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unknowing8343 , in What add-ons and integrations do you have installed?

I don't use Zigbee2MQTT, I just buy appropiate ZHA hardware to keep things simple.

Addons: qBitTorrent, VS Code, File Browser, Advanced Terminal

Integrations: Google Cloud (Text-to-Speech), Haier hOn, Samsung SmartThings, Tuya.

vzq ,

I found Tuya to be such a massive pain in the ass that I just ended up ripping out all devices.

The main integration would just randomly stop working when my developer account expired and required an evening of frustrating clicking through poorly translated slow as molasses Chinese websites to re-enable.
Localtuya was spectacularly half baked for my devices.

Has anything changed? Is there a special secret to getting Tuya stuff to work reliably?

sylverstream ,

I've flashes LibreTiny (fork of Esphome) on my Tuya devices, on a IR blaster and a relay. Took some time to understand how it worked, but then it worked like a charm. Now they are just esphome devices, no more Tuya stuff.

alphapuggle ,

LocalTuya on HACS, it's a bit of a pain to setup and requires you to make a tuya dev account (free) but as far as I can tell you can delete it after, it's just to get the security keys to actually control the devices, and then issue them locally. My devices were much more responsive after doing so

dmtalon , in What add-ons and integrations do you have installed?

I use zigbee mqtt
Which of course integrates with mosquito broker.

But I tied in my ecowitt weather station data via mqtt into the broker so I have it in HA. I did this with weewx . There's an mqtt add-on

I also integrated my blue-iris NVR in to mqtt for motion detection, notifications for cameras.

Life360 integration to help automate things based on who's home

I use esphome and have a bunch of sensors/devices. I track whole house power utilization, I have temp sensors on my HVAC to I can watch all its performance stats.

Here's my ugly drawing that tracks inside/outside/basement temps, geothermal water loop temps, in/out furnace air temps, water heater state along with both it and the furnace realtime watts usage.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/c34851a2-71b1-4328-887b-8e0a0eadf68b.png

navi , in What add-ons and integrations do you have installed?

ESPHome, WLED, NodeRed.

ANIMATEK , in HA redundancy options

You may wanna look at Kubernetes. It’s basically docker with failover.

peter , in Can anyone recommend a wireless doorbell that works with home assistant?
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Unifi protect doorbell, but I do believe you need a unifi protect instance in order to record

dbrand666 , in Can anyone recommend a wireless doorbell that works with home assistant?

I used to have a Ring and became concerned about privacy once Amazon took over. Worse, all it used to capture was delivery people's backs - by the time it would see motion the action was almost over. That's when it captured anything at all - it used to miss a lot.

Reolink doesn't require any Internet access - even for initial setup. People detection works great with Frigate and you can tell it to start recording before motion is detected so you don't miss anything.

Full disclosure, it does take some fiddling to get it working reliably. I still don't have 2 way audio working.

JCreazy OP ,

I'm all too familiar with spending countless hours trying to get things to work so that shouldn't be a problem.

dbrand666 ,

🤣

JCreazy OP ,

Surprisingly, I just got an email saying that the price for Yearly Nest subscription is going up so all the more reason to switch.

__init__ , in Building from scratch
  1. Network cables everywhere. Way easier to do that before drywalling if that’s something you want.
  2. Neutrals in your switch boxes will make smart switches easier later. Though I heard that might be a code requirement for new construction anyway?
  3. Also heard oversize switch boxes are a thing, which will also make smart switches easier later (assuming price difference is negligible).
CondorWonder , in How do you get the top bar?

It’s called Badges - edit the dashboard page, then click on the edit button beside the tab.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Thank you!

CondorWonder , in Seeking assistance with Auto Backup HACS integration

Create your own automation instead of using the blueprint. The blueprint doesn’t expose the location so it won’t work.

You might be able to look at the full yaml from the trace and copy it into a new automation (replace everything, then update the name). Once you’ve done that you should be able to use the visual editor and make whatever changes you need.

peter , in Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK)
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Ikea makes some of the best smart home stuff IMO. Really well built, decently priced and no stupid lock in or cloud only stuff.

