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undone haven
drifting grove
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Well, when I searched, this was the only place heim vision was spoke about.

Then I saw #cameras-archived

undone haven
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Camera is prob better, yes

drifting grove
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Care to continue there??

hasty yacht
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so after my Home Assistant VM bit it, my wife got me an Odroid N2+ with HA pre-installed. Arrived today, I got some work ahead of me to rebuild everything from scratch!

hot sun
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But not HA Blue?

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Who sells Odroids with HA pre installed?

hasty yacht
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Ameridroid

hot sun
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Oh Ameridroid OK. The way you said it it seemed like it was some random person off Facebook marketplace or sth 😆

hasty yacht
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psst. you want blue? amber? opens coat or just vanilla?

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now i just have to remember everything i ever did and try and replicate it - or it's a good opportunity to set it up properly this time

hot sun
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no back up of your files?

hasty yacht
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yeah pretty stupid error, I did regular backups, thought I was backing them up to the NAS but they were only on the VM volume, and then that crashed....

frigid dove
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Hi, I'm considering buying a Mini PC, should I run Home Assistant inside a VM, or use the operating system?

frigid dove
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I've been looking for a solution, but seems like if you can't use your VM, you can't access your backups

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So I've just given up at the point, I'll just have to start fresh again

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I wish HA had an option to save backups onto either a local server or the cloud

drifting grove
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Hi everyone, is there any “small” outlet for outdoor use (WiFi or zigbee) that works with home assistant without hardware modification

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European connection I forgot to write

shell hatch
frigid dove
shell hatch
# frigid dove Thanks

welcome.. works like a charm auto backs on a sched off site and you its free if you only need a few gigs.

shell hatch
# frigid dove Thanks

also if you're using a vm you should, personal opinion, set up a backup schedule for the vm as well to gDrive

frigid dove
noble drift
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Wireless/Remote Zigbee / Zwave radio. Help. Hey all I want to add Zigbee Zwave to my home assistant but my HA runs a Virtual Machine and does not have a accessible USB. Is there a way to add a Nortek Zwave hooked to a raspberry pi that is connect to the same network via WiFi. It does not have to be a raspberry pi but I already have a few spares. I also do not wish to move my HA to a pi either. Thanks

peak talon
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You can run a Z2M is a docker container in RPI and connect the USB based zigbee co-ordinator. In the Z2M config just provide the MQ broker which is HA is using

split frigate
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I am switching over to HA after my Smartthings Hub v2 died. I am finding that the Nortek Zwave/zigbee USB works, but not with the range my Smartthings Hub had. I never had Zwave connection issues before and now I have nodes that drop and others that seem too far out of range to connect. Any suggestions?

winged knoll
hasty yacht
drifting grove
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I am using Proxmox on Intel Nuc with a HomeAssistant VM. This is working fine. You can take a backup of the VM with Proxmox. This backup is stored in Proxmox. Anyone has an approach to save/download the backup file to a Windows machine?

elder oracle
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I need something battery powered switch for my air-conditioning and it would just be used to send signal from open to close. So it would be only for connecting NO to NC. I'm looking something that uses zigbee. Does anyone know if there's something what I'm looking for

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It's switch for my fireplace that the air-conditioning makes home over pressured

winged knoll
elder oracle
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I only was thinking is there like battery powered zigbee relay ? Does things like that even exist

zealous dune
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nope

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or it has an impractically large battery

elder oracle
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That's odd. Anything else that would work for my purpose ?

zealous dune
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why is it odd? a wired relay would work fine

elder oracle
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Just was wondering that it would be simple little thing and very common type of relay in home automation

zealous dune
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battery powered is a constraint for the type of hardware you can design

elder oracle
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Okey, thanks anyway !

elder oracle
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Tuya Zigbee Jog Inching Switch Module ,USB 5V 7-32V DIY Smart Switch. How about this ? It looks like just what I need

zealous dune
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its DC powered so i guess

shell hatch
shell hatch
hasty yacht
shell hatch
noble drift
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@peak talon Does that Z2M only do zigbee or does it also do Zwave?

winged knoll
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Zigbee2MQTT is only Zigbee

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There's ZWaveJS for Z-Wave

noble drift
dark berry
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so i'm trying to find a switch.......

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my ceiling fan has only one switch, from the breaker hot runs direct to the switch, neutral runs direct to the fan, there are only two wires and a ground behind the switch.

i want a single gang switch using either zigbee or zwave and a fan control module similar to the innovelli red fan and light switch (except they seem to be impossible to get).

i've found a handful of fan control modules that would work fine, and zigbee bulbs are a thing so that's easy.

the problem is the switch. i really like the look of the lutron caseta switches, but they need all three wires behind the switch and they seem to want to control the load directly, also i'm not too keen on having to buy a separate hub. in my head, the switch and lights/fan module could be wired in series to complete the circuit (should only be a few amps load), and the switch only needs to send signals to my hub to control the lights and fan.

lament tide
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hi all !

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i've a question, i use a rapsberry pi3 to automate my camping car/mobil home and i also use a google home. Everything works fine but when both are working, the power consumption is too high and take a lot of power from the 92 Ah battery 😦 . For you, what is the device with the least energy consumption to replace the pi3. I tried a xiaomi gateway v3 but he can't work without internet. I have a xiaomi hub (not the aqara) but i have to put it on 12v to see if it works without internet too keep automation always up ...

winged knoll
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For Home Assistant, you're not really going to get lower power and functional

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You could try a Pi2, but it'll be slow

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Probably you'll save 0.1A or so

lament tide
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i tried also openwrt on my router with domoticz but my router dont have any zigbee or bluetooth protocol

winged knoll
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Bigger battery

lament tide
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yes, 🙂

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but clearly t's not the cheapest way

winged knoll
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There are forums that specialise in automotive PC installs, likely you'll have more luck there optimising your entire system

lament tide
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yes, great, i didn't think that it exist !

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i'll have a look to see how they handle the problem of autonomy and without internet automation on the road or in the hood

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Thank you

ivory lily
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Does anyone know if a Hikvision DS-HD1 wifi doorbell will work with HA?

peak talon
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Rpi is cable connected to router

peak talon
# ivory lily Does anyone know if a Hikvision DS-HD1 wifi doorbell will work with HA?

In my opinion all the door bell are way overpriced. If you can do some DIY, all you need is a good but cheap webcam like Tapo c100 and a esp with a nice looking button. You can put the contraption in nice 3d print. On the receiving side you can have any kind of media player / speaker connected to HA to play any sound. Might not look as nice as your WiFi, but will function much better

shell hatch
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that i can also integrate in HA.

peak talon
winged knoll
little flare
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Hello everybody !
Is anybody using thermostats from Tellur ?

jovial dirge
zealous dune
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to me that image looks disturbing 😛 might be best to consult a professional

jovial dirge
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well, that's what I'm trying to figure out here, I don't really know any people that deal with home installs like this :/

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surely someone somewhere knows 🙂 but yeah, I'll probably have to do that eventually

zealous dune
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you need an electrician

valid spindle
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While it boggles my 2-phase 230VAC mind, is that one connected neutral completing the circuit for all those breakers?
I'm not qualified to say whether that is true, safe or unsafe but it rubs my gut wrong way :S

gentle fossil
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wow, where in the world do you live?

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everything in that picture looks nasty

zealous dune
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glad its not only me 😛

heavy oracle
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I'm looking for a way to detect my presence when I am sitting in my office. I don't want to use my phone because I dont always take it around with me. Would I be right in thinking I need some sort of PIR sensor? My only concern with that is that although I could probably make a input boolean from it when movement is detected, I could sometimes be "motionless" (according to the PIR) for long duration's, and setting up a input boolean to stay on for anything more than 10 minutes doesnt seem intuitive. Has anyone got any ideas?

zealous dune
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pressure sensor on your chair

heavy oracle
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hummm

zealous dune
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microwave radar sensor

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camera with object recognition software

heavy oracle
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these are great suggestions @zealous dune 🙂

zealous dune
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you can also double up on PIRs 😄

heavy oracle
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  • pressure sensor sounds the best (i just need a nice looking small/hidden version)
  • microwave sensor doesn't sit well with me, and the battery will probably die often
  • camera is a bit overkill, but i'll give it some thought in the future because I dont have cctv in my office yet
  • doubling up on PIR's? not sure what you meant here?
zealous dune
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more PIR's more detection possibilites

heavy oracle
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oh

zealous dune
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a sensitive vibration sensor might also do the trick on the chair

heavy oracle
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unless it can detect me breathing or blinking - even my wife thinks im asleep in my office. lol

jovial dirge
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@gentle fossil glad it's not just me. I live in Slovakia, that install is around 20 years, I'm not sure what kind of animal installed it

zealous dune
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ah those former eastern block electricians

jovial dirge
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btw going against @zealous dune 's advice, I managed to install the Shelly without killing myself (sorry @zealous dune 😐 ). Everything's fine, but it's not turned on, since I suppose it really needs the neutral line

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I might have to go and talk to a pro after all

zealous dune
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it definitely needs the neutral line

jovial dirge
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yeah but I'm not sure whether the ground railing is considered neutral or what, it just looks stupid

zealous dune
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which might or might not be the blue wires

jovial dirge
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well, I suppose every device in the house needs the neutral line in some way, which would likely mean it's the railing (correct me if I'm wrong)

zealous dune
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our oldschool electricians also don't care much for color coding wires

jovial dirge
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yeah, I'm thinking it's likely the green/yellow ground ones

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but that one single blue one baffles my mind

zealous dune
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its can be many things in a wide range of harmfulness and potential fire hazard

gentle fossil
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looking at that fuse box... I'd say you live in a metal cage and every metal in your wall is grounded

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hint: don't trust me. I like to live dangerous

jovial dirge
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well, what do I know, I might be living in a metal box prison

heavy oracle
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If I purchase a Zigbee sensor, do I need a Zigbee bridge or something? Is it only WiFi that doesn't need that middle man?

winged knoll
heavy oracle
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Thanks for confirming.

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So I guess a "WiFi" sensor is the only one that doesnt need a bridge per se?

winged knoll
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Correct

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Battery life of them sucks by comparison, and you can run into issues of a lack of IP addresses

heavy oracle
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ah ok. IP addresses shouldn't be an issue because my LAN is using a class A range. But battery is something I should be aware of.

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Can anyone point be to any recommended WiFi sensors (HA Compatible) ?

winged knoll
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Class A... what is this, the 90s?

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Sorry, 80s ablobgrimace

A classful network is a network addressing architecture used in the Internet from 1981 until the introduction of Classless Inter-Domain Routing in 1993

heavy oracle
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lol, clearly I am from that era and so is my networking knowledge 😛

rare lodge
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I managed to setup a sonoff sv with tasmota to be discovered in home assistant..it has main switch and reed switch send its state as on or off but I need it to be showing open or closed in lovelace on for closed off for open..please help

winged knoll
vague tartan
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I bit the bullet after thinking a long time about fire detectors and went with nest protect. Its limited how much smart i want the fire alarms, and nest got a good feature set vs a zwave one at same price. They will rather live their own life

next solstice
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I have a light switch powering an outlet and the line is at the outlet. Can I use a shelly1 to smartify that outlet while allowing the switch to continue to toggle it on and off?

