I’ve been using ChatGPT to generate yaml for some complex automations to optimise my SolaX Inverter and Home Battery set-up. Over the last 2 months, I’ve learnt a lot about ChatGPT - what it’s good at, and where it regularly fails. I thought that I would start a thread to discuss how I’m using it. …

I use it quite successfully. Locking items in memory. During chats when it has something right I request it to lock the code in memory as the canonical file. This tends to prevent drift and it placing older code in that you have already fixed. (Also ask it to delete old canonicals) Locking ant…

Agree, my workflows and templates take onboard all of your points but these were learnt from experiencing pain beforehand!

I have only been using Chat GPT a few months myself. I am pleased I learned yaml and other types code manually first, otherwise I would be at a loss when trying to steer and double check GPT responses. Optimising my original manually created code has been a godsend and saves a lot of time, especial…

@jackjourneyman I pay a AUD $20 per month subscription to Chat GPT. Rather than dismissing the technology I decided to embrace it so I did not get left behind. Even though I am a bit old school and still have a fax machine and an abacus. Knowing how to use it as a tool will keep us ahead of the ki…

Hi Simon, I’ve literally today started to use AI to write, and check, code. It’s tedious cause it presents oracle-like knowledge (the matrix oracle, not the company), while being wrong many times. I’m not a programmer, so I have no knowledge of the concepts you’re describing. I would be grateful …

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If you mean within the SolaX solution, I stopped trying to use an LLM after trying for a long time and went over to a bias learning script using a statistical approach. Here is the Detailed Design Doc: (Sorry, I can’t attach it) DAI / RBC – Update Bias (Robust EWMA) v1.5 Detailed Design Document V…

Hi Jeroen I can’t see how to attach pdk docs, so I’ll post in this reply with the main text. My approach is to attach this document to a chat and then ask ChatGPT to summarise it within the project instructions: ChatGPT Guidelines # Purpose and Scope This document defines the principles, workfl…

@UKMedia I think it would be worth you creating a Gist or Repository with guidelines. Hyperlink that in your Original Post, then we can add this to the Cookbook.

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Could you clarify how you are accessing ChatGPT?

I’m sure you’ve come across these two already. As I understand it, they work through an LLM that is integrated with HA, and they use script tools to allow it to analyse the system.

Then there’s this add-on:

This doesn’t use an integrated LLM and has its own built-in tools.