Mir juckt es in den Fingern meinen #Zigbee#Sonoff Stick einzurichten. Aber durch die Umstellung von Kabel auf DSL wird sich hier das Netzwerk in Kürze ändern. Ich hab keine Lust danach alles fixen zu müssen, also muss ich bis zum 9. warten, bis der neue Anschluss da ist.
Und ja, der Alte läuft morgen aus. Bis dahin ein Übergang über 5G 🙃
I’ve been playing with air quality sensors and purifiers in Home Assistant. Here’s my current layout on my dashboard; I want to improve it a bit more, but I am loving the glancable styling powered by the sensor values. :)
PSA: If you're using Zigbee with Home Assistant and find a good deal on eBay for OSRAM A19/A60 bulbs, RUN FAR AWAY!
It turns out these lights/their firmware are trash and will just go offline constantly when too many other devices are routed through them (you know, the whole point of Zigbee bulbs with built-in routing). There's a reason sellers are trying to get rid of them in lots for as low as $2/bulb.
How did I just now discover smart relays that can be installed inside a regular light switch??
For $15 you can turn any switch smart with Wi-Fi or #Zigbee. This means you can keep all your bulbs and switches if what you want is to be able to turn them on or off automatically/remotely. Anyone can still use the switch as usual, except it might be upside down, like a three-way switch. Basically, the relay becomes an additional switch hidden in the electric box. 🤯
All my #Zwave motion sensors, which were a constant PITA for me, feel like crap compared to #HueMotion (thx to myself for trying it after years-long reluctance to #Zigbee sensors)
Hm. Nachdem ich ja demnächst ein bisschen ein #Zigbee-Setup daheim haben werde, und meine (drahtgebundene) Klingel gerade kaputt ist, frage ich mich: Gibt’s eigentlich gute, outdoorkompatible (also vor allem wasserdichte!) Zigbee-Taster?
Das dann mit irgendnem Krachgerät im Innenraum verknüpfeln krieg ich schon hin, aber den Button würd ich gerne fertig kaufen.
Und ja, ich weiß dass es nicht-Zigbee-Funkklingeln gibt wie Sand am Meer. Die wären dann aber erst Plan B.
Well #Zigbee2mqtt is a lost cause. No matter version I install, it refuses to communicate with my devices. It sometimes saw one, but it failed more than it succeeded.
But I finally managed to get #HomeAssistant to see the #Zigbee USB stick and complete the install. And now I’m setting up all my devices again but this time directly in hass.
I think today is a good day to move from #ZHA to #Zigbee2MQTT. 😅
40 devices are in my #Zigbee network, so this will probably take some time. But I don't have to work today and my wife is in the office so this is probably the only day in the next week this will be possible.
It's just annoying how slow the development and device compatibility of ZHA progresses. It was good for a quick start back then but as my network grows the limitations become more visible.
I continue to believe Zigbee delivers on the important things that Matter and Thread keep promising, but actually:
• mature
• widely available
• affordable
The one thing Matter over Thread devices can claim is that they work without a hub… except they don’t; the hub still has to be built into your Nest display, Apple HomePod, etc.
I have hundreds of low power, local-only smart devices from a dozen or so brands and it all… just works together.
Uff. Ich dachte gerade, dass ich die Zeit ohne Internet ja mal nutzen könnte, um meine #HueLights zum Sonoff-#Zigbee Stick umzuziehen. Klappt prinzipiell. Beide spielen mit.
Wisst ihr was nicht mitspielt? Genau #HomeKit. Was ja angeblich komplett lokal läuft. Es ist nicht dazu in der Lage das "neue" Gerät zu erkennen.
Lustigerweise lassen sich auch ohne Internet bei HomeKit keine Automationen verändern. Ergibt total Sinn für ein System, welches ja komplett lokal laufen soll. 🤪
It's been a steep learning curve but it's cool that most of the stuff just works (TP-Link #Kasa and #Tapo, #Ikea Zigbee, #Philips#Hue (using the Hue Bridge, not directly connected to my Zigbee coordinator). Some stuff this uses the cloud (but can be used locally), other stuff takes out the cloud entirely. (1/2)
could someone, smarter than me, tell me why my Sonoff zigbee usb dongle is detected but will not work in a RaspberryPi USB3 port, but works fine in a USB2 port.
