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pine apex
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I don't need brightness control. I just need light and fan to be independent. I also don't want the only “smart” control to be through something like Google.

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I think I need to just deal with running a new wire

sudden crow
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Gotcha. Just saying having one brightness level is incredibly annoying

toxic spade
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Hey guys, do you guys know any moviment sensor for integration? i have a space where theres 3 smaller parts which i want to turn lights when people comes on, pretty simple. But for other requirements it need to be smart, for time and hours contraints. So, do you guys know about any sensor or hardware which i could do somehting like that?

young atlas
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Any recommendations on mesh wireless also for lots of 2.4 GHz devices?

crimson field
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Is there a water leak detector that will work with HA without a hub?

peak talon
drifting grove
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partially - the esp32 is working fine. It has an IR emitter and a temp/humidity sensor. currently I have set up two very basic automations. One to turn on the AC when a certain temperature is exited for 1min and a second one o turn off the AC when the temperature is below a defined limit. I'm still trying to figure out how the climate entity works and also how to work around my way the fact I have two different switches (on & off). as well as the need to look into efficiency of ACs and how to run them best

drifting grove
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did a quick search for that Xiaomi sensor and they are cute (do they also support wifi? I can only see Bluetooth in descriptions) I'm using a DHT22 on my test setup and don't really see any issues yet.

peak talon
# drifting grove did a quick search for that Xiaomi sensor and they are cute (do they also suppor...

If the DHT 22 is working fine then you don't need to change. I.have experienced degradation overtime. The xiaomi sensors are BLE and can be read by ESP32, the additional benefit you get is that you can place them anywhere (within 10 m) and not be connected to esp as with DHT 22. Also do consider using BLE iTag to control your ir transmitter. https://esphome.io/cookbook/ble_itag.html this can be handy to directly control esp when there is no WiFi or esp32 is having api connectivity issue

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If interested in ble itag, I'll give you code where you can control multiple clicks - say 1 click on switch on climate and 2 clicks to switch off

keen aurora
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Does anyone here use a Xiaomi gateway? If so, do you know how to listen to events off the device?

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I just got the Aquara cube and im trying to figure out how to sense what side its on

peak talon
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Are you using AlexxIT's compone t?

drifting grove
peak talon
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I dunno about those ch9102x. I was taking about esp32 in general, you could just attach an ir transmitter led and use ir remote transmitter and ble components

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The ble itag can be used anything within that esp or even create a different action in HA. For example switch on a light from HA

drifting grove
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understood - in that case you might want to look into the ch9102x. it's an esp32 with ble integrated 😉

peak talon
sterile forge
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Hey, I'm not sure if this is the right channel, but I was wondering if using plex with a nas would slow things down?

Not Plex installed ON a NAS, but USING a NAS as a media folder

zealous dune
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Nah, NAS is built to serve files

edgy condor
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Any recommendations for zigbee RGB lights above 800 lumens?

thorn veldt
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Hey everyone,

you guys have any recommendations for a motion sensor?
I need a indoor motion sensor, that is quick, and does not need any bridge (like the Phillips hue bridge).

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So far I wasnt able to find a clear answer to supported motion sensors

peak talon
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So you are considering a wired sensor?

thorn veldt
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wifi would be my preferred choice

peak talon
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You can build one using esp, Reed sensor and a magnet. The compact one would be esp-01. However, you need to have a power source nearby as those cannot run on batteries for long

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That would be less than $5

thorn veldt
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and how would that be integrated into home assistant then. Like, which integration 😄

peak talon
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Using esphome, it integrates seamlessly to HA

thorn veldt
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Okay thank you very much 😄

peak talon
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Earlier I incorrectly stated Reed sensor as I read as door sensor instead of motion. You use pir sensor

thorn veldt
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Okay, will have a look 😄

drifting grove
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small hint - many PIR sensors like a 5V input to function properly

drifting grove
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are z-wave products worth the high price? Without personal experience I can only guess the pros, which I think would be the 'low operating frequency offering better wall penetration and reach as well as the mesh functionality. Still when I search for products they always seem to be anywhere from 2 to 4 times as expensive compared to other systems.

winged knoll
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The're expensive because they're a full standard. If you buy any Z-Wave Plus or later (500 series or 700 series) device then you know it'll "just work" with any other brand of device. That's achieved through testing and certification. Unlike WiFi devices which can do what they want, and Zigbee devices which don't have to be certified or tested.

dire gust
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Hi,
I am looking for some advice for a Temperature and Humidity Sensor that works on Wi-Fi. I have found the Tuya WIFI Temperature and Humidity Sensor that look good but from what I have read it does not work in HA. Dose anyone know what else is available ?

zealous dune
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battery powered only?

dire gust
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yes preferably

zealous dune
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only Shelly HT

dire gust
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@zealous dune Thanks I will have a look at it 👍

sly owl
peak talon
ashen apex
serene granite
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hi guys! what do you reccomend for a cheap but safe method to monitor power? i want to hook up a lot of my appliances to monitor their usage as our power bill is through the roof right now

fading wagon
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Hey Guys,
do you have any tips on which plant sensors to use?

bright jacinthBOT
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Looking for advice about a device to buy? Remember to provide guidance on:

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
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winged knoll
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MiFlora comes up a lot

fading wagon
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Yeah, i know about these 🙂
Sadly they are really hard to get 😦

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I have hoped, that there are some good alternatives 😄

balmy wren
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Does anyone know if you can update zwave firmware ota with home assistant

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Also looking to see if you can download firmware off of a device and copy it to another

winged knoll
balmy wren
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thanks

woeful bramble
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Is the Blue shipping yet?

winged knoll
chilly jolt
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Hi I'm having some issues with getting into the web interface, I've been able to run the OS successfully for a while in a VM with no issues. After I installed Samba, it must've moved or deleted my config.yaml file since it doesn't allow me to restart the server because there is no config file. I (stupidly) made a blank config.yaml file and rebooted only to be greeted with a 404 Error whenever I try to go into the web interface. It boots up the os all just fine I just can't get into the web interface. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

winged knoll
chilly jolt
noble crag
toxic dirge
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anyone have a recommendation on zigbee outlets that have power monitoring? that are cheap, lol

peak talon
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Any specific reasons being on zigbee? If for wifi, sonoff have good products, not sockets though pow r2, dual r3

toxic dirge
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@peak talon i dont really trust the cheap wifi devices, only in the sense that it's basicly putting a node on your network that can spy unless you go through the trouble of making sure they can only communicate directly to the hub

peak talon
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Sonoff are a reputed brand. Regardless, you flash sonoff devices with esphome, hence you are not using manf firmware but esphome which is local and integrates seamlessly with HA

toxic dirge
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oh word?

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got a link by chance?

peak talon
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Search your local place for sonoff pow r2

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There is other real use for zigbee in powered applications and actually a downside that if your zha /z2m stops working, you zigbee devices will as well (unless they are binding to certain drvices). Wifi with esphome will continue to work with or without wifi

toxic dirge
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wooooord, thanks for the info man

toxic dirge
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@peak talon i noticed alot of the sonoffs make you cut your cord and wire it inline, is there another brand that you can load esphome onto thats just the outlet plug style?

tepid heart
peak talon
# toxic dirge <@!627475911024967691> i noticed alot of the sonoffs make you cut your cord and...

Instead of cutting the device cord, buy those socket extender (you get as small as 0.5m ) and attached the sonoff device there. I used that for my entire power strip so any device connected on that strip has monitoring . Something similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Pendant-Extension-Hanging-Lantern-Kitchen/dp/B08N9S2J89/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=socket+and+cable+extender&qid=1630987005&sr=8-16

toxic dirge
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just seems like alot extra compared to plug and play

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finding the shelly plugs tho, availability is poop

tepid heart
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Also the strain relief on the Sonoffs is not sufficient for an extension cord application. You need to house it in a suitable box with cord grommets. Like this:

toxic dirge
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what about this sonoff s31?

peak talon
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Was about to state s31 is a good option. It just that its bulky and affects the decor. But if you are not concerned about that, it is okay

toxic dirge
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not at all, it's being used in a semi industrial application so idc

tepid heart
toxic dirge
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just would be nice to have a plug and play option without having to flash things, but you know giant corporations

zealous dune
dreamy vale
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Morning!

I'm going to buy wall switches for my new home and I have found the aqara line that looks nice and have good features.

I was looking for suppliers in Spain and the switches are priced between 40 to 44€. In Aliexpress the same switches pricing is arround 20-23€. Which for a full house is quite a lot.

I was wondering if any hub is the same or should i get one. The idea is to integrate it with home assistant.

Also, I have found the zigbeetomqtt project and that might be a very solid option to avoid xiaomi's hub.. But it misses some features that xiaomi hub provides.. So for now I think I'm going to buy the xiaomi and maybe buy the Z2M hub and play around with it.

Any recomendations on which hub to buy?

winged knoll
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#zigbee-archived can provide lots of advice around Zigbee, but IMO Zigbee2MQTT is a better choice than any manufacturer's hub

zealous dune
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warning: not all hubs work for all aqara switch models

hot sun
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Should the 5V pin from a PI/ODroid GPIO be able to power an ESP32?

winged knoll
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(probably, I may simply be taking the proverbial)

hot sun
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A PI is a hardware device is it not? 😛

winged knoll
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Yeah, but you're doing weird shit stuff with it, so that's either DIY or BIY (burn it yourself)

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Google suggests yes you can, but shrug

hot sun
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but experience tells me it doesn't work

winged knoll
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ESP32 draws up to 0.25A, Pi can apparently output 1A to 2A, if you believe that

hot sun
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big if

winged knoll
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Specs are a thing drawn up by marketing and have no relation to reality

hot sun
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Either Pi or Odroid it just never boots (LED flashed continuously) but using PSU works just fine

winged knoll
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Faulty ESP?

hot sun
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If it was faulty why would it work with PSU though

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was just trying to avoid another PSU in an already crowder place lol

winged knoll
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Maybe for a split second it's drawing more than the GPIO can handle?

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Maybe it's just a terrible idea?

hot sun
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maybe both

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I have enough PSUs from old phones of the last few decades anyway

dreamy vale
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Thanks @winged knoll and @zealous dune

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hazy zealot
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It was not spamming 😦
It was an error.

winged knoll
winged knoll
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Spam will not be tolerated, including but not limited to: self-promotion, flooding, text walls (longer than 15 lines)

hazy zealot
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It was not spamming!
I dident know it created a code wall, so i acually create new lines where it was edited !
But again it created a code wall..

winged knoll
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Use a code share site when posting multiple lines of config/log/etc

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That's explained in #rules - along with the limit of 15 lines

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And no, it didn't create a code wall, that was entirely on you

rotund burrow
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I'm looking at various zigbee ceiling fan/light combos, is there a way to tell if these will work with HA ?

winged knoll
rotund burrow
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thanks

light ridge
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is there something better recommended than Bond Bridge to control ceiling fans? (assume that I've got several fans with remotes already working and don't want to replace their control module with a wifi one etc)

cursive yoke
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Probably a simple one....is it possible to change the domain of a switch to a light?

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I have a GE/Jasco z-wave paddle switch that controls a light and would like to be able to control it in an automation using the light.turn_on/off service.

light ridge
burnt glen
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I want to lower the mediaplayer volume during commercials and dont know whether to user my room assistant or the roku media player itself - or a equalizer of some sort

keen aurora
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Does anyone have any experience with the Xiaomi Zigbee hub? I'm trying to listen to events on the hub but I'm not sure of which entity that I should be listening to.

winged knoll
keen aurora
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would it be an intergration as it in the listen to events tab?

