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  • Very similar, but I’m using Gemma4 12b. I could run 26b but that would exhaust my vram after a short interaction. And ollama. Open WebUI + Home Assistant hooked up with it, a couple very basic scripts I threw together, and connected to Kagi.

    I’m trying to get my folks off the Gemini/Google bandwagon for the privacy aspect, but also because it’s just cool from a tech geek perspective. For me, any questions throughout the day that I want info on, but not enough to do a deep-dive for an hour+, gets fed to Steve, my models name. Or I’ll use it as a springboard and then properly read the citations for more info. And I feed it HA automations when I get stuck scratching my head on an edge case or whatever - it’s alright but helps me explain what I want from the automation, and when it understands my goal, great, and when it doesn’t I reflect on what I have setup and can usually go ‘ah ha’ and fix the issue. It’s like a rubber ducky/pair programmer that you can both think is an idiot sometimes, but it doesn’t judge you when you’re the idiot.









  • Physical button: 1 action, no logic

    Software button: infinite actions, complete logic over everything in HA

    It’s like ‘why should I use HA, the light switch is right there’ yes technically but you’re missing the whole point. Why should you go on trips and see the sights of other places, Google Street View is right there.

    E: real world example, though my network reaches far beyond my driveway so no button required:

    Automation
    alias: Midnight - Travel, Arriving Home
    description: ''
    triggers:
      - trigger: zone
        entity_id: person.midnight
        zone: zone.home
        event: enter
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_boolean.midnight_awake
        state:
          - 'on'
      - condition: time
        after: '10:00:00'
    actions:
      - if:
          - condition: not
            conditions:
              - alias: Connected to home wifi network
                condition: state
                entity_id: sensor.midnights_phone_wi_fi_connection
                state:
                  - input_text.home_network
        then:
          - wait_for_trigger:
              - trigger: state
                entity_id:
                  - sensor.midnights_phone_wi_fi_connection
                to:
                  - input_text.home_network
            timeout:
              hours: 0
              minutes: 1
              seconds: 0
              milliseconds: 0
            continue_on_timeout: true
      - if:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
            state:
              - 'off'
        then:
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            target:
              entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
            data:
              brightness_pct: 35
          - action: input_boolean.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: input_boolean.midnight_s_light_override
            data: {}
          - if:
              - condition: numeric_state
                entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
                attribute: brightness
                below: 35
            then:
              - action: light.turn_on
                metadata: {}
                target:
                  entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
                data:
                  brightness_pct: 35
      - delay:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 0
          seconds: 15
          milliseconds: 0
        enabled: true
      - action: automation.trigger
        metadata: {}
        target:
          entity_id:
            - automation.battery_low
            - automation.midnight_s_bedroom_midnight_s_thermostat_outside_is_cooler
            - automation.midnight_s_bedroom_midnight_s_thermostat_outside_is_warmer
        data:
          skip_condition: false
      - action: tts.speak
        metadata: {}
        target:
          entity_id: tts.piper
        data:
          cache: false
          media_player_entity_id: media_player.midnight_s_bedroom_home_assistant_voice_media_player
          message: Welcome home, Midnight!
    mode: single
    










  • And you have to have a license to unlock that capability. I just bought one of these boards in June (used) and once I cracked the license, I had to update the IPMI before I could update the bios. This was after two failed bios flashes from a Lenovo server that it was replacing, so I wasn’t exactly excited for this process, but hey, it didn’t kill the board so it’s better in my book than MSI (also killed a board a decade ago) and Lenovo.

    All three dead boards had a ups, and I followed the instructions to the letter. Both companies are blacklisted for me.


  • I have a server that I wanted to do this with, and cpu-only interference was several minutes for pretty simple tasks (all text, couple of sentences). I shelled out the cash for a 5060 Ti 16GB earlier this summer, and even with a pcie 3 x16 slot running at x4, I’m down to 5-30 second responses and rapid output speeds, even with large conversations. But the initial prompt/loading is still a couple of minutes by itself, so I leave the model in vram always.