Tailscale plugin for HA works flawlessly for me.
Tailscale plugin for HA works flawlessly for me.
Nothing outside the LAN. Just Tailscale installed on my Synology NAS, on HomeAssistant and on all my machines.
I use Downie (on Mac) but there’s a video downloader app for every platform. It doesn’t download the ads either 😉
Love this idea. Hope it stays focused on things that are positive.
Rachio is supposed to have a local API coming soon. The Smart Hose hardware is great quality and I’m happy with their app in the meantime. Waiting to see how they open the integration before I commit heavily.
Maybe it’s the definition of natural? Are they created by reservoirs or dams? 
This! I am getting really tired of being everybody’s beta tester.
I know those kind of motorized vents are used in commercial HVAC. (Here’s a white paper on a stepper motor for one https://www.portescap.com/en/newsroom/whitepapers/2021/10/customized-and-reliable-stepper-motors-for-damper-applications )
A stepper would be the easiest thing because if you know it takes 10 steps to fully open from fully closed, you could keep track of how many steps you have sent each direction in Home Assistant and be able to display the current status. 
If you want a knob on the wall that controls this, I think somewhere behind it you are still going to need a control system that translates wall switch inputs into stepping logic. Home Assistant would be able to do that easily. 
Ticketmaster is truly the bastard spawn of satan and corporate greed, an evil so foul and repugnant that merely speaking its name sends chills through all that hear it and sends children running to hide under their covers.
I use these:
But something like either of these would be easy to print:
Wow this is exactly what I’ve been lacking. Thank you!
Can we just roll it all up in a big ball and shoot it into space on a rocket? That worked great in Futurama… 😉