I could imagine attaching a motorised pulley contraption mounted on one (or both) sides of the dishwasher. When you close the door you clip the pulley onto the door, and when it finishes the motor pushes forward and the door pops open.

Pretty sure that’s Scotland, not England (Glasgow to be specific). But yeah, the British government decided carrying a Palestine Action sign was basically terrorism.

I had it on a old pc, running in a virtual machine alongside other stuff, but switched to running it as HAOS on its own mini pc. Just felt simpler.

I travel a lot, and spend time in a lot of random places, stay with friends and such like. My job means that I can set my own schedule most of the time, but sometimes I need to respond to something pretty urgently. So, there’s been plenty of times when I’ve been travelling light and suddenly been asked to pull a bunch of data from a spreadsheet and write some quick report on it, so usually I just ask whoever I’m with if I can use their pc for an hour and get it out the way.

It’s certainly possible do it all on a phone, but it’s much quicker and more pleasant to just use a proper keyboard and screen. And there have been times (like after a ill-advised encounter with a fountain in Rome) when my phone is temporarily out of action, so if I need to deal with travel arrangements on a public computer it might involve accessing my emails.

Yeah, I didn’t find it particularly bizarre. Both are very natural ways to process verbal information. Anyone who’s ever tried to do arithmetic in a new language knows that we don’t just abstractly do math, a big part is that we know that seven plus eight is fifteen. That’s why they used to teach multiplication tables by rote. It would be lot more bizarre if an llm had independently devised a reliable mathematical algorithm.

Using email clients is fine on my primary devices, but I often have to use email on other people’s computers. I don’t really want to go back to carrying a usb of portable apps again. And some public computers have usb drive access disabled, understandably.

Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?

I understand that I’ll probably need to pay (otherwise I’m the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.

What automation for lights are not working for you? I’ve found my light automations work reliably, but maybe I’m not daring to do something too complicated!

Defintely for me. Trying to make home assistant easy enough to use for family members, guests, etc. is a continued source of frustration. I’ve not had time to try out the new dashboard stuff, so no idea if it actually help, but it’s an area that defintely needs improvement.

Adding devices, casting automations, and writing scripts all work pretty perfectly for my needs. But making a visual effective design for a variety of dashboards for different sized screens is time consuming at best.

Are there many aspects of automating tasks that you think need to be focused on?

Yes, same. I’m just looking for an update every 5/10 minutes, so I can chart the temperature throughout the day.

That’s the one I got, but home assistant only sees the switch, not the temperature.

That looks great!

Sorry, yes, small probe on a longish cable. It’s for measuring temperatures on various pipes and hot water tanks to try and understand our new wood stove central heating a bit better.