Do you have rtl_433 mqtt auto-discovery set up?

What type of radio is the weather station using? Are you pulling the data using RTL_433?

Boilers are kinda on/off, from a control perspective.
The boiler heats water to the set flow temperature, pumps it around the loop, and repeats until it’s switched off.
The amount of gas used is modulated by the boiler to make the water come out at the right flow temperature.
Unless all the rooms in your house are perfectly insulated, or so badly insulated that they lose heat instantly, ad-hoq temperature changes in individual rooms is tricky to do well.

I did have smart TRVs for a while, but actually ended up binning them.
So my current solution is:
HomeAssistant controlled call-for-heat. This is a relay that when connected, turns the boiler on.
Temperature sensors in each room. This allowed me to balance the radiators so they all warmed up evenly, and also feed into the HA thermostat to decide when the heat needs to come on.
Manual TRVs in each room set to slightly above the normal target temperature. So they’re normally open, but will close if something crazy happens, like someone turning on a fan heater.
Timed target temperatures in HA. So the target temperature drops at bedtime, and rises just before I get up.

I also lowered the flow temperature of the boiler, which improves efficiency.
I’m not 100% sure what you’re trying to achieve in your setup.
But adding TRVs to each room (and having one always-open, like the bathroom) would be a good step forward.

It was such a breath of fresh air when I finally put HA onto proxmox.
“Oh, I actually have resource now? Sweet!”

A little late to the party, but yes, I can confirm that Hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee. You will need a zigbee radio if you haven’t already bought one (£20-ish).
They literally just appear like a zigbee device inside that integration.

You may need to reset them before they will pair.
I forget the pattern, but iirc it’s on 2s, off 8s, repeated until you see an acknowledgement flash.
Sometimes, you’ll get one that takes forever, then the next bunch will just hop right on.
I have several Hue hubs I still need to offload, as I sometimes buy the combo packs that include another hub.

I also found that the response time was a lot quicker over direct zigbee than farting around with Signiant/Philips’ API.

The trick is to buy reasonably open devices, then provide the smarts yourself.
If it can talk to / be configured by HomeAssistant, and doesn’t require internet to work, it’ll probably be fine.

That’s indeed useful information!
My boiler control for the central heating has the very useful function of a 30 minute button.
Which means even if I torpedoed HA in the middle of winter, I could still get the house warm.

Lemmy honestly tends to run on the ideas of “be the change you want to see in the world” and “well volunteered”.
Stick a post up, see if people are interested.
You could message the mods. While they don’t seem to have posted for a while, there are mod actions happening still.
And if you don’t hear anything back, put it as a suggestion to the admins.

Honestly, it’s because it went in early days.
When ML generated art was a novelty, and people hadn’t had a chance to sit down and go “wait, actually, no”.
And it’s an absolute arsepain to replace, because you’ll get 1001 prompt engineers defending slop.
feddit.uk banned generative AI content to make this process easier, and still needs to sweep through and commission new art for a few communities.

I keep wondering if I should open a little non-profit shop, specialising in “cheap home assistant stuff that isn’t awful, that I’ve tested”.
Then I remember the absolute chaos involved in running a shop…

I’m currently eyeing up an Airgradient One, which uses the SHT40.
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough tinkering time at the moment to roll out much more kit.

In honesty, I use the relative humidity readings as more of a “it’s dry” “It’s OK” “it’s moist”, than expecting any sort of accuracy!
I’ve even considered mapping percentage ranges to “moist, normal, dry” in HA.

I mean, that’s where all my sensors are, and they’re doing OK.

My outdoor sensors are classic 433mhz meteorology ones though, as I didn’t want to mess around waterproofing zigbee gear.

Have you considered mounting a door sensor (depending on the letterbox type).
If it has a shutter, you could mount the two parts on the inside, on the edge.
Do americans still use those flag things on mailboxes? As I guess you could also use a door sensor on the flag.

I knew this would come up, which is why I threw in the “ok for consumer gear” line.
I don’t have any super accurate sensors at home to test against, but to be honest, cheap hydrometers are best for vague ranges. “It’s damp”, “it’s normal”, or “It’s dry”.
Which is actually what I use it for: It’s in the bathroom to send alerts to open or close the windows based on humidity and outside conditions.

Compared to the rest of the sensors in the house, when the windows are open and air in the house is normalised, it’s within 5%, which is about all I could really hope for.

I considered this, but was forbidden: The limescale would leave it looking manky.

I think live view is how mine are configured, with a snapshot that updates every few minutes.

Then if it’s clicked, the true video stream is opened.

That’s a very good shout, as it’ll save me mucking about in bash.

That was going to be my backup plan, as I didn’t want to use any more resource if I could avoid it 😅

The good news is, we figured it out, and got the file serving out of /config/www without an auth requirement.

Aha, that was what I was after, big thanks!

So, after a bit of meddling:

The location I was placing things in was media>my media (from the HA UI).
Assets there are stored in /media, and served in 8123/media/local, but require an autoSig.
Changing permissions doesn’t affect the availability, no sig is a 401 error.

However, if the file is copied from /media to /config/www/ , it’s then served (as you said) under 8123/local.

Brill, not too painful a process for a few static images (or indeed if I’m feeling brave, I could just symlink the folders).

Maybe one day there will be a way to upload background images for picture elements cards from the UI :)

I can appreciate that!
I do have standard layouts which are mostly big button to do a thing in the room.
But I also fancied having by-floor layouts.

And you’re right: The button I have that sets the kitchen spots on/off/dim as a group is 10x more useable than a scale representation of their location in the ceiling!