the home automation experiments continue tonight...

now attempting to disable the on-board bluetooth of the raspberry pi and replace it with a USB dongle to see if that improves things

@aaronpk I just got my pi 4 and have been experimenting too. I have node-red, home assistant, Rocket.chat all running on it. Probably too much, but having fun

@handy Nice! What are you doing with node-red? I haven’t found a need for that yet, or at least I don’t yet know what it can do that Home Assistant can’t.

@aaronpk I found this gentleman on YouTube and this video (skip to :58) helped me understand what was possible. I am not a Dev (only a cobbler growth marketer) and I also build chatbots for business, so the "flows" make sense.

Prepping for a new house so nothing "production" yet.

youtu.be/SuoSXVqjy...

@handy Awesome, I’m gonna watch that. I’ve also been struggling to debug automations written entirely in YAML, and I really want to get into some fancier automations based on states of various components. I’m also prepping for a new house, but it’s a long term plan, so I’m putting this “into production” in my apartment right now!

@handy Thanks for the recommendation! That video did an excellent job of giving me an intro! This looks like exactly the kinds of chained rules I want to make, and was really struggling with doing it via just YAML in Home Assistant.