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GreatAlbatross Mod , in A good zigbee repeater light switch?
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk avatar

Someone else already raised the mains wired safety/budget issue, but I may have a side suggestion for you: Bulbs as repeaters.

I've added hue bulbs directly to my zigbee network, where they also act as repeaters.

The problem then was people switching off at the switch. This has been resolved by adding a little zigbee button by the switch (as people can achieve the function without the mains switch).
Which gives the bonus of being able to do different taps.

(So for example, I have one click as toggle on/off, two clicks is daytime+bright, press+hold is evening+dim)

jgkawell , in Best ZigBee keypad and RFC tag for alarm ?
@jgkawell@lemmy.world avatar

I've been using this and it works great!

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/KEYZB-110.html

tifriis OP ,

Thanks ! Do you use it with alarmo ? How is the battery life time ?
Do you succeed to get battery information via zigbee2mqtt ?

JustEnoughDucks , in Compile errors with ESP32 Atom Echo
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

on_tts_end: you have a media player component while you define a speaker instead. They are not interchangeable. It is likely trying to grab default values from somewhere because of that. Media player is better if you want the device to also play music or alerts through home assistant instead of voice assistant or some preset wav files.

Media player is also a speaker using an arduino library (not compatible with esp_adf as that uses the esp-idf framework and not arduino). If you want to use the media player, you have to get rid of vad_threshold and the esp_adf.

Please follow this yaml for an esp-idf config using the speaker instead of the media player: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/blob/main/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml

mike_wooskey OP ,
@mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com avatar

Thanks for the help, @JustEnoughDucks.

I copied the yaml you suggested and made 2 changes:

I changed the i2s_dout_pin from GPIO22 to GPIO21:

speaker:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    id: echo_speaker
    i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21
    dac_type: external
    mode: mono

...and added my on_tts_end with the media_player:

  on_tts_end:
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
          media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
          media_content_type: music
          announce: "false"

This did compile and the audio output from the echo is played on the media_player, but the audio is also played on the Echo itself. Previously, changing the i2s_dout_pin from GPIO22 to GPIO21 prevented the Echo from playing the audio (I think by directing audio data to pin 21, which is not used).

I'm not sure what you meant here:

Media player is also a speaker using an arduino library (not compatible with esp_adf as that uses the esp-idf framework and not arduino). If you want to use the media player, you have to get rid of vad_threshold and the esp_adf.

I tried removing "vad_threshold: 3" and the "esp_adf" component:

external_components:
  - source: github://pr#5230
    components:
    refresh: 0s
  - source: github://jesserockz/esphome-components
    components: [file]
    refresh: 0s

...but with the same result: audio plays on both the media_player and the Echo's speaker.

Instead of trying to prevent the audio from getting to the Echo's speaker, is there a way to just turn the Echo's speaker volume to zero?

JustEnoughDucks ,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

Sorry, I misunderstood what you are trying to do here. I thought you were trying to use the Atom Echo itself as a media player. Disregard that arduino library comment, it isn't relevant. I just watched the video since I couldn't earlier.

Indeed what you are doing should work. Are you certain that the upload was successful? With GPIO21 set as the speaker output, the speaker data should absolutely not work. The fact that it does means that somewhere along the line, the GPIO22 is set as the speaker output.

AmbiguousProps , in Best ZigBee keypad and RFC tag for alarm ?

The only decent keypads I've found are z-wave and made by Ring, unfortunately. There's an HA blueprint for them at the bottom.

sabreW4K3 OP , in Release v1.39.0-1 · zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt · GitHub
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al avatar

Apologies, I didn't post properly initially as I was trying to post from a new device and it went pear.

AntonChigurh , in Best ZigBee keypad and RFC tag for alarm ?
@AntonChigurh@lemmy.world avatar

Why a keypad? I use a GROW R503 fingerprint reader to arm and disarm. Works very well with HA on ESP board. Cheap and effective, for multiple users and if you want you can save all your fingers.

Windex007 , in Compile errors with ESP32 Atom Echo

I'm not in a place to actually help as I'm on vacation: but since it's a compile issue, if you posted a minimally failing-to-compilr version (no credentials) of your full YAML someone could conceivably be able to troubleshoot it

mike_wooskey OP ,
@mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com avatar

Thanks for the suggestion, @Windex007, but by the time I saw it, JustEnoughDucks had suggested a fix.

ZeldaFreak , in IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon
@ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world avatar

Still switchable? Man I wish there would be a pure power meter plug available, with no switching ability. I would plug them into a lot of things. I know you could measure the whole power usage of a line or your home but that requires the right equipment (power meter) or an electrician to install it

Rekhyt ,

Why not just not use the switch function? You can even "disable" the switch in Home Assistant so you can't accidentally turn it off, and most of these sorts of switches have a setting for default (on power restoration after power loss) of on or off.

brockhold ,

I'm not the person who you're responding to, but at least in my case I am just not comfortable with having the ability to switch, since I would like to connect devices which could be seriously damaged if the switch toggled for any reason. I have modified a couple of switchable power monitoring plugs already, but I would rather pay slightly less and not have a hassle.

limelight79 ,

With Tasmota on the S31, you can disable the ability to turn it off. I have a few set up that way to prevent them from being turned off.

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

You can get meters that clamp over the wire, no electrician required.

https://www.smarthomeperfected.com/best-smart-home-energy-monitor/

mbirth , in IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon

I figured this when IKEA started throwing out their current model for £5 a pop. Judging by how fast their stock was gone, they‘ll show up on ebay for a hefty markup any time now…

guy_threepwood , in IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon

I hope they’re still Zigbee devices. No info I can find at the moment but I quite like that I can use Trådfri stuff with Zigbee2mqtt and I’d love to add more functionality

just_another_person OP ,

I would assume so? All their other stuff is Zigbee, and it's got a huge following.

guy_threepwood ,

The article says it needs the DIRIGERA hub, which also has a Matter/Thread radio

helenslunch , in IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

I'd recommend the Third Reality plugs instead. You can buy them right now, and probably for cheaper. And they're smaller.

rockhstrongo ,
@rockhstrongo@lemmy.world avatar

Are they smaller? These new IKEA plugs seem like they are less wide than the Third Reality ones, but they might stick out farther.

Either way, those Third Reality plugs are nice.

Strit , in IKEA's new smart plug to track power consumption could launch soon
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show avatar

Nice. The old Trådfri plugs don't have any sensors.

hendrik , in What's the software they use for their livestreams?

Not sure what they use (you could ask one of them.) Bue we've used OBS Ninja for similar things. As far as I remember it works well, has acceptable latency and everything is open source.

Edit: Obviously you have to put in some effort to configure OBS to your liking, make appealing slides etc.

unknowing8343 OP ,

That is absolutely amazing

towerful , in What's the software they use for their livestreams?

VMix popularity exploded during the pandemic. A lot of conferences became a blend of teams/zoom/Google and VMix.

Might be hardware based like a multi-m/e video mixer (blackmagic make cheap ones), or maybe more of a screen manager (like barco e2, analog way livecore). But, unless there are production requirements, vmix is much more likely. It's (now) proven, and much cheaper!

OBS can absolutely do it. There are other open source softwares that can do it.
I've seen people bastardise Resolume into something that looks decent.
There are some online studio systems so everything you do is virtualized. Streamyard used to be like this, till it was bought by hopin (I think it was hopin)

dinckelman , in What's the software they use for their livestreams?

OBS is practically the only sensible choice. Some people still use xsplit, for whichever reason, but good for them

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