Starfighter

Starfighter , 10 days ago to homeassistant in Automating skylights with blinds to block direct sun

Additional information regarding Home Assistant:

The sun component (which should be enabled by default) already computes the sun position for you.

Elevation and azimuth are available as standalone sensors sensor.sun_solar_azimuth (might be disabled by default) or as attributes on the sun.sun entity.

Starfighter , 1 month ago to homeassistant in Finally figured out why Espresence was so shit

I don't have any experience with it but this might do something along those lines(?):

https://esphome.io/components/binary_sensor/ble_presence.html

Seems like you can just add it to one or more of your existing esphome devices.

Starfighter , 1 month ago to Futurology in New German research shows EVs break down at less than half the rate of combustion engine cars.

I could only find the Model 3 in their statistic.

• Year of registration: Breakdowns per 1000 vehicles
• 2021: 1.0
• 2020: 1.3
• 2019: 4.0

The best value for 2021 is 0.8 by the Audi A4 and A5, whilst the worst is the Toyota RAV4 with 17.6.

Overall they rank the Model 3 with "very low" and "low" rate of failure.

Granted these cars are still pretty young so who knows what that figure will look like in 5 or 10 years.

Starfighter , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Futurology in New German research shows EVs break down at less than half the rate of combustion engine cars.

For context they seem to be specifically referencing the 12V "starter" battery not the HV battery used for the traction drive in EVs with that 44.1% figure.
Additionally this figure seems to include all vehicles in the statistic, so some part of that is contributed by ICE vehicles.