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Good timing on NAS-chat, I'm starting to bump into the limitations of the Hue bridge and am thinking of going all in on Home Assistant. Just playing with it in a Mac VM now, but in the long term: - Is running it on a Synology NAS a good plan, if I'm buying something specially? I have one already but it's a cheaper model that doesn't do Docker. If I upgrade, is it effectively equivalent to running it on a Pi, but with added hard disks, or is it a compromise in some way? - If yes to the above, can you use a Zigbee dongle with a Synology NAS?
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I can't help you with Synology. I use a homebuilt NAS running Unraid. You might Google around and see if people run a VM on those if not docker.
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Bobstar posted:Good timing on NAS-chat, I'm starting to bump into the limitations of the Hue bridge and am thinking of going all in on Home Assistant. Just playing with it in a Mac VM now, but in the long term: I run mine on my 918+ and use a HUSBZB usb for zigbee and zwave. Works great running in a vm on the Synology. I do run a bunch of containers on it but not HA.
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I heard about HomeKit Secure Video, and it sounds great in concept. You get the advantage of the camera streams being encrypted and impossible for the manufacturer or hoster to access, but you don't have to run your own system. Except everything I have that works with HomeKit requires you to install the manufacturer's app, set up an account, and *then* you can link it; you can't just scan a code and set the device up from within the Home app. Does HomeKit Secure Video work the same way, where the only advantage is that *Apple* can't see the video, but the manufacturers all can? Or did I miss something about how I could have set up things for HomeKit?
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Is having multiple profiles on Echo devices supposed to be absolute garbage? My girlfriend likes to switch to her profile on the Echo so she can listen to her music but if she wants to control anything it tells her she has to switch to my profile to turn the fuggen lights off or whatever. Or I have to switch from her profile to mine so I can turn the lights on. It's so loving stupid I'm getting a Homepod.
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I've got a setup issue I can't figure out for Home Assistant. I bought a couple of Honeywell Z-wave smart switches and got them set up and running on my Z-wave hub yesterday, so I know the process is functioning. Those H-well switches are practically unobtanium though so I bought a GE version and it looks like they get pumped out of the same factory tbh. I got this model: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RRBT6W5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1 I've wired it up and it works, neutral wire is connected, blue LED is working, manual controls work. However I cannot get it to detect by my Z-wave hub. Location is not an issue as it's just across the room from other Z-wave nodes that are functional and it's <20ft away from the server. I am using the OpenZwave integration. I have tried doing a factory reset on the hardware as well but nothing seems to click. Any suggestions?
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That Works posted:I've got a setup issue I can't figure out for Home Assistant. I just installed some of those last week, but I'm using Hubitat to control them. For those that set up was Device Discovery -> Z-wave -> Start Z-Wave Inclusion. Then I pressed the switch on and it showed up in the results, but I had to re-run discovery and hit the switch again to actually name it properly.
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vote_no posted:I heard about HomeKit Secure Video, and it sounds great in concept. You get the advantage of the camera streams being encrypted and impossible for the manufacturer or hoster to access, but you don't have to run your own system. I have some Logitech circle cameras/doorbell and the eufy outdoor cameras that work with HomeKit. None of them require an app and do everything through HomeKit. The Logitech camera doesn’t even have an app available.
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atomicpile posted:I have some Logitech circle cameras/doorbell and the eufy outdoor cameras that work with HomeKit. None of them require an app and do everything through HomeKit. The Logitech camera doesn’t even have an app available. Awesome, thanks so much for confirming that (at least for those particular brands) -- I was finding nothing through Google searches one way or the other.
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TVGM posted:I just installed some of those last week, but I'm using Hubitat to control them. Thanks. I tried the factory reset on the switch, also rebooted HA etc. At best I can get a new node to show up, but no new devices or entities and when looking at the node itself in OpenZwave config its just blank and I can't seem to query it so far. This is an odd one. e: looks like someone else has the same issue. Not encouraging. https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/cyhsci/openzwave_config_not_fully_recognizing_a_new/ That Works fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Baxate posted:Is having multiple profiles on Echo devices supposed to be absolute garbage? The solution to this is to add the relevant Smart Home skills to her Alexa account as well. For some reason they are account specific.
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Slash posted:The solution to this is to add the relevant Smart Home skills to her Alexa account as well. For some reason they are account specific. Hmm, so I've got a couple WeMo lights this would work for, but when I got this Echo it came with a freebie bulb that apparently does not have an associated skill. That's kind of whatever. It's also kind of whatever that I have to sign in to my WeMo account on her phone too. And it doesn't even sync my groups or anything. It's so dumb this stuff doesn't just work. Like I can't believe this is a real issue for a device that's supposed to be used by multiple people living in the same house. I setup our accounts as a "Household" but that apparently only lets you share purchases, it does nothing for smart home anything. Baxate fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Baxate posted:Is having multiple profiles on Echo devices supposed to be absolute garbage? LOL is this really how Alexas work? That's wild, Google Homes just know who's talking and only provide relevant information specific to them.
