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by alin23 4y ago
Yep, I have the same HomeKit integration, but I mostly needed macOS keyboard shortcuts which are not provided by the Home app. I also needed to control non-HA devices like standalone ESPHome lights/remotes, which Volum can do.
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by alin23 4y ago
I have that integration, but the Home app doesn’t provide macOS global keyboard shortcuts which is what I needed the most.
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by alin23 4y ago
Yeah it’s odd how many of the home automation stuff are thought and created for the temperate zones of the globe. Well it’s hard to give enough context but none of those would work for me. We sometimes take our board games in the living roo
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by alin23 4y ago
Don’t you ever need to step out of the automation predefined values sometimes? I do have most of my house automated, but my pain point is in those rare moments when I need to do something that doesn’t fit anymore in my predicted automation.
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by alin23 4y ago
Yes, I can go on about my automations in the same way, it does feel like a magical home sometimes :) But when I have guests and we need more light for a board game, or when the automation didn’t work as expected and lights are still off at
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by alin23 4y ago
I’ve just had one SD card with HomeAssistant on it, fail on me last week after a power cut. It’s easy to fall into this fallacy of “it’s been working fine until now, so it will keep working”, I had the same thinking. Luckily I was doing res
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by alin23 4y ago
I’ve been using a Pi 4 with Home Assistant for the last 2 years, but I’ve accumulated so many devices in its dashboard that just turning a light off felt too cumbersome. Sure, I’ve automated everything I could, but humans are not predictabl
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by alin23 4y ago
Awesome, the website already feels much lighter and snappier!
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by alin23 4y ago
Nice animations, you probably worked a lot on them :) I just went through a month-long process of creating a front-page animation for my Lunar app ( https://lunar.fyi ) and wanted to share some drawbacks that users will be experie
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by alin23 4y ago
I always felt overhead lights are tiring, and I almost never turned them on since I left for college and had my own place. In the last 7 years I experimented with everything: ambiental LED strips/string, IKEA Tradfri bulbs, 150W LED CO
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by alin23 4y ago
This project was the best thing I stumbled upon this decade. I have used ESPHome to create a wireless ambient light sensor that my Mac app ( https://lunar.fyi/#sensor ) can use to adapt monitor brightness automatically. Even
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by alin23 4y ago
Thanks! Hope you find it as useful as I did :)
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by alin23 4y ago
I haven’t open sourced them in that sense. I don’t want to maintain them for others to use. I just shared the source code for inspiration.
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by alin23 4y ago
I started doing the same but with macOS apps: https://lowtechguys.com Reading about the author's projects in the past is actually what inspired me to do it. I used Windows for a long time before as a power user (living my l
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by alin23 4y ago
I’ve added that feature in Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/#blackout ). But I guess it might not be worth the price if that’s the only thing you want to do with the app.
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by alin23 4y ago
Thanks! Not sure if you’re aware but Lunar also has XDR Brightness: https://lunar.fyi/#xdr In fact the feature landed in Lunar before Vivid launched and it uses a different approach that increases the brightness for the who
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by alin23 4y ago
Yea it’s annoying more often than it’s useful. As always, there’s a macOS app for that: https://sindresorhus.com/pure-paste
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by alin23 4y ago
Well there’s this guy on YouTube who demos all kinds of synths and got a huge following from his OP-1 videos: https://youtu.be/7z4hoazra_g The video shows me that OP-1 is a pretty cool all-in-one package, but it probably ne
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by alin23 4y ago
What are you working on? If you poured that much work into it already, I’m genuinely curious about all the details ^_^
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by alin23 4y ago
The first project sounds like you just thought of a really clever caching mechanism :) if the data rarely changes and the cache is still valid then why not, I think you did find the “proper” way to do it! As programmers we tend to want to g
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by alin23 4y ago
If you want to get paid, projects will need a lot of non-coding work after coding the basic features: presentation website, payment/licensing, contact forms, ProductHunt/HN launch, copy text (have you ever tried to fit what your p
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by alin23 4y ago
Oh yeah, Hammerspoon is a much better alternative to AutoHotkey, how could I forget about it. It can even create simple and quite useful UIs, here’s an example of someone using it to create a stack visualizer for the yabai window manager:
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by alin23 4y ago
How about skhd? https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd I use it to simply bind hotkeys to shell commands in a single config file. Given the full power of the shell, you can even use AppleScript (through osascript) if you
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by alin23 4y ago
It was a pretty much useless key for me at first, but seeing how highly accessible it is for my right thumb, I prototyped rcmd in a day. I got used to it very fast. My colleague also got used to it in the same day, so we thought to share it
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by alin23 4y ago
I use this in combination with my rcmd app ( https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd ) and I can finally say I’ve reached the perfect app/window switching setup on macOS. Instant app switching with rcmd + visual window switching fo
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by alin23 4y ago
Oh right, I missed the question since the link pointed to the answer directly. I noticed some users think Lunar uses CEC behind because they’re more used with it from their TVs, hence the confused question I think.
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by alin23 4y ago
CEC is completely different from DDC. You would use CEC to mostly send commands that a TV/AVR remote would have. While DDC has been created with computer monitors in mind, for controlling things like brightness, contrast, volume, input
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by alin23 4y ago
XDR Brightness is one of those things you can't go back to not having it. I love working in botanic gardens and on the porch when I'm in the countryside, and XDR Brightness has made this experience much more enjoyable. It may soun
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by alin23 4y ago
There's even some competition: https://lunar.fyi/#comparison I'm forever grateful to the ddcctl [1] project which enabled all these monitor control solutions. [1] https://github.com/kfix/ddcct
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by alin23 4y ago
That sounds nice! I always liked http://ciechanow.ski for its interactive articles. I'll explore this idea, thanks!

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