When plugged into USB3 port Zigbee2Mqtt sees it but will not find or connect to any zigbee devices or find any new devices. moving it to USB2 fixes it.
Im curious if its the dongle, the RPi, something with USB3, both? I dont have much hardware debugging experience to know where to look #raspberrypi#usb#zigbee#zigbee2mqtt
Okay, so let me tell you about my doorbell, from a #networking perspective.
When you push the button by the door, it sends a message over the #zigbee wireless mesh network in my house. It probably goes through a few hops, getting relayed along the way by the various Zigbee light switches and "smart outlets" I have.
Once it makes it to my utility closet, it's received by a Zigbee-to-USB dongle, through a USB hub (a simple tree network) plugged into an SFF PC. From there, it gets fed into zigbee2mqtt, which, as the name implies, publishes it to my local #mqtt broker.
The mqtt broker is in the small #kubernetes cluster of #raspberrypi nodes I run in my utility closet. To get in (via a couple of #ethernet switch hops), it goes through #metallb, which is basically a proxy-ARP type service that advertises the IP address for the mqtt endpoint to the rest of my network, then passes the traffic to the appropriate container via a #linux veth device.
I have #HomeAssistant, running in the same Kubernetes cluster, subscribed to these events. Within Kubernetes, the message goes through the CNI plugin that I use, #flannel. If the message has to pass between hosts, Flannel encapsulates it in VXLAN, so that it can be directed to the correct veth on the destination host.
Because I like #NodeRed for automation tasks more than HomeAssistant, your press of the doorbell takes another hop within the Kubernetes cluster (via a REST call) so that NodeRed can decide whether it's within the time of day I want the doorbell to ring, etc. If we're all good, NodeRed publishes an mqtt message (more VXLANs, veths, etc.)
(Oh and it also sends a notification to my phone, which means another trip through the HomeAssistant container, and leaving my home network involves another soup of acronyms including VLANs, PoE, QoS, PPPoE, NAT or IPv6, DoH, and GPON. And maybe it goes over 5G depending on where my phone is.)
Of course something's got to actually make the "ding dong" sound, and that's another Raspberry Pi that sits on top of my grandmother clock. So to get there the message hops through a couple Ethernet switches and my home WiFi, where it gets received by a little custom daemon I wrote that plays the sound via an attached #HiFiBerry board. Oh but wait! We're not quite done with networking, because the sound gets played through PulseAudio, which is done through a UNIX domain socket.
SO ANYWAY, that's why my doorbell rarely works and why you've been standing outside in the snow for five minutes.
Last month I learned about the integration which helps track battery change status in various devices connected to #homeassistant.
Today I installed #HACS integration (source) called ‘Battery Notes‘. After the installation and HA restart, it automatically found my #Aqara battery devices (#Zigbee buttons, magnetic door sensors, temperature and humidity):
Does anyone have experience with the Tuya/generic Thermostatic radiator valves? I want to replace my dumb ones with them, but I'm not sure how they would integrate with the existing thermostat.
I was thinking to change the thermostat to tado, who have their own TRVs, but those are quite expensive.
Is it possible to use HomeAssistant to integrate the the generic Zigbee TRVs with a "branded" thermostat?
FFS... My #Zigbee antenna was dangling between the data cabinet and some racking (i.e. around loads of metal). So I "tidied" it into the loft space above the data cabinet... ...and the link quality has gone down.
(But it seems to be working... Not sure how to interpret LQI - it was 66, now 53 and some Googling suggests anything under 100 is shit. The device and coordinator aren't far apart so no particular reason to think that it should be shit)
Achja und kauft euch keine ZigBee USB Sticks mit TI CC253X, die werden nicht mehr Supportet in den verschiedeenen HA Addons inkl. ZHA. Muss mir jetzt ne alternative Suchen, jemand empfehlungen? #homeassistant#zigbee
Ugh. I tried to replace my #Sonoff#Zigbee dongle for a #SkyConnect one, but botched the process so I broke the Zigbee network and had to rebuild. Luckily I had a backup, so I did not have to re-pair any of my devices, but I lost all the names and locations (funny enough the automations were not affected).
Kids, today's lesson is: backup your configs before making changes. 😄
Very work-in-progress, but I have started to document my smart home stuff on my website! This might end up turning into a whole subsection once I figure out how I actually want to organize it, but for now, it’s a dumping ground all on one page. 😅