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main cypress
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Just kidding 😛

zealous dune
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just add a zigbee button 😛

jovial pulsar
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It's incredible how so many manufacturers ignore this essential function for a fraction of a cent lower unit cost.

main cypress
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As long as it doesn't look like a frankenstein on the socket ...
Have to keep the wAF high 😄

zealous dune
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and more incredible how consumers don't care for such an option

jovial pulsar
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Yeah

main cypress
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Have a week to look around as I'm quarantaining (by my own choice)

fossil perch
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As a work-around to having no neutral wires at my 3-way switches I have a Shelly 1 with wall switches wired to SW and the load wired to O. The Shelly is loaded with Tasmota 10.0.0. It is working great when HA is available. Is there any way to make the Shelly default to just toggle the power on the output based on the switch input when HA is unavailable?

main cypress
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Should be doable in ESPHome

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I used to do that with a sonoff too....

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Dunno if I still have the sketch somewhere .... (all is in boxes because of the move)

drifting grove
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Hi, I have homeassistant running on a Nuc. Since a few days HA keeps crashing every 15 minutes. The RAM keeps increasing to 100% en then HA crashes. Where can i find witch part increases the RAM?

fringe moon
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Your installation method can help you

gloomy spoke
winged knoll
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I'd be betting on an add-on more than an integration

fossil perch
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@drifting grove What have you recently installed?

gloomy spoke
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Your installation method can help you

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Just a bunch of guesses otherwise

drifting grove
winged knoll
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Head over to your install method channel and explain the problem then somebody can help you further

mellow copper
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Hi guys, new to HA and i'm looking for a bit of advice.

I'm looking to expand a pretty basic setup and before i buy any more things i kind of want to learn a little bit more about compatability.

I have currently HA Running on a Virtual machine, a Hue hub and a bunch of hue lights, some IKEA lights, TP-link wi-fi plugs and Hive thermostat.

Now that I'm looking to intergrate sensors like door sensors, motion thermometers and i notice alot of them say "only compatible with XXX Zigbee bridge"

Does HA pick them up using the zigbee radio on the hue hub and let them work or do i still need a bunch of different hubs? (or a reccomedation for hub/setup)

My goal for HA is to only have to have 1 point of interaction for a lot of these things rather than a million apps hubs and such.

(Also apoligies if this is the wrong place for this question)

winged knoll
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The Hue Hub would have to support those

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The smart approach is to ditch the hub - buy a Zigbee stick and use ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT

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

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

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winged knoll
mellow copper
# winged knoll The Hue Hub would have to support those

Figured as much, done a bit of reading and that did seem like the best way to acheive a wide compatability. I was kind of still holding out for a "Oh no if you do this some magic happens and it all works"

was hoping to get a smart assistant working first, then move to a pi 4 and zigbee stick. but simes like i mght have to change tack

Cheers for the input!

frosty rose
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anyone have any recommendations for LED RGB outdoor spotlights/floodlights that work well with HA? (uk but it probably doesn't matter too much these days

vernal nova
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Hi, will aqara switch h1 works like regular switch in case of home assistant outage? Or am I screwed in this case and without lights? :)

fringe moon
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Since it is a wall switch it still continue to physically work

little sparrow
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seems like there is no support which is suprising

zealous dune
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Or is their pick the surprising part

little sparrow
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i'm amazed of all the locks they picked that one tbh

worldly barn
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What would everyone recommend for a smart robot vacuum that works with HA.
I really want a self cleaning dock and integrations to be able to start it when everyone’s away or something.

The shark IQ RV101AE seems to fit the mold for the price.

Looking for suggestions.

zealous dune
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Never heard

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Look into more known brands like Roborock, Xiaomi, Viomi

worldly barn
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Shark is a huge vacuum brand that’s why I looked at them.

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I don’t know if any of those offer the base for auto dump

zealous dune
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You can find out

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My Viomi S9 UV does

hollow lance
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Roborock has got stupidly expensive

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I remember when you could get the v1 for around $300aud

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When it was new

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Now the S7 is $1200!

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The auto clean dock is another $700

worldly barn
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Yeah the S7 is 700 bucks US. That’s quite a bit lol.

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The viomi looks nice but no dock that I can find

limpid canopy
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Hi, I'm a developer that's investigating smart light switches and whatnot. Due to its lower price point I've been eyeing Kasa, but, to some extent I fear that I'll get what I pay for haha.
Primarily I'd like to be able to set things up so that at different times of day the default behavior of a dimmer switch will be different .Primarily things like, lower brightness at night by default. Also potentially looking to use motion detection in certain areas. Anyway, I'm a bit new at this sort of environment so, I'm not certain if Kasa would fit the bill for letting me code up those sorts of behaviors (whether in home assistant or some other platform), so curious if anyone has knowledge of such things. Thank you

winged knoll
static beacon
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I am looking for a zigbee thereostat valve where the position can be set instead of the temperature. Does anyone know a valve?

winged knoll
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Did you consult the pinned messages in #zigbee-archived - the ones with the lists of known working hardware?

static beacon
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Yeah I searched there didn't look at all of them to be honest. But all the ones I saw have a position that cannot be set only read as a sensor. The problem is that my radiators are behind a wooden housing. So in there it's becoming very hot. If I set the temperature then in no time these valves will close. I would like to set the position so that it stays open until the sensor in the room meets the temp i want

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And set the position myself. I hoped some one read this with the same issue and found a valve that had this function

winged knoll
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I wouldn't expect any to work that way. What you'll probably have to do is set the target temperature to the maximum when you want them on, and then lower when you want them off

static beacon
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Yes I guess that's the only way

supple flint
fossil perch
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How bad is the HUZBZB-1? I just saw that it's no longer recommended but it's what I'm using and it is working well for now but I'm expanding relatively quickly right now.

winged knoll
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Not bad just not something to buy if you're starting out

fossil perch
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So no need to rush out and buy 2 new sticks

winged knoll
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No

limpid canopy
winged knoll
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Yes, because if the hardware of that light doesn't support it then there's nothing HA can do

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Most people want to set the brightness of a light that's off, which makes no sense

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You can write an automation, or custom component, to do things like you described

limpid canopy
winged knoll
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Smart switches can't dim 😛

limpid canopy
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a dimmer switch ;p

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if we're being technical

winged knoll
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You can't set defaults if the hardware doesn't support it

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You can however take control

limpid canopy
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because I looked at their stuff and haven't found anything definitive

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winged knoll
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I've seen nothing to say it does, but I hate things that are cloud only

limpid canopy
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maybe you'll tell me I'm asking in the wrong place which is fine, but that's my question

elder lotus
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I bought my first Tuya device a Deltaco sh-op01 outdoor plug . I thought they would be easily changed the firmware but that does not seem to be the case any more. What is the best approach to integrate it into home assistant (and also preferably not send my entire network information to China 😄 )

sweet nexus
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what kind of receiver do you use for that?

glossy prism
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a software-defined radio (SDR) with rtl_433

sweet nexus
glossy prism
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Something similar, yeah

sweet nexus
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are there pros/cons vs using the sonoff zigbee sensors? the options I'm finding seem very similar

winged knoll
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Some of them are ... junk

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It's worth doing a search on the specific model you're interested in, but personally I'd buy Xiaomi Aqara

elder lotus
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is local-tuya the same as the integrated official tuya?

winged knoll
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No

rugged venture
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Anyone have any thoughts on controlling a space heater to determine room occupancy and temperature?

stoic light
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Hey guys, new HA user here (have some mild home automation experience). I have it set up via Virtualbox on a NUC, and am using a Nortek Z-wave stick to (try to) control my Schlage locks. I have the deadbolt added but dont seem to be able to control it from Home Assistant, it just seems like it can ping it to see that its still on the z-wave network. Any ideas? I think when it added it said it did not add "securely", but I am unsure how to remedy that?

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I can not remove it from my Z-wave network either because it is still responding to pings

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And I do not have "Add Node" as an option (which is what all the guides say), just "Add Device", along with Devices, Entities, Remove Device, Health Network, and Reconfigure Server

tacit pilot
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I'm having problems with lights flickering at certain temperatures and brightnesses. I'm pretty sure it isn't a problem with the bulbs, but just rather that it's an old apartment. I just moved in recently. Has anyone else ever come across this or know a way to combat it?

pallid mulch
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Hey guys. I just got a Zigbee RGB strip controller, but it seems that the green and blue channels are swapped between my controller and LED strip. Is there any way to abstract this away in Home Assistant / swap color channels in software? I'd rather not have to solder the pins.

tacit pilot
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NUC VM

pallid mulch
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Also, if you have dimmer switches feeding the lights, sometimes the dimmer switches can wear out.

tacit pilot
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What do you mean exactly about the dimmer switch? Wear out in what way that would cause this?

pallid mulch
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I don't know the mechanism exactly, I just know that some dimmer switches mechanically wear out over time. I've seen dimmer switches drive flickering LED bulbs before. Try wiggling the dimmer switch a bit and see if it causes flickering. That should give you an answer.

tacit pilot
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So at certain levels it just seems unstable

old hazel
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Hi hi, not sure if anyone has asked already, but has anyone maybe a list or something of sorts with good home tech deals for this week? I want to see what I can buy.

