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Leider etwas enttäuschende Talk-Aufzeichnung über #AndroidAuto aus dem #HackerHotel (insbesondere weil der Ton der Fragen in der Q&A-Session nicht im Stream zu hören ist):

"Android Auto (Flitsmeister)"
media.ccc.de/v/2025-205-androi

Die #HomeAssistant-Integration sollte ich mir mal genauer anschauen, vielleicht kann man darüber einen #Amateurfunk-#Transceiver über die #HeadUnit des Autos fernsteuern.

Ansonsten scheint Android Auto aus Sicherheitsgründen (Vermeidung von Ablenkung des Fahrers) so zugenagelt zu sein, dass #HamRadio-Anwendungen eher durch's Raster fallen, da nur offizielle App-Store-Apps die Android-Auto-Funktionen nutzen dürfen und dafür nur eine recht enge Liste an App-Typen zugelassen wird. Wobei man Funkgeräte-Fernsteuerung vielleicht noch als IoT verargumentieren kann...

Das Beste wäre, #Yaesu, #Kenwood, #Icom & Co würden sich des Themas mit offiziellen Apps annehmen um den veränderten Bedingungen in modernen Autos Rechnung zu tragen.

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The Hue lights were organized in the Hue app.

When I adding Hue integration to Home Assistant, Home Assistant confirmed the rooms for the lights nicely in one screen.

However, when accessing the Hue lights via Home Assistant in Apple Home and Google Home, the lights are not organized by room. It’s a giant mess that makes the Apple|Google Home app unusable for anything but voice access with Siri|Gemini.

Have you migrated from #fhem to #homeassistant (or are currently migrating)? Would you #share your experience, please?

I have many #zwave and #mysensors devices and a bit of custom code (e.g. human centric lighting, #hcl) in my ~4000 LOC fhem.cfg. I'm using fhem since several (maybe 10) years and still struggling with its configuration (as linux graybeard and soft/firmware developer), so I'm considering a change...

Ok, think I need to do the whole #k3s shared storage thing again. As of last night I have both NFS and SMB going, but neither work for #sqlite DBs of course. I get corruptions on NFS and immediate errors on SMB (can’t get exclusive locks). Thinking of trying #longhorn for the shared storage with off-cluster backup.

My primary use case is apps like #homeassistant though, so I’m not sure if I’m overthinking this. I suppose I could configure HA to use a DB like Maria but I have some apps that don’t support this at all to my knowledge, so I’d need something with proper file locking support.

Has anyone gone down this road? Am
I framing this right - Longhorn for most app storage needs, SMB/NFS for larger storages like photos / media?

so, that was fun. with a bit of fiddling - I sent github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya to improve that - I was able to use github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya to flash a couple of smart plugs I had lying around to github.com/arendst/Tasmota (a F/OSS firmware for the chips that back a lot of generic IoT devices like these), so now they work nicely with and probably aren't telling the Chinese government when I turn the heater off. nice little weekend project. thanks to the devs!

This adds a Fedora block to install_prereq.sh, and enhances start_flash.sh to handle disabling systemd-resolved at the start and re-enabling it at the end, if it's being used (it listens on por...
GitHubA couple of changes to support Fedora by AdamWill · Pull Request #1155 · ct-Open-Source/tuya-convertBy AdamWill

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴!

People think my smart home is the ultimate automation setup. Truth is, I run four @homeassistant instances, have hundreds of devices, and half my automations don’t even work properly. 😅

I wrote about the real state of my smart home and some confessions about the chaos behind the scenes.

🔗 Read here: frenck.dev/confessions-about-m

🙏
frenck.dev/confessions-about-m

Franck Nijhof (Frenck) · Confessions about my smart homePeople assume my smart home is a futuristic, perfectly automated masterpiece. The reality? Let’s just say… it’s time for some confessions. 😰

Ich habe gerade testweise #HomeAssistant installiert. Was soll ich sagen… ich denke #fhem wird die längste Zeit mein #smarthome gewesen sein. Auch wenn ich wenig Lust auf die Migration hab. Fhem läuft bei mir seit 9 Jahren und das kommt was zusammen. Aber was HA schon alles ohne zutun mitbringt ist sehr überzeugend.