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zealous wyvern
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I have a bunch of aqara sensors connected to a homey pro (and then to HA) that all seem to stop sending status every now and then and I have to re-pair them. Could it be because they are attached to a homey and not the aqara hub? Or would a zigbee dongle straight connected to HA be better?

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For context my Ikea devices connected the same way never seem to stop sending statuses. But they are all hardwired though.

zealous dune
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The first question is great for Homey support. The second one is maybe

zealous wyvern
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Yeah I guess the important question is "do aqara devices perform better with a conbee stick"

zealous dune
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No

zealous wyvern
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So this is a common problem?

zealous dune
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It's not common but it's been known to happen

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I have no such issues with my Aqara end devices on a CC2652 coordinator

zealous wyvern
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For me it keeps happening over and over again. Ever couple of months.

regal stratus
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i have the sonoff zigbee dongle in use, works like a charm

winged knoll
zealous wyvern
winged knoll
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Possibly, many of us use Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA and have no issues

stark meadow
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Hi hi, if I have a 5V 20A AC->DC PSU do I need a 20A fuse?

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Or can it be lower due to some of the conversion from AC to DC?

civic kraken
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Depends on which side you want to put that fuse

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Output side you'll need a 20A fuse and input side either a ~1A fuse on 115V or ~0.5A on 230V. I'm not an electrician so take it with a pinch of salt and some electrician can correct me where I'm wrong

stark meadow
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Awesome, it was the input side

cold moon
stark meadow
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I think I'm all set for the output side. I think for the PSU a 1A fuse should do the trick

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.5A seems a little hard to get

flat flame
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what is that new mmwave presence sensor? wifi?

winged knoll
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What are you referring to?

glossy prism
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You know, the new mmwave sensor

winged knoll
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Oh, that one

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Pretty sure it uses ESP

zealous dune
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Which one dammit, there are so many new ones

glossy prism
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the new one

zealous dune
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Ah not capital The, now I know...

brisk lotus
stone spindle
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uhh so has anyone had a lamp kill their smart bulbs before? i have a 4 bulb lamp and it seems like 2 of the bulb sockets literally kill any smart bulb attached to them after a day or two lol

cold moon
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Maybe it’s just waiting to catch fire lol

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Dirty power or something wrong with the hardware.. I wouldn’t keep trying lol

stone spindle
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oh yeah ofc .. i just realized it was my lamp and not the bulbs :p not going to use it much more

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lol its pretty crazy though ive been going nuts debugging bulbs

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turns out its a lamp..

cold moon
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Yea

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Been there lol

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We’re so used to not blaming hardware these days..

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I’m ready to blame it early on or try and swap for another part device etc to rule out hardware before I start chasing ghosts in software

stone spindle
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hmm thats interesting youre totally right lol

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i actually had a ryzen CPU 1-2 years ago that was a similar nightmare

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months of software debugging to prove it was a hardware issue

cold moon
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Fun

shut trellis
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Hey Folks,

Location: USA.

I'm just starting down the Home Automation route, and was wondering: has anyone used these 20a smart plugs with Home Assistant? It says they're Google/Alexa capable. I was hoping they might be directly integrate-able, without requiring either, since I'm trying to avoid both of those. All I really want to do is click a space heater, and a heat lamp, on&off so my wife stops turning her home office into a sauna, and to cut down on the power spend for heating a chicken coop (respectively). I'm probably just going to buy one, and see how setting it up goes, but thought I would try and ask, first. I can find almost 0 information on these smart plugs, which isn't encouraging...

Almost every circuit in the house is 20 amp, and spending $70/outlet to save money on electricity will take a very long time to math out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P3KN1XS/ref=ewc_pr_img_1

idle bough
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For the most part, those work pretty well with Home Assistant. (

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I do say most part because my Merkury Door/Window Sensors (which are also Tuya) do not work at all.

glossy prism
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Tbh I would avoid cloud-based stuff though

idle bough
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Most people would. I've migrated most of my Tuya stuff to localtuya.

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But my door/window sensors do not work with localtuya.

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It throws an exception error when I try. 😐

glossy prism
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Zigbee or zwave would be a better choice for battery-powered sensors

jagged crypt
stark meadow
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Hi there, has anyone had any success getting an Alexa Echo Dot to work as a bluetooth speak with home assistant. I'm running the container on a pi 3 B+ with the bluetooth integration setup

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I just can't get the pi to pair with the alexa ...

gloomy elbow
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Has anyone got any recommendations for some lights to make a sunrise light for my bedroom?
Above my bed I have built-in cabinets which have a small lip hanging down that I could stick an LED strip to (pointing at the wall), or I have a deep headboard I could fit something like a Hue Play Bar (or pair of) onto pointing upwards and out at a ~45° angle. Finally I can stick something straight onto the underside of the cabinets pointing down at my face which may be the most effective way to wake me up, but could also cause crankiness. I'd like RGBCCT for full transition into a "wake the hell up" 😄
So far I've looked at:

  • Hue Play Bars: still in the running.
  • Twinkly Flex: Looked perfect until I found out that it doesn't support transitions in HA.
  • Hue gradient strip: 💸
  • Some kind of other LED RGB strip: I would prefer not to see individual LEDs if possible.
    I prefer Zigbee to wifi, but I'll take whatever works.
zealous dune
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if you have the dineros just go with Hue

gloomy elbow
stark meadow
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Ohhh

gloomy elbow
stark meadow
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Ok, maybe an audio cable then?

zealous dune
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other options is buying FCOB CCT LED strips and pairing them to a LED controller of your choice

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FCOB so you don't see individual pixels

gloomy elbow
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I think I have COB in my kitchen, but I'm not 100% sure

winged knoll
zealous dune
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F is for "flexible" COB

gloomy elbow
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I remembered you and atx saying Gelopto Tinkerer, thanks for the link to the specific one!

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Bingo, I have FCOB in my kitchen already and like those!

zealous dune
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cannot not like 640 LEDs per meter 😄

winged knoll
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If it's indirect you can get away with less, but once it's directly visible...

gloomy elbow
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It also solved my "my kitchen is always freezing" problem 😄

gloomy elbow
zealous dune
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and with FCOB you can even get away with installing them without diffusers

gloomy elbow
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|____
||  | #cupboard
|---| #overhang
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||(°)--<   #sleeping human
|————————— #bed
|_________ #floor
winged knoll
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The LED strip on my bedhead is about 10 to 15 cm from the wall and that it's only 30 LED/m isn't very obvious until it's very dim

gloomy elbow
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ASCII diagrams ftw 🤓

zealous dune
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i still need to buy some of those RGBCT FCOB strips to see how well they work

stark meadow
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Couldnt I use MPD to play sound on the raspi host?

analog oar
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I have this heat-valve from lidl: https://ibb.co/FbJX7J1
I found that the detail-page to set the values for the valve are a bit complicated to understand & set.
How can I figure out, who had developed this gui - to ask/support them to optimize it.

stark meadow
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And have the speaker setup there?

winged knoll
analog oar
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ok. thanks. I'll ask there.
I only found a way to programm the vallve (for the week) in that ui.

winged knoll
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Z2M's UI is generic, for everything, but if you can do it in their UI you can do it over MQTT

gloomy elbow
winged knoll
analog oar
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What you mean with MQTT? Is that another plugin?
I'm a newbe and are glad that I got the stuff up and running with Z2MQTT, but I'm willing to learn.
Can you suggest some more information how you would do it via MQTT?

winged knoll
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If in doubt, check Z2M's docs for the device - they're usually pretty complete

analog oar
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Yep" I still read it.

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So what I did untill now, I open Z2MQTT, go to the valve > details and there I do the setting

gloomy elbow
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Did you look at controlling the device through HA?

winged knoll
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Z2M's UI is more of an admin interface, not one for "normal" use

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If you're using it regularly then you're doing all of this very wrong

gloomy elbow
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Then give it a day or two and get fancier 😉

analog oar
# gloomy elbow Did you look at controlling the device through HA?

I didn't see the difference on this.
For me (as newbe) the whole thing is HA.
I assume it like that: I have the nice dashboard to see and change states of a device per Room. Means I can turn on/off bulbs with a tap on a icon, or see what currently the heating-point of the valve is.
To setup the weekly schedules for the valve I go to Z2mqtt.
I've also played a bit with automation & scenes (if time > 22.00 and TV goes off, run the scene "goToBed")

analog oar
winged knoll
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Zigbee2MQTT is other software, and is just one of many ways of getting Zigbee into HA

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If you installed an add-on, that's other software and not part of HA itself

analog oar
spiral spear
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I know this has been asked before, but I've not seen a good answer (apologies if I missed it, I'll be grateful for a URL pointing me to it!)
I'm very happy with my Coway Air Mighty purifier's performance. I'm not happy with how it's not easily integrated, and it seems to me that all the Air Purifiers I've looked at use a cloud integration 😕
Are there comparable H14 or better air purifiers with good local controls?

winged knoll
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The only 100% local one I know of is the Ikea STARKVIND - not sure what level it is though

gloomy elbow
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I am so tempted to get one of those, I'm just not 100% sure it's a good idea for me

torpid peak
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have you found a solution? i have 2 philips motion, one sends events, the other dont. reconnecting doesnt help. install zha and adding devices should be enough to get events, right?

