the-workshop

[swift ginkgo]

Will reinstalling ZHA fix this error because i have ZHA installed but i just updated my firmware on my sonoff usb type E.

No issues found for search term 'Zigbee'
2025-03-19 17:28:28.438 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.translation] Failed to load integration for translation: Integration 'Zigbee' not found.
2025-03-19 17:28:39.994 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for 'Zigbee': Integration not found.
2025-03-22 23:43:45.640 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.translation] Failed to load integration for translation: Integration 'Zigbee' not found.
2025-03-22 23:43:56.354 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for 'Zigbee': Integration not found.
2025-03-22 23:56:32.981 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.translation] Failed to load integration for translation: Integration 'Zigbee' not found.
2025-03-22 23:56:40.535 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for 'Zigbee': Integration not found.

[hallow lance]

Sounds like something wrong in the configuration.yaml. #1284966540617449515 might be able to help.

[heady nexus]

<@&330946878646517761> ☝️

[hallow lance]

Thanks! And gone.

[heady nexus]

So I'm running Frigate 0.15.0 with three cameras, and one of them is having weird aspect ratio issues only in Frigate. The camera feed is 16:9, but Frigate is displaying it as 4:3 (essentially "squishing" it vertically) when viewing that one camera individually. On the live view page with all cameras, it starts out as 16:9 and then switches to 4:3. It happens in both Chrome and Firefox, so I'm guessing it's not browser related. I found a few people reporting similar issues on Github, but the suggested fixes I found didn't work. Anyone have any thoughts?

live view page (correct aspect ratio)

individual camera page (wrong aspect ratio)

I should also mention that the recordings are the correct aspect ratio

[reef comet]

any idea why i get this whenever i load a scene after updating to zwave-js 4.0? Failed to perform the action scene/turn_on. Unable to set value 27-38-0-targetValue: zwave_error: Z-Wave error 202 - Failed to send the message after 3 attempts (ZW0202)

everything works fine

it just keeps popping that up

actually maybe im wrong - that one device seems to be at issue

[boreal onyx]

Curiously - I'm not sure I can actually help you with the issue - what's the model of the camera?
Can you grab a clip from it and dump it into Mediainfo so we can see the attributes baked into the stream?
It's not outside the realm of possibility that it is actually a 4:3 camera, doing the same trick we've been doing since time immemorial (with film, long before digital video was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format) of using the optics to squish the image into the frame, and stretching it back to widescreen at playback time.
(and if so, that one of the players isn't obeying the "modified" aspect ratio)

[austere solar]

Any have any good <$20 non addressable 12v RGB controllers?

That's compatible with ha ofc

[thorn ore]

#1284966353798697001

[thorn ore]

#1284966617670881350 with the zwave tag

[thorn ore]

#1284966582375813201

[heady nexus]

Even though I'm running neither the Frigate integration nor the addon? 😅

[heady nexus]

It's a Wyze Cam v2 flashed with dafang-hacks. But yeah I try that

[hallow lance]

https://tenor.com/view/game-of-thrones-shame-ringing-bell-walk-of-shame-gif-13316112511080767236

[thorn ore]

In that case it's not A home assistant issue so...

https://tenor.com/view/getout-gif-16327023334064302194

😁

[thorn ore]

@heady nexus but seriously, are you sure it is not displaying a substream due to bandwidth issues? I don't use Frigate I use Scrypted and it will switch streams depending on bandwidth available . Also it has this setting:

Is there something similar in Frigate?

The 4:3 image actually seems to be a higher resolution.

[olive owl]

Frigate likes to switch back and forth between the record and detect feeds, and some of my cameras use different aspect ratios for each. I find it pretty annoying

[heady nexus]

Yeah this camera doesn't have a substream. The fun part is Frigate sometimes does this on the live view page, so it ends up being displayed incorrectly on both pages lol

[brazen ermine]

Anybody ever taken power from a light fixture and added USB to it I need to install a mm wave sensor where there is no power convenient to it but my hall light fixture is right there

[solid holly]

I can't say I've done that, but there appear to be several options for such a thing. Keep in mind that the power to a light fixture is switched, though

[teal heath]

depends on the setup, there may be a perm live there too, it also might be a smart bulb/switch thats perma powered.

[teal heath]

theres definetly ways of doing it. but it depends on various things

[brazen ermine]

It is not a smart bulb its a regular disable led run a inovelli blue dimmer there is a perm live there

[teal heath]

just wire a usb power supply onto the live and neutral and you have usb 🙂 just be careful messing with mains electricity.

[boreal onyx]

There are some hilariously terrible looking things on Amazon that have an E26 base on one side, E26 socket on the other, and a USB on the side. So you screw it into the light fitting, then can stick a bulb in the bottom

They're marketed for things like powering small security cameras off outdoor light fixtures

[olive owl]

those things have been around forever, although mainly with a regular electrical socket on the side

[boreal onyx]

I'm not going to link to it because I don't want it to be seen as an endorsement for anything in particular, but bask in its glory:

[olive owl]

first I've seen a USB version, though

[teal heath]

they do feel like a bad idea

[boreal onyx]

Equally horrible things seem to exist for B22 fixtures, if that's what you have 😄

[teal heath]

wiring more reliable stuff into the wall/ceiling is definetly a better option. that said those kind of things for temp setups i guess have their purpose

[celest wedge]

Has anyone had issues with smart locks not properly locking because the door won't fully "seal" so the only way for it to lock is to pull on the door when leaving? (APARTMENT)

[thorn ore]

You mentioned it was an appartment. YDo you own it or rent?

[celest wedge]

Rent.

[thorn ore]

Then it is up to your landlord to fix.

[celest wedge]

So what do I suggest to them about it?

[thorn ore]

Just say the door needs adjustment so that it latches properly.

[celest wedge]

So most doors don't have that issue?

[thorn ore]

Not if they are adjusted correctly. I had to jigger mine a bit when fitting my smart lock. Just had to file the latch plate slightly.

[loud yoke]

Woot woot. Custom Zwave controller with external antenna. 20dB amplifier, will work over either USB or remotely (serial over WiFi with ESPHOME).

[surreal sequoia]

I really love the Seeed Studio Xiao ESP32-S3 modules. Tiny, external antenna, uses USB-C, has a battery management controller built in

I've been using them in just about every "connect all the things to HA!" project lol

[surreal sequoia]

Wow the SR04 ultrasonic distance sensor works really well with Tasmota

[true basin]

Hello everyone, I’m currently working on a device to detect jamming on my Zigbee network. I’m using Alarmo and have a lot of battery-powered Zigbee sensors for motion and door detection. I’d like to be able to detect the presence of a jammer.
To do this, I was thinking of getting an ESP32 with a Zigbee and Ethernet module. In the ESP32, I want to implement a counter that increments every 5 seconds and is read via Zigbee in Home Assistant. If the counter stops incrementing for 10 seconds, I want to ping the ESP32 over the Ethernet network to check if it's still up, and if it is, I want to trigger the alarm.
What do you think about this ?

Maybe you have better ideas?

I would also add other checks, especially to make sure that Zigbee2MQTT has actually started, so the alarm doesn’t get triggered during a Z2M update.

[tepid vector]

To do this, I was thinking of getting an ESP32 with a Zigbee and Ethernet module. In the ESP32, I want to implement a counter that increments every 5 seconds and is read via Zigbee in Home Assistant. If the counter stops incrementing for 10 seconds, I want to ping the ESP32 over the Ethernet network to check if it's still up, and if it is, I want to trigger the alarm.
That sounds massively overkill. If you want to know that nothing's messing with your zigbee network, just check that no entities/attributes from your network have changed in X seconds. Feels like a really simple template sensor.

[true basin]

Sometimes, none of my entities change for several minutes, especially when I’m away. An ESP32 and an RJ45 cable don’t cost much anyway.

To be honest, the most expensive part is the siren system with a battery, wired control (I’m using a Modbus TCP/IP to RS485 gateway and a Modbus RS485 module with a dry contact output to activate the siren).

The advantage is that it still works even if burglars cut the power supply to the house. Now I’m trying to keep the alarm functional even if they cut the power and use a jammer.

[tight remnant]

Hi! I have one doubt. I have plans to use home assistant. I have an old notebook, I’m planning to use it to runs HA. Can I use CasaOS/UmbrelOS with HA supervised? Or I need to use it as “standalone” ?

[teal heath]

no you cant use supervised in that situation

[tight remnant]

Supervised is “easier” than the other ways, right?

[teal heath]

no

there is almost no reason to use supervised. its planned to go unsupported

[tight remnant]

Hmmm, nice, so I can integrate all things with the docker? Like zigbee, WiFi, home bridge? I’m noob on that tbh

I’m using today a zigbee matter gateway to integrate all my devices on HomeKit, but home assistant looks better

[teal heath]

the best way to run HA is with HAOS either bare metal or on a VM.

you can do a container install on top of casa os using its docker but you will not be able to use addons or the integrated update system

if your system has the ram to run a hypervisor i wouuld suggest running proxmox then install haos on a VM then whatever else you want on another VM.

else you are probably limited to a container install which will work but will have some limits.

if you want to discuss more then you will want to move to a support channel. can make a thread in #1284966540617449515 to discuss installation stuff

[tight remnant]

Thank you so much!!!

[toxic pike]

hey so im a big noob on this but i had some questions is it possible to make your own zigbee device like i was thinking about making my own termo meter i saw like there is a board for it that has zigbee Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6 and was wondering if i can solder a termo meter sensor on it and just connect it to home assistant with zigbee or is there more to it would really be happy if someone can tell me 🙂

[teal heath]

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/xiaoc6_zigbee_led_ha/

[toxic pike]

hey thanks does give some nice inside but im wondering more about the things that i can do with the board for example never done anything with microcontrollers so im bit lost on that part

like is this how it works?

and how do i know what sensors work with the board and stuff?

[teal heath]

in a very dumbed down way... yes.
there will likely be libraries for you to use when writing the firmware to unitize the majority of common sensors.
I do most of my esp32 stuff with esphome which makes stuff easier BUT i dont think that supports zigbee on that device (yet). (if i am wrong on that then please someonee correct me).

writing the firmware is probably going to be the most complicated part of that kind of project but you can probably find some example projects to follow along with.

[toxic pike]

hey thanks for the help first of all 🙂
yeah i know this is bit dumb down version of how it works but yeah i was thinking like writing the fireware shouldnt be too difficult coding wish just the setup for it the biggest concer i got is like what sensor works with with it or is there even a limitation of it and stuff thats what im trying to figure out the most like if i would make my own diy zigbee device is just just a module a sensore battery and then writing the firmware flash it on it then just put it in pairing mode and my zigbee dongle will just see it like any other out of the box zigbee products?

[teal heath]

yeah if its all set up correctly you should be able to do that

[toxic pike]

thats good to know but sensors wish is there something i should look out for? or is it almost all compatible

[teal heath]

i dont know too much about actually doing it as i havent touched much in the way of that methof for a very long time. but you probably just want to check libraries are available for the board that can speak to the sensor so you can include and use them

[karmic zephyr]

Quick question: My iBeacon keeps picking up random stuff from neighboors. Is there a way to not have HA turn iBeacon objects into HA objects by default?

[plush gull]

Please create a thread in #1284966582375813201

[surreal sequoia]

This turned out well. I love the OpenSCAD YAPP library for quickly whipping up a project case

[balmy shore]

OpenSCAD is highly underrated!

[mossy ledge]

What do people use as room based dashboards? I've been looking at refurbished laptops or tablets, and wondered if I could just use the LCD attached to an esp32

[teal heath]

an esp32 is going to have limited displaying power. its not a graphics card 😛

i have a cheap lenovo 2nd hand tab in the kitchen which works

[mossy ledge]

Thanks Michael, after posting, I was looking at the specs and I was beginning to think as much.

