Of course, it already happened, unless you literally just installed. If you read the last comment closely, the feature to check HIBP has been there for a while, but the message about it was blocked until recently. So if you really didn’t want to do this check… Well, too bad, it’s done.

I love HA, but the messaging is not always great. There was a new feature a while back that had a lot of people upset (I’m pretty sure it was automatically encrypting all backups), and the developers just kept saying, “It was in the release notes.” I always review the release notes before installing, and I definitely missed that, so I went back to read them with that in mind, and I still couldn’t find it. After a few minutes, I realized it was in there, sort of - it was just implied, not explicitly stated. Why not just say, “HA will now encrypt backups by default”?

I’ve actually had training in using plain language in business writing, so maybe it’s just more obvious to me. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to help that much, and we’d have to convince them there is an issue there, first.

Yeah, exactly how I read it, too.

The author actually agrees with you.

I’m not sure renaming them like that was helpful - I had to keep looking up which sensor was which.

Still one step ahead of IBM!

Those weeks were a lot more stressful, and longer than a week, when I used Slackware and started installing stuff that wasn’t packaged for Slackware. I would dread new software. It was the Unifi controller that finally put me over the edge: I wasn’t even willing to give it a shot. I ran the controller on my Kubuntu desktop for a few weeks until I switched the server to Debian.

It felt like a house of cards. Nudge one of those cards by, say, updating a library, and you could easily break something else.

“If you want to know how Linux works, ask a Slackware user,” is the old saying. It’s true…we had to know, because we didn’t have a choice not to know.

It was either that or study the material for grad school.

I don’t have anything automated for our cats (and dog).

For the cats, we use the flea and tick treatment that goes on the back of their necks every thirty days, so I have a timer set up to remind me to do that (along with giving the dog his heart worm and his own flea and tick treatment).

There a timer to remind me to clean their recirculating water bowl.

For their dry food, I have a system that tracks how many bags I’ve opened since the start date, then divides that out to get an average of how long a bag lasts. This is helpful when figuring out the length of time between autoship orders of food. Bags are sold by weight, but we give them food measured by volume, so it doesn’t easily convert. It takes a few bags for the measurement to settle down to a rough estimate of the number of days, but it did work after that. Just have to remember to hit the new bag button.

One of our cats uses an inhaler with a counter on it, so I use a helper to track when I last administered it and what the counter was at. The great thing about that is that I can detect easily if I missed the treatment or if I did it and just failed to hit the button in HA. Another of the same cat’s treatments (he’s old) requires ordering medicine roughly once a month, so I track when I start a new one, then add a to-do when it’s time to reorder.

We have four litter boxes for the three cats, and I change two of them each week, and scoop the other two (well, I scoop all four each evening, but two are changed once a week, while the other two get scooped at that time). I track what dates each one was changed last so I know the following week which ones are due. I tried remembering, and it didn’t go well. The helpers remind me.

I would like a way to detect where the cats are in the house. Two of them do not wear collars. In particular I’d like to be able to determine whether our skittish cat (no collar) is hiding under the bed in our bedroom or not (I just want to know where he is when it’s feeding time). Would a presence sensor under there do that?

I’ll have to look at this more closely, but it sounds like you’ve addressed some issues I’ve had in my own house. We have an ecobee, and while I do like it, I’m also frustrated with its limits. For example, I use different sensors in summer versus winter to keep the house relatively even, so I have to change it up each time. I’ve had the same thing where it kicks on the AC in winter (not often, but it can happen).

I also dislike how difficult it is to change the schedule for just one day. I have a very variable schedule, and reprogramming the thermostat each week would be tedious. And the “away for now” functionality is limited.

I’ve been considering turning control of the thermostat over to HA. It has been running extremely reliably for some time now, so I feel safe trusting it. There was a long time when that wasn’t true. But I guess I could leave the program in the ecobee, so if the HA goes down, it’ll just default back to its own program.

I mean, I’m a bike person, and I don’t have one, too much money for a fan.

They also sell a desk that’s $250 or something crazy like that. It is kind of an odd design that leans over the handlebars, though.

But I work in a shop that regularly sells >$10K bikes, too. My bike is sub-$3K, though.

There actually is a fan that does that already. It connects to the game and adjusts flow based on your speed.

Similarly, there’s also a device that adjusts the angle of the bike based on the angle of the hill you’re on at the moment.

The fan is $320. The other device is $700.

I just use a box fan and ride flat.

Interesting idea. I have one that I use with my indoor cycling setup, but I just have it on a Sonoff S31, so I can turn it on (the knob is set to top speed) as I warm up while riding. Then the script that starts the program on the computer also shuts off the fan when the program exits (gotta work in automation somewhere!). I like the idea of being able to control the speed.