’t know what’s going on as much anymore.

If they had Linux I could just message them and give them terminal commands and it would be a lot easier for me to diagnose and give them a handful of terminal commands to copy paste. I’d still end up googling it but I could at least make it soooo much less painless then a face call/meeting app interaction where we both don’t know what windows did on the newest update.

Also unrelated side note windows shouldn’t allow refurbishers to sell old outdated laptops with windows 11 licenses if it breaks every update due to windows shitty hardware restrictions. Its like four times a year their laptop breaks and I forget how we fix it everytime.

My point was some technologies are made in such a way that they can only be immoral, or was made in a way where the only use from said technology is to do as much damage as possible. I am not sure we are on the same page.

Maybe in 1000 years we will find a use for all the land mines that are in the ground after wars. Its not the mines themselves that are immoral, its the people that lay the mines that are evil. We should leave the mines because they might serve a valueable purpose later and suddenly start saving lives. Despite the fact that mines are known as the most destructive vindictive thing you can do to acivilian population. They are only made to harm people, and often innocent people generations later long detatched from the original conflict.

If there was a machine that launched baby corpses at our targets, and required the blood of virgins to run and was only used to psychologically traumatize anyone who seen it, would my point be more clear? I could argue that sure maybe the machine isn’t technically immoral if you don’t run it. But we all know why the machine was made for, and I don’t see any reason to try to make a distinction between who is immoral when it seems pretty straight forward.

Sorry I’m one of those insufferable well aclhuuually guys we are kind of on the same page and arguing over words and how to use them when I can barely spell.

Decided to go with the mango 2, didn’t even know there was a second one now.

I don’t know automated turrets that target children in Gaza sounds pretty immoral. I could say the baby skull seeking bullets them selves aren’t nessisarly immoral but its the use of said bullets that makes them evil, but I don’t see the need to make a distinction.

Algorithms that face book used for no reason other than to make you feel depressed to sell more ads feels pretty immoral too. Systems and tools developed to perpetuate slavery, is another one.

There’s so much technology that was explicitly made for evil intent that serves no purpose outside of its original intent, where I feel I can blanketly call it immoral.

I have a mango but its kind of showing its age, what’s a decent modern one these days?

Liam niassam voice: “I have a certain set of skills”

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Amazon and adafruit lists it for around 120-150 USD now so yes. 200 for one with a case and charger, etc.

I don’t know what those services are they look sketch to me so that screen shot means nothing to me. Even if they are legit I doubt they will ship to me. Or if they do ship it me its going to cost 80 dollars and take 3 months.

Theres generally a reason why it’s so cheap.

I rarely watched any of them back then, but I remember it felt like a whole year when the front page was only ever happy wheels.

If you already make a recycling run to the scrap yard its worth doing. I got 120 bucks last run just off old PCs and it wasn’t even that much, you just get more when you separate it. Aluminium cases, ram, motherboard, hard drives, CPUs. The older they are often the more they are worth, and if you are into eBay selling im sure you could make a killing. I heard even DDR 3 is coming back so who knows anymore.

Only thing you shouldn’t take is TVs you have to pay to get rid of them. Maybe don’t take appliance too. some people do, for example fridges have a few valuable components but I would not reccomend it. You end up with plastics and other junk sometimes and have to pay to get a dump run.

A lot of it only makes sense if you can store a pile until it gets big enough to be worth a trip out.

I’m surprised it wasn’t already on steam. I feel like I haven’t heard of happy wheels in nearly 20 years.

I have two spare 8th gen Intel PCs I saved from the garbage bin, and a old gaming desktop that I now use as the server. So if I need a spare server I’m probably going to use one of those. I can get USB to gpio so been thinking of trying trying that route more considering how often people get rid of old pcs. I have a stack of windows vista-7 era laptops I was going to take apart for scrap too which could be used.

I bought the pis a long time ago, each time a found a project for one I was sad I didn’t have one to play with and kept buying more. They aren’t really even in use now. Ones built in to my work station and occasionally I boot into it and use raspberry pi imager to flash ubuntu or something on a USB. Its useful to have just ready on occasion. I have a hard time getting rid of them because of use cases like that, and in have a lot of hats/accessories for them like the ai camera. Even though I’m not really going to use them like I used to anymore.

I have 3 pi 4s that where maybe 45 dollars each when I bought them, last time unchecked they where 600 dollars. I thought about selling them, but completely forgot if I want a pi again, and go to buy one, by then they might be 400 each.

First off I always hated the osrs reddit community. Its nothing but a endless flow of low effort circle jerk memes, and effeicency scape group think that sucks the fun out of the game and expects everyone to play the same.

Beloved game of my childhood though, shame the project is vibe coded but I could really careless as thats just not a project for me if its ai made. Slightly more upset that the community itself called on daddy jagex to get the game removed. Jagex has historically fucked over all community projects like many HD variants, and community made clients in order to “fight botting” which they only pretend to care about stopping to save face. Bots drive up the bond economy, and are the bulk of memberships. When really they want everyone on steam client to boost numbers on a chart, or to use their official client which they can start adding services like runemetrics like runescape 3 has, so you can’t just use runelite plugins.

Jagex has been passed around like a dirty whore though all the private equity firms, including the ones who own supreme, or directly profitted off of 9/11 (happy late 9/11 Carlyle) And they where owned by a Chinese mineral mining company at some point who had no prior experiences in video games. They killed their own game in the past due to out of touch managers forcing updates like micro transactions, removing free trade/PvP, and adding evolution of combat in the game. They will do it again.

Literally the only money it generates thats worth anything is the autonomous kill chains they set up in Gaza, the monitoring of Palestinians, and even us citizens with the same exact systems.

Fucking the fisherman that we have been killing, thats Claude or grok hallucinating and saying its filled with guns and drugs, abd from start to finish launching missiles at them. Theres maybe one dumb guy that pushes the big red button to confirm it, but he has a sycophantic Ai agent telling him if he doesnt hit the button his kids in Florida are gonna turn trans.

It doesnt need to be profitable if it breaks the economy and everyone hates it. Now its job is to fill up all the beds ICE are creating buying out all the old prisons in the united States like their operation needs to expand infinitely.

We are already probably domestic terrorists for being on the fediverse and even discussing this.

If they had any level of competency they could just make windows less shitty, and that would help a lot just being able to run it on lesser hardware.

They can stop increasing system requirements each year to keep up with how poorly everything runs.

I think they should just give up and use the next best thing like they do with everything else. Edge is just google chrome, the new Xbox is just Xbox game pass cloud gaming aka your phone. Just make a arm based windows operating system thats not whatever the hell windows on arm was. Then they can do their shitty app store and shitty cloud services. They already have apk access on windows. They just need to put it down instead of trying to jam android, Linux, and whatever else inside of windows.

Honestly I blindly say a lot of stuff but I don’t like how often I end up being right about it.