Knowledge + simplicity + dry humor and snarky comments = new subscriber! Great stuff, and I can't wait to dive into your other videos! Good luck with all the wayward digital assistants!
Thanks so much for all the videos you have put out. I have learned so much about home assistant from those. I am not an expert programmer but I'm very comfortable with it and I love coding, especially in yaml or js. But jinja templates is so new to me and I get tripped up on the syntax almost always and even using the excellent template test tool under developer tools. So I would love a video explaining in detail about jinja templates, please don't just be focused on basic stuff, I would love as much detail as you can provide. Thanks again.
Hey, I just wanted to say that even though your videos are very interesting, we see a big transition to GUI implementations and/or blueprints. It will be much easier for us to follow without the code :) I get that this approach has its benefits but is more difficult for us noobs ;)
I really like the way you explain your content, it is really easy to follow along. I have a basic grasp of jinja2 templating but would be really interested in what other's have managed to do with it, there doesn't seem to be many comprehensive guides to using jinja in home assistant on UA-cam.
So much info, so little time. Great video. I really want some inexpensive little audio players. Something to play audio notifications. I refuse to buy any google/alexa smart (spying) devices. If I could setup without having to provide account info to register, sure. The just kill the mic. Bad enough with the smart phones. I also don't care to speak out commands. Just me.
Yeah, I didn't cover that part in this one. But in my video on helpers, I talk about how I handle the automating the light transition using the master lights with level script. Although I got through it pretty fast. So I am not sure it is all that step by step. ua-cam.com/video/JpC13mLuiQg/v-deo.html But if you have questions let me know and I can see about breaking it down further.
Love the video so far, but totally unrelated question that sprung up when you showed the Master Bedroom automation- how did you get the lux value from the Aqara motion sensor into HA? As far as I can tell it doesn't pull via the Homekit integration
You sure could. I tend to use that for outside lights. Inside since we are up until 10pm the sunrise and sunset option isn’t always ideal if you want the lights only coming on when you are “up.” Ideally I would have a solid way of knowing when everyone is up and then just use that. The time is a poor mans proxy. Lol.
After about 3 minutes you tell something usefull. Btw totally useless for starters. Show something simple and SHORT. You start with a script of about 400 lines.
Knowledge + simplicity + dry humor and snarky comments = new subscriber!
Great stuff, and I can't wait to dive into your other videos! Good luck with all the wayward digital assistants!
Great, I wasn't aware of using parameters. I always used helpers for that. Learned something! Thanks.
2 Years late, but the phrase would be "passing variables as parameters". You are essentially correct.
Great video. Amazing channel. Keep up the good work!
Never heard of jinja, but would love to know more (not a programmer.) Thanks for your teaching heart!
This was really useful thank you
Thanks so much for all the videos you have put out. I have learned so much about home assistant from those. I am not an expert programmer but I'm very comfortable with it and I love coding, especially in yaml or js. But jinja templates is so new to me and I get tripped up on the syntax almost always and even using the excellent template test tool under developer tools. So I would love a video explaining in detail about jinja templates, please don't just be focused on basic stuff, I would love as much detail as you can provide. Thanks again.
Right on. I've been tinkering with an idea on doing jinja video.
Hey, I just wanted to say that even though your videos are very interesting, we see a big transition to GUI implementations and/or blueprints. It will be much easier for us to follow without the code :)
I get that this approach has its benefits but is more difficult for us noobs ;)
Yea totally. I try to include the gui piece when I can.
I would love to see how you setup your text notifications.
I really like the way you explain your content, it is really easy to follow along. I have a basic grasp of jinja2 templating but would be really interested in what other's have managed to do with it, there doesn't seem to be many comprehensive guides to using jinja in home assistant on UA-cam.
Thanks for the feedback! I will work on a jinja video. I use it a lot and think it can really add to the setup without much work.
Great explanation and examples!
So much info, so little time. Great video. I really want some inexpensive little audio players. Something to play audio notifications. I refuse to buy any google/alexa smart (spying) devices. If I could setup without having to provide account info to register, sure. The just kill the mic. Bad enough with the smart phones. I also don't care to speak out commands. Just me.
Excellent video, but I missed the info on how exactly you coded the step by step increase in lighting.
Yeah, I didn't cover that part in this one. But in my video on helpers, I talk about how I handle the automating the light transition using the master lights with level script. Although I got through it pretty fast. So I am not sure it is all that step by step. ua-cam.com/video/JpC13mLuiQg/v-deo.html But if you have questions let me know and I can see about breaking it down further.
Awesome. Please gibe us more about Ginger.
So much to learn, so little time...
Another great video Jeff. I am very interested in a video on using Amazon Polly.
Thanks. Yea. I’ve been working on that video script off and on for a couple of months. It’s getting closer though.
@@SlackerLabs looking forward to it. Time to play with the big boys with my notifications
Love the video so far, but totally unrelated question that sprung up when you showed the Master Bedroom automation- how did you get the lux value from the Aqara motion sensor into HA? As far as I can tell it doesn't pull via the Homekit integration
Using the Zigbee2Mqtt integration it just shows up as one of the attributes. Not sure if the other integrations dont open it up.
Thank you for sharing. Did you think of adding LoRa to create automation for your garden for example?
I have not even heard of LoRa until right now. But I do plan on adding some automation my garden this spring.
I wanna be a jinja ninja. not a programmer, but I like to learn stuff,
Thanks for the good videos. Shouldn't you also use before sunrise with after sunset as a condition? Would it not just stay true?
You sure could. I tend to use that for outside lights. Inside since we are up until 10pm the sunrise and sunset option isn’t always ideal if you want the lights only coming on when you are “up.” Ideally I would have a solid way of knowing when everyone is up and then just use that. The time is a poor mans proxy. Lol.
Are these not variables or is it handled differently?
It is essentially variables. But not in the sense that they will stay in memory. They only live long enough to see the automation or script run.
After about 3 minutes you tell something usefull. Btw totally useless for starters. Show something simple and SHORT. You start with a script of about 400 lines.