I hope you had a chance to check out Chaperone! www.technithusiast.com/chaperone You can get a copy of the automation for Node-Red if you want to try it out. It contains the skeleton of the automation so will have to adapt it to your smart home entities for it to work.
Really love where you are going with this. HA reaaaaaallly needs to figure out granular user permissions. My dashboards should have a limited guest access, etc. I know some of it is on the roadmap or has been in HA.
When you first said node red for a dashboard I was expect pretty jank but ke laved the day! Tileboard was gonna be my suggestion for you an it's a nice clean, pretty configurable tool. Either way love it, I'm actually planning to setup home music thing and do nome esp speakers hopefully.
What's your warning mode entail? So far with my house modes (I used to have all these in boolean toggles, not sure what i was thinking there) I have Active, Cinema, Do Not Disturb which holds all TTS announcements, Event (This is for lighting when i dont want it to change) Nightowl which delays all home shutdown procedures, Protected which is like away mode. Sleep which is similar to do not disturb but also turns all the screens off and streaming which engages a streaming light background and disables office automated lighting. Maybe too many but so far so good
I created the warning state after this incident: ruclips.net/video/chmMDTNvsEg/видео.html It places the house in an “panic” state but less intense. If threat is detected while we’re home it lets us know, changes light colors and record from all cameras.
Curious about the requirement that it's not active when guests are over; If it's worth doing, you'd think you'd want to benefit from it yourself as well, right? It's always interesting seeing what people do for automation in the bathroom. It seems like a dangerous/slippery slope; I don't want my guests to feel how I think most people would: when tech makes itself known in the bathroom, the understandable question immediately comes up "am I being watched/listened to?" Finding a motion sensor to automate lights and fans that very much doesn't look like a camera to the point where it screams "hey I'm not a camera!" was a challenge haha! Regarding Spotify, "start a jam" doesn't require anyone to be on your account at all. Just print out a QR code with the jam invite, and it can be used by up to 32 people. I think this cares for 90% of the problem, leaving everyone able to use their own device comfortably. I think starting there, and then enhancing the jam's queue with a tablet view to allow you to add songs for the few people who don't have Spotify installed to participate would be a good way to go.
Great questions and points. This was an experimental automation and admittedly, a flex, since many of them were expecting something “geeky” since they know I do this. I wanted an experience that could work along side my day-to-day setup. Though there is a motion sensor in the bathroom people are typically fine with that’s common place in public restrooms. To help reduce concerns I place the sensors in corners as it give a wide view while being unobtrusive. Prior to this video I never heard of Spotify jam and I think that would be simplest solution that would cover the majority of cases but it would make for a pretty fast and boring video.😛 Something I liked about the process is that it helped me to discover new tool which unlocks new ways of doing things which is always exciting to me :) Great points you brought up 👌🏾
@@technithusiastthat is a great reply thank you! Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with. I’m wondering if you’ve tried the Atom Echo as a mic; the stock implementation has some major issues, but I commented out the speaker stuff and have it replying via my network speakers. This way I can either use browser_mod or whatever network endpoint to stream replies. Working pretty decently so far. Next step is to get follow-up questions from the LLM working more conversationally so I don’t have to use the wake-word to reply. Something else Im pretty excited about is a sorta “tools centralizer” proxy Ive been working on so that HA and also my Obsidian instance and whatever other tools I have reaching out to an LLM all share a set of functions. So for example if I ask HA to summarize the latest xyz channel video or ask Obsidian, they can both access that skill. Sorry for the wall of text, but one other thing Im curious about is how Ke might have, or might be changing with the development of local llms, function calling standards improving, and things like chromadb becoming easier to stand up. Are you using a local vector database or anything? So many questions 😆 Thanks for sharing. Best of luck, and be good to yourself!
My wife (and daughter) got it for me for Father's Day so i have no idea where she got it. All i know is that she sent the artist a photo we took recently and they created the rendering. I love it. You can find out more about the course here: www.technithusiast.com/automation-course
Seems like if there is music playing in the den that if someone goes into the bathroom, it would be playing the same (if there isn't anything playing in the den, then play whatever) ? and if so desired, stop when they leave the bathroom (if you can add/remove the speaker that way).
