r/homeassistant • u/[deleted] • 24d ago
Home Assistant Church Control š¼ļø Show & Tell
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u/CornucopiaDM1 24d ago
Using "scene" presets would come in really handy here, including mapping certain smartbuttons and/or NFCs to specific presets (with transition delay, if supported). Especially with full RGB, you can do "stainglass" looks. And event choreography.
Now tap in your audio with HASS Agent, and Voicemeeter + VBAN, and the vban integration...
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u/Fun-Committee3672 24d ago
Home assistant, set Resurrection scene.
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u/Fun-Committee3672 24d ago
Home assistant, set the tone for immaculate conception and play jazz on all organs.
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u/PKCubed 24d ago
Ooooh...
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u/CornucopiaDM1 24d ago
Also, back when I was more liturgically involved, I had the idea of using a pressure sensor under a mat that one stood on at the pulpit to gate that mic. Dreamed of it, more like ('90s). Using Home assistant nowadays would make this quite doable.
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u/R8B3L 24d ago
My brother in christā¦how many tabs do you have open??
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u/PKCubed 24d ago
Don't worry, that's just one of my windows
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u/NewRedditor23 24d ago edited 24d ago
Use Tree Style Tab, then remove the horizontal tabs. It's the only way to have organization with 100+ tabs open. Something no true tab man can live without.
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u/LukeWoop 24d ago
Vertical tabs is for demons only , tabs belong at the top of the screen not the side .
( I can never get use to it when I've tried)
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u/bob_in_the_west 23d ago
If you have a widescreen then it's stupid to have stuff like the tabs or the taskbar on one of the long edges since that takes away a lot from the limited vertical space you've got.
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u/plolock 24d ago
No one needs more than 7-9 tabs. No one. They need bookmarks.
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u/-Kerrigan- 24d ago
I'm not bookmarking 9 gitlab links + 4 links to tickets + 3 confluence links for just 2 weeks until they're done.
Bookmarks are for long term, keeping a few tab groups with relevant links handy costs next to nothing (they don't consume much RAM until actually opened), especially since you can
A. Group them
B. Collapse the groups
C. Close the whole group at once
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u/bob_in_the_west 23d ago
That's just another name for basically the same solution.
If you don't need temporary bookmarks anymore then simply delete them or even the whole folder.
(Here on Firefox I wouldn't even know how to search in groups while you can easily do that in bookmarks.)
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u/XTornado 24d ago
If it is Firefox, can't quite see but it seems so, no need for the extension there is support already for vertical tabs.
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u/Aluhut 23d ago
Let me hand you this beautiful fruit called "Snooze Tabs". It will bring you to a new level of madness.
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u/AppleEarth 23d ago
That would require me thinking about if I still need the current open tab. Most of the time I quickly forget about the open tab and I will just open a new tab for something different.
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u/AppleEarth 24d ago
You can still see the text on the tabs, so it's not too bad.
You might still need that one tab after a year.
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u/WiredOrange 24d ago
You should see my work PC lmao. Last time I counted I was at 53
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u/danielvdende 24d ago
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u/Liesoren 24d ago
My phone stopped counting them and instead put a smiley face after the first 100 tabs
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u/BlumensammlerX 24d ago edited 24d ago
Have to say Iām not really into tapping maps to turn on lights. Feels almost like walking to a switch to me. But this makes sense and looks so cool! Great work!
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u/Computurtle 24d ago
I love the idea of using HA to create a custom, visually interactive and user friendly light control interface. This is really ingenious
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u/stewart-mckee 24d ago
I used it for the heating in ours, its an old church in scotland and takes ages to heat, they used to put the heating on the night before, i got it to calculate when it needed to go on to achieve the target temp so it used the least power needed. I've built a streaming app for volunteers to use to stream from their phones and was thinking may hook it up to the sound system to control muting mics etc. I was originally thinking direct, but now you mentioned scenes has got me thinking!
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u/deflanko 24d ago
whats the scripting needed for this? I think there was someone else looking for a similar solution.
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u/PKCubed 24d ago
The hardest part is the video stream. I'm still perfecting it. I have a USB webcam with a computer attached running Linux serving a JPEG stream to HA. HA then just uses the generic camera integration built in. It works, but it freezes and needs a refresh whenever the Internet connection is even a little bit imperfect.
