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Linking Google Assistant To Home Assistant 0.80 and above

Posted by Agent Kith on 15 Oct 2018 in Home Automation

Every new Home Assistant release brings breaking changes.

This trend is getting really tedious to be honest, and it really shows the immaturity of the developers of not thinking things through. :crazy: Honestly I never liked the concept of agile development. Developing at such a rapid pace with no time to think through good/solid design concepts may well be this project’s downfall.

They seriously need to have a stable branch for backwards compatibility, and only introduce breaking changes when they are finally ready to make it release 1.0.0. But who am I to complain? I’m not involved in the development at all. So really need to suck it up, and do all the necessary changes to make Google Assistant work again.

Linking Google Assistant To Home Assistant 0.80 and above

Note this walk-through is aimed for Home Assistant 0.80 and above.

Refer to the previous article if you’re using Home Assistant 0.79 and below.

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memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors

Posted by Agent Kith on 21 Aug 2018 in Snakeoil Tweaks
memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors

Bits are bits - and your computer playback will always be perfect. Right?

Do not answer that - the above is a rhetorical question.

No matter how good your computers are - once in a while you may find your computer is running fine one minute but suddenly crash in the next.

The rarer this phenomenon occurs, the harder it is to troubleshoot the cause.

There are many reasons why a system may crash this way. More often than not, the main cause is simply badly written software. The less usual suspects are leaky motherboard capacitors, poor quality ‘Yumcha’ power supply and issues like over heating.

However, there is one component that is often overlooked, and this component can cause unpredictable system or software failure. This component is the main focus of this article, and you you probably already know what that is:

Bad RAM!

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Blind Testing: A Technology Walkthrough

Posted by Agent Kith on 04 Aug 2018 in Snakeoil

T’was more than a year ago when Golden Ears is released. Work on Blind Testing begun on the 8th of Aug, 2017.

Blind Testing: A Technology Walkthrough

Here are some rough stats as of 22nd July 2018.

Project Changes
Web App 2962 files changed, 138921 insertions(+), 14490 deletions(-)
REST 106 files changed, 5679 insertions(+), 3040 deletions(-)

Today the Snakeoil Squad released Blind Testing. So what’s new in this release, now that we have an extra year of Angular experience under the belt?

There are a total of 63 issues in the Blind Testing road map, of which 31 are new features with the rest (32) bug fixes. You can look at the full list of changes here in the change log.

This is a short post highlighting some of the more exciting new changes in this release, plus the development tools  and technologies that powers it.

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