Man, I saw your short and was hoping I could come here and try to replicate what you did because it's freaking awesome, but holy am I too stupid for this lol I cant wait til these are fwtaures just vuilt into home assistant natively, but super happy people like yourself can make them regardless because of how pwoerful HA is
Do you ever run into issues with the House Mode being a single option, rather than booleans for Guest Mode and/or protected etc? Can your house ever be in two states, such as sleep with guests over?
That’s a really good point! I will say that my decision came from intuition so I don’t have any scientific proof that what I’m about to say is true. I only have anecdotal evidence. By referencing a single state it forces me to treat my house like a finite state machine. Since it can only be in any one state at a time it is more difficult for me to create conflicting commands and keeps the complicity low. For instance if in Active state my house house disarms the alarm but I have sleep mode as a separate state which turns off lights and sets alarm to Home mode conflicts with active mode which means I need to introduce the concept of priorities. If I wanted to account for edge cases like having the home be active but have a sleep state, I would probably make a button that simply toggles the important aspects I need like setting the alarm to home mode. really great question 👍🏾
I have scenes and moods for the house. Scenes are e.g. Off, Diner, Radio, TV, and Movie. Moods are e.g. Normal, Romantic, and Visitors. The scenes determine what devices need to be on or off. Moods determine what a device needs to do. They enable me to fine tune the selected scene. For example the Radio scene turns on the radio and the mood determines the radio station that is being selected. When we have visitors we set the house to the Visitors mode and a nonstop radio station is selected while when in the Normal mood a regular radio station is selected. Lights turn on automatically half an hour after sunset. The level to which they dim down is determined by the currently selected mood. When the mood is Visitors then the lights above the kitchen table are set to dim down a lot because when I'm talking to my guests these kitchen lights are in my line of sight and would otherwise be kind of blinding me. When we have no visitors then I'm normally not looking at an approx. 45 degree angle towards the kitchen table and thus not looking into the lights so then they are brighter to provide better light to the kitchen area. At night when everything in the living room is off then the mood is automatically reset to the Normal mood ready for the next day. What it comes down to is that basically every scene is actually three scenes of which only one can be active at any given time, e.g. RADIO_NORMAL, RADIO_ROMANTIC, RADIO_VISITIORS, MOVIE_NORMAL, MOVIE_ROMANTIC, MOVIE_VISITORS, etc.. For me this solves the problem of conflicting states. I'm using openHAB but I'm sure that the same can be done with other home automation solutions.
Node Red is basically webserver that can serve a website. Since it is on my network, i can go to the IP address and and the dashboard appears with no need for User Name or password.
@@technithusiast thank you, are you running node red in a container or as a HA Add-on? I am using the add-on which as far as I can tell requires credentials in the “http_node” configuration. Accessing the dashboard prompts for this user name and password. Thanks, appreciate your content!
Ahhh I understand now. Yes, I have my instance in a docker container outside of Home Assistant. I see how the add-on can be blocked by Home Assistant. I would need to look deeper into that but one thing you can look into is the settings.js file for node-red. You will need something like Samba or VSCode for Home Assistant to see the files. In the settings.js file there is property called adminAuth. This is commented out for me but it may be active for you. Try commenting that section out if it is present and see it that helps. PS. I have not tried this for my self and is just an educated guess on my part so i do not know if this will have adverse affects to your system. try it at your discretion.
Why not use Spotify function "Start a jam"? We use it 😊
Never heard of it! I gotta look into that 🤔 thanks for the suggestion!
Love finding passionate HASS users who want to share their creations and information!
I hope you had a chance to check out Chaperone! www.technithusiast.com/chaperone
You can get a copy of the automation for Node-Red if you want to try it out. It contains the skeleton of the automation so will have to adapt it to your smart home entities for it to work.
My soft flex: Tv Time scene. Blinds down, lights dim/off, tv on.
😎👌🏾
100% you can do anything in home assistant. it's not always easy, or straight forward. but it's an entire programming language with enough experience.
Really love where you are going with this. HA reaaaaaallly needs to figure out granular user permissions. My dashboards should have a limited guest access, etc. I know some of it is on the roadmap or has been in HA.
