Look for something with OpenTherm connection. You can use you own local ESPhome thermostat with any of them

An example of ours https://github.com/jellewie/esphome-opentherm-thermostat

Just commenting here so I can pick this up later. I’m still deeply interested in this. The Pinta interface has not be as intuitive than what paint.net has been

Big fan

Friend installed it years ago for me, I have been running Nobara ever since. I have problems, but they are less than windows and I can actually solve them/do anything about it. I forget that I’m running Linux when playing games, I don’t even check compatibility anymore

For apps and integrations I run then when I would have some time to do a rollback, mostly this is quite quickly. For home assistant updates I always read the changelog and estimate if there could be complications, if so I wait for an x.1 patch to be available before taking the plunge.

The HACS updates I always leave for a few days and read though carefully what has changed, quite often even way deeper into the code.

For Esphome I run a full compile about every year, and I updated then when I change something in the YAML. These run on a Vlan and not exposed, so they are not a big risk I think to be outdated.

Hey welcome to the hobby!

We personally have the whole TV on a Vlan, so it can’t acces anything at all. While our server/HA can still send a WOL command to it, and jellyfin can stream our movies to it. I run all of it on top of TrueNas, most as an app or else an VM.

I have never tried to set something up for YouTube specifically, since that runs on a Chromecast (for now…)

Let me know how your journey goes

Interesting watches that they can enter the steam hardware survey

Yhea steam machine was designed to be faster than 75% (not your top 25% top gaming PC). I think think it’s fair of a lot of people to compair there before RAM-boom prices expensive computers to such an device.

I kind of agree with Linus here that SteamOS is an excellent option for a simple gaming OS, I will probably add another option to boot to soon

For Enschouded it uses all cores before skipping, but only 2 when skipped. So I generally press launch and then set up everything else. And then press skip later when I’m ready to play

Nice write up!

We went with Nuki (I wanted something european). It’s not a replacement, but rather a smart-key. Has been rock solid connectivity and locking, and it’s wired in but has a 6month battery on board. When using a wifi connection they can be controlled over MQTT with Home Assistant

The downside is that finger print don’t work well in the rain, but it also has numbers.

We also has a few delivery drivers get confused what button is the doorbell. But that was fixed with a bell sticker icon on the doorbel

I got to be fair, I do agree here. Buy smart switches where possible. I have never had problems with those, while smart bulbs are sometimes inefficient, too dim, flicker at low brightness, and are more expensive.

We have about 12 smart switches and 6 bulbs or so. From Sonoff and Athom.

Another option we have is smart bulb with a smart switch. So you don’t turn the power off from the bulb. This is the worst of both worlds.