spiral spear
winged knoll
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I'm no expert, but do you really need H14? A lot of the results I found out there in the past suggests that there's a lot more to it than just the number on the filter

spiral spear
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Yes, for my needs I do want that 🙂

gloomy elbow
spiral spear
gloomy elbow
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Well, it's entirely possible that somehow yours slipped through QC without the beeper. Just saying 😉

analog oar
boreal tendon
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Anyone know of a good flat zigbee RGBW ~bulb? A15 E26

winged knoll
boreal tendon
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Is there an LED strip that plugs into a E26 socket?

winged knoll
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I doubt it very much

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Most strips are designed to use mains sockets

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(or USB)

boreal tendon
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I guess you could just get one of those plug sockets then plug it in that way

winged knoll
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Anything "flat" is unlikely to use any standard bulb fitting

boreal tendon
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the fan takes a15 bulbs I thought eh I'm sure a19's will fit in there but nope too fat 😦

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I remembered seeing a Philips that was an a19 but flat but not rgb

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That's probably just two led strips back to back in that shape

analog oar
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@winged knoll I use "state" now, set "entity" to "heating basement" (where I've chosed the plan at which times it should be "ON" (e.g Mo-Fri 7am - 10pm).
On "attribute" I only have next event
And below there is "from" and "to" as selector.
I'm not sure what input the integration creates? Is it only 0 and 1 ?

winged knoll
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You can check the current state in devtools -> States

outer knotBOT
analog oar
abstract marlin
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hey, just wondered if anyone had any recommendations for me:

I am currently doing a full renovation and rewire on my property, and was considering running all of the lighting circuits back to a central point, and controlling/dimming them from there.

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is there any "din rail dimmer" solutions? my searches so far are fruitless

gloomy elbow
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As in, all of them together?

abstract marlin
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no, per room probably

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I can find relays, but no dimmers

gloomy elbow
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I would suggest doing it in the ceiling of each room, rather than elsewhere

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Usually if you have multiple lights, one of them is the main one which controls the others, that's the one you'd add that to.

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But it really depends on what kind of lights you're looking at

zealous dune
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centrally controlled lights usually are done with a system different than your typical home stuff

abstract marlin
abstract marlin
gloomy elbow
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I'd say: figure out what kind of lights you want, and then we can help figure out the dimming

zealous dune
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you have a central control unit and lights are DC voltage

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the control unit has PWM controllers

gloomy elbow
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If it's just regular lights and you're in the US, I've heard good things about the Lutron Casetas.

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If you want RGB with rainbow chasing discos, you'll need something different

zealous dune
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I know there are RS485 16 channel pwm controllers with Ethernet running on ESP32

abstract marlin
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im in the uk. I just figured since it was a full rewire, in a house im never going to move out of, Id try and get it all right

zealous dune
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problem is finding someone to do it 😄

abstract marlin
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I can do it 🙂

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just surprized there isnt something off the shelf

zealous dune
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my electrician got a seizure when i mentioned low voltage lighting

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didn't compute for him

abstract marlin
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so my initial plan was to bring all rooms back to a central point, and control each room with a relay

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but obv i would prefer a dimmer

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wasn't initially thinking of going low voltage

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then get a din mount relay solution (buy/build)

zealous dune
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i don't think the space is there yet

abstract marlin
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the commercial alternative seems to be like a row of shellys in din mounts

zealous dune
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its in the industrial sphere

abstract marlin
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but seems a waste, + I would sooner hardwire ethernet if poss

zealous dune
gloomy elbow
zealous dune
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it's off the shelf(y)

gloomy elbow
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Personally I prefer to have CCT bulbs, which means different needs—but also, the ability to switch between warm and cool whites

zealous dune
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so much of this

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dimming is so bleh after that

abstract marlin
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I mean if I could get something taht was modbus or whatever I can do the inbetween bit

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I was looking at dmx for a bit haha

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what a bunch of wled controllers per room? 😛

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what CCT bulbs are you using?

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@zealous dune your site has been a godsend by the way!

zealous dune
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not sure extracting all of your money for smart home toys classifies as godsend but thanks 😉

abstract marlin
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haha

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I couldnt talk my wife into a compatible air fryer 😦

zealous dune
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mine was questioning my decision harshly, now we have two

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although it doesnt really need to be smart

gloomy elbow
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I have the Hue CCT bulbs in my ceilings, but the IKEA ones in lamps and like both

abstract marlin
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and they are wifi?

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the hue ones?

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also concerend about 60-80 smart bulbs on wifi :S

winged knoll
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Hue are Zigbee

abstract marlin
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ah

gloomy elbow
abstract marlin
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I have done some testing with zigbee tbf

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I didn't realise hue was zigbee

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🤔

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I guess I can still bring all wires back to a central buzzbar, then I have the option down the line to replace it with something smarter

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run cat6 from there to each room too

jagged crypt
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zigbee vs wifi for lightstrips (for fun). After playing with esp32 pressence detection, I found the m5atom lite, and m5 has some lights(sk6812), and was looking at something simple but deployable (was trying to figure out power also).

gloomy elbow
jagged crypt
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I've got some hue strips, and hue-hub, which work fine, I was eyeing the crazy wled (i think) animations,etc

cold moon
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Wled is superior for rgb yep

jagged crypt
cold moon
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Don’t buy those lol

jagged crypt
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the lights or the esp32?

cold moon
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Buy sk6812 or whatever you want from Ali express and esp32 wroom32

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Not all esp32 are equal and don’t all work with wled

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If you want a better variant buy like a quinled esp32 in a d1 mini form factor

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The btf lighting shop on Ali express is a pretty good place for strips / pixels

jagged crypt
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anyone make any cases for these things?

cold moon
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Yea

jagged crypt
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i don't have a 3d printer 🙂

cold moon
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There’s a few options to print. You can download the files and have someone else print them

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Treatstock is a site I have my printers on.. lots of shops there who can print whatever you want. You just send a file

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Local makerspaces have printers too

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Mine just charges a bit for filament iirc

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You can also just buy a project box and drill holes in it

jagged crypt
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I was hoping to throw money at a solution that doesn't require time 🙂

cold moon
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Ok

jagged crypt
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i see the benefit of the quinled external antenna, but i see that breaking/falling apart in any place I would put it "loose"

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what's the "average" shipping time on china orders? 4 weeks?

glossy prism
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Depends on the destination and shipping method

jagged crypt
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hmm

drifting grove
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Does some of you have a good idea to monitor multiple temperaturs at the floorheating distributor. I need some kind of hardware with 4 temperatur input. Preferably a unit I can buy as a prewired pcs of hardware.

drifting grove
cunning horizon
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Ok so this is probably gonna devide people into camps but I am gonna ask anyways.
I recently found out that things like KNX and Homematic exist.
Now my question is:
If money is no object and the only things you are concerned with are comfort and designing your smart-home/home in a way that makes it easy to modernize it over time (changing to different standards, switching out cables without having to open all the walls, etc) would you go for wired hardware like KNX or would you use wireless hardware like wifi, zigbee, thread or would you combine the two?

winged knoll
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Wired has many advantages over wireless. Where you're able to pre-plan and pre-wire, I'd go wired if money was no object

fallen coral
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Hello i have been looking for ir blaster and i am out of luck with esp based ones as either they out of stock or just eol

cunning horizon
fallen coral
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Tried all the links from template blakkader

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Anyone have any recommendation for ir blaster with esp module? Or ir blaster with zigbee but not battery based

hushed rapids
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anyone here run home assistant on an orange pi 3 LTS?

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If so, did u use a sd card or ssd to boot from?

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and how reliable is it?

hushed rapids
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Also am I able to run Home Assistant OS/Supervised on it?

tacit burrow
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HA will run on nearly anything. Whether it's any good depends on how much you're demanding from it. Cameras and Media stuff tend to be quite demanding, but basic monitoring etc isn't.

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But looks like Orange pi only has 2GB of ram? That'll be your biggest limitation

jagged crypt
hushed rapids
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or if u can give an example of a generic 4gb ram layout would appreciate it

tacit burrow
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SOrry I don't understand the question.

stable fractal
# hushed rapids realistically whats max capacity for 2gb or ram?

Realistically, nobody can tell you that because utilization depends on what you’re doing. I’d say start with 2gb if you want, and upgrade to 4 when things get slow or stop working.

