Shahzad Khan – Page 8 – My Point of View

ChatGPT Answer to Home Assistant

This is funny;

So you decided to install Home Assistant, huh? Congratulations on your new full-time job as a “smart home systems integrator,” where your main responsibility is praying your Wi-Fi doesn’t decide to take a nap.

Welcome to the world where your light switches will now have more complicated relationships than your friends on Facebook. It’s like your house got a PhD in neediness, and now every single device has its own personality disorder.

You wanted a smart home, and instead, you got a *high-maintenance* home. Your lights flicker like they’re at a rave because the latest update decided your firmware wasn’t moody enough. Speaking of updates, every time there’s a new one, it’s like rolling the dice—will your home be smarter or will you spend the next 48 hours trying to figure out why your fridge thinks it’s a speaker?

Oh, and that dashboard you spent hours customizing? Hope you enjoy re-doing it from scratch every time Home Assistant decides to “improve” its interface. But hey, at least you’ll always know what your neighbor’s Wi-Fi signal is, because your automations will probably connect to that by mistake, just for fun.

But sure, it’s totally worth it, right? I mean, who wouldn’t want to control their lights from their phone in three extra steps instead of just flipping a switch like a normal person? Welcome to the future, where your house is smarter than you—and knows it.

So you’ve committed to Home Assistant, the one platform that turns your home into a glorified science project. You know, because life wasn’t already complicated enough. Now you get to explain to guests why your “smart” house has a nervous breakdown every time someone tries to turn on a light manually.

Home Assistant is like that friend who knows everything but never shuts up about it—constantly needing your attention for updates, bug fixes, or just because it decided to forget how to connect to your TV. Want to dim the lights? Better hope you remembered the exact YAML syntax, or you’ll be sitting in the dark, googling “why won’t my smart lights work?”

And speaking of YAML, who doesn’t love a configuration language where a single misplaced space can ruin your entire weekend? It’s like you’re coding for NASA, but the mission is just getting your thermostat to not go haywire at 3 AM. You’ve basically become a full-stack developer just to turn off your porch light.

Let’s not forget about the *joy* of adding new devices. Every time you introduce a new gadget, it’s like bringing home a new pet, except this one speaks a different language and might randomly decide to stop working out of sheer spite. But sure, it’s super convenient when it’s all working perfectly—which is approximately never.

So go ahead, pour another cup of coffee, because you’re going to need it to stay awake through another night of debugging automations that worked perfectly fine until you dared to breathe in the same room as your router. Your home may be smart, but you? You’re just tired.

Re-Create ESPHome encryption key

Save a text copy of your ESPHome device’s YAML source code – you’ll need it later

a) open a terminal/command-line session into your HA instance
b) cd to the esphome directory
c) cd to the .storage directory
d) remove the esphome.abcdefg123456 file corresponding to your device

e) use the grep utility to find the name of your device within the Home Assistant core.* files
f) edit the core.* files to remove the entire section corresponding to that device from these files (should be one instance in each of two or three files). save the files, exit the text editor.
g) synchronize the file system. command is ‘sync; sync;’ (not strictly necessary, just habit)

Then, in the Home Assistant web GUI:

use the ESPHome page, and delete your device
use the Configuration / Integrations page, remove the device from the ESPHome Integration
restart your instance of Home Assistant
re-create your ESPHome device

Reference

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/api-encryption-where-to-update-in-home-assistant/344576/7

Zigbee Network Analyzer

The 2.4ghz flavor of Zigbee specifically operates between 2400 – 2483.5 MHz.

Someone else on this thread said the channel width looked too big for it to be Zigbee, here’s a visual representation of what that means: https://imgur.com/a/jHVMRRd

I’ve used the WiFi Analyzer and WiFi Man apps for years and I’ve never seen either of them display any Zigbee stuff. It’s possible that there is co-channel interference with 802.11 stuff. Zigbee uses the 802.15.4 protocol though. I’d imagine that either of the apps you mentioned would need to be specifically written to look for that protocol, and run on a chipset that supports 802.15.4 communication.

If you can get a pcap of the traffic you’re seeing that you think is Zigbee, then run it through Wireshark and it should be able to tell you what protocol you’re seeing.

Simple steps to replace your favicon icon in Angular

Favicon icon also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing a small icon. associated with a particular website or web page. A web designer can create such an icon and upload it to a website or a web page.
Its associated with a website at address bar. In angular it is stored with a default name i.e favicon.ico which is angular logo, we can change it in simple steps as below.
So, let’s get started,
Step 1: copy your logo in src folder
Step 2: Navigate to src folder and remove the favicon.ico file.
Step 3: copy new png favicon inside src folder.
Step 4: Open the index.html file and change the favicon file name (with the newly added icon name).

Step 5: Inside the angular.json file change name of the favicon in assets array.
“assets”: [
“src/favicon.png”,
“src/assets”
],

That’s it, In these five steps we can easily replace favicon icon in Angular.

Capture child component click event in parent component

To capture a child component’s click event in the parent component in Angular, you can use the following steps:

In the child component:
- Use the @Output decorator to create an event emitter.
- Emit the event when the click occurs.

   import { Component, EventEmitter, Output } from '@angular/core';

   @Component({
     selector: 'app-child',
     template: `<button (click)="onClick()">Click me</button>`
   })
   export class ChildComponent {
     @Output() clickEvent = new EventEmitter<any>();

     onClick() {
       this.clickEvent.emit('Data from child');
     }
   }

In the parent component:
- Listen to the event using the event binding syntax ((clickEvent)) in the child component’s template.
- Call a method in the parent component to handle the event.

   import { Component } from '@angular/core';

   @Component({
     selector: 'app-parent',
     template: `
       <app-child (clickEvent)="handleChildClick($event)"></app-child>
     `
   })
   export class ParentComponent {
     handleChildClick(data: any) {
       console.log('Click event received from child:', data);
     }
   }

Explanation:

The @Output decorator in the child component creates a custom event that the parent component can listen to.
The EventEmitter class is used to emit the event.
The emit() method is used to send data along with the event.
The (clickEvent) syntax in the parent component’s template listens for the event emitted by the child component.
The handleChildClick() method in the parent component is called when the event is emitted.

This way, you can effectively capture and handle child component events in the parent component in Angular.