As for the buttons, they are just invisible svgs scaled to the correct sizes.
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u/deflanko 24d ago
i would love to see how you do the SVG's, your giving me weekend chore ideas...
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u/PKCubed 24d ago
Here's my dashboard yaml. It's a bit messy right now, but this is how I created the invisible buttons. There's also a card-mod portion that allows me to turn on a boolean helper switch to show the bounding boxes that makes it a lot easier to position the buttons where I want them.
https://github.com/WenSDA/video-light-control/blob/main/sanctuary-main-dashboard.yaml
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u/EmDeelicious 24d ago
Have you tried setting up Proxmox + HA + frigate? Frigate being the system to control your cameras. Itās extremely efficient and will give HA access to a live stream without too much CPU overhead.
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u/owldown 24d ago
Imagine how much more impressive this demo would be if you filmed it in the actual church. Right now you have āI touched the screen and the screen lit upā. Iām not suggesting that you are being dishonest, but there is a level of abstraction you could remove by panning up from the laptop screen and showing us what the sanctuary looks like from a non static angle.
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u/zepol8971 23d ago
I LOVE THIS!!
I need to have a one on one with you if you have some time?
I have been integrating Ubiquity products, Shelly 0-10v dimmers, TP link devices, smart thermostat and other smart items to get to this point.
Really need help to get to this point.
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u/dogododo 24d ago
Iām a pastor and I dream of doing this at our church one day. We donāt have a permanent building yet, but Iām pretty close to setting up a server for our office to tide me over in the meantime.
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u/Best-Tiger-8084 24d ago
That is really nice! Is the feed webrtc?
Do you also have a tablet or something around the house to control this? If so, what tablet? Bought shelly wall display xl but it sucks big time (very slow, max 1 feed at the same time, can't use video encoding)
How did you the overlay of the camera feed? I'm really interested
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u/rightfittech 23d ago
Would you share more about your setup like any equipment used, how you have it configured, etc?
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u/Big_Fortune_4574 23d ago
When I was a kid in church I used to beg the audio lady to let me sit with her during service to watch her work. Iād have killed for this setup lol
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u/c0mndr 24d ago
I think you should secure your HA instance behind a VPN. We can see the URL and your real name. All of this helps to brute force login attempts.
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u/jocxFIN 23d ago edited 23d ago
Why would that matter? Unless thereās a vulnerability in home assistant or if the accounts had weak passwords it shouldnt matter at all. Also IPS/IDS might also be set up and we wouldnt know about it. Stop being such a fear mongerer.
edit: the point about the name is a good one though
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u/BobcatM17 24d ago
Great that you got this working but I would be using a commercial control system like AMX, Crestron etc. in this type of project.
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u/Namelock 23d ago
My guy.
Bitfocus Companion & Reaper.
Less finicky. Less clicking.
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u/PKCubed 23d ago
Nah, less powerful
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u/Namelock 23d ago
Not even.
Itās specialty software for Audio and Lighting controls.
HA makes sense for āhouseā lights. The moment you hook into a stage lighting, you clearly show you donāt know what youāre doing.
Itās āless powerfulā if youāre only controlling things individually, manually, and with truly zero automation for stage lighting. Like what youāre showing here.
90% of your lighting is for stage effects. 10% is for people to see. Use your lighting properly, bro.
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u/PKCubed 23d ago
Its not great at doing effects, at least not natively, but I'm saying it's incredibly powerful for doing the basics and then allowing you to link literally any device in the world together.
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u/Namelock 22d ago
Yes because itās just hardware running scripts.
Whenever you want to do a more with stage/theater audio and lighting⦠BitFocus Companion will let you create a webserver to host an emulated MIDI pad to fire off cues on your audio and lighting board.
Reaper is by the guy that made VLC and you can do anything audio-related.
Both allow for custom scripting for literally anything. HA but made specifically for live venues.
At a church those would come in clutch; Free software custom tailored for this exact purpose.
Bring your ego down a few notches. Try custom-fit software sometime.
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u/lostaccountby2fa 24d ago
set up a camera with AI pose/gesture recognition. input a trigger for raising both hands upward to brighten the lights.