Dis<p><span>Last week, while my back was destroyed, I got fed up with running my </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homegrow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homegrow</a><span> lights by hand. (</span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/Snarkhome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snarkhome</a><span> is still having </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/zigbee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zigbee</a><span> issues and I regret ever buying a zigbee radio. </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/Zwave" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zwave</a><span> has been so much more reliable, especially over a scale of decades.)<br><br>I repurposed an old (and terribly fucking unsafe! do not recommend!!) </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/switchbot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#switchbot</a><span> plug under </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/esphome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#esphome</a><span> to run autonomously on a schedule. All it depends on is wifi + internet, and if my internet starts going down I'll just go back to plan A and build one from scratch with an RTC. I doubt a </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/marijuana" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marijuana</a><span> plant keeps better time than a cheap crystal oscillator. (As a bonus, it participates in </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/bigear" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigear</a><span> so I can remove one of the annoying rover boards. Who builds an embedded board that doesn't boot without manual button pushes!?! Ahem.)<br><br>On the first run, </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/HomeAssistant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a><span> sends down the sunrise and sunset times but after that it relies on stored values and SNTP. I still need to test that, but first I want to watch it go on and off for a couple of days. (And maybe make a second one so I don't have to blink the grow tent every time I want to screw with it.)<br><br>I also reworked my traffic light sensor from scratch. Now it also checks the </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/ble" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ble</a><span> illuminance sensor, not just power drain and relay state, and it doesn't go unknown periodically when HA can't get the attributes updated correctly. (Bad news there is that I did not calibrate the power sensor yet, and it seems to be reading just high enough to be irritating.)<br><br>Closing rant: Why can't I CW the post but not the media? This screenshot is significantly less spicy than the text. Not even a mention of </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/weed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weed</a><span>. BUT! Since I have to CW the pictures anyway, you get a bonus pic of Madam Prez (Prez Candy, listed as President Kush x ARC x 91 Chemdog.) <br>She's in flower week 7 and might be coming down as soon as next week. This grow is an experiment in pure low stress training. No pruning, barely any leaves off even, just wired her down horizontally, then repeated on her larger branches once they popped. It seems to have worked. I wasn't expecting much, but they are forming up some lovely secondary colas. With a little actual training it could be insane.<br><br></span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homegrow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homegrow</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/growyourown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#growyourown</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homeautomation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeautomation</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/smarthome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smarthome</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/snarkhome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snarkhome</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/homelab" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/esp32" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#esp32</a><span> </span><a href="https://infosec.town/tags/esphome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#esphome</a></p>