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the yeti posted:That sounds really cool—do you mind going into what the hardware situation for that looks like? The HA stack including frigate are Docker images on my 8700k home server, some old Reolink POE cameras, and a m2 coral module, though that’s not strictly necessary anymore since the detection stuff runs on gpus, including intel integrated ones now. 5 cameras, something like 8% cpu usage.
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cstine posted:The HA stack including frigate are Docker images on my 8700k home server, some old Reolink POE cameras, and a m2 coral module, though that’s not strictly necessary anymore since the detection stuff runs on gpus, including intel integrated ones now. That's pretty lightweight, I wasn't sure how essential the coral module was but if it keeps cpu that far down. I haven't even begun to look at cameras yet but it sorta seems like they can run 60-70$ up to infinity?
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the yeti posted:That's pretty lightweight, I wasn't sure how essential the coral module was but if it keeps cpu that far down. Yeah. I'm on "team $60 camera". I have a bunch of reolinks that are POE and weatherproof. They work great, but call home to china CONSTANTLY, so they are in their own VLAN that has no other devices and no internet access. The only other thing in there is the secondary NIC of my recording setup (I use Blue Iris).
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devmd01 posted:Cool, apparently the Reolink RLC820A doesn’t work with milestone at all, it is out of spec from onvif from my research. This one is going back, anyone have a different, reasonably priced brand for a 4k Poe camera that is onvif compliant? What draws you to XProtect? Legit curious as I start to dip my toes into the "license per cam" tier of software beyond Dahua DSS.
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I used to install milestone ip camera systems for a retailer. The free version was the path of least resistance when I started to run wiring for cameras at my house. I just switched to Blue Iris this week though, still need to do some tweaking.
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Suggestions for dimmer switches? Preferably something that doesn't require the cloud. My wife has gotten more on board with using Home Assistant so want to get a few dimmer switches. And what about a robot vacuum or is local only worthless?
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calandryll posted:Suggestions for dimmer switches? Preferably something that doesn't require the cloud. My wife has gotten more on board with using Home Assistant so want to get a few dimmer switches. Im using a mix of honeywell or GE z-wave and zigbee switches which connect to the zigbee/ z-wave dongle on my Pi running HA. These are local only and have worked great for 3 years now. GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Smart... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RRD92T8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share That Works fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Nov 25, 2023 |
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I've been pretty happy with a mix of Kasa and Shelly for local control. Side note: it's a right pain in the rear end that only some manufacturers cover certain market segments. In this case the only smart floodlights/high lumen (over 1k) bulbs I can find are Hue, and I have zero other Phillips products. (Many of my switches do not have a neutral so smart switches are out)
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Plugged in all the Christmas lights, enabled the HA automations and everything worked flawlessly. Absolutely worth the money spent on z-wave adapters last year.
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FunOne posted:Want to get started with Home Assistant, my house has a mixture of existing smart home stuff from various brands and I have no idea what band/system/whatever they're on. Not really but you can set up HA and see what it finds, you might need anything else. If you do need a unifying hub, most things work with an echo as a hub without you having to decouple things from the original control system, and HA will work nicely with it.
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toplitzin posted:I've been pretty happy with a mix of Kasa and Shelly for local control. Yeah I ended up buying some Kasa switches because they were dirt cheap for a 3 pack. I also picked up a Sonoff NSPanel Pro to run HA app on for the family to use, will write up more once I get it up and running.
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I’m annoyed ikea replaced their 5 button lithium battery switch with a 4 button AA. I was using all 5 buttons drat it.
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Hughlander posted:I’m annoyed ikea replaced their 5 button lithium battery switch with a 4 button AA. I was using all 5 buttons drat it. I like those too but drat they chew through CR2032s annoyingly fast. It looks like the new ones went to AAAs which is definitely an improvement there.
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priznat posted:I like those too but drat they chew through CR2032s annoyingly fast. It looks like the new ones went to AAAs which is definitely an improvement there. I hadn’t changed for 2 years then it stopped working. Then when I changed it didn’t start working. Not sure what I’m going to drop.
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Hughlander posted:I hadn’t changed for 2 years then it stopped working. Then when I changed it didn’t start working. Not sure what I’m going to drop. Yeah they’re a pain sometimes too, sometimes you can just swap the battery out and it reconnects, other times you have to go thru the full pairing process again. Overall I like the tradfri line but they have their irritating quirks for sure  but they are drat cheap!