For some extra data:
I'm from NC, USA.
Probably looking to spend 400 usd
not really about the tech, just want to aim for local control and good stability with homeassistant

smart lights, switches, sensors, outlets and others is fine

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Might have smart switches as priority, been looking at inoveli, but I see no deals on it, and a bit scared of going with kasa, since I have some kasa outlets and they have been unstable, going offline from time to time, on homeassistant (although I think last few updates fixed this issue?)

upper yoke
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can the google hub gen 2 run a HAS ui lovelace?

winged knoll
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You can cast Lovelace to it, sure

fringe moon
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Would you want to though

plucky barn
foggy gulch
fossil perch
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I have a forced air furnace with plans to add AC. I prefer ZWave or Zigbee but I am not totally against What thermostats are recommended to use in Canada with HA these days?

fossil perch
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Is there any reason to get one which uses a cloud integration such as Ecobee or something basic and let HA do all the work?

inland acorn
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Does anyone here have the new Aqara Hub E1 (Model HE1-G01)?

zealous dune
fossil perch
zealous dune
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Local control is always better

fossil perch
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I get that. I also assume that Ecobee et al will default to some usable mode when there is no access to their cloud. I am asking if any of them actually bring anything to the table that is hard to do or can't be done in HA.

gloomy spoke
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You could recreate the Ecobee programming, but it does a good job on its own

fossil perch
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I suspect a relatively basic "smart" thermostat will be just as good along with HA.

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However I have no experience at all with thermostats beyond simple models with a schedule.

gloomy spoke
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You can always DIY

fossil perch
gloomy spoke
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I do. It’s nice, especially with the remote sensors

vague rampart
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Does anyone hear know HVAC wiring? Just want to check my nest install, since heating hasn’t been working so well (only does heat stage 2? Feels super weak on most vents)

upper yoke
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is there any such way to perform tasks via hand gestures? maybe via webcam interface or something

coarse quarry
zealous dune
gentle fossil
deft valley
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Anyone try Dusun Home Assistant Gateway yet ?

fossil perch
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I'm looking for doorbell camera recommendations for HA, preferably local.

fringe moon
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$20 poe camera + $5 zigbee button is my recommendation

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😄

fossil perch
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I forgot one requirement; the wife will only accept professional looking devices in the open.

gentle fossil
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peephole camera and zigbee/zwave switch, you don‘t even see it and can use the original doorbell button

fossil perch
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Any peephole camera recommendations?

gentle fossil
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heavily depends on the size of the hole in the door

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if its small you might have to go with a analogue camera

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which is not a problem, just convert the stream to h264/rtsp with a composite usb grabber and any pi

fossil perch
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Do they all have the ability to work as a motion detector at night to use as a HA sensor to turn on lights?

gentle fossil
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mine works pretty good at night even without infrared

you can use whatever camera you have for motion detection with the motion project

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except… wireless cameras. those suck

fossil perch
gentle fossil
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battery powered

fossil perch
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That makes sense.

hot sun
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I need convincing. Found deals on 50% off on the following and can't decide between the two.
2x Nest Hubs or 2 Nest Audios or 1 each? They are all €100 🤔

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(I do have one hub already)

drifting crown
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Recommendations for Switches? I'm in the USA, budget is medium (want quality, but don't want to break the bank too much), probably going Z-wave, would like dimming and ease of use for guests that don't know anything about automation

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probably looking at Leviton or Inovelli, and then also need to pick out a z-wave hub that I will eventually integrate with a home assistant server

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drifting grove
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Hi All, I've recently set up home assistant for the first time and I'm super happy with it 🙂
Almost all devices worked out of the box and after a bit of tinkering i've already got some automation in place. The only issue I currently have is with the bme280 component: I believe that I have set it up correctly and also enabled i2c, but it still gives an error during core startup:

Error during setup of component bme280
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/setup.py", line 254, in _async_setup_component
result = await task
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/bme280/init.py", line 90, in async_setup
bme280_config = config[DOMAIN]
KeyError: 'bme280'

Any ideas on how to track this down? I've already asked for help on the forum: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/i2c-error-during-setup-of-component-bme280/348497/3?u=happymaker

I'm using core-2021.11.4 on Home Assistant OS 6.6 on a raspberry pi 3 model B.

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drifting grove
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🙂 I did but unfortunately I only have a shallow understanding of the home assistant framework. Do you have any idea where the missing entry in the 'config' dictionary would be added normally?

glossy prism
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@fossil perch I like my amcrest ad110. RTSP and local motion notifications

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ad410 is the newer model, but it's only rated down to 14F and not -22F like the ad110. Not sure that would matter for you though

fossil perch
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The odd year it stays that low for a week or two.

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14F is a very nice day in the winter here.

cloud hull
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What are some popular smart lights rn?
Have Wifi and Zigbee, want nice whites and can spend quite a lot on it, but it shouldn't be too overpriced
(I'm in europe btw)

solid geyser
winged knoll
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Bluetooth mesh bulb

Google suggests there's some custom components, whether they work with those or not I have no idea

merry hound
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Hi together. Does HA can use HT? Maybe i will buy a minipc with a i3-5010m but it only has 2C/4T. I already own a RaspberryPi4. Should i stay on the PI? In the near future i want to use cameras with HA

fringe moon
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HA itself doesn't care about the architecture or subset of instructions

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anything will be an upgrade from a pi

merry hound
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So HA will see this configuration as 6 cores then?

fringe moon
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HA will see nothing

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the underlying OS and scheduler will

merry hound
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yeah ok, but as a 6 core, right? 😄

fringe moon
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and that would be 4 logical CPUs, 2 physical

merry hound
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Do you think it will be a good setup for cameras? I always read that cameras will need much performance.

fringe moon
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I run 3 cameras on my small docker host, with coral for detection

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let me find my cpu

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eirikz@kakuzu ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep model
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz
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Let's throw in a pi there too

merry hound
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Thank you

fringe moon
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adding a coral will be very helpful for detection

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one coral will easily scale to 10-20 cameras depending on level of motion

clever bridge
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Coral

boreal bluff
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anyone aware of a a device which will occupy a plug socket (size of a usb charger etc) and do zigbee routing but also provide thermostat ?

glossy prism
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what do you mean by "provide thermostat"?

winged knoll
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#zigbee-archived would be a good place to ask that though - having checked the pinned messages

pallid thistle
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Any recommendations on Thermostatic Radiator Valves that work with HomeAssistant? - If they report back their temperature that would be great too.
I'm in the UK,
Looking for Wifi devices
Budget is best value, really, nothing crazy expensive, but conversely i don't want something I'll have to replace in six months. Something for around £100ish for about six radiators.

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

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
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drifting grove
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I have an esp8266 wemons board flashed with tasmota
it runs 2 servos via pwm and in the simple tasmota web ui, I get to slider to control the 2 servos and all is fine

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no I have integrated them in HASS but get ony one cover and not 2

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allthough all vaules for taget position and directon are there for both shutters

merry hound
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i bought a nuc with a j5005 a few minutes ago. should i install homeassistant os or is it possible to run homeassistant as a vm in windows?

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its very solid to use windows 10 on this little machine, but when the vm is much slower than bare metal i would switch

winged knoll
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Why would you want to run Windows on it?

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If you must use VMs use something like Proxmox

merry hound
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because my main desktop uses 100watt for work and this little nuc 10 🙂 but the main reason that i bougjt this machine was homeassistant. dont know if should go with homeassistant os or if the vm will work in windows

winged knoll
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It'll work, but ... why would you add the massive overhead of Windows?

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It's like hooking up a caravan to your car for every drive

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I mean, you can, but it's not smart

merry hound
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like i said. i think there is no problem to use this machine for my work. so i can save 90watt

winged knoll
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If you're going to ignore the advice, why did you bother asking?

merry hound
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you ask my why 🙂 but if you or the other people tell me its stupid, because bare metal is so much faster i will use it. it was just a question 👍

winged knoll
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Then, once more...

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It is stupid

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But hey, you do you

gloomy spoke
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Seeking affirmation that is not on offer….

winged knoll
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Please only answer if you agree with me

blobcsignno

merry hound
winged knoll
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I'd say there's hope for you yet, but the jury is still out on that...

merry hound
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for you its clear, but there are people out there like me that dont know stuff like that. i will try not to ask next time 😉

winged knoll
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I said don't do it three times before you listened

hollow lance
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white pebble
# bright jacinth

Not sure why this was tagged as a code wall, maybe just the length of the message? In any case, really appreciate any input and advice on this as I design a large-scale HA system 🙂

proven girder
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If you’re selling in the medium term why would you keep investing. How do you intend for the new owners to take it on, will you provide them with HA all setup, or just the zigbee stuff, or revert it all back?

white pebble
winged knoll
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  1. You can move all those Hue lights to either ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT - see the #zigbee-archived channel
  2. I'd seriously suggest you start using (Zigbee) groups for those lights and expose only the group, not the individual lights. Then pick your UI.
    3 Selling a smart home is hard - there's forum threads touching on it, but the market for this and your chosen solution is very small
boreal bluff
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install free vmware on the NUC

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vmware will never break, home assistant OS.. you may occasionally need console level access, which is easily done with vmware and vmware will add little overhead

fringe moon
white pebble
winged knoll
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No, you wouldn't

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Zigbee groups means that you send one command to a bunch of lights - performs better by far

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Exposing (as in, letting HomeKit/Google Assistant/whatever) only see the groups means that you don't overwhelm that app. Instead of 200 individual lights, it sees (say) 20

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You only need to expose/share individual lights when you actually need people to be able to control them individually. IMO the whole point of HA is that you do as little manual control as possible.

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Automation is the point

white pebble
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Makes sense. What’s the process by which I only expose a Zigbee group to, say, HomeKit? Is it possible to only expose a group as a Philips Hue room / zone to the Philips Hue app, such that it only sees groups?

In terms of making it most user friendly for future buyers, gauging whether HA could be more of the high performance backend while the user only interacts through a simplified grouping in Philips Hue app and / or HomeKit.

winged knoll
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You can pick what is/isn't exposed

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I don't think you can use the Hue app with HA, but I've never had any interest in finding out

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Keep in mind that HA isn't some finished commercial solution that works by magic. It requires care and attention - particularly if you're using cloud services with it. That will put off many people.

Of course, if you design things so that they work with HA switched off (which isn't hard it just takes thought) then that solves that problem.

white pebble
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Thanks. Based on the yaml, looks like there is a lot of flexibility in what gets exposed to HomeKit.