[teal heath]

its a "Lenovo Tab M8 HD (TB-8505F)" and i run fully kiosk on it and it works nicely

I really do need to make that cable neater. but you know how it is, nothing more permanent than a tempory solution

it has a battery protection mode so it only ever charges to 50% then lets it drop to 40. so its not a fully charged bomb

[surreal sequoia]

If you have a home network with ethernet cables running around the place, one of these plus a tablet would be really neat: https://www.amazon.com/Gigabit-Converter-Ethernet-Adapter-1000Mbps/dp/B0BFVDD4WC

I looked for something like this a couple years ago and it didn't exist. There must finally be a great-enough need for these to finally materialize on the market lol

I have a couple of these Visix displays, which are PoE-powered computers meant for conference room signage

If I didn't live in an apartment, I'd drill a hole in the wall and run the ethernet cable in a nicer way

[indigo pine]

I have https://eu.protectli.com/product/fw4c/?wccps_c0=580343&wccps_c1=69934&wccps_c2=65791&wccps_c3&wccps_c4&wccps_c5&wccps_c6&wccps_c7&wccps_c8=56590&wccps_c9=56593&wccpq_c0=1&wccpq_c1=1&wccpq_c2=1&wccpq_c3=1&wccpq_c4=1&wccpq_c5=1&wccpq_c6=1&wccpq_c7=1&wccpq_c8=1&wccpq_c9=1&quantity=1&wccpm0=1621254931&wccpm1=1611336805&wccpm2=1611336806&wccpm3=1611336807&wccpm4=1625754035&wccpm5=1669744572&wccpm6=1698885871&wccpm7=1698886094&wccpm8=1611336811&wccpm9=1699494103&wccpl=10 and thinking to use it for HA. Any change I will need https://eu.protectli.com/product/vp2420/?wccps_c0=582227&wccps_c1=68730&wccps_c2=70894&wccps_c3&wccps_c4&wccps_c5&wccps_c6&wccps_c7&wccps_c8&wccps_c9=56590&wccps_c10=56593&wccps_c11=583205&wccpq_c0=1&wccpq_c1=1&wccpq_c2=1&wccpq_c3=1&wccpq_c4=1&wccpq_c5=1&wccpq_c6=1&wccpq_c7=1&wccpq_c8=1&wccpq_c9=1&wccpq_c10=1&wccpq_c11=1&quantity=1&wccpm0=1671633686&wccpm1=1611336805&wccpm2=1619443936&wccpm3=1611336807&wccpm4=1680121470&wccpm5=1619443893&wccpm6=1619443894&wccpm7=1629906920&wccpm8=1672514119&wccpm9=1611336811&wccpm10=1613748342&wccpm11=1675372717&wccpl=12 (I have it too) ?

I think both are too powerfull, but maybe if I will expand my HA usage I will need more power for something not obvious to add but cool. Thoughts? Any reason to not go with first link and use second one?

PS I know there are other hardware, but I already have 2 above. I will only need to buy bigger hard drive for first one.

or maybe not, I see I bought bigger, than I remember

[teal heath]

use proxmox, ran run haos on a vm that way you can easily install something else alongisde in another vm/LXC if you want to do other stuff with it if you want. that way you have options if its underutilised

[indigo pine]

I have Proxmox behind me, I use docker and now I want to have dedicated server.

I am getting old and removing everything in my network which consume my time too much 🙂 It needs to be easy and simple 🙂

[teal heath]

I imagine they will both run haos just fine. sure you might be a bit overpowered for the job at hand but you can at least be sure you should be good for installing a few addons 🙂

[indigo pine]

Can you find any situation when first link will be not enough for HA and addons?

[teal heath]

i don't think so

[indigo pine]

What about Frigate? Will it work fine on another server in docker?

I have never used Frigate

for cameras

[teal heath]

yeah, figate is cool. runs in docker fine and easily connects to HA.
you may want a TPU for figate though

[indigo pine]

Does it make sense to use Frigate if have camera with detection builded in inside cameras? UniFi, notinstalled yet.

[teal heath]

depends if the detection does what you want. i think frigate is probably more flexible but i havent tried unifi nvr stuff

[primal portal]

what’s the best way to create a vritual light that uses scripts that uses remote.send commands (IF)? Eventually, I would like to create automations with it and present it to homekit.

@indigo pine if you want simple, have you considered home assistant green?

[hallow lance]

Template lights in YAML. #1284966664357810196 can help with details.
Or a template switch in the UI and select to show it as light later.

[indigo pine]

I already have this 2 devices and installation process is easy for me. I didn’t consider ha green, because I don’t see advantages. I want to have things like Zigbee gates as separate devices plugged to RJ45 on 2 floors. At least this is the plan.

Do I miss any advantage?

[indigo pine]

I re-consider whole house setup. Is Thread still not enough popular (hard to find devices to integrate) to think about this serious vs for example Zigbee ?

in other words I am trying to answer myself if Zigbee is still choice nr 1 to go or something have changed. I didn't observe market for a long time.

going further with my question: anything better, than https://zigbeesmart.co.uk/products/zigbee-lan-poe-coordinator-smlight-slzb-06p7 for Zigbee?

[olive owl]

This would be better in #1284966617670881350

[indigo pine]

not sure where to ask about that:

1. Do you use separate subnet network for smart home devices?
2. If yes, then mDNS forwarding between subnets make HA work and dicover devices right?

Any issue about that? Thoughts? I want to make separate subnet, but if there are issues I would like to not waste my time.

[indigo pine]

actually I have just realized I can move HA server to another network too with all smart devices which should make more sense. Thoughts?

ah but then all mobile phone app to configure smart home devices can have issues 🤔 , because phone will be in another network

[tepid vector]

Frenck has some thoughts: https://frenck.dev/the-enterprise-smart-home-syndrome/

[indigo pine]

nah, I have enterprise network in home already and I appreciate it 🙂

also not functional smart home is critical for me. So if I can't relay on it, then I don't want it, so it needs to be kind of enterprise. At least for me. I was using this as a toy, but I start to do more reasonable things on that.

[indigo pine]

on the other hand I am not sure if HA is really critical while most of automation can happen in hardware controllers and cameras software can call webhook 🤔 I have to research this.

[craggy raven]

Yes, adding an mDNS proxy will work. This guide might help, depending on your router setup: https://blog.christophersmart.com/2020/03/30/resolving-mdns-across-vlans-with-avahi-on-openwrt/

Also if you have few devices, you could add them by (static) IP and not depend on mDNS autodiscovery at all. Another protocol consideration with the isolated IOT network: are you going to use MQTT? Devices would need access to write to MQTT topics, so your broker would need to be on the same network or some firewall configuration will be needed.

Frenck's article about KISS is of course correct, but everyone's needs are different. I certainly don't need a high availability HA setup, but I do need some network isolation between my home automation hobby project and the network my work machines are on.

[teal anchor]

20% to 80% is probably better for the battery.
It's what Samsung uses for phone battery saver made anyway.

[vital notch]

I'm trying to make the HA Voice PE talk to my own server, can anyone point me to the part of the config (https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe/blob/dev/home-assistant-voice.yaml) that governs which server the device sends the voice commands to?

[teal heath]

the home assistant server establishes the connection to the VPE using the API. data is sent by that connection.
the exception is when its streaming audio. the connection is used to send a url which the device then uses to establish a new connection to stream the audio file linked

[teal heath]

so the VPE does not actively select a server. its instead selected by the server as a client.

[craggy meadow]

Hi! Shall i get this presence sensor to add into my esphome nodes?
I want something relatively cheap for "mass deployment" in my home
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EJVozSc

[vital notch]

Hm, I'd like a way to send the audio (or, even better, the text of TTS) to my own server and stream a response back (I don't use HA). Is there a way for me to interface with the hardware like that?

I know I need to speak Wyoming, I was wondering if there's an example program that already does this

[teal heath]

the api HA uses to speak to esphome devices is available if you want to use that - https://github.com/esphome/aioesphomeapi

[vital notch]

Hm, does this allow me to receive the spoken audio and send audio to the device? Or is it more "device management"?

[teal heath]

i beleive that the audio from the device is streamed to via the api conneciton. however audio sent to the device is done by sending a url to the device via the api connection and the device establises a new connecion to stream the audio

you might end up being better customising firmware for it...or you could just use home assistant... whats the use case of you not wanting to use it?

[vital notch]

@teal heath mostly because I want to make a personal assistant for other things (LLM-based), so what I need is more "great audio/wakeword hardware I can interface with" than "a full-fledged assistant for home automation". Rather than hacking around Home Assistant (and use zero of what it can do), I figured I should just try to interface with the hardware directly.

It's not a problem to send a URL and stream the audio, the only problem is that I can't find any documentation to any of that. It's also not a problem to customise the ESPhome firmware for the device, I'm just not sure what I should be customising, as I don't know how the current protocol works, and I can't find much documentation on it :/

[teal heath]

I would suggest just using home assistant to run the voice pipeline. you can send the stuff elsewhere from within home assistant if you want. with the LLM integrations and MCP you can probably just do whatever you want to do with HA anyway

[vital notch]

Sure, but then if I want to distribute my program, it'll have to have HA as a dependency just to be able to send and receive sound

Which is pretty heavy

[teal heath]

implementing the esphome API is probably your best bet. I am not sure if/where documentation on it is but you could use home assistant esphome integration as an example i suppose.

or you could write your own firmware from scratch not using esphome. the hardware is documented. that way you can do whatever you like with it

[vital notch]

Implementing the ESPhome API works for me, thanks. Just to clarify, is the protocol an ESPhome thing? I thought it was custom to Home Assistant, rather than something generic that ESPhome implements

[teal heath]

well its an API made for esphome, the library i linked above is the python implementation of it that is used by home assistant.
they will always go hand in hand compatability wise. so using that library is probably the best way to access the API instead of reinventing the wheel

[lethal zenith]

Just got my HA voice preview, pretty awesome. One thing I can't figure out is, how to change the voice. I've changed it in Piper and restarted but I still have the original female voice. I don't have HA Cloud (yet). What am I missing?

[teal heath]

you need to set the voice on your voice assistant pipeline. start a thread in #1284966915055288530 if need more help

[lethal zenith]

I changed it there and in the piper addon. Still not working. But I hear you, I'll move the convo over there. Thanks for the reply.

[past vine]

Hey folks, (hoping its ok to ask this here)... Looking at making a multisensor platform that can also monitor the open/close states of windows and doors... Plan has kind of boiled down to 1 of 2 directions.

1. try to use a Raspberry Pi Zero to monitor everything.
2. try to use an RPIZero to directly monitor doors/windows with an attached ESP device to monitor the sensors downstream (Temp/Hum/Pressure, room presence, motion, lux, sound)

anyone have a recommendation on direction?

[teal heath]

why not just use an esp for everything?

[past vine]

1.too many windows/doors
2. PoE on ESP devices is both pricier and riskier.

to be fair, i also dont know how an ESP based device would want to be wired for open/close states (im WAY more familiar with the RPI method of accomplishing this...)

[teal heath]

i guess it depends on how your doing it with the rpi. i imagine its just wiring to gpio in both cases?

[past vine]

to add, im also of 2 minds on #2.
2a: wire each to do its task wholy seperate of the other.
2b. wire the ESP based module to the RPI and feed it info via serial

[past vine]

on the raspberry pi, it's using resistors to pull GPIOs up or down and watching fore that change.

[teal heath]

no reason you cant do that with an esp

[past vine]

then its back to: too many hookups for MOST esp based devices

M. Bedroom has 2 entryways and 12 windows

[teal heath]

if its just up/down signals then you can put a a multiplexer on the i2c bus and get loads of extra pins

[past vine]

hmm

can i post an amazon link?

Like THIS?

I can... like that multiplexer?

[teal heath]

i dont think thats i2c but it may work for what your doing. i messed with some stuff ages ago using a breakout board for the "MCP23017" i2c multiplexer and that seemed to be fine. although i had to shelve that project for unrelated issues so it never made it to production

[past vine]

looks like it is...
"By using multiple boards, you can create similar arrangements for I2C,SPI,etc. "

now... PoE?

theyre still $15 a board

[teal heath]

i specifically used THIS that gives you 16 pins on the i2c bus and you can chain 8 of them for 128 pins on just the i2c pins

[past vine]

OH! how did you shorten your link?

[teal heath]

yeah poe boards are gunna be more expensive because of the extra components on them

[teal heath]

highlight the text you want to be the link and paste over it

[teal heath]

its an analog multiplexer that allows i2c to run through it. which is different from a i2c multiplexer

heres a great example of using multiple MCP23017 chips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyHiSyoyk_0

[past vine]

well, you fixed my probelm 🙂

any reason to use the raw version of the chip vs THIS?

[teal heath]

there's no practical difference once stuff is wired. if the breakout boards make it easier for you to build your project then use them. i used the above one from AE just because it came all set up for din rail mounting which worked great for the project i was working on at the time as other stuff was already on din

i am sure theres loads of different breakout boards in different form factors. again the above AE one was good for me because it had screw terminals. it really depends on what you need

[past vine]

ive ordered both. figured, ill wire it up on bread to get it all wired out, then switch to the compact design for install and save myself space.