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I think it's something like: use the shelly1 to directly control the outlet, and use the I/O on the shelly to detect the status of the switch and toggle the outlet when the switch changes? if i'm not mistaken you can configure a shelly to operate that way?

civic kraken
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Should be possible yeah. Just make sure you have both the live and the neutral wire there

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The switch only connects to the shelly which then controls the outlet

drifting grove
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Hey all. Just bought a conbee 2. I was hoping to pair this with a temp sensor. Was looking aat the hue motion sensor. Anyone have ine?

winged knoll
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Lots of people do - but the #zigbee-archived channel is likely the best place for help with that

drifting grove
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Ok. Thanks.

rare lodge
hollow lance
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have any Australian users picked up one of the Arlec GRID Connect light switches lately? do they still work with Tuya Convert, or do you have to pull them apart and flash them manually?

jade agate
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any Dutch fellows around with a Split Airco system to be controlled in HA? Need some buying advice 😉 Cant find anything on some of the more popular systems (Mitsubishi) in the HA integrations

real canyon
jade agate
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too bad really, seems an opportunity for a great add-on ...

real canyon
livid island
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Is Bluetooth enabled by default on Raspberry Pi 4 with Home Assistant OS?

winged knoll
deep rose
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I'm looking for an outdoor plug that is wifi connected and locally controlled. I think Tp-Link used to be a fairly good option for something cheap but as I understand it they pulled local control. Anyone know of any other good options?

hot sun
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outdoor as in waterproof too?

bold flax
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Looking for a ceiling fan/light controller that works with HA if anyone has recommendations

deep rose
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@hot sun - Weather resistant, IP64ish. Not sitting in water but exposed to weather.

vestal pier
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is there a de facto standard z wave dongle / hub? trying to add some basic things like turning power on / off.

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looking at Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Z-Wave Hub now

gloomy spoke
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USB dongle, I assume

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All are fine. Look for a 700 series

vestal pier
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here's the 700 series. out of stock unfortunately.

lone charm
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I have what looks like a newer (mains PCB v1.2, MCU PCB is still v1.0) revision of the sonoff S31 US (ETL Listed not UL despite what others are saying). Looking at blogs about the older revision, people were saying the mains ground wasn't isolated from the digital ground. I'm trying to disprove that on this newer revision. Thus far I haven't found any continuity between the digital IO and the mains. Has anyone else here looked into this? I'd like to try to use the exposed extra GPIO if I can and not do something stupid.

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winged knoll
rotund socket
valid frigate
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@deep rose there is a zigbee outdoor plug if I remember rightly (if its just an extension your after) if its a wall mounted one you can buy any of the outdoor std sockets and replace the faceplate inside with zigbee or wireless one.

little ginkgo
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Hey guys. So as the heating season approaches I'm looking into some diy stuff. My main question is how do you find those "wax motors" that are used for radiator valves. No idea what to look for to find em on the cheep
All i can find is already a full on unit with iot built in...that's not what i want though

valid frigate
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were you based @little ginkgo because the wiser kit is defo good value for the money and probably does not work out that much more than diy and the integration through the hacs repo works well

little ginkgo
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Poland

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I want to go diy for the reason that i don't have radiators to put em on directly. It's floor heating

valid frigate
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ah ok

little ginkgo
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I was thinking of an esp, a relay board and a set of those motors

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And I'd need 3 sets of that

bright jacinthBOT
winged knoll
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Their Discord is likely the best bet, but if not try #diy-archived

wintry thicket
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What are you guys using for a doorbell? Non cloud.
I have been using a Xiaomi ZigBee button, but I have always had issues with the stability of my deconz, so I would like to look for another solution

winged knoll
wintry thicket
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Should have probably mentioned that it needs to be wireless and battery powered

zealous dune
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I use a Xiaomi door sensor

white hemlock
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I know it's been a year but what device did you get for traccar?

analog oar
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Hi, I'm new with home automation. I've found, that some people recommend CC2531 as device to connect all the devices, but other ones don't recommend this, because it can only handle 20 devices.
Question: If I'll got 21 devices, would it also work to add an second CC2531, or wouldn't this work as expected?

gentle fossil
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you only have one controller in a zigbee mesh

analog oar
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@gentle fossil ok, thanks a lot

stiff wyvern
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hoping someone can help. I have a tasmota Athom SW131US Module which i can control through it's web interface just fine, but the physical switch i cannot get to control the light. Any ideas what I am missing on this????

zealous dune
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is it a fresh install or did you configure some things?

stiff wyvern
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new switch, i just installed

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Hassio can control it 100% also. Just the physical button seems to not work at all

zealous dune
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that sounds like a case for customer support

drifting grove
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I have a bunch of blinds to control. I do not have any hardware bought yet (except rPI with installed HA). What would be the best choice? I see some Tuya/LoraTap wifi modules, but it does not seem to be easy to use those in HA -or- at least you still need Tuya cloud. What would be an alternative?

winged knoll
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Cloud based abkneonno
Local abkneonyes

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Zigbee FTW

zealous dune
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All my Tuya devices work fine locally with Tasmota

drifting grove
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Tasmota -> TasmoAdmin or you have something else in mind?

winged knoll
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Re-flashing them with Tasmota

drifting grove
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Ok, I'll try that, thanks!

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Thanks also for aqara hint, but my blinds already have motors, I just need to have a "smart switch" or better a control unit, where I would be able to put in cables of multiple blinds.

winged knoll
pine apex
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Can anyone assist me with identifying the RAM amount of two Raspberry Pis?

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I was gifted them and would like to see if either of them are better than what I have to move my Home Assistant onto

next solstice
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any reason I can't automate a ceiling fan with a shelly1? asking because i've seen some wall switches suggest they shouldn't be used w/ ceiling fans. haven't seen any warnings like that from shelly

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US based, 110V. pretty standard ceiling fan (pull string to toggle speeds, etc)

zealous dune
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For starters you can't toggle speeds with Shelly 1

next solstice
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understood - yes, was just trying to turn it on and off.

steel lion
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Are there any good options for monitoring soil moisture that arent bluetooth based? (wifi, zwave, zigbee, something else?)

drifting grove
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anyone running a Pi4 using a USB thumb drive for HA? Samsung makes these small 64 / 128gb USB3 drives & was wondering if they would actually work (for more than a month..) as opposed to an external USB attached SSD..

gloomy spoke
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They will likely be slower and last a shorter period of time than an equivalent SD card

drifting grove
gloomy spoke
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They’re mainly designed to read and write large files quickly, rather than regular Linux filesystem use, including a database

drifting grove
ruby badger
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is a i7-7700k op to run HA on? XD

analog oar
analog oar
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I've found RGB-Lights, who don't have the zigbee-logo.
https://i.ibb.co/b2cKD5M/Screenshot-nof49i.jpg

Is there a chance to use this lights without google or alexa... fully offline (from internet) ?
I've ordered an CC2652RB, and I do have a Fritz!box as Router. (This are my first steps with home automation)

winged knoll
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They're WiFi based

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If they support the Tuya (cloud) platform they'll work - mostly, probably

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If they can be flashed with Tasmota/ESPHome they'll work locally

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Generally speaking anything that mentions Google or Alexa is a WiFi device using a cloud platform

analog oar
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@winged knoll Ok, good to know. I thought there might something like an general plugin which is able to connect via WLAN and trigger the commands which are needed. So I'd better go with zigbee zertified devices to have less trouble?!

winged knoll
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There's no general plugin, Tuya is the closest it gets, but that's still cloud based

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If you want local control buy devices that are local

steel lion
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hoping the tuya v2 integration gets local control soon. would always be nice to have more alternatives than just zigbee or z-wave basically

winged knoll
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Who knows... 😄

sharp plank
# ruby badger is a i7-7700k op to run HA on? XD

I'm running on a virtual machine on a E5-1410 and Home Assistant is a drop in the bucket. Restarting is almost instant. Your i7 will blow that out of the water. I do recommend working in a virtual machine though. It makes future transitions much easier.

quaint bay
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Hi guys, i have an Wemos D1 Mini that i want connect to a electricity meter using the S0 port of the meter, i'm using esphome with the pulse_meter. The thing is that with a multimeter in diode mode i tested the S0 port and is working OK, between the meter and the Wemos are 10m of distance +-, so i made this connection... Put to the S0+ the 5v and digital D3 the S0- with a 10k resistor to GND... the problem is that the wemos dont register any pulse... if i change to a 1k resistor then get an infinite spike of pulses....

pastel vault
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@ruby badger I'll second @sharp plank and also add my two-bits. I've recently switched running HAOS from a RasPi3B+ to a Lenovo Mini PC, i5-3470t @ 2.90Ghz, running HA in a virtual machine within Proxmox on that box. Compared to the RasPi it's blisteringly fast! I've gone from 40+ seconds to ~6 seconds reboots. And it's rock solid. Drop HAOS on an i7 and you'll be set for years to come.

gray garden
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Hey all, do any of you have a variable power supply to experiment with LEDs. I've gotten myself in a situation where I don't have a power source for my LED's again. I just want to have one for tinkering so that I can order a power supply in a later fase. If you do: any recommendations?

gentle fossil
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how many LEDs are we talking?

gray garden
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250 LEDs

tribal star
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Is there a favourite WiFi streaming camera which doesn't need a cloud service in order to get connected to me completely off-cloud HA-centric house? Thanks.

winged knoll
tribal star
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Ah. I didn't even know there was one. Thanks.

sand crypt
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Hi all. Installed in a pi4 and when trying to connect to wifi I only can find 2.4GHz SSID but not 5GHz SSID (I send different from my Fritz!Box for both). Is that normal?

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No other way round: only find 5GHz but want to connect to 2.4

drifting grove
analog oar
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Are there any good ZigBee based aroma diffuser ?

zealous dune
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No

sharp plank
ruby badger
obsidian juniper
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I've ordered multiple Shelly 1L switches. Does anyone know whether cables for wiring are included in the package?

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I'm assuming that i need additional wires to wire the Shelly to the light switch

toxic dirge
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hey, 1st time messing with tasmota, what can i use to flash if i dont have an ftdi adapter?

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or im reading they have sonOTA?

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anyone used that with success?

drifting grove
# toxic dirge or im reading they have sonOTA?

