1:00am and I finally finished playing #civilization for the night. I’m in the modern era and I’m winning by 1 point in “immortal” difficulty (ridiculous term. Second to highest difficulty). I’m about to destroy the civ that is only one point behind me. And the next is 3 points behind. If I manage to win, it will be the first time I have won at this difficulty level, on about the 5th attempt. #civ7

Ok #homeautomation friends. I have a new wood burning fireplace. One of its features is a thermocouple thermometer in the catalytic converter. I’m supposed to use that temperature to help know when to engage the damper. It has hard-wired leads that plug into the bottom of this device (that came with the stove). Fitting a new/additional thermometer to the fireplace is not realistic (I don’t think). But is there a device that can take these leads and can read the temperature? I want to add something to #homeassistant so I don’t have to look at the device and so I don’t have to keep replacing batteries in it. I could hook up an ESP32 or similar with something going to a GPIO or whatever. But I don’t know where to start. Any thoughts? Feel free to boost.

New Peanuts movie dropped this holiday season. #monsterdon

Like any normal #homeautomation enthusiast I just happened to have an ESP32 and a 4 amp 5V power supply laying around. So I bought a couple more strands of WS2811 lights, flashed #WLED on it,and poof! second holiday tree is lit. Here’s a hot tip from a pro like me to any of you amateurs out there. These ESP32s perform much better when you plug the +5V wire into the 5V pin and the ground into the GND pin. If you put the ground wire on one of the communication pins, they don’t work as well. 😛 Don’t get discouraged. One day you’ll be as smart as me. Now to add it to #homeassistant …