Regarding performance: wouldn’t I see similar performance HA vs. pure HomeKit if I use HomeKit’s native groups / rooms feature as opposed to controlling individual lights? Or does the grouping abstraction from HA he’ll greatly reduce the load on HomeKit in this regard?

I’m most concerned about HomeKit’s performance and ability to scale given how unresponsive my current setup is with just 200 devices, but perhaps heavier use of HomeKit groups, zones and rooms could help.

Speaking of HomeKit performance, do you know if designating, say, a Mac Mini M1 as a HomeKit hub vs. a less powerful device like a HomePod would result in better performance? I know this is less an HA question than HomeKit, but just trying to gauge how I can set up these two ecosystems for convenience and performance.

I personally don’t mind maintaining a HA setup and investing the time to learn to do so effectively, but I want to make sure I’m selecting the right tech, hardware, etc. for it to perform well and reliably at scale.

winged knoll
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Performance: Both

  1. You're exposing a fraction of the devices, that makes HomeKit's life easier
  2. When you turn on 20 lights that's 20 commands. Unless that's a Zigbee group, when it's one command.
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I have no idea about HomeKit hardware... wouldn't touch it with any length of pole 😛

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I expose a handful of entities to Google Assistant, for use with voice control or the app. The vast majority aren't, since it's all automated.

white pebble
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Makes sense. How would scenes work in this case? If I expose Zigbee groups only to HomeKit, can I also expose scenes affecting the individual lights in those groups to HomeKit as HomeKit native scenes?

winged knoll
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#integrations-archived would know more about HomeKit - beyond what's in the docs anyway. At least if you can find other HomeKit users

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The docs say that scene is exposed as a switch, which makes sense

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Those, or scripts, can do whatever you want. They run in HA, not in HomeKit

white pebble
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Awesome I’ll check that out and post there.

Is interference from multiple bridges / gateways something I should be concerned about? Another user had advised not using multiple Hue bridges for that reason and attempting to find a Zigbee USB gateway that could handle a higher number of devices.

winged knoll
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Yes - and any of the #zigbee-archived options (assuming you don't buy a rubbish coordinator) will handle hundreds of devices

white pebble
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Sounds good will ask for recommendations in that channel. Thanks a lot for your help!

proven girder
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Hmm this looks decent https://www.powerpal.net/ (mainly because it’s free) but it doesn’t seem to be a way to get it into HA. Do you think there’s a way to hack it to read or wait until they bring out an API (if at all)

fossil perch
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I'm searching for a ZigBee or ZWave thermostat in Canada. I have a 24v forced air furnace. Many of the value options, such as Tuya and Moes, don't seem to be compatible to my system. Am I missing something?

pearl verge
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Not sure if this is more suited for #energy-archived or here. Are there any smart plugs out there that are built for higher power things like a space heater (and if so, what keywords/terms do I need to search for to find them)?

I’d like to use a combination of a node with a temperature sensor and an automation to kick on the space heater in my computer room when it gets chilly, but the idea of space heater plugged into smart plug just sounds like a catastrophe waiting to happen unless I can find a plug made for that kind of thing.

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

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
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winged knoll
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I'd have no issues, in the UK, but it sounds like maybe you're not in the UK?

pearl verge
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I’m in the US, yeah

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I haven’t really narrowed down anything specific yet, just trying to figure out what options there are out there

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One more specific thing I do wanna ask about though

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Wyze vacuum is on sale today and I’ve been eyeing it

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Think it’s worth the buy at $219?

zealous dune
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is that purchase....

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wyze???

pearl verge
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Not too concerned about local vs. cloud control or anything at the moment

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I got a cat a month ago and since then I have realized that there are many more little dust and dirt objects on the floors than a human will notice lol

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So I just want to see how I like a robovac

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Damn autocorrect

white badge
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Anyone added prime cables yellow smart plug into local tuya ?

drifting grove
vernal nova
sonic tundra
sage flower
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Hi! Not sure if this should be in #330990055533576204 or here. I'm new to Home Assistant, VirtualBox, and Linux. I managed to set up and install Home Assistant and have been playing around with it the last few days. It is installed on a Linux machine (Debian 11) on VirtualBox using the Home Assistant .vdi file. I haven't turned off the virtual machine or Linux machine. However, I need to physically unplug my computer to move some stuff on my desk and I need to install some packages on Linux so I need to reboot the device anyways. I am terrified of turning off the virtual machine improperly and it not working again. I have researched this a lot, but couldn't find a straight answer for my situation (maybe because I am so new and timid a user). I have backups of Home Assistant saved on Google Drive if that is relevant. How do I shut down Home Assistant properly? If I turn off my virtual machine, would I just be able to start it up again in a headless start (which it is currently) and be fine? Would I have to restore a backup?

fringe moon
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Make a backup

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Move that backup somewhere else

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Then move

sage flower
#

ok so every time my virtual machine shuts down (lets say a power outage) I have to restore my home assistant from a backup?

fringe moon
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No

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Hopefully not

haughty dragon
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How do zigbee wall switches without neutral work, power-wise?
Do they have a battery in them to stay alive when the lights are turned off? Or ....

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Sadly the switches I'm looking to replace don't have a neutral wire, and drawing one does not seem to be feasible (spot lights in the ceiling with inaccessible wiring)

winged knoll
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They keep drawing power

main ivy
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I have an automation to set the color of some Tuya bulbs but I cannot get it to switch back to White mode. I think I need to set the color_mode attribute but cannot figure out how to set the attribute. Any advice?

worldly goblet
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Hi there, I'm searching some motion detector for my inside to switch on/off lights. I know there is tons of it but I need some that won't detect my cats 🙂 or some that I can configure sensibility. If it should be ZigBee device it will be perfect !

fading rivet
#

i'm looking for a device that tells home assistant when a sump pump is drawing current... anyone experienced with this?

worldly goblet
#

@fading rivet Have you glance a look at shelly plug ?

fading rivet
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not yet.

worldly goblet
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I think it can do the job you're looking at

fading rivet
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i think that will say whether or not the plug is in the on/off state but i doubt it will say if the circuit is actually drawing current

worldly goblet
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yes there is a power consumption meter integrated

fading rivet
#

any chance you could send me a link to the particular device you're taking about?

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nevermind. i just saw where it says that.

worldly goblet
bold flax
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Anyone happen to know the difference between LS5050C and LS2812B led controllers?

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@zealous dune perhaps you have some insight?

glossy prism
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The 5050 controller supports analog RGB LED strips; the 2812 controller supports WS2812 addressable LEDs

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@bold flax

bold flax
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Okay great. That makes sense.

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WS2812 are probably more versatile aren't they?

eternal gust
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yes

viscid frigate
#

Anyone know how to configure how often I want the energy sensors from my tuya plugs to be updated in HA. Because as it is now it does not update and that is pretty useless aint it

astral flower
#

What’s the HA solution for a video door bell without a subscription? Like ring but free #cameras-archived

fringe moon
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Any camera and smart button

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I use a regular $20 Poe camera + $4 ZigBee button, other people use peephole cameras

astral flower
fringe moon
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Both of mine are under a half roof, but live outdoors in +35c - -35c in all weather

astral flower
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There should be ip44 buttons out there

sonic tundra
#

Hi. Beginner here looking for hardware advice. I was hoping to pick up a HA Blue but getting the ones that are still available shipped to the Netherlands is quite expensive. Alternatively I was thinking to buy a PI4 with 4GB of ram and connect a spare SSD to it since from what I read the SD cards tend to die quickly when used by the PI?. Any advice?

winged knoll
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Any 64 bit capable system from the last decade will be better than a Pi

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An old laptop is ideal since it has a built in UPS

sonic tundra
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Yeah I was also considering my 13" Macbook from mid 2010. But that will consume a lot more power..

winged knoll
#

More more, capable of more, and more reliable

fringe moon
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It will probably also have 400% better uptime

sonic tundra
#

ok. and apart from pi, are there be another less power consuming alternatives? maybe a nuc?

winged knoll
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An old laptop and a NUC likely consume similar power levels

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Remember, the laptop screen is a big power drain - with it off the power draw will be a lot lower

sonic tundra
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Fair point

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I’ll try out the mac first.

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And there's no way to run HA directly on the macbook right? Always needs Virtualbox in between. Would running linux instead of MacOS be better?

fringe moon
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If you can install linux

sonic tundra
fringe moon
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Add-ons are just docker containers

civic kraken
#

you can do an unsupported installation of supervised, but that's "unsupported"

fringe moon
#

With unicorn poop on them

winged knoll
sonic tundra
#

I think I'll just go with the VirtualBox option. Supervised add-on installation sounds nice

worldly goblet
hollow lance
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I’m not aware of one that detects people but not animals

wind vale
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Anyone using HA as a docker on Synology?

