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.

  • cravl@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Lots of good suggestions here, I’ll also thrown in that a basic standalone automation can help prevent the worst also:

    if valve not "closed" for > 45min
  set valve "closed"

    Edit: use not closed instead of open to prevent brief unavailable states from messing with it.