I really want to get back into hobby electronics in 2024. This Home Assistant hub will hopefully help stimulate that. I plan to integrate the CircuitPython + MQTT gadgets I built for the lizard and fish tanks to begin with, then maybe pull data from our solar power system, put in an air quality monitor, maybe some outside weather sensors, etc.
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.
Ok, I give up. "Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms)"
Tried pretty much everything except the pretty useless "USE ANOTHER DONGLE". My Sonoff dongle is compatible and it works like a charm with ZHA.
I sadly have no time to try more as the migration, even if Z2M would work instantly now, would cost so much time and I don't have this anymore because of the troubleshooting.
Sad. I heard many good things about Z2M and really wanted to try it. Now one of my free days has lost some hours with no success and I'm mad, why good things in #HomeAssistant still have to be so complicated.
I just hope #ZHA will get better over time. I don't think I have the option to try #Zigbee2MQTT again for the next months.
To begin the new year, I've been getting started with Home Assistant. It's a bit like taming a wild bear to be your personal pet.... you know that if/when you're ever done you'll have something incredibly powerful, but the process to get there is probably gonna be extremely painful if it doesn't outright kill you.
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?
Check out the latest of the #homeassistant#podcast where Phil and I talk to Jasper about running a smart hotel and home! Another example of taking Home Assistant to another level!
#homeassistant as a Proxmox VM on a fanless small PC with UPS. Slae.sh Zigbee stick, IKEA, Aqara/Xiaomi sensors and bulbs. A Xiaomi Gateway 3 for controlling BLE Mesh bulbs. A couple of Sonoff Wifi switches running ESPhome. Daikin AC, noname Tuya Zigbee thermostatic valves, Xiaomi standing fan, air purifier and an old Gen 1 Robot Vacuum. Vocolinc humidifier. Sonos speakers, Samsung TV, Kodi running on Pi 4, 4 different Amazon Echo devices. Everything integrated into HA.
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)
So Roombas suck and cannot navigate my house because they use cameras not LIDAR (did Elon Musk design this shit?)
So what is the best Robot Vacuum that like, actually works? I have cheapo iHomes and honestly the iHome AutoVac Nova Pro is acceptable. The older one can't navigate well and forgets the map often though
Die c’t Redaktion hat sich durch ein Jahr Testberichte gewühlt und mögliche Geschenkkandidaten nochmal getestet. Welche das sind, erfahrt ihr in c’t uplink.
@kaiserkiwi Viel geiler finde ich aber, dass du keine Chance hast, rauszufinden, wer zum Teufel gerade dieses Gerät gestuert hat. War es ein User, eine Automation, ein Versehen?
Per se finde ich #HomeKit recht gut. Und vor allem sehr übersichtlich. Aber wenn du mehr willst, brauchst du andere Lösungen. Vergleiche, Logiken oder Abhänigkeiten kannst du so nich tmodellieren. Und je mehr das #smarthome wächst, desto mehr könnte man nutzen. Geht aber dann eben nur mit Lösungen wie #homeassistant
I have a #HomeKit automation to automatically turn on my living room lamps 30 minutes before sunset. But some days it gets cloudy outside and dark inside much sooner than that.
Is there such thing as a smart indoor light sensor, to control my lamps depending on how dark or light it is inside my apartment?
Hab heute den Philips Hue Müll aus meinem #Smarthome entfernt. Die Hardware mag toll sein aber die Software ist Schrott. Bei jeder Änderung in der App wurden meine Raum- und Zoneneinstellungen in #HomeKit zerschossen. Heute ist mir dann der Kragen geplatzt.
Today's #Security Blunder Shout-Out goes to #HomeAssistant. The latest version (and it's first point release) reinvents the old notion of "trusted networks" to save attackers the effort of enumerating user accounts.
It comes with a fancy new login screen, for "local users only", that shows all of the user accounts. It cannot be disabled. It cannot be configured. Accounts cannot be excluded. It applies to every connection that HA thinks is local. There are no tunables, no logs, no options. Just a decision tree hidden inside a black box. ("Use x-forwarded-for and these two options" is great, if it works. 100% of my other endpoints are parsing the header successfully...)
There are no tools to inspect the incoming requests, so "just fix the proxy" is useless advice. There are no options to disable it, so even if you split local/remote successfully it will still apply to local.
Welcome back to 1998, when you could pretend your local network was somehow not connected to anything..
Today the related adventure is watching the devs insist there is no place for this security bug report. "GitHub is for issues, this is a feature request." Except the fucking forum they use for that already had that request shouted down. Also it's a forum. Not a ticket tracker. And this is a security exposure, not a fucking feature.
Anyone want to file a CVE? I may do it tomorrow if this continues.