[teal heath]

yeah sounds like a plan

[past vine]

Thanks a billion!

[teal anchor]

So, why make your life more complicated? You have 12 windows? Wire that in series or maybe groups of the windows in series and cut way down on the GPIO count. Do you really care if the top left window is open or the bottom right one?

@past vine

[past vine]

Generally speaking, no, i dont care which window is open...
Except that, some of the windows are crazy high up casement windows that i want to eventually automate

in which case, i would need to know which is and is not open 🙂

[misty island]

MP3 player

I need an advice what/where to look for.
I have HA on classic computer J3455 motherboard, Debian, supervised.
I would like to buy a cheap speaker, possibly USB one, and play mp3 as a triggered action.

Thanks for advice. 😉

Possibly also play mp3/downloaded podcasts. I can copy them to the HA directory via samba, no problem.

[teal heath]

oh god, not supervised...

you could run VLC on the machine and then control it via telnet

[misty island]

will look at it, thanks.

[past vine]

why not move over to a full HAOS? its a LOT less hassle with more options...

HERE is a link to running HAOS on your flavor of metal

[misty island]

because I have OpenMediaVault running on the same computer.

[past vine]

I can save you the next several years of frustration and just tell you... Dont.

But I doubt ill be listened to.

[hallow lance]

https://tenor.com/view/depressed-no-one-listens-pessimistic-pessimist-marvin-the-paranoid-android-gif-11204001

[past vine]

For the record... I only say "I doubt ill be listened to" because i didnt when someone else warned me.

[teal anchor]

Then add a VM and install HAOS...

If you want a fix for the problem you state and want to stay supervised, I will offer that supervised is currently not (not) supported, support was very nearly dropped some time back because it is basically un-supportable. So you get basically the same amount of support from the community as core, We suggest you do not use it, and if you do you need to know how to fix it yourself. Otherwise load HAOS and most of the things just work with out all the manual OS tweaks to make things work.
Home Assistant Supervised is considered advanced and should only be used if you are an expert in managing a Linux operating system, Docker and networking. Maintaining a Debian installation to a very specific set of requirements is hard.
Insecure installations and Unsupported configurations will result if you don't know what you are doing.
You MAY regret using this method.

With that advanced installation method you are responsible for maintaining all dependencies.

[tepid vector]

Screw supervised. Go Docker.

Docker > all

[teal heath]

HAOS is definitely the best way to run HA

[olive owl]

https://tenor.com/view/only-one-there-can-be-only-one-highlander-gif-12213479

[eager rain]

Hi, is it allowed to ask a newbie question?

[teal heath]

#1284976732428046461

[olive owl]

And start with #find-support

[eager rain]

I assume that's a no 🙂

[hallow lance]

It's not a no. It's just a look where to post the newbie question correctly.

[eager rain]

I posted it on integrations-and-add-ons board, thank you!

[trail fractal]

You can take supervised mode from my cold dead hands

😄

[mighty oak]

I've tried core, supervised and OS in the past - I prefer simple core, more control that way, simple docker compose file and I can choose exactly what to run, how I want it, and change/update containers as I see fit

[olive owl]

that would be rule #7:
Rule 7
Use the correct channels or threads for your messages. If there's a better place for the current conversation then use it, and don't post or link to the same thing in multiple places. Also check the description in each channel before posting, as extended rules may exist for that channel.

[smoky lava]

Can home assistant be installed on lxc container?

[mighty oak]

yes, multiple ways to do it tho

have you checked the Helper Scripts site?

it gives you 4 ways to do it with a simple script

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts

OS uses the most cpu/ram, and ha-core the least

[thorn ore]

Get your casket ready, https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1198

[trail fractal]

I went this route after I had haos go belly up and couldn't get to a proper terminal to figure out what went wrong

I also ran a fully unsupported supervised install for a while on Ubuntu until I couldn't get ha to play nicely with it (the networking stack had gone funky so it was really time to rebuild), so then I went the official supervised route with Debian

[teal anchor]

Well soon there may be no official Supervised, so back to on your own...

[trail fractal]

I'll roll it myself until it goes belly up again then go back to haos for a while

I have like 5 separate backup setups for it, I'll just restore as needed

Google drive backup, proxmox backup, ha cloud backup, crash plan covering those as well for offsite

[indigo pine]

*which one give better experience?

extend 2) What in HA I can use to work with custom webhooks (HA is receiver)?

[teal anchor]

I'm sure someone in https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284966582375813201 could answer that.

[indigo pine]

yeah... threads don't work as good as chat

[thorn ore]

Your opinion does not mean you get to post anywhere. Post in the correct location.

[indigo pine]

I will just remove the question to make you happy

and this is not opinion, just facts on observations

if you call this opinion, then you have opinion too

[vagrant sparrow]

when you are trying to help someone threads work way better than chat imho, so it is a move to cater more to those offering time to help than those asking...

[trail fractal]

Also keeps stuff from falling into the abyss in active chat channels

[flint prawn]

And you make a question repository where people can search on topics

[fierce hamlet]

Hey, advertise your firewall+router combos! I was checking out Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X-SFP, which seems to be liked, but is it too old already?

[zealous plover]

Pi5 docker compose what is the image tag to use please … thx

The one I used for my x64 is working but I thought I would need an arm image ? I’m using pi5 Ubuntu ha container

[hallow lance]

#1284966540617449515 can help

[vagrant sparrow]

internet facing i have my isp router "telenor wifi router II" which has been rock solid and fast. the only thing it lacks is vlan support. for backend i run routers/firewalls as vm's on my infrastructure hypervisors, the same ones that host my freeipa instances. my container infrastructure lives on the vlans routed by those.

my HA instance runs using haos on a pi 4 booting from ssd. it is plugged directly into the isp router so that it can survive all my madness in the backend 😄 that pi has been running 24/7 since before the 8GB version came to market. but 4GB seems to be plenty.

[iron willow]

i know this is not a good place to ask it

[teal heath]

this would be more suited in #1284960456880029707 and also usually surveys are run by Missy first

[iron willow]

i will do it thanks for pointing to right place

[olive owl]

Please reach out to @dire pecan before posting again

[iron willow]

thanks for point out

[iron willow]

should i ping or dm her? what will be best way to do so?

[olive owl]

DM

[iron willow]

Thanks

[vast turret]

Hi all, anyone have a tip on how to connect IPP through the HomeKit Bridge? It’s not in the list of domains to include or I don’t know the definition.

[vast turret]

Buller? Buller?

[meager quail]

#1284966582375813201 #1284966582375813201

[olive owl]

No, no #1284966582375813201

[meager quail]

My mistake for suggesting #1284966582375813201

[hallow lance]

NOBODY IS EXPECTING THE #1284966582375813201 INQUISITION!

[teal anchor]

Just make sure the https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284966582375813201 on the top of the workbench doesn't explode...

[teal anchor]

(Bueller...)

I heard he caught something, so be careful.

I think they called it Danke Schoen or something...
https://youtu.be/rlfQUtCvfQ0?si=NbIFrIv9CciP8bWp&t=17

[pure wave]

Anyone happen to know what the name is for these types of mounts?

[velvet kindle]

I want to buy a HA Yellow and put a CM5 in it. I plan on adding a M.2 SSD in there as well. Should I get a CM5 with or without flash storage?

[hallow lance]

It is mostly personal taste. I would say it is easier to flash the correct OS image to a (compatible) NVMe with a USB adapter. But that can be done with both variants.

[velvet kindle]

Is there a way to see how much RAM I'm using on home assistant? I'm trying to figure out if a CM5 with 4 or 8GB would be more suitable for me (those 16GB ones are all sold out at the moment)

[mild grove]

Settings>system>hardware

[teal anchor]

8 should be plenty on a PI.

The OS will use most of the memory no matter the size as cache and misc, but actual requirements for nearly all installations is under 4.

[velvet kindle]

hmm, around 50% of 4GB on my PI. I guess 8 GB should be plenty for the future

[merry locust]

16GB of ram matched with the modest CPU feels like a mismatch, or at least, limited use case. Like, anything you are looking to do in that territory is going to benefit from much more CPU to me and you might as well look into a more powerful mini PC or better

[teal heath]

yeah 8 will be plenty for all manner of things

16 would be overkill

[mild grove]

I have like 15 addons running on my screenshot above and highest I have ever seen is 4.5Gb on this n100 box

8Gb is plenty for HA but I can upgrade if needed

[velvet kindle]

yeah, I'm surprise how little ram it takes. I've got mysql, influxdb, grafana and z2m running here

[hallow lance]

I ordered it anyway.

[velvet kindle]

I would have, if I could. but they're all sold out 😦

[wet isle]

Use the glances addon for more insight. Also reconsider if a pi is the right choice: https://gist.github.com/Impact123/6ee130240bdc6a7fed2d5224616544a0

[mild grove]

n100 time

[hallow lance]

I preordered it long time ago. Delivery is postponed over and over. Last week it should be shipped this week, now they expect it in 4 weeks.

[velvet kindle]

are there n100 variants with PoE? I'm getting the CM5 for HA yellow so I can run it off PoE. don't want cable salad

[wet isle]

They usually use 12V so you can just get a 12V/5A PoE adapter/splitter or something.

[velvet kindle]

naah, I'll stay with the HA yellow. the main selling point was PoE. I've got UBNT switches with PoE here. might as well use them

[mild grove]

https://www.amazon.com/Fanless-Industrial-Firewall-Appliance-Computer/dp/B0CPB83FDF?th=1

[velvet kindle]

oh, nice. good to know

[mild grove]

That is the first result with google, I am sure there maybe other or better ones but it is possible

[velvet kindle]

I'll keep that in mind as a replacement for my 10 year old firewall running pfsense. the case had a similar design

[solid holly]

8gb here, running on Pi5 with SSD hat and 256GB Nvme SSD.

[velvet kindle]

so, my home assistant yellow arrived. I got the system up. in settings > hardware > configure, I can select to set up either zigbee or thread. does that mean, I can't do both?

[hallow lance]

Correct.

The Multiprotocol firmware isn't in development anymore and deprecated (or about to be).

[velvet kindle]

I've got a bunch of zigbee lamps that I have been using with the sonoff zigbee dongle. I thought I could use the built-in zigbee. but I assume that future devices will come with thread. should I just plug the sonoff dongle into the home assistant yellow as well?

[hallow lance]

It is a personal choice, if you prefer the internal radio to be Zigbee or Thread and a stick for the other.

[velvet kindle]

I guess I'll go with zigbee for now since all my devices speak it. I can then later add thread via usb (like that sky connect thingy)

[velvet kindle]

hmm, weird. a usb bluetooth adapter that works fine in my "old" home assistant running on a rpi4 is not recognized in on my new home assistant (yellow) with a cm5

[teal heath]

check the CM5 is fully seated.

[velvet kindle]

nope. that didn't change anything

[teal anchor]

Are you plugging it in direct, or do you have it on an extension cable.
(Hint, it needs an extension cable to get it away from the noisy processor box.)

[velvet kindle]

I'm plugging it directly into the usb port of the HA yellow. if there was noise I would expect now getting a connection to other bluetooth devices. but the usb dongle is not recognized at all

[vagrant sparrow]

how do you check that it is not recognized? without extension cable you should definitely see the dongle, but you may need an extension cable to get good connectivity.

[velvet kindle]

it is plugged into the usb port. then under integrations I tried adding bluetooth. but it just display a message that no unconfigured adapters were found

[velvet kindle]

it seems like usb is dead. I plugged a flash drive and got no messages in the host log. I plugged in an esp32. it wouldn't do anything, but the power led on the esp board should have lit up. it didn't

turns out, I'm an idiot. I forgot to set the jumper back to uart after flashing the CM5

[vagrant sparrow]

ouch. we have all done mistakes like that.

[ember thistle]

Can someone recomment a tasmota power plug (available in Germany) that can be turned on and off quite often ?
I need two of them and want to attach a lamp to each. I plan to sync them to a video that runs about 3 minutes. Each lamp is turned on and off during that video once.
It should run for about 6 months. Are there some good power plugs that can handle to be tunred on and off that often for such a long time?

[teal heath]

every 3 minutes for 6 months would be 86.4k operations. most relays are probably rated at 50-100k at full load. so assuming your lamp is well below the full load of the relay then I imagine that for most practical purposes you would be okay with most plugs. however if its something that "CAN NOT FAIL" then you need to get a more industrial switching setup and maybe build your own setup using tosmota.

[merry locust]

There also would likely be audible clicks, depending on what you're after.

[ember thistle]

Ok thanks!

