Plus, the terrain near the coast here is an absolute bastard for point-to-point roads.
You’d struggle to make the alternative road any more efficient than the existing b-roads.

The 2010s gutting of social services also contributed to this.
Services that might have helped the elderly continue to live in their own homes, or supported in their community, got ripped up.
So everything slides until they hit the one thing that can’t be cut, a hospital bed.

Do you have rtl_433 mqtt auto-discovery set up?

I reckon culture-grown meat will be the big one that shifts people away from slaughter meat.

Sure, growing it from a culture will still have people refusing on ethics grounds, but it’s damned sight less suffering.

That was the conclusion I reached a little while ago. So I’ve just stopped eating shellfish as a result.

I’m now trying to reduce the amount of cow I eat.

What type of radio is the weather station using? Are you pulling the data using RTL_433?

Boilers are kinda on/off, from a control perspective.
The boiler heats water to the set flow temperature, pumps it around the loop, and repeats until it’s switched off.
The amount of gas used is modulated by the boiler to make the water come out at the right flow temperature.
Unless all the rooms in your house are perfectly insulated, or so badly insulated that they lose heat instantly, ad-hoq temperature changes in individual rooms is tricky to do well.

I did have smart TRVs for a while, but actually ended up binning them.
So my current solution is:
HomeAssistant controlled call-for-heat. This is a relay that when connected, turns the boiler on.
Temperature sensors in each room. This allowed me to balance the radiators so they all warmed up evenly, and also feed into the HA thermostat to decide when the heat needs to come on.
Manual TRVs in each room set to slightly above the normal target temperature. So they’re normally open, but will close if something crazy happens, like someone turning on a fan heater.
Timed target temperatures in HA. So the target temperature drops at bedtime, and rises just before I get up.

I also lowered the flow temperature of the boiler, which improves efficiency.
I’m not 100% sure what you’re trying to achieve in your setup.
But adding TRVs to each room (and having one always-open, like the bathroom) would be a good step forward.

It was such a breath of fresh air when I finally put HA onto proxmox.
“Oh, I actually have resource now? Sweet!”

A little late to the party, but yes, I can confirm that Hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee. You will need a zigbee radio if you haven’t already bought one (£20-ish).
They literally just appear like a zigbee device inside that integration.

You may need to reset them before they will pair.
I forget the pattern, but iirc it’s on 2s, off 8s, repeated until you see an acknowledgement flash.
Sometimes, you’ll get one that takes forever, then the next bunch will just hop right on.
I have several Hue hubs I still need to offload, as I sometimes buy the combo packs that include another hub.

I also found that the response time was a lot quicker over direct zigbee than farting around with Signiant/Philips’ API.

The trick is to buy reasonably open devices, then provide the smarts yourself.
If it can talk to / be configured by HomeAssistant, and doesn’t require internet to work, it’ll probably be fine.

That’s indeed useful information!
My boiler control for the central heating has the very useful function of a 30 minute button.
Which means even if I torpedoed HA in the middle of winter, I could still get the house warm.

I bought it, played a little, but was working 60 hour weeks.
Housemate starting playing on my savegame, so when I next got back to it, I had no idea what was going on.
Haven’t gone back to it since, though I have nearly finished IV a few times now.

Turkey’s main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.

I just run mine without ever connecting it to the internet.
I run an Apple TV (shock, walled garden!), as it is the only device I’ve seen that consistently matches frame rates properly on the output.

This is why I often refer to 4K as UHD: The WCG and HDR being available to consumers is far more impactful than end users having a few more pixels.

(Also because I’m a snarky pedant, and consumer 4K UHD is only 3840 wide, while DCI4K is actually 4096)

“A hunting accident? In the New Forest? What a strange and unexpected occurrence!”

I love my Reolink one.
It’s powered by PoE, which means running an ethernet cable, and either using a PoE capable switch, or injecting the power just for that cable with an injector.
If you’re planning a few cameras, a switch is worth it, as you can power them all easily. Basic ones are £20.

Because it’s powered, it will stream all day/night without worrying about batteries. It stores video locally on a microSD, and dumps clips to FTP happily.
The clip capture is pre-rolled too (30s, I think?), which is always nice.

Currently, I have the feed in dashboards, and I have an automation that flashes the lights and sends a picture to my phone when someone presses the bell.
Eventually, I’d like to integrate it directly into HA so I can speak to people without using the Reolink application.

I like Reolink’s other cameras too (they do quite a few). I have an 810A, and a 510, if you wanted any feedback on them.

It’s a joke. They actually use FXP orchestrated by a third party, unencrypted.
It’s very efficient.

Reminds me of the time the dregs of Portsmouth went hunting a Paediatrician.

In that case, the NHS (assuming they don’t have a separate agreement) will have to reduce the amount of it they dispense.
Our health spending is pretty much capped each year: If the price of a drug rises, then the impact/£ ratio will eventually shift that money towards treating something else.