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This seemed more balanced and upbeat than other reporting on the topic.

I'm always happy to see support for Matter and increased awareness.

The more we expect matter devices and insist on them, the better things get for consumers.

Now that HA is getting further with local voice control, I'm working towards a full non-cloud, de-googled home experience.

We have a Google Home Hub and we love the slideshow aspect of it. If the Hub goes, I'd like to replace it with something visually appealing and take on the responsibility of putting photos into some directory(s) for use in a slide show.

Does anyone have:

• Preferred HA card/integration/HACS solution?
• Recommended hardware (ideally it's a screen, not a tablet)?
• Advice for me while I'm on this journey?

Does anyone else know if this is the new normal until this event ends? We're seeing Normal Mystery Mushrooms about... 75% of the time and they're only rewarding with white nectars.

I'm hoping this changes as the event progresses, and I guess I'm hoping someone else knows details or can speak for what's happening with mushrooms where they are.

A community to discuss Niantic’s Pickmin Bloom game. Tips, tricks, events, questions, rants and raves are all fair game.

Pikmin Bloom App

!pikminbloomapp@lemmy.world

It's a work-in-process, but it already has many of the items people seek and additional commenters are welcome!

Tips and tricks for leveling Pikmin efficiently

Weekly challenges allow up to 5 total people per attempt and the more active participants you have, the easier the challenge becomes.

Please add your friend code for others to find, or look among the ones already listed.

Recommended pattern:

• In Game Name
• Friend Code in 123456781234 format (no spaces)
• Avg steps per week
• Avg flowers per week
• Interest in second challenges in a week (and which one(s))

Example:

• AlexDaGreat
• 123478905678
• 40k steps/week
• 40k flowers/week
• Interested in second challenge for steps, if first is complete by Wednesday

The Discord also has a large friend thread which I've used successfully in the past.

High Level Overview

• Requirements and Privileges, per level
• Niantic's recent changes (14-Aug-2023)

Strategies for new and leveling players

• Spending gold
• Timing mushrooms
• Finding friends/people for weekly challenges

The above is a placeholder and your comments are very welcome. Please add any of your thoughts about certain approaches, references you've found helpful, anything that will help a person join and mature through the game quickly will be welcomed.

As this community is built out, various references will be added. This will work as a springboard to those references - on lemmy and elsewhere.

Pikmin Bloom News
Discord

#New to the Game

• Player - Leveling
• Friends for Challenges

#General Strategies

• Pikmin - Leveling

I tend to rely on City Planner Plays, and then Biffa, for hands-on explanations or analysis.

There has to be other sources of solid content - what is your preferred source of information?

I may give the dev diaries a read-through today, but I strongly suspect the content creators have already done a credible job of surfacing the bits that matter.