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But I also just saw that there is a Zigbee channel too, so that might help.

winged knoll
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All the channels have topics that help guide what they can help with

drifting grove
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anyone specifically used evisalink 4 for Honeywell alarm? it can't function as a keypad replacement... can it?

sweet bluff
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Hi! Any updates on the latest update and rpi3 boot loops? I've been hesitant to upgrade until I hear that's been resolved

winged knoll
opal bay
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Hi Does anyone have a smart door/window sensor?

winged knoll
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Yes

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Lots and lots and lots of people do

jade ivy
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Made a small one with esp32, cr123A battery and a "magnet activated switch", (works with mqtt). If you like to build your own stuff it's a quite easy project to setup.

opal bay
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Should i buy a wifi one or with a hub? I wanted to buy the wifi one because its cheap but when i need more of them the wifi is getting slow and in that case a hub version would be better.

winged knoll
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Wifi blobnauseated

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Hub blobnauseated

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Go Zigbee, and ditch the hubs

jade ivy
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Having 30+ wifi connected IoT devices, never had a problem of "overcrowded network", but zigbee is a coherent approch if you are planning on having many of those and not planning on having a well developed wifi network (+vlans and stuff).

opal bay
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So if I connect a maximum of 14 it doesn't cause any problems

opal bay
hot sun
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It's not just about not having a well developed wifi network. With Zigbee you have the array of battery powered sensors that you can't really accomplish with WiFi

shut copper
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hello world? I am new on this... but someone knows how to delete a DEVICES on HA??

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does not look easy, the rest of all software smartthing. Hubitat, etc is a normal. HERE is a mission

winged knoll
shut copper
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@winged knoll NOP that device does not have any integration..

gloomy spoke
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It’s coming from some integration

winged knoll
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You can't have devices or entities without an integration

kind halo
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Hello, I have been looking at WLED and was wondering what hardware I need. I need to run almost 80m of RGBW LED strip lights and control them from a Json API

winged knoll
toxic meadow
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Hi! What do you think about Xiaomi push-pull electronic door lock:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002907408667.html
I want a push-pull smart lock for a new, yet to be ordered door. I would like it to be compatible with HASS or other open home automation system.

winged knoll
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It says it works with HomeKit, so that's hopeful

toxic meadow
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I would prefer to have independent and free from "clouds" or offline working lock, maybe even with custom open-source firmware. I know this might be hard to get or hack. Just dreaming..

winged knoll
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HomeKit is local, but whether you can get any device like that to work 100% offline ... shrug

toxic meadow
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That's not a requirement

winged knoll
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As for open source firmware on a lock - that could be good, and it could be terrible

toxic meadow
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I understand that. If it is made very well - it might be good, otherwise everyone can find its weaknesses

pine needle
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If anyone here has infitude setup, can you please send pics of your setup?

zealous dune
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pls send infinitudes!

burnt glen
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anyone know of a case that is also a mains plug for a pi zero w thats available for purchase - rather than a diy solution?

winged knoll
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Where in the world? If I recommend you a UK solution, would that work?

burnt glen
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US

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yeah ive seen things by NODE, but i dont think they are for US

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@winged knoll do you know of a US variant?

winged knoll
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I don't live in the USA

burnt glen
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ok thanks man

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I just thought of something - is there a way to use your smart speaker (alexa) for presence detection (BLE) - I have one in every room (nearly) - that would be a huge convenience rather than purchasing 5-10 pi zero w's.

burnt glen
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☝️ would be ideal

runic shell
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Hi everybody,
Does anyone have experience with the Magenta Smarthome base and it's integration into HA ?
This thing seems to be like an all-in-one hub for zigbee, homematic /homematic IP and seems to also be capable of WLAN.
It seems to be a tint product ...

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I'm asking because Aldi (in germany) now get's it for a cheap price...

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and having a backup hub for my Homematic might be nice....

winged knoll
sudden crow
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Anybody try Kauf bulbs yet? Curious on your take.

sullen wharf
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[ Deleted own message to re-post in the proper channel 😉 ]

static beacon
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Just a random question. Does anyone know what the lifespan of an esp32 is, when running 24/7

zealous dune
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the chip itself should last you a long time

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flash memory has limited writes so it can fail depending on how often you write to flash

static beacon
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I used the esp32 as a wifi module in my ac. I'm not gonna write to it any ore as long as it keeps working. Just wondered if I should buy a few for backup or that it will outlive the ac

zealous dune
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there are plenty of components on the board besides the esp32 that can fail at any time

cunning ruin
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Hi, anyone running frigate NVR with a M2 Coral?

hot sun
cunning ruin
jade agate
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anyone around willing to explain how to select a network in the Shelly app for adding my first shelly s plug.... iphone 11 pro

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the app doesnt seem to be able to find my wifi networks...

zealous dune
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are they 2.4ghz capable

jade agate
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yes, some of them are only 2.4ghz.

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ive restarted the phone, allowed local network, permission etc

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to be sure: I need the app for being able to add a plug to HA ? (never had a wifi enabled device before...)

hot sun
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if you can't connect the Shelly to your local network how else is HA going to know there's a Shelly

jade agate
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ok..... thats a yes I suppose 😉

hot sun
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yes

jade agate
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right. and the 'host' the integration panel needs, is a per device ip-address?

hot sun
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if you trying manually I suppose yes. Once connected to your network HA will find them itself

jade agate
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ok thats nice. now how to get the app to recognize a network.....

hot sun
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that I have no idea

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try a different phone 🤷‍♂️

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or maybe your wifi networks have problems if none show up

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technically the app doesn't see your wifi networks. The shelly does and the app tells you what it sees since it connects to its AP

jade agate
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wait, I havent yet plugged in a S plug, do I need to do that before trying to?

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now that I plug it in, I can see it in the iPhone Wifi list, along with my other networks. Nothing in the app though. seems quite buggy this

hot sun
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I would suggest following SHelly's instructions if you don't know how to pair a new device

jade agate
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yeah, well, it says literally 'type the name (SSID) ....' And that is not possible, there's only a dropdown box, showing empty lines. That's why I came here.

hot sun
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Usually you first connect the app to your device then it asks you for your Wifi settings

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I have no Shelly so maybe you can also just connect to the AP and go to its IP and configure the Wifi there

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No idea 🤷‍♂️

woeful bramble
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@jade agate That sounds like some CSS or other front-end styling issue (because you see blank items in the dropdown). Try selecting one of the blank dropdown items

jade agate
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yes I figured that too, theres 1 in the middle with a slightly greyer background. I can not select it however. Also, most of the time, a red Error notification drops down telling me I am not connected to the wifi. which I am most definitely according to all other apps...

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How odd: I connected the iPhone to the shelly network, was able to add the plug and configure it, even switch it directly. Then reconnecting to my Wifi, I can still see the device, but not toggle it (didnt connect it to the cloud btw)

jade agate
tiny smelt
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Im thinking of smartifying my lights - I want do put dimmer modules in the switch boxes. Whats a good brand that has dimmer, non-dimmer and 1,2, 3 gang options for switch plates or modules inside the switch box?

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Looking for advice about a device to buy? Remember to provide guidance on:

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
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tiny smelt
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Ideally something Zigbee - z2m compatible. Im in the UK and budget isnt that important (but lets not be silly 😛 )

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theyre also quite chunky so might be a squeeze to get it in there

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(I do have neutrals in my boxes which helps a ton!)

drifting grove
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Hi, new here, doing research but want to get something out of the way. Are nest thermostats recommended or do you prefer something else?

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I see that they were then they weren't now they are again?

sonic spear
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Anyone here hacked on Aqara firmware? Got some Opple switches + wired light switch and wondering if there is a way to remove the delay on single press actions, looks like it's there to wait for a double press/triple etc

drifting grove
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I am really interested in the Home Asssistant Glow (https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow) which seems to be a good solution to get measures of our energy consumption.
I just wonder what will happen if I do reboots of HA? I mean the consumption won't stop during booting bot what about the lost measures? Is there a way to store the measures until HA is available again and to deliver them after reboot?

sonic spear
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the total counter is stored on the esp, not in HA

bold dock
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One of my GE Z-Wave switches just died. Instead of spending another $30-40 on a Z-Wave switch, I'm thinking about switching to some cheaper ESP8266 based options. Searching around, it seems like the Tuya based switches were the route to go until their recent firmware upgrades, which now require flashing manually. I don't have a problem doing that, but would rather not if I don't have to. Before I go down this hole, are there any other sub $20 z-wave or ESP based (tasmota / esp-home) physical switch solutions with quick US shipping (Amazon, etc...) that you all would recommend? I have zigbee as well, but it's the most unstable of all my home automation and prefer not to use it for switches.

bold dock
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Think I'm going to go with the Treatlife switches off Amazon. $40 for 4 pack doesn't seem bad as long as they don't burn my house down... Looking at the SS01S and SS02S models. Are the only differences in the paddle design?

solemn knoll
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Hi, is anyone familiar with home security systems?

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Pre IoT

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solemn knoll
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I have a couple motion/door sensors and an alarm setup, with a box for it all in my basement and I'd like to wire it up to a raspi or something and get it in home assistant

winged knoll
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Have you looked at Konnected?

solemn knoll
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Checking it out now, thank you

half arch
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@solemn knoll wired or wireless?

solemn knoll
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The system is wired

half arch
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they are probably Magnetic (aka reed) switches so you'd need to know the voltage they expect and a pull down resistor. Do you have the original board?

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also if you're lucky they may have a part number you can use to look up the datasheet

steel bay
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anyone here have a Zooz ZEN32 scene controller? The external switch I wired up doesn't seem to be working, anyone else ever have this problem?

pallid rivet
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Hey guys. Are there any devices similar to Sonoff Micro?

narrow current
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Hey guys, anyone work with the kasa color bulbs? trying to control their color

thin pasture
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Anyone have experience with Cree Smart flood lights? any issues integrating into HA?

jolly dew
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I have a G4 doorbell which I have tried adding to home assistant core version 2021.9.5 right now i am upgrading to core 2021.9.6 my issue is that I want google home to brodcast when the doorbell is pushed.

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however it shows no binary sensor

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in the list of g4 attributes i have tried reloading the unifi protect application to no avail. i can can actually turn off the camera and turn it back on but i can not view the stream nor can get the doorbell to do what i want

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any help is greatly appreciated

nocturne sentinel
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Why is it, that the UK does not seem to have much in the way of simple, cheap controllable 4-gang plug sockets? There was some Tasmota-able ones rom "TCP" Who.. now dont seem to make them

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because of course bloody not.

river stump
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Hello everyone! 👋 i like tinkering and getting stuff to work, so since i got into home automation i wanted to try homeassistant.

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I have a raspberry pi 3 with the sd card in it that i flashed with homeassistant, following the guide on the homeassistant website.

