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[1684.94 --> 1687.48] And then I've gone all in on thermostats. |
[1687.60 --> 1692.12] So I use the generic thermostat, which combines a temperature sensor with a smart plug. |
[1692.12 --> 1699.12] So the temperature sensor is used as the thermostat data and the smart plug gets toggled on and off. |
[1699.20 --> 1703.12] And I just set the temperatures using generic thermostats now. |
[1704.02 --> 1705.62] It's so much easier. |
[1705.90 --> 1708.70] My first pass, they didn't have generic thermostats. |
[1709.02 --> 1713.42] And so I was doing automations based on temperature ranges and sensor data. |
[1713.64 --> 1714.84] And it was all manual. |
[1715.06 --> 1717.20] And now it's just so smooth. |
[1717.20 --> 1725.74] And so that made it a lot easier to not having to like rebuild my automations was a huge time saver. |
[1725.92 --> 1729.56] And so using the scheduler card, which I will link in. |
[1729.74 --> 1731.04] It's not the scheduler integration. |
[1731.26 --> 1732.08] That's something different. |
[1732.38 --> 1733.66] You want the scheduler card. |
[1733.84 --> 1736.50] I'll have a link to that in the show notes and the generic thermostat. |
[1736.50 --> 1738.40] That is just something built into Home Assistant. |
[1738.76 --> 1741.92] Those two things together save me a ton of ache. |
[1741.92 --> 1753.26] And because the scheduler card allows for things like presence detection, sunset information, those types of things, I was able to avoid creating automations for things that I used to do all the time. |
[1754.14 --> 1754.42] Yeah. |
[1754.92 --> 1755.76] Oh, it's so great. |
[1755.90 --> 1756.40] It's so great. |
[1756.46 --> 1757.84] And it's so fast, Alex. |
[1758.18 --> 1761.44] Well, that's what happens when you have real storage, like an NVMe disk. |
[1761.44 --> 1772.68] You know, Home Assistant is making a lot of, you know, little transactions, which an SD card or even something hanging off the USB bus just isn't optimized for. |
[1773.04 --> 1774.12] It didn't feel like a problem. |
[1774.76 --> 1780.26] But now it's so fast that like, you know, have you ever had that thing where you accidentally like double tap or something like that? |
[1780.34 --> 1785.64] Like you just kind of like have a finger spasm and you tap twice when you mean to tap once or something like that. |
[1785.96 --> 1786.14] Yes. |
[1786.22 --> 1788.88] It's so fast that like it'll hit it. |
[1788.98 --> 1789.62] It'll boom, boom. |
[1789.62 --> 1794.04] Like when I double do that double tap spasm, light on, light off, just boom, boom. |
[1794.16 --> 1795.38] It's it's incredible. |
[1795.50 --> 1798.64] There's just there's literally no delay at all. |
[1798.84 --> 1802.98] And I am so happy with the Home Assistant Yellow using NVMe storage. |
[1804.32 --> 1807.54] I don't even mind that it's running its own operating system. |
[1807.66 --> 1808.52] I'm all in right now. |
[1808.56 --> 1811.66] And it's been funny watching my snapshots as I've configured this thing. |
[1811.82 --> 1817.54] When I first started like a 300 kilobyte snapshot and then a megabyte and then two megabytes. |
[1817.54 --> 1820.08] And now my snapshots are like 60 megabytes. |
[1820.08 --> 1820.34] Right. |
[1820.42 --> 1824.90] It's just as I keep building the system out, like the backups keep getting bigger and bigger. |
[1825.16 --> 1825.64] I love it. |
[1825.84 --> 1826.94] But you are such a nerd. |
[1827.36 --> 1831.22] On my old Pi, I think like the Home Assistant backups were like 1.2 gigabytes. |
[1831.22 --> 1835.42] And now they're like 70, 80 megabytes or something around there. |
[1835.46 --> 1838.34] They're just totally it's a totally leaner, meaner system. |
[1838.80 --> 1840.14] There's a lot of advantages to that. |
[1840.26 --> 1844.92] And I had to take some remedial action with one of my Shelleys this week. |
[1845.48 --> 1853.66] My Shelleys 2.5 that Brent, the wonderful Brent helped me install whilst he was here, that controls my outdoor rear floodlights. |
[1853.66 --> 1856.76] We were down at the fire pit and I had the lights on the back of the house. |
[1856.84 --> 1858.36] So it was lighting up the yard a little bit. |
[1859.12 --> 1865.86] Every 30 to 60 seconds, they would just turn off for a second and then turn back on for 30 seconds. |
[1866.70 --> 1869.32] And then turn off and then turn back on. |
[1869.34 --> 1870.56] And I'm like, what are you doing? |
[1870.78 --> 1871.38] That's not good. |
[1871.80 --> 1871.98] No. |
