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ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Yeah I just use cheap Aqara Zigbee motion sensors, they work great.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2021 22:13

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 11:46

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Red_Fred posted:

Currently we only have a handful of smart bulbs (BrilliantSmart brand which is some weird Australian brand I think?) and a tp-link plug but if I can get them all working out of one app rather than several that would be nice.

Pretty sure Brilliant are just rebadged Tuya devices

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 11:58

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

These are the spikes in my little Aqara sensors:

East coat of Australia, which probably explains why it's so distinct compared to some of those other readings.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2022 02:06

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Combat Pretzel posted:

Hmm interesting. You have a way higher and more consistent sample rate. I guess that CC2531 of mine is hosed/buggy.

--edit: Nevermind, wide date range.
--edit: No, actually indeed higher sample rate. Hrm.

I�m using a CC2652R with Zigbee2MQTT if that helps

# ¿ Jan 18, 2022 20:35

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

blastron posted:

However, this involves doing electrical work in a rental. Installation isn�t hard at all, but landlords generally tend to frown on that kind of thing. If you give a poo poo about what your landlord thinks, check the terms of your lease and ask permission first. Also, switches are only able to control the amount of power going to a device, so if you want anything fancy like the ability to change the color of the light, you�ll want a bulb.

Also worth noting that if you live in Australia (and potentially other places) it�s illegal to change switches/fixtures/etc unless you�re a licensed electrician

# ¿ Mar 7, 2022 02:42

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Can you not just use the mobile app and set up push notifications? I mostly use them as a rudimentary security system, eg I get sent a still from the camera in my garage if the door is opened, but it�s simple enough to add to any automation.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 06:29

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

bobfather posted:

Hass is one of the weirdest, most unintuitive pieces of software that I�ve ever used. And yeah, there�s a huge difference between the operating system and a containerized version of hass: The OS can use the addon store, and the containerized version cannot. Why? Who knows.

I assume because HA addons are just Docker containers themselves? My Docker knowledge is fairly basic but running Docker within Docker seems like a bad idea.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2023 22:09

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

fletcher posted:

It is very common to run docker in docker for CI/CD pipelines. They even offer a bunch of official images for dind (docker-in-docker): https://hub.docker.com/_/docker

I stand corrected!

# ¿ Jul 5, 2023 04:01

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

SgtScruffy posted:

OK. So I'm an idiot with computers. Having said that, I have somehow managed to Mr. Magoo myself into setting up a cheap computer that I use as a Pihole/Jellyfin/HomeAssistant computer.

I installed Ubuntu, and was running just HomeAssistant in a Docker Container. Setting up Docker as someone who knows very little about computers was a pain in the rear end, but through a bunch of "just copy-paste this code!", I got it done.

I then realized that HA in container doesn't update automatically, and you have to essentially delete the container and re-add it. Having stumbled my way through this, it seems that despite hearing that deleting the container preserves all settings, it did not so I'll have to reconfigure all my devices and automations.

So my question is:

I don't want to gently caress with docker anymore and have to troubleshoot my docker issues before I even get to the HA parts. Is there A Better Way? I don't care about resource allocation, etc, because nothing on this device is particularly resource intensive, I just want The Idiots way of having all three things running at once.

As I understand, the non-containerized version of HA is an OS, so therefore I cant "just" run everything on Ubuntu, right? I'd have to have HA be the actual os, which may or may not cause issues running jellyfin/pihole on the same server?

(Of note I am aware that this particular problem is "oh you totally did the update wrong, if you did XYZ you wouldnt have lost your settings", but every time I have an issue, this or otherwise, it's not "how do I fix it", it's "How do I give myself a refresher on docker, and try to fix it through the lens of someone who doesn't really know how he set up the container, just that he copy-pasted some lines months ago")

HA OS allows you to install add-ons, which are just docker containers managed through the HA UI, and there are probably Pi-Hole and Jellyfin ones available.

Edit: looks like the Pi-Hole add-on is deprecated, so not sure the best solution.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2023 11:51

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Boris Galerkin posted:

If all I�m gonna do is connect a single iot hub to it and nothing else, then what is the cheaper alternative than the $100 Flint on that website?

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/

If you're only connecting the hub, the Mango should cover your needs IMO

# ¿ Aug 14, 2023 05:11

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

calandryll posted:

I recently migrated a bunch of stuff, including HA, over to a proxmox setup. I used these scripts, https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/, to install everything. Completely easy and simple to do. Prior to that my virtualization experience was installing various distros to play around with.

I just did the same, moved my HA install from a dedicated box to a VM. I'm shocked how easy it was, all my custom integrations, camera feeds, Zigbee2MQTT setup etc just worked out of the box. The only thing I had to do was enable USB passthrough for my Zigbee dongle but that was very simple.

I've given the VM the same IP that the dedicated box had and my wife hasn't even noticed that there's been a change.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2023 01:14

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Motronic posted:

One of the things HA did such an excellent job on is backup and restore. It didn't use to be that way But they definitely have nailed it.

It's something I've been putting off for a while as I was expecting to spend a whole weekend getting everything back up and running.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2023 01:26

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 11:46

ShoeFly: Dec 28, 2006; Waiter, there's a fly in my shoe!

Scruff McGruff posted:

Grabbed one of these, I mean for that price it even if it's not super useful it's at least a relatively harmless project. Especially compared to back when I was considering getting one of those Mycroft.ai Voice Assistant boxes before they went belly-up.

Where are people buying these? The only places I can find in Aus are selling them for ~$300aud

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 03:24

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