Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 5/9/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 5/9/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I know I keep talking about Kereru but last night on the way home from work one crash landed in a shrub like three feet from me and started feeding and by the gods they look ridiculous up close with their tiny heads and huge bodies.
We have a couple that hang out on the power lines near home - watched one calmly fall off the other day, plummet to the ground and perform a very sketchy crash landing in the nick of time. Gorgeous idiots lol
That's awesome! We had one come and land in our flowering plum tree a couple of days ago. They are so heavy, the whole tree bends. And this is a mature, decades old tree.
I love those bumbling idiots. My favourite is when my dog starts barking at them, and they just completely ignore her.
Anyone got a suggestion for a 2 player board game?
One Deck Dungeon is a fun cooperative dice game. You each pick a class, then have to battle your way through a dungeon. I'm a little hazy on the mechanics, tbh, but I have positive memories from playing it with a friend.
Thinking of building a modest home gym with a squat rack.
Though it needs to go on carpet, but I'm not so keen on the idea of having plywood directly on carpet (especially in the rumpus), with possible issues with moisture and mold etc.
What about getting those rubber gym floor tiles? I've seen those sold at a few places.
Was originally planning on a couple of sheets of ply, and then the rubber floor tiles on top, but was worried about the large contact patch on top of the carpet.
So have been thinking about adding some of those outdoor/wet area flooring tiles that have holes in them, to add some air circulation to the carpet?
@[email protected] I got my Arlec plug working with LocalTuya, thanks for the help!
It looks like cumulative power use is still an issue - as in it can tell me how much power is being used right now, but can't say how much has been used today so far. In the thread you linked they had the same issue, so perhaps this plug doesn't support it.
Does Home Assistant support some way of doing this manually? If we have the history, is there a template that can sum the history for a certain period or anything like that? I think because it's poling it wouldn't be super accurate but it might be something.
Just leaving a comment for future reference, as I want to get some Arlec gear up and running via Tuya on HA in the near future :)
Check out this comment chain that has a lot more info.
P.S. you can save posts. On the website, click the dots next to the reply to comment button, and there's a star in there for saving. To find your saved posts, go to your profile page and there's a tab for it (only visible to yourself).
That's great! From that thread, it sounds like the cloud based app integration does have that feature. I don't have any of these devices so can't play around with it.
It looks like the Utility Meter integration is the way to go. But you could also setup your own Template sensors to sum it up, here's a couple of threads that could lead you down the right track:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-sum-energy-and-power-sensors/172779
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/power-consumption-sum-of-multiple-sensors-entities/266660
I can't be of more help than that, as I don't use any power monitoring at the moment!
Thanks for pointing out the Utility Meter integration. So much to learn!
Unfortunately, I spoke a bit too soon. It seems to display current ok, but power just shows as 0W all the time, and voltage was previously showing ok but now is just constantly saying 1.0V. Gonna have to play around a bit more.