Kay Ohtie (@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz)
blimps.xyz
Attached: 3 images My kingdom for @homeassistant@fosstodon.org to have a means of forcing Whisper to transcribe a spoken number as numeric digits instead of a word. Because of that, and not realizing I could do a Z2M command to start watering on a timer explicitly, I didn't notice my water was running all night and a fitting blew, causing me to water nearly 4000 liters before I caught it this morning. Fuck. Solution: default to 5 minutes. Don't think I can get this removed from my water bill. An expensive personal mistake.

Basically, I was super tired getting home from an event last night and didn’t even notice the water hadn’t stopped flowing normally. It’s quiet so I don’t normally hear it.

Apparently at some point a couple hours in a fitting in my drip setup blew, flooding my peppers planter entirely and in the process burning through nearly 4000 liters of water before I caught it on my way out the door to work this morning.

I’ve since learned there’s a Z2M command to start watering on a timer, but I didn’t know that before and trusted Whisper to not fuck this up. My fault.

Don’t think my water bill company will be amenable to it. I’ll call and ask but, fuck.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    Rule 1 of automation: check the code before you run the code.

    Rule 2 of automation: watch the code run.

    Rule 3 of automation: repeat step 2 until anxiety fades.

    • Kay Ohtie@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I do all three every time I do something new, it’s basically mandatory for me. Every time I did it correctly did numerics tested over and over via voice itself. Timers always behave and require that as well.

      This was just the first time, after anxiety had faded, it had failed to transcribe in a useful fashion.

      Makes me want to look into more-predictable STT systems.