Prime Day Megathread

[umbral lark]

Its that time again! Prime day has come around (October 7-8) and here is a Megathread to bring up any good deals that you find 🙂

[steady raven]

Aquara seems to have a couple of reasonable offers this year around. Mostly on their sensors but also a bit on camera stuff.

Reolink may also be worthwhile this time around. Do price check with them as they usually do the sketchy +-10$ fake discounts; however I do not recall having see their 12mp line for less than 85 bucks for a while

Ecowitt got their weather station back to around 200$ which is nice

Hue got a bit of stuff but that's not too impressive

[crude gorge]

well i do need to give my family a birthday gift suggestion list 😅

I was suggested to look at esphome components but im stuck :P

is it me or does it feel like for some sensors, it is cheaper actually to just buy from a random brand on amazon than to actually build yourself?

I guess I can look into sensors for electricity usage, maybe water usage too? If we do a thermostat we might as well just buy a nest thermostat for the sake of the ecosystem we have

maybe i should just shut up and make another thread, to possibly gain more attention?

[idle pulsar]

now its down to only double the price of other regular things that aren't on sale! /s

[steady raven]

Sonoff lists their ZBDongle-E for 20 bucks which does not seem bad

[atomic talon]

i'd love to find a smart thermostat that is completely free of any apps ro cloud sites to control it, local access only, including the initial setup... anything like that still around? Likewise for a robotic vacuum that does NOT talk to anywhere outside my home, even for setup...

[steady raven]

unicorns that kinda do not exist

for hardware recommendations use #1284966353798697001

[dim ermine]

Probably not the right place to reply (sorry)
But this is if you have openTherm compatible boiler or just a Shelly relay

https://diyless.com/product/opentherm-thermostat3?srsltid=AfmBOop_iQ7Z9MaYJzgeduUYSWMKfIbVbxI63-Yb9OmWO0sEHad4iWMd

[idle pulsar]

they do if you make it yoursefl!

[steady raven]

indeed!

[atomic talon]

Sigh. I guess ulterior motives can't be avoided anymore, and the costs of everything now also includes selling your privacy. It does sound like this should be a discussion in the hardware forum then. I do like that euro styling though that @dim ermine pointed to.

[idle pulsar]

there are diy options.. I'm building a pcb to control air handlers.. tho its 24VAC based and such.. so US-nonsense-based and etc..

[hardy sparrow]

Dutch Mediamarkt offering the second hue bulb for half the price.

[glass pivot]

I bought a couple of keyboards because I keep wearing the letters off the cheap ones I buy. That's what prime days are good for in my world.

[steady raven]

why not buy something with regular double shot keycaps

human fingers arent as good of wearing away plastics than they are with paint ;D

[stable mesa]

Find any zwave thermo

[atomic talon]

brilliant. found some, even one that promises multistage control on zwave8, without daring to give away any important details of course lest we should ever wonder if we need 8 wires or 4...

[idle pulsar]

very clearly I need to finish my boards.. and sell them

🙃 esp32 8 outputs, 4 inputs for control.

[stable mesa]

I have used honeywell in the past and the current one I have is a Venstar t4700. zero outside connectivity

[atomic talon]

as usual the critical details are sparse in the advertising... most that i found kept their connections and wiring needs secret. so buy only what you can return.

[stable mesa]

I've had solid success with the venstar. It's an ugly unit but it works 🙂

[atomic talon]

had those at work years ago. It connects to WiFi, but i wonder why it needs a bridge to allow connection with home automation. What does the bridge do? Often it implies bridge to cloud...