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Looking at simple solutions for my parents

zealous dune
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There are some ZigBee motion detectors that claim they're pet immune

wind vale
#

The Ikea one picks our cats up

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You can tape the bottom of the lens though, just a small bit, to make it cat immune

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and we are talking about 3-4kg cats, not heckin chonkers

worldly goblet
#

it could be 12-15 kg with main-coon 🙂

wind vale
#

would still be picked up

worldly goblet
#

the best option would be to have detector on which sensibility can be set in HA

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but I haven't found for the moment

gloomy spoke
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I haven't been able to find a happy medium between sensitivity for me at long range and avoiding picking up my cats

worldly goblet
#

I hope someone has a solution..... Hope.....

crisp mauve
#

For the first time, I have the kind of aircon with a remote that has a small display showing the temperature, cooling mode, fan settings etc. I was lucky to find an working device code for SmartIR (1261, the model is WH-TA03NE, which isn't listed but was similar to one that is) so I'm all set for the integration, but I'm not sure I understand how the hardware itself works. If possible, I'd like to query the aircon to make sure all the settings are as expected. I don't think this is possible since it appears that the remote only transmits and the aircon only receives. Has anyone got more experience with these and can offer some insight?

fast basalt
eternal gust
#

oh yeah. Today is a good day.

eternal gust
eternal gust
eternal gust
wind vale
eternal gust
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he was 15, so he did pretty well. Lived a life of luxury and cuddles

hollow lance
eternal gust
hollow lance
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Mixed results at alerting me when the dog gets into the pantry though

eternal gust
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hall sensor on the pantry door 🙂

hollow lance
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Haha if only it were so simple

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He cannot be stopped

eternal gust
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hahahaa, he can get into that quicker than either me or my 4 year old son 🙂

hollow lance
#

Cattle dogs… 🙄

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I think I might need a combo of door sensor, motion sensor and Bluetooth presence sensor. He has a BLE tag on his collar

eternal gust
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ah cool

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seems like you need one of those collars from UP!

crisp mauve
eternal gust
crisp mauve
#

Was really glad to find Smart IR and not have to do all that by hand.

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I've been using my broadlink with a bunch of media devices that all seem to just send a single command per button press 😅

hollow lance
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i have a couple of ceiling fans with RF remotes which I was trying to control with a broadlink RM pro+

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ended up giving up

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the codes would work maybe one time in five attempts

valid frigate
worldly goblet
lament stream
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Any recommendations for smart radiator thermostat that can be integrated to HA?

#

Looking for Zigbee ones that would work without a hub or with the Echo 4th gen

valid frigate
valid frigate
old hazel
#

hey does anyone has a recommendation for a temp and humidity sensor cheaper than 50 usd that will work outside, I live in NC, USA and we can get temperature from 20 to 95 F. Currently I have a sonoff temp sensor and it goes offline when it is too cold out. I don't need anything overkill like the tempest weather system. Main reason is to monitor my garden temperature as well as to figure out if its an appropriate temp/humd to open the windows.

fringe moon
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I use aqara ones outside

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Works in my greenhouse up to 45 I think

indigo bramble
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for hass os what is the most powerfull board, a rpi4 8gb or the hass blue? or wont i need the 4gb over the 4gb pi

fringe moon
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Anything else than a pi

indigo bramble
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hahha

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well my personal hassos setup on my laptop isnt going strong

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display doesnt turn off

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also suddenly goes down

fringe moon
hollow lance
#

why such hate for the pi?

gloomy spoke
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it's underpowered and slow, the default SD card storage is slow and prone to failure, power supplies tend to be poor quality and also prone to failure

hollow lance
#

the yellow solves all these problems except processing power?

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as an aside, i'd love to know what people are doing to their sd cards to make them fail

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in the past 10 years i've had maybe 15~ pi's and never had a single sd card failure

gloomy spoke
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constant database writes

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and yes, eMMC or SSD addresses the performance and longevity issues (and SSD is better than eMMC)

hollow lance
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🤔

coarse spade
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Recommendations for usb sticks that can handle zwave and zigby?

topaz jacinth
#

i have a question of my own: I am looking to setup lutron caseta dimmers everywhere, and want to also setup circadian lighting... is there a recommended light bulb type/brand to utilize for this?

drifting river
#

Every few hours I have to reset my HA to work again (RP4). This shouldn't be happening obviously. When I look at the logs I see the following message popping up several times. "Under-voltage was detected. Consider getting a uninterruptible power supply for your Raspberry Pi." I have a PSU with DC 5.2V 5A output. Is it possible that this is causing these issues of me having to reset every few hours? Does this mean I have a faulty PSU?

proven girder
#

Could be. That seems like the Pi isn’t getting a stable power supply

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Try another power supply (any usb c one with support of 3a and more)

hollow lance
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I’d recommend buying the stock rpi4 power supply

drifting river
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The stock power supply won't give any problems powering the SSD that I have connected? I read about 3a not being enough for the SSD

hollow lance
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Oh I didn’t read that part

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Im running an old pi2b with an external SSD off a POE converter

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I can’t see why you’d have trouble with the stock pi4 psu

fringe moon
zealous dune
#

it's small, at least it has that going for it

fringe moon
#

It really isn't though

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Compared to other alternatives

proven girder
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It’s smaller than the allotment of servers you would put up 😛🤣

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Tbh a hatchback would be too

fringe moon
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It'd smaller than some CPUs I've installed probably

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

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winged knoll
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Maybe

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I'd not hold out a lot of hope though

proven girder
#

They may be through Tuya but that would require flashing

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And then figuring it out

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Not ideal

calm lark
#

Ok Thanks. Other suggestions for heaters? :p

proven girder
#

Depends on your country/ price range/ etc

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I presume netherlands?

coarse spade
topaz jacinth
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join the waitlist. only took me a few days

calm lark
copper solstice
#

This is kinda only loosely hardware, but I thought I'd ask - How do you all keep track of your devices? I just picked up a handful more Smart Plugs, and some of them I label by room/device but some are a bit more flexible about where they live. But I'd like to keep track of them in HA. I was thinking of just writing numbers on them..

winged knoll
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Name them sensibly?

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Permanent marker works though

copper solstice
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I thought I was being sensible, but then my wife decided she didn't use them where I had in mind. Now they do christmas lights and stuff.

winged knoll
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Plug #6 is not a free plug

copper solstice
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yea ok. I named them after their usage. Which changed. Numbers is probably best 🙂

winged knoll
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For static things I name with where and what

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If things are going to move around, yeah, numbers

fringe moon
#

Person #3

glossy hound
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Hi guys

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I'm searching for cheap home assistant speaker

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
glossy hound
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Protocol doesn't matter, amazon eBay etc , budget 50 Euro

winged knoll
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Second hand Google Home Mini?

glossy hound
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Not really

civic kraken
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Why not?

winged knoll
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If you want suggestions, do try to work with us rather than going no

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Doing that just discourages us from helping you

glossy hound
#

Because I can buy google nest mini 2nd gen with 25eu

winged knoll
#

Ok, so buy a new one then...

civic kraken
#

How much cheaper do you want it? lol

glossy hound
#

I'm asking if I loose something else

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The price is good

winged knoll
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Your sanity?

civic kraken
#

He's on this discord so that's gone already I'm sure

glossy hound
#

Lol

hot sun
#

It's a requirement to join this server 😉

#

If you loose anything by going the Nest mini route?

winged knoll
#

Compared to what would be my question

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Audio quality isn't great, but at that price point you're going to struggle to get quality audio

hot sun
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And I don't think there's anything else on that price that has integrated options like Spotify, casting from YT, radio etc

civic kraken
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gh mini is just fantastic value. You're selling your soul to Google, but it's a fair price

winged knoll
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You're up at the €100 bracket before you get quality audio

glossy hound
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Let's forget the price

winged knoll
#

The Symfonisk speaker is pretty damn good - Sonos from Ikea

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About double your target price

glossy hound
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I'm searching something for the doorbell ringer through home assistant, spotify, youtube music player

winged knoll
#

If you want functional you can't beat the Home/Nest mini

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If you want quality audio you need to spend more money

glossy hound
#

How much

winged knoll
glossy hound
#

Not bad

#

Will be integrate with home assistant locally?

bright jacinthBOT
glossy hound
#

Youtube, spotify, radio player?

winged knoll
#

I mean, it's a media player, and it's Sonos, so ... mostly yes

glossy hound
#

Perfect

winged knoll
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I don't use HA for any of that though, so I can't speak from experience - just from seeing others talking about it

glossy hound
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I will try it

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I don't see any other option

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And it has ethernet

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Amazing

civic kraken
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Don't be too put off by the minis either. They massively lack bass reproduction, but you can get decent multiroom experience for extremely cheap with them

winged knoll
#

The 2nd gen is supposed to be pretty good for the size

civic kraken
#

throw in a subwoofer with chromecast audio (if you can find one) and you got something going

hot sun
#

I just got myself a Nest Hub and a Nest Audio speaker for half the price ablobparty

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one thing I've always questioned, is the speaker in the Hub the same as in the mini or is it worse? 🤔

winged knoll
#

Better

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I have the Hub, and the Hub max. Both are better than the mini

glossy prism
#

You think so? I can't really tell the difference

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The OG Google home is much better than both obvi

hot sun
#

That's good to know. I already have a Hub but never had a mini

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Was really hard to decide between one each or 2 Audios

mystic harbor
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I have written haos_rpi3-64-6.6.img to an SD-card and put it in my rpi3b. Got a known good cable between the rpi3 and my laptop, dnsmasq running on the laptop, ethernet-interface on the laptop is properly configured. Got a suitable PSU for the RPI3. No link on ethernet when applying power to the rpi3.