It depends on what you're flashing. 'Some' devices can do the OTA, others require an adapter. The adapters are cheap on Amazon & the process really isn't too bad. Tip: 'If' you need to solder, get very thin solder and a proper soldering iron where you can adjust the temp (along with a small pointed tip) also buy/use flux to help with the adhesion. Would also suggest getting some 'helping hands' clips to help hold the wires and device for soldering.

drifting grove
toxic dirge
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from what i was reading the sonOTA works with older version of firmware, but not new one

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no idea if these are old or new

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bought off amazon

drifting grove
# toxic dirge s31

Ok, for those I had to solder & flash. There are some great guides out there that detail the whole process. I bought 8 of them and set up a mini assembly line - knocked them all out in about 20 mins..

drifting grove
toxic dirge
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word

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yeah ill have to nab the adapter then

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it seems like using a arduino or pi is alot more effort

drifting grove
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I never flashed one before & at first thought it was a bit of work.. but after doing the first one, it's really not bad at all.. and I have all the stuff to do more of them etc.

toxic dirge
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almost just want like little metal clips for the ends of the wire

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could just clip instead of soldier

drifting grove
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Yeah I tried that.. the little bastards kept falling off and the flash would fail

toxic dirge
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hmmm

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maybe some kinda 3d printed slide on thing

drifting grove
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no one seemed to have them in stock or knew what I was talking about

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possibly.. if you could securely hold it in place.. hell I tried a hot-glue gun etc.. finally just went to a local Microcenter and bought a proper soldering gun etc

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I then used it to flash a Sonoff wifi/zigbee coordinator.. then re-wired an epiphone les paul.. so it was a good purchase

toxic dirge
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oh for sure

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i cant find mine

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and it was the basic one

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so meh

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i now want a ts100

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but $80 for an iron is overkill

autumn kraken
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Hi guys, what's the difference between smart ledstrip and a standard ledstrip+Shelly?
What would you buy?

zealous dune
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which shelly?

autumn kraken
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I have to buy and I was thinking on rgbw2

zealous dune
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then no technical difference

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smart ledstrip is just a standard led strip with a led controller in the box

autumn kraken
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So maybe better smart ledstrip so I have less device?

zealous dune
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how is that less?

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led strip + shelly = 2; smart ledstrip = led strip + controller = 2

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both options need a power supply as well, smart led strips usually come with one

autumn kraken
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Ok, thanks a lot

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And what about light bulb? It's the same or better smart light bulb vs light bulb + Shelly?

zealous dune
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depends on which shelly and which kind of light bulb

autumn kraken
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I was thinking about yeelight light bulb or standard light bulb and Shelly 1 for the switch

zealous dune
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shelly 1 can only turn on/off your bulb

autumn kraken
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So, what is the difference with smart light bulb?

zealous dune
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smart light bulbs can have: dimmming, change color temperature, change color or all three

autumn kraken
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Ok thank you!!

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The choice is smart light bulb

zealous dune
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you also need to be aware that when you cut power to your smart bulb it becomes dumb

autumn kraken
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Ok, so is there a solution?

zealous dune
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don't cut the power...

autumn kraken
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Do you have a guide to read how to wire it to not cut the power?

zealous dune
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yes: find a skilled electrician to do it

autumn kraken
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Ok understood

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Thank you for your patience

frosty rose
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whats the cheapest and quickest way of adding temp readings for a room?

zealous dune
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just readings or you need it hooked into your smart home?

frosty rose
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yeah smarthome. I've got a whole bunch of temp reading devices, but none i can use in my office room (too far from smartthings hub)

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  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
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zealous dune
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smartthings hub doesn't work with zigbee routers?

frosty rose
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uk, cheap, wifi really, purely temp is all i need

zealous dune
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none really

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unless you diy

frosty rose
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smartthings is zigbee i think, but the two things i have that are smartthings that have temp reading (door sensor and motion sensor) both dont work with the distance to my office

zealous dune
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that's why you employ zigbee routers to bridge the distance

frosty rose
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ah ok, well i don't use zigbee enough to justify that, just for this one room

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hence me looking for a cheap temp monitoring alternative

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i have a spare esp32 kicking about so could use that either for bluetooth or some kind of temp componant for it

zealous dune
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yeah that can also work

frosty rose
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would something like that work?

zealous dune
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sure

sly owl
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Forgive me for responding to an old answer but do you still recommend the 1ID instead of 2ID?

coarse spade
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Anyone have a suggestion on how I can smart-ify a 2 gang switch in my garage that runs 8 Florescent light fixtures? I have no idea of the amps or watts they pull, I bought a sonoff zbmini x2 to see if I could do that, but not sure if it could handle that much power

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I have no neutral wire, from what I can tell. I am not an electrician. 😄

zealous dune
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It can but not without neutral

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Better find an electrician

tepid heart
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Flouro tubes draw bugger all current when they are running. The wattage will be written on the tubes, but will probably be around 40W each. For 8 that's 240W total. Or 1 Amp at 240V, or 2A at 110V.

coarse spade
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I have an electrician coming on Thursday to check out the wiring and hopefully install the zbmini for me ( I have two, for two switches) but may only need one, the switches seem chained somehow

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Goal is to have it so that when someone enters the garage, the lights turn on, no activity, they turn off, to save power and to prevent me from leaving them on by accident at night

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But im not even sure if the sonoff's can handle that

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reviews for the zbminis show "Great, but only rated for 10 Amps"

wind mist
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Could anyone recommend an IP camera that connects via Wi-Fi and has a video stream thats accessible on the LAN without any 3rd party cloud services/subscriptions?

winged knoll
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#cameras-archived is the best place for camera recommendations, though mostly expect people to recommend POE rather than WiFi
HikVision and Dahua come up a lot

wind mist
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Thanks. Will check these out

coarse spade
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reolink too

cedar venture
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as far as I know, you cant initiate action on Amazon Alexa via any sort of API, it always must be voice initiated. Anyone know if the same is true for the Google one?

winged knoll
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See Assistant Relay

cedar venture
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thanks, the github seems to be unmaintained now, but might be worthwhile anyway

winged knoll
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AFAIK it works, like a lot of unmaintained software

cedar venture
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ok thanks

civic vapor
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Not really related to home assistant in general, but will im doing light show, and using smoke machine. Then the smoke detector goes crazy. Are there a solution for this ? I still want to protect from real smoke and fire hazard while being able to use smoke machine. Perhap there are no solution but not worth asking 😄 The only solution I was thinking was if the smoke machine was activated in the last hour then ignore smoke alarm. But this is not perfect as it will not protect during a light show

winged knoll
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Sounds like you want a heat alarm

civic vapor
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yeah perhap

winged knoll
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A smoke alarm that isn't triggered by a smoke machine would be pretty bad smoke alarm

civic vapor
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i guess there will be no perfect solution, a smoke detector that ignore smoke generated while working on real smoke probably isnt technicaly possible

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hahaha

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yeah

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i think I will have to put heat sensor near all potential fire hasard ( cuz im using high amp led strip ... )

tepid heart
coarse spade
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Can you not pass usb to a hyperv vm?

cerulean pendant
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Hi, not sure if this is the right support chat, but I'm having issues with two Osram+ Zigbee Plugs. Around once a week homeassistant loses connection to one or both of them and won't find them again until I re-pair them.
I have a Conbee 2 USB Stick which is used by the native zigbee intergration in homeassistant.

How could I debug something like this? It shouldn't be range as the plugs are only ~10m away, almost in line of sight.

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I used to have a similar issue when I used the deconz software. After I switched to HAs implementation it started happening less, but it's still annoying having to re-pair them

winged knoll
bold flax
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Does anyone know how to open these round sp10 smart plugs?

zealous dune
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🔨

solid grotto
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I switched from a SD card on my RPi4 to a SSD but the RPi every like 4 hours lose connection to the network. I using Ethernet cable. I need to restart the pi and then it work again for 4 hours. It seems to work good with like Home Assistant because it performes automation on the zigbee network. I use Raspbian so not the Hass io system. But I check if anyone have any idea

drifting grove
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Hi Everybody and good evening, i have a small problem, i will try to explain it in the brief and easyest way possible...

i have 2 RaspberryPI (RPI4 as HomeAssistant server) & (RPI ZeroWh as Irrigation system relay in the garden), in this moment im using the RPI Zero in the garden connecting to it remotely and activating the relay switch manually... i would like to integrate it in my HomeAssistant, so i would be able to operate the relay and the irrigation valves directly from lovelace, same as all the other switches.

how to do that? thank you in advance

zealous dune
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How exactly are you activating the switch manually?

drifting grove
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there is a 3rd part HTTP server for irrigation

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and i do it through browser

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but there is a login page... so i cannot simulate the switch externally... unless i find the way to disable the login page...

compact mural
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Dilemma: upgrade synology DS214 to DS220+ or to HA Amber?

waxen raven
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Guys I need some pointers. Background windows IT guy, but have starting playing with HA. I had HA running on a Pi4 using a TI zigbee controller and somehow managed to get everything working. Then my SD card failed (no back up of course). So I ordered one of the "approved" 2.5" to usb cables and an SSD and set to rebuilding from the start again. So I can get HA up and running no problem and I know everything is working as I can connect my smart things motion sensors and get motion and temp from them over zigbee, but when I am trying to add some innr SP222 smart plugs they get seen and then fail interview. Any pointers as to what I might be missing? Anything else you need to know to help understand?

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additional, I have rebuild a couple of times as I tried this with zigbee2mqtt, and then I rebuilt and tried zha (currently installed and this is what it worked with in the past)

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so I am thinking its some kind of device driver type issue...but I am lost. Many thanks in advance

zealous dune
paper creek
waxen raven
paper creek
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A SSD will draw far more current than a SD card. Your power supply needs enough capacity for both your pi and your SSD

waxen raven
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bit as I said, it detects some devices and not others that were working previously, it even sees the devices, but just fails during the interview process?

paper creek
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How much power budget for USB devices does a Pi have with the official PSU?

waxen raven
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honestly, unsure, but all of the guides I checked before getting this said the offcial 15w psu will be fine.

paper creek
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That's weird

waxen raven
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I guess I should get another sd card and try the build on there to confirm

paper creek
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replied to the wrong guy

waxen raven
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Oh I am sorry

paper creek
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no I replied to the wrong guy, it's my fault for causing confusion lol

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anything noteworthy in the logs on your setup @waxen raven ?

waxen raven
paper creek
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Try a USB extension cable on your zigbee dongle.

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No kidding

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USB3 is notorious for causing 2.4 GHz interferrence

waxen raven
paper creek
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Any improvement?

waxen raven
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nope 😦

paper creek
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At least you did your homework 😉

waxen raven
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I think I will try an SD build to confirm its nothing else, just odd it will pick up the sensors and not the plugs

waxen raven
paper creek
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And then you look at the uptime of their system and determine the reboot was a lie.

winged knoll
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Anybody who's worked in IT knows that users lie, by default

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Or, if we're being nice, they're "confused"

waxen raven
paper creek
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I still need to get me a LART.

waxen raven
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lol

winged knoll
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Management were rather unhappy when he left it on his desk

paper creek
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Any chance your plugs are being pricks and the issue is not in your HASS setup at all?

waxen raven
waxen raven
paper creek
waxen raven
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thats cool, but nothing and I mean nothing beats solar flares on the sun excuse

paper creek
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What is the exact make/model of your plugs?

waxen raven
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Innr SP222

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and have worked on my previous build of HA in the same Pi with the same controller for months

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so is there such a thing as device handlers like in smartthings, and is there a chance I just need them for ZHA?

paper creek
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My ikea smart plugs caused me some grief to put them in pairing mode, the notes over at zigbee2mqtt really helped me out.

winged knoll
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I've had no issues pairing my Innr SP222 plugs

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However, if you're running Zigbee2MQTT and you recently upgraded to 1.20 or later... there's known issues

waxen raven
paper creek
waxen raven
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Right chaps, thank you both for the help, I am going to do some further diags, will bust out the old hub too and try an SD card build.

