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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
After another week doing internal refactoring on repeatTest, I think I’ll be able to do a release soon. The code to split the picks into groups doesn’t always improve performance, but I have it working and there is a flag to turn it on, and it did improve performance when shrinking an array of strings. Next, I’ll be creating more benchmarks and doing some profiling.
I have discovered Home Assistant a few months ago and I'm still digging deeper in it. I don't have that much devices and/or automation running, but I got RGB LED bulb in the kids room for them to play with, all around the house thermometers and I have hooked up RPi with LCD in living room to it (to show temperatures and have some control over a few remote control mains sockets) and RPi in technical room to handle heating the waer and running the boiler.
Some things are automated, like running pool pump through solar heaters when the sun is out in the summer (based on Openweathermap info) or heating the water using boiler in the winter.
I have also hooked up my robot vacuum running Valetudo (software that cuts the robot from its original servers making it internet-free for your private use) to Home Assistant and I control it only through Home Assistant including power, cleaning of specific rooms and I could easily automate it if I want.
I'm looking into hooking my 3D printer to Home Assistant too, but only for monitoring purposes and just "because you can".
I'm also thinking about using my Home Assistant for my ringbell, but I don't have the audio part solved, not even in theory.
Nice! I want to re-integrate home assistant into my house too.
At a previous home, I put z-wave switches in nearly every gang box, including fan ones for the fans with the variable speed options. I loved it and was sad when I had to move lol.
Now I'm doing the WiFi switches because I've had issues with z-wave here - maybe the walls are thicker? But I do have z-wave door locks, so I'll get those set up one day too.
My same70 (Duet3D 6HC) speedup got merged into Klipper! Additionally a new package and module for prometheus-klipper-exporter got merged into nixpkgs/NixOS!
My project for the last few days has been getting the LIS3DH accelerometer on my printer working over I2C. The Duet3D Toolboard 1LC has one onboard, and it makes sense to have an implementation. Here is that work, will need some minor refactoring once another set of commits goes into Klipper to get merged. It has been a moderately successful couple of weeks for my 3D printing hobby.