Update: Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists

I stumbled upon https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#what-this-is which gave me the information I needed to directly control my echo device, instead of having one echo command via voice another.

Read my post https://robertjwallace.com/creating-home-assistant-interface-to-alexa-playlists/ for background.

The difference between what I was doing in that post and what I am doing now is in the scripts.yaml file. The code to directly control my echo is:

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Controlar un enchufe inteligente Tuya desde la línea de comandos

Fondo

Tengo un sistema híbrido de domótica que incluye algunos dispositivos X10 antiguos, dispositivos Philips Hue, dispositivos Wemo y dispositivos TP-Link. Parte del sistema consiste en un software que emula un puente Philips Hue (HA-Bridge) que me permite controlar dispositivos mediante la ejecución de programas y scripts de Linux. Esto me permite usar controladores de radiofrecuencia X10 antiguos y detectores de movimiento en mi domótica. Hasta ahora ha funcionado de maravilla.

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Cómo agregar enlaces a páginas web en Home Assistant

I have been playing around with Home Assistant for just a little while now, and while I am impressed with what it does, I find the documentation and the examples to be less than helpful. One thing I wanted to do was simply add a “card” of web links to the UI. Since the Home Assistant interface (Lovelace) is web based you would think that this would be easy.

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Domótica, parte 2

Esta es una actualización de https://robertjwallace.com/home-automation-smart-home/.

Finalmente estoy empezando a cambiar del sistema X10 a uno más moderno, a pesar del coste. Mi sistema actual es un híbrido entre Philips Hue y X10. Para integrar el X10 con Alexa, uso... Transceptor X10 CM19 con el controlador mochad para Linux, y puente haUn emulador de Philips Hue. Esto me permitió usar Alexa para controlar el sistema X10.

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Soy un amante de los gatos

Debo admitir que me encantan los gatos. Tolero a los perros, algunos incluso me gustan. Pero los gatos me tienen enamorado. Algo que disfrutaba cuando viajaba era verlos y fotografiarlos.

Word games for Scrabble training

I enjoy word games like Scrabble and decided to write a couple of games that I could use both for the pleasure of playing, and also as training aids for playing Scrabble and other word games.

Anagram game

The first I wrote is an anagram finding game, simply called wordgame. It shows seven “tiles” any you try to find all of the anagrams.

Anagram game

Word finder game

The other game I wrote is a “word finder“. It can be played on mobile (phone) or desktop devices.

Axtell Lineage

See the book “Axtell Geneology“, my grandfather is listed on page 286.

PersonBirth yearDeath yearAge
Jane Axtell (Mother)1920199575
José Eugene Axtell1889194556
John Stockton Axtell1845193590
Rufus Dodd Axtell1815184732
Thomas Axtell1780185373
Daniel Axtell1748182678Fought in Revolutionary War. Bio
Thomas Axtell1727174922
Daniel Axtell1673173562
Henry Axtell1641167635
Immigrated to US
Thomas Axtell1619164627
William Axtell1587163851
William Axtell1561unknown
William Axtell1541156827
John Axtell1496155357
Henrie Axtell1474154167
Henry Thomas Axtell1435150065
Thomas William Axtell1381141837