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think I need to confirm a few things before I ask for more help 🙂

winged knoll
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I mean, it has a GitHub repo with an issues list...

waxen raven
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could there be an innr repo?

winged knoll
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Nope

waxen raven
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I have not found one in my search

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ah....

winged knoll
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There is a Z2M repo...

waxen raven
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will give that a try, but I do know they worked with zha before. Damn back to smartthings now, not sure I even remember my login for it lol

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Thank you both so much for your time and guidance

winged knoll
waxen raven
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yeah will go there once I do my additional tests 🙂

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(plus wife is calling for dinner haha)

pastel vault
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@winged knoll LOL We had those when I managed tech support for a fledgling ISP back just prior to the turn of the millenium. Each tech support numpty who lasted three months 'on the front line' was gifted a bat with LART engraved on it, mounted on a plaque.

paper creek
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That's just amazing

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Is there any kind of LART that integrates with HASS?

winged knoll
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If you can hook it up to ESPHome/Tasmota, then sure

paper creek
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Shock collars would be a decent candidate

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(I swear I'm not a sadist)

winged knoll
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Just run mains voltage to the keyboard and mouse

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Bonus points for different phases

paper creek
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Or take some inspiration to Jeff and his countermeasures for Redshirt Jeff

paper creek
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Back to on-topic questions: are there any local-first smart thermostats with multi-zones besides honeywell evohome?

pastel vault
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@paper creek Hey, if the folks at the IETF can accept an Internet protocol for sending Internet signals via carrier pigeon, why the hell not. Don't believe me? Google RFC 1149 and look it up. What started as an April Fools gag has become part of Internet standards. 🤣

paper creek
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I know.

pastel vault
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LOL 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms

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Never let it be said 'sysops' don't have a sensa-hooma. 🙂

paper creek
pastel vault
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grin

paper creek
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Why am I reading your messages in a Dave Jones voice now

cedar venture
timber jacinth
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Hello!!

At the moment i use sonoff and im very glad, but i am looking if there are any smart switches witch work with powerline and not wifi or RF (in order not to have emf radiation).

Might anyone has tried such a device?

zealous dune
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Work with power line?

timber jacinth
zealous dune
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Ethernet or POE?

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Not that I'm aware of

timber jacinth
# zealous dune Ethernet or POE?

Ethernet / POE is an alternative, but for now i am looking if there is a solution with powerline - i have alread google it but did find something usefull till now...

zealous dune
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I don't think there are any commercial Ethernet wallswitches

timber jacinth
magic ravine
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hey. im a total noob and im planning to set up some automation for the first time. I hope this is the right channel for my questions. I want some philips hues and also some buttons/sensors/thermometers that use zigbee. what is the best way to set it up? Should I get a hue bridge and a zigbee hub? and what kind of zigbee hub would be best? a USB one connected to my server or some ethernet/wifi hub like the sonoff one? Or is what im doing here completely stupid?

cedar venture
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the only reason you would need a hue bridge, is to update the firmware for individual bulbs etc. Personally I don't bother keeping Hue firmwares up to date, maybe that will change if I ever have a problem

finite verge
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I am using the august Integration to interact with my door lock. Does anyone know if there is a way to create and remove codes through the HA interface?

deft sparrow
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Hello i'm trying to do the pir motion sensor using esphome and nodemcu 8266

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i pluged the sensor into the board and flashed it, all gut, but it's not doing anything it is detected

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but no changing state

long charm
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is SD card failure really common for raspberry pis running home assistant (or anything else)?

lyric edge
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Hi all, new user here. Hi, do you have a recommendation for adding multiple UPS’ to a Synology so that they can be added to HomeAssistant for monitoring? Currently I have two UPS’ connected to one Synology DS920+ but only one is being detected and added to HomeAssistant via NUT. What is the best way to monitor multiple UPS in HA?

A UPS plugs into a USB port of the Synology and you enable the Synology to act as a NUT server. Then you go into HA and apply the IP and the port # of the Synology and it reads it and then fetches information. I tried my two UPS and it worked and fetched the information. What if I got a USB hub and then plugged all my UPS into it and then used the hub in one of the Synology’s ports. I wonder if it would pull multiple devices.

pastel vault
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@long charm SD Cards are not designed for 'continuous access' (That is, the card is accessed over and over again without much of a let-up). They're designed to be used as a storage device, certainly not as the 'hard drive' for an operating system. As such, they have a short shelf life when being used this way.
That being said, using an A2 variant microSD card has been shown to reduce the number of MicroSD card failures; or, at least extend that shelf (use) life.
This is why the folks at Nabu Casa, the 'owners' of HA, strongly recommend you not use a MicroSD card as the hard drive for a system running HA. (Which, I believe, is one of the reasons they developed both the Blue and, recently, the Amber.)
If you want to, though, they certainly won't stop you from doing so.

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Up until only a couple of weeks ago, I ran HA on a RasPi 3B+. That meant I was running it on a MicroSD card. However, knowing the card was not designed to be used that way I used to keep two spare cards that were kept up-to-date with a full HA install. Luckily and in the just over two years I ran HA on that Pi, I only had one MicroSD card fail on me while in use. After a quick couple of minutes of switching out the card, rebooting and installing from the latest backup on Google Drive I was good to go again. Then I promptly bought a replacement MicroSD card for the one that had failed.

long charm
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This has been a concern of mine lately, and I don't know if a class a2 card would be "good enough" or I should figure out some alternative. I like the Pi 4 that I'm running but worried about the sd card failing and me not having a fallback

winged knoll
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Industrial SD cards are the better solution

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If not, then one designed for a high write life - like dashcam cards (WD Purple)

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Personally, not an SD card is the right solution

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A2 cards are still hit and miss. A2 is a speed rating, not a quality rating after all.

pastel vault
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@long charm If you want to go the Pi route and you have the extra dollars, get something like an Argo case and run it with a HAT that allows you to plug in an M2 SSD card and run HA off that. However, that system actually costs you more than simply buying a 2nd hand USFF computer off eBay, installing Proxmox and running HA off a virtual machine on that. Hell, there's now even a very decent script some bright code-monkeys have written that'll take just about all of the aggravation of trying to figure out how to do it off you. And, yes, this is what I recently did.

winged knoll
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this is the way to go IMO. I moved from a Pi to an old laptop (2012 vintage) and it was night and day - and I still run HA on that laptop

pastel vault
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@winged knoll Yes, but the A2 have shown themselves to be less likely to (not definitely not) fail. But... yes... they definitely still do.

winged knoll
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Clearly you've not lurked here long enough 😛

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I've seen plenty of reports from people who bought an A2 card and had it die within weeks

pastel vault
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@winged knoll Wow! I must've really lucked out. As I said, I only had one fail in the two years I ran the 3B+. Admittedly, I did have one that just wouldn't work at all, but put that down to a fail of the factory at the QoS stage.

bright jacinthBOT
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@pastel vault Discord isn't like IRC, you don't have to tag people on every response. Keep in mind that every time you tag somebody, they get a notification ping. That can very quickly become annoying and people may block you.

When using Discord's new Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, 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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winged knoll
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Yeah, I've had a few Pi3's running for years without issues, and others that I bought different brands for and have had issues

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Since switching to the WD Purple cards though... all good, so far

pastel vault
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I'll keep that in mind. I've set the Pi to 'semi-retirement', for the moment. It's currently unplugged and sitting on a shelf. But I've kept it because I may need it in the future (such as .... miracles of miracles... Tuya switches back to allowing OTA flashing.)

bright jacinthBOT
keen hare
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hi, im new here with a question how to use ESPHome, in my case i cant select an USB port to provisioning my ESP8266. using a RPi3 with a homeassistant image

bright jacinthBOT
long charm
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I probably have an old laptop I could set up to run as a server. One of the things I liked about the Pi was lower power draw

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I also have a usb ssd I was thinking of trying w the pi

untold narwhal
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hi, I can't connect to my HA Blue (The connection was reset) after adding some http infos in config. Any idea what I could do or where to find help?

bright jacinthBOT
#
The topic of this channel is:

There's a channel for #yellow-archived if you have questions about it.

Questions about a hardware device (not their #integrations-archived with HA, and not the thing that HA calls devices)? Someone might have the same device and be able to help you out! If you've got a Z-Wave or Zigbee devices, see #zwave-archived and #zigbee-archived, #cameras-archived for cameras, and #diy-archived for making your own stuff (or if you're asking about Tasmota or ESPHome).

If you have problems with the Blue see #330990055533576204. If your install isn't responding then see your install method channel above.

If you want to share images, use https://imgur.com/ or similar.

Please use https://www.codepile.net/ or https://paste.debian.net/ to share code or logs

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untold narwhal
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Thanks, HassBot :p

long charm
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This is probably a bit off topic but following on the SD card conversation, until I swap out to a different hardware solution, what do folks use for automating backups?

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im just thinking if the card does fail, it would be nice to have an image in the cloud or something I could pop in

winged knoll
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Depends on their install method

long charm
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i'm on homeassistant os method

winged knoll
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I use rpi-clone for my Container and Core hosts

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For HAOS you've got snapshots "backups"

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You can push those to other systems with various add-ons

pastel vault
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@long charm I use the HA built-in backup system and add to it with the Google Drive Backups add-on installed via Supervisor -> Add-on Store.

humble nexus
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Hello, I'm looking to build a server racked home assistant server, does anyone have experience or a guide for recommended parts and installation instructions?

long charm
winged knoll
stoic mango
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So, I'm currently looking at using raspberry pi zero W. I see all the warnings, but I don't have a different option at this moment. Using imager, do I say it's rpi 4 or rpi 3?

winged knoll
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It's neither

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And look forward to a 24 hour first startup/install

stoic mango
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ok

winged knoll
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It's going to be a terrible experience

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You'd be a lot better off with a virtual machine, or just not bothering

stoic mango
winged knoll
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Well, it's warned about for a reason...

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Buy something better, use a VM, or carry on and expect most experienced folks to laugh at you when you ask for help...

stoic mango
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I'll try not to ask for help then...

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I just need to get a proof of concept up and running so I can suggest that we spend a bit more money on a more powerful system

winged knoll
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VM...