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when i look into my router, i see it finds a "homeassistant" connected by LAN cable.

tepid heart
river stump
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oh...its hardware (raspberry) and thought this could be hardware help.

tepid heart
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It's your installation method.

river stump
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but see its booting now, simply took a while. apologise for posting in the wrong channel!

tepid heart
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No worries. Welcome aboard.

silk rune
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I'd prefer zigbee over wifi, but haven't been able to find any discussion about it online

winged knoll
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The #zigbee-archived folks may have, but the integration you use matters more than the stick

odd thicket
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Besides Shelly Plug what's a good plug option for Power Monitoring in HA?

winged knoll
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There's many Zigbee and Z-Wave options

bright jacinthBOT
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Looking for advice about a device to buy? Remember to provide guidance on:

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
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odd thicket
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US, Any budget, Zigbee or Wifi, Power Monitoring mostly for a few specific devices such as refrigerators. In case I lose power I want to know before the contents start to melt.

zealous dune
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a simple smart plug will also know when the power is lost, it will be offline

gentle yew
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Guys what is the humidity level like in your bathroom after shower? Mine never seems to be exceeding 90% and I don't know if it's correct, or if I'm just hitting my sensor's upper limit.

tawny dome
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Has anyone here used ikeas tradfri motion sensor with HA ? Im playing around with one I bought today but Im not sure if the device is working or not

wet flax
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Is there a good power meter that is not a P3 kill a watt? I am looking for accuracy and something less than $100

tepid heart
vapid crystal
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Anyone have suggestions for LED strips and a Zigbee or Zwave controller that would be battery powered for under cabinet lighting? I’m not so much worried about the LED strips since there seems to be a lot of options that are cheap but I’m curious about what people would recommend for the controller.

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Also doesn’t necessarily have to be battery powered.

steel bay
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@vapid crystal I have bought a lot of Shelly devices recently and would probably go with a Shelly RGBW2 for the controller currently. I guess it all depends on how you want to drive the RGB changes.

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The RGBW2 would be best for changes driven by MQTT or HA automations I guess

vapid crystal
steel bay
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but if you need to link the RGB values to something else more directly there could be other solutions

cedar venture
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I have HA set a Hue bulb to an RGB color, lets say 200, 150, 80. But when I read back the color of the bulb, its slightly off, like 201, 151, 80. Anyone know why this is?

zealous dune
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rounding or bulb firmware

cedar venture
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hm bummer. i wonder if its converting it into a diff encoding than RGB and ends up being approximated

zealous dune
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use the default color encoding in your automations

cedar venture
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right, but what would that be?

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looks like Hue bulbs use a 'Hue XY' coordinate instead of RGB

grim atlas
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Anyone got any experience with flashing a Sonoff ZBB for ZHA?

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struggling to get it to even talk with tasmotizer

zealous dune
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follow the instructions

grim atlas
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i have, it just wont connect

zealous dune
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then you missed something or didn't wire correctly

woeful bramble
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Can I buy the Home Assistant Blue case for Odroid N2+ separately? The Home Assistant Blue out of stock, so I bought an N2+ separately. I'm looking at some 3D print models for the case (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4731369), but none of them look as good as the official HomeAssistant one.

tribal estuary
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Does anyone have any idea how to make a POE Injector smart so that the fire tablet just gets charged when the battery is down?

grim atlas
# zealous dune then you missed something or didn't wire correctly

tripple checked them, by the looks of it, it's not going in to firmware update mode though as still reponding on the cloud app. Did notice the walkthough mentions using Z-RST as well. Should this be done before plugging in the USB adaptor though? And should ground and this pad be used at the same time?

grim atlas
frozen cypress
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Hi!

Anyone know of a good smoke alarm that could fill these requirements:

  • Preferably Z-wave (can be something else too)
  • Battery Powered
  • Stand-alone alarm (if home assistant is down)
  • Possibility to either turn of smoke detection for a certain of time, or clear false alarm from home assistant

Price don't matter, and I live in Finland. I had Fibaro FGSD 002 devices, but there was no way of "muting" them on false alarms that are quite frequent in my household, and therefore I am looking for a replacement.

drifting grove
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Hi. I was doing HA configuration for remote access via duckdns. I configured everything correctly in HA, but it turned out that I cannot forward ports in my router. I cannot login to HA in any way now. How can I force SAFE MODE to remove some lines from configuration.yaml? My HA is on raspberry.

winged knoll
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Head over to your install method channel

real nymph
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Anyone using eq3-max thermostats?
I’m looking for a device to replace my cube.

real nymph
toxic spade
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Hey, do anyone know a hardware which measure energy consuption for a bunch of wires at the same time? Can't be zwave, i want to put it in my energy box in my home to measure all the consumption by one device

broken sequoia
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Hi everyone. I have an older Fronius PV inverter which speaks MODBUS over RS422 (not RS485).
I bought a USB RS422 adaptor but have not yet got this working on my raspberry pi with home assistant. Does anyone have any experience with RS422 MODBUS?

hybrid steeple
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Hi, I just received a Odroid-N2+ pre-loaded with HA.
How can I get the size of the installed eMMc module?
I tried via the terminal using ha hardware info but didn't find it. Thanks

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In HA, the Supervisor-System gives the % used but not the capacity of the eMMc module.

vale jolt
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guys, I'm thinking of modifying a simple zigbee door open/close sensor and use it as a water level detector. I would have the actual zigbee module in a dry place, solder a long cable to the on/off points, and have it end with two metal prongs in a water reservoir. This gets me a "closed" circuit and an indication that water is indeed in present in a reservoir. When the water falls below a certain level, the prongs dry out and I get an "Open" signal. Am I missing something or is this a viable idea?

pallid rivet
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I'm asking a because a store has puck gateway, with the name I quoted and that image, but it doesn't say 3. While they have another product entry with 3 at the end but it's more expensive.

peak talon
pallid rivet
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Eh, I've already been using quite a few of Xiaomi stuff for the past 4 years. I just need the new Hub for E1 switches. I'm interested in getting into pure Zigbee setup, but at a later point. Thanks for the encouragement.

ripe girder
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so im building a home assistant platform based on off-grid use. ive been looking at boards to use i like the n2+ like the blue uses does anyone any other suggestions?

tepid heart
ripe girder
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oh i can wait for that

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thanks!

remote mortar
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I've got a small PC that I use as a home server, and would like to add home assistant it it, what's the best installation method for that?

(It runs Ubuntu server ATM)

winged knoll
noble pivot
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Battling with setting up groups on Tasmota devices firmware. I'm trying to use DevGroupName feature, but no luck. Anyone gotten it working yet?

bright jacinthBOT
pallid rivet
zealous dune
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take note: not all gateways work with all aqara devices

pallid rivet
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Yes, for instance, H1 EU switches don't work with any Mi Home gateways and E1 switches only work with Mi Home Gateway 3. (They all work with Aqara 1S and M2)

stark sun
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Is there any benefit to getting a rpi 8gb ram over the 4gb?

tepid heart
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Only if you are going to be using a lot of addons that will use that much memory. Unused memory is wasted memory.

stark sun
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What add ones would require lots of memory?

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Dashboards?

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Trying to figure out if I need it

tepid heart
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Dashboards are frontend. I was thinking more like camera NVR servers.

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Or image recognition.

stark sun
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Is the rpi capable of decent image recognition?

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I would think I need something like a proper desktop with like blue iris for that

winged knoll
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The Pi itself isn't, no

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With a Coral stick then yes

stark sun
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So coral stick + rpi 8gb should give me decent ability to do image recognition on a couple cameras?

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Maybe I don’t need an extra computer for blue iris

gentle glen
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Hallo i have a Problem with my Rasbary pi 3+
first I had no green light but after i tyed a normal windows image on the sd crad (that worked, i saw it on the monitor) the green light is constand on
does anyone has an idea to fix this problem
and sory if this is the wrong room for this

winged knoll
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If you're having issues with the Home Assistant OS image then the #330990055533576204 channel is the best place to go

gentle glen
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@winged knoll thanks 🙂

unborn dove
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hello together, has anyone experience with encoding miLight remotes which aren't supported automatically by miboxer 2,4GHz Gateway ? the 2,4GHz remote is a modified miLight remote from Luxvenum

toxic spade
stark sun
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Has anyone tried running the coral dev board for HA?

wraith rampart
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I want to get away from the USB dongle solution I have now.

winged knoll
stark sun
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would i5-5250u nuc + coral work well with frigate? would it be an upgrade from a rpi4b?

wraith rampart
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I'll cross post there, thanks!

gloomy sequoia
tropic bone
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Anyone point me to a link on installing the coral.ai usb stick hassio raspberry pi? It doesn't appear be debian based

bright jacinthBOT
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Hass.io was the old name for the appliance like install option, that uses Docker. It was renamed in January 2020 and is now called Home Assistant OS (see #330990055533576204).

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winged knoll
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You'd probably want the #330990055533576204 channel - but generally speaking just connect it and go

velvet pivot
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Anyone know if I can use USB storage on an HA Blue device? The self hosted podcast reviewed the device but weren’t sure if usb storage could be used for more write-intensive things like logs.

silent geyser
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Anyone know of any good ESP32 cases that don't impede signals?

winged knoll
outer herald
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A question about running HA on an RPI 4, 8 Gb. How much resources does it actually use?

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I haven't found any specific hardware requirements except that an RPI 4 is an alternative and it (= the website) doesn't say that you'll get poor performance

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I want to get started with HA and some other projects and am weighing my hardware/software options

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A follow-up Q: is running HA more CPU demanding than RAM or vice versa?

winged knoll
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Pi3 is the minimum. You can run it on any Pi4, but more RAM is always good

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HA itself, the core software, doesn't require that much RAM or CPU. It's the integrations and the other software you install that'll change that

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Biggest issue with the Pi range are the SD cards. They're slow and will fail - usually with little warning (since you're not looking for it)

outer herald
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gotcha, so an HDD / SSD is preffered

winged knoll
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SSD > HDD

outer herald
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Due to faster read/write speeds?

jovial pulsar
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And power usage, temperatures and sound.

outer herald
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thanks for the help guys!

winged knoll
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Image processing is more intensive than, say, reading a sensor

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If you're not touching image processing then a Pi4 should likely be generally fine - but if you want to run 20 other pieces of software, it probably won't be 😄

outer herald
bright jacinthBOT
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@outer herald When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. 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).

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outer herald
bright jacinthBOT
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@outer herald When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get very frustrating for the target. Click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar - you have to do this on every reply.

Or don't, and just wait for the recipient to get annoyed enough to block you.

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winged knoll
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@outer herald

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@outer herald stop

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@outer herald pinging

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@outer herald thank

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@outer herald you

outer herald
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being pinged by the reply is very usefull

winged knoll
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That's your choice

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It just annoys others

outer herald
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if you are talking in several servers, it's nice knowing who replied

winged knoll
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If you disagree, that's up to you, I'll just add you to the blocklist and never deal with you again - others here will do similarly and soon nobody will see you

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As I said, that's your choice

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You're not me, you don't get to tell me how I feel 😉

outer herald
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I didn't

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I've never come across this before in all the servers I'm on

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It's odd that the person replying needs to change a setting. Would make more sense for the a user to change a setting on their end "don't ping when replied to" imho

winged knoll
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If only Discord devs agreed with you

outer herald
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appologies if you got annoyed Tinkerer. again this is the first time I've encountered this. I didn't understand it was meant for me

winged knoll
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You were tagged in the bot messages... how ... never mind

drifting grove
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Ordered a Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p, i5, 8gb, 128ssd for a dedicated HA box. Will see how well it works..

marsh topaz
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Does anyone have any recommendations for zwave smart switches that will be used on a powered receptacle and whole house fan?

