Bonsoir ! Depuis quelque temps j’ai une petite installation #HomeAssistant avec quelques appareils reliés soit en #bluetooth, soit via #zigbee, en appartement.
Je me demande si d’une façon ou d’une autre je ne pourrais pas couvrir la cave (2 étages en-dessous) et le garage (encore 1 étage en-dessous).
Je comprends qu’un ou 2 répéteurs comme l’AEOTEC ZI pourraient faire le job en Zigbee. Mais en existe-t-il qui font aussi Bluetooth ?
L’idée étant de connecter des appareils uniquement Bluetooth situés à la cave ou au garage à Home Assistant.
Une passerelle comme la NOUS E1 peut-elle être utilisée comme un relais pour cela ?
Merci de votre aide !

I'm in the process of switching from #ZHA to #Zigbee2MQTT and I'm really impressed by how much better everything is.

I know many people say this for a while, but after years of ZHA it's surprising what I've missed. Especially for some devices that exposed much less entities to Home Assistant via ZHA.

Suddenly I have so much more data about my home that I can not only see but also use for automations. Suddenly I can control stuff about some devices that were never available via ZHA.

I'm glad that I'm also switching the Coordinator in this process as it costs an unexpected amount of time to do this, as I have to update automations, the dashboards etc.
But in this process I can clean up so much stuff I did wrong in the last months and years.

Continuing my #SmartHome adventures, my #zigbee garden irrigation stuff arrived today.

Sonoff smart water valve, paired with #HomeAssistant via ZHA with no problems. Gets treated as a switch, and there’s a flow rate sensor so you can set an automation to turn it off after a given amount of water has gone through the valve if you want.

Also got a little inline filter and pressure regulator. The water is coming from the pond, so that’s important!

Just need to figure out the connection from the waterfall pump outlet now. Also need to re-jig the waterfall itself to conceal the new stuff. That’s no big deal, I wanted to try to make it taller anyway.

Ideally I’d like a rock solid way to make sure the pond doesn’t get emptied if the valve is left open for some reason. Not sure if the valve closes automatically if the power is lost, for example. I think for now I’ll just make sure I only run it while I’m there.

I got some new IKEA #Zigbee stuff. (Thanks to @emdecy for the pointer!)

Their smart plugs have got much better, much smaller than they were originally. They used to have a big bit sticking off the bottom of them which made them pretty useless in a lot of spots so I never bothered before. Paired and working with a USB dongle in #HomeAssistant no bother (once I found out how to put it pairing mode - hold the tiny button in!).

Motion sensor wasn’t quite so straightforward, had to remove and re-add it a few times. It just sat on “configuring” and created an entity which didn’t work, for some reason. Third time, all good. It’s bigger than the old one I have cos it takes AAA batteries, but I don’t mind that really. One thing to bear in mind is they’re directional; the flat bit is the bottom, and the detection zone is angled downwards.

Also got a new media remote with extra buttons which will be handy for controlling the smart ceiling fan I bought last week. The current remote we’re using just toggles power from a smart plug, but the new fan has speed settings. I could just cycle through them, I suppose, but it’s nice to have options!

This stuff is so cheap, it’s ridiculous. The plugs were €7! Best price I found elsewhere was €22.

Kleines #WLED Projekt bringt endlich Licht an den Badspiegel. Seit 3 Jahren hingen da Drähte über den Spiegel und ich habe keine vernünftige Lampe gefunden. Also von AliExpress fertige WLED Platine, BTF Led Stripes (IP65), ein Netzteil. Von Amazon die Profile. Vom Baumarkt Wandsteckdose, zwei Regalbretter, kleinere Sachen zum Befestigen. Etwas Löten, etwas Bohren, zurechtsägen, an die Wand pinnen fertig. WLED konfiguriert. Nun nur noch #Homeassistant mit Schalter verheiraten (#Zigbee).

Learning more than I'd hoped was necessary about the #HomeAssistant #zigbee device handling.

There are python add-ons called "Quirks" that let devices add sensor entities after the fact for ZHA and Z2m.

I've got a 2-channel power sensor I'm trying to add and it seems to be on the bleeding edge of supported devices.

I see dev work going on, so might be the easiest path forward is to wait a few weeks.

But hey, I learned about Quirks today, so that's a new corner of HA for me.

I'm automating stuff at the family farm using #homeassistant ; lights, smoke alarms, stove fire preventers, heaters.

It's inspiring to see so many iot devices support #ZigBee but also infuriating that 50% of the ones I've encountered has something fucky with their zigbee implementation. It's also somewhat concerning that the mains-connected zb router devices I've found will drop off immediately when the power goes out. The thought of not getting alerts about a fire in the barn if the power's out, concerns me.