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is this the proper channel for this problem? If so, anyone care to suggest my next step? Trying to avoid the song and dance with keyboard and display to the rpi

winged knoll
mystic harbor
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@winged knoll thank you. I missed that when scanning the available channels

gentle yew
#

Hi. Have anyone ever experience ESP32 modules crash when something else is plugged into the same socket as the module?

winged knoll
thorn veldt
#

Hey guys, so im searching for a indoor engergy monitoring smart plug eu. Any recommendations?

bold flax
thorn veldt
#

sadly no energy smart plug as far as i can see

bold flax
#

yeah honestly the list isn't a great selection

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at least for US not sure if UK is any better.

thorn veldt
#

well thats the issue with amazon

boreal oar
#

zooz has a really agressive sale on

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its like 40%+. unfortnatley the canadian equiv is marked up an extra 10% and then the discount is only 15%

bold flax
hexed vigil
#

i'm just about to get started on this journey - is there a general consensus on a good starting point for the underlying HA hardware? Is an RPi4 sufficient? It would be dedicated solely for HA-related use

drifting hemlock
#

An RPi4 is fine for starting out, but as soon as you have dozens of devices, you might experience problems. At least, I am now....
If you got the available hardware for something more beefy, I'd use it, personally.

shrewd scroll
#

I have two Wiz bulbs (A19 8.8watt) in a light fixture that is being controlled by the Inovelli Red Series dimmer. I have the dimmer set in Smart Bulb mode (param 52=Smart Bulb). The Wiz lights have a loud buzz at any level of dimness (with full power to the bulbs from the dimmer - dimming controlled through Wiz App or Home Assistant, ). A non-smart bulb (dimmable A19 LED) does not buzz at all when put in the same light fixture. Is there anything I can do to make the buzzing stop with the Wiz bulbs?

lost canopy
#

Anyone hooked up a feather huzzah board? I'm looking at adafruit.io to control the light strips I've bought, but I'm not sure of the extent to which I can control my lights from HA with such a setup.

zealous dune
#

why don't you choose WLED?

lost canopy
#

Honestly was just recommended a feather board as a good thing to learn on. I'm a beginner, so not familiar with all my options. Don't really know about WLED.

zealous dune
#

what kind of light strips

supple flint
#

Would a raspberry pi 4 8gb, ssd and argon one m.2 case be a decent setup for HA?

fringe moon
fading gale
#

I'm debating. I need a NAS, should I just aim to get a NAS I can run home assistant on, or just get a separate NUC for home assistant?

winged knoll
#

If it can run VMs then it's not a bad choice, depending on the spec

lost canopy
#

@zealous dune apologies, passed out, it was nearly 1am. Looking at either SK9822 or SK6812 strip types, I'm going to try to do specific animations with them when hooked into Lumia Stream (twitch alerts, for example)

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but it's like, 50 feet of them

left pumice
#

I'm looking for a way to detect if someone has taken a shower or not. Is there any cheap water monitors, maybe a humidity sensor?

fading gale
#

Odor sensor lul

winged knoll
#

Humidity sensors work for that

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Spot when somebody showered

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fading gale
#

So I'm considering getting a DS1520+ for running home assistant on and buying a USB zwave/ZigBee stick. Are there any issues with this setup? Have not used home assistant before but planning on getting ZigBee lights.

winged knoll
#

Supports VMs, should be ok

fringe moon
#

I have seen users have issues with device passthrough on Synology

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But ymmv

winged knoll
#

Worst case Zigbee2MQTT and ZWaveJS on another host 😄

ebon furnace
#

Hello! I'm wondering if this is the right place to ask but I'm hoping so.
I'm looking to set up a home automation setup with a raspberry pi. I want to have it as generic as possible, so the ability to connect it to zwave, zigbee and as many others as possible.
Is this the way to go or is it better to just pick one and buy devices that work with that?

winged knoll
#

Good news, that's kind of the point of Home Assistant 😉

#

(also, welcome back)

ebon furnace
ebon furnace
winged knoll
#

Hubs are generally manufacturer locked

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You don't want that

#

When you start on the Zigbee journey, buy a (recommended) Zigbee stick

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When you then start on the Z-Wave journey, buy a (recommended) Z-Wave stick

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and so on

fading gale
#

Do Phillips hue bulbs require phillips hub or can it work directly off ZigBee stick?

winged knoll
#

They don't

fading gale
#

Is there a downside to larger hard drives? Exos have a good price per gb for their 18TB drives. Thinking of starting with 3 of those in raid 5. I have 10 TB of data on drives from old computer that need to be copied in.

winged knoll
#

Depends on the technology of the drive

fading gale
#

They are CMR so seems like right choice for Plex, security cameras, and home assistant stuff

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Thank you

#

Well was going to do a bunch of hue ZigBee bulbs, but looks like smart switches might be cheaper.

ebon furnace
lament bridge
#

There are wifi devices, but then you're limiting the amount of compatible devices

fading gale
#

I had wifi bulbs at old house, could just be me, but they sucked. Once a month having to reconfigure them on wifi

glossy prism
#

Just sounds like junk bulbs

winged knoll
ebon furnace
winged knoll
#

Home Assistant is your hub

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There is one of those sticks... it's only an option in North America, and it's not a good option

#

You're a lot better off buying a decent one of each

ebon furnace
winged knoll
#

Well, any USB hub will do you

ebon furnace
#

Awesome, thanks so much @winged knoll 🙂

fading gale
#

Anyone know a good place to buy lutron Caseta switches in bulk? Need about 60 to do whole house

solid wren
#

Hi Guys, so I want to automate my dumb air-conditioner, what would be the most reliable solution?

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Need some general guidance so I can go on a Google quest for information

valid frigate
fading gale
#

Think the ironwolfs were 3 cents per gb and exos 2 cents.

#

At 16/18tb

lost canopy
#

@fading gale make sure your house is wired with neutral wires before you pick which switch you're going to do.

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turned out on my rental (landlord doesn't care if I swap things) every room but my office and bedroom had neutral wires

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Gonna rewire the sockets to use the throughput from the nearby electrical sockets.

zealous jasper
lost canopy
#

That's actually hilarious

#

nice idea

ebon furnace
#

What are some good NorthEu Zigbee power plugs? Looking for rather cheap, small, and easy to use (if there is any difference between them)

zealous dune
stoic bronze
#

Hi,
I'm just starting with Home Assistant.. I'm in the UK
I'm looking to mainly use Z-wave and Zigbee..
My first projects are to connect it to the -Pi-hole, get data out of Unifi kit and power/heat monitoring and I've got some old Z-wave temp sensors so that's covered..
I've been looking at power monitors, there seems to be quite a few!

Does anyone have any recommendations for a mains power monitoring (for the whole house)
I'm looking for a device that will communicate directly with HA (via z-wave/zigbee) and not use/send data external to the house or need to connect to a 3rd part website, and Ideally have some kind LCD display so I can point the kids at it so they can see how much they are wasting 🙂
Our power meter/mains incoming supply is in a white box attached externally to the house.

lost canopy
#

@zealous dune missed you yesterday mate, my bad.

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Was talking about light strips one moment

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Next moment woke up with my phone leaned against my head

zealous dune
#

Happens...

lost canopy
#

So uh

#

I think you asked what kind of light strips I was using?

#

Sk9822 or sk6812 were the two specs I was looking at

zealous dune
#

if you want to do animations on a long strip you'd need more than a dev board

#

something like quinled diguno

lost canopy
#

I figured that might be the casem

#

Does the integration with HA still allow for normal light control, or am I going to be limited to pre-sets?

zealous dune
#

which integration?

lost canopy
#

If I'm using something like the quinled you suggested

#

Will the lights I hook up to through that be adjustable on the fly?

#

You suggested WLED

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Which I'm not as familiar with in how much control it allows.

next solstice
pure plover
#

Hey, just wondering what kinda smart bulbs people use? I use hue and I really like them but wanted to see what kind of other options there would be before I end up buying them for the rest of my house. I like the amount of color options hue has and the amount of different products (outdoor light strips, in door lightstrips, and type of bulbs) that all work the same and have the same colors.

What I would like to do in the future is make it so that no lights can be turned off (fully off to where there is no power and I can't use google assistant to control) with the switches as well as having the whole house indoor and outdoor have smart lights. What would be my other options with the same features and variety?

next solstice
pure plover
#

but they will still turn "off" when you "flip" the switch

trim oasis
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All of my smart switches also function as regular switches and can be operated in the traditional analog manner. Otherwise, my wife would kill me. The keypads, on the other hand, trigger scenes, and I’ve tried to label the buttons in a meaningful way.

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I only have a couple smart bulbs and don’t like that they can have their switches turned off. The trade off is that I can’t change the color of my lights.

tacit pilot
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Trying to decide what machine to run HA on between two. One is an old desktop and one is a NUC. The NUC has a dual core 2 GHz celeron, 500GB SSD, and 8GB RAM. The desktop has a 2.5GHz AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor, 250GB HDD, and 4GB RAM.
So basically the desktop has more processing power and the NUC has a larger and faster drive and 4GB more RAM

gloomy spoke
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Either is more than enough for HA

tacit pilot
#

Does HA do a lot of disk IO? Or use up a lot of memory?

gloomy spoke
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Yes to I/O, but you won’t notice on a real computer. You can expect <2GB of RAM if it’s dedicated to HA

tacit pilot
#

Ok thanks. It's a pretty old HDD, maybe 10 years

next solstice
#

does anyone know how quickly the shelly EM (via MQTT -> HA) reports on changing loads? I'm thinking about getting and hooking one up to detect a load on a circuit and then do an automation and wondering how much delay there might be

fluid niche
#

Hopefully this is a simple question. I am running HA on a 4 Gig Ram Pi 4 and but now I need that Pi for something else and I have a 2 Gig Ram Pi 4 on hand so since everyone is out of Pi's, I'd like to swap out the 4 gig with the 2 gig. Is it as simple as taking the SD card out of one and putting it in the other one?

fringe moon
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Sure, but you shouldn't be running on an SD to begin with

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You have offserver backups right @fluid niche ?

stoic bronze
hollow lance
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Not everyone has a full 48ru rack of servers to run HA on @fringe moon

fluid niche
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Yes, I have backups. That is how I went from a Pi 3 to a Pi 4. Did a fresh install on the 4 and restored from a backup. I know I could do that bete

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Between 4's but it took a while, which is why I was hoping I could just move the SD card.

gentle fossil
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you can

fluid niche
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I'd think so but figured someone would know for sure

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I looked at memory usage and it has never needed morethan 2 gig so the 2 gig pi 4 should do.

gentle fossil
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angry atx noises

fringe moon
vital path
#

Hi all people, can someone tell me if it's possible to cast youtube video to a firestick4k and how? 🙂 many thanks

foggy gulch
#

The other option is to replace the switches altogether, the various makers are listed on hue website with the « friends of hue » branding

fading gale
#

What type of smart switches do yall recommend for doing an entire house? I like the look of lutron Caseta dimmers, but damn expensive. Also 75 device limit and I might hit that, need to add up

fading rivet
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why would the sonoff s31 not be able to do a DIY mode like the sonoff minir2... makes no sense

zealous dune
#

good question for sonoff support

fading rivet
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good point...

fringe moon
crimson tulip
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Looking for power consumption recommendations for the whole house:

  • USA
  • Less than $1k
  • Z-wave, ESP, wifi (if it has local api). I'd prefer something outside my zwave network.
  • Tracks whole house power. I don't want to cut the lines.
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I'd prefer something I can build with ESPHome possibly or I heard about some shelly crap. Either way, I'd also like to potentially extend the solution to track my washer/dryer.