If you’re really worried about capacity, you can buy an old dell desktop for $100 or so on Amazon & use that. It’ll be much faster than a pi.

hushed rapids
random stream
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I'm looking for a low voltage smart relay to turn on/off a 12v power supply that I can use with my Hue Bridge, until I get me HAYellow. Any recommendation would be appreciated.

echo river
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what do i need to use WLED and what light strip do you guys recommend

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or do i wait for matter

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and if so whats the eta on strip lights compadable with matter

zealous dune
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No need to wait for matter. For WLED you need an ESP32 based controller, light strip and a power supply

abstract marlin
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wled works well on esp8266 too, but less pixels/strips

gloomy elbow
zealous dune
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140 GBP!?!?!?!?!?

gloomy elbow
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I said I want, not "I buy" 😛

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But they are addressable. I have Twinkly lights already

zealous dune
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you shouldn't even want them with the price

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you can get a 100m of WS2811s for the price

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maybe even more

gloomy elbow
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I like Hue stuff, the colours are very good. I know they're overpriced, but these are also HomeKit compatible which a lot of folks I talk to and work with want

zealous dune
gloomy elbow
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Page not available 😉

zealous dune
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ah you're in one of those countries

gloomy elbow
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I have a RGBCCT COB strip and the Gledopto Zigbee Pro controller coming soon anyway I hope. So that'll be my morning wakeup light

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Turns out you can't find addressable RGBCCT COB strips... yet

zealous dune
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you can find addressable RGB FCOB strips if that helps

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but the addressability is only in 3cm segments

gloomy elbow
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I know, but I wanted RGBCCT

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So I went with "CCT is going to be better for waking me up than a rainbow"

zealous dune
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i dont think there even are regular addressable rgbcct strip

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you can get one rgb one and one WWA one

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i do have a RGBW neon tube one

gloomy elbow
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Yeah, I was thinking if I like how this looks and it works I may get an addressable one and run it right underneath. If my measurements are accurate I'll have just enough space to run two COB next to each other

static beacon
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Does anyone know a smart heater that can be easily controlled with home assistant?

gloomy elbow
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What kind of heater? What country are you in?

outer knotBOT
gloomy elbow
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With that integration, any smart plug/switch and a temperature sensor can be a smart heater

static beacon
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What I'm looking for would be a heater which can be controlled using the amount of power so that I can control it with a pid controller. I have heaters with a smartplug at the moment but the only thing they can do is on and off. It would be great if I could change the power of the heater in order to get a constant consumption with the use of a pid controller in node red. Havent found anything though so i guess this does not exist

gloomy elbow
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That seems unlikely. Why are you aiming to control the amount of power rather than the temperature in the space?

zealous dune
static beacon
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Damn even with local Api support nice

native bough
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I need to add a Cisco router in my home assistant.
For which I have host, username and password.
But when I am changing the confirmation.yaml file and restarting the HA. It is not showing anything. Please help.

Changes I am doing in my configuration.yaml file are:-

device_tracker:
    - platform: cisco_ios
      host: 192.xxx.xx.xx
      username: cisco
      password: xxxxxx
      new_device_defaults:
        track_new_devices: true

gloomy elbow
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Did you run the configuration check?

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Also, local IP addresses shouldn't be sensitive information, so there's no need to hide those.

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But most importantly, where did this come from?

      new_device_defaults:
        track_new_devices: true

That's nowhere in the documentation

winged knoll
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It's very very old though

native bough
gloomy elbow
winged knoll
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Yeah, but that's how platform config options are shown... only in the "parent"

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Yes, it's confusing

gloomy elbow
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If you're troubleshooting, I wouldn't start with adding extra options not listed on that page personally 🙂

winged knoll
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Well... that and running the command line check and not trusting the stupid UI

outer knotBOT
native bough
winged knoll
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Making shit up is a sure way of ensuring things don't work

native bough
gloomy elbow
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Remove the lines that I told you about it

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Use the service call (Developer tools > Services > Check Configuration) to make sure the file is valid

winged knoll
# native bough Any solution?? 
device_tracker:
  - platform: cisco_ios
    host: ROUTER_IP_ADDRESS
    username: YOUR_ADMIN_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Follow the fine manual?

native bough
outer knotBOT
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@native bough When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. Use Shift + click on the Reply option, or click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.

You have to change this every time (thank the Discord devs for that).

winged knoll
gloomy elbow
winged knoll
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Then once you've done that, restart HA and check the log file

static beacon
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I was wondering if a Shelly 1 pro (dinrail variant) can also measure negative values. So for example if i connect solar panels to it

runic tinsel
winged knoll
runic tinsel
winged knoll
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Don't put the sensor directly under the light?

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I have (most of) mine mounted horizontally on a wall, in a suitable location to pick up the light level in the room, and they're not controlling lighting that's going to exceed my "turn on the lights" threshold

abstract marlin
winged knoll
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Do they have a local integration with HA?

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Is your WiFi going to handle 50 to 60 bulbs?

zealous dune
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Can your eyes handle the shitty light quality?

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If you're redoing everything do yourself a favor and get high CRI for main lighting, preferably 90+

winged knoll
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I hadn't twigged that they carefully avoid specifying the CRI

zealous dune
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They must've forgotten...

abstract marlin
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err they are szigbee

winged knoll
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Our lights have a CRI that's at least in double digits

abstract marlin
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high cri?

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i have no idea what that is

zealous dune
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Color rendering index

abstract marlin
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ah

winged knoll
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You want at least 80, but higher is good

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And nothing there says Zigbee

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WiFi Bluetooth Mesh

zealous dune
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Makes stuff look natural when no natural lighting and not like in a night club

winged knoll
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Then later on it just says

Connection methods: BLUETOOTH 4.2

zealous dune
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That means they re not even WiFi

abstract marlin
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ah, they do zigbee ones, bad link

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sorry

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same company make a zigbee one

zealous dune
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They use wifi interchangeably with wireless meaning any protocol without wires

abstract marlin
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yer, I found them on zigbee2mqtt site

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but didnt read the amazon link afterwards

zealous dune
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You should pick a brand that has an actual website

abstract marlin
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I really feel like I should be running back to a central place and handling it there tbh, but struggling to find a solution. Ideally, Id have them daisychained like a pixel strip of leds, but in a gu10 ish format

winged knoll
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personally if you're going for smart lights, I'd buy fittings that'll take a standard bulb and then you can buy a smart bulb version

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Much easier to swap a bulb than a whole fitting

abstract marlin
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I have been looking at DMX too

zealous dune
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I'd just install led strips if redoing

abstract marlin
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but was put off by the fact that it doesnt send state

abstract marlin
zealous dune
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Cause she doesn't know better, I have one of those too

winged knoll
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GU10 smart bulbs in a GU10 fitting

zealous dune
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Spot lights are for... Wait for it... Spot lighting

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They don't fill the space with lights well

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Works great in museums tho

abstract marlin
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haha

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so how are you using led strips?

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I would be game for led strips, If I can sell it to her

winged knoll
zealous dune
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I don't, I have ceiling lights since I didn't redo the installation

abstract marlin
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😅

zealous dune
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I use led strips in my workshop

abstract marlin
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other issue is some of the ceilings have oak beams etc, so gu10 would be easier

zealous dune
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You'd need to select them carefully then, test one out first

abstract marlin
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really I want 3 wires on the back, and control them myself

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its a nightmare

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CRI is my friend then

zealous dune
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That's not happening with retrofit solutions that are based on L and N

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Only some version of LED lights with dimming drivers

abstract marlin
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yea i know, but there doesnt seem to be any alternative

zealous dune
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There is but you won't find them in the home section, they're used by professionals for clubs, restaurants and in industrial settings

abstract marlin
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ok...

zealous dune
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Closest you can come is Ikea with their led drivers and panels

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Or lots of DIY

cold moon
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i dont like the idea of 60 wifi bulbs in a house tho

abstract marlin
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I got a couple of those, but yea i didnt fancy that much wifi

zealous dune
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I don't see an issue there

cold moon
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the upside to these is with wled you can control via dmx or e1.31 or w/e

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buy some fancy controller if you so please

abstract marlin
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I was thinking maybe I could get something like that and pop them open and drive them myself

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but not ideal

cold moon
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why?

abstract marlin
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just the work of modifying 60+ bulbs

cold moon
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why modify them in the first place?

abstract marlin
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and maybe carrying another 20-30

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to eliminate wifi

zealous dune
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That's... Almost pointless

abstract marlin
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agreed

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just trying to come up with a solution

zealous dune
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Led bulbs are just circular led strips

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Technically you can link them together to a single PWM controller... But damn that's a lot of work and undoing

cold moon
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buy a strip of sk6812 and some silicone diffusers and a controller and show the wife what led strips can look like. or analog if you want high cri

zealous dune
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Buy cheap normal gu10's and replace the PCBs with your own custom ones with LEDs and connectors to a singular LED controller

abstract marlin
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I got some sk6812 and am using the reflected light rather than diffuser, its great. (on a different project)

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when you say normal gu10s, you mean like just normal white ones, and swap them with something like sk6812?

zealous dune
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Yep

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I actually have that planned for someday to replace the two I have in the kitchen exhaust

abstract marlin
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ok

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hmm

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ok

zealous dune
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Just one of the solutions

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Well, potential solutions, it might end up a lousy one

abstract marlin
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yes. I see

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I guess I was thinking of doing that, but buying a led rgbcct gu10 and just removing the board and making it addressable

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but tbf I never taken one apart, no idea what the inside looks like

zealous dune
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It's not a pleasant task, they're usually filled with some putty like mass of varying degrees of hardness

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The cheap normal ones are lighter so might not be that problematic

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Or.. you know... Get some good downlights

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Innr has some spot ones but not sure if it's RGB or only W

abstract marlin
winged knoll
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Innr do CCT bulbs, I've been looking at them, though I've been happy with the Tradfri GU10

abstract marlin
cold moon
abstract marlin
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I mean If I could buy that as an empty case

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right, cheers guys. will pick this up tomorrow

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determained to get this sorted soon ahah

clever summit
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not exactly an HA issue... but I have a Pi 3 that I use a kiosk for an HA dashboard... recently Chrome started throwing an Error 4 no matter what I do... it simply won't load the HA dashboard. Anyone seen that?

broken flower
shut trellis
tacit burrow
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@clever summit error 4? javascript/console error, or http?

jagged crypt
echo river
jagged crypt
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i think @cold moon has a faq for wled... 🙂

echo river
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ooh ok thanks

jagged crypt
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i think you want sk6812 lights + controller + power

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but I haven't put together anything at this time

echo river
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ok thanks!

cold moon
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Just join their discord

echo river
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ok

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will do!

frosty field
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Hello, I’ve been looking at both Sonoff and Shelly relays to replace my MyQ remote on my lift-master garage-door opener. I’m not sure either will work for me. I’d rather not use a separate power supply, but I’m thinking I may need one regardless of what I want.

