Control your home with an AI-powered Assist, conditional sections and cards for your dashboards, Matter 1.3, amazing new media player commands, tag entities, and so much more! 🚀
Spend some time updating the #zigbee2mqtt herdsman-converters three of my rather esoteric light fixtures use (and which broke after a z2m update about two months back and I just hadn't found the time yet).
#SmartHome is like a constantly changing model railway, but with the added benefit of impacting your day-to-day!
I don't have enough time to keep up with all my projects: #3dprinting, #coding, #ClassQuiz, #smarthome, #school, #gaming and #tabletennis. I'd really appreciate having a helping hand regarding @classquiz who can take on some small(ish) issues I've been aware of for months, but at the time, I am focused on other projects (also in the regard of coding): There's @homeassistant and #FediPrint.
Think I need to get some air quality sensors that talk Zigbee. Probably go down the path of IKEA, since the store is both close by and the product affordable. In the realm of “good enough”, if you will.
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. :)
Alright #HomeAssistant nerds, I have a question. I would like to set up a standard way to get a derived value back from a number of sensors; for example, given a sensor’s PM2.5, PM10, Ozone, CO, SO2, and/or NO2 reading, I would like to return an estimated air quality index (AQI). Ideally I could also have a standard way to map any given AQI value to a category string, e.g. 10 = Good, 75 = Moderate, 175 = Unhealthy, etc.
Warto kupić Google Nest Hub 2 jako sterownik do Home Assistant? Jest tanie i nawet jako "tablet" do alarmu Satel wychodzi ze 4 razy taniej niż ichni kontroler na Windows CE który na dodatek jest na kablu (co ma prawie same zalety tyle że trzeba ciągnąć kabel).
HA ładnie mi się integruje też z Fritz! wiec wygląda ciekawie a osprzęt jest dość tani #homeassistant#smarthome#satel
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. 😅
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.
Today I found out my #SmartHome thermostat hasn't been working because of an ISP outage in the area. While I am all for #NetNeutrality, this one takes the cake for me; how can people be expected to have functioning smart houses if they keep prioritising internet leeches (such as "self-hosters") over actual customers, overloading their networks?
I'm on the phone with my provider right now, the waiting times might take a while, but this is something that's gotta be said.
Zigbee is great -really- but it has an appeal problem as it's not the 'open platform' it pretends to be. It's woefully hard for a non-techie to set up a real smart home with various brand devices.
Even for me it's been a rocky ride until I realized I needed always-connected, same brand devices (bulbs) to stabilize my battery-powered-remote-heavy mesh. I can't imagine how a layperson manouver around different manufacturers stuff.
I can 1000% recommend the Meross smart garage door opener with HomeKit for anyone looking to open/close/check on their garage door remotely—it’s easy enough to install and works great over the local network with Home Assistant (thanks to HomeKit, even if you don’t have any Apple devices)!
It can work with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Siri if you’re into that stuff, too.
Personally, I’m just happy to get away from the shady and abusive MyQ (owned by Chamberlain, like most other garage door brands) which is cloud-dependent, has systematically removed features, locked out DIY-ers and smart home enthusiasts by blocking API access, added ads to their app, and partnered with Amazon and Walmart to let them into your garage—eww.
I've now collected 4 of the 5 stones needed to complete the #smarthome protocol infinity gauntlet after deploying an #ESPHome device (#ratgdo) for the first time last night.
Once completed, I'll be able to decrease my home's electricity usage by 50% at the snap of my fingers.
#HomeAssistant shows a lot of promise for #SmartHome integration across manufacturers, but right now, there is still an awful lot of Fucking About™ required to make things happen.
I'm trying to integrate something and the bit that's required before I set the integration up requires SSH, an additional interface element (HACS), and an installation sequence, accompanied by clearing browser cache, that does not easily seem to work.
I'm as keen as the next geek to mess with stuff under the hood, but this is pretty much deep nerd only territory.
@techducks wie vertrauenswürdig sind solche smarten Steckdosen? Die Firmware wird sicher nie erneuert um Sicherheitslöcher zu stopfen und wenn man Namen wie TP-Link 🤮 Tapo liest gibt es bestimmt einige. Zudem die Apps von denen nach Hause telefonieren, Standortfreigabe verlangen (z.B. Tuya) und die Verbindungen auch sicher über deren Server laufen und somit eine weiter Angriffsfläche bieten. Ist es das Risiko wert? Oder gibt es smarte FOSS Steckdosen? #Smarthome#HomeAssistant
If you missed the State of the Open Home 2024, check out our blog to catch up on the big announcements.
🏠 Launching the @openhomefoundation
‼️ Home Assistant's road to 1m installs
🎙️ Teasing our upcoming hardware
🕶️ Our roadmap and upcoming features
🔖 Chapter breakdowns of the livestream
@homeassistant@openhomefoundation I love how much effort you have put into the event, both contetnt- and production-wise! :blobPikaHappy: Congratulations to everyone involved!
Can you share a link to the roadmap? I can't find it anywhere.
Keep on doing the amazing job with everything around #OpenHome!
For #Zigbee remotes for light controls, do you use bindings, or #HomeAssistant automations to control the lights?
Seems like bindings is might be good idea because the remotes will still work if HomeAssistant/Zigbee2MQTT is down, but it seems you also lose some flexibility in terms of what action a button press takes?