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I know the zooz switches says not to use them in both of those scenarios

errant creek
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is this the right channel to ask about problems with an RPi 4?

winged knoll
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If it's a problem with your install, no

errant creek
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oh ok

winged knoll
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That would be best done in your install method channel

errant creek
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well

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ohhhh yeah no it's a problem with the actual RPi

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one sec, i'm just typing out what i've already tried lmao

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i'm not getting any kind of video out with literally every image i've tried. i'm trying to get it to boot from a 500GB external SSD but it's really not working out for me. as for what i've tried already:

  • i've installed the "USB Boot" firmware update through a microSD card and the official Raspberry Pi imager
  • installed the latest Raspberry Pi OS onto the same SD card through the RPi imager, still no video out
  • installed Hassio to both the SD card mentioned and my 500GB external SSD
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i'm just gonna see what the blink code says when i try to boot Raspbian from the SD card

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it's staying solid green

winged knoll
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What about the power LED?

errant creek
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oh yeah that's also important. it's staying lit steadily

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oh! also, i can ping it

winged knoll
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If you can't even get Raspberry Pi OS booting, I'd suggest the Pi forums are the best place to troubleshoot

errant creek
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it's showing up in my router's settings page as "homeassistant" too

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well it did when i had the SSD with Hassio plugged in

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this is super weird. i think you're right about trying the Pi forums

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i'm not even getting a bootloader video out when i have no storage plugged in

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i had identical problems with one Pi that i sent back but i found a workaround for the one i have now that didn't include video out

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i'm thinking this is a PEBKAC error 😂

errant creek
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so, ignore everything above. i'm just a dumbass. i was using the IP address of the Pi to try and log in but homeassistant.local:8123 works just fine

winged knoll
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http://ip:8123/ should work too

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SSH won't, because you don't have any running SSH server on it yet

devout cairn
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is this the channel to talk about Amber? 😍

wind vale
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@devout cairn I think so

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Looks SICK

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I am kinda sad I bought a zzh, but I can run other stuff on a box with a zzh plugged in

devout cairn
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I have an optiplex that I got for free that I run ~25 docker containers on. ha included. so I probably won't get it. but it still looks awesome!

winged knoll
zealous dune
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Phew

drifting grove
winged knoll
broken flower
drifting grove
woeful bramble
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Does the Odroid N2+ (aka Home Assistant Blue) have a host-based energy sensor? Maybe export something from Glances?

winged knoll
broken sequoia
shell hatch
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Has anyone had any luck integrating a homewerks Bluetooth bathroom fan/speaker into home assistant? It seems to only work based on buttons on a hardwired switch.

drifting grove
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Hi guys

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does anybody know of a battery powered 3-5V zigbee led strip controller?

drifting grove
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Nevermind, I found it in blackadder's website

broken flower
feral night
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I'm planning to set up Home Assistant and Frigate at my home. Will HOme Assistant Amber be enough for both services inside container or should I buy some Intel NUC to handle both containers?

winged knoll
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If you have a Coral card/stick then yes

hallow heath
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Hey there, I'm pretty new to Home Assistant, but I would like to get into it. Currently I'm living in a small flat and I'm in possesion of few Xiaomi BLE thermometers and bulbs. I'm planning on running Home Assistant on a RPi 3B+.
What I want to ask is whether it's a good idea to buy Xiaomi Gateway 3 (ZNDMWG03LM). I would love to have few light sensors, bulbs/lights and buttons by the end of the years and after looking at https://github.com/AlexxIT/XiaomiGateway3 it seems like it can be done with that. I can buy it for a fairly good price (~$25) and because the flat is really small it seems like a reasonable thing to do.
Second thing I would like to ask: Is there a TRV I could buy and use with Home Assistant out of the box without buying any more hub? I would like to put it in ONE room only, so buying another appliance seems like an overkill.
Thanks for any advice! 🙂

winged knoll
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If you want Zigbee then I'd go with either ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT (see the #zigbee-archived channel) rather than some third party gateway/hub

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You'll also then have the choice of a range of TRVs - and that channel has a pinned message with known working hardware

feral night
winged knoll
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With a Coral stick/board

feral night
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Yea, got it. I'll have to calculate total costs and choose more affordable solution, but at first glance HAA should be better there.

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AFAIK i5 NUCs are starting at 350£

winged knoll
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Or buy them second hand 😄

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I run HA and other things on an i5 laptop that's some 8 years old

feral night
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Decent quality second hand pc hardware pretty much doesn't exist atm in the place where I live unfortunately

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It's not much more expensive to get new off the shelf than to buy used items

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Also I'm looking out for power consumption, as it's going to be 24/7 on

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here newer means lower consumption

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and yeah, HAA is winner

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Anyway, it's good to have choices, and it's even better when you have ~ 40 days to make decision 🙂

quaint verge
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Good morning/afternoon
I'm getting new bt router with swapping to FTTP (forcing me to update my smart devices) so im thinking of getting my own wifi network separate and using router to only deal with the traffic to the provider.
I have good connectivity all over the house (not a massive house) so the main needs for this are, not to have to change if provider router changes, and as i learn manage the network better, a guest network maybe and ability to hide networks or add boosters ext if required (garden). (i have done a little research but ill do more but after any advise)
main use on network will be to run home assistant devices (mix of zigbee devices over sonoff zigbee bridge, sonof tasmota basics, and some wifi plugs) and streaming services (currently 3 tvs and kids tabs/our phones)
budget about £100-£150 ish but not set in stone (any recommendations) sorry if wrong room

winged knoll
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Double NAT can cause issues

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You'd be better off with a mesh network that supports multiple SSIDs

quaint verge
humble prawn
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without spending money i split my wifi into a 5ghz network and a 2.4 Ghz and have everything that can use 5ghz band on 5Ghz which basically just leaves things like sockets and bulbs on 2.4ghz. Streaming sources are internet or from my nas systems and they have a 1GB wired link to the router so streaming is on the 5Ghz band and doesn't interfere with the 2.4ghz stuff.

quaint verge
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bt router you cant split 😦 you can turn 1 off but cant split but thanks for replying

winged knoll
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See, you just need a better ISP. One that allows you to use your own router 😄

humble prawn
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well you can get a better router that you can split wire an ethernet cable between the bt router and your good router via the lan ports and turn off wifi on the BT router.

winged knoll
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You still get double NAT there though

quaint verge
winged knoll
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In theory since this is FTTP it should be possible to replace the router

bright jacinthBOT
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@quaint verge When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. 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).

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humble prawn
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not lan to lan you have the same lan addresses

winged knoll
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Yeah, as long as you're using the other "router" as an access point, not a router

humble prawn
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yep 🙂

winged knoll
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Most FTTP ISPs should allow you to use your own router

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The really crappy ones will, but if you're going to chase cheap over quality you get what you pay for

humble prawn
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vodafone in ireland has been ok but they seem to change my external ip at 4am most mornings

quaint verge
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well i have some stuff to look into anyway now, thanks ill look at mesh network as seems if i change provider and new provider is not following same setup i should just be able to plug mesh into new router and ill be back online. thankyou

humble prawn
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is there anyway to turn off a chromecast, its keeping my monitor awake

quaint verge
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i believe you have to disconnect the power, i have a few things like this so i plugged them in via mains and not 5v and went via sonof smart basic switch to controll power

humble prawn
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yes was hoping there might be an alternative i have a few sockets i can switch I'm basically using a monitor soundbar and either a chromecast 3rd gen a chromecast with Google TV or a 3rd gen apple TV they all have + and - points the monitor is happy to switch between 2 hdmi ports automatically if only 1 source is active.

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The chromecast is fairly nice as it can switch the rgb lighting at least with spotify and youtube but it hogs the monitor.

quaint verge
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im a firestick user myself, but i have used interaction to talk to the firestick to do specific tasks, not sure if you can do anything with chromecast
good luck

humble prawn
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you can kinda talk to the chromecast via a google mini.

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i guess i should build a matrix and figure out the best combinations

drifting grove
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Hello from Barcelona! Is there any mini PC specs recommended for HA??, i dont like to go for the raspberry Pi if there is something like a good mini PC at similar price, thanks 🙏🏼

winged knoll
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Any second hand (64 bit) PC from the last decade

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2 GB or more of RAM, at least 32 GB of disk space - more of both aren't going to hurt

drifting grove
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Chipset? Atom? Celeron? Doesnt matter? Ty

zealous dune
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Not Atom

winged knoll
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64 bit matters

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I'd go for i3 or better, but it really depends on what else you're doing on that host

elder oracle
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Hello ! Im new to HA and now i finally got it running on pie 3. I was wondering what i need to get something like Ikea smart products to work ? I need somekindof getaway but should i go with the Ikea one or is something else better ?

winged knoll
fossil trout
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Where would be a good place for me to look for trouble shooting tips for HA on Virtual box using nortek zigbee\zwave device

winged knoll
fossil trout
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I think its a vbox issue HA issue but im not sure.It was working fine. I took a snapshot before upgrading and now no amount of restarting unpluging and repluging in seems to have fixed it

elder oracle
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Is there any specific stick you would reconmend ?

bright jacinthBOT
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Buy something CC2652 based. This list is a good one, both Tube and Electrolama have been proven to have excellent customer service. The current generation of EZSP sticks (see here for some) are also a good choice for ZHA.

Anything CC2530 or CC2531 based should be avoided - they're old, slow, and only suitable for a dozen or so devices. The Sonoff ZBbridge isn't advised since it uses WiFi (built in interference), and the HUSBZB-1 uses an older chipset so should be avoided.

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livid island
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Does anyone know why my Home Assistant instance is running slow? My current hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB with the official power supply and a Samsung 32GB SD Card.

winged knoll
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See your install method channel for help troubleshooting that

livid island
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What exactly do you mean by that?

winged knoll
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configuration -> Info -> Installation Type

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There's a channel under Installation Method that matches

livid island
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Installation Type Home Assistant OS

blissful umbra
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Hello, I switched from SmartThings to Home Assistant. My devices include several SmartThings multipurpose sensors. My problem, however, is that the battery of these now drains very quickly (instead of 1 year, they last 3 days). Does anyone have any idea why this could be?
Home Assistent OS in Raspberry PI 4B 4GB with ConBee II + SmartThings Mutlipurpose Sensor STS-MLT-251

winged knoll
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Sounds like you want to ask in the #zigbee-archived channel - I'd bet on mesh (signal strength) issues

blissful umbra
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@winged knoll Okay thanks, I'll ask my question there 🙂

real nymph
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Can anyone help me to understand RF Bridge 868 Mhz?
I have some devices running rf 868 Mhz, EQ-3 Max radiator stuff.
I have earlier asked about cul 868 device, but i have now learned RF Bridge 868 Mhz is the same... ish?
Anyways... i just need to understand if i can buy any RF bridge and it works with HA?

obsidian ice
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Greetings! Apologies if this is the wrong place and if this is a dumb question, but I’ve been searching and can’t find my answer anywhere.

I just added a new Z-Wave device to my HA instance, and it works perfectly. It doesn’t seem like this new device is being reported to Apple HomeKit, though, and I’m not sure what to do.

I’ve restarted my HA instance, but that didn’t help.

How can I force the new device, which works perfectly in HA, to show up in HomeKit?

I’m using the HAAS Bridge integration in HA to make it talk to HomeKit, if that helps.

All my other (preexisting) HomeKit devices that route through HA seem to be working fine, it’s just that my newest addition to HA isn’t being reported to HomeKit.

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Never mind, it finally just randomly showed up lol

bright jacinthBOT
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@obsidian ice Please DO NOT cross post. Read the channel description, post it and wait for folks to respond.

If you don't get any responses after an hour or more, and your message is no longer on screen, it is fine to re-post or post a link to it.

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winged knoll
obsidian ice
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Apologies, I’ll do better next time

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Sorry, @winged knoll

winged knoll
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Well, if you "recover" that partition you just wiped everything

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Your Windows PC doesn't know about that file system format

distant mural
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I'm not overwriting anything, just scanning.

