26
Aug, 2023

I want to run an ad on all my Echo Alexa (under Home Assistant)

Accustomed to achieve this with Jeedom thanks to Alexa-API, for a while now, I've been looking at how to trigger an ad on "All devices" or on a group "Ground floor" or "Street".

I found!!!!!!

Like many, I had tested and abandoned sending to a group with the service:

Service: notify.alexa _media _all _les _apparatus

But it didn't work.

For the announcement to be sent, it is enough to tell the integration that it is an announcement.

Here is the recipe (miracle):

Service: notify.alexa _media _tous _les _ devices data: Message: Christel has just left Crossfit data: Type: announce alias: Launch an ad

Obviously, it works with groups, impeccable!!!

 

 

I manage the distance (in km) of each member of my family

For this, I discovered an integration called Proximity

There is nothing to install, it is already integrated into Home Assistant.

Ref doc: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/proximity

Configuration of the integration 

There is no GUI to date, you need to add a piece of code in configuration.yaml

I added:

proximity: Lionel: area: home devices: - person.lionel tolerance: 50 _of _measurement unit: km

On this code:

  • Lionel: will recover the entity proximity.lionel
  • person.lionel it is the entity of the ‘lionel’ person who is an Android user who has the application and who is located.
  • tolerance this is the allowance used to calculate the direction of travel in metres (m) to filter out small changes in GPS coordinates. 50 looks good.
  • _of _measurement Unit this is the result display unit, km by default but can also be m, mi, yd or ft

Result 

On this screen, lionel is 15km from home

dir_of _travel takes the values

  • not set when there is a problem and it is not active
  • arriving

  • towards when the person goes to the target (Home in my example)

  • away_from
  • unknown
  • stationary

 

 

 

22
Aug, 2023

Sigalou Farmhouse

Garage vacuum (or garage vacuum) in progress …

On this page, two types of products. Either products that I no longer use or new products (mainly in Zigbee).

Indeed, when I do tests to feed this blog, I order lots to lower the unit price. I keep the equipment in prod at home somewhere to check its lifespan and I resell the rest of the lot at cost price, which makes it possible to benefit the home automation community at a lower price. You have therefore understood that the price is not negotiable, even in lots.

Sometimes there are price variations after product launches. I do not change the price, I actually resell on my purchase price. If the price goes up, so much the better for you, if the price goes down, so much the worse for me, I may not sell it, but I keep my buying price logic and the products remain in my personal stock.

I can be reached on the Jeedom and HA-CF forums or on Viber, Discord, Slack and primarily via the contact form.

All shipments are made at your expense via Mondial Relais, which is the most economical (from €4.10), here are the prices:

https://www.mondialrelay.fr/envoi-de-colis/tarifs-expeditions/

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24
Jun, 2023

I save my Home Assistant on my Synology NAS (HA>2023.6) via Samba

This is great news, since the version 2023.6, the network storage becomes archi-simple, it is managed by the core of Home Assistant. Congratulations to the developers, it was missing.

So I will give up my backups via Samba Backup. They worked perfectly but required the installation of the Samba Backup add-on, I can now uninstall it and delete my Retex on its configuration.

  • December 2023 update: I had some problems with Samba, I switched my HA Backup via NFS

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