Well...not much really. Unfortunately. my mind is in some sort of overload resulting in me mostly doing nothing...or mindless internet/youtube browsing etc... 
To get a bit healthier I started swimming again. Getting annoyed by slow people, my swimglasses that get foggy for the first 30-60 minutes, always being kind of late for the opening hours of "laneswimmin" and not having as much time as I would like/or want. It's also really busy every single time so that kinda sucks too!
But even with all that....I have mostly made it to go at least once a week over the last three months for a total of 15.6KM of swimming! Yay!
Also trying to learn rollerskating...but that is not exactly going that well yet. Got protection gear obviously but still fall to much...and being scared to fall...makes me insecure that I can do it. And that makes it even harder. Tried looking for some sort of classes but the "Season is over" it seems...so it's either trying on my own or wait until spring next year I guess. Either way it's a fun activity and you use a lot of muscles you don't use with a desk job....especially while working from home the last two years!
This is also the reason I picked up swimming again...to get my condition/stamina (whatever it's called in English) back as I did 5 years ago! Because of less activity I gained a lot of wait that I worked so hard for to lose then. But i did lose 3-4 kilo's already in those few month's of swimming. no..I did not change my diet yet and not planning on it either. I tried that before....and it did wonders for my weight...but not my mood! 
Just need to also pickup walking again as extra exercise to clear my head and stuff. I know it works....but the step to actually GO is as high as mount Everest most of the days!
The other really fun thing I have been doing the last couple of weeks is replacing nearly ALL the lights in the house with zigbee smart bulbs (ohh the zigbee..for those that know) . Putting it al together in home assistant...(yep...Hooommmeee Assistant ) (just look up paul hibbert on youtube if you don't get these jokes) and using motion sensors to trigger the lights to go on by themself! Brightness is adjusted based on time of day and or if it's before/after sunset. Timers are running at either 3 minutes during the night at low brightness up to 30 minutes at 100% during diner time. After that timer runs out...lights go to 10% for just 2 minutes and after that go out completely until motion is detected again.
In addition to the motion sensors I also got a few wireless wall switches and a bunch of Ikea dimmer buttons where needed. But everything is used from home assistant without using any of the brand specific Zigbee Hub's/bridges.
Still working out what timings are best and when to change brightness and when not. If the lights are on for example...or pushed to 100% with a manual button the motion sensor "overrides" it and puts it at 50% some times. So...there are many things to improve there.
I do think the bathroom (shower only) is the best so far. You need to walk through the kitchen to get there...so the second motion sensor in the kitchen turns on a single (out of three) lights in the bathroom to 5% for 2 minutes. This way it's never too dark in there when you walk in during the night. Then the motion sensor in the bathroom will turn all three spots on to 50% for 5 minutes. The motion sensor keeps resetting the 5 minute timer while someone is in there...and when you walk out it turns the lights off after those 5 minutes.
And I also put a sensor on the door so that when it's closed and the lights were already on...it will turn the lights on for 15 minutes at 100% and a slightly different white color while taking a shower. When the door is opened again the lights return to 50% warm-white and a 5 minute timer after which they are turned off.
There are more automation....but nothing as close to "perfect" as the bathroom I think. Hahahah. I have not even talked about the additional door sensors and temperature/humiddity sensors yet, but it might be better to do that in future blog posts as this one is getting quite long already
With all of the above there has been very little time to do anything for BatteryCheck. So no cool update stories about that yet...but I do have a few ideas I deffinetly want to work on before the end of the year! Not sure when exactly...might be soon...might be the very last day! Hahahah. You know those blue battery holders (for those that played ofcourse)? Well...I want to include the animations for them! Play the sound and maybe even have them trigger the corresponding action in the level. Or maybe the activation first...animation later? Not sure yet!
The other hopefully simple addition after that should be the elevators. They only move up and down with a configured speed. No need for the bounce effect at first but I will need to look into how hard that is when I get to it.