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not using windows

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Stellar Phoenix WDR

winged knoll
distant mural
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I'm hoping it can at least recognize something.

winged knoll
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If the host starts, they can help you there

distant mural
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Ohh, that might give me a fighting chance - thanks Tink!

drifting grove
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hello, not sure if this is the right channel. I am looking for a way to implement lighting control. The idea is to have a physical switch on the wall to turn on the lights, but I can also assign other actions to the button.
I bought a ZigBee wall switch now, but clicking the button does not update its status in Home Assistant. Besides, I cannot assign any other action to the button.
The functions I am looking for only offer wireless buttons? In case of failure, I will not be able to turn on the light.
I imagine that I have a wall switch with, for example, 3 buttons. Pressing each of them switches the lighting, and holding it down brightens / dims the light. I was planning to use wall switches and smart lightbulbs but it seems wrong way?

zealous dune
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depends on the switches you used

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some support only simple single press to on/off

drifting grove
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can you suggest a switch ?

winged knoll
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If you're using ZHA then the "switch" sends events

drifting grove
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if I click the switch it does not update in home assistant, is there a workaround ?

winged knoll
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Are you using ZHA?

drifting grove
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yes I am

winged knoll
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Then the "problem" is that there's no entity to update - it uses events

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The #zigbee-archived channel can, if you remember to mention that you're using ZHA, help explain how it works

white mantle
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Anybody used the Ecowitt soil moisure sensors? Any idea how good the range is, I'd like to only have one 'weather station' to cover the whole house, but internal brick walls is always a pain when it comes to wireless sensors. I'm up for other soil moisture sensor recommendations if there are any! (UK based)

desert edge
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So I'm looking to set up a way to track when the washing machine and dryer are running or not, but neither appliance is within range of my wifi network
I live on the third floor of an old single family home that was converted into student apartments, and the washing machine and dryer are in the basement
What are my options in terms of connectivity between a sensor down there and my wifi up here?

gentle fossil
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if its the same curcuit box you could maybe try powerline adapters

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else LoRa, maybe zwave but i suspect the signal being very weak… same or more so with zigbee.
zigbee and a router in every floor could also work

cold barn
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hey y'all, i'm sure this has been asked a bazillion times, but my harmony is just about dead. Wary about buying a new one given logitech is abandoning them. Wife still wants a physical remote. any recommendations?

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(not sure the current remote is going to last until the yio remote 2 comes out)

tepid heart
cold barn
quiet coral
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Hi all, I am looking for a deadbolt for my manual garage. This product is exactly what i want, but its restricted to their opener. https://www.bnd.com.au/product-detail/auto-lock/. Anyone have any recommendations? I am fine with esphome flashing etc, to the point where i am thinking of just getting a standard deadbolt and a servo. Thanks a lot.

vague depot
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I have a pi4 with an external SSD for home assistant.
Can I consider the new Amber an upgrade?

It have built-in ZigBee module and m.2 support. Is there some else cool features that I could consider an upgrade over a normal pi4?

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Please quote me if you answer

drifting grove
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Any experience here with Aqara devices? I'm seeing reviews saying they deviate from the Zigbee standard & tend to have issues, and others say they work great.

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Considering getting some of these devices, temp and motion sensors, to use with a ConBee II USB stick (and later with a Sonoff hub modded with Tasmota)

drifting grove
vague depot
drifting grove
vague depot
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I still can't understand what is the amber purpose. It's a pi with added ZigBee module. There are other cases that adds m.2 slot to the pi. So I don't get what is the point of amber.

cosmic forge
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Hey guys, I'm pulling out my hair over here trying to get a bluetooth dongle to work with my Home Assistant docker. I have one dongle that works, but the range is too short to pick up all my mi flora sensors. I'm running HA on an unRAID docker, and the farthest I've gotten is that when I run dmesg in unRAID, I get a -2 error that the firmware isn't found my device (the firmware being rtl8761b_fw.bim). I have this file on my windows PC, and I figured I should be able to place it SOMEWHERE to get unRAID to recognize it, and in turn use it in HA. Any thoughts?

gentle fossil
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are you running os in a vm or a single container?

cosmic forge
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just a docker container. My linux/unraid knowledge is a bit limited.

gentle fossil
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you could try placing the fw in /usr/lib/firmware

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thats usually where the kernel looks for these

cosmic forge
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Yeah, I tried that but I may have screwed it up. I think the file structure didn't exist so I created it. It leads me to believe unraid doesn't use that or something.

gentle fossil
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could be the case, you will have to look that up for unraid then

cosmic forge
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Yeah, I haven't been able to find anything so far. Is there a long-range bluetooth dongle that people recommend?

tawny dome
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Does anyone here use an electric projector screen with home assistant ?

velvet pivot
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What’s everyone’s favorite zwave stick? I’m looking at zoos, but wonder about others.

solar void
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Not sure exactly where this belongs but I'm setting up HASS on a Virtual Box VM and I'm trying to setup zwave and zigbee but not seeing the device. I made the mistake of trying Hyper-V first... I have the USB device added to the settings of virtual box but I don't seem to see the device when setting up the Addon and Integration

winged knoll
junior tiger
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Any suggestions for outdoor temperature sensors that can survive in - 15°C? I'm a bit hesitant to use something with a battery

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Or are there any smart sensors that have the temperature sensor on a chord?

tepid heart
junior tiger
tepid heart
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Cheaper on Aliexpress too.

elder pilot
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Can someone help me with an issue? I do have a Moes Zigbee Shutter connected thru Deconz. Detected as TS130F. in HA state and position is reported and indicated correctly. Current position 100 as open. Anyway when I sent cover_close command it opens and when I sent cover.open commad it will close. This resolves in the problem that the arrows in the UI are reversed.

velvet lance
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tempted to try it as dashboard

tepid heart
tepid heart
ionic acorn
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Anyone know of a a cheap Zipbee/ZWave button I can get?
Use Case: I would like a button on my desk I can push that will turn on the smart lights in my office. Getting up to go to the light switch is just too difficult. 🙂

tepid heart
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Zipbee?

ionic acorn
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Yes, it rhymes with Zigbee.

livid notch
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Whats up everybody, hope this is the correct channel this time :D...Just wanted to ask what the easiest / best / cheapest RGB LED strip is? Plan on having quite a few things lit up via RGB LED Strips and all the vendors, controllers, outdated information and stuff make things confusing. Running home assistant via docker and have an MQTT broker (mosquitto) as well as zigbee (zigbee2mqtt) set up and working flawlessly!

sonic carbon
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Question on temperature sensors and thermostats. I have an ecobee thermostat (not zoned in my house, unfortunately) and I also run Aqara sensors for various items. I would like to poll the temperature of various rooms and control the thermostat with that information. Does it make sense to just go with the ecobee sensors and let the thermostat run the show (expensive) or pick up the Aqara sensors and integrate them with HA? Has anyone done this before? Would love some examples. The Aqara sensors are super affordable and I’d probably need to pick up a dozen or so.

trim crescent
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Hey everyone, I recently got an Aqara motion sensor and modded it to detect every 5 seconds. I found that HA doesn't update that fast and I needed a script to do this. My issue is that the script resets the state of the motion tracker and then immediately turns it back on. The reset would make a light flicker or things turn off and on really quickly and I was wondering if there was a way around that?

winged knoll
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Which Zigbee integration are you using for it?

trim crescent
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ZHA

winged knoll
trim crescent
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Ah my bad, thanks!

limpid mauve
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i noticed that home assistant cloud offers a nice TTS feature. Is it possible to use the echo speakers (amazon alexa) as outputs?

winged knoll
limpid mauve
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is there a list of supported outputs?

winged knoll
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Well, outputs for tts are media players

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So, if that creates a media player, then yes

limpid mauve
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ok

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hmm

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i know there is a way to make alexa say what i want, did that already with node-red

winged knoll
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Sure, see the link I posted

limpid mauve
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@winged knoll thx, so this is the local version without cloud. nice thx

west vapor
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any chance of integrating this into HA?

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I have one arriving today

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I think I can flash Tasmota onto it via tuya-convert - but I’d prefer to just keep the firmware stock and integrate it into HA as-is

valid frigate
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So I did a thing with mikes mount and wired up the power to wall mounted fire10D with a zigbee on off switch so it runs down to 20% then turns on switch until 99% battery , just love kiosk integration for this 🙂 <---- statements like these show I am only a month and half in lol

limpid mauve
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hi, i am trying to connect my power meter Landis & Gyr E350 with my home assistant supervised setup running with docker-compose on synology nas with DSM7.

I noticed there is an integration for it https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/dsmr/ which supports my power meter. It is connected with an usb-to-serial converter (FTDI) to optical IR sensor.
I previuosly used this with node-red and a raspberry pi, so i know that it works.
When adding the integration the ttyUSB0 device is found (which i confirmed to be the ftdi device with lsusb on the host). As of the documentation, it says my power meter device uses DSMR v4. with both options set, i get an error when i try to add the integration. Is there a way to see what happened? logs? supervised runs in privileged mode

idle zephyr
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Anyone know of good smart vents, preferably ZigBee, that have good shape choice. I need square ceiling ones but it looks like Keen Flair system are all rectangular

shell hatch
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has anyone purchased contact sensors from ali express? if so are these any good and last question (dumb i know) do I need a zigbee hub to get them working?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001694843048.html?src=google&memo1=freelisting&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=708-803-3821&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&albagn=888888&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&albcp=1582410664&albag=59754279756&trgt=539263010115&crea=en1005001694843048&netw=u&device=c&albpg=539263010115&albpd=en1005001694843048&gclid=CjwKCAjw4qCKBhAVEiwAkTYsPMc6q7Vlrq2qNRDO-zOzK5IrfKUcCsoaBr-fFMyBTkZt3JIcbBLpdxoCKOYQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&aff_fcid=aa05fbe5b438459d850b4930dfd53f64-1632141772448-00405-UneMJZVf&aff_fsk=UneMJZVf&aff_platform=aaf&sk=UneMJZVf&aff_trace_key=aa05fbe5b438459d850b4930dfd53f64-1632141772448-00405-UneMJZVf&terminal_id=46a04d194268408ab2dc2bc1d5f61a54

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if links are not allowed i apologize.

weak belfry
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is it bad to charge a tablet 24/7? I see mixed results with my searches. It is an HD fire 10 running HA in Fully Kiosk, powered through 5v 2a hard wired charger

shell hatch
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i have had one plugged in for months with no issues

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but YMMV

weak belfry
shell hatch
valid frigate
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@weak belfry I have wire from tablet going to 230v convertor and then zigbee switch (that was 13.99 on amazon with a rf wall switch (which i did not need but it fitted the bill) to live and neutral and setup the automation through kiosk browser plugin info that if battery is bellow 20 turn power on to tablet, when battery is 99% turn off power. Yes it is not good have a device plugged in 24/7

weak belfry
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I got an email from the guy that sells the mounts and he said modern tablets don't have this issue anymore

weak belfry
valid frigate
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@weak belfry modern tablets dont have issue with over charging, modern batteries have a issue with being charged 24/7

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its that last few percent of charge thats bad, you can research that btw 😛

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tech I know, homeassistant still a noob 😛

weak belfry
bold flax
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Anyone have experience with the withings sleep monitor?

hexed tapir
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I just installed an Ecobee thermostat yesterday and am trying to connect it to HA via the integration. I disabled the 2FA authentication on the Ecobee site. However I am still unable to login to the Developer site to obtain the API key? Any other ideas on getting this working?

valid frigate
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dont use the actual rf switch just the zigbee module in place before the 230v to 5v convertor

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and zigbee2mqtt picked up the module instantly

thin otter
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Will the Coral AI require installation on the Amber or is it rather plug and play? And which version coral should I buy?

weak belfry
shell hatch
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just starting out so gettting the hardwre sourced first

weak belfry
shell hatch
weak belfry
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works for me. Though the distance of sensors to the stick plays a factor too. Mains powered zigbee devices act as repeaters, so you might end up needing one or two of those. I have a zigbee smart plug upstairs, downstairs, and then the stick is in the garage.