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Honestly, the install process along is going to be be painful and frustrating, never mind trying to use it

stoic mango
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do you think I can get it up and running using a dell d430? Intel Core Duo 1.2 GHz 1GB DDR2 RAM

winged knoll
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That's "slightly" better than a Zero ablobjoy

stoic mango
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that's what I thought...

winged knoll
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RAM is a touch low, but TBH it should be fine

stoic mango
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the pi just uses less power, which is what I'm looking at...

winged knoll
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Sure.... but there's a world of difference between low power and performs and brick

stoic mango
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no chance you happen to have the correct git repository to pull it from?

winged knoll
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I don't hate you enough to do that to you

stoic mango
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Thank you

full frost
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Evening guys, someone here using Tado radiator valves?

paper creek
stoic mango
winged knoll
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If it's deliberately self-inflicted it is

paper creek
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I was laughing about the funy way @winged knoll put it.

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For reference, I compiled ruby on a rpi1

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Which took multiple attempts.

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I had to do it because there was no package available.

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It took multiple attempts, of a couple of hours each

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Given that the performance of the pi zero w should be similar to a rpi1 I say: Godspeed, brave soul!

winged knoll
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It basically is an original Pi

paper creek
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I know right?

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I used to run gitlab on mine when I was in high school

stoic mango
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at this moment, I'm just trying to figure out where the wireless info is stored so I can add in my wifi info now and then when I get to plug it in and start the set-up, one less thing for me to worry about

paper creek
winged knoll
stoic mango
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just giving a status update...

paper creek
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Be sure to keep us posted on your adventure

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I'm curious to see whether you will get it working at all

stoic mango
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if I don't report back in a few days...

winged knoll
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It'll work... eventually, unless it times out

stoic mango
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it's not entirely futile...

fresh willow
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My apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm very new to HA and ESP in general. I have created a configuration under the ESPHome section of Home Assistant Dashboard and am attempting to install to my ESP device (Model: ESP-12F) via the option Plug into the computer running ESPHome Dashboard which is attached to my Raspberry Pi running HomeAssistant OS via a USB to TTL cable. I think I have it wired correctly because 1) the LED on the USB to TTL cable is on and 2) the ESP LED flashes when I press the onboard "RST" button, and 3) when it's plugged in to the Pi, Home Assistant Dashboard prompts me with "Pick a Server Port" which displays the option CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller /dev/tyyUSB0. Once I select this option and it compiles, the installation fails with A fatal error occurred: Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header. I noticed that the installation script tries a few different baud rates, but all the trials are higher than the 9600bps that is printed on the bottom of the ESP as a recommendation with 115200 being the lowest baud that it tries. Maybe that's the issue? Any direction is appreciated!

bright jacinthBOT
fresh willow
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thanks

jade agate
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anyone around to please advize me which (fibaro) module I could use to control a regular powercord to my tv (which is hidden in the wall, so no smart switch option possible, I need to cut the cord and put the (fibaro) device in between both ends)

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rather not use wifi devices like a Shelly, maybe others would fit the bill too?

pastel vault
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@long charm Sorry, I was AFK for a while. The Add-on stands alone, right at the very bottom. You're looking for 'Home Assistant Google Drive Backup Repository'.

long charm
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i found it! already did a backup, works great

pastel vault
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Yep. Good to hear you got it working. It's going to be one of those things you hope you never have to use, but feel a great deal happier it's there.

long charm
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yep. i am also in the process of clearing out an old usb hdd i had. I thought it was SSD but its a 320gb 5400rpm Seagate drive. Not ideal, but maybe still better than an SD card? Presuming I can get the Pi 4 to boot off of it, which I think I can.

long charm
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uhg im transferring off some 250gb of media from it and its so freaking slow. maybe i should just not.

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you know what else i have is a 64gb usb 3.0 sandisk thumb drive.

pastel vault
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Sorry to tell you... but, thumb drives are not that much better than the SD card. If at all

long charm
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idk it sounds from my reading that both SSDs and flash drives use flash chips. i don't understand the difference.

ebon gorge
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SSDs employ wear leveling which makes the flash wear out more evenly among other things they do like there is more extra flash in an SSD than a USB drive

long charm
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maybe the answer is just take regular backups and dont worry about it too much

ebon gorge
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this is why I'm fine with using an sd card I just take a backup every night and rsync it over to another server so if it fails I lose at most a day of data and configuration

viscid frigate
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Thinking about swapping all my tuya to something else. Any hints or ideas on what would be a better option that has the same wide product range?

Adopting and simulating a local tuya server would ofc also be an option but that is time consuming

tepid heart
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Zigbee

viscid frigate
# tepid heart Zigbee

Ye I thought about that aswell but I see some flaws in that protocol for private reasons.

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Maybe one should wait for a bit since new protocols are scheduled

winged knoll
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Flaws? Such as?

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Also, there's always going to be a new protocol coming...

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If you were waiting for Thread then suddenly there was Matter on the horizon. By the time Matter is rolling out there'll be something else...

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I'm also somewhat amused that having used a cloud based service where there's zero privacy, you're worried about the privacy of a 100% local protocol ablobjoy

zealous dune
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want more privacy: go wired 😛

civic dagger
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hi, I've been trying to flash esphome on some gosund plugs I had lying around. In the process, I have bricked two of them. Looking at the prices of the tuya module, it looks easier/cheaper to buy more. Any recommendations?

zealous dune
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bricked how?

bright jacinthBOT
winged knoll
civic dagger
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oh ok

winged knoll
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They can help you not brick things I'm sure, or possibly unbrick them

civic dagger
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hard bricked btw

winged knoll
stoic cedar
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Does anyone have OctoPi/Octoprint and HA running on the same Raspberry Pi 3B (not +)? Wonder if that's too much for the pi. I could use an Odroid C2 instead, but that doesn't have wifi or BT onboard and seems to choke on any BT adapter I'm plugging in

cunning phoenix
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Hello any one knows of a large high res touch display? would like to make a large family calendar.

bronze light
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Hello, I am looking for a smart thermostat supporting opentherm, suggestions?

tepid heart
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IF the 4K version is a bit $$ there are other models listed lower down on the page.

bronze light
cunning phoenix
tepid heart
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That's the IR touch sensor only, not the display.

cunning phoenix
tepid heart
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Yeah very.

cunning phoenix
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i was thinking of geting a 27-30 inch touch display and use a raspberry pi in kiosk mode for the dashboard

azure zodiac
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Which Bluetooth dongle is well supported for an Odroid N2+ board? So I can connect a Switchbot curtain.

heady swift
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I'm a bit lost in all the Shelly options. Does anybody have suggestions as to which model I'm looking for? Project is to get a couple older flood lights (unsure of wattage) hooked up to an existing light switch to be able to switch them with the physical switch and add remote control/automations with HA. Wiring is in a US home, if that matters.

tepid scroll
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@heady swift 1 circuit or multiple?

heady swift
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@tepid scroll 1 would probably be fine, multiple might be a nice option but not a hard requirement.

drifting grove
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I want to buy portable heating system thermostats that I can put on a table. Battery-powered. No wiring of any kind. I can find no such products. Does anyone know where to buy such a beast? Thanks!

tepid scroll
tepid scroll
drifting grove
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@tepid scroll I am looking for a thermostat, meaning a device that contains both a thermometer and buttons to increase and lower the desired temperature. Like there are millions of them mounted onto walls

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What I need is one that doesn't get mounted on the wall, but that I can carry with me around the house.

heady swift
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@tepid scroll Thanks for the help!

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@drifting grove I'm far from an expert, but to me it sounds like what you want is a thermostat (mounted on the wall so it can wire into the HVAC system) that can be controlled from Home Assistant, which you can operate via phone, carried with you around the house. Last I looked there was a popular ecobee model that had an out of the box integration already, but I was still sour over the whole Nest API debacle so I never followed up.

drifting grove
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@heady swift Much appreciate the suggestion. Unfortunately, a wall thermostat won't help me: I want the temperature to be measured and controlled from where I am sitting with the portable unit, not measured where the thermostat is mounted on the wall. Also, I have no HVAC system into which I could wire the thermostat: I now live in an apartment and all I can do is adjust the Zigbee valves on the central heaing radiators.

azure zodiac
valid frigate
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@drifting grove sounds like you need a battery thermostat from aliexpress then

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or just a temp and humid sensor and have automations respond to it 🙂

sly owl
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For a LED-controller that will sometimes not be plugged into socket, would Z-wave or Zigbee be better?

slender anchor
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Hi I am trying to get a set of Phillips Hue play bar sets to work using conbee/deconz, The lights are geing discovered but the control does not work

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Have anybody seen this before ? I am using Raspbee with newest firmware

valid frigate
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@slender anchor I had too many issues with tuya zigbee items and just switched over to zigbee2mqtt edge and it works better

slender anchor
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@valid frigate tuya zigbee = Deconz ?? not familiar with that ! Have head alot of good thing on zigbee2mqtt but I haven't messed around with it

valid frigate
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I have used both deconz and zha and ended up with zigbee2mqtt edge because of huge product library of device support. @slender anchor again personal opinion as I am still a noob at all this.

slender anchor
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I have just done some more research on zigbee2mqtt and it looks more direct, I have always thougt that the concept off decons groups vs haas groups was a bit dumb

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But I am dreading the recreation of all my automation when i delete Deconz and start with zigbee2mqtt

karmic cargo
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Potentially dumb question and I haven't received an answer from Shelly support 😞 . If I put a Shelly 1 in a box in the wall and wire it in with the regular toggle switch that's already there, does it act like a 3-way switch (US, 2-way, rest-of-the-world)? i.e. trigger the Shelly, the lights go on; flip the switch, the lights go off; trigger the Shelly, lights go on; etc? I see there are modes for the Shelly, but they use words that are confusing me. They describe "Manual Switch Type" as

  • Momentary - when using a button
  • Toggle Switch - when using a switch
  • Edge switch - Change status on every hit
    The "Edge Switch" sounds like the one I'd like, to make it 3-way so it doesn't matter whether the light is controlled digitally or physically, it's on or off, but it's not as abundantly clear as I'd like it to be.
heady swift
valid frigate
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@cinder parcel I might be mistaken, but I thought all the switches that turn dumb switches into smart basically work on the principle that if you turn on smartly then turn off with the switch then turn on smartly the switch then become reversed etc..

cinder parcel
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i think you tagged the wrong person, but shelly devices can work either way. the "edge switch" mode will make it so that every flip of the switch will toggle, so sometimes its reversed and sometimes its not, depending on what state it was in when you toggled it through the shelly rather than the switch. the "toggle switch" mode will keep the switch orientation the way it's originally configured at all times. so if you turn on a light via the shelly that is off on the physical switch, you will need to toggle the physical switch up, then back down to turn it off

valid frigate
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yep I did it was meant for @karmic cargo

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@slender anchor I am not sure as I was listening to youtube why driving, but I am sure the guy was talking about the new way triggers work now can help with this, look it up (if you change the automations trigger ids or something then it makes it simpler to recreated with the new trigger system) again no expert just what I was listening to.

hollow shore
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Hi, i have a question relating to use home assistant with 2 Modems connected via VPN.
I have a fritzbox (A) at home and HA running on an raspi.
Now i want to connect a fritzbox (B) lte over vpn to the fritzbox (A) which is at my home.

is it possible to setup smart devices on location fritzbox (b) and use them from my home?
i have some land and want to automate watering theire.
sorry for my bad english 😦 hope someone understands my problem

drifting grove
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I cannot believe that I am the first person asking for a portable thermostat. Surely, someone is selling those. If you know who, please do let me know

karmic cargo
# valid frigate <@!758733881938804806> I might be mistaken, but I thought all the switches that ...

and @cinder parcel, thanks, that's what I needed to know. We have a few 3-way switches, so having the switch point down when the light is on is not a problem at all. We just need to be able to use the switches and have digital control, especially as I start the automation process. The wife has her phone in the living room about 99% of the time when she's home, so I cannot use that to detect where she is and when to turn lights on for her. I'll have to use some basic PIR for that (which is fine by me). Until the "presence in room" detection is working, she'll hit the wall switch.

