Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
We paid off the mortgage yesterday! I don’t mean to gloat (especially when the cost of living and interest rates are making things so tough for many at the moment) - we’re not telling anyone in real life though, so I just wanted to let some of my excitement out, even if anonymously.
I’m 38, and the only family help was a $5000 loan from the in-laws which we paid back within a year. We bought really young (didn’t feel like it at the time, but it was - early/mid 20s), so benefited from much lower prices and interest rates (though the first rate we had was 7.5%, that’s also the highest one we had). That first place got earthquaked though and we had to start again from scratch, so it wasn’t all smooth sailing.
The house is old and tired, and there’s a lot of deferred maintenance (no curtains match anywhere, the carpet is shit, and we still have single glazing), so that’ll take up the savings for a good long while. But man, it feels like a weight has been lifted.
Congratulations :)
Just recently got started on our journey - looking forward to the day!
Not gloating but definitely worth shouting into the local void, congrats! We’re a long ways off being able to say that but I’m genuinely happy for anyone managing to get there.
Congrats! That’s an amazing achievement!
no curtains match anywhere
When we moved to our current place I learnt so much about styles of curtains and blinds. We’ve got rolling blinds and pull string blinds and curtains big and small. I remember saying it felt like a curtain shop with all the different curtains.
Thankyou :)
I’ve never really been too bothered about the curtains as long as they were functional, but now I think I might have to look into it a bit more. It’s nice to have the choice. We’ll probably stick with curtains (blackout ones of some kind probably) - I remember blinds looking nice, but being a pain in the ass to clean once they got dusty.
Ayyyy, I’m never here at the right time for one of these because I’m in Europe. Kia ora all! It’s 34° right now at 9.20PM and we’re all melting. I could do with a little bit of winter to balance it out. How is lambing season kicking off?
Soon.
Yep. Had an uneventful flight, now in possession of ridiculous amounts of American junk food.
What children’s bedrooms look like around the world
Link from The Bulletin (Spinnoff) this morning gives an intriguing look into the world through the state of kids bedrooms. Those who have young kids might see their rooms a little differently after seeing these?
That’d really cool (even if it’s a thinly disguised ad for the book linked at the bottom). So many bedrooms look so tidy, even when covered with toys. They should have taken photos before the parents tidied up.
I’d love to see an NZ focused one of these.
I’ve flatted in some places that horrified my parents, but I bet there are worse places that kids are growing up in NZ.
@sylverstream@lemmy.nz (or anyone else that can help), I finally got around to playing with the home assistant stuff. I got one of these, plugged it in, and it didn’t come up as a device to add. I can’t seem to find instructions on adding it manually. Any tips?
What device have you installed it on? I’ve got it on a Raspberry Pi4; I had to reboot it before it showed up. It should show up automatically in Home Assistant, otherwise something is not right.
I’m also using a Raspberry Pi 4. I’ve rebooted and still nothing. I’m running the linuxserver.io docker container, if that helps.
I just checked the docker-compose from linuxserver and they don’t have “privileged: true” which could be the issue.
While linuxserver is awesome, I use it for all other stuff, I’d recommend to go for the HA official docker compose.
I’m running the official HA docker image, perhaps that could be the difference? https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi#docker-compose
On the host, if you run lsusb it will display all connected devices. I’m pretty sure it should show up as “Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge”
Perhaps also try a different USB port, and don’t forget to use the extension cable.
Finally, it could be that the device is bricked, I’ve seen a couple of mentions of that on the internet. Seeedstudio is a respectable shop so should resolve that.
Home assistant is great isn’t it? I started with it a couple years ago, it can be as complex or as simple as you like. I haven’t added anything new to it for quite awhile though
It’s a rabbit hole :D I’m no longer allowed to talk about it at the dinner table.
Automated the lights, device usage for kids (mostly), garage door, my standing desk with height sensor & relay, IR blasters, and panel heaters with thermostats. That’s enough for now :)
Similar here lights, heaters and heatpump, IR blaster, some other misc notifications and speakers and things. No money for more fun gadgets at the moment though :(
I don’t know if it’s great, this is my first foray into it, and I’ve fallen at the first hurdle 🙁
I think it’s strength is the amount of integrations they have, you can just mish mash devices from different systems and get them all under one dashboard.
For example, in mine I’ve got devices using Hue, Smart things, Tuya, Sensibo etc.
