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

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look at this install guide

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And where the frick were you in 2016 when, as a custom home builder constructing my own home, I terminated my first ever network cable on Day 1 after massively under planning (it cant be stated enough how poorly designed this thing was) and over installing first ever central network closet with floor rack, two 48 port unmanaged (LOL) switches, 12 zone Chinese branded whole home audio, Sony 7:2 home theatre system, 16 cam Poe system with NVR, intercom (90% of time and effort spent trying to make this homemade bitch of a brick be functional), 100% hardwired Honeywell piece meal security system (and why would I want to connect actual cameras to an actual security system??), bleeding edge mesh routers (thank God I planned a back haul system), and a half dozen or so HOT arse transformers (all next to each other, genius) to power the 1/4 mile of low voltage rope lighting and a large HOT tower CPU as server. All of which came online on Day 366 (because frick that one year self imposed deadline to be done with this shite)

I will pat the builder side of me on the back for one thing though that I have since incorporated into every build. A ceiling to floor chase duct of some sort along side rack to run HVAC with various small registers for direct venting at server and rack components. Then again, 10 years later, I'm still painfully slow at terminating CAT cable and have yet to come up with a decent labeling system at rough in wire pull, or convince an electrician to not frick up my poor system. As for over installing, I pulled over 15K feet of network wire alone. In a 1850 sq ft second home.

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And I am totally stealing that install guide, well done.

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what obvious things am i missing?

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As a weather nerd, I'd like to see the past track of the storm.

Idk the difficulty but I like to see the trend of storms as well. Somehow showing the past 2-3 cones in increasingly fading shades of gray would be awesome.

Dammit. I had to stumble on this thread didn’t I. Through the years I’ve dabbled in smart plugs, switches, lights, cameras, thermostats…you get the idea. And like lots of people those things didn’t always work together. To the point that mostly we use the smart devices like their dumb counterparts. On/off manual switches, etc. I use the smart features more than my wife because I remember what controls them since I installed them.

What if there was a way to bring them all under one umbrella and create controls that work for our specific household? What do you mean there is?!? So, a new (to me) NUC and a bunch of hours later I have the skeleton of an actual home system, not just a semi-random assortment of smart home devices.

This will work well for us I think because my MIL lives in the neighborhood and we have access to her cameras, thermostats, and a couple other items. Now I can put those together in a little container and my wife has an easy place to keep an eye on things.

It’s gotten me excited about home automation again (but probably not quite to CAD levels). So thanks, I guess, for starting this thread. Or I hate you. Not quite sure which yet.