[quiet axle]

Hi there, anyone using silicon labs multiprotocol addon on docker who can share there compose? Iam a noob and keep getting UART error when I compose up.

[olive owl]

you shouldn't use the multiprotocol firmware as it's not longer supported or developed

[quiet axle]

Oh didn't knew that

So what's the advice to use ZigBee and matter devices on the house?

[olive owl]

separate dongles

#1284966617670881350 for more

[quiet axle]

I have sonoff dongle e

[olive owl]

please post there

[quiet axle]

Ok

[jolly oar]

not sure if this is the right channel but i've got a HEOS enabled receiver and its in a closet in a fairly awkward spot. since all of its attributes can be controlled via HA, i wanted to add a rotary dial on the wall of the theatre room to change the volume. perhaps push functionality for switching inputs but HA has been pretty good with ps and chromecast integration swtiching input via power state.
in short i need a rotary knob that i can control volume with via HA

[thorn ore]

#1284966353798697001 if you want an off the shelf one, but as you are in this channel there are DIY versions e.g. https://github.com/dmit2k/viewe-knob-display-esphome?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000023.1.5596pzrlpzrlqP

[jolly oar]

diy is what i was looking for thank you!

this is perfect

[dreamy socket]

Hi all,

I want to install an exhaust fan in my bathroom. Doesn't necessarily have to be smart, but if that's possible sure i'm open to it

Currently it's a hole that has a square frame screwed in. there are 2 outlets abt 5 feet away, under the mirror which is about 30 inches from the ground

my uninformed brain is thinking I unscrew this plate, install some sort of fan, wire the cable from the ceiling to the wall, and plug it in to a power strip/extension cord that routes from the outlet to above the mirror? What would yall do differently?

[meager quail]

Do you own the space?

[dreamy socket]

I do not - I'm renting

which is why i'm doing the mental gymnastics for an extension cord

[meager quail]

Ok. Does that grate go anywhere? Meaning does it have a vent pipe to the outside? If so, your plan is probably fine. If not I wouldn’t mess with this

[dreamy socket]

I'm not sure to be hojnest

I am making an assumption that if the hole is there for steam to go through, putting an exhaust fan would be accelerating the process :/

[meager quail]

I mean yes, but if not vented correctly you’re just accelerating mold production

[dreamy socket]

hmm

I can ask the building if there is a vent pipe from this, but if it matters, this is a very large apt building. i'm not sure what that white strip is (if you zoom in on the right side)

[mild grove]

depends where you live but us code has required a window or exhaust fan in bathrooms forever

[dreamy socket]

Nyc

[dreamy socket]

ok I gave it a look, there's like a very light suction on the vent. a tissue only stays up if you get it at the right angle, but can't stay there indefinitely. prob 10% chance of being able to get the tissue to stick

[olive owl]

So the question may be for your super/management company to improve the extraction somehow

[mossy ledge]

What do people do in terms of wiring these low voltage devices, just run usb cables up walls and around skirting boards?

[tiny trench]

If you buy tempature senors for multiple rooms can you have eco bee take an average an run the AC like they do with their eco bee sesnors?

[teal anchor]

https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284966664357810196 because you may be looking for a template sensor. @tiny trench

[velvet steeple]

Hi everyone! Is it possible to make an alarm panel using esp32 and add it to HA as an alarm panel? (so i can use the alarm panel card in the lovelace)

[olive owl]

You could theoretically use ESPHome on the ESP32 and build the alarm_control_panel entity using https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alarm_control_panel.template/

or a lot of folks use https://github.com/nielsfaber/alarmo

[velvet steeple]

Ooo, thank you so much! I'll check that right away.

[short owl]

I think you can also buy some prety good alarm for prety cheap

[velvet steeple]

Thank you for the recommendation.

[short owl]

Realy dépend of what you want and what kind of setup you have tho

[velvet steeple]

Well I want to make my own and cheap alarm using the esp32 microcontroller

[short owl]

From my (maybe wrong understanding) you can find some zigbee alarm that have a feedback and are recognised as alarm, you just need a zigbee dongle for it to work with HA

[short owl]

Ahh yeah i get what you mean then you want to DIY your own make sense

Its very fun and rewarding to make your own things

[velvet steeple]

I agree!

[keen bone]

ah yes.

hell that is.. trying to connect a thermostat to a heat pump that replaced a regular ac..

which wires right? Who knows, fuck you. 🙃 /s

(it does get much wores than this though there's at least 3-4 other splices on other wires and etc..)

[short owl]

electrical fire simulator

[keen bone]

Its 24 VAC and there's fuses around so no real worry..

but yes, tremendous pain in the ass.

guess what.. those are bare wires not sheathed wires that connect to the thermostat.

They get blind spliced somewhere in a wall to some other wires of course; for funsies.

I figured it out eventually but god fucking damn.

sorry what did I say.. did I say 24 VAC?

I meant 28 VAC because lmao of course its nominally 28vac usually! /s

but that thermostat ended up going.. to two different palces that splice you see? that was it tying in its heat control call wire and the C wire for the thermostat

(gotta love the two red wires thing of course)

[velvet steeple]

thats when the multimeter comes in handy

[olive owl]

that's an #1284966582375813201

[velvet steeple]

oh ok ill ask it there sorry

[crystal pond]

hey guys i want to manage batteries for all devices in the SwitchBot and Govee integrations the problem is I have that filter card to show all batteries but right now I just have too many junk devices. The naming of my devices doesn't permit me to filter based on SwitchBot in the name. Is there some clever way to extra only devices from a specific integration?

[hallow lance]

#1284965988642590891 can help with cards

[modern dragon]

Hello, I got a rasberry pi 5 starter kit from best buy and I was seeing things about home assistant. I have a ecobee doorbell what can i do with it? any ideas?

[teal anchor]

Stuff. and things. You mean the pi, the ecobee, the doorbell, or what 'it' are you talking about?
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/introduction-to-home-assistant-the-official-documentation/806425
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/20-things-i-wished-i-knew-when-i-started-with-home-assistant/576359

[granite flare]

hi akll this is so stupid and Idk why its doing this, but I installed through Pi installer, and I did CLI deviec wifi connect SSID password PASSWORD - now i get spat errors

[hallow lance]

#1284966540617449515 can help with HAOS network settings

[modern dragon]

like will my ecobee doorbell even work on home assisant?

[heady nexus]

@modern dragon The ecobee integration doesn't appear to support the doorbell, but one user has had some luck connecting it to HA via HomeKit Controller

[stone tinsel]

I now have 2 smart clocks (1 Lenovo Smart clock 2 and a Xiaomi)
Is there any project for creating alternate OS for these? Could either be an android rom or as there is kernel sources for both maybe a fully custom thing?

I could imagine a small Linux setup that just runs a full screen browser and the assist wake word stuff

[olive owl]

There are some hacks for some of the Lenovo smart clocks that you can find from googling

[stone tinsel]

Or the same for Android with either the official companion app or a slimmed down version

Yeah I saw that you can root them and get apps on them but not much info on how to "clean" them or to get Nabu assistant working on tbem

[wise flame]

guys, I could use some help.
I'm trying to use a Huawei USB GSM stick idVendor=12d1, idProduct=14dc.
I'm running a HAOS 15.2.
it detect it as a storage device.
based on documentations i have to enable HuaweiAltModeGlobal=1 in usb_modeswitch.conf
my issue is that usb_modeswitch is not present on my system as i understood.
im missing something ? do i need to customly install it somehow ?
any help will be appreciated
(https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/discussions/3785)

[mild drift]

Hello. Not sure if this is the right place. Can someone tell me how to adjust swag? I have it working for Jellyfin and hitting the generic swag page for plex. I know I need to go to cloudflare and add a sub domain for my domain like home.my domain.com. But then I can’t remember how I make it punch through to plex or home assistant.

[heady nexus]

add a subdomain proxy configuration for plex

[mild drift]

I think I figured it out. I need a .conf for home assistant. I see a sample but it says I have to define ranges or something? For jelly fin I pointed it to the ip address and port from what it looks like

Where is the configuration.yaml that I need to update? I’m running a docker container

[heady nexus]

configuration.yaml for HA? in whatever directory you pointed to /config in the container

[mild drift]

I found it, I had the container directorys backwards so I had to retstart, I have it almost working except I'm getting bad gateway 400.

#http:
#use_x_forwarded_for: true
#trusted_proxies:

- 172.19.0.0/16

#-   172.17.0.0/16

#- 192.168.68.157

when I add this in which should fix it, I get homeassitant going into recovery mode until I comment it out, and still bad gateway.

2025-05-17 21:24:31.281 WARNING (SyncWorker_0) [homeassistant.loader] We found a custom integration hacs which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you experience issues with Home Assistant
2025-05-17 21:25:49.549 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.forwarded] A request from a reverse proxy was received from 172.19.0.2, but your HTTP integration is not set-up for reverse proxies
2025-05-17 21:25:51.444 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.forwarded] A request from a reverse proxy was received from 172.19.0.2, but your HTTP integration is not set-up for reverse proxies
2025-05-17 21:25:53.396 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.forwarded] A request from a reverse proxy was received from 172.19.0.2, but your HTTP integration is not set-up for reverse proxies

errors I'm getting.

[indigo pine]

I did a test and turned off power in whole house, turned off UPS etc. After back up power HA still can connect to devices. I have DHCP, so I am kind of surprised. Is it normal these days integrations are changing IPs resistant?

I was expecting all devices need static IPs to make things stable and predictable, but it works anyway. The same for you?

[heady nexus]

power cycling devices doesn't necessarily mean they'll grab a new IP address

it depends on the DHCP server of course, but it's not surprising for a device to continuously keep the IP address it was originally assigned from the DHCP server

[olive owl]

It's actually done on purpose, I think

[heady nexus]

yeah I just say that because I'm sure there's some network equipment out there with a shitty DHCP implementation

[indigo pine]

I have checked logs. Indeed my new server remember IPs before power lost.

I thought maybe HA can re-recognize all devices in the same network by MAC addresses or other kind of identification.

[mild drift]

I setup a helper switch to change yes to no when connecting or disconnecting from Bluetooth. The shortcut on iOS is firing and it’s set to call service but it’s not flipping the switch

[olive owl]

I suggest posting in #1284965926336335993

[keen bone]

TIL:

Kicad has a 'render with raytracing' option? 🤣

[mild drift]

My automation is not triggering all the time when I leave a zone. What can I check?

[olive owl]

#1284980040940912641

[teal anchor]

Ask your question and post your automation in that thread and maybe someone can help?

[meager quail]

If you were wondering the button spring for a Logitech mx master 2s is small.

[flint prawn]

only when it leaves the zone

[wide obsidian]

Anyone know if it'd be harmful to trickle a super small current through a motor that can't be driven by that current? Like... 3W through a 3/4 horsepower motor that expects around 550W to run on low?

[sinful mulch]

might generate some heat maybe.. should be fine otherwise?

[swift fjord]

Got details? There are many types of motors, and both AC and DC current. I can imagine both harmful and harmless combinations. And--other than DC bias through an AC motor--I'm not sure how you'd "trickle" current, since Ohms law still applies and a motor at rest has very low impedance. Would seem like the only way to limit current would be to reduce voltage to unusable.

[wide obsidian]

Swamp cooler motor. Dual speed 3/4 HP 120vac beast on the roof. I'm building a smart controller to go in the switch box, but right now I don't believe that switch box has a neutral wire in it, so I'm plotting ways around the problem. I plan on checking for certain sometime when I'm not running the coolers constantly on high, but it's hot right now, so I don't want to pop one open and risk damaging a control or otherwise interrupting my life-saving cold air source.

The "right" solution is probably just to accept that I'm going to have to bring a neutral wire into that box.

Bad solutions include battery power and running a power cable out of the swamp cooler controller to plug into the wall nearby. And of course the option I mentioned about bleeding current through the motor. Which is probably both a bad idea and a violation of electrical codes.

Of note, if I succeed acceptably, I plan on installing three in this house, for all three coolers. Yes, it's a big house. If I succeed remarkably, I'll probably open source the code/board cad/etc and sell premade ones.

[wide obsidian]

Planning on using this to power the relays/ICs/etc (3.3v version):
https://www.meanwellusa.com/upload/pdf/IRM-03/IRM-03-spec.pdf

[swift fjord]

https://leviton.com/products/dn15s-1bw

[swift fjord]

Rated for a 3/4 hp motor. Would only work one set of windings (high or low speed). To switch speeds, you'd need a double-throw switch or relay in the controller to switch between windings.

