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- The Connectivity Standards Alliance Unveils Matter, Formerly Known as Project CHIP
- Wired home automation in '21
- Ezlo has new support guarantee (was vera)
- Solar Powered & Smart Home Integrated Pool Thermometer
- eWeLink official Home Assistant add-on released.
- HELP: Sonoff for recirculation pump on tankless water heater
- Iotty and IFTTT
- Is it possible to connect reolink to webos lg tv?
- How to effectively setup cameras but still maintain privacy with internal storage?
- Anyone have experience with the EAGLE-200 or RainforestAutomation? Support is giving me the run-around.
- Easiest to use system
- Feature wishlist for Alexa/Google/Homepods?
- Anyone have good tips for a multi-protocol smart home?
- ActionTiles and DAKBoard
- Help! Upgraded IPhone and lost VeraMatr
- What are great Smart power surge protector to get on the market.
- I made a environmental monitoring system for our house ��
- Lutron Homeworks QSX vs Crestron Home
- Vantage Infusion design center help.
- Hub Question...Do I Understand This?
- Mini smart Dehumidifier
- Looking for recommendations on a smart door lock for commerical doors, pictured below.
- Tracking Money thanks to INSTANT notifications in Home Assistant & Starling Bank
| The Connectivity Standards Alliance Unveils Matter, Formerly Known as Project CHIP Posted: 11 May 2021 11:29 AM PDT
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| Posted: 11 May 2021 07:26 PM PDT Hi, I've read this thread which was useful but is outdated. I'm looking to add HA as one of the services on our property, but I want it all hardwired. I have a separate physical LAN for security( that's Gigabit POE+), which I can add all the HA stuff too. I'm wondering about PLC - powerline communication protocols, and what's "up to date" in security. Also wondering about modern 802.x protocols that are out or are coming out, that don't use 2.4GHz. I'd like to use existing powerlineðernet wiring whilst omitting wireless as much as possible, we get thieves in the area that use RF blocking hardware quite frequently including a neighbour. some Z-Wave inside the house could be okay. Keep in mind this is on a large property where buildings are 20-100m apart from each other. Every building has ethernet running to it. something like wired ethernet than Z-Wave to devices in each building could be okay but for the external security stuff I Want it hardwired. This is partly as I want to make our security system smart, so I can do things like add sensors(Laser, PIR, Radar) spotlights, relays, etc. I don't want to use MQTT as it's not reliable and it's slow, I have a couple of mqtt lights and I dislike how slow they are, I want to press a switch and it's instant. I'd prefer an open standard if possible to not get locked into a manufacturer, in case z-wave goes out of business, or their protocol gets hacked. If it's quite secure and that's unlikely, then I don't mind using Z-Wave or similar. since all the buildings are hardwired with together with ethernet, I'd like to perhaps do something like a smart hub in each building that connects to the main hub / HA install(in case that building loses network access), hopefully with powerline communication between lights and switches and sensors. [link] [comments] | ||
| Ezlo has new support guarantee (was vera) Posted: 11 May 2021 05:10 PM PDT An announcement at ezlo.com says promise to provide have any commercially available z-wave or zigbee device supported within 90 days. As Ezlo is built on the ashes of Vera, which had been something of a smoldering dumpster fire for a couple years, I am skeptical. They have done a bang up job at driving off their 3rd party developers and many power users. They have separate code bases (one a real-time os for the atom and plughubs and then a Linux-based system for their full sized controllers) so they are not well positioned for success, imo. Does this make their hardware more appealing to anyone? [link] [comments] | ||
| Solar Powered & Smart Home Integrated Pool Thermometer Posted: 11 May 2021 02:41 PM PDT Hi all! We're building the first solar powered wifi pool thermometer. It's called the Manta Pool Thermometer. You can link it to your Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa and also configure notifications to know when your pool or spa reaches your desired temperature. I'd love to receive feedback/feature requests and answer any questions you have about it! [link] [comments] | ||
| eWeLink official Home Assistant add-on released. Posted: 11 May 2021 04:57 AM PDT
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| HELP: Sonoff for recirculation pump on tankless water heater Posted: 11 May 2021 10:36 PM PDT I'm looking to get some help. Spec: Basically, app to recirc for 5 minutes. When water demand is requested, ensure recirc is ON. What I need help with: Ideas: Suggestions/advice appreciated [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 May 2021 07:07 PM PDT I'm trying to setup my light connected to an iotty smart switch to turn on when my garage door (myq) opens. Only platform (I think) that can do this is IFTTT. Unfortunately, as we all know, IFTTT sucks and for whatever reason has a vague error when I try to connect the iotty service. So 1) has anyone had this issue before and/or 2) is there something else I can do to achieve this MyQ/iotty connection? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] | ||
| Is it possible to connect reolink to webos lg tv? Posted: 11 May 2021 06:48 PM PDT Is it possible to view reolink cameras on lg webos tv without just using web browser? [link] [comments] | ||
| How to effectively setup cameras but still maintain privacy with internal storage? Posted: 11 May 2021 08:26 PM PDT Any suggestions on how to setup cameras in the home so that privacy is still a thing. I would use local recording most likely and obviously not put one in the bathroom but how do you deal with bedrooms? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 May 2021 08:20 PM PDT I've been keen to add electricity monitoring to my setup, and heard great things about the EAGLE-200, so I bought one. After some back and forth with my utility, the device was successfully paired, but wasn't reporting any data. I contacted RainforestAutomation support, figuring I was doing something wrong. Nope. Turns out the firmware on my EAGLE-200 is too old to talk with their system. Seems like a simple fix, but there's no way to update the firmware on the user's end.
