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Recomend a Mini PC to host home assistant on (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by x4740N@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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must not add insane amounts of cost to my power bill
Has to be upgradable if I need to add upgrades to the hardware in the future
Has a speaker
may want to possibly also set up node red but it depends on if I need it or not because I may just be fine with home assistants automation
has to have wireless connectivity
mainly setting this up to add automation around my reolink cameras linked through the reolink home hub for example getting a second camera in the same area to start recording when one detects motion or link other smart home security products like sirens or floodlights

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the sort of nerdery I'm here for! Pray tell, how would you go about using those temperature glyphs with a phone keyboard?

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Since a long press on any key doesn’t bring any of those up, my method involved going to the text replacement section of the system settings, and doing a replacement entry. I copy the glyph from wherever I find it on the Internet and assign a unique string (the “shortcut”) to have iOS insert it. I’ve used a reliable pattern, such as (degc) (yes, including the brackets) for ℃. You need to choose a string that you will never otherwise use, otherwise you’ll be fighting against the text replacement.

Using this method I’ve added all sorts of special characters like fractions ¼ ⅙ ⅛ mathematical symbols ± « ≈ ≠ and even text emoji ಠ_ಠ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and other random symbols № ® ™.

Fun fact: if you have an AppleID-linked Mac, this will all sync over, letting you use these shortcuts on the Mac as well.