Month of What The Heck?!
Vote for and submit your ideas here: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52
Discussion with Pete
- Home Assistant VS Code Extension
- Rainbow Brackets Highlighter
- Alphabatize Lists: https://libraries.io/github/Tyriar/vscode-sort-lines
- Case Formatting/Underscore Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=marclipovsky.string-manipulation
- AliExpress link to water level sensors
- Pete’s hacked Espresso machine: https://www.hackster.io/xbmcnut/hack-a-breville-espresso-machine-for-home-assistant-control-ec5213#code
Pete’s YouTube video for VSCode with Home Assistant
Pete’s YouTube video waterproofing Xiaomi door sensors
Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa
Easily connect to Google and Amazon voice assistants for a small monthly fee that also supports the Home Assistant project. Configuration is via the User Interface so no fiddling with router settings, dynamic DNS or YAML.
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Pete Stothers
I'm a radio and electronics service person by trade and inventor. I've always loved automation and have been dabbling with it for 30+ years and have only been electrocuted about 67 times!
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Phil Hawthorne
Phil is a Melbourne based web developer who lives and breathes technology. When he's not at his day job, he’s in his home office attempting to simplify his life through complicated tech.
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Rohan Karamandi
Rohan from Toronto, Canada works in the Technology sector as an architect designing network and datacenter solutions for his customers. His passion for technology stems from there and extends to IoT and home automation
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