Cheers mate - no doubt I would’ve scratched my head for a bit when I do my weekly container updates tomorrow.

I pay for Usenet - not my fault if they don’t pass it on.

Joking aside, like some others have said, I support many artists via Bandcamp.

Yeah, no dispute here, mate. We’re pretty shocking like that. But I think religion stands out as an example of the worst, most inventive way we’ve come up with to subjugate and hurt people.

As a species, we’ve convinced ourselves that religion should be protected rather than inspected. We let lots of bad things happen in the name of religion. It’s bullshit.

IMO, and without actual data to back it up, I reckon religion (and religious difference) is responsible for the most suffering throughout the history of humankind.

General rule of thumb for me is, if LPL can’t open it in 30 seconds or less, I’m probably safe from most of the fuckwits that live in my area.

The first time or the second time?

The first time was because I was sick of paying the “Australia tax” for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world. The second time was due to subscription fee hikes with associated reduction in quality & range of content.

I just wish Smarttube would support Piped instances - that would 100% complete the puzzle for me. Being able to use Piped on my streaming stick.

I use an ESP32 board as a wifi-based proxy for the BT temp sensors on my barbecue. Works a treat! It’s doable in esphome, so easily plugs into HA.

Details here: https://esphome.io/components/sensor/inkbird_ibsth1_mini.html

I’ve been thinking about exactly the same problem.

We want to give our near-10yo daughter her first phone, but she’s not allowed to have it at school. She’s also getting to the point where she can be trusted at home for an hour or so before one of us gets home from work, so I also need a presence detection method that doesn’t use a mobile phone.

My best theoretical solutions are like those already suggested here: an ESP32 BT proxy detecting a homebrew BLE beacon in her school bag, or detect activity on her iPad/the TV. But neither of those are reliable for all scenarios - she obviously doesn’t take her school bag to her friend’s house, and doesn’t always use her iPad or the TV.

The only other thing I’m pondering is if I could setup facial recognition using our video doorbell. I use Frigate with a Coral TPU, so hoping there’s a project out there that could possibly do that.

Don’t be a dick, mate. Engage just a little bit of critical thinking before calling people names like that.

By law where I am, our kids aren’t allowed to have their phones at school. My daughter’s school’s policy, then, is that phones are left at the school office.

We want to give our soon-to-be 10yo daughter her first phone later this year (times with a planned family trip, so it can be her new camera as well). But if she takes it to school and has to leave it at the office, I can guarantee she’ll absolutely forget on more than one occasion to pick it up before coming home.

So, her phone will have to stay home. But we’re also getting to the point where she can be trusted to let herself in and wait for one of us to get home (like OP, maybe an hour or so). So a presence detection option can’t be based on whether the phone has moved into the geo zone in HA.

This is a legitimate question for modern parents. Denigrating OP without knowing or understanding all the facts certainly does shine a light on ignorance at play here. Just not OP’s ignorance.

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Ah - like a double negative? I didn’t realise I cancelled out my sarcasm with more sarcasm. I need to spend more time on the internet. I’d hate for my sarcasm to be misunderstood.

Lol - the sheer volume of people who completely missed my /s, and didn’t cotton to the fact that I was making a joke about the very subject…

Oooh! A wiki article! Look at you, educating people with science and stuff.

/s

Would they agree if Biden used his absolute power to pass a federal law guaranteeing safe access to abortion?

Jesus, you couldn’t possibly have misinterpreted my reply more than you just have:

• No religious view was expressed - I’ve been a staunch atheist for nearly 40 years, since I was old enough to tell my mum I didn’t believe in any of it.
• I never said people shouldn’t suicide - I’m very much a supporter of assisted suicide. I’m saying that, if the rules around assisted suicide don’t apply, then the default action for people sworn to protect human life should be to stop suicides. You know - the point of this entire post.
• Who said anything about pain? No need to put words in my mouth.

I think that’s where this commenter was leaning, though, with their final comment. Assisted suicide should absolutely be available to those suffering terminal illnesses and the like. But, the rules surrounding it must be very clear and anyone assisting suicide under those rules must be very well educated.

In the absence of assisted suicide rules, or where existing ones don’t apply to a specific case, then human life should be protected, by default.

Ah, got it. Thanks - this makes a lot of sense now. Looks like it’s so the HAOS Supervisor container can manage all the things that, in theory, I already handle myself with external tools.

Cheers!

Interesting about the backups bit. The functionality’s there in the UI to create backups, so kinda weird you can’t restore them. Like most docker containers, my HA config sits on a bind mount, and I just back that up nightly.

When you say add-ons, are there specific ones I’m missing out on? I have HACS, and frequently install all manner of integrations and front-end Lovelace add-ons.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for that.

Sorry - not sure what you mean? I use HACS in my setup. Are there extra features in HACS when running HAOS?