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!
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.
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.
This seems like it should be very simple to define a function somewhere, but I can't figure it out! The closest I’ve come is to create new template sensor entities for each sensor, which is a pain. Blueprints seem to be for automations and scripts, not Helpers. 😩
Am I missing something? I don’t really want to have to figure out how to make a new HACS integration, but then again, automatically adding these entities to any relevant sensors (like how Battery Notes works) would be pretty dope…
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. :)
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
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.
So, if anyone would be interested, I am here to help and would really appreciate some help for ClassQuiz. It has also gotten way more popular than I've ever expected: I am averaging at ~7k unique visitors per month on classquiz.de alone. There are people everywhere contacting me (okay not everywhere, but I'd say it's 5 per week on average). I mean, all are friendly, but that all takes time. But I also can't just turn them down. I just can't, as it's also a great feeling helping those people.
Now, I wanted to ask: Anyone out there interested in assisting me with #ClassQuiz? Preferrably in bug fixes, dependency updates, etc or just in assisting with communication?
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. 😅
@derek huzzah! I will say that the Nest camera integration is not really better with the Starling Home Hub and Home Assistant, though it was easier to set up. The cameras are really low frame rate and delayed, though. 😞
You do get all the recognition stuff exported as sensors though, which is dope; for example, you get a “motion” sensor, “unfamiliar face” sensor, and familiar face sensors for every saved face on each camera which opens up a lot of interesting stuff.
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.
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.
@jo ISP skill issue. you can totally have self hosters and not effing kill your network, it's called QOS and maybe some level of redundancy, instead of oversubscribing a line to hell and then going surprised_pikachu.jpg when normal average users watching some netflix already overload the entire thing. This one shouldn't be blamed on self hosters, they can not fix this for you.
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.
• Sengled, because they’re not repeaters (so they don’t improve the network)
• OSRAM, Signify, or Sylvania: these are all from the same manufacturer and have given me nothing but trouble
Other than those that I’ve found, any Zigbee bulb ultimately should work fine—and I think my problems above are more prominent due to how many devices I have.