I live near Trenton, NJ, running an HDHomeRun in my house. The antenna is pointed southwest. I get the Philly networks just fine, but I can’t get MeTV. Any tips?
Happy Autumn Equinox in advance!
After working extremely hard on curbing excess spending, I finally have room in the budget to hire a cleaner! She’s going to come once a month. Everything looks great. There are just a few things to put away, because I asked her if she didn’t know where to put something, put it in the box.
Now what do I do to keep things looking good between now and then?!
I’m involved in a court case, and I had to write a Victim Impact Statement. In my first draft, I worked in the phrase “shocks the conscience” completely unironically. I decided to take it out though, because I was afraid the judge wouldn’t take me seriously.
Anything like this pop up in your life without you entirely intending to?
Another cut on a toe, another infection, and now we're back in the cone of shame, for a week minimum.
I'm so proud of him, though. He does not do well in groups of dogs. At one point, he was one of six in the waiting area, plus a cat in a carrier. He was so good: no barking, no anything! He did want to run over and see a couple of the dogs, and I just grabbed him back.
Bonus: the nurse at the front desk thought he was so cute with his little crossed paws that she took these awesome pictures (the ones with my feet and legs in them) with her phone, and I just love them!
I have an iOS automation that, when I connect a specific pair of Bluetooth earbuds, runs a script in my smart home and opens an app. That's fine, but I only want this to run if it's after 9:00 at night or before 5:30 in the morning. This is the part where I'm having trouble.
I've tried adding date and then format date and then use the time format, but I can't get the comparison done right.
I thought about checking the place or WiFi instead, but I want the shortcut to run even if I'm not home because the smart home script already checks to see if I'm actually at home or not. But if, for example, I'm away on vacation and I connect these earbuds, I want the rest of it to run.
How do I do this? Running iOS 26.6. Thanks in advance!
I had vaguely known about Actionable Notifications in HA, but not until I added the HA MCP have I been able to implement them. And now I rely on them constantly in my day-to-day life. Here are some of my favorites. (I have an iPhone 17 Pro running the most recent production version of iOS 26.)
And before we get started, the reason for all this tapping: iOS does not let any push notification open an app, run a Shortcut, or do anything else without a tap first.
in_bed mode from On to Off when a motion sensor detects I've gotten out of bed. I added a new step that sends an alert. The noise prompts me to check my phone, I tap the alert, and it opens the Oura app so it knows I'm officially awake and can send sleep data.I can share links to my GitHub repo of my entire HA setup if anyone's interested. If you're looking to automate medication compliance or other necessary parts of your morning routine, I hope this is useful!
The acting was good, especially Matthew Hunt as Colin. >!The ending was perhaps a little cheesy, but overall very fun. I saw the sheet moving on its own coming ahead of time, but it was still fun and chilling.!< This might be my favorite Mansfield pic of them all. On FoundTV now. (US)
Lisa is a little sweetie, probably no more than 35 lbs. Barney is a love bug and so tidy, putting his toy away before choosing a new one! Ace is skittish at first, but he gives big sloppy kisses once he warms up.
All these lovely puppers are waiting for you at https://savehomelessanimals.org! Please share for visibility!
The finest of 70s creature feature American (International Pictures) cheese, with a young Sam Elliott. You will understand why he grew the 'stache.
What should I check out?
Already saw Human Hibachi, and was very amused to see someone I used to know from a Meetup as one of the actors. I might see the rest of the series.
I have a pill I need to take before bed, and I always forget. So I asked Claude Cowork to create an automation. The alarm goes off on my iPhone at 8pm. I have a basic med logger in HA triggered by a Sonoff button.
If I haven't pressed the evening button by 8:10pm, the Apple TV pauses and the lights come up. Once I take it and press the button to log, the TV starts playing again. And I just tweaked it so it pauses 15 seconds before turning it back on, enough time for me to get back from the kitchen and sit back down. I kinda love it!
It’s almost July 3, so see you at the barbecue! If the zombies from the cemetery next door don’t get in the way!
An utter classic, with a killer soundtrack too.
I’m 5’8” and have a fairly large frame. Back in the bad old days on Weight Watchers, I remember really liking how I looked and felt at 175. But that was more than 15 years ago now. I started weight loss shots in August 2024, and I was horrified to see I was 285, the highest I’d ever been. (No shade to anyone at that weight or higher; this was how I felt.)
I got to 199 before my insurance yoinked the shots away. But now I’ve got it again and I was 245 when I started on Zep at the beginning of May.
I’m a size 16 now, and I’ve been saying I want to be back in a size 12. I still had that 175 in mind, but I just realized that’s 60 pounds less than I am right now, and I just don’t know is that even a good idea?
I plan to talk about it with my PCP when I see her next week, but does anyone know is there a best “formula” for choosing a goal weight or anything like that? And please don’t give me BMI, thanks.
Will add some pics in comments so you can see what I mean. Thanks for listening!
Edit: Oh can’t see where to edit user flair here, but tomorrow is my 4th dose at 5mg.
Edit 2: Found it!
Update: Thanks to all who commented. I just checked my lean mass according to my Eufy smart scale, and right now I’m at 44.4% body fat. Getting down to 25-30% puts me right around 175-185 lbs, so maybe I’m in the right neighborhood after all.