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I got a couple of TP-Link wireless security cameras to keep an eye on the dog when she is alone in the garden. I found that just displaying the streams in a single window on my desktop was a bit of a pain where I was either meant to run some system like Shinobi or BlueCherry that would be huge overkill, or mess with vlc's horrible config/interface system. In the end I figured out a pretty simple solution with ffmpeg consuming the camrea's rtsp streams, placing the two side by side, and streaming the output to VLC. I thought I'd share it here since I haven't found a similar premade solution and maybe it's of use to someone else. Should work for any camera that has rtsp, and you could easily adjust it for other stream types.code:
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LastInLine posted:LOL is this really how Alexas work? That's wild, Google Homes just know who's talking and only provide relevant information specific to them. Its wild. It recognizes both of our voices no matter which profile its set to. You can ask it who's speaking and it repeats your name to you. But if I ask it "play music I like", it starts playing my girlfriend's station on Apple Music if its on her profile or vice versa. And yeah for some ungodly reason it can't control the devices it knows about if the wrong profile is set.
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vote_no posted:Awesome, thanks so much for confirming that (at least for those particular brands) -- I was finding nothing through Google searches one way or the other. This is what I’ve got as well with Logitech’s and a Eufy. I definitely ~feel~ better about the video being secure in HomeKit unfortunately the ability to only record video on movement is a bit annoying. I really wish there was a way to record 24/7. Home app is still better than a piecemeal grouping of apps to control the home.
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Baxate posted:Its wild. It recognizes both of our voices no matter which profile its set to. You can ask it who's speaking and it repeats your name to you. But if I ask it "play music I like", it starts playing my girlfriend's station on Apple Music if its on her profile or vice versa. And yeah for some ungodly reason it can't control the devices it knows about if the wrong profile is set. Wow, this makes me glad I have a bunch of HomePod Minis. For as much as Siri is lacking, it does a really good job at recognizing different voices.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Wow, this makes me glad I have a bunch of HomePod Minis. From what I understand it knows the voices but chooses to act on them in a bizarre way. For all of Google's little bothers I have to say the way it handles multiple users (after its first year of being pretty rough) is now just transparent and accurate.
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For HomeAssistant folks what are you using for your Zwave integration? I had OpenZwave running and it was up for 3-4 days and after a server reboot it's not connecting to any of my devices / I can't even load up the integration configuration anymore. The VM running HA has the USB passthrough set up correctly and the USB hub I am using is running Zigbee just fine off of the same device so I am fairly sure it's a Zwave software issue. I'm open to ditching OpenZwave for something else if I can't fix it so was curious what others use.
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I've been on Z-Wave JS since it came out in HA a month or two ago. It's been a vast improvement over both previous attempts they made. It understands things that the old ones simply didn't, like the monoprice door/window sensors were something dump like 21 when open and 20 when closed, but JS just gives you an open/closed value so I was able to get rid of my ridiculous scripts that generated that from the ozw output. Note: don't be a dummy like me. Keep a list of Device ID to Device name mappings because then you switch to JS you lose all of the naming information.
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OpenZwave is deprecated, use zwave-js for new setups. It’s still early in dev but works very well, just need to monitor patch notes for occasional breaking changes though hopefully those are pretty much done.
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Yep also using ZWaveJS with the recommended zwavejs2mqtt docker container and it all seems rock solid.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Yep also using ZWaveJS with the recommended zwavejs2mqtt docker container and it all seems rock solid. I switched over to ZWaveJS and zwavejs2mqtt docker container and it also seems solid. I don't have a lot of ZWave stuff.
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Got my Honeywell Lyric via AlarmGrid mostly integrated -- it's annoying that I have to keep e-mailing them and waiting a few days for them to remotely do stuff though. Haven't quite got HomeKit working yet -- their second attempt to push the config worked, but then the adoption process failed halfway through (thanks Home app) and it didn't appear anymore... it will be a wonder when it finally gets plugged in. Have mostly 5800-series sensors I've been adding to it (figured 345 MHz was less crowded), but belatedly realized that the Lyric doesn't expose all zones to HomeKit, just those in a few select ones. I have added some sensors to door/windows that I don't care about securing, I just want to see if they are open or closed or not and $12 for a sensor to do that isn't awful. Got the 5800C2W module working as well to integrate a few wired sensors from my house -- not bad for a little $80 box though in retrospect, I had so few sensors that I might have been better off just buying a few of the 5800 wireless sensors that had a connector for hardwired contacts. Oh well, at least I don't have to worry about a battery. Still (not) surprised that in 2021 security systems are still pretty terrible. With the advent of low-cost, high-battery life sensors, it shouldn't really be hard to get everything behaving but goddamn if the industry doesn't accept the challenge to still make it brittle.
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I think I settled on lutron caseta for switches and they seem to have good wife acceptance thus far. Is there anything fancy I can do with outlets themselves? Add USB or whatever? Metering? Invest my home automation time into something else instead?
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Double post, but does this thing https://github.com/hass-emulated-hue/core still require me to have the Hue bridge as well? I can't tell from the docs.
