That manual is intense - thanks for all the reference materials ...... rik

VERY NICE AND WELL DONE --
We you be documenting your built anywhere with a full list of parts?
Your pump housing is very good choice and are not easy to source as it is not a standard size that I have seen before.

rik

Good Plan and you will get a lot of support here from some very committed people that want everyone to learn and do more with understanding and building these systems and willing to help with the parts that require a higher level of technical ability for us less experienced Makers. Will be a fun yea...

Your work will still be very helpful and valuable to all of us.

It looks to me, that Node Red can be moved over to BLUEPRINTS - I have seen some chat about this functionality. Time will tell I'm sure.

This link should save you some time with BLUEPRINTS:

Here is a summary of many of the new features and way HA will function going forward now.

So many new things to play with!

Very creative and innovative feature for Home Assistant demonstrated in conference today- GAME CHANGER

Looks like this will address all the adverse events I am concerned about:

https://www.robotshop.com/en/watchdog-b ... ry-pi.html

I will keep you posted as to how it works out.

Kiwi_Jezza & Shimbob - Thanks for the suggestions for the UPS - one of the obvious answers for sure, I failed to state that I am using a UPS as well. The problem is rolling blackouts are generally 2 to 8 hours in duration and total grid shutdowns are 2 days to 3 weeks. These time frames far exceed t...

Rolling blackouts in Northern California is a real event that happens with wildfires and extreme heat events with strong winds starting this time of year. With this comes power outages on short notice if any notice at all. Being that Raspberry Pi's experience SD card corruption with power loss and n...

I just got done performing this very process with the RP4 setup LEDG recommends in his youtube. One thing I made sure to do is lock in the IP address on the router and then rebooting the router before going to setting up the Home Assistant registration info ( as talked about in the youtube). Did not...