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GigaFuzz posted:Assuming you're using ZHA for Zigbee: Necroquoting this to offer thanks. Got it installed with basically no effort using a different blueprint, and it's fantastic.
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Rick posted:Not really but you can set up HA and see what it finds, you might need anything else. If you do need a unifying hub, most things work with an echo as a hub without you having to decouple things from the original control system, and HA will work nicely with it. I don't understand. You're saying a RPi should be able to see these devices? I don't have an echo. Nothing I have now talks to the door and window sensors that I can control. Surely I have to have some dongle to talk to these devices attached to my doors and windows. I could repurpose the security company device if there's a guide to hacking those, but I figured that would be locked down. It's not in use or enabled currently, but I don't think it is still talking to the doors and windows.
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priznat posted:Yeah they’re a pain sometimes too, sometimes you can just swap the battery out and it reconnects, other times you have to go thru the full pairing process again. Yah it wouldn't repair, that's why I went to get a replacement. And They're not so drat cheap now since they're not being sold 
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FunOne posted:I don't understand. You're saying a RPi should be able to see these devices? I don't have an echo. Nothing I have now talks to the door and window sensors that I can control. What dongles you need, if any, depends on what devices you have. Looking up the branding in the HA integrations database will give you useful information about what you need to talk to them, if they're listed there. In general: - wifi devices don't need any additional hardware assuming HA is connected to the same network - bluetooth devices need a bluetooth controller; RPi 3/4 boards have one built in - zigbee, z-wave, and thread devices need their corresponding dongles - no idea on other devices Note that there may be additional hoops you need to jump through to get them working. A lot of wifi-connected devices work by getting commands through a cloud service rather than being controllable locally, and are difficult or impossible to switch to local control. Zigbee devices will likely require you physically interact with the devices to get them to pair with a new hub. Some stuff uses proprietary short-range protocols and the only way to take control of it is to hack the hub it talks to rather than the devices themselves. Etc. I only have zigbee devices, and I control them with this dongle which I've been quite happy with. But if your devices don't use Zigbee, that won't help you at all.
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Dropping in to say my first home assistant automation is working flawlessly. Xmas lights on our charlie brown norfolk island pine turn on at sunset, turn off at midnight. 
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TheDK posted:Dropping in to say my first home assistant automation is working flawlessly. I was surprised how easy it was, after I fixed how my devices were organized. ToxicFrog posted:What dongles you need, if any, depends on what devices you have. Looking up the branding in the HA integrations database will give you useful information about what you need to talk to them, if they're listed there.
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One advantage of HomeKit- it specifically does not do that, devices must support local control to claim they're compatible
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I currently use a Reolink NVR with some 4k cameras - very happy with it. Then I saw I could get the new Reolink colour night vision camera for £66 in the sales so grabbed one. I have to say I am super impressed with it. The resolution is lower (2560*1440) but the colour night vision is really quite impressive. I've got it in a location with no direct light at all - The only light is just street lights reflecting off other houses, and the picture is great. I haven't enabled the built-in lights yet, but saw they can be configured to trigger based on movement, or detection of people/animals/cars. All of this is local - no cloud AI needed for the detection.
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I have a Schlage Encode Plus dead bolt that allows you to unlock with Apple Home Key. I would like to the do same thing but for my garage door, have a little keypad or something that you could hold up an Apple Watch or iPhone to and it would open the garage. Mostly so that my kid can open the garage door without having to memorize a code or whatever. Anyone else have something like this set up?
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I think you'd have to figure out some kind of automation. Chamberlain finally made a smart keypad for their garage doors that has a built in camera and the capability to assign people temporary PINs and whatnot, but aside from that I don't think anyone has made anything for the keypad side of things
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Boner Wad posted:I have a Schlage Encode Plus dead bolt that allows you to unlock with Apple Home Key. I would like to the do same thing but for my garage door, have a little keypad or something that you could hold up an Apple Watch or iPhone to and it would open the garage. Mostly so that my kid can open the garage door without having to memorize a code or whatever. You might be able to do something like this with a SwitchBot which I think work with HomeKit. Set up a keypad outside the garage and create an automation to trigger the SwitchBot which sits on the garage button inside.
