Are you sure? I went looking after I upgraded and I still only have Assist; Scripts; Actions; and Open Page.
Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.
Be a good motherfucker. Peace.
Are you sure? I went looking after I upgraded and I still only have Assist; Scripts; Actions; and Open Page.
Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this
I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.
My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don’t. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.
Fucking hell. Where’s the incentive for responsible disclosure, if that’s the sort of (non) response you get?
Well, at least where I live, phones are banned in schools. So that’s a good start.
This is odd advice, when you consider many kids in the same age group probably have access to (or own) a tablet device of some sort. The only difference with a smartphone is the ability to call and text, and portability while staying connected (assuming many tablets aren’t 4G/5G capable).
Or am I missing something here?
I paid a subscription fee for the option
I’m starting to really hate this timeline. Might be time to pick another door.
It possibly would, but I don’t have any Homekit devices, and I just feel hat this is a simple thing a home automation app should offer, it’s almost conspicuous by it’s removal/absence.
Yep, that’s it. One of my most frequent uses of this widget was to turn the kitchen light off - the teenagers are forever walking in to the kitchen while we’re watching TV in the loungeroom nearby, then forgetting to turn the light off when they leave again.
Having a quick access widget for it just made it such a non-issue for me to turn it off. No fumbling and swiping for the app, and no interrupting what we’re watching to issue a voice command.
Disappointing that, if this was a thing, they removed it. Seems like the very definition of regression to me.
At least I know I’m not imagining it. Or that I’m not the only one. ;) Cheers!
Nah - not a widget per light. Per my OP, I had a widget that had a number of lights on it. The number varies based on widget size. I think mine had about 12 entities on it.
So you can’t possibly conceive that a single finger tap on a home screen widget to control a light is far simpler, and takes less effort, than having to open the app each time, potentially scroll to the location of the entity you want to control, then tap?
Yep, but I’m talking about widgets that you place on your phone’s home screen - not in the app directly.
DCs do indirectly create/support a lot of jobs, though. Construction is an obvious one, but even running a DC requires lots of additional people that often aren’t employed by the DC owner/operator.
I can absolutely attest to the fact that it takes even less than 20 directly-employed people to run an entire DC, including the racks of gear within it. But there are quite literally dozens and dozens more contractors and vendors involved in maintaining the facility and the equipment within them:
And the list goes on. My point is that DCs can absolutely be a significant driver of employment and economic activity, just not all directly.
lol - fine by me. My private searx-ng instance already filters out Reddit from the results, and my Pi-holes block all known Reddit domains.
Thanks for this. Yale was also on my list to look into.
Fantastic. Thank you. Yale was second on my list to research.
Yeah, I’m aiming at quality lock over quality smart. As long as I can get remote lock/unlock going, the smarts will be built into my HA/Node-RED automations.
Good point re keyed lock. I won’t be changing my back door locks, so can always jump a fence if I get desperate.
Ah, no worries mate. Almost got excited for a minute there.