[swift fjord]

Can't energize both speed windings at the same time without a very real potential for badness.

[wide obsidian]

Yeah, I'm aware of kludgey solutions, I'd prefer to build something more perfect for the purpose. Specifically the ability to run either speed and the pump separately. I have yet to see a pre built solution that'd answer that need. And as you said, it needs to not be able to energize both speeds at the same time, because "badness" would occur.

Right now the plan is three relays. One spdt for picking speed (default low), two spst for motor power and pump power.

[swift fjord]

You can do some neat stuff with Shelly 1s, and they're dirt cheap.

[wide obsidian]

To be fair, building it myself, the most expensive part will be getting the circuit board printed. The z-wave controller is $6. The power supply is $6. Relays are like... $0.60 each. If I slap in an energy tracker, that's about another $6. And this way I get the experience of learning to build a working z-wave device, which is knowledge that can be applied to future devices as well.

[swift fjord]

Well, that's different. Have fun!

[wide obsidian]

Oh, I will. And probably some profanity. But fun nonetheless.

[oak moat]

so I bought a 4 relay switch from aliexpress. namely TS0601 by _TZE204_lbhh5o6z. Only entity that shows up is firmware. Trying to get the relays to show up so I can use it to control my HVAC.

[teal heath]

just link the thing you bought

[oak moat]

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808266579625.html

[teal heath]

tuya makes me sad 😦

[oak moat]

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807233107373.html

a reviewer said this one was picked up by HA

I'm fairly new, been running HA for a few months now. I didn't know what I didn't know. thought I could just buy any ole zigbee device I wanted to

[teal heath]

in general tuya = cheap and nasty but yes some of their zigbee stuff does work. but some of it is just chaos.

this channel is more for custom stuff though. you probably want to start a thread in a support channel

[oak moat]

so two of the reviewers said the second link would work with HA, should I take another chance?

[teal heath]

are you specifically wanting zigbee or is that not a deal breaker?

[oak moat]

I mean I do have a zwave controller that I've never used

I like zigbee, it is fast

[teal heath]

theres plenty of relayboard that run esphome but they are wifi

you can give some other zigbee stuff a go and see if something works. if its cheap anyway its not a huge risk

[oak moat]

well I pulled the trigger, we'll see

ty

[heady nexus]

Anyone else here happen to have Amcrest 5MP IP cams (IP5M-T1179EW-28MM)? The video seems insanely noisy even with plenty of light compared to my Wyze Cam v3s that are flashed with thingino, and it seems like the 3D noise reduction is absolutely needed to produce an image with no noise

tried messing with exposure settings but at this point I'll probably just factory reset to see if the defaults fix it

[heady nexus]

okay I turned down the default sharpness value and that helped quite a bit

[viscid rose]

is there something like reverse wol? 😄
a command of sorts that properly shuts down device over the lan
i'm trying to figure out a way to shut down vms from home assistant, i already have them start up with wake-on-lan with one tap, so i thought maybe i could long press to shut down? or long press to open a popup and there's a shutdown icon? (currently i either log into the vm to shut it down, or use unraid "stop vm" finction)

[thorn ore]

Create a shell command to shut down your VM. Test it and confirm it works. Then use it in the WoL Switch turn_off option https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/#turn_off

[teal heath]

needed to automate something in an easily removable way, discovered it uses c7 power cable and raided my box of misc stuff

[scenic arrow]

At first glance this seemed like the best channel: I've a home assistant Yellow and I've a Timebeat GPS clock on the way that I can use with a PI Compute Module. (https://store.timebeat.app/products/open-timecard-mini-essential).

How practical is it likely to be to use this card in Home Assistant? Can HA (Hassos?) run an NTP server and get input from a GPS?

If this isn't the best place to ask, where would be? Thanks!

[teal heath]

surely you run the NTP server on the CM thats attached to the timecard?

[scenic arrow]

You can / do, but I was seeing if I could get a two-fer with the CM already in my HA Yellow 🙂

[teal heath]

if you take the cm out of your yellow and attach it to the timeclocck then the yellow no longer has a cm

there is no way in which all 3 work together

[scenic arrow]

It can stack in-between - and to the best of my knowledge be used alongside other hardware, unless there is conflicting pin usage.

[mossy ledge]

What do people do about having a 12 or 5v supply around the house for the different sensors ets? I end up with loads of trailing wires and often have to compromise on the position of a device because there's no socket near where I want to put the device

[teal heath]

ah right, i see what you mean. now... My guess is that the answer is no... or at least not without some serious work.

[teal heath]

i have a few small 5v supplies about (mostly usb stuff) and tap off mains. but i guess it depends on the type of sensor and what the options are though

[scenic arrow]

Cool - thanks for the reply. Not sure I have the time for that (no pun...). I was wanting to have something to pick up the MSF signal (as well as GPS time) to be able to compare them (for no particular reason other curiosity) so it'll be much simpler if I use a separate Pi anyway. Cheers!

[teal heath]

no worries, i am guessing it "taps into" a pcie lane. if its the one going to the m.2 slot then it might work in theory but you obviously loose the m.2 slot. then you would have to find out how it works from looking at their image. then customise haos to have whatever extra stuff is needed and probably build it yourself. then probably run the software to access it in a custom addon container...

like... it might be doable if the hardware lines up... but we are talking "serious" time investment

its not gunna be a "plug it in and run a script" type situation

[scenic arrow]

Interestingly I just found the chrony Add-on, so the time server is there.... hmm. Well I'll see. Thanks for the help!

[heady nexus]

[vagrant sparrow]

hard to find info. it could be presenting itself as a serial port like a usb gps plus a gpio port for the fine grained timing pulses. also it seems like the pcie card it is meant to live on has a high precision clock it possibly must have.

that high precision crystal is heated to 100°C so maybe not something you try to retrofit

[red crag]

the esphome page specifically says NOT to use -C3 or other variant of the ESP32 and to only use the plain ESP32

@teal heath

and @tribal sail

https://esphome.io/projects/?type=bluetooth

[teal heath]

as said, this works great for making a BT proxy

[red crag]

what's the difference between that and something like this? https://www.amazon.com/ELEGOO-ESP-WROOM-32-Development-Bluetooth-Microcontroller/dp/B0D8T53CQ5

Both are $20 but you can get 3 of the bare boards

[teal heath]

one is a self contained package that has some fixed stuff on it, the other is a bare board with all the pins exposed

you can definitely use a dev board if you want but it depends where your putting it i guess

[red crag]

I have a 3D printer so it not coming with a case is not a problem

[teal heath]

then sure can go with a dev board and 3d print a case if you want to

the older WROOM stuff is a bit limited with its memory size these days. generally would recommend the s3 versions now but they will be more expensive.

although if your just using it as a proxy then it probably makes no difference at all

[red crag]

I thought 512MB was a lot for what it does

wait what

[teal heath]

lol, where are you getting that number from?

[teal heath]

yeah... thats a lie

[teal heath]

amazon listings are gunna be a bit dodgy with this type of thing

[red crag]

typicsl amazon stuff

[teal heath]

its people reselling stuff from ali express and just pasting stuff into boxes

[red crag]

oh fun

[teal anchor]

Well, it is probably the same people that are selling on Ali but here thru their Amazon seller accounts. All the alphabet companies.

[red crag]

it also has 512 kb of ram, interestingly

[teal heath]

at least with the m5stack stuff. you can be sure of what your getting.
theres loads of different dev boards with varying amounts of issues

[red crag]

that's good.

also the lite version implies a non lite version

[teal heath]

they have a bunch of various devices with various options

[red crag]

ah right the choice pradox lol

what's the non lite version?

[teal anchor]

It's probably more, everything.

[teal heath]

its not a lite vs normal type thing. lite is just branding for their basic thing

[red crag]

ah

little confusing

[teal heath]

the echo has voice dev stuff on it
the matrix has led matrix stuff on it

[red crag]

so the lite is really all I need?

[teal heath]

yes

[red crag]

sucks that it's $20 on amazon but ah well that's amazon

[teal heath]

then just install the general bluetooth proxy readymade project on it

[red crag]

via usb to my computer?

[teal heath]

yeah

[red crag]

really glad it's usb-c

[teal heath]

you flash it and then you can insert wifi creds. then it will pop straight up on HA

[red crag]

nice

[teal heath]

just add the device and boom it works

[red crag]

then I'd just follow the smartshunt tutorial after that?

[teal heath]

no idea what tutorial your talking about but probably

[red crag]

well any tutorial really. my main hurdle is really just which ESP32 device to get but I'll get that one

[tribal sail]

oh then use a plain esp32. I mentionedearlier im not using esphome, i just favor the c3 for my uses.

the m5stack one mentioned should be a solid choice

so im hosting frigate in docker, not inside HA, and im trying to get the MQTT pushed jpegs from detect etc to display on a card. Ive tried a bunch of things, mqtt camera, image, node-red flows with dashboard ui's, not having any luck. any suggestions on what I shouldtry or look at?

[red crag]

yeah it specifically says it can do BT proxy which is nice

[red crag]

thanks for the help!

[tribal sail]

Good luck 😄

[red crag]

I'll need it lol

[tribal sail]

Duh I just needed the integration haha

[tribal sail]

Think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you take your time with the setup

M5 stack hw is pretty great, I've avoided it cause I'm a low level developer and that's a ready made implementation- I love the diy aspect of this stuff... ESPnow is such a great framework as it obscures out a lot of the ultra low level stuff. You'll still need to learn a little coding, likely not very much with what you need it for, but you'll find so many things to use it for if you look at the feature set of ESPnow

[red crag]

it can probably do a lot more than I can afford

sometimes I wish solar inverters were more open because I wanted to be able to keep the batteries charged but use any access solar to power my loads. Could have even did an automation with home assistant to get that feature in a sense

[tribal sail]

not sure what you meant, i dont work with solar stuff like that, but i feel like what youre describing should be doable.

[red crag]

the solar inverters are usually proprietary which makes things difficult

[zenith junco]

are timers within assist broken for anyone else?

i've had it do this action before but now it's gaslighting me

[thorn ore]

#1284966915055288530

[zenith junco]

Heard

[heady nexus]

yes chef

[olive owl]

#the-kitchen

[red crag]

can HA do math? for example, having two watt inputs and taking one from another?
I'm trying to do a workaround where I measure incoming AC from the wall and outgoing AC from my inverter and trying to calculate how much solar energy is introduced
Sayin 0.5kw from the wall and 1kw of solar for a total of 1.5kW. I wanted to take away that 500w since I can't measure solar input directly

[heady nexus]

Yeah, a template sensor would work for that scenario

[red crag]

ok good. at least until I get a new charge controller that'll be a good workaround. I'm wondering how it'll deal with ineffficiency because It might take 950w from the wall but only deliver 900w when it's night, for example

[rain prairie]

Got my mini pcs connected . Now to learn Linux. Lots of cables . Living in a 700sf apartment so the networking is very limited

[minor wren]

Random High ping on TP Link AP

[heady nexus]

Love that this automation still works years after setting it up

ComEd is my electricity provider and they have a program called peak time savings where you can get a credit on your power bill for reducing energy using during certain periods of time (based on your historical usage)

The peak time savings events are announced the day of, and they don't have an API for grabbing the start/end times so I signed up for alerts using the phone number that my LTE failover modem has (which is integrated into HA) and I have an automation that parses the text for the start and end time and turns the thermostat off and back on accordingly

They haven't changed the format of the texts since I set up the automation thankfully (which to be fair, there's not really a reason to)

[lusty holly]

Did you get your doorbell to work?

[modern dragon]

no

[lusty holly]

Says we should be able to add it to the HomeKit bridge

[keen bone]

@upbeat storm just to mess with you a little. 🙃 (now with a power supply that wont go 100c and canbus..)

not finalized yet.. probaly do that later tonight.. before shipping it off for mfr..

[heady nexus]

why tf is it so difficult to monitor two UPSes on the same host with apcupsd

at this point I'm convinced it's not even possible. I followed the instructions in the debian wiki exactly and it's not working, and any other workaround I've found online doesn't work either

[rain prairie]

Because life is beautiful on the edge

[olive owl]

NUT and UPS monitoring in general is a maze of twisty passages, all alike

[heady nexus]

Apparently

[teal anchor]

Try the password XYZZY

-# Why I can remember that and not my kids birthday, I have noi idea...

