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by balloob 8y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17827484
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by balloob 8y ago
You can flash our operating system Hass.io[1] to a Raspberry Pi, install an MQTT broker and Snips via the Hass.io UI, connect a microphone and speaker to the Pi, upload your Snips assistant and you should be good to go. See the instructions
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by balloob 8y ago
Being paid by Ubiquiti to work full time on Home Assistant is awesome. I no longer work early mornings, late evenings and weekends. It has allowed me to start larger projects (user system, Lovelace) and able to break them down in smaller pi
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by balloob 8y ago
It depends on how much DIY you want to do. Snips.ai is the easiest to set up and can be installed from the Hass.io dashboard. There is also Rhasspy[1], a voice assistant toolkit for Home Assitsant. It has instructions and custom components
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by balloob 8y ago
We're working with Amazon support in trying to pin down why this is happening but the support response time is slow. Our end looks all fine and the majority of people are able to link their account. You can try some of these troublesho
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by balloob 8y ago
Thank you, really appreciate this kind of feedback :) I store these kind comments in my notes and whenever people are asses online, I always go through the stored notes to know why we do what we do.
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by balloob 8y ago
Founder of Home Assistant here. Happy to answer any questions.
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by balloob 8y ago
(Founder Home Assistant here) Everything that you can do in YAML + more, you can do in Home Assistant using Python. Have a look at my PyCon talk [1] from 2 years ago or check the available functions in the docs [2]. About the dashes. In Hom
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ESPhomeyaml – program ESP chips using YAML and OTA updates(esphomelib.com)
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Home Assistant and Ubiquiti Networks(home-assistant.io)
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Introducing Home Assistant Cloud(home-assistant.io)
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by balloob 9y ago
Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. As an open source project we get bombarded with pull requests where people have spent time and research to create something without reaching out to us in advance. This means that sometimes the wa
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by balloob 9y ago
I have not used tornado but I love aiohttp. it's super fast (part in cython) and does HTTP + websocket client and server. Their team is are part of the asyncio contributors, they know their stuff.
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by balloob 9y ago
We reload right after you make a change in the UI. Seems pretty hot ;-) If you want automatic reloading when a file changes, feel free to contribute a watchdog component to Home Assistant so people can hook it up themselves.
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by balloob 9y ago
Contributions to improve Open Z-Wave integration are always welcome :) We already allow reloading the most important pieces of configuration: groups, scripts and automation.
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by balloob 9y ago
We are on Discord which has a better experience for our users https://discord.gg/c5DvZ4e
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by balloob 9y ago
I submitted a talk proposal for PyCon 2016 about this but was not selected.
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by balloob 9y ago
For people interested in the tech stack: Backend is Python 3 with asyncio. Source: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant - License: Apache 2 Frontend is a PWA powered by Polymer 2 Source: https://
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by balloob 9y ago
asyncio is amazing. It has been way faster and more predictable. Home Assistant has a lot of small tasks running all the time with the occasional task taking a long time (ie. trying to reach a device which has been turned off). The number o
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by balloob 9y ago
It is not for-profit. We will soon start a program for people to support the project. The published version of Home Assistant is 100% what is on GitHub. Home automation is able to gather very private details of your house. It knows when you
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by balloob 9y ago
Automations can now be created via the user interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3isVVpmiq4 (Automations have been able to be reloaded without restarting for a while now by calling the automation/reload service)
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by balloob 9y ago
Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over
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Effortless Encryption with Let's Encrypt and DuckDNS(home-assistant.io)
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by balloob 9y ago
> How can we reuse constants that are defined in a single place? The answer for this is already in your browser: CSS custom properties http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables On top of that the CSS working group is workin
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by balloob 9y ago
Use Home Assistant to integrate anything in your house. Make voice assistants respond to your commands. Write advanced automations to help make your life easier. Use our Hass.io OS build to setup Google Assistant easily on your Pi. Need a U
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Introducing Hass.io, the ultimate home automation hub(home-assistant.io)
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by balloob 9y ago
Thanks! Made possible by CloudFlare + static website (using Jekyll) and no JavaScript in critical rendering path :-).
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by balloob 9y ago
Founder Home Assistant here. Besides Hassbian we'll soon launch Hass.io: an OS for RPi + Intel NUC that runs Home Assistant and other apps inside Docker. All management of OS/containers is done from inside Home Assistant: https:&
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by balloob 9y ago
Glad you like it! And now I've been listening to Northern loon calls for the last 10 minutes..
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Improving the bundle size of Reactstrap from 295kB to 84kB(engineering.appfolio.com)
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