HOLIDAY DEALS MEGATHREAD

[scenic chasm]

The holiday season has cropped up on us. I know a lot of this community wants to share things they find or get help finding this best deals as the Black Friday deals from the United States start to kick off. This is the place to drop those links!

I do request that no affiliate links are used - we're here to help each other out. 🙂

To get things started, I'll share this article from Tom's Guide on their opinion of the best smart home devices available. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-smart-home-devices,review-2008.html

And if you missed it, the guys at Apollo Automation have a tree board ornament you can buy where 100% of the profit are going to charity! https://apolloautomation.com/products/apollo-h-1-annual-holiday-ornament

[strong lichen]

I ordered a tree...

[worthy willow]

Heya usa guys. Dont you have a price tracking website like we dutchies have https://tweakers.net/deals/black-friday/ ? 40% of black friday discounts where cheaper before black friday.

[strong lichen]

Also, if looking for cheap, today's 11/11, so AliExpress has like everything on sale....

[mighty cape]

Been looking at BT/BTE tags.

Airtags on sale. 4 for $69.99 (17.50 each). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D54JZTHY

There's too many BT tags sales to track on Aliexpress. All $2-5 each, but I have no idea how good they are. https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-bluetooth-tracker.html?g=y&SearchText=bluetooth+tracker

Kasa smart plugs are recommended by Tom's Guide. Currently at lowest price: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Kasa-Smart-Wifi-Plug/dp/B07RCNB2L3/

Historic low price for the matter-enabled ones https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYGRLRS1?th=1

Huh. They're listed as a frequently returned item though

[compact pulsar]

amazon uk offering 2 echos and a plug or bulb for £48.98 not for me but looks like a decent enough deal

[compact nacelle]

I have the previous version of these and they've treated me well. Also recommend the KP125P2 for energy monitoring

[compact nacelle]

I would guess because buyers didn't know about Matter requirements

[past panther]

https://goaxil.com/products/xcor-digital

buy one get one free

[small crow]

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[small crow]

Epic games is giving away the entire Castlevania collection this week. I know some of you are into retro

[blissful linden]

Hue BF deals are live https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/products/promotions/black-friday-cyber-monday-deals bulb 3-pack brings them close to ikea tradfri price

[compact fable]

cool, still unfortunate how philips can still be really expensive anyway

[blissful linden]

yeah 😦 most of their products are still eye wateringly expensive for what you get

[wicked knoll]

True but on the 'up' side, Hue objects are quite good and with me, none of them has died since 10+y which I cannot say the same for a lot of others...and that makes the price-difference not that big too 🙂

[blissful linden]

Yeah for something basic like bulbs I like them. If it's something I'm not sure I'll like or keep using then cheap is a better option to start imo

[pseudo condor]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRCC9863?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9B9LK9F?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

[strong lichen]

Could you please remove the affiliate & tracking links as the original post ask?

I do request that no affiliate links are used -

Basically remove the first question mark and everything after it, then check that the link still works.

[pseudo condor]

sorry

MINISFORUM MS-01 Mini Workstation... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D454DQSP?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[small crow]

that 990 for $70 is not a bad deal but still kind of crap for black friday

[vapid delta]

The 990 Evo was going for 60 a couple of weeks ago

[wide warren]

Any UK deals?

[rotund adder]

You don't have to get Hue. There are plenty of cheaper options for smart lights. Personally I have been satisfied with Nanoleaf and WiZ.

WiZ is the budget brand of Signify (Hue) but still works well if you don't mind Wi-Fi. Nanoleaf uses Wi-Fi or Thread depending on the product. Both brands work well with Home Assistant.

[rotund adder]

For the Nanoleaf website, use promo code "APP" (10% off)

[strong lichen]

50% off Coupon TODAY, NOW for US anyway...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1J1JQRV

[small crow]

For those of you who still don't have a proper tool set for your home. US residents https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-Mechanics-Tool-Set-270-Piece-H270MTSQ223/323565221

[fresh plover]

Sales on Kasa plugs and power strips. What's everyone's experience with them?

• Kasa Smart Plug Power Strip HS300
• Kasa Smart Plug Mini 15A
• Kasa Outdoor Smart Dimmer Plug

[fresh plover]

I'm also looking for a PoE camera with optical zoom, or dual lenses with a telephoto - if anyone sees a deal pop up. ($200 or less)

[small crow]

Kasa works fine. They are a cloud with local fallback device. they were much better when you could just force local only.

17% off that strip is a crap deal, i'd wait for a better one

[upper fiber]

Elevated Sensors just kicked off Black Friday sales! Get Bed Presence for ESPHome for as little as $43.99.

