Goal:
Use Home Assistant to use Amazon Echo to play Amazon Music playlists
Resources used:
Home Assistant Community Store – Alexa Media Player
Continue reading “Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists”Controlling a tuya smart plug from the command line
Background
I have a hybrid home automation system that includes some old X10 devices, Philips hue devices, wemo devices, and tp-link devices. Part of the system is some software that emulates a Philips hue bridge (ha-bridge) that lets me control devices by running linux programs and scripts. This lets me use old X10 radio frequency controllers and motion detectors in my home automation. So far this has worked great.
Continue reading “Controlling a tuya smart plug from the command line”Finding the Aces – the hard way
Here is something I am playing with.
The starting position is two aces on top and two on the bottom. Shuffle the deck keeping the aces on top and bottom.
Continue reading “Finding the Aces – the hard way”Texas Hold-em stacks
A couple of years ago I wrote a post titled “Finding the aces with Erdnase” where I used Erdnase’s system of overhand shuffle to stack the aces at know positions in the deck.
The positions I used were 10x cards, Ace, 1x card, Ace, 5x cards, and the last Ace. In this post I generalize that method to place the aces at whatever locations you want.
Continue reading “Texas Hold-em stacks”Easy Riffle Stacking
In the normal method of riffle stacking you start with the four aces on top. When you do the shuffles you hold back cards with both the right and left hands, dropping the cards held by the left thumb under the cards held back by the right thumb. At each shuffle the number of cards held back by the left stays the same, but those held by the right decrease.
Continue reading “Easy Riffle Stacking”Adding links to web pages in 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.
Continue reading “Adding links to web pages in Home Assistant”Perspective on card shuffling
The largest U.S. manufacture of playing cards sells approx. 100,000,000
decks of playing cards per year. This can be expressed as 108.
Home automation, part 2
This is an update to https://robertjwallace.com/home-automation-smart-home/.
I am finally beginning to move from the X10 system to a more modern system, despite the cost. My existing system is an hybrid of Philips Hue and X10. To integrate the X10 with Alexa I use the X10 CM19 transceiver with the mochad linux driver, and ha-bridge, a Philips Hue emulator. This allowed me to use Alexa to control the X10 system.
Continue reading “Home automation, part 2”Riffle stack
This is something I am playing with.
Effect
The basic effect is that four aces are placed into the deck at random locations and then the deck is shuffled multiple times. Then five hands of poker are dealt out, with the dealer getting the four aces.
Method
Continue reading “Riffle stack”Another cutting the aces
Here is another method for cutting the aces. You start with a well shuffled deck. I usually have the spectator shuffle the deck several times.
Take the deck back and perform my “two step cull“, which will bring the aces to the top of the deck.
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