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I'd blitz shredded dried coconut in a food processor, then add the evaporated milk, blend, then the chunked pineapple and blend again. Finally banana and blend a final time.

Then ice, rum and the milk/fruit purée in ratio (3:2:1) into a blender, blitz, and garnish with a half orange wheel and a cherry.

Yum yum

You can use trigger IDs and conditional execution to accomplish this. Not precisely your use case, but I have an automation that manages two ornamental lamps via two smart buttons: one lamp and one button on each nightstand to either side of the bed in our main bedroom.

A single click of either button toggles the lamp on that nightstand. A double click on either button turns off both lamps, and a long press on either button calls a script that turns off all the lights inside and outside the house, by area.

I use trigger IDs to tag the button events, and then use that ID in conditional action logic to toggle the lamps, turn them off, or call the shutdown service.

You can probably use trigger IDs for your upper and lower bounds to conditionally execute your air conditioner functions.

Here's the YAML, if you'd like to see how I use it.

    
alias: "QoL: Bedroom Smart Button Features"
description: |-
  Short press toggle local ornamental lamp (amethyst, salt)
  Long press turn off both ornamental lamps
  Double press call Shutdown Everything automation
triggers:
  - device_id: b11766b6ab9a7ae6f752e70514562f18
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_short_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_short_press_right
  - device_id: b11766b6ab9a7ae6f752e70514562f18
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_double_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_double_press_right
  - device_id: b11766b6ab9a7ae6f752e70514562f18
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_long_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_long_press
  - device_id: 2a9e9c869c5e611e791232491169da77
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_short_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_short_press_left
  - device_id: 2a9e9c869c5e611e791232491169da77
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_double_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_double_press_left
  - device_id: 2a9e9c869c5e611e791232491169da77
    domain: zha
    type: remote_button_long_press
    subtype: button_1
    trigger: device
    id: bedroom_button_long_press
conditions: []
actions:
  - if:
      - condition: or
        conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - bedroom_button_short_press_right
    then:
      - action: light.toggle
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: light.salt_lamp_switch
  - if:
      - condition: or
        conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - bedroom_button_short_press_left
    then:
      - action: light.toggle
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id:
            - light.amethyst_lamp
  - if:
      - condition: or
        conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - bedroom_button_long_press
    then:
      - action: light.toggle
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id:
            - light.salt_lamp_switch
            - light.amethyst_lamp
  - if:
      - condition: trigger
        id:
          - bedroom_button_double_press_right
          - bedroom_button_double_press_left
    then:
      - action: light.turn_off
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id:
            - light.amethyst_lamp
            - light.salt_lamp_switch
mode: restart

Another idea, you could use a wait_for action in the turn_on action to wait for a lower bound trigger to execute your turn_off action. I've used that for actions that turn on a light when motion is detected, and then wait for motion to clear before turning off the light.

Really, you could peel.it a bunch of different ways, but these are trucks I've used in my automations.

I use /srv/[service] for services by the same logic, and leave /opt for local user apps. It's kind of a coin toss though. On another day I night have decided differently.

As it happens I’m actually looking for a smart lamp switch if anyone knows of any options

I was doing the same myself earlier this year. I'd found a European product that was an inline smart switch, like one of those rocker switches they put on the wire for those decorative canister uplights. The switches were out of stock on all the sites that listed it, and the manufacturer website didn't seem to indicate they'd be producing more any time soon.

Eventually I just settled on using an inexpensive smart button (Tuya TS0041/TZ300 over ZHA) to control a smart bulb or a smart plug on the "dumb" fixtures. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but nobody seems to make a smart inline switch anymore. As a bonus, the switch supports double-tap and long press gestures so I was able to program the bedside button with a few functions to toggle the bedside lamp on a short press, and turn off all the lights in the house on a double tap.

It uses a coin battery that lasts a few months. I think I've changed it maybe once since I got it.

It's not the answer you're probably looking for but, my cookbooks. I happen to have a bunch of old cookbooks I've inherited from family members and friends. It takes some research skills sometimes, but it works.