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I’m looking for a relay to go inline with my regular button, would trigger on the button press, but also be able to activate via HA.

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Also, I can’t remember if Tasmota is compatible with Shelly relays or if I dreamt it?

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I would also need some way to know if the Garage door is open or closed at any given time. Dunno what I could use for that.

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MyQ uses a wireless tilt sensor that sticks to the garage door via self-adhering velcro.

severe flume
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hey new to home assistant and looking for a physical remote to control devices

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is rf the best protocol for buttons ?

frosty field
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Most devices won’t respond to normal RF.

severe flume
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no its just 1 room but 5 devices and i would rather just a physical remote

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can i get a rf receiver for home assistent?

frosty field
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Possibly. Never heard of anything like that.

severe flume
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ok

frosty field
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Then again, I’m kind of new here also.

glossy prism
frosty field
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I thought a reed switch used an electro-magnet to open or close an SPST switch?

glossy prism
frosty field
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Ok. Great! I didn’t think about wiring the original button in parallel with the shelly. I figured the original button would go into the switch input. This is genius!

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@severe flume Unless you use a custom remote, it’d be difficult to set and remember which button does what.

Back in the days of Windows XP Media Center Edition, there used to be “MCE remotes” - infra-red remotes and USB receivers. They are designed for that purpose, and the layout of the buttons reflects that.

severe flume
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stickers

frosty field
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Point being, unless you want to paint the remotes, and use a sharpie, etc. it would be difficult.

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Yes, or stickers.

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The other issue would be getting HA to recognize your USB receiver, and know what to do with it.

severe flume
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i was looking into numpads but they are the wrong shape

frosty field
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Might I ask what types of devices you want to control?

severe flume
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a ac, light, 2 window shades and a sleepme dock pro (water cooled matress pad) and a bedjet (bed fan)

frosty field
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Hmmm. Not sure about the window shades, but the rest could be controlled with relays or smart switches. Home assistant has phone & tablet apps, so you could just use your phone as the remote.

severe flume
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ye but i would like to have a dedicated remote

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they are all smart

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and connect to home assitent

frosty field
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Ahhh. Ok. Not sure what to say then. Perhaps you could build one with an ESP32, but that would require quite a bit of work.

severe flume
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i thought so but looks waaay to complitaed for multiple buttons

frosty field
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Check back in a few hours and see if anyone else sees this thread.

cold moon
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You can use any kind of remote or button with multiple buttons and button presses for anything you want

frosty field
severe flume
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i ordered a usb with both

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but i didnt see a normal one

cold moon
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I use a couple hue remotes and then a blueprint to do all kinds of cool shit

cold moon
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There is no good zigbee and zwave combo device

severe flume
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HUSBZB-1 not good?

cold moon
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Correct nortek is shit

jagged crypt
cold moon
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It was good like 3 years ago

severe flume
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oh ok

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will do

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so which is good for zigbee?

cold moon
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Buy a sonoff p dongle for zigbee and a zooz or aeotec 700 series for zwave

jagged crypt
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harmony remote to home assistant?

severe flume
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ok thanks

cold moon
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Buy usb extension cables as well

severe flume
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ok will do

cold moon
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Zigbee and zwave sticks are prone to interference from usb ports of pi or computer or whatever is running hass

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Also good to route them outside a rack or other metal enclosures

jagged crypt
severe flume
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harmony remotes i can use all buttons with ha?

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looks like a nice read

cold moon
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Harmony were discontinued a year ago iirc

severe flume
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so wont work

jagged crypt
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USB 3.0 has a 5Gbps signaling rate. The USB 3.0 specification requires USB 3.0 data to be scrambled and it requires spread-spectrum. The noise from USB 3.0 data spectrum can be high (in the 2.4-2.5GHz range). This noise can radiate from the USB 3.0 connector on a device (such as a PC or Router), the USB 3.0 connector on the peripheral device or the USB 3.0 [port]. If the antenna of a wireless device operating in this band is placed close to any of the USB 3.0 radiation channels, it can pick up the broadband noise. The broadband noise emitted from a USB 3.0 device can affect the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) and limit the sensitivity of any wireless receiver whose antenna is physically located close to the USB 3.0 device. This may result in a drop in throughput on the wireless link.

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anyways, that's not working

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According to the home assistant web page, 4.9% of the HA users are using harmony remote plugin:
The Logitech Harmony Hub integration was introduced in Home Assistant 0.34, and it's used by 4.9% of the active installations. Its IoT class is Local Push.

severe flume
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still works even tho discontinued?

jagged crypt
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no clue, i see a hub in some of the pictures

severe flume
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aha ok thanks will look into it

cold moon
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My point is you’d literally be investing in discontinued hardware and possibly used only options

jagged crypt
frosty field
cold moon
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Not necessarily

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They have a cult following for people that like them

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You can look at sales trends on eBay after the discontinue announcement

frosty field
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Ahh. Don’t they need a server to phone-home that could be taken down at some point?

severe flume
frosty field
#

I remember buying a NetGear stora, and 2 Seagate GoFlex home NAS models. They were super cheap!

jagged crypt
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if you are willing to go with "multiple" remotes, finding zigbee buttons with 3-4-5 buttons is straight forward.

severe flume
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this says it has bluetooth is there any possibilty it would work?

frosty field
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3 months later…

jagged crypt
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no personal experience though

severe flume
jagged crypt
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I've never used it, so start with low expectations

severe flume
severe flume
gentle fossil
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Those ikea remotes eat batteries like crazy in my experience

jagged crypt
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I picked up some of the 4 button ikea (2xAA) also, the 5button is 2032 based.

severe flume
gentle fossil
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I think its better with z2m than the ikea hub though

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Only have a really old gen though so i suppose they could have changed a lot

cold moon
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The magic cube could be fun

jagged crypt
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the firmware update eats the battery if you aren't close to a location you want to be

cold moon
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Hue remotes are pretty good tho

gentle fossil
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Hue remotes are more expensive but i love them,
The rotary one is really nice, heavy and full of functions

severe flume
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which is one is that?

gentle fossil
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You can dial turn the outer ring

jagged crypt
severe flume
severe flume
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can i hold a buttun and then the rotate will do something else?

jagged crypt
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it updates once, just make sure it's paired near where it'll be, and/or leave it next to a zigbee router for the first couple hours to do the firmware update easily

gentle fossil
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Yes

severe flume
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oh not a big deal

jagged crypt
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which rotary hue dial?

severe flume
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i think i will order both and see which works better😀

jagged crypt
severe flume
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ok

jagged crypt
severe flume
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🤣

jagged crypt
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to answer my own questions "Philips Hue Tap Dial" is the unit in question

severe flume
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i ordered 4 remotes hopefully at least 1 is good

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thanks for the help

jagged crypt
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make sure to at least report back the results

severe flume
severe flume
jagged crypt
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looks like they interfaced it to a ble remote of some sort.

severe flume
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oh it looks like he is using to control a bluetooth device? i dont need that thanks

wraith marten
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Anyone else had problems with his skyconnect order? I ordered on 5.10. thought its a preorder. In State of open home i heard first batch had been send. So i rechecked my mail and saw there was a tracking link but i never get anything and the tracking link also did not work. I also did not get an answer from the seller. I am happy to support Home Assistant with my money but the seller is here a problem for me. Main reason is lack of communication from them.

lunar tapir
#

I want to control my fireplace which uses an RF remote via Home Assistant. Considering Bond or Broadlink. Anyone have any experience?

runic tinsel
thin latch
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just curious, will someone walking past my home be able to control my Philips hue light either via BLE or zigbee?

winged knoll
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Zigbee, no

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Bluetooth.... no idea. Some Bluetooth stuff is encrypted and authenticated, but an awful lot isn't

thin latch
thin latch
outer knotBOT
#

@thin latch When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. Use Shift + click on the Reply option, or click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.

You have to change this every time (thank the Discord devs for that).

winged knoll
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As for Hue, I don't know, I've never bought any BLE kit to go sniffing traffic for

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See all the recent chatter though on people discovering their neighbours BLE devices and being able to interact with them

thin latch
#

🤔

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I wonder if it disables the BLE part if it get paired to a zigbee stick

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waiting for my first zigbee stick

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Hmmm, seems like it only listens for Bluetooth within 30 minutes of a physical power cycle

jagged crypt
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sitting at my desk scanning for bluetooth I "see" a "hue light 1", "ihomet something" 3-4 apple decides (none in my house), couple microsoft devices (unsure), and a samsung device (work phone i assume). Using wifiman (ubiquiti) on my phone. I live in a house, not a condo, apartment.

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now scanning for PAIRING availabl devices from my phone, I don't see anything.