I’m really glad you like it! I’m sure HA wi create a lot of these features natively which will only make using node red so much simpler!
When you first said node red for a dashboard I was expect pretty jank but ke laved the day!
Tileboard was gonna be my suggestion for you an it's a nice clean, pretty configurable tool.
Either way love it, I'm actually planning to setup home music thing and do nome esp speakers hopefully.
Im glad you like it and thanks for the suggestion! I'll check out Tileboard.
What's your warning mode entail?
So far with my house modes (I used to have all these in boolean toggles, not sure what i was thinking there) I have Active, Cinema, Do Not Disturb which holds all TTS announcements, Event (This is for lighting when i dont want it to change) Nightowl which delays all home shutdown procedures, Protected which is like away mode. Sleep which is similar to do not disturb but also turns all the screens off and streaming which engages a streaming light background and disables office automated lighting.
Maybe too many but so far so good
I created the warning state after this incident:
ruclips.net/video/chmMDTNvsEg/видео.html
It places the house in an “panic” state but less intense. If threat is detected while we’re home it lets us know, changes light colors and record from all cameras.
Really cool usage for Ke
I want this!
Give it a try!!!!
Curious about the requirement that it's not active when guests are over; If it's worth doing, you'd think you'd want to benefit from it yourself as well, right?
It's always interesting seeing what people do for automation in the bathroom. It seems like a dangerous/slippery slope; I don't want my guests to feel how I think most people would: when tech makes itself known in the bathroom, the understandable question immediately comes up "am I being watched/listened to?" Finding a motion sensor to automate lights and fans that very much doesn't look like a camera to the point where it screams "hey I'm not a camera!" was a challenge haha!
Regarding Spotify, "start a jam" doesn't require anyone to be on your account at all. Just print out a QR code with the jam invite, and it can be used by up to 32 people. I think this cares for 90% of the problem, leaving everyone able to use their own device comfortably. I think starting there, and then enhancing the jam's queue with a tablet view to allow you to add songs for the few people who don't have Spotify installed to participate would be a good way to go.
Great questions and points. This was an experimental automation and admittedly, a flex, since many of them were expecting something “geeky” since they know I do this. I wanted an experience that could work along side my day-to-day setup.
Though there is a motion sensor in the bathroom people are typically fine with that’s common place in public restrooms. To help reduce concerns I place the sensors in corners as it give a wide view while being unobtrusive.
Prior to this video I never heard of Spotify jam and I think that would be simplest solution that would cover the majority of cases but it would make for a pretty fast and boring video.😛
Something I liked about the process is that it helped me to discover new tool which unlocks new ways of doing things which is always exciting to me :)
Great points you brought up 👌🏾
@@technithusiastthat is a great reply thank you! Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.
I’m wondering if you’ve tried the Atom Echo as a mic; the stock implementation has some major issues, but I commented out the speaker stuff and have it replying via my network speakers. This way I can either use browser_mod or whatever network endpoint to stream replies. Working pretty decently so far. Next step is to get follow-up questions from the LLM working more conversationally so I don’t have to use the wake-word to reply.
Something else Im pretty excited about is a sorta “tools centralizer” proxy Ive been working on so that HA and also my Obsidian instance and whatever other tools I have reaching out to an LLM all share a set of functions. So for example if I ask HA to summarize the latest xyz channel video or ask Obsidian, they can both access that skill.
Sorry for the wall of text, but one other thing Im curious about is how Ke might have, or might be changing with the development of local llms, function calling standards improving, and things like chromadb becoming easier to stand up. Are you using a local vector database or anything? So many questions 😆
Thanks for sharing. Best of luck, and be good to yourself!
It is able to do with HA.
tech space is pretty dope. One minute you can’t l, the next minute there’s support 👍🏾
Thanks for the video. Very detailed and impressive.
Odd question. What products do you use to roll and neaten your hair? Lol
Haha! Glad you like the video. About the hair.... I go to a really dope black salon. They stand on business.
Also that photo with you and your daughter is pretty dope.
How'd you get it?
Would definitely be interested in your HA course too
My wife (and daughter) got it for me for Father's Day so i have no idea where she got it. All i know is that she sent the artist a photo we took recently and they created the rendering. I love it.
