This morning, we took our usual trip to the Farmers’ Market, including a nice walk through Los Gatos. We had to hurry, because I was chairing a Ritual Committee meeting at Shir Hadash at 10am; I made it with five minutes to spare.

After the meeting and lunch (Sesame-Crusted Tuna), I upgraded both of my Macs to Ventura. It was painless, somewhat to my surprise. We took a walk while the upgrades were happening; the trees in the neighborhood are still pretty colorful.

I also installed Ubuntu on Diane’s old Dell so that I could use it to build a new Home Assistant setup without messing up the one that’s already running on the Raspberry Pi. They’ve made a lot of improvements to the onboarding process for Home Assistant since the last time I installed it; I’ve gotten most of my devices set up already without having to write a single line of code (or even having to edit a configuration file).

The devices I haven’t touched yet are the biggies, though: the alarm system and the Insteon hub (with its dozens of switches). And then I have to set up the HomeKit integration, which will be the real payoff. Tomorrow….

We got a new Apple TV 4K yesterday because I needed a current HomeKit Hub to replace the old iPad mini I had been using, and because the old Apple TV was losing capability with every update.

The physical installation of the new box was trivial – unplug three wires from the old box and connect them to the new one. Then the fun began.

The old Apple TV came with a couple of dozen streaming apps – you could hide the ones you didn’t want, but you couldn’t add any that weren’t already there. The new Apple TV runs tvOS and lets makes you use its very own App Store to choose and install whatever apps you want – that took a while, since I had to log into each service and authorize the Apple TV.

After that, it was time to deal with HomeKit. When I’d originally set up the house in HomeKit, I’d used the “house account” I’d created for iTunes; I’m trying to get rid of that account, so I wanted to reassign the house to my own account. You can’t do it – you have to delete the house from HomeKit and re-create it under the new account.

That wasn’t too difficult, but then I had to manually add all of my devices again, and there are a lot of them (29 in the alarm system alone, though some of them seem to be an artifact of the system’s imagination). Another hour or so took care of that.

And that was my day. Well, that, Torah Study, cooking, and taking walks with Diane – so it was a pretty good day!