Beware of #SONOFF Products in #HomeAutomation. If you have a choice, don't buy them! The #eWeLink App refuses to populate the WiFi Network to pair new devices if you do not deactivate 'Private WiFi Address' (MAC randomisation), 'Limit IP Address Tracking' & activate 'Location Services' and give access to 'Precise Location' on iPhone. #HomeAssistant . They even published a blog article about it, recommending to deactivate these vital protections, instead of fixing the App. #ChinaCloud#SpyWare 🤦
@danie10 I went through the websites & docs and it appears a monumental mission - either there are remarks of 'no longer supported' or you need to solder wires or this or that. Gees, if it is no longer supported, remove it from the list #Blackadder . And why such a mission to flash a Camera, while it could be easily done via SD Card. Or I am to new to all of this, to grasp it all at once.
@pee well if setup once then it works OK. I did buy a small USB-serial adaptor ages ago, and the wires coming out have those socket connectors on. I may have had to solder those pin things onto the Sonoff switch (can't remember as it was years ago) and then just connect the adaptor and flash. But I do also recall that things got easier as updates just required a file to be copied and reboot the device.
You can automate much of your home and devices with a Raspberry Pi and open-source Home Assistant
This article is a worthy reminder that are already many things in your home which you can automate from garage door openers, to your home router, to a solar system, to lights, to speakers, and so much more.
Home Assistant has hundreds of ready to ...continues
@pee only if you expose it - mine is all in the LAN and if I want to connect from outsid ethen I just flick OpenVPN on in my phone, do what I need to, and disable OpenVPN.
I really like the idea of #HomeAutomation. However, the available software systems just do NOT do it for me. My smart thermostat has been blinking that it cannot connect to my wi-fi for weeks, my #HomeAssistant is out-of-date because updating it is painful, my Z-Wave adapter is currently not functioning properly because somehow the adapter stack can't talk to it, ...
In ongoing #enshittification, IKEA have decided that you can't use their Home Smart #HomeAutomation system app without sharing usage information with them. This is something I am not happy to do
@dichotomiker@homeassistant ich wür die Eigentümer fragen welche Elektriker die bevorzugen für einbau Strom Messgerät was einfach wieder wus zu bauen ist.
Welches Gerät das ist, ist nicht relevant, wichtig ist das ein Profi das macht und checkt.
@dichotomiker@Drops@homeassistant solange du das wider so verlässt wie es dir übergeben würde. Die Installation "muss" bei starkstrom von einem Fachfrau gemacht werden
Anyone have any experience integrating their smart home functions with their security cameras? I am switching to an IP camera based system and I'll be using BlueIris as my base software, so there's a lot of potential for integrating my automated stuff. If you've done this, what kind of routines did you set up? I'm thinking about...
Going through and hiding all of my entities. Painful process but making it easier to use in the future. @homeassistant is looking better and better each day. #HomeAutomation
what is the point of doing that? I just checked and I have hundreds of entities, it would take a huge amount of time to see which ones to keep visible / which ones are used in automations or visualization etc. What is the harm of just leaving them exposed?
If I sold my house today. I feel like I need to leave behind instruction manual with network diagrams and information on zigbee devices. I have no intentions of selling soon. But this keeps crossing my mind anytime I work on my homelab or home automation #homeautomation#zigbee#homelab
@notsle I document all the things because once they're set up and running I forget how I did it. In a few years I will be the one who needs them. "Oh, yeah, Google found this patch on a discord that lets me flash these outlets with Tasmota and enable MQTT" isn't a detail I'll remember, and I may never find that advice again.
@targetdrone good point and same for me. I should just make a git repo of notes and diagrams with this stuff and I can leave a QR code with a link to it or something.
@HerrRossihsGsg mein zigbee Zirkus taucht in dem "Home Dashboard" auf.
Ein anderes habe ich nicht.
Ich wüsste gerade auch nicht, wie ich eins bauen könnte
@stooovie Will definitely be looking into Zigbee. I remember hearing the name a lot when I first got into this a few years ago, but it was one of a torrent of new terms and names so I was pretty overwhelmed, hence the retreat to wifi, which I could understand. :>
I don't get it... I buy many different brands of #HomeAutomation devices from #Amazon, but despite my clear preferences they keep trying to push #TPLink to me. Can't they take the hint that I don't want it and stop bothering me? Their algorithm is either broken or biased (or both). #HomeAssistant#SmartHome
So after my expensive Philips Hue Zigbee motion sensor gave up the ghost, I tried an inexpensive IKEA TRÅDFRI motion sensor with poor results.
Just got a Linptech ES1ZZ(TY) (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006101306384.html)
from Ali Express and it works like a charm! Zigbee2MQTT picked it up immediately and I just had to rename it to my old motion sensor to make my Home Assistant automations respond to it.
ILLUMINATE! GUIDE ME TO THE TOILET IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT!
Working on my latest #HomeAutomation project. An Inky Frame to display calendar, weather, and a bit of status. I have a silly number of big projects tied together making it work:
NextCloud (where my calendar lives and is accessible via caldav)
@ottaross No. All the hard thinking is done by HomeAssistant, which makes a Lovelace dashboard. Then I have that kindle screensaver project which turns the Lovelace dashboard into a PNG. My code just pulls the PNG and slams it onto the display. The #RaspberryPi#PicoW has SUPER limited RAM. So it is simpler to have all the thinking happen somewhere else.
Wirecutter says that TP-Link's Kasa line of smart switches are the current market leader. What say you, #lazyweb? I desire #HomeAutomation without excessive maintenance of my own servers etc. I'm content to use a random app, as long as it'll talk to Alexa (don't tell "Ok Google" on me! (Why doesn't it have a cute name?))
No, @pgenera , I don't want #HomeAssistant , though I did find various Raspberries Pi on the move.
@tim fwiw I don't like maintaining personal servers. HA is very much more of an appliance as long as you just use dedicated hardware and not follow all those telling you to install Proxmox, all kinds of add-ons and so on.
I'd probably get a Green and a ZigBee stick, and he happy.
We have a mixture of Tradfri and Hue lamps in our house, which all worked fine together until today. Now the Hue bridge is only sporadically connecting to the Tradfri bulbs, if at all. Has Philips done a dirty and blocked the cheap Ikea bulbs with a firmware update? 🤔
@Sirs0ri I wouldn't say it's more power efficient. It uses less power. But it's also much slower, so probably the efficiency is pretty similar, but Zigbee is essentially WiFi and WiFi uses a buttload more power than Bluetooth. Zigbee is optimized here, but still uses more power than Bluetooth.
Rant - Internet / Cloud Connectivity is NOT Always Required (should not be)!!!
I had a week long Internet outage and I could not dim my light bulbs!! My wife was ready to replace the bulbs with dumb bulbs.
TLDR - rural Internet setup and I had to order a replacement wireless bridge.
When my internet was out, my #Smartthings#homeautomation#IoT system did not work. Ok, if Smarthings did not have a local hub that is (used to be) capable of talking to my wifi app (WiFi was still working). Or an interface I could log into. Ugh.
What makes this worse is I am an IoT geek. I used to do embedded and overall system design. Today I do IoT security. I know it is possible and used to work without cloud - internet connectivity . did I say Ugh!
#SwitchBot S10 can automatically refill its water tank for mopping, and it also does triple duty as a water transport that can carry water to a humidifier or from a dehumidifier, as well as an autonomous battery charger for other battery powered devices??! 🤯