[heady nexus]

wut

[trail fractal]

😆

[heady nexus]

Ah just looked it up. I think that's before my time lol

[rain prairie]

How did you do the hidden Text underneath

[rain prairie]

This

[hallow lance]

-# The secret secret about our secret subtext?

biggest: # biggest

big: ## big

still a bit big: ### still a bit big

normal
-# small: -# small

[rain prairie]

hello world

-# small

Is that just this server?

[hallow lance]

No. It is a general Discord thing.

[rain prairie]

Sweeet

[quasi portal]

Markdown is useful to learn, its used more places than you'd expect. https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/

[teal anchor]

Colossal Cave is also where the twisty little passages statement came from.

[heady nexus]

I understoodn't that reference

[olive owl]

Go back to yer TwitchTok, youngling...

[keen bone]

like discord.

.. and christ they never should've added the link thing

[torpid raptor]

Question from a HA rookie - is it possible to pass what device triggers on an action to the message of a notification? Like if I group all my door sensors to trigger an alarm when opened that sends a notification can I have the notification be something like "$device_trigger was just opened!"

[heady nexus]

Assuming a state trigger:

"{{ trigger.to_state.name }} was just opened!"

[torpid raptor]

Thanks!

[red crag]

my home assistant computer is crashing and I don't know if it's because of HA or the computer itself

or if it's something attatched to the computer

it's complaining about the xHCI controller (USB) apparently. "not responding so assume dead" and it shuts off

[teal heath]

start a thread in a support channel, probably want #1284966540617449515 for this

[torpid raptor]

Is there any regex support inside yamls? For instance I have a large trigger set with all my sensors that sends a notification if the battery drops below 10% with the sensor name. I'd love to include something that checks the name and if it includes the word "motion" it reminds me to use AAA instead of coin batteries

[olive owl]

You would do that using templates. Please post in #1284966664357810196

[torpid raptor]

Will do, thanks

[heady nexus]

Before

After

[keen bone]

<inductor humming>

https://tenor.com/view/he-he-he-laughing-funny-lizard-heh-heh-heh-gif-5728538792722150615

[quartz bear]

I somehow got frigate working on a dell3050 with a 4tb SSD USB for storage. I can't believe it but it works. So far two cameras, 1 with object detection, openvino brought the CPU down from 95% to about 30%. Can't believe it.

I can't quite figure out how to see saved events from my phone but it's a start.

Anyone know if I can use tail scale and use the web UI?

[olive owl]

that's probably for #1284966582375813201

[craggy meadow]

I don't think this is the right channel but feel like this doesn't belong anywhere
Does HAOS just "reserve" the ram?
No matter how much I give it it always uses it all, while showing <2gb in its own monitoring

[teal heath]

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

its just the hypervisor lying to you. don't worry about it

[craggy meadow]

Ah.
thanks
So i can give it less right ?
I'm running the HAOS VM on an ssd anyways

[teal heath]

2gb is the min requirement, personally I wouldn't give it less then 4gb. however it depends what your doing i suppose. in any case if you want to continue this conversation then please start a thread in #1284966540617449515 instead

[vocal sparrow]

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have smarthome from futurehome and need to get home assistant. But most of my gadgets are enocean is there anyway to make that work?

[hallow lance]

#1284966353798697001 might know something.

[dreamy kindle]

I'm doing a migration attempt from HA supervised on a NUC to HAOS on a raspberry pi... restore takes ages... Is there any way to view progress?

me refraining myself from refreshing the page:

https://tenor.com/view/no-benedict-cumberbatch-comment-gif-15372766

all i know is that I can still ping the device 😭

[hallow lance]

You can open the console (either physical or via debug SSH, if you enabled that before) and look at the supervisor logs.

[dreamy kindle]

ah thanks. I tried ssh but didn't know I had to enable it before

so I'll try the console

hmm nothing on the console

maybe I should have connect it at boot?

(console is HDMI, right?)

j'ai de l'influxdb et du grafana mais mon backup ne fait que ~3GB...

[hallow lance]

Please remember rule 3.

[eternal surge]

Rule 3

No typing in any other language than English; we cannot moderate different languages.

[dreamy kindle]

oups sorry

eventualy the installation completed: I just had to open a new tab with httpS

[hallow lance]

Restoring big add-ons can take some time.
The physical console should show a login screen.

[dreamy kindle]

I was almost sure I would have to do that. In fact I already tried without success.

Everything looks fine now: zwave, ebus, influxdb, grafana

still no console and no ssh though

google AI says I have to install the SSH & Web terminal add-on. Is that true?

[hallow lance]

Well... that add-on (or the advanced one) gives you limited access and is usually good enough for most people. It wouldn't work during a backup restore.

[dreamy kindle]

can I use it to scp my backups remotely?

because downloading my backups from the web UI doesn't work for me

[hallow lance]

Should work.

[wet isle]

There's lots of other ways to access your files too: https://www.home-assistant.io/common-tasks/os/#configuring-access-to-files

[dreamy kindle]

yep, but there's no point to install yet another add-on if I can do everything via ssh

[wet isle]

Indeed but I mentioned it because some people prefer something like samba so they can just use their explorer.

[dreamy kindle]

okay, I could retrieve a backup from my new system using scp. thanks for the help 🙏

[tacit roost]

anyone have experience with smart plugs that they like / controll through HA? I'm in the market for something simple to just automate in HA for a dumb lamp

[olive owl]

#1284966353798697001 -> Recommendations

[olive owl]

Please don't cross post

Rule #7

[woven flame]

sorry

[teal anchor]

I thought this was funny...
Jungle website at it's best.
I thought it might be an AI hallucination actually.

4.5 stars

[merry locust]

how...? especially the outlets on the edge

[teal anchor]

It has a 14ga cord... that's about 0.5a per plug max.

[zenith junco]

why do i want to use a slime tracker with home assistant

i honestly have so many wemos d1 mini's left over from building slime that i should build a tactical control box with switchhes for my room devices

[thorn ore]

WTH is slime?

[misty hound]

slime trackers are IMU based full body trackers for VR

[teal anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/pinkglock-gif-25584003

That looks like a full-body-tracker...

[dreamy socket]

my automated roller shade isn't working - there's too much force needed to pull the shade cord down and up, anyone have this issue before?

[meager quail]

#1284966353798697001

[olive owl]

Does anyone recognize this battery? Supposedly a Li-ion, but I can't find anything based on the markings on it (these are the only ones):

It's for a Solmeta GPS dongle for my camera and it's been discharged for several years. The device no longer powers on or appears to charge

Just red and black leads coming out, but I only read 0v

[teal heath]

if its only got a couple of cables then the protection will likely be on the battery. just get something similar that physically fits and has onboard protection (most batteries these days).

[trail fractal]

And you also know the capacity so you can get similar battery runtimes out of it

[olive owl]

Is voltage an issue?

Also weird that Solmeta advertises 1900mAh

Looks like this could be a winner: $4.74 | 3.7V 2200mAh Polymer Lithium LiPo Rechargeable Battery 803160 For GPS PSP PAD MID DVD Mobile Phone Power Bank Tablet PC E-Books
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtLN4dN

Funny that AliExpress has a 4th of July sale

[dire pecan]

Gotta appease all the capitalism holidays!

[teal heath]

that link broke but yes based on name that will be fine, it will be a 3.7v battery. i dont think i have ever seen a flat cell thats not

[olive owl]

It's also LiPo

Link fixed

$1 cheaper if I order in 12 hours instead of now. Silly Ali

Thanks folks

[teal heath]

just remember to dispose of the old one carefully, its probably not quite a bomb anymore but it could still cause issues

[olive owl]

It doesn't seem to be puffy yet

[teal anchor]

Is there a charger or can you measure the charger circuit? then you can verify the voltage. @olive owl

[olive owl]

maybe. The device is supposed to charge from a normal 5V USB port and I hacked up some pins last night to see if that would bring it to life (it didn't), so I could try again. It's a non-standard connector, so I was literally sticking small wires into the connector and hoping they made contact

doing that + getting a scope on the battery lines will require a few more hands 🙂

[keen bone]

or its a single cell.. 😛

[thorn ore]

Drill through it just to b sure.

-# don't drill through it

[teal anchor]

Well, if you accidentally drill thru it, I heard hitting the hole repeatedly with a hammer will seal
-# your fate

[wide harness]

⚡ Quick Share: My progress on ESPNow to MQTT (via serial) gateway, Auto Discovery works and the code has reached a readable stage https://github.com/tanishqmanuja/espnow2mqtt

End goal is to package the gateway device maybe in a usb dongle form factor

[heady nexus]

noice, very cool. I feel like ESP-NOW has been pretty underutilized

[wide harness]

Same thinking, best thing is - it even works in wifi router blackouts ( assuming your HA is connected via LAN )

[heady nexus]

I assume you mean AP issues, but yeah, same concept as zigbee and z-wave for instance

[wide harness]

Yeah both scenarios, if entire router is down interconnected devices still continue to work locally, but yeah if linked via HA then only AP down condition.

[trail fractal]

So a poe powered dongle would be great for that

Could have a ups backed up poe switch to power it remotely and keep it up during power outages

[wide harness]

Nice idea, will try PoE .. looks interesting.

My HA server is on UPS currently so usb powered dongle is still surviving for me as of now 🙃

[trail fractal]

My ha is a virtual machine and also ups backed up, but having it on the network instead of direct is a bit easier to work with (my zwave dongle requires me to reboot after zwave js upgrades to get it back 'connected' to the machine

But also being on Ethernet keeps it more robustly connected than wifi

[teal heath]

thats pretty awesome tbh

[wide harness]

Ty Ty ✨ .. still to add more platform like light(onoff, monochromatic, rgb etc) and device trigger(useful for making battery powered iot button ... which might last months on single charge)

[tiny trench]

Can I pull power off of an old alarm system keypad wiring to power a tablet for home assist?

[dire pecan]

I think it might depend on the tablet but honestly the answer is "probably".

😂

I'd just say

Be safe

and

We aren't electrical experts so proceed with our advise with caution. 😆

[teal heath]

check the voltage with a meter and get an appropriate power adaptor. its likely 12v DC tbh, so a 12-5 dc-dc would do it

[tiny trench]

Are firetablets okay?

Or slow and annoying

[teal heath]

some people have gotten them working but a lot of people have issues. they are pretty locked down

[tiny trench]

I have a few years old ipad as well

[teal heath]

give it a go, if you have one already theres no harm in setting it up and seeing how it works

[keen bone]

you're still using esp8266's?

[keen bone]

that stuffs old.. 😛

... was hoping ESPnow could also use thread/matter but doesn't look like it

dammit espressif why not. 💔

[trail fractal]

I have a few 8266s left in my box, not going to let them go to waste 😛

[sweet trellis]

They wanted ESPnow, not ESPeventually

[keen bone]

yeah but c6

has matter/thread stuff 😛

[golden garnet]

@dire pecan loving the color gradient

[mossy knot]

Anyone aware of any smart plugs that are either zigbee or zwave that also have like a built in schedule?

Like I think I prefer the those protocols vs the wifi devices, but from I've bought in the past the zigbee/zwave devices don't allow like and internal storage or presets and all have to be controlled "on demand" in a sense. Normally this wouldn't really be an issue, but for some devices that I NEED to have turn on/off on a consistent schedule, regardless of network status, then it's kind of an issue.

I guess the only reason I liked the zigbee/zwave devices was that it didn't clutter up my wifi network as much, and was somewhat more isolated since they have to talk through the zigbee/zwave controller vs just directly talking to my network. If anyone has thoughts on wifi vs zigbee/zwave devices, I'd appreciate the input.

[heady nexus]

I'm not aware of any zigbee or z-wave smart plugs that have that functionality, but it would be easy to set up something like that with a wi-fi smart plug flashed with tasmota or esphome

[crystal pond]

couldn't tasmota run a schedule?

[heady nexus]

...yes, that's what I said 😂

[mossy knot]

but thats only for wifi ones, not the zigbee/zwave or does tasmota only do wifi?

[heady nexus]

tasmota and esphome are wi-fi only

[mossy knot]

gotcha

[long anvil]

Just started setting up home assistant and got my Bambu lab 3d printers connected, im still getting used to how to make stuff work in HA for example my futurehome hub isnt easy to understand how i can get working but i am closer now!