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though I have found neighbors BT speakers, and a TV before.

still sapphire
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What’s the best way to have a simple stand fan that you can control the speed of? I was kind of thinking a WiFi triple relay (ESPHome or so) and just wire it to the buttons.

zealous dune
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A Xiaomi fan

torn escarp
fleet ocean
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hello, I downloaded govee integration and entered api but now devices discovered (I can see them in my moblie app) any ideas?

tacit burrow
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FYI @jagged crypt my lenovo acting as firewall/router has been rock-solid since I changed to a rtl usb-nic instead of the other one (ax88179)

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TP-Link UE300 10/100/1000 LAN (ethernet mode) [Realtek RTL8153]

jagged crypt
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Awesome, @tacit burrow i also ordered a dummy displayport, read that if the boxes don't detect a video card they shut down the GPU, so meshcommander can't display console, since there actually isn't one. Will report back on power changes with gpu poweredup. 🙂

tacit burrow
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I got meshcomander console working by just changing the linux/boot console mode

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I think. Sec

jagged crypt
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my experience with hardware driver issues, spend the extra $5 on the good chipset 🙂

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the display dummy port was $8 usd, there are ways to change the grub config also

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or just plug it into a monitor

tacit burrow
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My box sits on a little shelf at the top of my WC, along with a switch, and my starlink router. A bit hard to get too (need a ladder) and no space for monitor

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ordered a dummy. AU$7.99 free shipping, from local seller. No waiting for .cn to save a couple bucks.

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I guess my screen-mode fix didn't work. I certainly can't see anything now.

jagged crypt
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mine arrives to tomorrow to validate

runic lodge
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Anyone have any good uses for motion sensors that detect occupancy a single time and are then "clear" until motion stops for the entirety of the rearm period (2 minutes)? Bought a few assuming I could use them for light control, but since they report as clear until people stop moving again, doesn't work so well 🙄

jagged crypt
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my hue lights (via hue hub, not HA automation) I just set the lights to trigger for 20 minutes or 10 minutes after a motion sensor. That timer keeps resetting after the clear period and pushing the timeout. It means worst case the lights are on for 20 or 10 minutes if I run through a room and then leave, but in reality it covers 80-90% of usage. Get fancy and trigger all lights off when you aren't detected in the house anymore.

narrow belfry
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Is that bad? How does that compare to a Raspberry Pi? I have one of Synology's older DiskStation models currently that doesn't support Docker. 😕

sturdy shore
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Hi i am using a RPi4 for my HASS - Can i easily control my PWM fan without adding some random python scripts? Currently it is always running but i want to enable it only over 60°C

gloomy elbow
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I have the Argon case and there's an addon that enables support for that

hearty sigil
winged knoll
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Bonus points, the add-on you linked to clearly states that it's deprecated ablobjoy

dusky sapphire
rain kelp
#

Hello! I'm new, I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of the best locally controlled non-chinese devices that can intergrate with HA and don't compromise security/privacy.

winged knoll
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Personally I rather like my Xiaomi devices - cheap, reliable, don't look ugly

jagged crypt
terse condor
#

Zigbee is absolutely amazing

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Speaking of though, is there a affordable way to continuously measure chlorine in water and have the results in home assistant?

rain kelp
jagged crypt
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good luck on your project, as a first goal I would recommend you downsize your goal to what you plan on installing and paying for in your smart home.

terse condor
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I know you said not chinese, but Sonoff makes some nice Zigbee devices

rain kelp
jagged crypt
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"in a few years" means come back in a few years, things will evolve and change

rain kelp
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definitely they will, just getting a rough idea.

terse condor
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fwiw the best future proofing you can do in your house is to run some bigger pipes through your walls to run whatever cables you need in the future

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Size them larger than what you think you need. ie don't think you only need ethernet

rain kelp
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thats definitely the plan

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I despise using anything wireless that can be wired. for example at work they have battery operated window blinds 🤦‍♂️

terse condor
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Yeah that's dumb af. I'm also a huge fan of keeping things wired when possible

rain kelp
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I shouldn't need to replace batteries in a device that is fixed in place in a building full of power

terse condor
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That being said, my house was built in the 80s and sometimes batteries are the better choice than ripping open a ton of drywall 🙃

rain kelp
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same with internet/inter-device connecting. I don't want a bunch of devices on my wifi even if they dont need a ton of bandwidth

terse condor
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At least I don't live in Europe with their darn brick buildings 😛

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Yeaaahh... I mean, wifi is okay to a degree. Not a fan of IoT stuff in general, so I don't have a lot of that. But a bunch of things are okay with just wifi

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Anything that's in place though can have ethernet (but again, opening drywall after the fact isn't so fun. Hence my recommendation to leave yourself a lot of room to run cables behind the walls)

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And like, the best future proofing you can do is realizing that your house will (hopefully) be around for a while and tech changes. What's state of the art at the time of building might not be anymore 20 years down the line, so if you leave yourself enough space to expand without doing big reno projects is super valuable

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Another big recommendation is to not have a stroke when doing the wiring in your house. Mine has some absolute batshit insane wiring from years of adding more and more stuff to it

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Looking at you, breaker that controls the outlets in two rooms and the lights in two others

rain kelp
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yeah, I plan on putting a ton of planning and future-proofing into my house. I want everything done right, and I want smart home sensors like mmWave built right in so there's no need for super obvious eye-sore sensors in the room.

drifting grove
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Hallo, habe HA auf einen Intel NUC installiert als VM, wenn ich nun ein Backup von meinem laufenden System von einen raspi3 einspiele kommt nach Abschluß die anmeldeseite wo ich Benutzername und Passwort eingeben muß, wenn ich dies mache kommt immer falscher Benutzername oder Passwort, wo liegt hier der Fehler?

winged knoll
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English please @drifting grove

real fractal
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anyone got a (LAN controlled) solution for people turning your smart bulbs off with physical switches? Thought about replacing the switch panels with ESPHome/Tasmota buttons or something and then make them control the lights with automations, but cant find any hardware and dont want to get soldering iron out - anyone know of an out of the box solution that doesn't involve cutting my 3 year olds fingers off?

glossy prism
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any smart switch flashed with tasmota/esphome with the relay bypassed either in software or by wiring the load as always hot

jagged crypt
sturdy shore
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How to setup remote_rpi_gpio on a raspberry with HASSOS?

winged knoll
limber ridge
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what do you guys use for bulbs?

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my Zigbee Sengleds are a bit tempermental, they dont make the zwave plus bulbs i have anymore. and I haven't tried wifi bulbs but would imagine they take a bit longer to come online?

terse condor
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I use regular bulbs and then zigbee switches

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The Sonoff zbmini-l is great because it doesn't need a neutral wire

loud radish
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I'm looking for a wi-fi peep hole camera that supports rtsp at a decent frame rate. I figured if it supports USB power, I can just run it off of a power bank attached to the back of the door. Any recommendations/suggestions?

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Not sure if @gentle fossil is still around here, but I searched and saw a 2021 reference to an AliExpress camera. I couldn't find a post with the details.

smoky shoal
#

Any suggestions for a currently available in the US zigbee keypad to use with alarmo? Seen only a couple at ridiculous pricing on eBay. Doesn't seem like anything has come out to replace the old discontinued ones.

glossy prism
hushed rapids
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so i have a supper old spare system

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but its 32 bit

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is there no possibility i can run the Generic x86-64 Home Assistant Operating System?

tacit burrow
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I think the -64 gives it away, buddy 🙂

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Prerequisites
This guide assumes that you have a dedicated generic x86 PC (typically an Intel or AMD-based system) available to exclusively run Home Assistant Operating System. The system must be 64-bit capable and able to boot using UEFI. Pretty much all systems produced in the last 10 years support the UEFI boot mode.

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But seriously, spent $100 and get an old 64bit one from your local gumtree/tradingpost/craigslist/ebay

hushed rapids
tacit burrow
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No sass. Being friendly!

jagged crypt
echo badger
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+1 for the kauf bulbs, only downside is that they are rather large.

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really hope he makes the more common size (forget exactly what it is) at some point

dense sierra
#

I there a consensus about what the best smart lock for a front door is?

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I want something local-first ideally, but was looking at the Yale locks

void leaf
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Got a Yale lock, an August and a kwikset. Yale is way superior to the others. Battery lasts forever, super silent, operates local

dense sierra
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Is it an Assure one?

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Do you have to do stuff through the Yale cloud or can you cut it loose?

fervent ocean
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I'm thinking of buying an Amcrest Ad410, as recommended here... Would it work fine in Europe?

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I only see it a available from US

drifting grove
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I have modbus tcp USR-DR301 and controller HMI Volcano EC 0-10V (ISM-01-25299). Can it be set somehow to be controlled via homeassistant ?

limber ridge
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i think schlage makes the best looking smart door locks

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and i havent had any problems with mine

wild swift
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Whenever I lookup smart locks I eventually see a sub-2min video of lockpickinglawyer pwning the lock with very little effort.

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hard to justify like $300CAD after seeing that.

limber ridge
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haha i mean that guy can pick anything so dont think of it too much

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a locksmith can break in to any lock

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with the exception of some crazy expensive safes

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i forgot my smart lock even has a keyhole haha

wild swift
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Alarmo is security, locks just slow people down lol.

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then again any asshole with a sweep jammer can disable my alarm system as well

winged knoll
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The game of security is to make your house less attractive than the others nearby

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As long as you achieve that, you're winning

wild swift
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that ofc falls down if you're being targeted, but if you're a crime of opportunity it's a less attractive opportunity.

winged knoll
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If you're being targeted, that's a very different risk model

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At that point DIY and off the shelf really shouldn't be involved

wild swift
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which reminds me... my ST setup had a rule where while armed, vibrations on the door sensor would turn the lights on->Red for 10s. I need to recreate that in HA

winged knoll
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(unless you happen to be an expert in the field)

wild swift
winged knoll
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ED209

wild swift
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hahah perfect

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I grabbed a bunch of cheapo zigbee door sensors the other day. going to connect some to the outer doors and use those for some kinda warning action when the system is armed..... provided that the batts can survive -20 to -30c. we'll see.

ionic folio
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not sure if this is the right channel to ask in but....does anyone have advice on a cheap way to build/buy/convert a physical thermostat that is not wired directly to any heating/cooling system but would just allow me to send commands to HA to control a climate entity in HA?

