Hi there
I’m currently editing a github fork. And looking for someone who can help me with it. i’m a kinda newb to this and i have done programing in the past but cant get my head around this.
Want to added some fuctions and date time stuff.
I have already added some, but what i wanted added involves date and time, etc
Regards
Jeremy
Hey Jeremy,
As orange-assistant pointed out, this is a place where we try to help each other. The way you phrased the question is to broad and might give off the vibe that there is to much of a task/ask on your side.
If you want to get started with esphome, check out the documentation, use the search functions here, check out a multitude of videos on YouTube and experiment with an AI chat of (but never assume that code to work by default, the LLM’s hallucinate to much and people around here aren’t to keen on correcting LLM output)
If you want a better chance of people assisting you, try to be (much) more specific. Eg:
Hey all, I am currently stuck with an issue with date-time. Being displayed on device type X. The goal is to achieve Y, the code I am using is based on this project [link]. I already undertook steps A, B, C and can’t figure out this specific part.
Best of luck!
Um, maybe skip the AI part, which has often been trained on mainly problem code from forums such as these (rare to find working code here - most people just say they fixed it, but frustratingly rarely show how), and AI usually spits out superseded code that has been made obsolete by HomeAssistant updates. Sadly, most LLMs do not weigh older posts with less importance, hence they are often proffered as the best solution because they have been cited in the past as a valid solution. Read the current documentation instead.
You haven’t even said which GitHub fork you are looking at. Bit hard to mind-read without any clues, and teasing details out of you with fifty questions gets a little frustrating - most people don’t bother or think you are being lazy, or have a student assignment due next week you have procrastinated about, wanna become rich by getting others to do all the work for you, and ignore you.
Roll up your sleeves, ahow what you have tried, what the results have yielded, the specifics of what you are stuck on, and you will get help.
Time and date functions are part of basic programming skills. Unless you have very unique requirements, they have possibly already been included in whatever project you are utilising, or just be added with recognised packages. Yes, sometimes the documentation can be poor or missing, and that is where reading the code and understanding it is fundamental, and AI may be of little assistance there.
Ok minus the AI then ;).
It did help me when I first tried my hand at ESPHome since it was able to provide a lot of context and explain how some things work. Eg how the pins work etc. However as stated, it gave a lot of wrong config and examples.