#For sprinklers

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slender valve
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Just picked up an open sprinkler after not finding anything out there that didn't use cloud.

humble burrow
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i'm very new to the whole HA side of things (only been at it a couple of months) but there's some pretty cool presence detection you can do now with mmwave devices

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things like the FP1/FP2/EP1

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combined with PIR sensors they can give a very accurate reading if someone is in a house, and the new ones like the FP2 (which i'm not sure if they work with HA out the box yet) can even track up to 3-5 people in a room, along with where areas are in the room and run automations based on that, which just blows my mind

lyric coral
plucky wren
lyric coral
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Also if money isn’t an issue then rgbw-cct bulbs and smart switches plus accompanying mmWave and pir sensors, temp sensors, etc

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Smart switches only get you power or dimming, or color temp with specific analog bulbs

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Smart switches + smart rgbw-cct bulbs gives you all the things

plucky wren
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Color temp isn't anything I care about. On/off and dimming is good enough.

lyric coral
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And if you do zigbee switches + zigbee bulbs you can bind them to each other so they work even if hass is down

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Same with zwave ofc

plucky wren
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I haven't messed with any ZigBee stuff yet. I imagine it's not much different than all the zwave stuff I have used in the past. Aside from being much cheaper. 😂

lyric coral
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Zwave is fine there just isn’t a lot of hardware options for bulbs

plucky wren
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But I have no preference on zwave vs ZigBee. I am planning on avoiding wifi as much as possible though.

lyric coral
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Their switches or dimmers are better and cheaper than the only good zigbee switch option

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For zigbee you either choose $50 inovelli blue switches or random Chinese hardware manufacturers lol

plucky wren
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I've been running Zooz switches in the past. Overall, they have been great.

lyric coral
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That’s what I use

plucky wren
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Finally got my wife to agree to decora switches, instead of the old fashioned toggle style.

lyric coral
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But I went full retard with zigbee hue bulbs

plucky wren
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Her stipulation.... Swap them all or none.

lyric coral
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So I need hass to be up to make switches control bulbs in the same room

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It works well tho

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I have both meshes reliably serving the house

lyric coral
plucky wren
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Luckily, I won't be worrying about the bulb issue. Just regular dimmable LEDs. Later down the road, I'll install some LED cove lighting throughout the house, if I want to worry about color temperatures and what not. It's crazy how much a little bit of colored accent lighting can totally change a rooms feel

lyric coral
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Plus with zwave you can get s2 which confirms the packet arrives which is pretty necessary for sirens, locks, window / door sensors, etc.

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No zigbee equivalent in terms of the protocols

lyric coral
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Anything premade is just inferior

plucky wren
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Espressif, is like the esp32 and 8266, right?

lyric coral
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Yep

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You can buy preflashed Wi-Fi wled rgbw-cct bulbs for specific purposes but I wouldn’t deploy them in an entire house

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Cool for music reaction synced to other led strips or bulbs for example

plucky wren
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Definitely sounds like I need to deep dive on my research again. So much has changed in 5ish years.

lyric coral
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Roborock vacuum should be flashable with valetudo open source firmware btw

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Oh and kwikset zwave 700 locks

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And zooz titan water valve and XS leak sensors

plucky wren
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Zooz were the valves I was looking at. Overall seems to be quality stuff at a good price compared to others.

lyric coral
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Yep

plucky wren
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Those stairs are awesome

lyric coral
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Yep lol

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But nowadays 24v rgbw fcob lights are getting popular instead of 5v sk6812 rgb + warm white

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You can remove the tag I just copy pasted

plucky wren
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Are there any worth a damn forums or anything these days for this stuff? Facebook groups are a mess for research. And reddit can be real hit or miss.

lyric coral
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I quit Facebook in 2015 it’s mind cancer

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Discord is the place to interact with the community

plucky wren
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Good to know. I use Facebook mostly for sending pictures of my kids to my mother in law.

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I hated when Facebook groups basically killed off the old php bulletin boards. They were a much better platform. Facebook has too many idiots.

lyric coral
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Now there’s Facebook marketplace which replaced Craigslist and eBay and even Facebook dating

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It’s fucked

vital kiln
lyric coral
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whether or not it's currently ready or worth playing with? idk i'm waiting for it to mature more myself

vital kiln
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I saw that blog post, but nothing since Jan 31st so was kind of hopeful I missed something positive

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damn, was really wanting an open source voice assistant with the hardware pre-figured out

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I had a bad experience with configuring audio input with a raspberry pi so I've not wanted to touch hardware for that since