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I'm setting up my mitsubishi mini splits with either esphome or mitsubishi2mqtt so i can integrate them to homeassistant. that would allow me to read temps, change setpoints, etc from HA...but i want to retain some sort of local control in the room.

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one option is to continue using the IR remote they came with, and changing the setpoint temps with that would be reflected in HA, but it's only one way, so if i change the setpoint in HA it won't change the display on the remote.

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i'm a little tempted to go pick up a nest thermostat (i can get it free after local rebates), and -- i have no idea if this would work -- wire it up with a 24VDC transformer, and put some resistors on the terminals to trick it into thinking it's wired to a furnace. then use the nest integration and set up some automations to sync the values between the nest and the esphome controller

jagged crypt
tired wedge
# ionic folio i'm a little tempted to go pick up a nest thermostat (i can get it free after lo...

I've been using HA as my main thermostat for over a year and it's been great. I would start with the "one way" setup, and see how it goes. I imagine the remote will gather dust. I would not buy a Nest thermostat. I'm not sure what the current state of things is, but for a while you couldn't set up new developer access, so you couldn't get them working with HA. Plus the whole setup you described, while creative, seems like it would be a little wild with wires everywhere. You could set up a small inexpensive tablet in the room with HA on it to make changes.

rocky lodge
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anybody have experience with TP-Link Tapo security cameras and/or Blink Minis?

tired wedge
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Does the minisplit have Homekit support? That's how I'm controlling my Ecobee thermostat with HA. It works well

sullen zinc
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I have some Sonoff plugs, they seem to keep disconnecting from Wi-Fi, any idea?

tired wedge
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How long do they disconnect for?

tepid forge
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Heya, I'm currently looking for a way to monitor our electrical usage and I think going with a smart wall plug would be the best option as they are quite cheap. But I'm not sure which to choose that will work well with HA. It would be fine for me to flash new firmware to it but I'd still prefer not to have to do that for ease of installation. I'm based in Germany.

tacit burrow
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@tepid forge depends what you need. I had very good results with the tplink kasa plugs, which are wifi (not zigbee etc) so easier to get working if you don't have any of that.

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I don't know if they manufacture with your wall plug configuration, might have to google

tepid forge
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Those are currently not available for me.

tacit burrow
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if you can control plugs with your phone (via local, not cloud especially) you will probably be able to do same via HA

tepid forge
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Oh, I found this project that seems to be very helpful in finding a plug that I can flash with my own firmware.

sullen zinc
dense wyvern
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Anyone know what this antenna type is? I broke it and need to order another.

It's the Sonoff ZigBee USB stick antenna.

zealous dune
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2.4Ghz wifi antenna

dense wyvern
thin latch
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My smart light do not support xy color but home assistant shows the xy color slider, how can I remove that?

void leaf
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Is the aqara motion sensor p1 better than the original? Can find only the original from aliexpress, otherwise I can get the p1 from Amazon (for double the price). No way I can seem to find the e1 anywhere

jagged crypt
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I swapped out to different ESP32 boards, and the onboard antenna is "much" better. I picked up WROVER-E with camera modules (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3JD1K1T) and I've got a camera working on one unit, and the other unit reports "marked as failed". I swapped the little camera bits and it stayed with the board. Bad board? something else? Config in esphome is identical:

[I][app:029]: Running through setup()...
[E][camera.c:1113] camera_probe(): Detected camera not supported.
[E][camera.c:1379] esp_camera_init(): Camera probe failed with error 0x20004
[E][esp32_camera:024]: esp_camera_init failed: ERROR
[E][component:113]: Component esp32_camera was marked as failed.
spare drum
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Is it possible to use Cree Lighting Bluetooth bulb with Home Assistant through Bluetooth?

jagged crypt
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no experience with bt bulbs, sorry

gloomy elbow
spare drum
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Didn’t have any luck looking for it

spare drum
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What kind of devices work well with HA using Bluetooth?

idle bough
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😐 󠀀󠀀

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I definitely need to get a better humidity sensor. 😐

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Any ideas of which ones are the most accurate?

zealous dune
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Which one do you have now?

weary tangle
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Originally had my HA on a old laptop with i5/8gb ram but it got broken by my dog. As a temporary solution I have been using my old RPI model 3B+ but its just too slow. I was recommended this: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-u820-u850-mini-pc?variant=37581008470177

Which could also double as a computer connected to my TV directly to more chill watch youtube for example. However I guess that means no HA OS. Any thoughts from others? I'm in northern europe. I already have a Dell R720 server I use for heavier loads so I'm, not looking for a heavy load server, but I dont want to run HA on this because of distance and a couple of other things

winged knoll
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You could run HAOS in a VM on that if you really felt the need

west yew
# weary tangle Originally had my HA on a old laptop with i5/8gb ram but it got broken by my dog...

Im also using a Rpi 3 and have similar issues with quality. Mainly during upgrades do I notice speed issues. However would love to beef it up with better hardware. I'm wondering if waiting for a Rpi 4 or just getting something similar to what you posted is a good option.

Does anyone have a favorite way to run HASS. I feel like as a VM might be overly complicated so leaning towards standalone hardware like the rpi

winged knoll
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Pretty much any PC from the last decade will be better than a Pi

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I run it on an ancient i5 laptop

west yew
nova pivot
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i'm running it on a pi4 and have no complaints really.

winged knoll
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Pi4 on an SSD is ok, but the GK41 is about 4 times faster

nova pivot
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guess i'm just not all that bothered with the speed on my sdcard. 🙂

winged knoll
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SD cards also have a nice feature ... they're good at failing with little warning

peak talon
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Just keep a backup going on if you have pi and sd card, as stated, it might just fail. Duplicati is a nice quick solution and there are plenty of always free resources in cloud for backup

drifting grove
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Just a quick Q - I have tcp bulbs and tapo smart switches, is there anyway to connect these to HA?

winged knoll
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No idea about the TCP bulbs, that's a terrible thing to Google

drifting grove
winged knoll
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Does suggest they may be Tasmota convertible though

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Sadly you're likely to learn that buying cheap means buying twice

winged knoll
tacit warren
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I have a lot of projects on hand, and I have a few hurdles googling i was hoping maybe someone can help me out with.
I already have a variety of Z-wave and Zigbee devices in my home with a Futurehome smarthub.
I want to transition completly to homeassistant due to local handling and wider device support, futurehome still isnt fully working properly with most of the devices. Thermostats show up 3 times etc.

I have HA in a VM on my server, and it is talking to the Futurehome hub via their API and an Add-on - but it's clunky and doesnt support all devices or commands.

What different categories of Z-wave/Zigbee adapters are there? I though i had to use USB-Adapter in my server, but.. Are there Z-wave/Zigbee "Hub"'s that you connect directly to the router, which my server/HA can access and fully access/manage as if it was a physically attatched like a USB adapter?

drifting grove
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If I knew I would be looking at HA down the line then I would have looked into it, but I just wanted a simple light to connect to my google

drifting grove
winged knoll
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Your choices for Z-Wave depend on your country, so do tell them where in the world you are

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For Zigbee you've got more flexibility

tacit warren
marble snow
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Hello to all... I'll raise probably a stupid question to you 🙂 I have an ARGON ONE M.2 case for my Raspberry pi 4.. It was running on a SD card... and just got an ssd... Seems the ssd doesnt fit in the case by 0,5mm.... I now onder if it is a correct one... It seems it shall be a M.2 SATA SSD... And the one I have is a Crucial P5 Plus M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD...
Is this SSD ok or should I change it?

cold moon
marble snow
thin latch
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My smart light do not support xy color but home assistant shows the xy color slider, how can I remove that?

scenic osprey
spare drum
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Do switchbots curtain motors work directly with HA through Bluetooth? Or would I still need the switchbot hub?

twilit quartz
mental abyss
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Mini PC for HA

idle bough
void leaf
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Are there any US zigbee smart in wall outlet with power delivery?

surreal rampart
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Potentially silly question - If I have a Shelly 2.5, am I able to flash the Zigbee variant of Tasmota onto it? Or is the hardware for WiFi and Zigbee physically different despite both using 2.4 Ghz band?

winged knoll
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Tasmota is for WiFi devices, not Zigbee

surreal rampart
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3rd from the bottom in the top section

native sparrow
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Wheeen I try to flash ha on my micro sd it says flash failed

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can someone help

winged knoll
jagged crypt
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I swapped out to different ESP32 boards

jagged crypt
dull portal
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Is there any cameras working with HA trough zigbee2mqtt?

drifting grove
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you can not feed video via zigbee or mqtt

gloomy elbow
peak talon
zealous dune
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you can do images over mqtt

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theoretically video is possible but no point in doing that

meager gale
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Hello, would anyone be able to recommend a single port ethernet to wifi adaptor? To connect my ethernet only smart TV to HA. I did some research and found this Asus WL-330gE but it looks to be very old and unavailable in Australia.

tacit burrow
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No chance of running a cable? More reliable, faster, and less EMF than wifi.

