Some more HACS components for you to enjoy!

[@afcragg]

I really love these HACS videos you have done over the last couple months. I have implemented almost every single one of them. Keep them coming.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you like them! Just be careful, don't overdue it - it does have impact on system performance :)

[@afcragg]

Yeah, I'm on a Pi 4 and I definitely need to upgrade my system. Thinking about switching to a PC running Proxmox, but I'm scared of breaking everything I have setup already. If you have a video on this subject, please link it. Would love a detailed video if you don't.

[@michaelthompson657]

Like the sound of the daily sensor and the digital clock, thanks again!

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you like it!

[@michaelthompson657]

@@BeardedTinker me too! Again I’m loving these HACS videos, I always find at least one I like 👍🏻

[@SlackerLabs]

Good call out about checking open issues. I do that one all the time too.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thanks!!! :) It also helps to see if the integration is dead or if someone is working on maintaining it.

[@SlackerLabs]

@@BeardedTinker haha. That too

[@sirgoodenough65]

Don't know if you know, but the HACS Experimental mode interface will soon be the default. No definite schedule, but the estimate and goal from the developer is end of Q1. It is about 90% now needing a couple of backend tweaks, but I have not noticed any issues at all. I bring this up because you may want to vid using it, and suggest people click the box and use the new interface to be on the front of the curve. Also because this is the only place you can see the templates (custom templates) in HACS. I have a couple of those you might want to look at, but there are others as well and these do a bunch of complicated template code that suddenly is an easy button for the user.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you!!! I only have it running in experimental mode on one instance! But nice tip - wanted also to do overall video on HACS - good and bad sides of it etc. So this is really a great tip! Thank you!!!

[@geoffreycoan]

I accidentally turned experimental interface on and then found it really difficult to turn it off. It just got stuck in experimental mode and took quite a bit of time with google to find out how to resolve this. I didn’t like experimental mode at all, no obvious way of seeing which HACS integrations needed updating and some of the information presented like number of downloads I didn’t find particularly useful. Hope they sort out some of these issues before forcing it on us

[@BeardedTinker]

Yeah, it's hidden as in - nobody will look there - probably 99% of people will try to find it in HACS tab somewhere...

[@sirgoodenough65]

Updates show in the HA update panel now. No looking for updates at all, they pop up for you...@@geoffreycoan Also you clicked the box in the set-up that says use experimental mode to turn it on. Turning it off is just clicking the box off. Can't get any simpler. But soon it will be the only interface, so...

[@sirgoodenough65]

Perhaps show them a way to build a tab for HACS with Panel_custom as a something to help with that? @@BeardedTinker

[@geoffreycoan]

The daily sensor and internal media look very useful, thanks; the sort of things HA should do natively

[@BeardedTinker]

Yes I agree - but also, it's nice to find components that improve on what we already have. There are ways on how to do daily sensor out of box, but that's just too complex and a lot of work.

[@PierreLeroy76620]

A scale comparison videos would be nice I could use one

[@uSlackr]

I love this series!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you! Really enjoying in trying all of them.

[@vegaswayne247]

There is also an analog clock in HACS. I like it better than the digital version.

[@BeardedTinker]

I've seen it! That's also a nice one!!!

[@francisdemangejazzpianist]

Hello ! I suppose a pre-request for Body Mi Scale is to buy a Bluetooth Dongle for my Synology ? Thank's !!!

[@BeardedTinker]

Depends. Actually it's better to use external Bluetooth Proxy. I use Atom Lite as proxies, some Gen2 Shelly devices have also that built in, or plain ESP32 board with ESPHome on it.

[@francisdemangejazzpianist]

@@BeardedTinker thanks !!!

[@AndyBa]

What is the advantage between daily sensor Integration to Helper utility meter?

[@BeardedTinker]

Daily meter can do more as it also can track min, max, sum, mean, median, stdev or variation. Utility meter can reset daily /weekly/..., but is just plain counter. You could use template sensor + utility to do same thing, but would be a bit more complex.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Great work cheers!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you :)

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@BeardedTinker]

You're welcome Ron!!!!

[@adifoto6362]

Love the clock and the daily sensors. Good idea to check the open issues on git for the integrations, didn't thought of that.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you liked it I always check because it also help to see if component is still getting developed or not. There are some great integrations, but no activity in over 2 years - wouldn't recommend those.

[@MarkJones-lr2lk]

Very interesting as always. A couple of suggestions for future HACS videos are HASS.Agent and jokes. 😂

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Mark! :) BTW - I'll be removing HASS.Agent from my setup. Last release of it was November 2022 and I've seen some warnings that will be issues with HA very soon. Jokes is awesome one!

[@zyghom]

I totally shocked you don't have NodeRed. I haved good hundreds of automations and ... ZERO in HA - all in NodeRed ;-)

[@BeardedTinker]

What is that NR? 😂 I actually had it when I started but decided to keep it simple and contained - so converted all I had and kept using HA automation only

[@AndyBa]

I also convert all my NR to HA automations 👍

[@zyghom]

@@BeardedTinker "What is that NR? " - this is not a question - this is an answer ;-)