re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!

Looks good. I like what you did with it. You should go into HACS and redownload it for the latest version. I'm on v0.2.6 now with some nice additions. I'll be adding optional radar/satellite overlays soon.

Go to config and change your "which storms to show" to all. There's more than one right now.

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redownload it for the latest version. I'm on v0.2.6 now with some nice additions. I'll be adding optional radar/satellite overlays soon.

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Go to config and change your "which storms to show" to all. There's more than one right now.

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sweet! i'll do it.

i'm already unhappy with my UX design again. it still feels off and not what a good designer could come up with. i think i should ditch the blue cards in favor of something a little less obnoxious. just haven't seen anything yet that inspires me.

i cant believe how 99% of the HA dashboard stuff i see on the web looks like this



literally the opposite of where i'm going


my friend has the 2 energy monitors hooked up (hard-wired!) and i can't wait to do something like this:





gonna be straight up FIYA! i want to have the waterfall animated and flowing into his larger consumers (elevator, swim spa, garage lift, tesla charger, hvac, water heater, etc.) and have those waterfall 'segment streams' expand and contract, and change color from green to dark red depending on which circuit is pulling the most energy.

i've already got a plan for SONOS to greet him when he arrives back at the house with say, how much electricity he's spent on heating that swim spa so far that day. something like "Good job, you've spent $7.37 today already on that damn spa. I hope you actually get in it tonight. Also the dryer finished an hour ago. A smart man would go unload it and fold the clothes before his wife notices."

I've already set up my design for his system to include a global 'jokes' database of everything i know about him and his family, chinese elevator, etc. so it can create entity-specific humor for any dashboard.

i'll sync it up with his monthly bill cycle so we can see how close it comes to the actual bill each month and keep a running total for the month for each circuit.

i am going to do a video run through when this sucker is up and going. he's going to have the most entertaining smart home ever.

ETA just added 'follow up' gags. this gets more ridiculous by the minute

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Follow-up gags are now a core Happy Hill behavior.

The key is that they will be stateful, not random. Home Assistant will remember that it just nudged him about the dryer, open a short callback window, and then react if he follows through.

Example flow:

Homecoming Brief: “The dryer finished 47 minutes ago. You may want to handle that before your wife notices.”

Then, if the dryer door opens within the next several minutes:

Laundry-room Sonos: “You have chosen wisely.”

The engine will support:

one-time callbacks
short expiration windows
nearest-speaker delivery
quiet-hours and guest safeguards
positive reinforcement
delayed punchlines
mild escalation when something remains ignored
callback chains across laundry, energy, Tesla, robots, doors, locks, weather, and appliances

That will make the house feel like it remembers what it just said instead of firing disconnected jokes.

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I added more overlays and options.

let me know that that update hits HACS

would love to try out the satellite overlay. can you set it to automatically rotate between all 3 views; say every 5 seconds or something? that would be really cool. i can do it through a script but that might be an attractive feature to have a one-button enable for.

hey aaron, what do you think about this? i am helping my friend from 300 miles away so anytime i visit him, it needs to be productive and forgetting something key to the project could mean a very expensive trip where nothing gets accomplished. this also helps me to remember what the hell i told him to buy

of course AI helped me come up with it, but if you note the tabs along the bottom; there are detailed sections for each aspect of the project (you may have to open the screenshot in a new window to see it full-size) but so far this has been a life-saver.

This is 'soup to nuts' and represents not just the 'plumbing' of networking infrastructure, but connecting and provisioning all this crap, the HA dashboard builds and getting to MVP. once the 'on site' stuff is all in place, remoting in will make the final parts easy like chicken falling off a bone.

with your PM background, i thought you may have some thoughts on this.

I see what you've been busy with. This looks like a huge undertaking and you're definitely going to need a way to track it like this. I think Dallas would have better input on this than me. One thing I might add would be breaking things down to build phases so you maximize your time and can eat the elephant in manageable bites. I can't remember if this is new construction or not. What are y'alls plans for door locks? What always kept me away from them was the battery changes. If a new build, are you planning on getting power to the doors?

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"I'm going to bed. close up the house."

Should know lights, locks, tv, etc.

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We only enter through garage anyway and so do most guests. Those are automated.

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we have kids, 5 doors and a garage door. I like knowing that everything gets locked before I head to bed. I just accept the battery "tax" but a quick swap of 4 AAs twice or 3x a year isn't so bad.

I even put one on my shed because it's super annoying to need a tool out of it and I realize the keys are in the house and I'm dirty from head to toe.

ETA this is great peace of mind for the rest of my family who doesn't pay attention to the doors like I do to be able to glance at the TV and know everything.

The dirty little secret is the smart locks alone can't tell you if the door is secure without something else like your camera or a door open/close sensor since all it's really telling you is the bolt is extended and not if the door is closed or not.

In my example the shed is notorious for this because I often leave the door open while I'm going in and out so just because it says it's locked that doesn't mean squat.