Quite literally, buy another piece of hardware that is identical to your hardware, because we're too lazy or inept to actually update the firmware for devices in the wild. So I shot back:
I didn't get escalated or passed to another agent. I got another reply.
They then closed the ticket. I replied and am awaiting literally any response. Does anyone know if I have any other recourse here? Sure the device doesn't support anything without the cloud integration, which I've made peace with. But the solution of buying identical hardware from them directly seems really asinine when there's no difference between what I have in my hand and what they're selling, other than I need to pay more for ones they've already updated the hardware on. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 May 2021 07:39 PM PDT I have sold my house and I have a bunch of z-wave switches, dimmers and switched outlets installed. I currently use home assistant. I get the impression (I might be wrong) that the buyers are not very tech savvy, so I am thinking I might hook them up with a simple commercially supported system. The system must support z-wave, must be easy to use, and subscription free. Any recommendations? [link] [comments] | ||
| Feature wishlist for Alexa/Google/Homepods? Posted: 11 May 2021 06:41 PM PDT What do you wish your smart speaker / voice assistant could do that it doesn't do currently? Or, what things you wish they were better at? I'll kick it off. For me:
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| Anyone have good tips for a multi-protocol smart home? Posted: 11 May 2021 06:30 PM PDT I just closed on a coop in NYC, and want to try to make as much of it "smart" as possible. However, I don't want to have to get stuck into only using just one ecosystem - my current apartment everything is using Google Home for integration, and mostly Ikea Tradfri (never again) and Logitech Harmony (solely to blast IR to different rooms to control the AC). For my new place, I'm looking for:
I don't want to limit myself to one specific ecosystem if it won't cover everything. I really wish https://atmoshome.com/ existed. The Brilliant switch def seems interesting - https://www.brilliant.tech/pages/smart-home-control-system Any ideas on what products you'd recommend for these functions, and a way to control them all? If I had to choose, Google Home over Alexa any day. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 May 2021 04:05 PM PDT Does anyone know if there's a product that bundles the functionality of these two applications? I really need a digital calendar that syncs with Google, but if I'm going to mount a screen on the wall it would be nice to have it also control devices connected to SmartThings. Bonus points if it can control Amazing smart plugs. Thanks! [link] [comments] | ||
| Help! Upgraded IPhone and lost VeraMatr Posted: 11 May 2021 05:34 PM PDT VeraMate I have a Vera UI5 system. Works beautifully. Stable. Can anyone please make a suggestion for an app to control it? [link] [comments] | ||
| What are great Smart power surge protector to get on the market. Posted: 11 May 2021 06:55 PM PDT I'm looking to make my home more automated by looking into smart plugs. More specifically Smart power surge protectors! Any recommendation guys! [link] [comments] | ||
| I made a environmental monitoring system for our house �� Posted: 11 May 2021 03:24 PM PDT | ||
| Lutron Homeworks QSX vs Crestron Home Posted: 11 May 2021 03:15 PM PDT I'm putting in a home automation system to control lights & shades. I'm choosing between Lutron Homeworks QSX and Crestron Home. I take it as a given that both of these systems are going to work well for controlling lights and shades. Which one is going to give me more control to adjust the settings without having to call the dealer? Are there other trade-offs I should be aware of in deciding between these two systems? [link] [comments] | ||
| Vantage Infusion design center help. Posted: 11 May 2021 02:18 PM PDT I'm looking to get info on how best to get my design center software to edit a few buttons on a switch. They are SW10 switch's I believe. It looks "easy" enough but atm all I can muster is reading diagnostics and pulling a backup project from the sdcard and editing it. [link] [comments] | ||
| Hub Question...Do I Understand This? Posted: 11 May 2021 10:27 AM PDT So i just bought a home and there are things I would love to automate, mostly lights at this time. for example, have my exterior porch lights turn on and off at 7AM & 7PM respectively. I have about 15 lights that I would like to have controlled. From my understanding this many devices should utilize a hub of some kind instead of gathering a WiFi signal from the router. The hubs generally use zigbee or zwave tech to allow the bulbs or other devices to speak with the hub and the hub itself then is what is connected to the WiFi, thereby reducing traffic on the router. Is my understanding of this correct? If so, is there a preferred hub? I have Home Assistant installed on a VM on my Windows PC, however I know that is not a hub, more or less a means to control/set the schemes for the things I wish to automate. If I purchase a hub like SmartThings, will i still be able to get specific about programming when lights turn on and off etc via HA? IDK, I just am kind of confused about once everything is linked to a zigbee/zwave hub how they then can be controlled/automated since they are not directly on the WiFi. Thanks [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 11 May 2021 09:32 AM PDT Hi all, I'm looking for a compact dehumidifier with smart functionality, possibly compatible with HomeKit even via an HomeBridge plugin. Tried to search online but couldn't find any, if they were smart they were also too big. I would like to place it in a small bathroom that gets very foggy during showers, even with the window open. Even alternative solutions are welcomed. Thanks a lot! [link] [comments] | ||
| Looking for recommendations on a smart door lock for commerical doors, pictured below. Posted: 11 May 2021 12:17 PM PDT
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| Tracking Money thanks to INSTANT notifications in Home Assistant & Starling Bank Posted: 11 May 2021 11:54 AM PDT
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