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Just finished off a giant vat of lentil stew. So good. It’s full swing soup season, and I really want to keep it going. I want to make a soup for lunches this week that’s different than all my normal soups (beans, carrot, onion, celery, garlic, etc…)

What’s everyone’s favorite high protein soup/stew? I’m thinking something thickened with silken tofu?

Background:

• Finally automated my garage door using a shellyplus1.
• the switch terminals on the shelly tell me the state of the garage door (open/closed)
• The switch part of the shelly will trigger the door. Two different 'entities' in HA
• My "front end" is a picture elements card displaying a floor plan of my house.

#The problem #1:

I want my garage door status to be visible easily on my phone's dashboard. This is easy: I just use a state-icon type thing for the shelly switch. The issue is that the icon essentially acts like a light. Even if I choose mdi:garage for the icon, it just goes from blue (closed) to yellow (open). So I'd like a way to change the style, or even the

I finally got both my front door and garage door "smart-enabled", and I have really been enjoying not having to bring keys with me anywhere. But now I want my doors to open automatically.

The issue is: when I take my bike - I park my bike in the garage, so I need the garage door to open automatically. But when I drive my car, I don't park it in the garage, so I park in the driveway and enter through the front door. My phone (app zone detection) is the method I'm using to detect home presence, and I take my phone with me in my car and my bike.

I'd love some sort of clever way to tell the difference... I was thinking NFC tags, but I can't think of a way to do it without needing to get m

I have a brother in Las Vegas who I haven't been backpacking with, and I am looking to take a "destination backpacking trip" every year, and Utah has some pretty sweet national parks, and flights to Vegas are cheap. My bro has a nice off-road capable vehicle, and I would love some recommendations about spots to go for a 4 day, 3 night trip.

I've been eyeing Needles, but the water is so scarce there you'd have to trek it all in. Is this the case for all Utah parks? It's mostly desert, so I'd assume so.

Either way, I'm open to anything, and I assume fall is my only option this year. Maybe late october? Is November too late to go (snow?).

I have my house floor plan laid out in a picture elements card. And for some reason, I cannot use the .toggle function on the cover entities for my curtains. So I wrote a quick script that looks at the position of the cover entity, and either opens or closes it. Seems pretty simple so far. But when I try to make the curtain button on the floor plan run the script, I can't get it to do it!

Here is what I got right now, and I know this doesn't work:

        tap_action:
          action: call_service
          service: script.turn_on
          target: script.toggle_blinds

Any help would be appreciated. I am googling like crazy, but I can't seem to find a solution t

With the deactivation of Dark Sky API, I have been looking around for some replacements, and upgrading some dashboards as a product of this exploring.

OpenWeatherMap integration seems to have everything I need to do the fixing of already existing cards/automations, but as part of this upgrade I was hoping to re-create a view that my old Pebble watch had: a plot of the next 24 hours -- including precip chance, temp, and UV.

Looking at the API docs, there are sensors for all of this data under the "forecast" weather conditions (eg: sensor.openweathermap_forecast_precipitation_probability) But when I attempt to plot this sensor data, it only shows historical data. It's clearly a "foreca

I recently installed my new Yale zwave touchscreen lock using the Zwave JS integration. It added seamlessly (although now after googling around for a bit, it seems like there is something called "secure" join for zwave devices? So maybe I did it wrong.)

The device shows up, and all the bells and whistles seem to be intact.

However: The sensor for "current status of the door" shows as "open" even though the door is closed. So my question is: anyone have experience with this door lock? Is this sensor included in the actual lock? How would it know if the door itself is open or closed?

bonus question: where can I find out more about the secure pairing of zwave? My googling keeps s

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I have an older light that has a single constant current driver powering it (550mA), with variable output between 60-80V. There are 50 total LEDs soldered to the heatsink/chip. I noticed that half of the LEDs stopped working, and after some examination, I noticed that there are two sets of 25 LEDs in series wired in parallel.

I busted out my multimeter, and tested all the LEDs in the series that is out, and sure enough, there was a busted one.

Everything I know about electronics (admittedly, not much, and all self-taught!) says that I can remove that burnt out LED, and it should restore the rest of the string. BUT... it will le

Hi everyone, I recently built a dimming circuit for my new greenhouse LED, and it uses an ESP chip, a PWM output, a couple voltage regulators, and an octocoupler).

I am running ESPHome on the chip, and using an 'output' and a 'monochromatic light' platform I am able to control the light via its 0-10v dimming leads.

The good news: It totally works! Very excited to finally get this light controllable from home assistant.

The bad news: The control of the light is inverted. What I mean is: when I turn the (home assistant) light on 97% or greater brightness - the (actual LED) light is "off". Then when the light is dimmed in HA to <10%, or even

Hi everyone, I recently built a dimming circuit for my new greenhouse LED, and it uses an ESP chip, some PWM output, a couple voltage regulators, and an octocoupler).

The good news: It totally works! Very excited to finally get this light controllable from home assistant.

The bad news: The control of the light is inverted. What I mean is: when I turn the (home assistant) light on 97% or greater brightness - the (actual LED) light is "off". Then when the light is dimmed in HA to <10%, or even when the light.switch is turned "off" the actual LED is max brightness.

My desire is to somehow mask the control of this light, using helpers or some