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heh... just realized, AFAIK, "PIR" means Passive Infrared", but it could also be "presence in room". 🙂

ebon gorge
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I've also heard it stands for pyro ir

karmic cargo
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because it's on fire, or because it likes to start things on fire?

ebon gorge
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Because it detects your heat moving

karmic cargo
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Ah. interesting. Hadn't heard that one.

ebon gorge
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I heard this from a person irl so take it for what it's worth

karmic cargo
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there was a day when "IRL" meant more than "stranger on the internet". Not sure anymore...

ebon gorge
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Definitely means more than a random internet person to me but it's second hand random internet guy information to you so...

stoic mango
polar girder
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a scene remote or something similar? I need a remote to trigger some automations. ZigBee or Z Wave preferred

still maple
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Anyone on running HA with a Nibe air source heat pump? I've got modbus over tcp-ip working fine, but can't figure out what address/slave combos to use, most of them don't return any data.

shy river
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Shelly 1 relay is dry contact (the relay connection isn't powered) so it can function as a thermostat, and there's an integration for it in HA, from which you get a switch entity. Just make sure you upgrade the firmware first bc some come with outdated firmware that doesn't have HA support

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Then if you device on that Xiaomi sensor you want to install passive BLE integration with hacs (it's available from HACS itself but here's the link: https://github.com/custom-components/ble_monitor) and hook it up to your HA device, which is probably a Pi with builtin Bluetooth

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You add the temp sensor and the shelly switch to configuration.yaml and tada you have a virtual thermostat

# 
  - platform: generic_thermostat
    name: Test
    heater: switch.study_heater
    target_sensor: sensor.study_temperature```
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I have the exact same setup it works great. My boiler has thermostat contacts so I hooked those up to shelly and powered it it from AC contacts on the boiler itself. It sits neatly inside and has a wi-fi good connection despite being inside the unit, which is metal.

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Be aware that not all smart relays have dry contacts so it has to be shelly 1

shy river
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The downside is that there's no physical thermostat to interface with but I do everything with my phone as it is and for me it's an non issue. Not like i change the temp on it a whole lot

still maple
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Anyone know of a good way to sniff modbus over tcp (on linux/macos)? Not sure I want to add 1k entities to HA, but need to sort out what registers are producing data ...

mystic mauve
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Hey Guys,

Apologies, I'm very new to this 🙂
I have a HA VM with ESP32 module plugged in. Where the server is physically it appears I am unable to connect to BLE Xiaomi devices at the other end of the house.
From what I've read i think?? you can have multiple ESP32 boards integrating? If so what would be the best way to go about it?
Can I just buy another one, plug it in to my current server, connect it to WiFi , Install .yaml file with config and move it to another end of the house and power? Or would i need say a raspberrypi with ESPHome, basically a copy of main server and leave that at the other end of the house?

drifting grove
shy river
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And open a Home assistant page with just that thermostat

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If you need a physical thermostat because you live with someone else and it would be hard for them to adjust they can just interface with through a Google Home speaker

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or an alexa

zealous dune
mystic mauve
zealous dune
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you can do it with 32 if you want

mystic mauve
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Perfect! Thanks mate!

valid spindle
mystic mauve
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i think he is being funny

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coz its esp32

valid spindle
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That is sort of what I think, but I never gave much thought to how 32 fits in, so who knows 🙃

zealous dune
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limit is how many devices your router can handle

valid spindle
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nois; just add a beefy router; pepper and heat while stirring. good stuff

runic sinew
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Can someone help me understand why the motion sensor for my camera goes UNAVAILABLE after my system is running for just a few mins?

drifting grove
shy river
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and DIY approach is not that hard tbh

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it's all commercially available with easy configuration and setup

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i know for sure none of it would require soldering for instance

valid frigate
snow phoenix
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Hey guys, quick question,

i got a bunch of Xiaomi Mi door sensors but do i really need a hub to get them to work or is there a work around ?

winged knoll
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Mijia door sensors?

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If they're Mijia, they're Zigbee and you can use your choice of #zigbee-archived integration

snow phoenix
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Gotchs ill see if can get em to work thanks!

winged knoll
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If that's them, they work

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Try the #zigbee-archived channel, or the docs, rather than DMing me for one on one support 😉

zealous dune
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Not necessarily ZigBee so it's best to reveal which ones exactly you got

compact mural
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What’s the best light switch that works with HA and Google Home?
So that someone in the house can use it as “normal” switch and still can turn the light on/off by Google Home voice Assistant.

winged knoll
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Well, any smart switch for your country, whatever that is

compact mural
winged knoll
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If you have 100% local control, sure

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Making your "local" smart device depend on the cloud is un-smart

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I do prefer Zigbee over WiFi, since you're sure it's local

compact mural
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Than I will have to search for something else cause this one doesn’t have Zigbee

winged knoll
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Plenty of it is for the EU

tepid scroll
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Anyone have a suggestion for a Shelly like relay, but connects via Zwave?

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My wife hates the wall switches I bought from inovelli and that’s one battle That’s not worth it to me.

winged knoll
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I'd suggest something that fits behind your wall switch - a module. Then you can use any switch that meets approval

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(there are many other brands)

tepid scroll
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@winged knoll you sir are a god for that quick and perfect response.

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oof, $71 per switch. ouch

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ok, the dual switch is $50... i can live with that. @sick heart do those need to be firmware flashed before hooked into home assistant?

winged knoll
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There are many other options, the #zwave-archived channel can likely advise more if you mention where on this planet you live

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Z-Wave, and electrical standards, being regional

blissful comet
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So while I wait for Amber, I currently got a rpi 4 running zwave and zigbee. But it feels a bit overkill using a rpi 4 for that. Is that a correct assumption?

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could easily replace it with a rpi 3b 1.2 instead and use the pi 4 for something else?

winged knoll
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Overkill.... 🤔

blissful comet
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ok:D

tepid scroll
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Thank you btw

winged knoll
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Don't worry, there's better options out there 😛

tepid scroll
winged knoll
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The Nortek stick is older generation on both sides

tepid scroll
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not starting fresh... just restarting it... my zwave stuff got boogered after the zwave changes

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in ha

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for 700 series zwave... what should I be looking for?

winged knoll
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They can advise you in the #zwave-archived channel - not sure what the options are in your part of the world

tepid scroll
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understood. ty

gentle yew
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Hi. Need some ideas here. What would you recommend to monitor energy consumption of electric hob? It's connected to its own circuit with 30A fuse, so we're talking here of up to 7200W flowing through the cable...

heavy jungle
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I'm a straight noob, I've got some things working for myself, but I'm trying to figure out if I can use Voiceitt (buddy is quadriplegic with heavy speech issues) Voiceitt works with Alexa. With repetition It trains a phrase or word you want to use, then when it hears you say it, it issues a text command to Alexa. Thinking if I can use voiceitt directly to homeassistant I could avoid the external ip which he's just on free wifi in his care home. This may be too much to ask as I don't know how I could get voiceitt to communicate directly with home assistant. and sadly voiceitt only works on apple devices currently.

jade agate
# jade agate rather not use wifi devices like a Shelly, maybe others would fit the bill too?

for reference, ordered a Sonoff POW R2 for testing purposes, but I was quite disappointed tbh. flakey build quality, chassis bending and connections really insecure. Not the thing one would hide in the wall and forget about. Had it configured via the EweLink app, and setup the CC https://github.com/AlexxIT/SonoffLAN which worked fine btw. Still, one is never sure it doesn't connect to the cloud servers I guess? anyways, returned it. Why is this such a popular device (family)??

winged knoll
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Popular because it's cheap, works with a cloud service, and at least the older models can be flashed to work 100% locally

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But mostly because cheap

jade agate
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right, to each his/her own I guess. forgot to mention it took 0.5 W standby (switched-off). Pushing me to the point I need to re-evaluate the remote switching options of the house (considering it all started with reducing/eliminating standby power usage). Sometimes an old fashioned wall switch is, well, simplest and cheapest in the true sense of the word

winged knoll
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There are plenty of other options out there

jade agate
winged knoll
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WiFi, for instance, will generally be a lot higher power draw than Zigbee (or Z-Wave)

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Somebody did a review of a bunch of smart bulbs and the result was that WiFi bulbs had a higher standby draw than Zigbee, with some of the Zigbee devices drawing so little power they measured as zero

jade agate
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that depends on your definition of 'a lot'. I have m all, and while zigbee/z-wave devices are a bit more economical, the difference in standby mode mostly is only 0.2 watt. There's no such thing a measuring zero. Measurement gets difficult below the 0.5 watt threshold and need special tools to be precise

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but yes, wifi plugs/bulbs use more than the Z's

winged knoll
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Sure, maybe I should have said so little power they were below the ability of the device to measure 😛

jade agate
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haha, ofc. but just to have an idea what that totals to heave a look at this

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o wait no screenshot possible here..

winged knoll
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You've been here long enough to know that ablobjoy

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Most channels block it to stop people posting code as images, or otherwise spamming junk in channels

jade agate
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and thats only the devices themselves

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given the current energy costs, reason enough for me to switch the Hue/Ikea lights off during the night (they made it easy and now all have a manageable power-on state). No need to power the bulbs that wont be needed anyways.

valid frigate
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@jade agate I just saw that are you lighting the albert hall or something or is that over months and months

jade agate
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no, not really. the watt sensors are what they are, measuring the power all combined devices use at the moment. the Energy kWh sensors are made the last few weeks since I started using the integration.

valid frigate
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you must have a lot of lights for that much usage over a few weeks 😛

jade agate
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yeah, well maybe. It is because of the realization I posted the above. I don't think many HA users will grasp the true energy cost of their installs. Of course having 14 halogen down spots in your ceiling rated 50W each or having these replaced with Hue gu spots rated max7 is a nice idea. But you really should add their standby power.

winged knoll
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Or, replace those 14 with 14 dimmable LEDs and a single smart dimmer

jade agate
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Would those (which ones btw) consume less power?

winged knoll
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Well, even if individually they consume the same power, replacing 14 with one means they'll total less power

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As for which...

