There are a ton of Mason Bees all around my house. It's great.
But I keep discovering little mud nests after I've inadvertently destroyed them in my garage. Shelf pin holes, tire pump holes, peg boards, irrigation tubing, etc.
Is there a humane way of warding them away from my garage? There are just too many little holes, and they seem drawn to them.
I have a Velux Active skylight that I recently connected to Home Assistance via its Homekit integration. This is something I've wanted for a while, because even though the Velux Active automations work pretty well for venting, their integration with NetAtmo doesn't provide some of the fine-grained controls that have become important to me, like air quality vs merely air temperature.
Anyway, it rocks, but with one minor annoyance: when the Velux's rain sensor triggers (prompting the skylight to emergency-close), HomeAssistant still thinks the skylight is open. Ideally I'd like HA to know the skylight has become closed as I have automations that check that.
Has anyone else experienced this? I'm trying to determine if this is a quirk of the Velux's homekit implementation, a protocol limitation in homekit, a failure specific to my device, or something else so I can figure out what to do next.