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Feel free to @ me with responses. Thanks.

fading gale
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@crimson tulip I used iotawatt on every breaker

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Feeds data to influxDB

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Looks like a crap website, but it works really good and creator responds almost immediately on forum if you have questions

bright jacinthBOT
tepid furnace
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Newbe here having issues with DHT22 connected to ESP8266. Can not get temperatures below zero Celsius to show. Either it stopps at 0.2C or sometimes shows -3276. Can I get some advise on how to fix this, please.

cosmic girder
#

sure its not a dht11?

fringe moon
crimson tulip
crimson tulip
tepid furnace
bright jacinthBOT
tiny belfry
#

Hello. I have one big problem. I bought a Google Coral M.2 Accelerator with Dual Edge TPU
I wasn't paying enough attention to need M.2 E-key (with two PCIe Gen2 x1 lanes)

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GitHub - magic-blue-smoke/Dual-Edge-TPU-Adapter: Dual Edge TPU Adap...
Dual Edge TPU Adapter to use it on a system with single PCIe port on m.2 A/B/E/M slot - GitHub - magic-blue-smoke/Dual-Edge-TPU-Adapter: Dual Edge TPU Adapter to use it on a system with single PCIe...

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it is Out of stock
do you have any idea how you could solve the problem via PCI or USB

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Oh, je - I'm from Slovenia, the EU
Thanks.
I know they i can buy coral USB but the current price is too high. For 1/4 of USB price I got two TPUs

tacit pilot
#

Does anyone have any experience on interfacing with non-smart devices to make them smart? I know the usual suggestion here is "get a smart plug", but this only gets you so far. For instance, if I wanted to automate turning on my dishwasher. I'd also ideally not want to have to open up any electronics if possible. In the case of my dishwasher I couldn't even see how to get in there and I don't think I'd want to if I could

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The only solutions I could think of is devices that would physically interact with the non-smart devices such as to push a button, etc.

fringe moon
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Well, switchbot can do that

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But a clean solution would be to wire a small esp device to the buttons

tacit pilot
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@fringe moon Thanks. Do you have an example of what the latter would look like?

alpine swift
#

Does anyone know if the new Amazon smart thermostat works with home assistant? It is tempting as I do not have a smart thermostat yet and just starting out with home assistant.

boreal oar
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I'm trying to understand how light switches work before I buy one. I like the idea of the type that are actual dumb switches in addition to being smart. But how do you avoid the dumb and smart functions from conflicting? My desired scenario is that I have a smart switch, important that it works as a regular switch because we get so many power outages. I'd like it to be "smart" in that if I flick it on after 10pm, it turns the lights on to 50% dim, but prior to 10pm it turns on to 100%. Is that even possible?

ember plover
#

What are some of the goto smartlocks on the market that show lock status and allow lock/unlock from HA? zigbee is a plus or wifi

boreal oar
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@ember plover I like the schlage connect lock i've got. It's zwave but i believe they have other models

ember plover
boreal oar
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yeah, like i said i believe they have other models with other tech

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but also, I've found it to be rock solid with the z-wave. instant response and good battery life

ember plover
boreal oar
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I'm trying to say they also have either zigbee or wifi

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i'm not sure if you're getting that

ember plover
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@boreal oar I got that 😄

boreal oar
#

Also, I'd recommend choosing with build quality as your first priority

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it is a lock after all

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so i'd go to the store and look at the options physically

ember plover
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I have a very good deadbolt on there now hence why I was considering the August lock

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Problem with locks is usually more to do with the door frame being crap which is my case as well LOL

fringe moon
tacit pilot
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@fringe moon Pretty cool read, thanks. Looks like this would require exposing the internals of the device though which wouldn't work for me in most cases

tacit pilot
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I'm surprised there aren't more switchbot-like devices

fringe moon
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Because something sticking out isn't very aesthetically pleasing

tacit pilot
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I suppose, but for non-smart devices it seems like you wouldn't really have a choice

boreal oar
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I've experimented with about 4-5 brands of normal dumb LED light bulbs that claim they're dimmable, and found all to have issues. Some flicker a bit at low brightness, nearly all have unpredictable brightness levels at various settings (ie one time you use it 20% brightness on the switch slider isn't the same actual brightness as next time), and most have a high minimum brightness level before they just switch right off

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I've tried 4-5 brands of lights, but only 2 types of dimmer switch. But both dimmer switches claimed proper support for LED dimming. Leviton was the brand I recall

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so anyway, wondering what the community has found to be good reliable bulbs for dimming, smart or not

tacit pilot
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What bulbs did you try?

supple flint
#

Looking for opinions for momentary light switches to use with sonoff mini or similar OR smart light switches that will work in the UK (fit out boxes).

tacit pilot
#

Any suggestions on a guide to buying smart plugs?

fringe moon
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If you can do ZigBee or zwave, do that, if not find something based on esp that you can flash with tasmota

tacit pilot
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I have zigbee yeah. Any reason why that would be preferred over wifi?

fringe moon
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Mesh = good coverage and not dependent on working WiFi network or internet

tacit pilot
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I didn't think Wifi devices depended on working internet, just working local Wifi. And I'd consider my wifi to be as reliable as my zigbee hub so I don't think that's a factor. Also I imagine my wifi coverage will be as good as my zigbee coverage. Anywhere I'd have a device I'd also want a good quality wifi signal

fringe moon
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Depends on the plugs

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Most WiFi plugs use cloud

tacit pilot
#

That said I really have nothing against zigbee and love it

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I thought it was the case that even if the plug does communicate with the cloud, even if the cloud was unreachable it would still function because it would be able to interact with HA locally

gloomy spoke
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Far from a sure thing

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Witness the whole Tuya mess

tacit pilot
#

Interesting. I wasn't aware

crimson tulip
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atx wtf is a han port

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google brings me to like 800 pics of cat 5 connections and han port seems to be a trademarked name

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@fringe moon you respond now boy

tacit pilot
crimson tulip
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Wasn’t affiliated with ha

tacit pilot
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Also what exactly is ESP? Just read up on it a bit and it seems to just be Wifi. How does it differ from any other wifi device?

crimson tulip
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it's when one person reads the mind of another

fringe moon
# crimson tulip atx wtf is a han port

All Norwegian power meters were replaced in 2018 with smart meters, that have HAN ports that allow the consumer to read out power draw / give back in real time

crimson tulip
crimson tulip
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so.......nope

tacit pilot
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@crimson tulip Ah ok, so basically it's the typical bit of hardware you'd add to your DIY device to give it wifi capabilities?

crimson tulip
#

it's boards that you combine

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to make whatever you want

tacit pilot
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I thought ESP was just the wifi bit?

crimson tulip
#

that's the board

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ESP32 is the main chip

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there's 90 million renditions of it

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all with different abilities

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you combine that with whatever sensor you want, then flash it and go

tacit pilot
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Oh ok, so it's more like the ESP board is the main board and you'd add things onto it. I was thinking it would be the addon to something else

crimson tulip
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it's like legos, with soldering

fringe moon
crimson tulip
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They've always been locked

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It's a tampering thing. Don't want you to steal anything

fringe moon
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Typical Norwegian power meter

crimson tulip
#

that's where your mains come in from the street?

tacit pilot
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Maybe I'll do some DIY stuff someday. Arduino seems like the way to go but it's never been all that appealing to me because of the custom software. Probably isn't as big of a deal as I make out

fringe moon
tacit pilot
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I just don't get why I wouldn't just use a raspi when the price isn't all that much different for the lowest end raspi model

crimson tulip
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ok, so the mains go straight to that before going to your electrical box that splits it up into rooms?

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or does that do everything?

gloomy spoke
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Something like a Rainforest Eagle box can track whole house power via Zigbee if your power company supports it

fringe moon
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That box does everything

crimson tulip
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ah, ok

fringe moon
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Power is distributed throughout the house from there

crimson tulip
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yah, how it works here is you have power that goes into the meter, then from the meter it goes into your box inside the house

jovial pulsar
#

You have to go outside when a fuse blows?

fringe moon
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We have three phase 400v in, and 230 in sockets, maybe 400v for ovens and workshops

crimson tulip
jovial pulsar
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Atx I mean

crimson tulip
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meter is outside so the company can read it and charge you... super old tech

fringe moon
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I don't go outside no @jovial pulsar

gloomy spoke
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Ever?

jovial pulsar
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In Sweden there's one box outside, with a huge fuse for each phase and the power meter, then there's a sub-panel inside with the breakers for each "room".

crimson tulip
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yah, that's what we have here

fringe moon
crimson tulip
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is your front door even wide enough atx?

fringe moon
fringe moon
jovial pulsar
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Yeah, appartments usually have the meter inside too, but my meter is in a box built into the garage wall.

fringe moon
crimson tulip
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one of the best futuramas

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I just want to monitor my whole house energy

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for no reason at all

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because i have nothing new to add to my setup

jovial pulsar
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I fell you

bold flax
#

Any opinions on replacing legacy switches with smart switches vs adding relay devices to the legacy switches?

dry dock
#

ciao a tutti
i need help

maiden seal
maiden seal
#

BTW, I found wifi switches on Amazon, but on "meross" protocol or implementation. I can't find it on HA website, is it compatible with an integration (as it is with smartthings being actually tuya) ?

unreal tundra
#

Anyone having problems with HA not reporting correct state of tuya devices but can turn on items? I understand that the tuya IOT need devise status notification on, and this was working at least last night ...

torn trellis
fading gale
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What do you ya'll recommend for smart switches?

proven girder
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Country, connection type, etc?

