I had a "similar" situation that also prompted me to take back my data.
My heat pump had also thrown an error, but because it sits in a closet (the indoor part anyway), and we don't use its tiny screen for slow TV, nobody noticed until it started getting cold. To make things even worse, the heat pump resets its error messages every 24 hours and retries, removing the error message in the process, so you may check on the heat pump and it shows zero error, yet 30 minutes later it calls for technical service.
I ended up installing an eBus shield in mine. It is a €50 ESP32 device that reports data to MQTT, and HA can pick it up [1] from there.
Things went a little overboard from there, so there's smart electricity meter monitoring, water meter monitoring, automatic valve controllers on main valves, basically anything "house" can be monitored and controlled from HA.
On the bright side I have very few smart light installations. Lights are more or less a solved problem in my book. 100+ years of electricity has pretty much revealed the optimal placement for light switches, and while some lights truly benefit from smart bulbs or relays, the majority doesn't (in my home).
5-10 years ago I didn't care if smart technology had local control, today I won't purchase anything that doesn't allow me to control it locally in some fashion. I don't mind having to tinker a bit with ESPHome or MQTT, that's fine, and for the vast majority of people, a cloud integration is probably the right solution, but I want the ability to operate my devices completely off grid if need be.
At this point it might be easier to point out articles not written by LLM. Most of them are, I just can't bring myself to read them anymore, it feels like a waste of time. I want to read original thoughts and it's almost impossible to know if this kind of content contains any. I'm tired.
Possibly a case of a non-native English speaker using AI to translate or help them do their write up. In either case, it sadly makes the reading experience less enjoyable.
I had a "similar" situation that also prompted me to take back my data.
My heat pump had also thrown an error, but because it sits in a closet (the indoor part anyway), and we don't use its tiny screen for slow TV, nobody noticed until it started getting cold. To make things even worse, the heat pump resets its error messages every 24 hours and retries, removing the error message in the process, so you may check on the heat pump and it shows zero error, yet 30 minutes later it calls for technical service.
I ended up installing an eBus shield in mine. It is a €50 ESP32 device that reports data to MQTT, and HA can pick it up [1] from there.
Things went a little overboard from there, so there's smart electricity meter monitoring, water meter monitoring, automatic valve controllers on main valves, basically anything "house" can be monitored and controlled from HA.
On the bright side I have very few smart light installations. Lights are more or less a solved problem in my book. 100+ years of electricity has pretty much revealed the optimal placement for light switches, and while some lights truly benefit from smart bulbs or relays, the majority doesn't (in my home).
5-10 years ago I didn't care if smart technology had local control, today I won't purchase anything that doesn't allow me to control it locally in some fashion. I don't mind having to tinker a bit with ESPHome or MQTT, that's fine, and for the vast majority of people, a cloud integration is probably the right solution, but I want the ability to operate my devices completely off grid if need be.
[1] https://adapter.ebusd.eu/v5-c6/index.en.html
> This is not bad luck. It’s a structure.
Either AI wrote this, or the author thinks this is what humans sound like now.
At this point it might be easier to point out articles not written by LLM. Most of them are, I just can't bring myself to read them anymore, it feels like a waste of time. I want to read original thoughts and it's almost impossible to know if this kind of content contains any. I'm tired.
>"And notice what that question actually is: not an accusation, but a catch."
>"This is not bad luck. It’s a structure."
>"We just don’t control it. The vendor does."
Clearly written by an LLM, so many tells.
Possibly a case of a non-native English speaker using AI to translate or help them do their write up. In either case, it sadly makes the reading experience less enjoyable.
Instant turn-off, couldn't finish it. The moment I sense this style, now, I have to close the tab
Those whole article is very interesting, but it’s AI-slop writing. It’s very off putting, like reading LinkedIn self promoting wankery.