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Gyshall posted:Double post, but does this thing https://github.com/hass-emulated-hue/core still require me to have the Hue bridge as well? I can't tell from the docs. Doesn't look like it, no. It also looks cool, so thanks for posting it. I'd love to add extra lights to my entertainment zones. Confirmed that it looks to work without a bridge as long as you have some sort of lights in HASS already (zigbee, zwave, wifi, whatever). It just "looks like" a hue bridge for Hue software to connect to and presents your lights to the Hue Software. It does NOT work with the latest Hue Sync though, which is what I really wanted, and needs some work, but its' a neat start. Gerdalti fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 7, 2021 |
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Yeah which is a bummer. I also like being able to keep my bridge on my iotcrap network all isolated from HA etc
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We had a Johnson Controls (exacq) PC-based DVR+NVR die in a lightning storm this week. Our security vendor wants $NEW_KIA to replace it since it's >3 years old and we don't have an ongoing service agreement with them. Replacing the foxconn mini-itx motherboard gets the thing going again, but the software license is tied to the original board. Also, there's no windows drivers available for the OEM vrc7008 DVR card in it (we have analog & IP cams). womp, womp. I'm a *nix guy by trade but I have no qualms with loading up a windows box with blue iris to replace this chunk of junk. Is this a dumb idea? If yes, what should I be looking at instead (e.g., brand/model of DVR+NVR box)? If no, can someone suggest a replacement analog capture card compatible with Blue Iris?
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I bought an AverMedia NV5000 off eBay to do analog capture for like 40$. It's not bad, the drivers seem to work with Windows 10 64-bit and Blue Iris works with all 4 of my analogs. But the capture card is super, super old and unsupported so your mileage may vary. Also it's PCI non-express so keep that in mind.
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thanks. I've been reading about including analog cameras into blue iris. it seems like the most commonly offered advice for performance as well as price is to use certain NVRs to handle the cameras and provide IP streams to BI. now i really need to re-evaluate whether these few analog cameras can be converted to IP without too much trouble...
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About how many lutron or smart switches are you goons using per area? In my new house I have a bunch of triple plate switches that I'm trying to find out how to buy for.
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Gyshall posted:About how many lutron or smart switches are you goons using per area? In my new house I have a bunch of triple plate switches that I'm trying to find out how to buy for. If you're using smart bulbs, you'll probably want a smart switch or dimmer for each fixture, unless you're 100% sure that you're okay with not being able to walk into a room and just hit a wall control to turn the lights on. If you're going to use smart switches with dumb bulbs, it comes down to how many devices you want to automate or control remotely, and how much you want to spend. Personally, I'm mostly using Lutron Aurora smart dimmers, which don't require replacing the wall plate. They just snap on over an existing switch, so you can replace one or more switches on a multi-switch plate, and they pair directly with Zigbee smart bulbs as well as being addressable by Home Assistant. I've gone a little crazy with my own home. I currently have: - Aurora controlling the office floor lamp - Aurora controlling the ceiling light fixture - Aurora controlling the adjacent dining room light fixture - 2 x Aurora controlling the stairway lights - Aqara Button controlling the living room floor lamp - Aqara Button controlling the master bedroom table lamp All with paired one or more Innr Zigbee smart bulbs. The mix of smart switches and smart bulbs may be overkill for a lot of people, but I'm having fun with the colors and extra automation capabilities. For example, most of my living area lights are set to slowly fade up about an hour before sunset, unless both my wife and I are not home, in which case they stay off until one of us arrives home. When we go into "settle mode" before bed, the lights all either turn off or fade down to a dim blue-white "nightlight" mode. So you can go pretty crazy if you want. But I'd say think about the lights you have on most often, and which ones would be handy to have automatically turn on/off.
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WhiteHowler posted:I've gone a little crazy with my own home. I currently have: If that's "going crazy" I must be stark raving mad. I just paired device #28 on my HA instance in the house. There are 2 switches, a sensor and an outlet on the instance in the barn.
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I'm looking for a z-wave or zigbee fan controller I can wire into the ceiling to control a fan and light. Suggestions? I'm seeing a few wifi ones, but I'd rather not.
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Gyshall posted:About how many lutron or smart switches are you goons using per area? In my new house I have a bunch of triple plate switches that I'm trying to find out how to buy for. Arg, I got so many triple switches throughout my house that I’m going to be dealing with the same thing.
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Gerdalti posted:I'm looking for a z-wave or zigbee fan controller I can wire into the ceiling to control a fan and light. Suggestions? Honeywell/Jasco makes one: https://byjasco.com/honeywell-z-wave-plus-wall-smart-fan-control I don't have that particular one, but I have a ton of Honeywell zwave switches and dimmers and they're pretty great.
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Motronic posted:Honeywell/Jasco makes one: https://byjasco.com/honeywell-z-wave-plus-wall-smart-fan-control Nice, but, was hoping for something that could control the fan and light separately. Fan and light are on a single switch, so something like this but not wifi... https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07YS5H7SM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_X2JNRFJMR3TA4EA6JR7X
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Gerdalti posted:Nice, but, was hoping for something that could control the fan and light separately. Yeah, you put in a switch or dimmer for the light. Is the problem that you don't have/can't add another gang to your box for a second switch?
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