*20% off site-wide
*FREE U.S. Shipping on every order
*FREE International Shipping on orders over $99
*Discounts automatically applied at checkout

https://www.elevatedsensors.com/store/

[worthy willow]

https://www.tile.com/en-eu/products/deals tile discount

[small crow]

Third Reality zigbee stuff just went on Black Friday sale on Amazon. Some as much as $10 off
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=thirdreality&i=black-friday

[small crow]

Reolink as well https://www.amazon.com/s?k=reolink&i=black-friday

[vapid delta]

ESP32 Modules at -20%, Amazon seems to offer another -12% on top
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B074RG86SR?th=1

[fresh plover]

looks like reolink has some deals and bundles on their website as well https://reolink.com/lp/black-friday-cyber-monday-sale/

[small crow]

This is a solid deal if you need a scale. I absolutely love the first one they came out with, the quality of build is on par.
it's currently on a lightning deal.
https://www.amazon.com/Display-Digital-Bathroom-Composition-Bluetooth/dp/B0DHTYQ4KJ

[fresh plover]

There's a lot of govee stuff on sale. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=govee
https://camelcamelcamel.com/search?sq=govee

I was thinking about this as some accent lighting for my living room. It's the older model of their floor light. https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Modern-Assistant-Million-Bedroom/dp/B099WTN2TR

I don't know the difference between that and the newer model

Amcrest has some new best prices too https://camelcamelcamel.com/search?sq=amcrest

[small crow]

supposedly if you block the device at the router it will just fall back to local instantly

[limpid shoal]

this is why i just dont buy them... :/ esp32 or bk7231, etc

[small crow]

between price and reliablity and the fact that they do infact work local with no internet it's hard to complain too much

[compact fable]

guys is teh FP2 aqara motion sensor only cabled? or also with batteries?

[vapid delta]

its wired only

you could probably power it from a usb battery, but unlikely for long

[fresh plover]

Innr plugs are on sale. They seem like common recs: https://www.amazon.com/Assistant-SmartThings-Repeater-Real-time-Monitoring/dp/B0CFVNL1P6/

[small crow]

ask in #the-workshop you are cluttering up the sales posts!

[compact fable]

u right

[fresh plover]

20 TB harddrive for $249.99 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-20tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6500985.p?skuId=6500985

[limpid shoal]

how do i search in this megathread? 😄

[strong lichen]

Use the jump to top button and read down. It's only a week or so long.

@limpid shoal

[limpid shoal]

Fair. Was hoping for some awesome security cameras deals

[fresh plover]

reolink has a lot of good ones

[vapid delta]

just not necessary a lot of good sales. nearly every other week reolink offers a discount on the usual purchases

[fresh plover]

i got an instacart offer for 20 off 50. hue lights are on there

[vapid delta]

those dont say hue but wiz & wifi. be aware that would make them not have zigbee and not compatible with hue gear (if you intend to use the hub)

[reef phoenix]

indoor, outdoor..?

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805711129549.html
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805747833086.html

Fairly dirt cheap, both work fairly well (and they're technically using the same innards as far as I can tell; or at least they have the same webui+root password on telnet. 😄 )

just have some caveats around their IP settings; you have to login and enable DHCP/etc to allow them to reboot onto a new vlan and etc..

[compact pulsar]

some nice deals here - https://shellystore.co.uk/black-friday-2024/sale/

[reef phoenix]

Also applies to their US store.

[surreal sparrow]

And EU^^

[rotund adder]

Looks like WiZ not Hue. Both are by Philips (Signify). WiZ works over Wi-Fi instead of Zigbee.

Here's my review: I have some WiZ "60W" A19 bulbs. They work well. Integration with Home Assistant is smooth and you can control the full RGBWW spectrum.

I don't have Hue to compare. Compared to my Nanoleaf Essentials Matter A19, the WiZ A19 is not as bright (800 lumens max brightness compared to 1,1000 lumens max on Nanoleaf). RGB colors are slightly different (not necessarily better or worse). Nanoleaf Essentials Matter works over Thread, was buggy at first but has gotten much better. Overall I prefer Nanoleaf but WiZ is almost as good and usually cheaper!

[solar wigeon]

Sonoff just mailed me that sale started
https://itead.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b76281f171d974c513c8fdb03&id=3c39a1f6f6&e=cedfea5b4a

[vapid delta]

https://itead.cc/sonoff-black-friday-sale-2024/

[wild meteor]

The Smartest House has all their ZOOZ devices heavily discounted along with many other products. https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/black-friday-cyber-monday-mega-sale-2024

[gentle helm]

Lowered the free shipping threshold too, which is nice.

[wild meteor]

Yes, I'm grapping a Zooz 800 Z-Wave controller to replace my ancient 500 controller.

[strong lichen]

Amazon has Zooz stuff for about 20% more, I already ordered from there BC free shipping with prime.

And BC I have an account, easy, etc... (and I ordered it last night)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BHC73DLB

[vapid delta]

The night purchases ^^

[finite kelp]

Damn, I should have done that with my order.

[fresh plover]

this is awesome. thanks!

def needed an appliance power switch

[faint pilot]

the KP115 Plugs are half off ($10ish bucks a pop), and that is a pretty good deal as far as I'm concerned. 🙂 picked up a bunch more since I can't install a home energy monitoring system

[small crow]

Not a bad deal on outdoor Govee lights on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Dimmable-Backyard/dp/B095K8MX7Y

[small crow]

this is a good deal because it comes with many of the security bits that many sets don't include. https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-Ratcheting-Electronics-Screwdriver/dp/B07V4TFWFZ

[strong lichen]

Tomorrow Menards, in Wisconsin anyway, has Tuya smart plugs I think WIFI 4 for $8 on a black Friday sale. Sylvania Smart+.
If we can get some they'll be for Christmas lights so I only have to swear at the Tuya cloud for a couple of weeks out of the year..