RandomLegend ,
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Every single bulb in my home is from IKEA and i was really happy with how easily they are to be integrated.

Sadly they aren't repeaters for the regular zigbee network, only for other IKEA devices.

cynar OP ,

They definitely are repeaters. I had issues with a Moe's ZigBee dimmer. It turned out it was relaying off of an IKEA bulb. When that lamp got turned off at the switch, it killed the link. I ended up using a smart plug as a repeater.

Lifebandit666 ,

I second this statement. Most of my bulbs are IKEA. I have 4 floors and my ZigBee dongle is on the ground. If they weren't repeaters, my Aqara motion sensors wouldn't be working, but they do!

friend_of_satan , in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

Yo dawg, I heard you like wall plates.

roofuskit , in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

You know, you don't have to use the wall plate just because it's in the box.

sue_her_birds , in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

I like this thermostat except for one issue. When i manually change the target temperature with the HA thermostat card, it has a maximum temperature of 40 degrees. With Fahrenheit, this is obviously no good. it has something to do with the MQTT configuration but i cant figure it out. Luckily service calls in automations work fine.

paf , in Zigbee Cluster 0xEF00

Cannot really answer your questions but if you ever swap to z2m and you keep the exact same friendly name you are using in zha, automations won't need to be updated.
I know it would be still a pain to re-pair but z2m is better than zha, so you will gain in the long term.

BennyInc ,

In what ways is it really better? I‘ve switched from deconz to ZHA two years ago, and dread the reconnecting…

kravemir ,
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It is decoupled from home automation system.

It does just one thing, and it should do it well. No duplication of efforts by writting support for same devices in multiple softwares.

In future if I wanted to redo HA from scratch or swap it with some else software, I can continue using Zigbee2MQTT without repairing all devices.

Even, I can test different software in parallel, by connecting it to already running MQTT, to access sensor readings of my existing running Zigbee network.

sue_her_birds , in Unknown Known Entity

My guess is that at some point you had a lux sensor (illuminance) as a condition and that entity has either had its name changed or has been deleted.

Check out the automation (either in the builder or in the yaml) to see if you have this condition. Then see if that entity still exists or if it’s name has changed.

Edit: for clarity

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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See that's the weird thing. I haven't removed or renamed any devices and most of the time everything works, but once in awhile I get these errors.

thehatfox ,
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Once I had devices that replaced entities with new ones with a different ID after a firmware update. It happened to some ESPHome devices I had after upgrading the firmware. Have you checked the device the entity belongs to?

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Yup, once I manually trigger the automations, everything starts working again

sue_her_birds ,

Very strange. Are you yaml based or automatic builder based? Can you post your code/screen shots?

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Automatic builder. Just had it happen again

https://lemmy.tf/pictrs/image/9a3fec48-9bbc-4ac5-9b57-2d79ec14c9ea.jpeg

alias: Illuminate Bathroom
description: ""
trigger:
  - type: occupied
    platform: device
    device_id: 59772f660e8f058102f9e94a02403969
    entity_id: d4e7dc31bf50b3a2302c611bbf16bc94
    domain: binary_sensor
condition:
  - type: is_illuminance
    condition: device
    device_id: 59772f660e8f058102f9e94a02403969
    entity_id: c192872a4d9f435658f8e84c4ad110b5
    domain: sensor
    below: 1200
  - type: is_motion
    condition: device
    device_id: 0ae8165edc6622b670e24f99a7911c07
    entity_id: 2314ba20932943fdb166814cfa6156b0
    domain: binary_sensor
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: bd72cd3e24be2facbf8e6bf459e93b09
mode: single
sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Screenshot of the buildhttps://lemmy.tf/pictrs/image/d1958458-dd1d-4bc5-89c8-ddbad901de09.jpeg

sue_her_birds ,

Have you looked at your logs to see if anything looks fishy? Check your main logs but also the logs in your zigbee integration

Also it may be time to submit it as a bug.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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So I've been going through whatever the search engines would throw at me and it seems some people have become so accustomed that they have automations to send alerts. I'm gonna try and track down more info so I can file a decent bug. Hopefully they squash it for once and for all.

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