[1872.18 --> 1876.44] So I go in the Shelleys app and then for some reason the device is rebooting and resetting itself. |
[1876.44 --> 1887.26] So I have to catch the Shelleys app just at the right time where the device is on the network to even get network connectivity to get it to load in the app properly before it resets itself. |
[1888.10 --> 1891.44] Turns out it only did that when it was under load with the lights on. |
[1891.52 --> 1897.36] So my guess is there was some kind of a threshold of maybe temperature, I don't know, being met. |
[1898.66 --> 1904.06] So I did a bit of research and this led me to something I've done in the past on a couple of my other Shelleys, |
[1904.06 --> 1913.74] which is replace the stock firmware, the Mongoose OS that comes on the Shelleys with one of the more open firmwares, TAS Motor or an ESP Home. |
[1914.30 --> 1917.60] There's a link in the show notes, but essentially the gist is this. |
[1918.22 --> 1925.00] The Shelleys ship with non-standard DuPont pin sized, I don't know what you call it, jumper pins. |
[1925.64 --> 1932.86] So you can connect them over USB with a serial device and reprogram the Shelleys that way and manually flash the firmware onto them that way. |
[1932.86 --> 1941.68] But this Shelleys already in my wall neatly tucked away and I don't want to be pulling it out and doing that kind of thing really if I can avoid it. |
[1941.88 --> 1944.94] So I thought I'd try and find a way that does it over the air. |
[1945.60 --> 1949.84] And in the linked blog post there is a tool called MG2X. |
[1951.20 --> 1959.32] And this thing allows you to put TAS Motor directly onto the Shelleys just by using an over the air firmware upload. |
[1959.32 --> 1967.16] And within about 45 seconds, I'd replace the default OS with a single command in my browser. |
[1967.78 --> 1968.24] That's great. |
[1968.28 --> 1971.48] Is it using a built-in tool or is it an exploit? |
[1971.98 --> 1972.84] I think it must be. |
[1972.90 --> 1981.94] There's no, you know, we've talked about 2-year convert in the past, which basically created a man in the middle for these third-party updating things, |
[1982.02 --> 1984.32] which then spoofed the update server. |
[1984.76 --> 1987.76] None of that stuff is needed because the Shelleys are a lot more open than that. |
[1987.76 --> 1995.20] So I think all it was doing was just providing through, you know, when you go to a website and you have like the question mark and then a few parameters after the question mark. |
[1995.90 --> 2008.10] Essentially what it was doing was providing the URL for the update to this custom firmware, minimal firmware to the over the air URL update feature built directly into the web server of the existing Shelleys. |
[2008.22 --> 2012.02] So no weirdness, no hackery going on. |
[2012.06 --> 2013.98] It's just a really cool project. |
[2013.98 --> 2017.14] I see the Shelle plug S is supported. |
[2017.56 --> 2026.04] I actually wasn't really planning to say this, but I have noticed my least reliable device in my new setup right now is my Shelleys smart plug. |
[2026.40 --> 2028.66] I've just had it go offline a couple of times. |
[2029.16 --> 2030.64] None of my other devices have done that. |
[2031.28 --> 2034.48] And I wonder if it isn't the OS because the hardware seems pretty solid. |
[2034.48 --> 2038.52] Well, I thought I'd put TAS motor on there because it has temperature monitoring. |
[2038.62 --> 2048.06] And that was, you know, where my mind went to originally was, well, is this device resetting because there's a temperature limit set in the Mongoose OS that Shelleys ship on these things? |
[2048.54 --> 2050.58] Uh-oh, is my house about to catch fire and burn down? |
[2050.80 --> 2051.22] Yeah. |
[2051.56 --> 2052.52] Don't ignore this. |
[2052.52 --> 2060.64] And when I, you know, throw both the light switches on and put all the juice through this thing, the maximum temperature it gets to is about 50 Celsius. |
[2060.98 --> 2062.24] So it's totally fine. |
[2062.68 --> 2065.06] It's nothing to worry about from what I can tell. |
[2065.50 --> 2068.82] I don't really have anything negative to say about TAS motor on this thing. |
[2068.86 --> 2072.44] I think my original goal was to actually put ESP home on the Shelleys. |
[2072.64 --> 2074.36] But I like TAS motor so much. |
[2074.40 --> 2075.22] I'm just going to leave it there. |
[2075.70 --> 2076.12] Yeah, why not? |
[2076.18 --> 2076.36] Right. |
[2076.40 --> 2076.90] If it works. |
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