You can find out more about the course here: www.technithusiast.com/automation-course
awesome as always!
I appreciate it!!
Seems like if there is music playing in the den that if someone goes into the bathroom, it would be playing the same (if there isn't anything playing in the den, then play whatever) ? and if so desired, stop when they leave the bathroom (if you can add/remove the speaker that way).
Would love the node red training. Going to check it out
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Man, I saw your short and was hoping I could come here and try to replicate what you did because it's freaking awesome, but holy am I too stupid for this lol
I cant wait til these are fwtaures just vuilt into home assistant natively, but super happy people like yourself can make them regardless because of how pwoerful HA is
Go for it! You should still try it a try!!
Do you ever run into issues with the House Mode being a single option, rather than booleans for Guest Mode and/or protected etc? Can your house ever be in two states, such as sleep with guests over?
That’s a really good point! I will say that my decision came from intuition so I don’t have any scientific proof that what I’m about to say is true. I only have anecdotal evidence. By referencing a single state it forces me to treat my house like a finite state machine. Since it can only be in any one state at a time it is more difficult for me to create conflicting commands and keeps the complicity low. For instance if in Active state my house house disarms the alarm but I have sleep mode as a separate state which turns off lights and sets alarm to Home mode conflicts with active mode which means I need to introduce the concept of priorities. If I wanted to account for edge cases like having the home be active but have a sleep state, I would probably make a button that simply toggles the important aspects I need like setting the alarm to home mode.
really great question 👍🏾
I have scenes and moods for the house. Scenes are e.g. Off, Diner, Radio, TV, and Movie. Moods are e.g. Normal, Romantic, and Visitors. The scenes determine what devices need to be on or off. Moods determine what a device needs to do. They enable me to fine tune the selected scene.
For example the Radio scene turns on the radio and the mood determines the radio station that is being selected. When we have visitors we set the house to the Visitors mode and a nonstop radio station is selected while when in the Normal mood a regular radio station is selected.
Lights turn on automatically half an hour after sunset. The level to which they dim down is determined by the currently selected mood. When the mood is Visitors then the lights above the kitchen table are set to dim down a lot because when I'm talking to my guests these kitchen lights are in my line of sight and would otherwise be kind of blinding me.
When we have no visitors then I'm normally not looking at an approx. 45 degree angle towards the kitchen table and thus not looking into the lights so then they are brighter to provide better light to the kitchen area.
At night when everything in the living room is off then the mood is automatically reset to the Normal mood ready for the next day.
What it comes down to is that basically every scene is actually three scenes of which only one can be active at any given time, e.g. RADIO_NORMAL, RADIO_ROMANTIC, RADIO_VISITIORS, MOVIE_NORMAL, MOVIE_ROMANTIC, MOVIE_VISITORS, etc..
For me this solves the problem of conflicting states. I'm using openHAB but I'm sure that the same can be done with other home automation solutions.
Hey guys, has anyone been able to achieve 2 way communication to nest doorbell while home assistant? I'm really struggling 😩
Love this, new sub!
Thanks for subbing and im glad you like it!
we got a video about ollama coming up?!
Maybe 😏
How did you get around user name and password for the dashboard?
Node Red is basically webserver that can serve a website. Since it is on my network, i can go to the IP address and and the dashboard appears with no need for User Name or password.
@@technithusiast thank you, are you running node red in a container or as a HA Add-on?
I am using the add-on which as far as I can tell requires credentials in the “http_node” configuration. Accessing the dashboard prompts for this user name and password.
Thanks, appreciate your content!
Ahhh I understand now. Yes, I have my instance in a docker container outside of Home Assistant. I see how the add-on can be blocked by Home Assistant. I would need to look deeper into that but one thing you can look into is the settings.js file for node-red. You will need something like Samba or VSCode for Home Assistant to see the files. In the settings.js file there is property called adminAuth. This is commented out for me but it may be active for you. Try commenting that section out if it is present and see it that helps.
PS. I have not tried this for my self and is just an educated guess on my part so i do not know if this will have adverse affects to your system. try it at your discretion.
take my money!
@@davidbeiler6364 😂
bonkers
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