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It’s quite a vague topic

fading gale
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USA, Doesn't matter, around 60 devices

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switches

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something that works good with home assistant and is reliable

tepid heart
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Shelly 1 if you want to use your wall plates and have a neutral at the switch.

fading gale
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I'd like to replace switches with ones with on/off buttons instead of a toggle that makes no sense on 2/3 way switches anyways

tacit pilot
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Could someone recommend a smart plug? I'm doing research and feeling a little overwhelmed. Zigbee or wifi

tepid heart
winged knoll
fringe moon
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So, cloud

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🥳

hollow lance
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LocalTuya for control 🤙

winged knoll
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Until they take it away from you... 😛

hollow lance
#

I guess then my Tuya stuff goes in the bin, or I flash it with esphome

zealous dune
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order a soldering heat gun 😉

hollow lance
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I have a heat gun

zealous dune
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get some ESP modules and you're set

hollow lance
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Pretty sure my Tuya plugs have esp8266’s already, just difficult to get to the pins

zealous dune
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new ones don't

hollow lance
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Which I suppose is where the heat gun comes in

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Orly

winged knoll
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Zigbee FTW. Well, not Tuya's version, or Sonoff's

zealous dune
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and probably some others 😄

winged knoll
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Sonoff appear to be the most broken of all

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Tuya just seems to have taken even more liberties with the spec than Xiaomi have

zealous dune
#

it works the least of all of those

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tuya just continued the mess they have with wifi

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their "spec" has room to make your own spec so every manufacturer takes liberties

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same is happening with the Mijia "miot" spec... seems the Apple approach is best for a somewhat coherent ecosystem

fringe moon
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Long live ZigBee

unreal tundra
manic frigate
#

How can i integrate a CPU Fan for my Raspberry Pi Running Home Assistant OS?

winged knoll
hushed marten
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Looking for some input here. I have a Pi3 that struggles with motoneye or any video from my wyze cams and crashes. Can the Pi4 support that?

winged knoll
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It'll be less bad

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Still not a patch on proper hardware

hushed marten
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Right, right. Just trying to be as cost effective as I can be. I would end up with 4 cameras max, I think.

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Not looking to spring for a nuc.

winged knoll
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If you're wanting to do motion detection then a Pi just sucks

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A Pi4 + Coral stick and Frigate would be ... ok ish

spark mantle
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HI! I bought a house recently and I'm in the process of making it less dumb... unfortunately I bought some TP-Link Switches and painfully discovered that they don't support Local API anymore 😦
Anyone has a recommendation for something I can buy to avoid that problem in the future?

winged knoll
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Zigbee

hushed marten
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Gotcha. May just stick with motion detectors via zigbee and automations and I can just use the individual apps for now

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Thanks @winged knoll !

spark mantle
drifting grove
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Hi, Hello.... Last week i installed HA on a dedicated server the first time. I have some Shellys and installed Tasmota on an ESP32. Everything works fine together. Now i need one more Item in the cellar of the house. There is no WIFI. I have an old Rasperry PI A i think. Is there any piece of software like Tasmota to make the PI a client for Home Assistant ? Or at least controll it over MQTT without programming everything myself ?

winged knoll
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What is it you're looking to put in the basement that you need the Pi for?

drifting grove
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Its my heating system

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Its mostly temperatre sensors

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And some switches

winged knoll
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There's nothing I can think of that would do that that I'd recommend, somebody else may have an idea though

drifting grove
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Yes i also could find anything in the Internet. Maybe better to use an ESP32 with Tasmota and a Ethernet Connector

wooden wing
#

Hello all, does anyone know if it's possible to integrate KaKu switches without a remote? I know this function exists in Domoticz, doe it exist in HA?

winged knoll
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Looks like it can be done with RF433

dim ferry
#

Is there any reliable way to pair a trådfri bulb to HA using a ConBee 2 and phoscon?

#

I have a Hue remote

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and i can hold the reset mode near it.. it will pulse slowly

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but doesn't join network

#

tried reset with remote then after done flickering cycle power.. no luck

#

99% of times power cycle reset doesn't do anything

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then randomly it seems after 10-50 mins of trying and repeating these things at random it does a "i joined the newwork" flash

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network*

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then.. the struggle begins anew with the next bulb

wooden wing
winged knoll
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If you've got them integrated, then using them is the same as any other entity

granite granite
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hello

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does anyone know about a rf receiver that send HA a different message for each remoter pressed?

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one remote starts and stops a device, the other makes it work for an hour, and the third does something else

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I've asked sonof, but they says they don't have anything for this, only detects that a remote was activated

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thanks

winged knoll
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Not sure about RF, but there's a stack of Zigbee and Z-Wave remotes

granite granite
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the goal is to have remotes that don't need to plug in to the electric grid

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and be thin enough to be glued to a cabinet closet.
like the T2EU-RF, where each button does different things

winged knoll
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there's a stack of Zigbee and Z-Wave remotes

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No shortage of options there

fringe moon
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RF is horrible tbh

weary tangle
#

Is it the right place to ask about zigbee bulbs?

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I'm wondering how much difference an RGB bulb from Hue will be compared to my current from tradfri. My current is soo weak and the colors are quite bad. (Very happy with the non-rgb from tradfri) But this one is just too bad I need to replace it

winged knoll
granite granite
proud star
#

Looking for some help re smart heating and HA please

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I have drayton wiser, has been fine and managed in HA. I've moved house and no longer have a receiver to the boiler. Previously I took the old non smart receiver off and just put the wiser one on the wallplate. I've literally got a boiler that is controlled by a dial on it, and then radiators with TRVs. Are my options to get a wallplate installed so i can put a smart receiver hooked up to the boiler? Is there anyway I can just add some trvs instead

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Controlling the heating at the moment is going to the boiler, and making sure the timer is set correctly and that the boiler temperature isn't too high. I'll need an electrician in to add a wallplate and they're all busy

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I thought if I had tuya trvs, they wouldn't speak to the boiler so the boiler might just keep firing all they will do is let water in and out of the radiators

odd walrus
#

Can the arduino nano 33 IoT communicate with home assistant over wifi? I'm trying to make a handful of 'smart' buttons and can't find any other products to achieve this easily. If not, any suggestions as to what I could use?

winged knoll
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Can it use MQTT?

zealous dune
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if you can connect it to your network sure

odd walrus
winged knoll
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Then you're golden

glossy prism
#

MQTT ❤️

dull portal
#

Hello, its possibile to add Gosund sp211 double socket to HA energy TAB? To see energy consumption statistics?

winged knoll
drifting grove
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Hello all

glossy prism
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@crimson tulip how dare u

crimson tulip
glossy prism
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why u h8n m8?

drifting grove
#

From the command line, how i can check the storage on my MicroSD of the raspberry?

glossy prism
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df -h

drifting grove
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I have to do the command in:
ha> df -h
or
#df -h
??

glossy prism
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if you're talking about HA OS, I have no idea

cosmic girder
#

pretty sure the supervisor shows free space

tacit pilot
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I just got a Sonoff S31 and while it's alright, it isn't reporting as a device and power information is just shown as attributes so it doesn't have the integration I was hoping for. In any case, I haven't flashed Tasmota before, or done any kind of flashing, but I was hoping for some recommendations on hardware I'd need. So far I believe I'd need something like a SparkFun CH340G and then some jumper wires. Is there anything else I'd be missing?

brisk mango
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Noob feasibility question: I think I want a camera to detect when my kid’s bus is coming down the street, so an alert can tell him about it instead of me. The best place to get a view of the road is far from power, at the mailbox. What hardware options do I have for a battery operated camera, a boosted WiFi signal, small scheduled awake time 5 mornings a week, and AI to process the images?

tacit pilot
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I was also testing out the power readings for the Sonoff S31. It was giving me readings that made sense when I had it plugged into some electronic equipment, but then I plugged it into my washer and turned it on and it just isn't showing any power readings at all and the washer is running right now. I checked and it's rated for the appropriate voltage and amperage. Plus the washer is running fine so I don't get it. It's also been running for 15-20 mins, has great RSSI (-35) and is completely cool to the touch.

soft panther
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Hi team, looking to get started with Home Assistant but just want to give it a try before i got and buy Raspberry pi etc. I have a second PC i use as a media server that Im wonder if I can run HA on: 4570/8gb but unsure which version to install Windows Core or Generic x86-64?

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dont have much experience with VM so would rather a full OS or application if possible

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again only to run for a few weeks as a test

tacit pilot
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@soft panther Would definitely recommend Running it on Linux if possible

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However, there's a VM image you can get that worked out of the box for me for HAOS

soft panther
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so format the machine (which is fine for me) and install a linux version is the best?

tacit pilot
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Well I'm all for Linux as the host, but if it has something else on it as long as it can run VBox for instance you can just spin up a VM. Worked out of the box for me following these directions: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux

brisk mango
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I had it running fine on my Synology NAS / media, but I recently switched the the Home Assistant Blue and I feel like it’s a better setup overall.

tacit pilot
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Ignore that it has linux in the URL. The VM image you download at the top of the page can be run on any host

soft panther
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currently has a plex server running but not actively in use so happy to wipe it if needed. just again no VM knowledge but sure I could work it out if thats the best option

tacit pilot
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It's running Windows currently?

soft panther
#

yeah

tacit pilot
soft panther
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just standard windows install with network discovery on lol (basic)

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ok, sweet will have a crack, cheers!!

tacit pilot
#

Anyways I think this conversation has deviated a bit from hardware. I can't speak for the 4570 but I seriously doubt whatever it is couldn't run HAOS. 8GB is more than enough

soft panther
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sweet, cheers yea was half way a hardware question and install soz if wrong channel

soft panther
#

so dream over the CPU apparently doesnt support virtualisation virtual box contains wont run

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looks like it is new hardware time

tacit pilot
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Wow that must be old haha. But you can still run it on the host. A VM is just the most convenient way

soft panther
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so turns out just disable din bios for some reason so hopfully an easy fix

bold flax
#

Looking for recommendations on 15amp rocker switches

wind mist
#

Wifi or zigbee?

bold flax
#

I could go either way

#

Probably need about 10 of them

bold bay
#

just bought 2 poe camera
now I need poe switch
I can get injector for cheap but then it's a lot of wires.
PoE switches is another world.