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my contact sensors upstairs connect to the smart switch upstairs, which connects to the zigbee stick

valid frigate
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@weak belfryyes if home assistant can turn it on an off it will work (if your tablet converter is through the light switch.

shell hatch
weak belfry
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I would read up on zigbee and how it works- don't take my word for it. You want to understand it before you start buying devices 🙂

shell hatch
shell hatch
rocky pawn
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Any 1 knows a good automatic door lock that works with wifi or ethernet, I have a cat5e cable next to my door, and that works great with home assistant

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And thats powered with the cat5e cable via POE or low power through the cable

valid frigate
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@rocky pawn I actually dont think I have seen any wifi ones or zigbee and I dont know if current poe doorlocks would work with HA

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I am a tech guy so no a fair bit but I am only a month or two into HA and have not looked that far yet. I know a brand called Assa Abloy from military days but not much more than that

rocky pawn
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Yea most of them are battery powered and use a hub :/

valid frigate
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yep not sure though you may be able to do something with the Assa abloy poe locks as they can be opened via the poe connection too if I remember rightly

rustic glacier
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does anyone have a good suggestion on a smart deadlock that will work with home assistant? bThanks

drifting grove
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Morning all, I'm currently using a 2012 blade server with HyperV for HA but from what I can see this does not support the use of external USB / Serial ect .... what would people recommend for a quite resource intensive setup ?

valid frigate
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@drifting grove if budget allows a good intel nuc and run dedicated ha os

drifting grove
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@valid frigate Just what I have been looking up I have a few Nucs in my spares box .. most have either 4 or 6gb ram and 500gb of hard disk space ... would you say promox is best way to go or direct install ?

valid frigate
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I am no Home assistant expert tbh, only 1 and a half months in (but I am a tech journalist) more is always better in my eyes but thats just me.

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I have tried all of various ways but find the best way is direct install of os via balena etcher as described in generic x86 install on site, I done that 2 a quad core small pico device for my final install (after trying pi, docker, VM on nas VM on server and then moved over to dedicated device

drifting grove
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Yeah i usually say the same here, was looking at the new raspi to be honest with the high ram ... with a 10 room setup and 8 10" fire HD tablets for room control ... not actually tried the balena etcher with HA before may give that a shot once I've finished backing everything up.

valid frigate
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its easier than creating a windows boot usb and quicker 😛

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just through you SSD into a dock, run belena as described, write image to SSD (i presume your hard drive is SSD) them pop in nuc done 😛

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through is trow stupid mobile autodetect.

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are you going to stream live cam footage to all 9 tablets

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8

drifting grove
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That is very true !. yes and no to the live cam, I've basically created a Room based dashboard and each one has a tab for security where the cameras will show live 🙂 ... so there is a possibility but from my understanding they wont stream to the tablets unless they go to that tab

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Don't suppose you know how well a HA backup handles a vast change in hardware ?

valid frigate
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well I went from a pi, to a docker (that was not good) but from the VM to VM and then to the dedicated machine was fine, just had to reload certain integrations (not reinstall, but reload).

rocky pawn
drifting grove
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I have the HA app installed on my portables and on the in/on walls tablets I am using kiosk as well 🙂

rocky pawn
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You arent the guy from mbmounts by any chance ? Got my wallmounts from them

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Did you use firetoolbox to get rid of ads and get google store and another launcher?

valid frigate
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I do have to say for the price mikesmounts make some really nice ones very close to product size too.

stark badge
valid frigate
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he he Rpage, you are in same boat as me with crazy uk lighting, I just ended up getting someone in

soft notch
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seeing others ask similar: i just got the notification about Amber. if i'm on a rpi4 with argon case and m.2...what's the point?

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is this just a smart "get started easily" package?

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e.g., people don't need to learn how to flash etc

winged knoll
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The point is ... people who're new to HA or running on something even less capable than a Pi4

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Both of those people

soft notch
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thanks!

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net good for the platform/community

valid frigate
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and here is me debating should I get a mini pc with proper nvme port for my spare 2tb seagate nvme

sonic tartan
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I run my HA in hyper-v on my windows server that does a lot of things (Plex etc). Works great for me.

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only issue would be if you needed a USB for zwave or whatever, for that you'd have to use something else.

rocky pawn
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Nvme is just overkill, unless your doing crazy things that need fast reads/writes

sonic tartan
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Mine runs on the same SSD that everything else does, just a samsung 850 pro 1tb.

valid frigate
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its just sitting in the draw tbh doing nothing lol

gloomy spoke
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I'll bet it looks fast

valid frigate
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nah one thing m2 nvmes dont do is look fast although gigabytes one looks nice if looks rock your boat 😛

undone haven
agile olive
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does anyone knows if it's possible to have a Tapo C130 camera recording in some way to home assistant? the camera it's able to record 24/7 to an sdcard but I would like to have the recordings available in home assistant in some way

undone haven
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#cameras-archived will prob help you out. IMHO, recording in HAss is not the way to go though. View in HAss maybe. Let something else designed to record, actually record it.

agile olive
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thanks @undone haven I want to view in HAss and record somewhere in my disk where I have HA, not in HA itself 🙂

drifting grove
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Country: US
Budget: Under $50
Protocol: WiFi - Local
Features: Power Monitoring

I’m looking for a plug where I can poll (or it pushes periodically) the wattage being used by some large (120v) appliances.

I have a Home Assistant Blue on the way and I’m a tad overwhelmed trying to sift through different plugs that will work with it without much fuss.

I’m just dipping my toe in to test the home automation waters. Any recommendations or warnings are appreciated.

Thank you.

peak talon
zealous dune
humble prawn
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Anyone got the broadlink rm4 mini? is it any good

shell hatch
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Any idea the best way to automate a touch capacitive switch for a bathroom fab/light/Bluetooth speaker into HA?

shell hatch
valid frigate
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@shell hatch snap, I have one too, I actually use it for a number of things but mainly garden RF lights and a switch as well as some others 🙂

uneven wagon
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Hi all -
I am new to HA and Raspberry Pi - I followed the installation via the HA/installation/raspberrypi/ site - All is working great; however I took it just one set further and got a case for it. I got the MazerPi Raspberry Pi Case with Cooling Fan and the fan is a little loud, was curious if anyone would have a reccomendation on a different fan or case?

valid frigate
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I got my aqara buttons today (6 button one, there quite insane) .

humble prawn
humble prawn
uneven wagon
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It would seem that there is a 5V and a 3.3V, I should try the 3.3?

kindred walrus
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Running HomeAssistant in a VM on a PC... also it's not in a central location. With HomeSeer I had used a Z-Net box to add Z-wave. Will this work with HA? Or is there a similar solution to add zwave and/or zigbee to this setup?

winged knoll
kindred walrus
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ah cool...I hadn't noticed those channels...thanks for pointing me in the right direction 🙂

uneven wagon
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Today - my zigbee / zwave antenna [usb] arrived, is there a process to add it? I found the url, thanks

nocturne sentinel
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So Im looking at building a loadsensor for a bed detection, google is suggesting loadcells with a HX711 and a ESP board, but I need one that outputs 5v.. I've a nodeMCU ut those seem to be 3.3v only and the other device i see mention is a 'Wemos D1 Mini' but they dont seem to be sold anymore..

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not sure what options exist 😄

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(Searching google gives you a million and 1 'variants'/knockoffs but god knows)

sharp shale
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I want to get some lighting for my kitchen. White LED 4000K strip with a controller (zigbee or wifi). Is there a go to people recommend?

zealous dune
gloomy spoke
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Google is wrong. 🤯

shell hatch
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Any recommendations on a 8-12 port smart surge protector that is HA compatible and will monitor power usage per port?

shell hatch
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If I remember the min specs HA only needs 2GB min and decent CPU and 32GB storage. That'd probably be okay to start out with.

rain tide
winged knoll
rain tide
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Thanks.

shut rose
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In the last HA podcast called - Alan Aurthur called How much beer int he fidge he mentioned and excellent Xiomi zigbee switch that does multi press and long press etc - there are no show notes to tell which one he was talking about. Anyone know?

zealous dune
peak talon
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this is an excellent switch. I haven't found any equivalent which has so much action packed

zealous dune
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and to think it was the first one from Xiaomi

valid frigate
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I just took delivery of my 6 aqara opple switches yesterday, I love them tbh.

storm oyster
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Anyone know where I can buy ESP32 components online in EU?

shell hatch
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is there a known issue of ios not updating statuses in HA? batt lvl geo loc charing status etc? mine is only updating every 10 hrs unless i manually run the ha app on my phone and pull to refresh

peak talon
winged knoll
shell hatch
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i fixed it by creating two personal automations in ios shortcuts to update the sensors data to HA

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so now i can run automations when i sit at my office desk and charge my phone.

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dope

hollow night
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hi there guys

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how are you

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does anyone have problems with last version of HA and xiaomi stuff?

winged knoll
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But, I'm guessing this relates to a particular #integrations-archived - you should ask over there and provide some details, unless you're using ZHA, Zigbee2MQTT, or deCONZ in which case you should ask in #zigbee-archived

zealous dune
radiant violet
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What is the best app to use the heiman ZigBee hub with that has Google integration?

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Or can I use with home assistant

zealous dune
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you cannot use it with Home Assistant

winged knoll
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Why would you want to rely on a limited third party hub when HA has so many better options?

gritty aspen
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Hi! Can i install a Raspberry pi camera module on a Rpi4 with only home assistant installed on? Through terminal?

bright jacinthBOT
gentle fossil
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read the first note

gritty aspen
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Ok thx

worthy zodiac
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Can you install Home Assistant OS directly on the eMMC of a rock pi 4?

gentle fossil
gloomy oak
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Does anyone know the update frequency of the Aqara temperature/humidity sensors? It seems to be erratic.

winged knoll
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It's not a fixed time, it's based on the change

shell hatch
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Any recommendations on a 8-12 port smart surge protector that is HA compatible and will monitor power usage per port?

gloomy oak
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Interesting. I was checking the humidity during a shower. It was 44.1 when I started, then almost instantly jumped to 52.9. Cool. But then after turning off the shower, and completely getting ready for work, it jumped again to 60.2. So even though there hadn't been any "new" humidity, for lack of a better word, it didn't update until quite late when the first jump was almost instant.

barren birch
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In a store, is it easy to tell which devices would work with HA? I'm guessing maybe if there's a zigbee or zwave label or something.

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I guess I want to know what should I buy. Devices for esphome, zwave or zigbee.

gloomy spoke
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that's going to depend on what you want to do

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and where you are in the world, and your budget

bright jacinthBOT
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Looking for advice about a device to buy? Remember to provide guidance on:

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
Command '~what' was invoked by: RobC
barren birch
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Canada, low budget, I don't mind the protocol.

I got some light bulb that could have been flashed with esphome, but I think I screwed up by letting them autoupdate themselves.

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Right now, I'm looking for a wall switch that I could trigger with HA so I could turn on my outdoor light when the sun is down.

gloomy oak
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I'm in Canada too and went Z-Wave which are the most expensive of the 3 big ones however you may be able to find some discounted ones at Canadian Tire as they're not selling them anymore. You can get Wifi almost anywhere and I'm not sure what Zigbee has as far as switches but it's tough to find Z-Wave or Zigbee in the brick and mortar stores since they're too niche still.

barren birch
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thanks!

