I didn’t get very far on any of my projects today; the most constructive thing I did was to update the settings on the Harmony hub to remove the Amazon Fire Stick and replace the old Apple TV with the new one.

Perhaps tomorrow will be more productive.

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….