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HP 8 port 100 is $70
HP 24 port 100mbps is $50+37 shipping from canada

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also some 48 ports juniper/24 port 3com

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so many choices >_<

compact flume
#

I'm actually looking for recs on zigbee rgb lightbulbs (with warm and cool would be great) and zigbee outlets, any thoughts?

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@bold bay if it's just 2 then injectors is what I would do. Be sure to check specs on those cameras, PoE, PoE+, UPoE, etc. Also if those are unifi for example you'll need to use the injectors.

bold bay
compact flume
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I'd probably lean toward a gigabit switch then for future proofing, Netgear GS108PE for example. Maybe also bump up to PoE+ but it will add some cost, and I use a lot of other PoE/+/++ products so I have a much larger and more.complex switching solution

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But I'd do gigabit minimum

fringe moon
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And for 4k cameras and beyond it makes sense

foggy gulch
#

I bought 8 ports / gigabit / 4 PoE about a year ago, and now I want more ports/more PoE and PoE+, I’d definitely recommend to pick bigger than 8 😉

fringe moon
#

24 is always a good compromise

foggy gulch
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At the time, the 8 port switch was fanless and the 16 port was noisy (UniFi), so it was the right pick for me

glossy prism
#

Well and the 16 port switch was Unifi which is also a downside

topaz stream
#

What did you find out?

fossil perch
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I'm looking for a local ZigBee or ZWave thermostat that works with 24v, on a conventional forced air furnace and available in Canada.

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It looks to me like none of Moes smart thermostats work with conventional furnaces. Am I missing something?

glossy prism
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Zigbee and zwave are local by their very nature

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See if the centralite pearl is available in 🍁

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It's zigbee and works with 24VAC systems

fossil perch
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They are uncommon here but I have found one source.

fast harness
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Heya, I was curious if anyone has any experience with CNBINGO wifi switches in Home Assistant? ( I am looking to order em but can´t seem to find any info if they work or not ).

winged knoll
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If you can't find anything then the odds are they don't work

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Smart Life App
Might work with the Tuya integration (and their cloud service) then

zealous dune
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Now that's s brand-name that inspires confidence

ancient delta
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Does anyone make an AC powered wall switch that is only an input for a home automation setup? I.E. It doesn't actually have the ability to switch an AC-powered device on and off - it only sends a control signal to HA.

fossil perch
ancient delta
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I know that but was hoping there was an alternative that was maybe cheaper or possibly fit more switches due to not having the AC switching hardware inside it.

winged knoll
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Most "switches" that are AC powered will switch AC

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They've already got expensive stuff inside, adding a relay is small change

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A battery powered "switch" will be cheaper

ancient delta
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It feels weird replacing switches with something battery powered when there's a power source right there.

winged knoll
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That's what happens when you mix smart bulbs and smart switches 😛

twilit matrix
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Hi all, Any way to enable pin code control for a YRD226 using zigbee2mqtt

sly owl
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I need a physical device to control bass (and maybe treble) on my Sonos soundbar. Ideas? Something that's not a mobile phone/tablet.

fringe moon
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A hue dimmer switch?

tepid heart
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It's ok they don't really need it. They misunderstood the Sonos change in the 2021.12 beta. Both can still be adjusted using the number integration set service.

bronze light
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Hello, I've a sonoff zigbee gateway, I had issues (in case of reboot I have to reload mqtt entities or reboot the device)
What is the best zigbee gateway today?

modest yarrow
tall moat
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so i have ubuntu server on my i3-3220 and asus whatever motherboard, i have installed ha with supervised method, i got my tuya bulbs in homekit which is amazing and yeah now i'd like to get zigbee sensors.

My question is:
What should i buy as zigbee hub? Any cheap usb sticks? Do i need a driver for it or anything? Which sensors i will able to connect to that stick? Or should i buy tuya hub and tuya sensors and just use them thru tuya integrations.

Sorry for my english and for stupid questions, i'm pretty new in it

fringe moon
bold flax
gloomy elbow
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No. The homebridge plugin is created by Tuya and requires their cloud too

tall moat
gloomy elbow
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HomeBridge plug-in by Tuya 😉

warped widget
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Hey is someone able to help

I'm trying to run HA on my rpi3b+ from ssd however i can not get it to boot off ssd. I managed to boot it from a usb stick but i tried both a sata ssd and a samsung t5 and both refuse to boot

fringe moon
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Either of those can help you

warped widget
compact flume
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Hey folks, I'm looking for recs on zigbee rgb lightbulbs (with warm and cool white would be great) and zigbee outlets, any thoughts? For the outlets 10A is fine for the most part, 15A options would be great though for future proofing.

fringe moon
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Tradfri if you only need CT

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I love mine

modest dragon
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Hi guys, I want to monitor the energy usage of my Dishwasher. Sonoff POW r2 seem to do it, but it is also a switch. Do you guys recommend a device that does only energy monitoring and not a switch I can use in HomeAssistant?

blissful void
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Hey, so I purchased a HA blue for like 2 months ago and it have been working fine, though the memory really started to fill up, I guess that it's some snapshot setting that has been malfunctioning, but I've been really busy during the last few weeks so I haven't had time to fix it. And now for a couple of days ago I couldn't visit my HA page, neither via the web or the mobile app. When I check my networks UI-page the HA controller doesn't seem to have an IP anymore. Anyone got an idea of what might have happen plus are there any solutions? I got snapshots saved so if it's possible to factory reset the HA blue I would be up for it

white badge
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Any smart plugs compatible with homeassistant ?

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From home depot

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Tp link is not

fringe moon
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Well, they are

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Just not the best option considering they disabled local control

hot sun
hot sun
terse sage
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Hi, anyone running HA on Synology VMM? I am trying to switch to it and followed all instructions, but when I try to power on the VM it says 'failed to power on'.

fringe moon
terse sage
timid blaze
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no idea if this is the right place for this, but for some reason I am not able to get any new devices to add to home assistant and show entities. The device log output shows that the devices are functioning (for example a PIR sensor), but entities don't get added. I am flashing them with ESPHome if that makes a difference. I have tried multiple different wifi connections including having everything on the same subnet. I'm running Home Assistant OS on a VM on Windows 10.

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I've set up several devices in the past no problem, but for some reason I can't anymore. :/

fringe moon
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Are you adding them by mdns or IP?

timid blaze
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so at the moment I can only add them via ip because it doesn't show up in my integrations as a new thing to configure, and when it did, I hit configure and it only added the device but no entities

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unless I'm misunderstanding the question

fringe moon
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Well, when you add a new esphome device it asks for host

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Which can be either DNS, mdns or ip

timid blaze
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then yah, what I put above

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normally it would go through mdns i believe

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(only been using HA about a month, so still a noob)

fringe moon
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Mdns is.... Not something I would recommend using, use DHCP reservations on devices and preferably add devices via DNS , the optimal situation is if your DHCP server populates DNS

plush bolt
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Hello Rpi guys, do you sheduled some server restarts or let it running non stop?

fringe moon
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Nobody should be restarting servers

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They restart when you update the os

winged knoll
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If you're having to routinely restart a server, you have a problem you're ignoring

plush bolt
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One of my server eating slightly more and more ram

fringe moon
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So, shitty software

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What is the server running?

plush bolt
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Supervised HA with few integrations ;)

fringe moon
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So yes, shitty software

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🥳

timid blaze
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so like, for example, I go to the ESPHome web ui, hit the + button to add a new yaml, tell it to use my wifi secret, set up whatever sensor or display, then install it to my board over the serial port. I then would normally just go to integrations and hit the setup button when it says it found a new one, but everything likes showing as offline now and even when not, things don't pop up in integrations panel.

plush bolt
fringe moon
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But probably, you are overloading your "server" what RPI is it?

plush bolt
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Sadly 3B+

fringe moon
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Yeah, not great

fringe moon
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Let me show you how I use proper DNS with esphome

timid blaze
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appreciate it, because this has been going nowhere for hours

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similar thing happened to me other week, but I just had to get on my phone's wifi to fix it

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now that doesn't work either

fringe moon
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Then my DHCP server gives out 1.2.3.4 to the MAC of that esp board

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And populates DNS with the hostname I have there

timid blaze
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sorry, what is the domain and use_address you have for?

fringe moon
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For using DNS

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That is my internal domain and the fqdn of the esp board

timid blaze
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oh, I should probably preface that I don't have direct access to any of the routers I use

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(if that matters)

fringe moon
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You can tell esphome to use IP address too I think

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Let me check

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I think you can set use_address to the IP itself

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It defaults to try to connect via mdns, and if mdns doesn't work it fails afaik

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Also... Routers in plural?

timid blaze
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well like, I'm on a college campus

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so campus/apartment wifi

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and then I have my phone hotspot

fringe moon
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So, horrible indeed

timid blaze
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so set a static address in the yaml?

fringe moon
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Probably yes

timid blaze
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ok let me try that

fringe moon
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Since you have no control

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Although I detest static ips

timid blaze
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static set, still same result