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: Tinkerer
jade agate
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Mm, I think I don’t follow. Sorry. On the matter at hand, there are 14 fixtures , so need 14 dimmable leds. The ones I tried, Hue, ikea and Lidl (….) are all close in standby power consumption.

winged knoll
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Dumb bulbs have no standy

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Your choices of smart dimmer depend on where in the world you are

jade agate
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O I see , yes of course. There s functionality demands too ofc. Grouping, coloring, etc etc. Don’t think I can do without my Hue Hub for that matter…

jovial oxide
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Country: USA
Budget: whatever works
Protocols: preferably MQTT, but not opposed to other protocols
Features: nothing special

Looking for motion sensors and smart light bulbs to add to my smart home setup. I already have quite a few as Sonoff switches I flashed with Tasmota. Since I live in an apartment I'm limited in what I can do and replacing the light switches is not an option for the remaining lights. As far as motion sensors go in looking for something preferably battery operated with a fast response time.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Please @ me or DM me if you have any suggestions.

cunning phoenix
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Hello is there a piece of hardware which is small and simple i can add in multiple places in my house. To get voice activation? A bit like Google home but without the Google garbage

winged knoll
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Other than Echo/Google Mini... you're largely in DIY territory

shy river
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i couldn't find anything online, but maybe someone here knows if one of those cheap teckin 1080p cameras can be reflashed?

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TC100 they are called i think

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i bought one for 12 bucks on amazone a while ago and it seems like it's an app only thing with no open ports

cunning garnet
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Hi, If I order an odroid n2+ and an emmc module, does the emmc needs to be blank? They only have a 128gb with Linux on it

shy river
cunning garnet
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That's my question. I think so, but I dont have any experience with odroid and emmc

shy river
patent perch
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any recommendations for solid outdoor IP Camera (for security)

spice dagger
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Any recommendations for a smart light switch - with also a smart motion sensor? I noticed the enbrighten z-wave 26931, however to my understanding the motion sensor portion is not "smart" nor programable.

bold flax
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Anyway to open a SP10 plug without destroying the housing? Want to flash

narrow elk
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With Christmas around the corner - I was curious if anyone had exterior light recommendations. Looking for full control. I’m in the states and price or connection type isn’t really a concern.

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PS, twinkly seems too mini for what I’m looking for. Can’t find many photos of it outside.

spice kraken
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Hey all, I have been following @zealous dune 's brilliant Tasmota template for a Deta Grid Connect Ceiling Fan (https://templates.blakadder.com/deta_6914HA.html), the rules all work, with Tasmota I can control the fan as expected at it's 3 gang control panel.

However in HASSIO it shows up as the 4 basic toggles.... which isn't the easiest for people to use, in (both old and new) YAML configs for HA I see a Low/Med/High "speed:" definition... are these entities/device supposed to show up like my pic below? Or should it show as something.. more "low/med/high" that can be toggled/selected?

I've obviously renamed the switches here, but what I notice is when I turn it on it runs at max speed, then I press either of the other switches I named 1/3... and it drops the speed by 1/3 step, like pressing the physical button does.

https://imgur.com/a/QZDZ4SI

mighty shoal
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any advice for a leak/water sensor (wifi) in the US that would work with HA ?

tepid heart
mighty shoal
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thanks! ill take a look

shadow egret
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If you were to build from scratch today, what would you use as the server? From what I have found, the OS version seems to be the favoured install method, But that could be via pi, nuc, vm (in windows, Mac, synology, etc.) but now there are first party hardware based on odroid, HA blue and HA amber.

So many options now, curious what the community would do if they were starting fresh today?

bold flax
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proxmox

shadow egret
# bold flax proxmox

On any particular device? Seems that’s just A Linux os that can deploy VMs, would you do that on a nuc for form factor reasons, or on a full pc? Any technical reason why? Just for versatility of having a system that can deploy multiple VMs?

bold flax
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Hard to say. I do a lot of other stuff so I'm running an older dl380.

shadow egret
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Got it, so you wanted to have other vms that you can spin up, that’s fair. I should explore vms, not something I’ve ever considered. My test HA is in a synology docker, but should try a VM test

spice kraken
hollow lance
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Is anyone else seeing significantly higher CPU usage on their Pi under 2021.10.3?

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I was idling at 10% on .2, now at 20-30% on .3

hollow lance
spice kraken
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@hollow lance I opened it up and used an FTDI (USB to Serial board), held GPIO0 to GND during boot and sent the FW over with Tasmotizer.

hollow lance
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I also haven’t been game to try. I didn’t want to risk bricking a $60 piece of kit.

zealous dune
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always backup original firmware... twice... then you're safe unless you release the white smoke

hollow lance
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I like to live dangerously

spice kraken
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I've done 5 now, each went fine. Each time the backup also failed.. even though I tried every single ROM size... on every single device... and had to eventually just send it. 🤣 probably doing something wrong but couldn't work out what.

spice kraken
zealous dune
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first you do flash_id then backup using that information

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electrician or electronician? 😄

spice kraken
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He's literally an electrical engineer who does load cells, PLCs etc for a living on an industrial scale. And these weird 3 wire ones from AliExpress seem to be broken, or, I dunno, broken.

zealous dune
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i got those and had no issues connecting them, the accuracy tho...

spice kraken
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Sigh

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I can see resistance across them increase by 1000ohms, and can confirm a closed circuit in the wheatstone bridge, but didn't get any mV increase across A- and A+ when load was applied. http://imgur.com/a/shlrxb9

tepid heart
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Load cells that change by 1k Ohms ?

spice kraken
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4 x 50kg load cells, from 1000 to 2000 Ohms with 20kg applied.

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I.e a full keg of beer.

zealous dune
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how are you reading the load cells?

spice kraken
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Just with a multimeter between the White and Red wires, those are the only ones that change with load applied. It has red green and white

zealous dune
spice kraken
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Did you use a load cell amplifier between them and Tasmota?

zealous dune
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just the hx711 module

spice kraken
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Ah yours also included the hx711

zealous dune
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well yeah

spice kraken
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Also 3 wires it looks like, curiously the video I watched on The Hookup in YT also had a black wire, and mine has a green. Not that it should really matter, but yours and his do work lol.

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Sigh, anyway, I have a few packs, suppose I'll start again and build a 2nd one in the hopes it's a problem with the units, or me, that doesn't reoccur lol.

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Yours even has a wiring diagram which is fancy, my aliexpress one didn't.

zealous dune
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i only buy from fancy sellers

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there's wiring diagrams all across the internet, i just used some random guide for arduino

spice kraken
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Ok so I came here to ignore that issue, and I keep bringing it up. About that Deta template you made.. the switches that show up in HA as 1/3 steps, isn't the most user friendly. I note your HA yaml has a Low/Med/High definition, is that meant to surface in an HA entity?

zealous dune
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i didnt make it

spice kraken
zealous dune
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its someone elses idea of "usable"

spice kraken
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Ah I see.

zealous dune
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on first glance seems overly complex

spice kraken
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So..... is there some reading I can do to rejigger that? I don't see why it even mentioned a Low Med High if it doesn't surface it in HA tbh.

zealous dune
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it should if you did the manual config

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autodiscovery cannot work in this case

spice kraken
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Hmm please define manual config. I know it didn't just show up in HA, I used your (someone's?) Tasmota definition, and Rules, and that worked a treat. It's just the HA yaml that seems to produce this odd 4 switch setup.

zealous dune
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manul config = adding it using configuration.yaml

buoyant pawn
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Hello everyone. I'm looking for some recommendations for Zigbee TRVs (thermostats). I'm using Home Assistant and Phoscon-GW with a Dresden Electronics stick.

I initially looked at Eurotronic Spirit, but they seem to be a no-go because of the borked firmware. Danfoss Ally seems like a good option, can anyone weigh in?

spice kraken
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Yeah ok just checking, since I did that, using my copy pasta credentials, and still looks funny. Hmm.

zealous dune
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i wonder if using the iFan as template base would work better

spice kraken
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I'll take a look at it tomorrow and experiment, ta

azure zodiac
pastel vault
boreal bluff
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has anyone come across a plug in thermostat? I have plenty of spare power sockets around the house and want something reliable and fast to act as a simple thermometer, I am thinking someone must have made something which literally just plugs into a socket to fulfill this task? and if it can act as a zigbee extender.. then great, but also open to wireless

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^I am finding my TRV's a bit slow / low resolution

lime acorn
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One of my Tuya devices still works in the Tuya app on my iphone, but Home assistant says it's unavailable. It's still on my HA but "grey-ed out." I have restarted the server. Not sure what else to do.

bold flax
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I bought that new sonoff kickstarter. We'll see how it works out

lavish sandal
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I'm looking for a motion sensor that's all I need it to do and I live in the US budget don't really care but anything under 35 would be nice I don't care about protocols I'm new so I can get into anything and one that would preferably be local and not cloud

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And obviously works with home assistant

glossy prism
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Zigbee or zwave are solid choices for that sort of thing

lavish sandal
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Any product recommendations?

glossy prism
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i'd choose a protocol first. i run all zigbee, but you might prefer zwave

lavish sandal
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why do you run zigbee?

glossy prism
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why do i run it over zwave you mean? or just why in general?

lavish sandal
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Zwave

glossy prism
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Zigbee devices are generally much less expensive than zwave

lavish sandal
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then ill go with zigbee

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whatyua recomend

lavish sandal
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@glossy prism

green locust
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I was planning to get Hue 4 inch full-color downlights, since I already have a Hue hub, but they appear to be out of stock everywhere. I don't mind switching away from Hue particularly, but ... there's a lot out there. I'd love some clear recommendations for HA-compatible (with a hub of some kind is fine) options for this if anybody has any!

glossy prism
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@lavish sandal the hue motion sensors are very nice but are also very expensive. the gen 3 iris motion sensors are still good and are much cheaper but are very hard to find nowadays

hollow lance
glossy prism
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photo pls

hollow lance
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Guess I’m soldering some leads directly to the chip

glossy prism
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i'd share a photo first before doing that. lots of manufacturers have been moving away from ESPs, so there's a chance it's not flashable

lavish sandal
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@glossy prism does it require the hub (philips hue)

glossy prism
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well no, but it does require a zigbee adapter of some kind

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take a look at the three zigbee integrations in the channel topic in #zigbee-archived , see which one you'd like to use, and choose your zigbee adapter based on that

hollow lance
glossy prism
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ah, whew. that's an ESP

hollow lance
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yeh

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i just suck at soldering, so there's a good chance i'll still fuck it

glossy prism
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people make jigs for that which you can use with electronic test leads

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are there really no pads anywhere on the board though?

hollow lance
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nope

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none

glossy prism
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i'd trace out that 8-pin header

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might save you from soldering a few pins at least

hollow lance
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seems they'd rather no-one messed with it

glossy prism
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yeah. did you see what i said about the header though?

hollow lance
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yeah

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i don't have the equipment for that though, i'm a bit of a novice

glossy prism
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i've gotcha. just requires a multimeter with continuity mode

hollow lance
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yeah i haven't got one of them yet

