I'm automating stuff at the family farm using #homeassistant ; lights, smoke alarms, stove fire preventers, heaters.

It's inspiring to see so many iot devices support #ZigBee but also infuriating that 50% of the ones I've encountered has something fucky with their zigbee implementation. It's also somewhat concerning that the mains-connected zb router devices I've found will drop off immediately when the power goes out. The thought of not getting alerts about a fire in the barn if the power's out, concerns me.

I've got my eye on #matter , but I can't find compatible smoke alarms in Norway (so I can be confident they comply with local regulations, and return them if they're bad), and only limited reviews of ones available from abroad.

I see there's https://www.matteralpha.com/category/smoke-co-alarm and https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smoke-detector-with-matter-over-thread-support/810731 but idk.

Can anyone recommend a mains-powered zigbee router device with a built-in battery, that'll keep it routing for at least 1 hour if it loses power?

Alternatively, a small (max 20*10*10cm) #ups that'll power a zb router or other tiny device for 1 hour? #NUT #networkUpsTools compatibility is a big plus

I'm looking at setting up #alarmo to replace an ADT system. The software side looks easy, but I'd like a hardware recommendation for a keypad. I'd prefer #zigbee but I have a #zwave mesh too.

Right now I'm thinking of a Ring v2 for the keypad and Aquara contact sensors for the doors and windows.

#homeassistant @homeassistant

Gibt es #homeassistant kompatible (bsp. #Zigbee ) #SmartPlugs mit Schweizer #T13 Anschluss, die auch den aktuellen Stromverbrauch ausgeben? Weiss da jemand was?

And one more #sonoff #zigbee sensor loosing connection to my #homeassistant. It worked for more than a year, now it will only send a couple updates after reset and then go silent.

I never got the window sensors to work neither, but temperature sensors mostly work fine until they don't. Not sure if I want to keep resetting this one until it works again or just replace it.

Dites les fans de domotique,

J'ai en tête l'idée de contrôler ma chaudière via Homme Assistant. L'idée est de l'activée ou non en fonction de ma présence dans une pièce.

J'ai en tête de trouver un thermostat connecté déporté que je mettrai là où je suis. Comme ça, je ne chauffe vraiment qu'une pièce en fonction de mes besoins.

Bonne idée ? Mauvaise idée ? Du matériel à recommander ?

Une question concernant le #Zlinky sous #HomeAssistant en #zigbee2mqtt
Par défaut l’intervalle de mesure est de 1 minute.
Je suppose qu’il faut préciser l’intervalle en secondes dans « Measurement poll interval », mais on dirait que ça ne suffit pas (plus de mesures quand je mets un nombre là)
En furetant sur internet je crois comprendre que c’est peut-être aussi au niveau du « poll chunk » qu’il faut mettre qqch mais quoi ?
Merci !
#zigbee
Poke @rgacogne

Do you know any fully open low-power mesh network standard for home-automation?

I'm seeking an alternative to #Zigbee, #ZWave and #Thread/#Matter, that is royalty-free and doesn't require any membership, certifications, nor any other fees.

Anybody have any good suggestions for #zigbee scene controllers for motorized blinds? E.g. momentary-push up/down at a minimum, hopefully some extra buttons for presets. #homeassistant

Any recommendations for local-only IoT devices (Z-Wave, Zigbee, or a device I can flash with ESPHome) suitable for switching a relatively large, inductive 120V AC load?

Specifically, it's a septic pump that draws about 15A while running, but spikes up as high as 40A when it first starts. Makes me a little nervous to run it via a Sonoff POW or similar which would have been my go-to otherwise.

I do *not* recommend temperature & humidity sensors from MOES, mine goes from measuring 52% relative humidity to 5.2% for no reason, then measures 52% again.

During that period, its builtin display showed 5.2% too, so not a ZigBee issue

Un déshumidificateur de base, une prise #ZigBee, un hygromètre ZigBee, #HomeAssistant, et ça roule !
Et pour le chauffage c'est un thermostat central (chaudière gaz) ZigBee

Hey, #smarthome users!
What are some #ZigBee EU smart plugs with energy monitoring you can recommend? Except #Tuya and #Aqara

What about #3reality? Or maybe #Bosch?

New blog post!

In which I answer the question that many homelabbers have: "How much electricity is my home server using?"

The short answer is 70W at idle. The long answer? It's in the blog post. And again BOINC shows up.

https://stfn.pl/blog/57-home-server-electricity-usage/

Hey! I’ve been wanting to get some colorful magic smart lights, but I have an issue: I still want to be able to turn them on and off from the switches (without making them go offline when I do so, ofc). I was able to think about two different methods for this, but each is suboptimal on its own way.

Option 1: Substitute my switches with smart switches (zigbee)
(Example (aliexpress))
This is a nice option because it’d look nice, be installed on the wall exactly where the current switches are, as well as giving me the ability to also control the ‘dumb’ lights while I don’t substitute all of them for smart lights (these switches are cheaper than good smart lights).
The main disadvantage of this method, however, is that for the smart lights I’d end up having two separate controls: the light itself and the switch. When I powered the light off through the switch it’d go offline since it seems that the main feature of these switches is smartifying dumb lights. Then in order to control them from my phone I’d have to first turn on the switch and then the light. I doubt these switches have some kind of config that’d let me use their buttons to control Home Assistant scenes without stopping energy from going through them. Are there any ways of using switches without this issue?

Option 2: Get some scene switches remote controllers (zigbee)
(Example, basically this but some cheaper aliexpress zigbee)
I’d get some of these and 3d print some supports for them going over the current switches (so no one could touch the real/dumb switches and bring the lights hardlocked offline). These wouldn’t have the smart switch issue of putting the smart lights softlocked offline, but the disadvantages would be: it’d look considerably worse, it’d need batteries and it would only work for the smart lights.

My question is: are there any other options? Something that’d have Option 1 and 2 advantages without their disadvantages?