[crystal pond]

i only read half of what you write

[dreamy iris]

I'm just starting a new project: a modular home battery/inverter system. It's based on the 19' rackmount modules and the first module will be the battery. Using 18650 LFP cells. One idea was to use bidirectional DAB inverter inside each battery module, which has 400V DC output(input)

Next module will be the H-bridge, which converts 400V DC into 230V AC

In the future, maybe also a MPPT inverter for solar panels. Everything will interface with 400V DC

Some cool DAB stuff https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidues0e/tidues0e.pdf?ts=1751504111139

[royal willow]

Mirabella Genio upgraded to ESP32/ESPHome. #howtonot

[keen bone]

right into the trash..

very much being serious

if you have a fire.

there goes your insurance

and that FR4 will likely survive a regular fire enough.. 🙃

[keen bone]

https://suya.place/notice/AvjrzpScESYKfw4fvk

hilarious design efficiency.

[meager quail]

Please don’t cross post (rule 7). https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/331130181102206976

Thank you

[tiny trench]

So I hooked a buck converter up to my alarm system to charge an ipad. Worked for a week and now my alarm system went from putting out 12v to 4v. What the hell went wrong?

[trail fractal]

Is the alarm system putting out less voltage? Or the buck converter? What current is the system capable of outputting? What kind of load was the iPad pulling from it? What is the current limit of the converter?

[tiny trench]

Looks like all my panels are dead now

It was putting out 13ish volts

[trail fractal]

My guess with no information, you pulled too much current from the alarm system and burned out its power supply or voltage regulator or some such

[tiny trench]

DROK Buck Converter 12v to 5v, 5A USB Voltage Regulator DC 9V-36V Step Down to DC 5V-5.3V 5.2V 3.5-6A Volt

[trail fractal]

Yeah I doubt the panel was designed to handle more than 1a of power for sensors and the panels

[tiny trench]

lol

guess I should have avoided the quick charge.

[teal heath]

yeah its probably the alarm system power supply giving up.

[tiny trench]

Its from the 80s and I was replacing the keypads with home assistant tablets anyway. Is there something I can put in the alarm box to feed power to tablets?

[teal heath]

if you want to reuse the current cabling and stuff then probably just put a new alarm system power supply in

[tiny trench]

Wont it just fry again?

It would be nice if I didnt have to use buck convertors as well

[teal heath]

get a higher spec one

your gunna have to have conversion at the tablets no matter the solution most likely

[trail fractal]

That way you can use higher voltage lower current in the wall

Don't want to go melting the wiring

[teal heath]

you cant just run 5v on the line. you would suffer voltage drop. that is why alarm power is higher voltage. to account for the drop

or rip it out. use the current cables to pull ethernet in and use poe (poe to usb adaptors exist)

[tiny trench]

I do have POE in the house

That does sound easier

[teal heath]

ubiquiti make a poe-usb adaptor INS-3AF-USB but there will be cheaper ones too

[tiny trench]

I am in the ubiquti system

[teal heath]

i just added some new small switch and ap from them myself

[tiny trench]

Im waiting for them to come out with a new door bell

[teal heath]

quite happy with my little box of networking 😛

[frozen imp]

Ditto mostly. However, I am using OPNSense for a firewall.

[teal heath]

me too 🙂

i used a single ubiquiti ap for years and just had it in stand alone mode. now with 2 and a switch i finally bothered spinning up a network manager

its pretty cool

[frozen imp]

I have had two APs. Each did something separate. I had an AP Pro and an AP HD. I retired the Pro and got the AP Pro 7.

I am considering getting the UNAS Pro but I haven't gotten it yet

[tiny trench]

My aps are wifi 7 but nothing supports it

[teal heath]

yeah my new one is a u7-pro-max so i am future proofed for a while

[heady nexus]

I used an edgerouter x for years but finally upgraded to a Cloud Gateway Ultra about a year ago which I don't regret. Although I got burned with the 4.2.12 firmware for the CGU and I rolled back to 4.1.22

[thorn ore]

I'm still rocking the edgerouter-x. Top little router for the price.

[keen bone]

alarm systems.. run off VAC?

in my experience at least.

[teal heath]

some are, but quite a lot are ~12-36v dc

[void vessel]

<@&330946878646517761>

[lyric rose]

Anyone know where to go to get community security settings reset. My phone is dead and I can't generate 2FA codes anymore to get into my account. I'm homeautomation1

[merry locust]

that action takes an admin like @dire pecan and not a moderator, I believe. She should see this at some point (could be later or tomorrow), but if not I we can try pinging her again tomorrow

I see she posted something directly below your same request in #the-water-cooler
Awkward.

[dire pecan]

lol because I didn't know he meant about the forums.

[dire pecan]

Try it now.

[lyric rose]

You're an absolute legend, thanks @dire pecan

[merry locust]

https://tenor.com/view/basketball-fan-ignored-high-five-fail-gif-8403354

[teal anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/highfive-30rock-tina-fey-self-high-five-gif-14793387

[oblique stratus]

still using my ER-X. I want to find have a reason to upgrade but my internet is only 1gbps. other upgrades seem to be only fancier UI and better integration with my unifi AP

[heady nexus]

For me it was mainly getting rid of the raspberry pi that was running solely Unifi controller (didn't want that on my server since I have a management VLAN) and also easier IPv6 configuration

[keen bone]

I'll probably get a cloud gateway fiber thing eventually so I can get my network setup nicer and etc..

Next month probably.. after I finish paying for this heat pump that arrives friday.. 😛

[foggy pawn]

Finished this mini rack for one of my clients. Has a few things to improve but HA is running and that's what matters.

[dire pecan]

Damn, that's some good cable porn right there.

[heady nexus]

sigh just discovered that the touchscreen on my chromebook that I moved to Ubuntu isn't working properly 🙄

it acts like a mouse on Wayland (but just moves the cursor) and doesn't do anything on X11

[keen bone]

the fun of linux

[heady nexus]

figured it out. a key remapping tool (to make the chromebook function keys work as expected) was causing issues

[blazing hare]

so many cables

[mellow falcon]

Got into homeassistant 2-3 weeks ago before just used google home. I love it. Already removed all my nest cams because... google. Now have all reolinks. Love my wall tablet. Now just need to find a replacement for my last nest device the thermostat.

[olive owl]

Give yourself a reward! You did it!

[foggy pawn]

I think this may be the place to ask. Anyone have recommendations for cameras? I'm looking for something that's POE. Just got a new reolink and its requiring me to use the app for setup. Ive used them in the past but seams they have changed how they want to do things.

[heady nexus]

Dahua or Amcrest

[olive owl]

#1284966353798697001 -> Cameras/Recommendations

[heady nexus]

why tf is touchpad scroll speed not adjustable in Ubuntu lol

it has one speed: i'm fast as fuck, boi

well, libinput, not ubuntu specifically i guess

still liking ubuntu on this chromebook regardless

[worn surge]

thinking about replacing all of my main lightbulbs with govee smartbulbs, but beyond stuff like home assistant dashboards on phones and tablets or voice control with google/alexa/home assistant, I'm curious how to best control them... are there like home assistant compatible dimmer switches that i can just adhere to a wall or something? - I figure the easiest way to retrofit my current environment is to just 3d print some wall switch locks that permanently (but easily bypassably) force the existing light switches on), but I've got areas in my place that aren't covered by smart voice devices (and don't want them there, such as my bedroom) but I want to be able to turn lights on/off and dim (don't really care too much about rgb features even) but I don't want to have to reach for my phone...

[heady nexus]

the beauty of home assistant is that you can do something like using a zigbee remote to control wi-fi lights

that otherwise wouldn't be compatible

[worn surge]

mm, I'm LOVING the integration options with simple ittt flows. just not sure what inexpensive hardware options are out there (and not sure how that can be used to control dimming)

[heady nexus]

you could use an automation to turn brightness up/down depending on which button you press on the remote

[worn surge]

ahh ok... does home assistant support a "hold" switch option that stops when released?

[heady nexus]

that would be more dependent on the device itself

some will send separate events for press and release

[worn surge]

having trouble tracking down ble buttons... seems everybody wants to use zigbee and I don't feel like buying a hub if that's the only thing i'm going to use zigbee for...

[meager quail]

#1284966353798697001

[worn surge]

does home assistant allow you to create custom animations from addressable RGB strips?

[meager quail]

if you use WLED + their integration yes.

[worn surge]

thanks

I just kind of went mad and bought enough govee smart bulbs to replace most of the lightbulbs in my house, a zigbee dongle and a bunch of tuya zigbee wireless buttons... i've also got some sonoff s31's that I flashed to tasmota that are ready for adoption, and i've got some govee BT LE temp/humidity sensors that I plan to integrate via a diy bt proxy using an esp32 with esphome.... gonna get my automation on.

oh, and I'm waiting for some midia air conditioners that I bought the other day which have a home assitant energy and control integration as well

already got a fresh copy of home assistant going on top of proxmox on a low power mini pc, backed up the factory fresh state so when I enevitably mess it up, I can get back to good super fast. let's goooo! 😄

[mint wasp]

I've been playing around with a D1 Mini and being very successful. I've been doing it on my Windows desktop. But I'm moving to a Linux laptop just to have around and can't seem to figure out how to configure a micro-controller on it. Anybody know how to configure an ESP device in Linux?

[trail fractal]

I honestly use chromium + esphome web installer

Use it on Linux and Windows

Though finding drivers on occasion is annoying, but they are out there

[mint wasp]

That is a road block there. Still looking

[trail fractal]

I don't have the links right now, the esphome web installer gave just enough info for me to install a dkms package with the driver

Well more to find the keywords for the installer and dig that up

[crystal pond]

is alexa broke for everyone?

[sly ether]

Yes

[sharp pulsar]

She been shitty last few days

[rain prairie]

Where do I go to ask for hacs repo creation

Like where can I ask a friend for adaptive cover? There’s adaptive lighting that follows the sun but what if there were adaptive blinds. Like when you’re working from home , the blinds lower to block the sun, then in the automation open up for sunset .

[olive owl]

You want support for something you found in HACS?

[rain prairie]

I don’t thinks in hacs yet

[olive owl]

Some new feature?

[rain prairie]

Yes

Like a sister repo to the existing adaptive lighting.

[olive owl]

Doesn't matter if it's in HACS or not

[rain prairie]

Correct

[olive owl]

I suggest filing an issue: https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

[surreal plume]

@idle mountain It has to latch and be VERY dumb. This is a killswitch. Can't use any power at all so no esp32.

[idle mountain]

Why does it need to be magnetic

[surreal plume]

To be hidden for security.

[idle mountain]

Let's move this over to workshop

Nvmd we are here haha

[surreal plume]

I just want to figure out if such a switch exists otherwise I'll find a different solution.

[idle mountain]

I doubt it would be common enough to buy

At least I haven't heard of sucg

[surreal plume]

Drat. I was afraid of that.

[vagrant sparrow]

i saw something like that for a hidden locking mechanism. a magnetic bolt lock operated through the wall using a magnet

instead of locking/unlocking a door you just need the bolt to hit a switch

[blazing hare]

i gotta say, a killswitch, so presumably safety related, should not be hidden as a rule

[dire pecan]

I got a bunch of Zigbee lights today because I got tired of the WiFi bulb issues. 😆

[keen bone]

tuya still loves you probably. /s

🙃

[dire pecan]

I tried really hard to get Zigbee outdoor path lights and they're basically nonexistent. lol

[keen bone]

y'know Missy maybe this place sholuld do what esphome did and turn 50$ into an instant-mute phrase too.. 😛

[sinful mulch]

you just create a channel at the top of the list that has clear instructions for users to NOT post anything in there, and anyone who does anyway gets instabanned

[vagrant sparrow]

a-honeypot-channel

[waxen pier]

Alright, no idea where to ask this, but this seems the best place

So I'm trying to make a homemade mailbox sensor and connect it to home assistant, I live in an apartment in the sixth floor so I thought that RF would be my best bet due to the range and wall penetration needs

Right now I made a RFLink transceiver and configured it in Home Assistant, and it seems to work, but it seems like it's a legacy integration and I'm having issues finding out how to actually send messages from a device to the RFLink transceiver

I did a bit more searching and it seems like the best solution for RF integration is Openmqttgateway, but I've never used MQTT so I'm a bit lost here

I just want to double check, is this right? Should I build an Openmqttgateway transceiver and ditch RFLink, and if so how do I send events from a 433MHz emitter to the OMG/HA?

Or if someone knows how to use RFLink that would also be helpful

[teal heath]

are you sure rf will work?

for range/pen

[waxen pier]

Not really, but it seems like my best bet and if not it's a learning experience

It's not like the hardware is expensive

[teal heath]

LoRa might be a better option

[waxen pier]

There should be around 20/25M of distance between receiver and emitter, as far as I know RF should work for up to 50M and has decent wall penetration

[teal heath]

or zwave LR (but thats a bit new to have many options)

[waxen pier]

I could look into LoRa if RF fails

I don't think it's a bad idea to have a way to add RF devices to HA anyways

So it's not like the project would be completely worthless anyways

May as well grab a LoRa dongle and a module just in case

Actually

Since Openmqttgateway is compatible with both LoRa and RF

Would it work if I make an OMG receiver in a ESP32 with both a LoRa module and a RF transceiver?

