I got back from walking Clivedog, went into the office to take his lead off, and the lights turned on.

My work here is done (for the office anyway)

For those of you who are normal, that was probably a “Great. No …. really. (Has he had his medication this morning?” moment. However, what happened when I walked into the office was that HomeKit (and a few other bits and pieces) decided that a presence had been detected, it was between sunrise and sunset, it was below ten lux, so the lights probably needed to be turned on – which is pretty ace in my books.

I’ve also spent the last few hours tuning/building Home Assistant on the Mac (I’ve already got Homebridge set up on a PI) by configuring MQQT to add the few remaining bits and pieces that couldn’t be done by standard plug-ins.

I’ll continue to monitor that and – perhaps – switch from Homebridge to Home Assistant at some point.

In Health news, despite now being nearly a month-and-a-half “dry”, continuing to exercise each day, and sleeping like a baby, I’m getting bugged by Garmin Connect constantly reporting “Fair” stress levels overnight, and – what I believe to be – a relatively high overnight Average/RHR. (It could always be that I actually have something medically wrong with me, but we’ll ignore that for now).

Consequently, I’m charging the Apple Watch back up to see if my suspicion of my sleeping position interferring with overnight readings could be the culprit. (The Enduro 3 is quite a chunk on the wrist – and the AWU isn’t, and I reckon that it could be struggling to get accurate readings)

As above, I’ll monitor that for a few days and then decide what to stick with.

That does, however, raise my last bugbear for the day – and that’s siloed Health systems. The Garmin will write to Apple Health (or Apple Health reads Garmin), but Garmin won’t read from Apple Health – so you end up in an either/or situation.

I use RunGap to sync between the two, but that doesn’t include a vast swathe of metrics. Yesterday, I installed (seem to be Beta testing) Nori Health – which uses a health-based AI agent to sync multiple sources into a central point. At the moment, it seems pretty thorough but only syncs everything centrally – into itself.

I’ll also see how that goes, and whether it can be used to push back to sources too – once the platform has matured a bit.