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This is the reason I haven’t gone down the smart light switches path yet.
Anything that I’d trust enough on 240v is out of budget!
This is the reason I haven’t gone down the smart light switches path yet.
Anything that I’d trust enough on 240v is out of budget!
It definitely threw me the first time I was out of the house.
I decided the best solution was just to limit alerts to non-sensitive things.
While I’m generally very big on privacy, I really don’t give a monkeys if Apple/Google is relaying a message that says “Cat in garden!”
This is a really nice guide, and covers everything from source source to sea, so to speak.
Ideal for someone installing for the first time, thanks for sharing!
Security wise, while I love automating everything, I personally would just give them a physical key to the front door. (Or an RFID keyfob system).
What you’d be achieving is the equivalent of keyless car entry, with the additional downside that your son can’t choose not to open the door if something sketchy happens.
And instead of entrusting them with a traditional key that they can treat responsibly, you’re just putting something in their backpack that they don’t have to think about.
If you really want to do it, basically anything in homeassistant that has wireless capability and a state would probably work.
A zigbee radio, and pretty much any device doing anything would do it.
When device_name becomes available, activate door opening.
That’s a pretty neat bit of kit. If they did it in metric sizes, I’d be tempted.
Your meter may have some kind of magnetic flux that occurs as the dial spins, which you might be able to sense and interpret.
I’m curious to hear what people come up with, as I quite fancy one too.
I would be wary of installing anything that actually touches the water that doesn’t come from an accredited manufacturer, however. As you don’t want Ali-express grade metal in your drinking water.
Which unfortunately means the options will be either expensive, or building off the back of other equipment currently installed (water meter, etc).
It was broken for a few weeks of 2024.2 (I think). I ended up learning how to do a manual downgrade while they fixed it!
Asking questions is always good, don’t worry! Feel free to ask more, heck update the thread and ask questions as you go along if you like.
If you list the devices you want to migrate, I’m sure the community will happily highlight any tips, or which will be the easiest to get you started.
It is indeed! Mostly just fiddling around with the settings.
@smeg@feddit.uk, here is a paste of the config so you can play with it:
(If you click show code editor, then paste in, you can then go back to visual editor with things configured)
Speedtest needle gauges and ping with colour change:
type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: gauge
min: 0
severity:
green: 80
yellow: 50
red: 0
entity: sensor.speedtest_download
max: 100
needle: true
- type: gauge
min: 0
max: 20
entity: sensor.speedtest_upload
severity:
green: 16
yellow: 10
red: 0
needle: true
- type: gauge
min: 0
entity: sensor.speedtest_ping
severity:
green: 0
yellow: 15
red: 20
max: 100
Air quality with lots of different colours:
type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.oxford_air_quality_index
needle: false
min: 0
max: 500
segments:
- from: 0
color: '#00e400'
- from: 51
color: '#ffff00'
- from: 101
color: '#ff7e00'
- from: 151
color: '#ff0000'
- from: 201
color: '#8f3f97'
- from: 301
color: '#800000'
name: 'Air quality: PM2.5'
unit: µg/m3
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.external_environment_f
max: 40
severity:
green: 18
yellow: 25
red: 30
needle: false
min: -10
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.oxford_uv_index
max: 10
severity:
green: 0
yellow: 3
red: 6
Once you’ve got your head around horizontal stacks (lets you put multiple small dials together), it’s mostly picking thresholds and settings colours.
Currently, it’s using a Waze integration.
The coolest thing, is that it’s given me a really nice data set for when are the bad times to drive across town are. (Sadly, it’s during the morning and afternoon school runs).
It also reveals that the travel time on average is impacted significantly by the school holidays, and the weather.
My “What’s the internet connection up to?” card:
My “Leaving the house” card:
It’s nice to compare the local predicted temperature, and local sensor.
We all want a longer dongle extension, brother.
Do you have any Hue bulbs paired into your zigbee network? Mine work really well as additional routers.
I’ll pop this as a top level comment, as so many people have made recommendations, thank you everyone!
Valetudo absolutely sounds like the way forward.
After more digging, it looks like mopping, unless you spend lots of money, is kinda basic on all models.
So I’ve gone with a basic second hand machine that works with Valetudo, and has simple mopping.
Hopefully it’ll let me get a good idea of what is/isn’t possible, and if a £600 full on mopping device is worth it!
And who knows, if spending that much is worth it, I can have one on each floor, like a fancy rich person.
(I also need to find out how well machines deal with poo!)
I have done this for my leak detectors.
Almost everything else obeys DND, but water? That’s gonna wake me up.
I honestly couldn’t say, as I don’t use the app.
The camera is always streaming video, so you could always pick up the feed in another way.
I still haven’t finished all my homeassistant integration, but I like my Reolink Poe. (Wifi battery version also available)
It also functions like a “standard” onvif camera, so you could store all the footage on the network at a later date. Or you can pop a micro sd in, and have it save whenever it detects motion.
The first few devices I bought were z-wave. £40 for the radio, and £40-ish for the devices.
I would not recommend starting that way! I nearly balked at the cost of the radio.
However, it did work out, as my main heating control is z-wave, and stability in that is really important.
This is the github for it.
Honestly, I’m half expecting the version I eventually get not to be compatible!
Someone else already raised the mains wired safety/budget issue, but I may have a side suggestion for you: Bulbs as repeaters.
I’ve added hue bulbs directly to my zigbee network, where they also act as repeaters.
The problem then was people switching off at the switch. This has been resolved by adding a little zigbee button by the switch (as people can achieve the function without the mains switch).
Which gives the bonus of being able to do different taps.
(So for example, I have one click as toggle on/off, two clicks is daytime+bright, press+hold is evening+dim)