Either way...no promises of anything...since I have a terrible habit of not keeping them. sorry.
Thanks for your time.
To get a bit healthier I started swimming again. Getting annoyed by slow people, my swimglasses that get foggy for the first 30-60 minutes, always being kind of late for the opening hours of "laneswimmin" and not having as much time as I would like/or want. It's also really busy every single time so that kinda sucks too!
But even with all that....I have mostly made it to go at least once a week over the last three months for a total of 15.6KM of swimming! Yay!
Also trying to learn rollerskating...but that is not exactly going that well yet. Got protection gear obviously but still fall to much...and being scared to fall...makes me insecure that I can do it. And that makes it even harder. Tried looking for some sort of classes but the "Season is over" it seems...so it's either trying on my own or wait until spring next year I guess. Either way it's a fun activity and you use a lot of muscles you don't use with a desk job....especially while working from home the last two years!
This is also the reason I picked up swimming again...to get my condition/stamina (whatever it's called in English
) back as I did 5 years ago! Because of less activity I gained a lot of wait that I worked so hard for to lose then. But i did lose 3-4 kilo's already in those few month's of swimming. no..I did not change my diet yet and not planning on it either. I tried that before....and it did wonders for my weight...but not my mood! Just need to also pickup walking again as extra exercise to clear my head and stuff. I know it works....but the step to actually GO is as high as mount Everest most of the days!
The other really fun thing I have been doing the last couple of weeks is replacing nearly ALL the lights in the house with zigbee smart bulbs (ohh the zigbee..for those that know
) . Putting it al together in home assistant...(yep...Hooommmeee Assistant ) (just look up paul hibbert on youtube if you don't get these jokes) and using motion sensors to trigger the lights to go on by themself! Brightness is adjusted based on time of day and or if it's before/after sunset. Timers are running at either 3 minutes during the night at low brightness up to 30 minutes at 100% during diner time. After that timer runs out...lights go to 10% for just 2 minutes and after that go out completely until motion is detected again.In addition to the motion sensors I also got a few wireless wall switches and a bunch of Ikea dimmer buttons where needed. But everything is used from home assistant without using any of the brand specific Zigbee Hub's/bridges.
Still working out what timings are best and when to change brightness and when not. If the lights are on for example...or pushed to 100% with a manual button the motion sensor "overrides" it and puts it at 50% some times. So...there are many things to improve there.
I do think the bathroom (shower only) is the best so far. You need to walk through the kitchen to get there...so the second motion sensor in the kitchen turns on a single (out of three) lights in the bathroom to 5% for 2 minutes. This way it's never too dark in there when you walk in during the night. Then the motion sensor in the bathroom will turn all three spots on to 50% for 5 minutes. The motion sensor keeps resetting the 5 minute timer while someone is in there...and when you walk out it turns the lights off after those 5 minutes.
And I also put a sensor on the door so that when it's closed and the lights were already on...it will turn the lights on for 15 minutes at 100% and a slightly different white color while taking a shower. When the door is opened again the lights return to 50% warm-white and a 5 minute timer after which they are turned off.
There are more automation....but nothing as close to "perfect" as the bathroom I think. Hahahah. I have not even talked about the additional door sensors and temperature/humiddity sensors yet, but it might be better to do that in future blog posts as this one is getting quite long already
With all of the above there has been very little time to do anything for BatteryCheck. So no cool update stories about that yet...but I do have a few ideas I deffinetly want to work on before the end of the year! Not sure when exactly...might be soon...might be the very last day! Hahahah. You know those blue battery holders (for those that played ofcourse)? Well...I want to include the animations for them! Play the sound and maybe even have them trigger the corresponding action in the level. Or maybe the activation first...animation later? Not sure yet!
The other hopefully simple addition after that should be the elevators. They only move up and down with a configured speed. No need for the bounce effect at first but I will need to look into how hard that is when I get to it.
Either way...no promises of anything...since I have a terrible habit of not keeping them. sorry.
Thanks for your time.
