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I strongly disagree. On one side, people get to eat, yet conscious, feeling creatures are killed so that humans can eat their "preferred" source of food. On the other side, people still get to eat, animal suffering is greatly diminished, only some people may not enjoy their dinner quite as much.

I refuse to accept that the atrocities that are committed against what we call "meat animals" are worth it to satisfy someone's culinary preferences. You can get all the nutrition you need from plant-based sources.

You're right. It's just the double standard makes me angry. We have millions of cows and chickens tortured and slaughtered every year, and the vast majority of people don't care. Yet dogs are seen as companion animals and not a source of food. Pigs are by far as intelligent as dogs and cats, yet everyone loves bacon.

I agree in part: you cannot create an egg laying operation without culling male chicks. That's why factory farming of eggs should not exist. There's a huge difference between someone having a few hens and roosters that happily live on their farm and a factory farming operation. One is providing a safe home for animals and receiving food in return; the other is exploitation.

Is it possible to use the thermostat and humidifier without an actual hardware thermostat? I have a heater and cooling fan attached as a switch and a humidifier and dehumidifier attached as a switch. Set points and on/off thresholds are controlled by a combination of input numbers and threshold sensors.

I'd love to have the clean UI from the thermostat tile, but it looks like it relies on one unified thermostat device.

While I'm completely in favor of this, it doesn't address the more significant problems. Factory farming and the consumption of beef and chicken cause far more animal suffering worldwide than eating dogs. Legislation needs to exist to prohibit the production and consumption of ALL meat products. What's the point of banning dog meat when cows, chickens, goats, sheep, etc are all raised for meat? Banning dog is a good first step, but it's insignificant. I see no difference in eating dogs va eating the normal "meat animals."

Before anyone asks, no, I'm not vegan, but I'm in favor of coexisting with animals and using what they leave for us (like free range eggs), not murdering them for food.

If the Youtube front page is representative of a general audience, we're fucking doomed.

I'd like to have more fine-grained data than a few leak sensors at different levels. I am curious, though, where are you finding leak sensors (that work) for £4 each? I have a few leak sensors in my house for under sinks and my water heater, and they were something like $20 each.

I was hoping for something that just reads an analog level and outputs a stream of serial data, but using an ESP32 does seem to make a lot more sense than having an ADC, UART controller, and probably a UART->USB interface. Seems like ESPs fairly cost-effective, too.

Forgive me for sounding like an idiot, but how does ESPHome work exactly? I understand that I would flash ESPHome onto the dev board as an "operating system" of sorts. How does one program ESPHome to read the GPIO pins on the board? Do I modify the ESPHome code beforehand, then flash the entire package, or do I flash the ESPHome code, then interface with the ESP chip to configure it?

As far as microcontrollers go, I've always just written my own code, then flash it to the microcontroller with an ISP or JTAG programmer. What kind of hardware/software is needed to interface with an ESP32 device? It looks like the dev boards usually have a USB interface built in.

EDIT: So it looks like, if I understand this correctly, I would use esphome-flasher to transfer the ESPHome binaries to the ESP device, then do the rest of the configuration in HA with the ESPHome integration?

I've looked at ESPHome, but this still means I have to build a circuit board with the ESPHome core device, if I understand correctly? This would certainly work, but it seems wasteful to me when I don't really need a microcontroller at all, just an ADC that HA can read. If this is the best option, though, I'm open to the idea.

I think I might have misstated what I already had. In the past, I have built tank-level sensors using the eTape, but never for integration with HA. For example, reading the level of an RV water tank and feeding the output to an LCD screen.

I currently have no system in place to monitor the levels of my water tanks, other than walking over to them and saying "yep, they're empty again." The system doesn't have to be high-tech, in fact that's what's pushing me away from something like EPSHome; it feels like overkill. I just need to be able to read a resistance level that corresponds to a water level and somehow feed it into HA.

I had considered just using a leak sensor to detect if the tanks are empty, but I'd really like to have an indication of the current level so I know if I have enough left for the next watering cycle or if I need to supplement my tanks from municipal water.

If someone commits a murder, "God told me to" is not a valid legal argument. They'll still be prosecuted. This should be the same. People can practice their religion however they want until it starts causing suffering to others.

Shit, you're right. Edited.

Vaccine exemptions should not exist at all unless a physician (MD or DO, not a naturopath or chiropractor) cites a reason why the vaccine should not be administered.

This what I ended up doing. Did you have any issues adding them to HA? HA is able to detect them now, but it stops at Interviewing when I try to pair them. I tried 3 different types of Hue bulbs (color, white, a different color model), and they all have the same issue.

I don't really want to buy Hue any more either, but I might. I started switching over to Zigbee devices several weeks ago, and I've had a hell of a time getting motion sensors that would work. I've used a few PIR sensors and mmWave sensors. By far, the best performing out of all of them are the Hue motion sensors. I'm not a big fan of their decision to force Hue Bridge users onto a "it's all in the cloud, let us collect your personal information" plan, but as far as a hardware goes, they're orders of magnitude ahead of the other white-label stuff I've tried.

That's a bit different than what I read. I read something like 8 seconds on, 2 seconds off, repeat, repeat. I'll give your method a try.

Why are we jailing someone for traffic offenses in the first place? Unless this was something like vehicular homicide or DUI, he shouldn't have been incarcerated at all.

You're correct about an outside individual accessing your network, but that still doesn't prevent a device on your network from phoning home.

I think most people have at least some open ports, though. Isn't port forwarding required for a lot of online games? It used to be at least.

I'm only familiar with the "controversy" from the headlines, but I don't quite understand what pissed off the conservatives so much. Budweiser just sent this person a custom-branded 6-pack or something, right?

Every company sells their product to people from all walks of life, it's just not always publicized. The fact that they choose to rage against Budweiser of all brands is just ridiculous to me. Now if they were complaining about the quality of the beer, that I might understand.

You should never fully trust ANY device on your network. Even if it's not collecting your personal information and sending it off to who-knows-where, there could always be a zero-day exploit just waiting for someone to find it.