Home Assistant beginners

Server was down last night, no plex, couldn't access HA or Remote Connect. It had been rock solid for months before i put VM on it, no idea what happened as i had to cycle the power to get it back up. Going to move it next to my main PC that way in future i can have a monitor connected.
The only thing that happened yesterday was the internet was down all day but don't see how that could cause this problem.

This morning i checked on it, also got SSH working (that was a bit of a faff needed an extra command ontop of the usual "ssh {username}@##.##.##.##") plus generating an ssh key never done that before.

Weekend ill have ago at moving everything across from the old Pi.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Yes they normally work perfectly with ZHA.
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iamgigglz said:
Maybe this is my issue. Up until now I've just used the eweLink app for the pairing process...
Yay, time to tinker!
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This should be delivered today. Looking forward to some Saturday morning tinkering - my ZBBridge-P will never be the same. It's the first time I've used one of these.

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I just got the official ZBT-1 just plug and play.

Learning so much on Home Assistant, it's such a rabbit hole.

-Realised VMware Workstation Pro has inbuilt auto start so need to swap using that rather than a batch file.
-Decide on a naming convention for devices.
-Change logger levels and database writes, disabling devices and entities i don't need.
-add Studio Code Server.
-check out Twingate for remote access.
 
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What are people using to access their home network / home assistant ?

I'm using wireguard and tailscale as a backup (both wireguard based)
- 99.5% of the time this is perfect but there are certain networks that block wireguard

I was thinking of setting up Cloudflare tunnels as a backup fronted by Zero Trust
- SSH may not be performant ?
- Your traffic will always go through cloudflare even if you're sitting at home unless warp is clever ... Wait NO just had a thought my local DNS should override the public DNS record whilst at home unless warp has other thoughts

CF ZeroTrust -> Cloudflare -> Cloudflare tunnel -> home
add CF warp to trusted clients that you want to get past ZeroTrust authentication

Not sure about tailgate, openziti, pangolin (just found out it's wireguard again so this isn't good as a backup)
 
Subliminal Aura said:
What are people using to access their home network / home assistant ?

I'm using wireguard and tailscale as a backup (both wireguard based)
- 99.5% of the time this is perfect but there are certain networks that block wireguard

I was thinking of setting up Cloudflare tunnels as a backup fronted by Zero Trust
- SSH may not be performant ?
- Your traffic will always go through cloudflare even if you're sitting at home unless warp is clever ... Wait NO just had a thought my local DNS should override the public DNS record whilst at home unless warp has other thoughts

CF ZeroTrust -> Cloudflare -> Cloudflare tunnel -> home
add CF warp to trusted clients that you want to get past ZeroTrust authentication

Not sure about tailgate, openziti, pangolin (just found out it's wireguard again so this isn't good as a backup)
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Im going to try Twingate.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Seems overkill for me :)
Openziti may be a free alternative


Also don't know how I missed this but the companion app can automatically switch the HA address when on homewifi, this could be a winner for Cloudflare tunnels

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I haven't paid for Twingate? Its free as far as i can see.
 
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Had Tado X instealled Monday to replace Hive. Setting up with MAtter in HA was super easy and managed to change over my boost automations within a few minutes to control Tado though HA.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Sounds like you like pain. Why not just buy a dongle or one of those fancy Zigbee network poe adapters ?
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Planning to flash my ZBBridge-P with Tasmota - makes it more compatible with a broader range of devices, like my Aqara stuff.
A £70 PoE adapter is a nope for now.
What dongle are you referring to? My concern around using anything that uses USB is that I'm running HA in a container in Proxmox. Passing the USB port through to the container sounds less fun than flashing my existing controller.
 
All up and running, well mostly. Hue bulbs are a pain in the backside, the power on and off thing just doesn't work. My Sonoff stuff just needed a button pressing for 10sec.
 
iamgigglz said:
Planning to flash my ZBBridge-P with Tasmota - makes it more compatible with a broader range of devices, like my Aqara stuff.
A £70 PoE adapter is a nope for now.
What dongle are you referring to? My concern around using anything that uses USB is that I'm running HA in a container in Proxmox. Passing the USB port through to the container sounds less fun than flashing my existing controller.
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I think the PoE adapter can be had for £30-40 from China slow post
Standard dongles like the ZBT / Sonoff controllers
You'll be fine with USB passthrough, running proxmox here too. I think I had a problem with overloading a port on my mini PC which was causing random reboots - this was a hardware not proxmox problem
I have 2 x 2.5gbe usb adapters, rtl433 dongle (power hungry), Sonoff coordinator and a coral tpu all connected to the usb
 
Bluecube said:
Do you have a Hue dimmer switch? If so the hold it next to the relevant bulb and press On and Off at the same time for a few seconds
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Nope. No Hue equipment left other than two bulbs. I'll just replace them, the Innr ones look alright.
Going forward I'll be using ZigBee relays and switches rather than bulbs, because you can't seem to get very bright ZigBee bulbs.
 
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robj20 said:
Nope. No Hue equipment left other than two bulbs. I'll just replace them, the Innr ones look alright.
Going forward I'll be using ZigBee relays and switches rather than bulbs, because you can't seem to get very bright ZigBee bulbs.
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You can get 1600 lumen Hue bulbs but they’re stupidly expensive.
 
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