Monday-Wednesday. Can’t remember. Working, hiding from COVID, doing the thing. RMB was a close-contact to her later-found-COVID-positive niece, who’d been working at their house, so we’re all avoiding people.
I did a RAT with a negative result; I haven’t had any symptoms.
Thursday
- The Aussie Broadband integration for Home Assistant was released as part of core. It’s based around my pyaussiebb package, but the HA part was done by Brett Adams, who’s much more patient than I am.
Friday
Upgraded to the new version of Home Assistant. Woo, ABB data. Boo, it broke because we didn’t test with VOIP services. The PR’s already been done.
Around midnight I realised most of my Tasmota-driven lights weren’t working in HA. Two hours later I gave up and went to sleep, with some random ideas of what’d gone wrong.
Saturday
Spent half the day upgrading the Tasmota version on all my lights, because there was a breaking change in the MQTT integration.
The MQTT lights no longer support, the previously deprecated,
value_template;state_value_templateshould be used instead.
Thankfully I was able to successfully upgrade the devices without major issues. The bedside lamp, which is a self-contained LED bulb I’d never pulled apart was … weird, but that was lack of sleep and me failing to apply templates properly.
Fixed some issues in yaleman/tasmota-rs because… I needed to find things on my network!
The rest of the time was spent working on pyaussiebb or playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus. I’m not much of a console gamer, or even a Pokémon player, but it’s basically reskinned Zelda, Breath of the Wild (down to the same fonts and sounds), so it’s fun. I miss rock climbing though.
Sunday
Started mqtt-monitor, a quick hacked-together thing to subscribe to an MQTT server/topic and output data in JSON, so I can grab it into Splunk and do things like this:
Sonde Tracker in Splunk
Built a better antenna holder for my Sonde tracker, went out (twice) and both times realised I had converted UTC->local wrong and … well, I explored some new parts of my local area!
Dodgy but effective.
The tube splits in two, with a short stub at the top that’ll sit in the stand, or there’s a bit of broom handle in the lower half, to “link” them for greater height. The black lump’s a rechargeable Anker battery, and there’s five strong-ish magnets on the base, so it’ll stand up to a fair bit of poking if it’s sitting on top of the car. I wouldn’t drive around with it in “tall” mode, but short - maybe?