I also maintain a personal blog site which is my online cookbook. It's not only my own recipes, but also a link dump. When I find a good, non-AI article I'll share it there like a clipping with the usual tags for how I catalog things. It takes a bit of discipline, but for me its second nature by now. It also lets me take notes on how a recipe worked out, and what substitutions or adjustments I'd like to make next pass.

The HA Ecobee integration requires a developer API key which ecobee no longer distributes, if you already have a key it still works, but they stopped giving out new keys a few years ago.

On the other hand, the HomeKit integration allows new users to control most of the thermostat's features locally over WiFi. I got my thermostat after the Developer program ended, and this is how I control it today. Once you install the HomeKit integration, it will discover the thermostat if its on the same LAN, and then prompt you to add it.

I have an ecobee I mainly control locally through the HomeKit integration on HA. Just about all of the basic features are covered: setpoints, heat/cool/auto/off and fan on/off/auto. Some of the more advanced features like Home/Away/Sleep profiles are not available through the integration, but they tend to be set & forget.

It doesn't need Internet access or the companion app to operate your system, though it will use external access to track local weather and energy rates. (And probably collect usage data.) The companion app gives access to a few more features remotely, but the unit is completely programmable from its front panel.

It's worked out fine for me so far. My local power utility sells them at a steep discount through their online storefront. Check around for rebates.

Can this be done with foil or metal?

Based on a layman's knowledge of these things, I'd guess that's probably a bad idea there since the microwave reflectance off the metal could saturate the receiver on the sensor. Best case, the hot signal confuses the sensor making it unreliable for tracking objects at a distance. Worst case, it could shorten the device lifetime if not outright burn out the receiver.

Rather, you'd want something to absorb the microwave energy like, say, paint with carbon black in it. It'll still covert the absorbed energy to heat (like your microwave oven), but at the power levels we're discussing you could at least dissipate it somehow.

Edit: just realized I didn't address shaping. What I mentioned above, I was thinking of sticking a strip of foil across a portion of the plastic lens. You could probably form a sort foil visor for the sensor, like a ball cap, but you may still run into issue with false positives and ghosting of objects as signals would now be bouncing around in ways the sensor wasn't designed to account for, if they even get picked up.

Did you launch nano by CLI? Your command history could go back far enough that the command may still be in there. A quick history | grep nano might be helpful here.

You might also need to check the command history for the superuser account depending on whether and how you might have used sudo to access any privileged files. If you had a root shell open at the time, commands were likely logged to the history file in /root, so you may need to run sudo -s and open a root shell before running the history | grep nano command. sudo seems not to take shell primitives as an argument, so `sudo history probably won't work.

Good luck!

Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

Um....

And I genuinely hope it stays that way for years more to come. Cheers.

Oracle Cloud will also delete your shit for the price of admission.

Caveat emptor, hey?

So, uh...

Digital Ocean Is pretty inexpensive at US$7 monthly for 1 vCPU/1GB RAM with 1TB transfer. Decent platform. US-based, alas.

(2025 September, for the archives)

The FAA/ICAO use a similar system to name aerial navigation and fixed GPS waypoints. It addresses the challenge of communicating identifiers of unique nodes in a vast network using VHF communications.

I have some logic around notifications and a few actions. My spouse and I both grew up in houses with heat, but no AC, so I've programmed HA to send notifications to our phones if the setpoint on our Ecobee thermostat is warmer than the outside temperature in Cooling mode, and cooler than the outside temp in Heating mode. Outdoor temps are a blend of three weather service feed "feels like" observations and two outdoor temperate/humidity sensors.

The outdoor sensors are a ZigBee sensor, and some area sensors I snoop a few times an hour with an RTL-SDR radio single via MQTT bus. I have a helper that blends the weather service and local obs to compare with the thermostat. It bothers us every 2 hours to open some windows.

We both also have a bad habit of not closing the back door all the way, so the Assistant bugs us if a door or window is open for more than 10 minutes and the outdoor temperature is below the heating setpoint, or above the cooling setpoint. It turns off the HVAC a few minutes later if the condition persists and sends a snarky notification about not being made of enough money to fix climate change. However, it will turn the heat back on to 60F if the house falls below 58F and send notifications every hour til the condition is addressed.

Otherwise the ecobee does a fair job adjusting itself to maintain a desired inside temp on its own.