Boris Galerkin posted:

I want one of my Hue lightbulbs to turn a specified color in the morning, every morning at 7am, but only when it’s raining right now.

I feel like IFTTT should be made for this kind of stuff but I’ve never used it before and can’t seem to figure out a way to use “and” statements. If not IFTTT how can I do this? I have an iPhone if it matters.

Boris Galerkin posted:

Anyway, how's the security on Home Assistant? I don't wanna open up my home to some botnet controller you know.

Also, would this Raspberry Pi 3 kit work for it? Is 16GB enough space?

Boris Galerkin posted:

I’m assuming that Home Assistant works by calling an official Hue API so does that mean if internet is out my schedules don’t work? Or does the Hue Bridge allow local API calls?

Subjunctive posted:

It baffles me that Hue doesn’t save the settings and start up in the same state. I wonder why that’s hard.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Gerdalti posted:

You want an automation.
Start at some time, easy enough. You can set multiple triggers (times).

And another that says "if this has been on for an hour, turn it off"

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

https://www.smarthomeperfected.com/best-matter-devices/

It allows every compatible smart device to act as a hub for other devices, regardless of brands. So instead of having a Hue bridge, an Aquara bridge, and a Lutron bridge hanging off your router, those devices themselves will all act as a large mesh network. The device has to be Matter/Thread compatible, which I don't think any of the 3 examples I just listed are. But for devices that are compatible, it means you don't need to be within good signal range of your router, or wherever you put your device hubs, since each device is technically a hub/"router".

Matter looks like it will use Thread as it's networking protocol:
https://www.evehome.com/en/blog/discover-your-thread-network

quote:

Unlike Zigbee and Z-Wave, Matter uses both low and high frequency communications (via Thread and Wi-Fi). We’ve heard through the proverbial grapevine that CSA is trying to implement blockchain technology to make the communication mesh more secure as well!

Combat Pretzel posted:

Trying to score a CM4 with decent amount of RAM, for my upcoming HA Yellow, is like chasing an unicorn.

Hed posted:

I guess I could put in an automation for if any of those devices become battery <= 20% OR unavailable? The latter would cover it falling off. I just need to figure out what unavailable looks like in the HA automations.

SgtScruffy posted:

I finally got Home Assistant working, and am now blindly feeling my way through how editing YAML files works and all that fun stuff.

But first, a dumb question.

I have an LG Washer/Dryer that has optional Wifi stuff, so you can create an account and get the app and get push notifications and poo poo like that. I haven't done that at all, because I don't really NEED that enough to have to feel like it's worth giving them my data and analytics. Is there anything that Home Assistant does magically that means LG won't get my data if I create an account and connect it to Home Assistant, or is it not a magic "your data is now all stored locally!" machine, and they'd still collect and use my data, but they just wouldn't get the app-specific data?

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

I run Home Assistant on a raspberry pi and I've got a Sonoff zigbee USB dongle plugged into it. This seems to let me use zigbee accessories of any brand. I've also got a wifi Aqara zigbee dongle in my detached garage, but I've got to use Aqara-branded accessories with it as far as I'm aware - since the temperature sensor I presently have connected to that is exposed to home assistant via the Aqara integration.

What do I need to do to be able to use any brand of zigbee accessory in my garage? Is there something that'll let me connect things directly to Home Assistant and not through a branded integration?

Tapedump posted:

Any pointers or pointing to way on how to flash a ThinkSmart View for HA?