Or it's not viable to attach both modules to the same ESP32

[teal heath]

probably fine but will cost you more in power. i am assuming you dont have power at the mailbox so will need to be battery

want to go as little as possible

[waxen pier]

I mean in the HA side for the gateway

For the sensor side for now it's an Arduino nano with a PIR sensor and either the 433Mhz emitter or the LoRa emitter, powered by two 18650 batteries

[teal heath]

pir? is that what your using for detection?

a reed switch would be a better option surely?

[hallow lance]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-airplane-dont-call-me-shirley-seriously-question-gif-5690231

[waxen pier]

The issue is that my mailbox doesn't have any moving parts so it's the only reasonable method of detection I could think of

It's not the same mailbox but it's the same kind, you get what I mean

[teal heath]

ah i gotcha

pir most likely wont see the mail though so it will need to be near the top to have the best chance of seeing the hand of the person putting it in or something

[waxen pier]

We'll see

It's not the first mailbox sensor I've seen with PIR so maybe it will work

[thorn ore]

Break beam sensor would be better. Across the mail slot.

[teal heath]

yeah, i was thinking this but then theres the power issue

[thorn ore]

Oh right.

[waxen pier]

I did look for break beam sensors too, but the ones already made seem to be made for rotary encoders and are too thin, and it seems like they are power hungry even with duty cycles

[thorn ore]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2167

[waxen pier]

https://youtu.be/gf1WWKyEnbg I found this video looking for OMG devices with LoRa

Seems to use PIR

[teal heath]

ultrasonic distance sensor perhaps detect if something is in there

could have it only check every x minutes

or a vibration sensor perhaps

[waxen pier]

I'll test PIR for now since I already have the module at hand

[teal heath]

fair enough

[waxen pier]

If it doesn't work I'll experiment with alternatives

[teal heath]

need to put a little speaker, "thank you for delivering my mail" just to freak people out

add short delay so they think its the mailbox they deliver too after yours

[waxen pier]

1 in 100 chance to play the metal pipe falling sound at max volume

Or maybe better, an "OM NOM NOM" eating sound every time

Arduino is a hell of a drug

Don't give me this power

[teal heath]

is the whole thing metal btw? thats gunna stunt the signal no matter the system

[waxen pier]

Yeah, I'm planning on wiring the antena outside of the mailbox though

Though maybe inside will be fine

Since the only opening is on the top and my flat is above the mailbox it may be fine directionally speaking

I'll experiment

That's the whole point anyways

[waxen pier]

So

Until my ESP32 arrives, I'm kind of stuck with RFLink anyways

Anyone has experience with RFLink devices?

May as well try to get what I have working for now

[vagrant sparrow]

i have a zigbee door sensor on my mailbox. i saw 2 improvements were needed last winter. i need a better placed router for the mailbox and the back garden. and i must replace the door sensor to one with aa or aaa batteries. as i suspected the coin cell didn't like winter.

when the mailbox opens i get a notification on my phone.

as soon as i find my sonoff stick that got replaced with the skyconnect i'll flash it with router firmware and see if taping that inside a kitchen cupboard gives me the range needed

[boreal onyx]

What is your winter temperature?

Usually a safe choice though, Li-MNO2 (CRxxxx and friends) really start to crap out not far below freezing, Li-FeS2 ("Ultimate Lithium" or equivalent) are basically good down to -40 with negligible loss of capacity

[vagrant sparrow]

not extreme temps around here (norwegian west coast). unless the gulf stream/AMOC breaks down. seldom below -10°C

[gloomy sparrow]

I added two Refoss energy monitors to my breaker panels, but the CT clamps aren't big enough for my pool cables or stovetop. Is there a solution for a single device I want to monitor? I'm thinking something like ESPHome + CT clamp(s).

[teal anchor]

RF won't make it without modifications to the remote transmitter, such as a half or full-wave antenna... I have tried it.

And the antenna cannot be in the box, assuming it's metal. antenna has to be in clear air.

[keen bone]

got it; no vaping around lora antennas. /s

[teal anchor]

(He) Don't got it...

[dire pecan]

"has to be in clear air" = no vaping

[heady nexus]

vape naysh bro

[dire pecan]

I've been trying to work with an LED matrix and...I think my PC's USB ports are fucked.

[heady nexus]

oof

[dire pecan]

Hoping updating helped last night, but I left it to run by itself. Time to see what failed lol.

...well, Justin says that I probably have a board that needs to have some pieces removed in order to flash from a PD port. So. I've done that. Let's see if I can get this LED lightbright to fucking work.

[dire pecan]

HUZZAH, THE ESP FLASHER TOOL FINALLY SEES THE UNIT.

[trail fractal]

Install wled and profit!

then get some of those pixel art tools to send images to it!

[dire pecan]

It comes with that, it's part of their firmware.

But that doesn't let me have an animated Mario Clock.

https://jnthas.github.io/mariobros-clock/

[ionic ruin]

can anyone suggest a good variable DC powersupply

[thorn ore]

What sort of power and voltage range? And what sort of control?

Do you mean a bench power supply?

[ionic ruin]

yes I believe so, it is for testing and creating things, a min of 5V

[thorn ore]

https://youtu.be/Cw2AjcczHg4?si=-c9F7gcZHxRtiFWI

[heady nexus]

has anyone managed to get HEVC / h.265 playback working in Chrome or Firefox on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on a machine that supports hardware accelerated decoding for HEVC? having a hell of a time getting it working

Supposedly installing ubuntu-restricted-extras and gstreamer1.0-libav and enabling various flags in Chrome will do it but I've had no luck

[olive owl]

I finally received my replacement and it works fine - device turns on and appears to charge from the camera's battery! The only problem is that it's too big for the enclosure . I thought it would fit, but some components get in the way. I can't find one with similar capacity and size to the original, but I can make do with a smaller capacity because it will just charge from the camera battery. Thanks folks!

[normal dragon]

Guys is there a smart speaker I could fit inside of this thing for halloween

[teal heath]

how much space inside?
how loud does it need to be?

[normal dragon]

Not super loud I just want it to activate when someone gets close.

Play some insanely cursed cuthulu style voice

I could hallow out the inside easily

[thorn ore]

M5 Atom?

[teal heath]

you could probably just put a M5Stack ATOM Echo and a battery in there. but they are not that loud

[normal dragon]

Ok yea just googled it thanks this will work. This cursed AF furbee only costs $21 on etsy

I am going to rig it to a pulley system and scare the living hell out of everyone

I am so evil 😈

[mint wasp]

I have an HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor. The data sheet for the device says it's distance range is 2 cm-500 cm (0.02 m-5 m). I can't seam to get that 5 meters. Mine maxes out at 1.62 meters. How can I get the rest?

[mint wasp]

Nevermind. Found that if you set the timeout to 5m that you get it. It defaults to 2m.

[granite steeple]

Has anyone ever used ESPHome to program an esp32 to play an audio clip directly from the ESP when a button (also attached to it is pressed? made goal is to make a single button sound board that doesn't require a network connection.

[teal heath]

yup, you can add audio files to the firmware. voice assistants do this for things like wake sounds and stuff.

[granite steeple]

I think I've gotten the audio file to the firware portion figured out, but I can't quite understand what I'm missing to get analog sound off of pin 26?

My ideal solution is to connect the esp32 to a speaker (either wired into an amp, or bluetooth, and somehow stream spotify to it, then when the button that is connected to the esp is pressed, it pauses playback to play a short audio clip stored on the firmware.

[teal heath]

an i2s amp is the easiest way to connect an esp32 to a speaker. a Max98357 is a common setup to use

is building something custom important to you?

[granite steeple]

slighty, only because I'm also using the esp32 to run timeout logic for the button press.

[teal heath]

i mostly mean, you could get something a VPE and customise the firmware

[granite steeple]

well I already have a giant button, and esp32, an external analog/bluetooth amplifer, and speakers. I was hoping I could mash them together.

I was hoping I could just connect the esp32 either via bluetooth or rca into this. https://www.amazon.com/BT20A-Bluetooth-Audio-Amplifier-Integrated/dp/B07BQC7GNL?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATV3LXZ3ZXOW8&gQT=1

[teal heath]

my suggestion would still be to use a VPE. connect it to your external amp via its 3.5mm jack
and add your big button via its grove port.
then you could add to the firmware to play custom audio on button press. and just stream spotify to it via music assistant

if you want to go custom. you need something to handle digital to analog audio which you could then feed into your amp to power a bigger speaker

[granite steeple]

Is there anything you would suggest to handle digital to analog

i guess in a perfect world I would connect to the ESP from my phone with bluetooth and stream the audio to it, and it would then send the audio to the amp, (with the ability to interrupt the audio itself)

[teal heath]

a small Max98357breakout board EXAMPLE

[granite steeple]

Would that output decent audio for listening to music?

[teal heath]

i use it in a cusom voice assistant speaker i made

as long as you keep the connections short and clean it should be fine for basic music

if your looking for high quality audio outputting more than one channel to expensive speakers then its completely the wrong way to go. but if your looking for some basic music playing then its fine

[granite steeple]

yeah, maybe I need to go with somthing like a raspberry pi

[teal heath]

if your looking for higher quality stuff then yeah a rpi with DAC Hat that has RCA connections might be the way to go

could add your "giant button" via GPIO

there are definetly ways to use esp32's to do what you want but its not super simple and without great care you are going to loose some audio quality

a rpi with a hat would probably be easier though

[granite steeple]

Would a raspberry pi 3 have decent enough audio quality over bluetooth out?

[teal heath]

maybe... but... a 3? thats like 10 years old at this point? i guess your setup entirily depends on what you are actually trying to achive. what your requirements are etc...

[hallow lance]

Debian 13 Trixie is planned to release on August 9th.

[heady nexus]

Ah I can feel my anxiety from upgrading to 12 already

[golden garnet]

Recently discovered a project for rooting gen 1 echo devices

Which I have 3 of

Might be worth it once I ever get my voice assist setup

[dire pecan]

Yeah, Gen 1 devices have been rooted, but I have either gen 3 or 4s in my house.

The Dots are also apparently easier to root than the original Echos.

[golden garnet]

All mine are dots lol

[dire pecan]

So, I should have the option to turn the tall Echo of ours into a output device via AUX cable and it won't let me change the setting.

I keep getting a "there's a temporary issue".

[golden garnet]

I’ve read through the documentation a bit on voice assistant and it seems to be focused around running it on the same machine as home assistant, I sorta wanna run it on a more powerful machine separately and just use the devices to stream audio

[fluid jay]

i think what you're looking for might be "Wyoming satellite"

[golden garnet]

[jagged harness]

Do Z-Wave repeaters repeat all Z-Wave devices, or just ones paired in the same system as them?
My apartment came with a Z-Wave door lock, thermostat, and smart home control box thing.
If my neighbor's control boxes would repeat my devices, it would extend my reach to the whole building.

I can only think of 1 non-stalking use for that though. And it's not too useful.
If I put a light sensor in my mailbox, I could tell if mail was delivered today yet.
I can easily see someone removing that sensor too, since it's some mystery device. And in the US, technically, my mail box is not my property but the post office's property. So the mailman may have the right (or even obligation) to do that.

Also, I know long range Z-Wave is a thing. But I don't know if anything actually uses it yet. And I doubt a light sensor would be a device that supports it.
According to the Z-Wave website, long range Z-Wave is only approved in the United States. So mass producing devices that support it doesn't sound like it's worth the cost unless it's something that requires the long range

[mild grove]

It can repeat paired devices and usually will only repeat through the nearest/best route device but will reroute if that one is offline

[keen bone]

they only repeat with things that are paired/in your network.

[harsh hound]

I have an option to run home assistant os on vm(unraid, powerfull build) and on the raspberry pi 5, which one should I choose?

[wet isle]

Both VMs and powerful hardware are awesome so you must see some benefits to running it on the pi to be conflicted. What are those?

[harsh hound]

I have 13700k, 64GB ram, A380 GPU as unraid server and raspberry pi 5

I also have rock 5b+ that I want to use for some frigate AI play, I want to have a look how ai is working vs unifi build in ai detections