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What kind of smart-tv is ethernet only?

cold moon
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best option is not using w/e junk is built into smart tv and use apple tv / nvidia shield / kodi etc

tacit burrow
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Yeah, I don't use the built-in smart stuff on any of my tvs. It's a mix of Amazon devices and Apple TV.

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But to be frank, I use maybe 10 apps anyway. 90% of usage would be netflix+prime+stan+youtube.

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I don't think I've touched my main tv remote in a year or two. I just use the firetv 4k remote.

meager gale
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it's an older sony smart tv, doesn't run android

tacit burrow
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What are you trying to do with the tv/HA?

meager gale
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I've found some options, but it's not worth $50 to do it

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might just get a second hand old apple airport express which can do it

tacit burrow
meager gale
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I don't buy from kogan, no exceptions

tacit burrow
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they're super spammy, and mostly crappy products 🙂

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Yeah, any wifi AP that can act as a bridge would be fine

meager gale
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CEC with chromecast works so I guess I can just use that, or install libreelec on a spare pi4

cold moon
tacit burrow
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Ha, kids. That's basically modern stuff! 🙂

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I remember coax and t-connectors, and chasing down the bad cable to fix the LAN...

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and installing ipx drivers to play doom

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and installing linux off 30 x 5.25 floppies

cold moon
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im not that old -.-

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i started with dos and grew up with 56k and such though so i had enough hardships

tacit burrow
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56k? Luxury! I had a 300b modem, which I built from a kit myself, with acoustic couplers (big foam cups for the phone), and you couldn't talk too loud near the modem because it caused line-noise. No error-correction/detection then! 🙂

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And (many years later) setting up uucp over modem, to batch download usenet 🙂

cold moon
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haha yeah i was too young for all that

drifting grove
drifting grove
cold moon
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LG is the one outlier

drifting grove
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would be really cool

cold moon
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I haven’t looked into it much I have old Vizios with nvidia shields on them

uncut ridge
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is there a good place to ask about hardware? or this is it? Im interested in adding a motion sensor that is smart but could also work with home assistant, wondering whats good out there since the stuff i currently own doesnt work with HA.

winged knoll
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Zigbee (and Z-Wave) are great choices as they're 100% local and will work with HA

uncut ridge
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does that require an adapter to plug into my pi?

winged knoll
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Yes

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WiFi based sensors are usually pretty terrible, both in terms of their ability to interface with HA but also in terms of battery life

uncut ridge
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i see. is zwave or zigbee better?

winged knoll
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Yes, but no

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Z-Wave is more expensive as it's a proper standard, but it means you know everything will work (at least if you buy Z-Wave Plus or newer). It is also however region locked so you can't just buy and import stuff without some care.

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Zigbee is cheaper, lots of it is of suspect quality (Tuya, Sonoff's sensors, Osram's older stuff, etc), but it's so much cheaper, and not region locked

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If you're happy to research before buying, and you're not drowning in WiFi signal, then Zigbee is a better choice IMO

uncut ridge
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oh

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i am kinda drowning in 2.4 lol

winged knoll
uncut ridge
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thx

tough vine
winged knoll
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I have one set at 10 seconds and battery level is still 100% 2 months later

tough vine
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Great, thanks! If that's the case I need to find out what could cause this battery drain. The sensor is using the battery it came with. Could it be the ZHA integration? Or the Sonoff Zigbee ZBDongle-E?

winged knoll
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Unlikely to be ZHA, could be the dongle, could be the router the P1 is connected to

dull portal
winged knoll
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Search the history in #cameras-archived - this has been asked and answered many many many many many ( 🔁 ) times

dull portal
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Thanks

tough vine
winged knoll
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CC2652

void leaf
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Someone knows a good wifi6 /6e mesh/access point? Currently own two asus xt8 and they start dropping devices when around 50 devices are connected on a single node. Saw few tplink Delco that they say support 200 devices, but on fine prints it mentions that it's not guaranteed, so I feel it's there just for the eyes

spiral wagon
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is there any zigbee 13A UK wall socket with power monitoring except the Aurora AOne?

winged knoll
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Salus SP600

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(not 100% sure it's 13A, don't have it to hand to check)

spiral wagon
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it is 13A according to the spec on the official page

winged knoll
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The Salus and Hive plugs are 13A, no idea about sockets

keen flame
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Does anyone use a fitbit-like device that hooks up to HA and doesn't send data to the cloud? (I'd like to start tracking my sleep quality but I also care about privacy.)

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I think writing automations around my quality of sleep for the night sounds like a really fun thing to play with. 🙂

obtuse tree
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hey all

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anyone got anyu experience with adding a SONOFF inching to a garage door pcb?

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I have successfully done one on my lobby door, and want to do one on the garage

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but I am not a wiz at reading pcb layouts

drifting grove
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do you have a pic?

obtuse tree
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yeah go dm so I can post it

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can I dm u ?

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I have found the circuit board manual as well

drifting grove
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ye go ahead

gloomy elbow
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Can I ask where you got that light from? 😄

cinder coral
gloomy elbow
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Darn, those don't seem to exist over here. I'm trying to find a lamp that just turns on when power is provided.

minor pecan
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If I am trying to hook up two optocouplers to one pin on an ESP32 for PWM control on some lights, and the example circuit has one optocoupler and uses one 100ohm resistor before the optocoupler's diode, do I need to change resistor size to run the two in parallel off that pin?

winged knoll
minor pecan
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Oh, thanks, wasn't sure what the appropriate room was

jagged crypt
gloomy elbow
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No, specifically a 10,000 LUX lamp.

jagged crypt
#

that's a lot of lumen

winged knoll
jagged crypt
gloomy elbow
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I'm in the UK, but I shall look

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I ordered a cheap one with physical buttons off Amazon as I already have a switchbot.

keen flame
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You can get a full spectrum light bulb and make your own if necessary.

gloomy elbow
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Wowza, that one is pricy

gloomy elbow
jagged crypt
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doesn't that effectively negate the purpose? Shiny high output flashlights into my face while typing doesn't seem productive or helpful for SAD

keen flame
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Full spectrum, 10,000 lux light is the most commonly used in treating SAD. You want to put it in your peripheral vision for several hours per day.

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I used to live in Seattle and used a number of them. They help a bit.

cold moon
keen flame
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Absolutely.

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Full spectrum lights aren't hard to come by.

cold moon
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i assume you need analog led strips with a high cri number?

keen flame
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Oh I dunno...

dawn storm
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Hey guys, I have an old tuya device that I need to flash.
I haven't done a tuya convert in years. What's the latest and greatest method to convert these days?

keen flame
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I can't help but I'm curious (still learning), convert to what?

dawn storm
keen flame
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Oh. Didn't know I could do that. 🙂 I have two tuya smart plugs that I hooked up using LocalTuya.

cold moon
#

Manufacturers have been making it harder with non esp chips or locking them down iirc

dawn storm
peak talon
dawn storm
peak talon
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from the time they patch the software with new pskKey, there is no way around it - so no alternative than this one afaik

karmic solar
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has anyone had any luck un-clouding a InkBird ITC-308?

tall cloak
#

hello! does anyone have sonoff pow r3?

zealous dune
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Are you starting a club or have an issue?

jagged crypt
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with the price of easy flashable or pre-flashed gear, why are people fighting with Tuya stuff at all? Genuinely curious.

zealous dune
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For me it's the challenge

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Especially with funky stuff you can't find elsewhere

jagged crypt
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yeah, the hobby/tearing things apart i understand, perfectly valid

zealous dune
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I'm more flabbergasted with people trying to use Tuya cloud integration

jagged crypt
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my flabbergasting comes from people who automatically equate wifi device to cloud

zealous dune
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The muggles, same ones that equate Zigbee to being battery powered

young wharf
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Anyone have problems with an m.2 enclosure and a powered usb hub just deciding to die(connected to a pi 4)? Im away from the house so I cant get the error but this happened once like a month ago. And I ended up plugging a monitor into the pi and seeing it stuck trying to boot from usb. I ended up fixing it by moving the m.2 usb to a different port on the usb hub and restarting HASS to get it online again.. Btw the hub is plugged into the USB 3.0 port

jagged crypt
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i've had usb devices wedge on PC's before, where i've had to unplug/plug. on linux, unloading the device driver and reloading usually fixes it (probably does on windows, just don't know how). Could be similar on the pi. Since you mentioned powered, I assume it's got enough power to drive the m2 drive.

young wharf
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Yeah the hub is powered and seems to have plenty of power. I dn why it wouldnt since the m.2 is the only thing plugged into it.. Also, just running the normal pi hass img. So it's Linux. But I can't ssh into it either. It doesn't get that far to start the ssh server. My friend is gonna go over to my place tomm and get me back up but it's bugging me so I'm trying to do some research.

west yew
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I'm trying the learn how to have a esp32 press a button on a device. Such as pressing the garage door button or pressing the button on a vehicle key fob. All the guides seem to show a 5v relay being used, but can this be accomplished without a relay? I thought it could but maybe that's a bad idea?

peak talon
peak talon
west yew
cinder sentinel
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What's the opinion here about https://smarthomescene.com/tag/aliexpress-reviews/ ?

Just asking since I was recommended here several times to avoid Tuya like the plague, but then found these reviews of some Tuya and Moes Zigbee products that are cheap and the reviews don't seem bad at all (at least the ones I've read).