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is there a database of devices per country by chance?

gloomy oak
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Not from what I can tell but what works in US works in Canada. For example Z-Wave uses a different frequency depending on locale, but we use the same frequency as US (908.42 Mhz)

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For Zigbee devices your best bet is Ali from what I have found so far.

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But I haven't looked too much into it as I only have a few Aqara sensors.

barren birch
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are usb sticks a good alternatives for the hubs?

gloomy spoke
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yes

barren birch
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thanks everyone

supple linden
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This might not be a #hardware-archived question, but is there a more reliable way to ping whether a bulb is unavailable?
Sometimes if I turn a bulb off at the source, it takes up to 5 hours for it to become "unavailable".

winged knoll
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Depends on the underlying technology and the associated integration

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WiFi? Zigbee? Z-Wave? Bluetooth?

supple linden
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Its a Zigbee Tradfree G10 bulb.

winged knoll
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And how are you integrating it with HA? Some manufacturer's hub? ZHA? Zigbee2MQTT? deCONZ?

supple linden
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GoControl USB dongle.

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From Nortek.

winged knoll
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Ok, so, we're almost there

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ZHA?

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Zigbee2MQTT?

supple linden
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Sorry, I'm new to all this. Thank you for your patience.

I think the integration uses ZHA.

winged knoll
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Then head over to #zigbee-archived and explain your situation - likely you can, but really you shouldn't be cutting power to a smart bulb

supple linden
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So, smart switch would be the more effective solution.

winged knoll
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By about 100%

shell hatch
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winged knoll
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Damned if I know, I don't live there...

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supple linden
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Even worse when you require a non-neutral wire installation, because then you start needing a bypass.

shell hatch
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next sun
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Hey guys, any recommendations for PIR sensors? I previously had some from Banggood which were pretty bulky. Looking for some which are small and barely noticing if possible.

valid frigate
next sun
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Haha, everyone needs a cute PIR

humble prawn
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i'm looking at the hostname for some devices some are unique some are the same e.g i have 12 gosund smart sockets 6 identify as tasmota something and the other 6 are esp_f9a457.station I have some tuya bulbs also with that esp station hostname

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i should be able to change it in the tasmota firmware at least shouldn't I?

zealous dune
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Yes

dense lintel
vital lark
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Is anyone here using IKEA smart stuff without the IKEA gate?

valid frigate
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@vital lark yes I am 6 blinds and the repeaters that come with it.

vital lark
valid frigate
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@vital lark i am back do you still need help

vital lark
valid frigate
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what you using zha or zigbee2mqtt

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on zha I placed the repeater in the room the blind was going in, help pin in hole until the led starts breathing the clicked discover, then once added in, I then placed blind battery end right next to the repeater held both buttons on the blind for 10 seconds until led is breathing the clicked discover again (on zigbee2mqtt same process but permit join click instead of discover).

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p.s dont bother with pairing the remotes they are a pain to bind (but really the battery life is the most dreadful I have come across). all 3 died within 3 months with little use.

fresh orbit
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hey guys, just got the opportunity to buy the Intel NUC NUC7i3BNH, it has 8gb ram and 128gb storage and a Intel Core i3 processor 2.4Ghz, will this be powerfull enough for an advanced home assistant setup?

zealous dune
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Advanced how?

valid frigate
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I am looking forward to this reply 😛

fresh orbit
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lots of nodered automatisations and maybe in future blue iris

zealous dune
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The 2 cores might not be enough depending on amount of video processed

valid frigate
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tbh I am new to all this home assistant, but I would never run my cctv through it tbh

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(in that I would not record to home assistant)

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but depends on cameras lucasss how many we talking

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if just for video

fresh orbit
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max 4 cameras

zealous dune
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4 360p cameras and 4 4k cameras is wildly different

valid frigate
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I have 4x 4k cameras

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running from my NVR to a zotac pico pi335 (which is only a dual core celeron).

winged knoll
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Personally I'd say you should throw in a Coral stick/board and use Frigate instead

valid frigate
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but I am not a pro either I am only 2 months in

winged knoll
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An i3 is fine, if supported by Coral. It'll be a trainwreck without it though

zealous dune
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Coral stick would be the best option

fresh orbit
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Im sorry, never heard of Coral. Can u point me in the right direction?

winged knoll
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You want either the USB or mini PCIe/M2 options

valid frigate
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Tinkerer would you say coral is more advanced that qnap pro nvr and face tiger?

winged knoll
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Coral is "just" a device that speeds up object detection

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It uses Tensorflow

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You use it with something like Frigate that can use it to speed up processing

valid frigate
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I only just added a couple of reolink 4k cameras to my other 4k cameras with object detection, so would not need it they do a good job of only picking up cars/truck and people separately as items. I like them better than my older hkvision tbh

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although, I have the hacs addon for the motion and control of the led lights, the onvif addon to show the substreams live permantly and webRTC to pop open the 4 pages in second love lace with full size video lol...

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once face tiger is configured fully on the qnap Ill just run the qnap nvr pro intergration instead.

fresh orbit
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On what machine do u have homeassistant running then? a vm? dedicated computer?

valid frigate
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less powerful than what your getting 😛

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with just hass os only no vm

fresh orbit
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so u have dedicated machines for ur homeassistant and ur video processing?

valid frigate
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well my has its own built in NVR, but the only time I pull up the 4k footage in home assistant (via webRTC is when i click on the live substream feed )

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but I am using the reolink hacs addon to pull in the human motion to show up as motion sensor

fresh orbit
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Yeah alright sounds logical

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thank you!

valid frigate
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np, I like the reolink devices now, bit of a pain to get min and max size of human detection right but once nailed the camera does the rest and the app on phone pings you notifications so no need for another automation for it.

fresh orbit
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that does sound quit convinient

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how did u install hass on ur zotac tho? did u flash the boot drive? or did u use an other operation system

valid frigate
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ubuntu boot from usb, and run from usb and then download Belena etcher

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for you it will be a case of putting the 256gb in ssd or m2 drive from that machine into some kind of usb adaptor, loading balena etcher on your active pc and installing the hass over to it, its explained here it really is that easy https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64

fresh orbit
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saw it! thank you!!!

next sun
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Does HA still run well on Pi4? I’ve not touched anything for over a year, so need to rebuild my setup. Moved house, ready to get going.

surreal marlin
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yeah, its running fine

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home assistatn amber is nothing but an raspberry pi 4 with extras

next sun
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Ah ok, my two options were either Pi4 or K8s running on my iMac.

surreal marlin
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the decision is entirely up to you

next sun
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If it runs good on Pi4 that’s probably the better option. Although, anyone have it running on K8s and scaling?

winged knoll
next sun
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I think ill have play with it. I have several Pi4’s knocking about so perhaps I’ll build a k3s cluster and run it on there

storm oyster
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Hey guys I can see there are a lot of different ESP32 versions. Which one would be ideal for sensor usage?

tepid heart
zealous dune
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they don't and there are different ESP32 chips and not all are equally supported depending on the firmware you want to use

real canyon
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can i assume an open/close sensor shows "open" on failure?

hybrid steeple
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Hi, What file format should a USB SSD be formatted with?
To extend the eMMC Module's life I'd like to have data read/writes happen only on a USB SSD on an Odroid-N2+ (Blue) I ordered months ago but just received. I tried fat32 on a NVMe SSD (in a USB enclosure) and on a "My Passport" external SSD but fdisk -l on HA CLI does not see either. Any ideas are appreciated.

winged knoll
hybrid steeple
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Thanks

wicked furnace
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I'd like to hardwire sensors for every door and window in my house. Does anyone have any recommendations on which recessed sensors to use, and the best hardware to terminate them into?

cerulean path
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I am using a smart outlet power monitoring to determine when my smart TV is on or off for automations. I am facing an issue however, that after I turn my TCL Smart TV off, it uses about 30 watts for 10 minutes, and then drops down to 0/1 watt. When TV is on it uses about 120 watts. Does anyone have any idea why it uses so much power after turning off for a short amount of time? Any settings I might be able to change?
(Please do tag me if you respond, I dont want to accidentally miss someone trying to help)

tepid heart
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What type of TV is it? OLED, LCD, Plasma?

cerulean path
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It's an LCD

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LED VA to be specific (it's a tcl 55R615)

tepid heart
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Looks like there is no user setting for this time.

cerulean path
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Thanks for finding this, looks like your Google-Fu was stronger than mine.

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I'll see if I can find any other solutions now that I know the name of this "feature"

hot sun
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Turn off the plug smart

cerulean path
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That sounds like that would cause more issues than it solves lol

tepid heart
valid frigate
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hey @wicked furnace why hardwire things like door sensors, you only have to change the batteries once every year unless your going in and out 1000 times a day 😛

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my batteries on door and window sensors are nearly 2 months old and still report 100%

edgy fog
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Most door/window sensor batteries don't have a very fine-grained battery-level sense. The will report 100% until they report (e.g.) 70%, etc.

valid frigate
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well in they dont report that for another 2 months I am golden 😛

bold flax
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Hey all, I've got a few Amazon special smart plugs all integrated through tuya and they've been working great for months. Suddenly half of them are going offline. I fire up tuya app, it shows offline and then it seems opening the app gets them to go back online for 30 minutes or so. I just swapped two to see if the problem follows the plug or the location. Any thoughts?

zealous dune
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You can try localtuya

wicked furnace
zealous dune
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That's a good philosophy

valid frigate
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@zealous dune or could just buy a zigbee stick and add them all through zigbee2mqtt

dusty bane
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I'm looking for a smart plug/outlet but the only ones I've found on https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations seem to be old versions that aren't made anymore or are just hard to buy. Does anyone know of a smart plug that diffidently integrates with HA? (ping in reply please)

winged knoll
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Of course, the exact options do depend on where in the world you are

dusty bane
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Thanks for the tip! I haven't used Zigbee or Z-Wave before and am quite new to HA in general. Can I just pick up anything thats Zigbee/Z-Wave compatible or are there some limitations?

valid spindle
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Generally a USB stick or the like

dusty bane
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Thats good to know. Thank you.

zealous dune
winged knoll
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Over two years in to my Zigbee experience, all but one of my Xiaomi sensors are on their original batteries

zealous dune
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That implies they know which stick and sensors to buy

valid frigate
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zigbee no issues with dropping off here either (although I am still new but I have 2 sensors in my shed which is 10 meters from house that dont drop off the network

zealous dune
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Because I changed a lot of batteries in non Xiaomi devices

valid frigate
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one device I came across with worse battery life than a duracell bunny

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that was the ikea blind remotes lol all flat within 2 months

zealous dune
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And wired is better than wireless. Period.

valid frigate
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well I have the orbi mesh in my house for wifi and I have not had one experiance of drop off with the zigbee stuff (although I do have to say I do have a few repeaters around the house or devices acting as routers to help that are hard wired).