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So, smart lighting. I got addicted to having voice-controlled lights, but originally I just bought whatever was on sale so I was juggling several different apps. When I moved, I figured I'd consolidate, so I bought a total of 14 Wiz bulbs between March and May of this year. So far nine of the loving things have failed. The company's been good about replacements, but every time one of the bastards packs it in it's several days of back-and-forth with customer support and a week of waiting for the replacement to arrive, and I have a feeling if the replacements suck too they're going to eventually stop being cool about warranty service. I've heard that Zigbee is a much more reliable standard than wifi (it's the wifi that dies on these loving things every time, they all still work as dumb bulbs, but they're uncontrollable and unsyncable). Is there a mid-range or should I just bite the bullet and go straight to Hue? I'm hesitant because Wiz and Hue are both Philips and Wiz is a goddamn trash fire-- can anyone reassure me there's a night-and-day difference in the reliability of these things?
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I've been using Hue bulbs and hub for probably about 4 years now and have only had 1 bulb die on me out of 32 bulbs, 11 switches, and 1 button. And that bulb may have died due to using it in one of those older style lamps where you can change the intensity of the light by rotating a rod on the side of it.
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Hue’s warranty rocks too. They replaced my pedestal lights around my pool because one ground stake snapped off when a skunk or some poo poo ran into it, and the other just straight up died. Had 2 new lights a week later.
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Scruff McGruff posted:You might be able to do something like this with a SwitchBot which I think work with HomeKit. Set up a keypad outside the garage and create an automation to trigger the SwitchBot which sits on the garage button inside. I’m cool with automations, I have Home assistant and was using the Liftmaster myQ integration until they blocked access. I’m mainly looking for a keypad that would work and I can trigger the door opening once I get my ratgdo.
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Pulling the trigger. Going to set up my home theater/gaming room with Hue bulbs for ambiance and see how they go, and then move ahead from there.
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For balance, I've had a similar size Wiz setup work near flawlessly for about a year now, but being wifi it really does depend on a huge pile of variables that are sometimes out of your hands so if you want to be sure a standalone network on a band you control is always going to be more reliable.
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Some WiFi devices that are based around ESP chips can be re flashed to work locally with MQTT if there isn’t another implementation for you using Tasmota . Some work involved there but it may be a way to rescue some things that want cloud services or some other hook to work.
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Most white box smart bulbs that are Tuya compatible can be flashed with OpenBeken using tuya-cloudcutter as well. It's a bit of effort but so far (11 bulbs, 10 in outdoor fixtures, about two years) no issues.
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Tuya has updated a lot of poo poo so the ota reflash is a no go. To the garage door by/phone person: Tailwind. https://gotailwind.com/
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I've been toying with the idea of replacing the couple homekit/logitech cameras I have with a full Synology NAS/Surveillance Station setup with some Reolink cams. After our neighbor's house got broken into last night my timeline for this has been expedited a bit, so trying to piece together the components of what I'll need here. Presumably, a relatively basic 2-bay NAS, a couple 8(ish) TB hard drives, my cameras of choice, and someone who can wire them up will cover my bases. I've read through most of the Surveillance Station site, and it seems like the software set up should be relatively straightforward. Is there anything major I'm missing?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Hue’s warranty rocks too. They replaced my pedestal lights around my pool because one ground stake snapped off when a skunk or some poo poo ran into it, and the other just straight up died. Had 2 new lights a week later. FYI for the thread, Hue is currently locking down local-only control. Hubs will no longer function soon without an associated connected account. The only reasonable explanation that I can think of is subscription based feature lock, a la myQ, or data harvesting. Maybe they’ll back down after how brutalized myQ is getting but I doubt it. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23892761/philips-hue-app-account-changes Pilfered Pallbearers fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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I think it's because they're developing security devices like cameras. My Hue app has a Cameras section in the settings. I'm guessing they're going to be selling cloud storage subscriptions for that or something. I highly doubt they'll start loving with subscription light access. But hey, I could be wrong, especially after seeing myQ doing myQ things.
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Extremely glad that I migrated my Hues to zigbee2mqtt recently. They work exactly as well as before and have considerably strengthened my mesh, too.
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