There are some light switches in there that might be useful for me.

gloomy elbow
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The question is always "how have they set up and configured the devices?" If you can buy something else I'd always recommend it personally

zealous dune
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I do use a lot of Tuya but you need to be realistic and have some experience with smart home in general

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when a beginner asks I also tell them to look away

cinder sentinel
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got it. Will try to avoid if I can find something else. Thanks again

sand pier
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I built a PC with the idea of running it 24/7 for Plex/Frigate/HA but since the electricity prices went crazy I’ve been only using it sporadically when I want to use Plex.

Anyone know how I can measure the power usage and compare it to my existing thin client for HA that already runs 24/7?

Wondering how much difference there is.

zealous dune
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a power monitoring plug?

sand pier
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Simples.

peak talon
outer fog
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Anyone have experience with the Atlas EZO Sensors? I have them on an isolated carrier board, but I see extreme errors directly proportional to enclosure temperature, not liquid temperature. It appears the modules use the built in ADC on the PIC18, which has poor temperature performance. I have a pressure sensor hooked to an ADS1115 in the same enclosure that doesn't see such temperature drift.

astral rain
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Is it possible to turn off the button on a Xiaomi Aquara Smart Plug (zigbee2mqtt) so that no one turns off the plug by accident? I would like to use it to measure my refrigerators energy consumption and it would be nice knowing no one by accident turns it off. Is it possible to set it to by on by default in case of power outage?

winged knoll
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Only if that plug supports it

astral rain
winged knoll
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Looks that way

unreal star
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Hi can I force temperature sensors to update more often ? Let’s say every 5-10mins ? I am using Sonoff dongle 3.0 m2qtt and sonoff temperature sensors

winged knoll
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The answer is ... maybe

rustic ledge
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I don't suppose anyone happens to have a more up to date version of the Yamaha Extended Control API Specification (Basic) document by any chance? I've been able to find document revision 1.10, but the HiFi system REST API indicates it is at API version 2.08 and I see a v2 endpoint is available that isn't mentioned in the spec. I tried Yamaha support, but they were less than helpful pointing me to a local dealer and basically saying I'm "not authorized" to call the REST API on my own device myself 🤣 I'm pretty certain the official dealer I got the device from knows nothing about REST APIs.

Thank you for your inquiry regarding external control protocols:
Since the control protocols are only available for our authorized dealers and installers, please contact your Yamaha dealer or installer to integrate your MusicCast products.
For a price on integrating MusicCast products into your home network through the control protocols, please contact a distributor or installer of your choice.

karmic solar
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🔫 gimme a pi 4 or else

jagged crypt
rustic ledge
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@jagged crypt Thanks for searching for it as well! Sadly enough, that is revision 2 of the Advanced document, which deals with more a more high-level management API that doesn't allow for things like changing the volume or loading another preset.

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The first link looks good though!

jagged crypt
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yeah, i figured you had gotten that for, the pyahmaha has v1 of the same document

rustic ledge
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I somehow saw that GitHub repository and didn't bother to look in the doc folder. The specification doesn't contain the changes to the API that I had hoped for, but that's mostly on me

jagged crypt
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good luck, I was dealt with automation rest on squeezebox server (but that's all software)

# 
      - service: squeezebox.call_method
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.office
          command: playlist
          parameters:
            - play
            - Playlist-Office
rustic ledge
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The whole Yamaha and MusicCast way of storing favorites is just so backwards that I was hoping to get around the issues by using the API myself. Sadly enough, there doesn't seem to be a way to tune in to a specific DAB channel yourself. All you can do is "next" or "previous". Sigh.

jagged crypt
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can you create a playlist that you load?

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that prefills that info?

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which is what I did for setting up remotes to trigger media players

rustic ledge
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DAB is a radio format. So I don't think I can do anything with playlists for that

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I think I'm just going to do some network monitoring to intercept the commands the app sends to the device. There are things the app seems to be able to do that the specification doesn't mention

drifting grove
rustic ledge
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I guess moving away from DAB would be a solution as well

drifting grove
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page 7 in the documentation

rustic ledge
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(sorry, cat butt interfered on keyboard)

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Yup, but when you store the preset via the API, you can't set its name. The app can do that in some way.

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Recalling the presets works fine and it's what I'm doing right now. I was just hoping that API v2 would have some parameter for providing the name when storing 🙂

midnight grotto
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I need temperature, humidity and window/door sensors for my HA what is better Sonoff or Aqara or something 3rd?

drifting grove
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this guy did a pretty good test of detection failure rate and battery life

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maybe watch the video

midnight grotto
torpid rune
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Looking for quality smoke detector that can be controlled via MQTT

zealous dune
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any Zigbee2MQTT supported one then

jagged crypt
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i'm happy i was able to code up a double-click functionality for the Tradfri 5-button remote, need to extend it so it's not just double click on the center button.

cold moon
jagged crypt
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the second one may be good, will look when i have a chance

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i didn't find it when I looked earlier

jagged crypt
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i think my search failed on that because they have the special char - TRÅDFRI vs TRADFRI

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no, I found that one, but it caused me issues

cold moon
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i had to tweak it for my hue remotes but i like it a lot

jagged crypt
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i have double&triple click working with tradfri 5 button with my blueprint, it's pretty straightforward once i figured out how to get it run effectively single-threaded (mode:single)

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actually maybe i didn't use that one, i used the version of that one for the synfondisk dial and then gave up

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that was causing me problems

empty wing
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Hello. Can anyone recommend a budget NAS? I am not sure what I am looking for.

Example:
Is SSD necessary or would HDD be sufficient?
Hard to determine the upper max of what is needed for storage, so is it easy to expand these later?
Is $100-$200 a good range to be looking for a starting NAS?

jagged crypt
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you need to figure out what you are trying to do before blindly buying something 🙂

empty wing
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Backing up my computer, picture storage, archive emails,.. that's all I can think of right now

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Oh and backup my Home Assistant so it doesn't take up space on the mini computer

jagged crypt
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do you leave your primary machine on all the time? how much space do you think you need?

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the synology/qnap's are all good

empty wing
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Main station? No. Mini computer, yes. It runs my HA.
Space is probably no more than 4 TB right now. Having the ability to expand later would be needed.

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I will look at those 2

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What do you think of a dock like this one?

SABRENT USB 3.1 to SATA Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD. Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [Includes Both Type C and Type A Cables, Supports 10TB+ Drives] (DS-UTC2) https://a.co/d/cVp6YiB

jagged crypt
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if you want raw disks sticking up works great, not sure i would call that a NAS vs a temporary way to deal with a pile of HDD....

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if you need storage, 4bay (or more) nas of some sort works well (raid 5 or variant). Though some value in a small 2-bay mirror nas.

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If you're just buying a NAS to have a NAS, think it through. You are buying storage for backups and to remove large primary storage from your desktop. If you are already backing up all your photos and apps in a "cloud" of some sort, you may not need a NAS. They come with extra work/energy and if you aren't careful will actually be worse off than using a cloud backup of some sort. They can give you a false sense of security if you aren't careful.

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Agree with @jagged crypt about the NAS false sense of security. While they are fun to tinker with and all. If you don't have at least two in two deferent location then a fire, natural disaster or act of god will destroy your data.

torpid rune
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Xiaomi Mijia Honeywell Fire Alarm Smoke Detector Sensor Bluetooth version can be integrated to HA?

jagged crypt
# cold moon i had to tweak it for my hue remotes but i like it a lot

ok, got it working, but wondering if I'll just keep the simple one I made, that doesn't require a helper test input entity. Right now I'm not trying to do more than play/pause, volume up/down, next/previous track. Then added "play specific playlists" with double taps. Anything complex you are doing with the remotes that you use past the day you set it up?

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I'm sure i can rig up a mortal combat fatality sequence if I thought it would be useful, but .... 🙂

vapid flume
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finally managed to get some data out of my Apricus (resol) Solar Hot water system

jagged crypt
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congrats, sometimes it the small things at the end of the day 🙂

tender aurora
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hi! anyone know of a battery-powered outdoor camera?

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with decent quality? i'm going to use it to create a timelapse

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so i need to be able to program it to take a picture every xth minute

jagged crypt
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gopro with beta software 🙂

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or gopro labs firmware

tender aurora
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what's the battery life of that?

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i need something that can be placed outdoors for a prolonged period of time

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during winter (-20 C)

jagged crypt
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define "prolonged"

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minutes, hours, days, weeks, all winter....

tender aurora
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all winter

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several months

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4-5 months, at least

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of course i can change the battery, but i wouldn't want to do that too often

jagged crypt
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I've got nothing. You could do it with a gopro and usb battery packs that you swap out every day or similar. But I suspect for the timeframe you are looking for, a better solution would make sense

tender aurora
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yeah

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i see these

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they use a pir-sensor that consumes little power that in turn will trigger the internal stuff

jagged crypt
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how often are looking to take pictures for a timelapse?

tender aurora
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but a camera like that that i could instead trigger every hour or similar

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every hour should suffice

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every hour during daytime

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it's for a construction site

jagged crypt
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nothing to do with homeassistant though

tender aurora
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true enough

ruby rain
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Is it possible to flash a Android TV Box with HA? (I have a S905W x96 Mini laying around)

zealous dune
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it is possible but you probably won't like it. you need to install linux on it first

ruby rain
zealous dune
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well, can you install linux on it?