I bet you read the fine manuals too, dontcha?
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•thermostat suitable for Home AsistantEnglish
1·15 days agoDepending on your comfort level, you may want to do what I’m in the process of doing. I’m still waiting on parts, but this will work for my heating system.
I have old 2 wire thermostats in a few places I want to replace. I have hot water baseboard heat with multiple heating zones. I couldn’t find an existing solution that worked the way I wanted and was reasonably priced, so I decided to make my own. This only works for single stage systems and for which exhaust fans, circulation pumps, or other components are controlled by the heating system generally and not by a single specific thermostat, which if you have those old mechanical 2 wire thermostats is almost certainty the case. You could do more sophisticated, but I don’t need to.
All I need is a relay (controlled by HA) to simulate the thermostat turning on/off. I also need some way to tell it when to turn it on/off (such as a temp sensor), again lots of options with HA.
This can be done in a variety of ways, but I’m using nodemcu boards (they have wifi onboard) and esphome firmware. I’ve used this combination for a number of HA integrations so far. Near my boiler where all of the old thermostats connect will be a nodemcu board with multiple independently controlled relays (for each thermostat to control the individual heating zones).
The 2 wires that go to my old thermostats will be power supply for separate nodemcu boards, which will be in a 3d printed case along with buttons, display, and (in one room) will also include a temp/humidity sensor since I don’t already have one there. The other locations already have more sophisticated air quality sensors that include temp/humidity, so no need to duplicate, although maybe I will for redundancy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled MonstrosityEnglish
3·21 days agoDo you play any games with kernel anti cheat? I assumed a lot of anti cheat systems would have dropped support for win 7 by now. I stayed on win 7 as long as I could (I had non gaming compatibility issues). I feel like it was peak windows. Had they put the win 10 performance improvements in to win 7, it would have been perfection.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got WorseEnglish
2·3 months agoIdk if this covers your needs, but Home Assistant is non-cloud and supports voice commands. They’re selling a voice hardware now (preview edition):
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
While I’ve used HA for years, I’ve never tried any of the voice command methods, so can’t really comment on it. I had just recently came across their voice hardware and am probably going to give it a try.

I also didn’t want to try typing the name, search suggestion helped me. I played a couple of his games and they weren’t particularly difficult, so I assume it’s referring to his later games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomonobu_Itagaki