My order of components arrived! It's like Xmas in... (checks calendar) May! I'll probably solder together a few more units soon so I can have them on standby. Heck maybe I'll even run a sale! I'm feeling on top of the world today. 🎉🎇✨

I'm going to be restocking on parts soon. I batch up orders to save on shipping and I do it by vendor to try to spread out my costs. I've managed to build up a decent inventory of the inexpensive stuff, but screens, power converters and Pi Zeros are all low. I'm sure evels will rise over time, but considering I only sell one unit every couple months, it's going to be a while. I don't have the time to run a whole advertising campaign or anything like that. I just want people to be able to have an #OpenSource #thermostat without having to source parts, order custom PCBs, solder them together, hope that they work. It should be easy to choose #FOSS #Hardware, and the software should be easy to use and reliable while respecting your #privacy! I'll die on this hill.

Getting ready to build some more #OpenSource #thermostats this week so I have them on hand, ready to ship out on a moment's notice! If this sounds interesting to you, the full details can be found at

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat

#hvac #OpenHardware #FOSS #FLOSS

Happy #EarthDay If you are interested in reducing e-waste and are ever considering a new #thermostat, please keep the #HestiaPi in mind. We've been supporting these open source, wifi enabled #thermostats for 5 years and counting. We will not #sunset this device and leave you hanging! We'll keep making the #hardware as long as we can get the parts. The #software will continue to be updated and features added. It's up to you to use them to save #energy.

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat

It feels good to have your contributions accepted upstream. 😎

GitHub

Updating documentation and examples by hestiahacker · Pull Request #948 · Telmate/terraform-provider-proxmox

This closes #932 Updated examples to use the new disks syntax Added the cloudini_cdrom_storage (now a required argument) and boot order (to work a...

#Proxmox #SelfHosting #Terraform #SelfHoster Running your own server farm is new age #homesteading 🤣

I think I may have found the pogo pin I have been looking for. This is super exciting because it will allow me to build #HestiaPi #thermostats with a #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W AND still have a functional reset button on the side. Currently, I can build units with the Zero 2, but there's no way to reset it. Instead, you have to flip the breaker to the furnace/air conditioning to power cycle it (assuming you can't access the web interface for some reason). While this isn't the end of the world, it's nice to be able to reboot easily when necessary.

I'm doing my taxes and I found that I'm only about $115 in the hole over the past 3 years for my efforts to make #HestiaPi #thermostats available to people! This is good news because I've spent thousands of dollars on this project, so it feels really good to be almost there. Of course if I got to $1 in the black, it'd mean I was paid a dollar for literally thousands of hours of work, but I'm just going to not think about that 🫣 #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware #IoT #GrowNostr

Building some new #HestaiPi boards today. What do you think? Look good to you? #OpenSource #IoT #OpenHardware #FOSS #tech #FreedomTech #hacking in the old school way.

Haven't had any #HestiaPi orders for a while. If anyone is ready to ditch their #Google #Nest and go completely open source, I'd be happy go help! No dependence on any cloud services, or even the internet for that matter. But you still get wifi contols. Pretty cool, eh?

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat

Another Monday, another day of surfing the bug tracker for the #Terraform provider for #Proxmox. I'm short on time today, so I can't test one thing that I'd like to test, but still trying to make it clear which issues will be fixed in the upcoming version 3.0 release and what workarounds exist to get people by until the new release drops. If you think #OpenSource development is thankless, try managing the issue tracker (linking issues, reproducing issues, finding workarounds, detemining what conditions cause the failure, etc.) on a #FOSS project! It's still worth the effort though. ❤️ This is why we can have nice things.

For anyone who is just now discovering me, hello 👋. I build, maintain and sell #OpenSource #thermostats. They can be #WiFi controlled & respect your #privacy. Unlike the #Google #Nest, or the #Honeywell or #Amazon ones, they don't phone home with data about you to be sold to the highest bidder.

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat

10% off for anyone who wants to pay in #bitcoin!

I spent some time of Proxmox tickets today and more time putting together some #HestiaPi kits. I'm down to 4 units left in stock, but at the rate I sell them, that's about a 4 month supply. 😂 It's all good. The people who want them are able to buy them, and that's what is most important. Selling a product that is #OpenSource, just does what it says on the tin, and is still getting upgrades nearly 5 years later isn't the type of thing people write home about, even if it is a rare gem. 😄 #OpenHardware #GrowNostr #hardware #thermostat #IoT

Wow, this one person is just being a complete ASS of the #Proxmox issue tracker lately. He just refuses to provide a simple example that illustrates the issue he claims to be having and then repeatedly insinuates that the problem is me not understanding terraform or being a bad communicator or using philosophical jargon like "simple example". It's like... look man, I'm a contributor to the Proxmox provider for #Terraform, the project that you are posting your issue to, and I spend hours every week helping people out. I'm pretty sure I can read a terraform file. The point is that I don't want to go through your complex production code which has a bunch of hardcoded things that I need to change to repro your issue, and a bunch more code that is not even related to your issue. But he absolutely refuses to meet me part way. So I'm stepping away for a bit. I don't need that toxicity in my life. 🖕

I'm working on helping people with #Proxmox again. Surfing the issue tracker, testing things out and reporting back with workarounds and information that will help get a proper fix in place. If you post on #OpenSource issue trackers: 1. Thank you 2. Please provide enough info for others to recreate the issue as easily as possible 3. If someone who is trying to help you tells you that your issue is separate from the one you commented on, and asks that you create a different issue to track that different bug, please just do it without any snide remarks We're all volunteers here. None of us get paid for our time and effort. And we are on your side, so please try to work with us. Because eventually, our patients will wear out and we'll either snap at you, ignore your posts, or both.

Got a report about hardware not working when the person received it. I tested it after I built it, but maybe it got damaged in shipping? The customer gave amazing debugging information and I was able to provide a workaround in my first resoonse. After getting his second message, I think we narrowed down the issue to either a bad sensor or a bad i2c controller on the pi. I've never had troubleshooting go so smoothly. I'm also planning on updating the troubleshooting section of the owner's manual. That way people can be more self-sufficient, and also get help after I pass away.

Another day of helping people out by surfing the issue tracker of the #terraform provider for #proxmox. Responded to some tickets. Submitted some merge requests with new/improved documentation. It feels good to help fellow #selfhosters.

Today is Monday, so I'm going through issues on the issue tracker on the #proxmox provider for #terraform and testing out as many issues as I can and reporting back to people who had questions. I don't have much in the way of money, so this is my way of contributing to the #OpenSource project. #FOSS for life!

#OpenSource is the solution to companies disrespecting you (their customers).

We Own All Rights to all Data Collected via Products Purchased by You.

I just learned that not only are #RaspberryPi Zero 2's in stock, but the limit of "one unit per order" has been lifted. This is great news for people like me who build #OpenSource thermostats. It mean the price of the pi has dropped by about $5 each because I don't have to pay $7 shipping per device; I can pay $7 for several devices. Hopefully I can sell 1-2 #HestiaPi #thermostats soon so I can stock up while this lasts. If you know anyone who was on the fence, now would be a great time to buy! ❤️

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat

OMG, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W's are available in quantities of more than just one! Quick, someone buy a HestiaPi or two so I can afford to put in a parts order before they sell out!

Tindie

HestiaPi ONE (Silent) by Eternal Sunshine on Tindie

Open source smart themostat