Notes for June 28 - July 4

The weather certainly doesn’t help, but I’ve still managed to squeeze in a few interesting hacks this week in between work, flashbacks about the recent reorg (too soon to call it, but like everyone else, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop), and a new personal project of watching every Bond movie in chronological order (which is a surprisingly good way to spend a few evenings, even if it’s a bit uneven in quality). Home AutomationSince I have a love-hate relationship with air conditioning, I set up an additional Tuya ZG-204ZM to keep track of presence in the office and only turn it on when absolutely needed, which led me down the usual rabbit hole of Homekit not having any sort of useful logic to do something as simple as “only turn this thing on if I am in the office and it is over 27oC”, which takes all of three minutes to wire up in Node-RED – but is now undiscoverable by anyone else in the house since it won’t be visible in the Home app. And yes, I know there are alternatives…