That would be illegal. I worked on the software deployment of these devices in a store. If we increased the price, we’d automatically give the customer the lowest price in the last several hours.
The other problem was they were extremely low powered and low bandwidth and it would have killed the battery to update more than a few times a day.
Yeah I always use states when I can but the original post description made it sound like the integration was directly sending a notification. If it didn’t set a state (which would be weird) then you’d need an event.
https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/events/
In the dev tools > events tab you can subscribe and see what events are sent. There should be an event that is sent when it sends a notification. Create an automation that listens for that event
Doubtful. TicketMaster is there to take the bad PR but was designed to get as many fees and funnel part of those fees to the artist. Yes TM has deals with Live Nation that basically force big artists to use them because they have the big stadiums, but Taylor Swift is a massive artist she has tons of lawyers and can negotiate fees.
As much as I love Taylor Swift, I have no doubt that she is massively benefiting from the high ticket prices.
One of the problems with the cloud-polling integrations is that they will frequently poll the back-end APIs to get the current status of that device. A normal user might only open up the app once or twice a day and call the APIs, but these integrations will go 24/7 every 10s-5m. That can add up to a non-trivial amount of traffic. If there’s 100 users opening it up once a day, that’s not a lot of traffic, but 10 users polling every 1 minute is equivalent to 15k people doing something once a day.
I actually saw one of my integrations I used defaulted to updating every 10 seconds. I decreased that because I didn’t want to draw attention to it.
A business will look at their usage and ask why there’s more than expected traffic. They could be running their server on a potato. They could go back and support Matter, that costs money, requires skilled engineers, and cuts into profit margins.
While it sucks, that is something they could point to in a court about “economic harm”.
It just updated on my phone to the new icon. I tried to give it a chance but wow that looks not great. Something about the scale and lack of discerning features.
Mine was flashing my Emporia Vue2 home energy monitoring system with ESPHome
I’m always interested in sensors (got a bunch of home made Air Quality and CO2 sensors) so seeing real time energy was cool.
With the per circuit sensing I’m experimenting with identifying if my fridge is left open, or identifying when my clothes washer is finished.
I’ve been eagerly looking forward to the time when I can replay my Echo Dots with a self-hosted solution, but so far I haven’t found hardware that I really liked the look and style of.