[small crow]

should be a bannable offense to even mention tuya wifi on this server

[strong lichen]

2 bucks a piece... I can deal with the pain for that price.

[limpid shoal]

Apparently these are on sale. Super easy to flash ota with Tuya Cloudfutter, has power monitoring too; one day I'll figure out how to calibrate that.... https://a.co/d/b4VUoHK

[serene holly]

Have you considered these? - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KNDM4VV?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 I know they are ~$6 each, but completely local

[strong lichen]

I own those. I have 8 running Christmas that are rf433 right now and hate them. Don't want to spend much on things that are up for a month a year.
FFS if you don't want them don't buy them, I told you they were $2 apiece Tuya wifi,,, Obviously I know they are crap. I have that shit Tuya running anyway for a garden hose valve and another oddball heated mattress pad So for the Christmas display it would be perfect for me. Maybe others as well.

@serene holly

[blissful linden]

If you don't need the power monitoring personally would spend the couple extra cents on IKEA Tretakt plugs for the long running brand. $6.99 USD retail price. Have a few of those and a few of their monitoring plugs, super easy to pair into HA as well

[fresh plover]

bunch of sales https://cloudfree.shop/

[fresh plover]

controller has lifetime for 50% off. i gotta check if its synergetic with home assistant. https://controllerforhomekit.com/

I was mostly interested in the apple watch functionality

[strong lichen]

Coupon code for this is: D6TRRV737F9C . Brings it down to $35.
https://ranvee.com/products/wisdpi-usb-3-2-to-5gbe-adapter-wp-ut5-wired-lan-network-connection-5g-2-5g-1g-100mbps-5000mbps-usb-c-to-rj45-network-converter

[small crow]

anyone needing a non smart power strip (US) with a long cord, this thing is awesome. I have it and it works great with bricks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YQZ2MMD

[strong lichen]

How did you know I needed one two, after talking to the Boss?

[fresh plover]

I ended up snagging this. I'll let yall know how it works out.

[fresh plover]

woot is doing hourly deals today. nothing impressive but some good essentials like extension cables https://www.woot.com/

If you live near a microcenter, they have some decent deals https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=5126&Ntk=Adv

mostly good deals on storage. some m.2 and sata drives

@mint wyvern https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09WRB33KM

[wary barn]

Any deals on smart rocker switches that don't actually cut power, but instead can send an event to ha to turn off a smart light?

[gentle helm]

Zooz still running their zwave sale.

[wary barn]

Preferably not Z-Wave if possible, I don't have any usb slots available in my server, and all the not usb z-wave hubs I've found are $30+

[reef phoenix]

that feels like you want something like.. https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-i4

with its wall panel button thing.

[wary barn]

What I'm more looking for is something that doesn't cut power to my smart lights, in essence the ZOOZ Zen71, but wifi instead of zwave or zigbee, and no neutral wire requirement

[reef phoenix]

... they don't seem to make the damn wall switch button thing for goddamned USA boxes; thats annoying.

you're sort of hilariously limiting yourself with all of those requirements.

Finding something with no neutral wire is gonna be...

[wary barn]

Yeah, I've been looking for a few days for something that could work, but i'm finding nothing. Basically what i need is a glorified button that sits in the switch box and passes through power to the lights. It can't have a neutral wire since the room I'm installing it in doesn't have one, and wifi preferably because I'm yet to buy any hubs and I'm out of usb ports on my server

[reef phoenix]

that sounds like you're gonna be looking for something battery powered to stick next to the switch to be honest.

... like philips hue remote is; and thats proprietary or whatever its radio uses which is.. yeah

Also puny server if it doesn't have enough usb ports tbh. 😛

[wary barn]

Yeah, it's an old Asus vivobook that I slapped 12GB ram and PVE in

[reef phoenix]

literally puny server; yes.

I mean.. cheap hub? 🤷‍♂️

[wary barn]

Possibly

[tame surge]

Great streaming box on sale for $34

Has backlit remote, remote beeper, vision/atmos, USB 3 port, handsfree Google assistant and 100mbps Ethernet port built in

You can upgrade the Ethernet to gig via USB dongles

https://www.walmart.com/ip/5193222892

Projectivy Launcher, Aerial views screensaver, ADBTV app, and notifications for android tv (for HA notifications) (all from Google play) make it even better

[rotund adder]

I'm interested but am still thinking about it. When will the sale end?

[vapid delta]

Site lists dec21

[copper cave]

any recomendation on zigbee power meters?

[vapid delta]

create a new post in hardware with a recommendation tag

[strong lichen]

Here's a dashcam. $18 with the coupon. Coupon code CQEP1K93W3Q7
https://ranvee.com/collections/automobiles-motorcycles/products/x19-car-dash-cam-high-definition-1920-1080p-with-wide-angle-lens-night-vision-parking-monitor-loop-recording-32g-128g-sd-card-type-c