I gave up on HomeKit a few months ago because it has become so unreliable. Switches would take upwards of 15 seconds to flip, even after upgrading to matter, unless they went “unresponsive”.
It seems like the zigbee Leviton switches respond very quickly? Have you seen any reliability issues besides Wi-Fi interference?
@DigitalKrampus One time after over a year of no power outages, one of my switches seemed to lose some wireless functionality (manual operation was fine). Switching on and off the breaker fixed it, been great since.
@geerlingguy Just a heads up that many PIR sensors have patterns that "look" out and down, but not up. (Why stare at the ceiling when you can increase sensitivity below) So mounting it upside-down may cause some problems... But maybe just check the datasheet/manual
~2002 I was invited to a speak at a small conference about "Smart Buildings".
Other speakers basically claimed that comm cable in a building was equal to "smart", or enough thermostats...
My first slide was "The Smartest Building in the World is more stupid than an Ant", or something to that effect, and then went on to show my building automation systems running on Ethernet and reachable from the Internet, something I had been doing since 1998.
@geerlingguy I really like your (or did you nick it?:)) idea of making it additive. It’s one of those “obvious” things that one doesn’t think of until someone points it out.
I’ve a very modest home automation setup, with mainly lights. But I can’t turn on/off my lamps (side table lamp) without finding the “smart” plug and press the button there. :/
Would be neat to have a smart socket where both me and the wifi can turns things off (and on again!).
@geerlingguy Home Assistant is such a huge QOL improvement once you get it set up, plus it can help save a ton of money with heating and charging devices.
And then you start to veer into dangerous territory with thoughts like "You know, if I spent $300 on a set of ZigBee motion sensors, I could make it so I would never have to touch a single light switch ever again".
The video is about smart devices that are poorly designed and/or rely on cloud infrastructure being dumb. Jeff also wants smart devices that will literally only talk to home assistant, and will still work fine if home assistant is offline (like a light switch will still work if the server is down).
@jahanson@homeassistant Oh. Gah, one of the most painful things about trying to tag people in Mastodon is how there are like 15 "mirror" accounts from the birdsite for any popular account/project.
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