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I know wifi can sometimes cause issues from what I read, but only mobiles, 3 amazon devices and 3 tablets are wireless in my house, everything else is hardwired or poe.

left pine
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hello,
I am having some issues with the Sonoff SNZB-03.
Is it correct that once the sensor is triggered from motion it needs 60s of no movement at all until it is cleared and able to register no movement?
The problem right now is that when I have my Automation to set to turn off after 5 Minutes of the Motion Signal was received and retrigger that timer if another movement is detected within that timeframe but once I am longer than this time in the bath the motion sensor seems to never send another signal only after I leave the room for at least a minute

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Is that the intended design of the Sonoff Motion Sensors?

winged knoll
snow phoenix
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Sorry about that

winged knoll
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Eh, if you didn't scroll down you'd have missed it

snow phoenix
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True! Fixed it thanks <3

pallid brook
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What do people recommend for smart locks? I have an existing zigbee network so was thinking of just adding on to that but hear zwave has some other benefits

wicked furnace
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Hoping to get some new eyes on this:

I'd like to hardwire sensors for every door and window in my house. Does anyone have any recommendations on which recessed sensors to use, and the best hardware to terminate them into?

sonic tartan
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works great with HA.

wicked furnace
sonic tartan
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well um, where do you live the white house? I mean that seems impossible to have that many doors/windows even in a huge house 😄

wicked furnace
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I would like to put sensors on all of my internal doors as well, including closets, walk-in pantry, etc.

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I have 35 windows though

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I also don't want to wire windows in series. I don't see any reason not to give myself as much information to work with as possible when there's really no downside to having them wired individually

sonic tartan
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oh wow well I'm not sure how many the konnected board in pairs can do tbh, have to look yourself.

humble prawn
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Any suggestions how to make a device take an ip reservation (mostly tuya and google mini's)

undone haven
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That’s a gateway/router setting

humble prawn
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i have the address and mac set , some do , some don't

undone haven
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Well, you either have the Mac wrong or the device needs to be restarted if you just reserved the ip.

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Or other devices that do not have static IPs already have the reserved ip

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Best to do ip reservation for your entire network

winged knoll
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All my GMini's have a static DHCP reservation and honour it (no surprise there)

humble prawn
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I have 5 that do

undone haven
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Good lord man, how many do you have if 5 are working and some aren’t 🤣

humble prawn
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6 mini's 2 chromecasts 1 chromecast audio and a chromecast with google tv

winged knoll
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100% a DHCP server problem then

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(not that there was any doubt)

humble prawn
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the router does seem to be handing out dhcp addresses in order e.g the start dhcp address is 160 and everything is occupied to 170

undone haven
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You could also be causing issues if you are limiting the number of dhcp addresses the gateway can hand out.

humble prawn
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i think i have around 40 for the dhcp pool

hoary shard
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greetings! I am using a bme280 attached to a raspberry pi and the bme280 addon/integration for temp/humidity/pressure, and MOST of the time it works fine.. However, there are times when it stops working randomly, and the raspberry pi needs to be shutdown and restarted.
Is there a sensor or something that can be used to determine if HA can no longer communicate the bme280?

I have been using time between updates on the temperature, and the time can be up to 2 hours or so before it changes.

fallen coral
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Sonoff ZIgbee USB Dongle sound good, idk how are they selling it so cheap....
Did anyone receive it yet ?

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Placed order

rocky pawn
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Any1 knows a good SMART HOME DOORLOCK that works with RING doorbell but I dont have the whole ring alarm and has BIOMETRIC unlock and code pad? And works with home assistant?

gentle fossil
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so I don‘t see how a doorbell should interact or be compatible with a lock… but HA can tie together whatever you want so anybody who rings can get the door unlocked if you really want that

rocky pawn
gentle fossil
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so the goal is to get rid of the ring app and control/watch everything from ha

rich sparrow
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Does anyone have any experience with using an LG WebOS tv via the homekit controller interface? Is that the best way to interact with a WebOS tv?

gentle fossil
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no, i tried homekit controller with my cx and it constantly loses connection and/or you are unable to control things like volume etc

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use the webos integration to tie it in HA

rich sparrow
gentle fossil
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then use the native homekit to integrate your tv to the home app

rocky pawn
buoyant plume
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will a m.2 Google Coral work in a USB-m.2 to USB-C case or a USB-pci 2 Tunderbolt case?

gentle fossil
rocky pawn
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I do have ring integrated within home assistant and have authomations that trigger when there is some1 , however I do not think it is possible to get the live feed With audio 2 way

gentle fossil
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you are right, 2way audio is yet to come with ha.
and i do not have ring.
I have everything custom and it works beautiful with ha/homekit… including 2way audio..

hoary shard
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the question I had regarding the bme280 addon/integration, should I post that in a different channel, and if so, which one? it is a supported component.

gentle fossil
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is it a integration problem or a addon problem?

rich sparrow
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@gentle fossil Is there a way to trigger a scene based on if the TV is playing or not? Seems like the only states for the media player are on and off

hoary shard
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@gentle fossil , I don't know. it occasionally stops taking measurements from the bme280, and I don't find any information in the logs regarding any error.

gentle fossil
rich sparrow
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Ah, I am hoping to find a way to call a scene based on if the tv is playing or not. Seems like this was changed to on/off to fix broken behavour

silver quiver
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I've built this really ugly kluge to control a garage door through ha using an rpi, and it doesn't work! it does when connected to my bench power supply, but not when connected to the one I intend to use permanently. If there's a kind sympathetic soul that can help a neophyte with what's probably a simple problem, I'd be really grateful. (This is not strictly a HA problem: more like a kindergarten level dc electronics problem, but maybe one of you will be kind to a person who is interested in HA but way out of his depth.)

drifting grove
upper yoke
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anyone heard of these tzumi brand lights sold at walmart? i got one for 10 bucks, it's like an rgb light bar but it's super small.

it supports IR, so i might try capturing the code with my broadlink adapter. but, it also has app support and broadcasts over bluetooth as; elk-bledom, anything i can do with this via BT?

real canyon
fast bane
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Is a Raspi with 2Gb Sufficient for a Secondary Home Assistant Install (just one integration)

real canyon
fast bane
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Well I have a Raspberry Pi 1.2 laying around. But I was thinking Raspi 3 was minimum these days

real canyon
fast bane
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Yeah

fast bane
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Available Quantity: 0, Lead Time: 40 Weeks. ... yeah forgot about the shortage

elder oracle
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If I have Zigbee CC2652P Coordinator v4 stick for my rp3 do I need Ikea getaway to use their smart lights ?

zealous dune
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the coordinator will replace the gateway

elder oracle
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Yeh that's what I wanted to hear thanks !

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So I just go and buy their smart products and they work straight for the home assistant with the zigbee stick ?

zealous dune
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if they're supported by your integration

elder oracle
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This only talks about connecting the getaway to home assistant

zealous dune
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but you won't use a tradfri gateway

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what you're likely to use is zha or zigbee2mqtt

elder oracle
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Okey now I understand thanks !

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Witch one you recommend ?

zealous dune
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that is irrelevant since my preference is different from yours

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both are free so you can try them

static beacon
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Is the new 10th gen NUC i7 supported for the NUC version of home assistant os

zealous dune
static beacon
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Ok thanks will do

elder oracle
fast bane
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No addons, nothing else but 512mb ram, makes me think it could be tight even if its headless.

crimson sparrow
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[supervisor.resolution.fixup] Starting system autofix at state CoreState.RUNNING
21-09-28 15:59:25 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.resolution.fixup] System autofix complete
21-09-28 16:00:17 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.sound] Updating PulseAudio information
21-09-28 16:00:17 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.manager] Host information reload completed
The installation on a Pi Zero is hanging there. Is it worth the wait?

vernal heart
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Looking to monitor/track energy usage for at least one outlet. Any suggestions on what smart replacement outlets can do this for me? (not plug-in type)

valid frigate
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@vernal heart if you can find any of the Schneider electric ones, these report this all have not tired any others

silent viper
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I have a Tuya-based WiFi bulb that supports color_temp and hs modes. It has RGB picker and color_temp slider (supported features = 19); both work as they should. For some reason, however, the bulb stays in hs mode even when it should be operating in color_temp after changing the color temperature. Other bulbs change appropriately but this one is not cooperating, and it is messing up an automation that I’m trying to put together. My Google-fu powers are helping me here. Any suggestions or some direction on what to Google?

brisk lotus
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@silent viper Do you have another one of the same bulb that's working properly?

junior sphinx
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I'm relatively new to Zigbee, ive picked up a 4 button remote as follows: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003170176476.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.22c665363xhA7j&algo_pvid=c2d276d4-3dd1-4b08-be9c-0600660459a2&algo_exp_id=c2d276d4-3dd1-4b08-be9c-0600660459a2-15&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"12000024473761891"} its listed as TS0044 reading as _TZ3000_abci1hiu and it paired without issue however none of the buttons trigger or show as being toggled on / off in Home Assistant, running on an Rpi 4. HAs anyone else had much luck with these, basically looking for a remote to switch between 4 scenes! It may be a quirk job?

silent viper
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@brisk lotus I primarily have Teckin and saudio bulbs. I recently swapped out a bunch of bulbs with Singled zigbee bulbs. I just looked at all my bulbs in use: several saudio and ONE Teckin (which is the one giving problems). I'll get one of the replaced bulbs back out and see what it does. (I assumed I still had several Teckin bulbs running. Didn't realize I had primarily saudio bulbs now...)

brisk lotus
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@silent viper If you don't have another one of the same Teckin bulbs, it's a little bit harder to narrow down what the issue is with it. Maybe just swap it out all together.
Also, with the Sengled bulbs, keep in mind that they're only endpoint devices and not routers.

silent viper
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I have more of the Teckin bulbs; they're just out-of-service right now. Think I have about a dozen sitting on the shelf.
I remember reading about the Sengled bulbs not being endpoints. They wrote something in their FAQ as to why they were designed that way. Something about if the switch gets turned off, the mesh isn't affected. I have a couple Zigbee plugs strategically located and I don't even have anything plugged into them.

brisk lotus
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Does anyone here have any experience working with blinds motors? I'm trying to set up a wall mounted one (zemismart) up as a test, but getting the continuous loop cord cleanly routed down to the motor has proven to be a pain. The shades are inset into the window frame, and there's not enough room to mount the motor on the inside of the frame, so I have to mount it to the front. Here's a picture of what I've got right now. It's just some 3D printed parts to try and guide the cord, but the motor struggles with it routed like this. https://i.imgur.com/mq0Rt4M.jpg

cedar venture
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anyone using Withings smart bathroom scales? Just got a question before I buy thanks

real canyon
cedar venture
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if you enable iOS notifications sure

vernal heart
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Do a lot of smart outlets report on energy usage? I thought they were all just turn on/off type of thing

deft sparrow
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What shelly or sonoff device would u recommend that can handle 220, 30+ amps?

gentle fossil
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you don‘t do that with traditional consumer hardware

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you need a heavy load relay and use the shelly to trigger that

deft sparrow
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I see

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Or is there like a smart clamp metter?

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I want to try smartify a tumbledryer but it is electric and Proly uses more than 16 amps

ebon gorge
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yeah a current transformer clamp is definitely the way to go for something like that

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consider if you have a way to get data from your utility that you can detect a load that large with the whole home reading

drifting grove
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Hi, I have the heim vision hm241 4 camera with NVR setup and working. also added to my local network.

I am trying to get it into home assistant, but not having much luck. I am still very new to this, but I have done quite a bit so far.

I have found this https://community.home-assistant.io/t/heimvision-cameras/257460 while searching google, but not getting it to work.

It is giving me a configuration error. Saying it needs a type

Can anyone help??

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Here is what I have in the editor.

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: cam1
    still_image_url: http://192.168.88.47:80/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?chn=0&u=admin&p=
undone haven
drifting grove
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I've tried multiple ways, but don't remember if I tried that.

Let me try real quick.

undone haven
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And the type is prob because your yaml is not correct although let me look at the generic camera docs