More adventures at the cardiologist’s office:

Again, no doctors or nurses were masked. One nurse had a couple big sneezes. There were a lot more people in the waiting room this time; only one of them was masked. I ended up waiting in the hallway for a bit since it was emptier and had better ventilation since it was close to an automatic outside door.

I didn’t work up the courage to ask the tech and nurse in the patient room to wear a mask (it’s such a weird, exhausting, psychological thing.) However, when I was checking out and scheduling my next appointment, I asked them to include a request in my file that people mask in the room. She seemed entirely pleasant about it as she made the note, so that’s a positive. We’ll see how it goes next visit. I expect I will still need to remind them when I get in the room, but I feel better having it on the record at least.

Previously

Day Lily Coffee Shop

at Day Lily Coffee Shop

Gate D14

at Gate D14

Concourse E

at Concourse E

Victoria

at Victoria

Managed to put together the livestreaming gear in time for Lily's regularly scheduled stream!

I'm pretty happy with how relatively unobtrusive the rig is compared to the space we have available for it!
2 Love Tea And Coffee

at 2 Love Tea And Coffee

Bond Street London Underground Station

at Bond Street London Underground Station

London Paddington Railway Station (PAD)

at London Paddington Railway Station (PAD)

1751 Distillery Bar & Kitchen

at 1751 Distillery Bar & Kitchen

The Coral Room

at The Coral Room

Milbank Millennium Pier

at Milbank Millennium Pier

Lambeth Bridge

at Lambeth Bridge

Runnymede

at Runnymede

Royal Holloway University of London

at Royal Holloway University of London

Platform 24

at Platform 24

I just got the Aqara C1 cat feeder and within a few minutes had it connected directly to Home Assistant via Zigbee, and all the sensors and buttons showing up and working!

However, I then realized the ZHA method doesn't expose the scheduling interface of the feeder, so I can only drive it entirely via Home Assistant, no local on-device scheduling option.

I really wanted it to be self sufficient, just reporting state and being able to dispense food with HA, but I think I'll stick with this for now anyway. The failure mode is that my HA server goes down for some reason or the Zigbee controller dies, and the food doesn't get automatically dispensed. But even if I'm out of town, I always have someone come by to check on the cat at least once a day anyway, so I guess that will be the manual fallback option.
Bob Stacey Crossing
Double train action — with anomalily
Windsor Castle

at Windsor Castle

Very glad I took reference photos before I closed up the wall in the electrical closet! I was able to use it to figure out a safe place to punch through a hole for PoE into the studio side!