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it's on my christmas list

glossy prism
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🎅

hollow lance
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bought myself a pinecil, which finally arrived last week

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i'm pretty happy with it, my first soldering iron is way too bulky

glossy prism
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oooo very nice

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i like my TS-100

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heats up insanely quickly

hollow lance
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yeah

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i have an issue with the screen on mine, which i assume has to do with the power supply i'm using

spice kraken
glossy prism
hollow lance
spice kraken
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Sorry for the delay, I'm "working".

hollow lance
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yeah same

glossy prism
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RST isn't needed for flashing though

hollow lance
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does reset need to be grounded as well? i recall seeing that somehwere, but couldn't find where i'd read it

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ah thanks

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i saved an image that suggested RST had to be grounded

glossy prism
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IO0 needs to be grounded, but not RST

hollow lance
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yep

spice kraken
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GPIO0 to GND at boot up

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then it'll go into normal flash mode

glossy prism
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maybe what you saved was for flashing a device with a secondary tuyaMCU which does require nRST on the secondary mcu to be grounded in order to flash the ESP

hollow lance
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possibly

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i'd left the images open in firefox on my phone, but had closed whatever guide i'd been reading

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so no context

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anyway, i'll give it a go when i'm officially off the clock

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thanks

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@glossy prism what power supply do you use for your TS-100?

glossy prism
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I'd have to check...I think it's some generic laptop PSU lol

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One sec

hollow lance
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i've been trying to use my macbook supply, but it must have some smarts built into it to auto-sense what kind of device it's connected to

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the pinecil doesn't like it

glossy prism
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NovelLife NL-72W

hollow lance
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yeah the voltage (i assume) is all over the place

glossy prism
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May🅱️

hollow lance
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starts at 5, increases to 15

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then the screen goes off

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process repeats

hollow lance
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just needed a firmware update, it seems

crimson tulip
hollow lance
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👏

split ledge
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iam searching for these light bulbs that change color temperature if they get dimmed. somebody know how they are called?

zealous dune
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afaik there's dimming = adjusting brightness of the light and then there's color temperature = changing light "warmth"

winged knoll
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Philips Warmglow is what you're looking for

split ledge
glossy prism
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i don't think those exist unfortunately

stoic cedar
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I'm running an Odroid C2 with HassOS. I'm trying to get a wlan stick recognized by the system.. it shows up via lsusb, but there's no wlan0 interface anywhere, and I don't see any means to activate it (along with eth0, not instead)? Can anyone help?

stoic cedar
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Turns out it just doesn't like that specific stick (which is working fine on a raspberry)

tender aurora
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i'm looking for a light that i can use to simulate the sun.. so that it "rises" and "sets" with the same color and tone..

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it's for a hen house

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i know i can do this with LED strips.. but i was more looking for a light bulb solution

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maybe lifx?

winged knoll
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Any smart bulb and Adaptive Lighting

stoic cedar
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is anyone aware of any cheapish rgb wifi strip controllers on aliexpress that actually still use an ESP 8266/8285?

zealous dune
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H801

tender aurora
winged knoll
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WiFi ... blobnauseated

tender aurora
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i only have wifi at the remote location.. i don't have z-wave or zigbee there

winged knoll
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As always, choices do depend on where in the world you live... not that people ever remember that

tender aurora
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norway

tender aurora
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any thoughts about Lifx?

glossy prism
obsidian ice
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Any suggestions for a Zigbee outdoor outlet so I can control holiday decorations? Seems like there’s a lot of WiFi options, but I’d feel weird putting a network device like that outside

winged knoll
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As always, choices do depend on where in the world you live... not that people ever remember that

obsidian ice
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Sorry, I’m in the US

karmic lagoon
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I should be okay going with a 32gb SD card for HA and a few add-ons, right?

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I'm running it on a pi 4

gloomy spoke
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Based on the size? Yes

karmic lagoon
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Awesome

tender aurora
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Anyone used lifx?

civic kraken
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just keep backups @karmic lagoon in case the SD card decides to die (it will)

karmic lagoon
civic kraken
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SD cards don't like constant writing which is what HA does

karmic lagoon
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Ah

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Think I could use an SSD? I've got a USB adapter for one

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@civic kraken

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Or will a pi not boot off that?

civic kraken
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I think SSD on a Pi is relatively common. I'm sure there are people here who can give advice on that. There's also ways to limit the burden on the SD card, but it's definitely something to keep in mind and backups are a crucial part in it

karmic lagoon
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Hmm... at this point it almost sounds better to build a PC

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Meh. I'll do this for now

civic kraken
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Nuc is what I went with to avoid most of the issues. Similar price (used) but x86 is still quite nice and SSD support doesn't cost extra

karmic lagoon
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I guess a more apt question would be is there a pi 400 minus the keyboard

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er... wait. That'd probably have the same issue

stable scaffold
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Can I ask questions about setting up my NodeMCU in ESPhomeFlasher here or would that go better somewhere else? Thanks in advance

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I think I figured it out. Problem was serial port wasn't showing in software. I downloaded a driver and now it is listed

spice kraken
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@zealous dune fixed my Wheatstone loadcell bridge, you will be pleased to hear lol, just thought I'd share that it was because these ones appear to be wired up differently, and the green (black in other models) wire was the excitation and voltage instead of red.. simple solve, lots of time wasted, but happy camper.

valid frigate
# obsidian ice Sorry, I’m in the US

I have a outdoor socket on my wall (standard weather proof one) but its wired in via normal cable in house to traditional socket (I made it this way so I could unplug it when I go on holiday) but since I started on this smart home experience I now have a ZigBee plug before it turning both the outside std weatherproofed sockets into smart ones

drifting grove
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Hey. I have a Pi4 and recently updated to the latest HA version and something is running in the background that is spiking my Pi's CPU temperature. I can't find anything that might be causing this. Ideas?

unknown.png
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nothing out of the ordinary that would raise the temp on the CPU

unknown.png
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only a reboot brings it back down to normal at around 55C but then something kicks and you can see it hit the 74C unless I trigger a reboot.

static beacon
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Ik searching for an esp32 with a better wifi connection. I have tried allot of them but I come to the conclusion that there is a terrible difference in quality of these boards. Some keep connection very good others are close to a router and disconnect all the time. I have been looking for esp32's with a separate antenna but I can only find esp8266 ones with such an antenna. Does anyone here have experience with good boards. And maybe found an esp32 with external antenna?

sand marsh
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@static beacon - If you have the capability to use it, ESP-7 has external antenna port, but I don't think you can get it as a full development board (i.e you will need a serial programmer and work out how to deliver 3.3v to it)
Sorry noticed you are specifically after esp32

static beacon
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But I'm not sure if an external antenna really is this much better

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I have experienced that a wifi antenna on a circuitboard works better when it is free from the mainboard

mint night
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Hi all! I have TKB Home switches, TZ66D and after we got back from vacation I notice that one of them is just blinking it's lights and does not respond to pressing buttons. I think it stopped working with original ZWave integration. So I migrated to ZWaveJS and thought I'd just re-add it and maybe it would fix the issue. However it showed up with ZWaveJS, but something weird happens now. It still does not work when pressed, it still blinks, but if I try to turn it on through Hass - it turns on for a moment and turns off immediately. Not in Hass - the switch itself clicks like it would normally, it turns on the light and then immediately shuts off.

It was not touched by anyone ever since it was initially installed. Any ideas? Is it dead?

sand marsh
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Temp spikes

tepid heart
static beacon
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And small form factor! Thanks

tepid heart
tender aurora
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anyone tested the lifx bulbs?

little gorge
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From what I gather the shelly pro like doesn't have both NO and NC connections for relays?

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I'd love to keep standard switching capability that is in no way dependent on the electronics

tepid heart
little gorge
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Basically I'm looking for sth I can wire up like this

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Wait I can't put an image

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Well this

uneven dirge
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Hello!
I'm brand new to HA I've ordered an amber kit but since it's not delivery until spring I'd like to start learning now.
I have ordered a compute module 4 that I will have to amber kit now is my question if I can put it on an IO card for so long and be able to run HA on this and then transfer the compute module to Amber when it comes? Like this or simpler
https://se.rs-online.com/web/p/raspberry-pi/2064868/?cm_mmc=SE-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_-PLA_SE_SE_Raspberry_Pi_%26_Arduino_%26_Development_Tools_Whoop-_-(SE:Whoop!)+Raspberry+Pi-_-2064868&matchtype=&pla-338638495366&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqp-LBhDQARIsAO0a6aLppUzgQed5tLBoU7vjaAPeqlCSHsgEFrSOlD0nyuSXMSQ0mOamvqgaAiDaEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

tender aurora
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happy with them?

frosty rose
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I'm needing new motion sensors. i have smartthings hub, what is better zigbee or zwave?

civic kraken
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zigbee can be quite cheap with stuff like the xiaomi sensors

frosty rose
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looking at sonoffs at the mo, are xiami cheaper/better?

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$25 for 4

civic kraken
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I wouldn't know, I only have a couple of Xiaomi ones

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They work perfectly though

frosty rose
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cool. thanks i'll take them into consideration 🙂 think its going to be one of those two by the looks of it. what hub are you using?

zealous dune
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don't buy sonoffs, you'll regret it

civic kraken
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I use a CC2531 module from Sonoff. Works just fine for my small apartment

trail dawn
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@tender aurora I have been using lifx bulbs for about a year, those are very stable and integrate well with homeassistant. Very happy with them.

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@tender aurora the integration is local so +1 for avoiding the cloud.

sick sable
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Does a Coral accelerator have a better false positive (for lack of a better word) rate than what Frigate uses by default? I've noticed some false negatives (IE doesn't record a person when one shows up)

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I'm not sure which accelerator to get since I don't know what the port is called in my NUC, it used to have some sort of ssd (not the 2.5" style)

tepid heart
# tender aurora happy with them?

HA integration works very well, no issues. The lights themselves are very bright and have good colour and reasonable CRI. The only minor issue I have is that the GU10 globes have pretty weak wifi. One or two (of dozens) sometimes are not found straight after Home Assistant starts. However they are all eventually found within a minute or so. The A60 and BR30 lights don't seem to have this issue.

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Don't pay full price you can always find them on sale if you wait a month or two.

snow phoenix
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Question,

a P1 reader the "SlimmeLezer" would it be able read the data of my solar panels aswell as its connected to my smart meter?

echo gate
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how should i place my hue motion sensor to get accurate light levels and use this for automations? My lights turn on and off bcuz the lights changes the light level too much

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(an i still want to use motion sensor in some way ofc

grand cedar
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What is a good motion detector to use with Home Assistant? Is there a place listing recommended hardware actually?
I am in Japan and currently using a Tradfri gateway with a few lights + a Nature Remo IR blaster that I just did the integration for

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The motion detector I can get the easiest way is the Ikea Tradfri motion detector. How hard is it to interface it with Home Assistant for automation?

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Would that need a ConBee II + running the deCONZ add-on? If I use the Ikea Tradfri gateway, is it impossible for me to use one its sensors for my own automation?

undone haven