I've got my eye on #matter , but I can't find compatible smoke alarms in Norway (so I can be confident they comply with local regulations, and return them if they're bad), and only limited reviews of ones available from abroad.

I see there's https://www.matteralpha.com/category/smoke-co-alarm and https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smoke-detector-with-matter-over-thread-support/810731 but idk.

Can anyone recommend a mains-powered zigbee router device with a built-in battery, that'll keep it routing for at least 1 hour if it loses power?

Alternatively, a small (max 20*10*10cm) #ups that'll power a zb router or other tiny device for 1 hour? #NUT #networkUpsTools compatibility is a big plus

Bought some cheap-ass temp/humidity Bluetooth sensors from Xiaomi, was very happy to discover that the hardware also supports Zigbee, proceeded to immediately flash the wrong firmware file and bricked the whole thing

Time to break out the JTAG

I'm looking at setting up #alarmo to replace an ADT system. The software side looks easy, but I'd like a hardware recommendation for a keypad. I'd prefer #zigbee but I have a #zwave mesh too.

Right now I'm thinking of a Ring v2 for the keypad and Aquara contact sensors for the doors and windows.

#homeassistant @homeassistant

Dites les fans de domotique,

J'ai en tête l'idée de contrôler ma chaudière via Homme Assistant. L'idée est de l'activée ou non en fonction de ma présence dans une pièce.

J'ai en tête de trouver un thermostat connecté déporté que je mettrai là où je suis. Comme ça, je ne chauffe vraiment qu'une pièce en fonction de mes besoins.

Bonne idée ? Mauvaise idée ? Du matériel à recommander ?

Put aside a few hours today to migrate my Zigbee2MQTT setup from a RPi with a Sonoff dongle to a Proxmox LXC with a remote PoE powered SLZB-06 receiver. Took a quarter of an hour (and that included the time to reboot all the Zigbee routers). It just worked. Colour me impressed.
#zigbee2mqtt #zigbee #proxmox #lxc

Here’s the tech that could turn millions of Zigbee light bulbs into motion sensors with a single update

A new ambient sensing technology called Sensify could make this easier by turning your light bulbs into motion sensors. And it might be landing on a Philips Hue bridge near you very soon.

#smarthome #InternetOfThings #IoT #zigbee #Sensigy #PhilipsHue #technology #tech

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24348688/zigbee-ambient-sensing-philips-hue-ivani-sensify

Apparently Thirdreality Zigbee plugs log a lot more information than I realized because it wasn't enabled in Home Assistant by default.

I should see what else is in there.

New blog post!

In which I answer the question that many homelabbers have: "How much electricity is my home server using?"

The short answer is 70W at idle. The long answer? It's in the blog post. And again BOINC shows up.

https://stfn.pl/blog/57-home-server-electricity-usage/

Hey! I’ve been wanting to get some colorful magic smart lights, but I have an issue: I still want to be able to turn them on and off from the switches (without making them go offline when I do so, ofc). I was able to think about two different methods for this, but each is suboptimal on its own way.

Option 1: Substitute my switches with smart switches (zigbee)
(Example (aliexpress))
This is a nice option because it’d look nice, be installed on the wall exactly where the current switches are, as well as giving me the ability to also control the ‘dumb’ lights while I don’t substitute all of them for smart lights (these switches are cheaper than good smart lights).
The main disadvantage of this method, however, is that for the smart lights I’d end up having two separate controls: the light itself and the switch. When I powered the light off through the switch it’d go offline since it seems that the main feature of these switches is smartifying dumb lights. Then in order to control them from my phone I’d have to first turn on the switch and then the light. I doubt these switches have some kind of config that’d let me use their buttons to control Home Assistant scenes without stopping energy from going through them. Are there any ways of using switches without this issue?

Option 2: Get some scene switches remote controllers (zigbee)
(Example, basically this but some cheaper aliexpress zigbee)
I’d get some of these and 3d print some supports for them going over the current switches (so no one could touch the real/dumb switches and bring the lights hardlocked offline). These wouldn’t have the smart switch issue of putting the smart lights softlocked offline, but the disadvantages would be: it’d look considerably worse, it’d need batteries and it would only work for the smart lights.

My question is: are there any other options? Something that’d have Option 1 and 2 advantages without their disadvantages?

Got #homeassistant installed and connected to my MQTT server. Successfully detected 300+ devices - everything except my #zigbee switches it appears. If I can't get them into HA, there's no point in even thinking about trying to migrate from #nodered.
More tinkering tomorrow, I think.