September 12 2023 Fifteenth birthday, Let’s encrypt, Home assistant, ESPHome

John started to present the Fifteenth Birthday presentation but did not notice when his notebook needed plugging into the mains and ended up describing it rather than presenting it! David S mentioned that David Carpenter is using Oracle Cloud Free Tier. He also mentioned a problem with the Let’s Encrypt challenge; having set up auto-renew for a domain, he set up a manual challenge for a sub-domain but, when he wanted to change it to auto-renew, he found that the Let’s Encrypt database had it down as a manual renew and would not let him set up auto-renew.

Brian then did a lengthy presentation of various Home Assistant features which he was using including ESPHome to which David contributed.

Unfortunately, connection problems prevented any further meaningful communication.

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