I'm using normal bulbs but ZigBee switches. Means the wife doesn't wreck things by using the switch as well, which happened a lot.
These ones.
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These ones.
This is the best way. No messing around trying to get different bulbs working properly just put them in and use any bulb
Ok I need to understand these smart switches. This one you install behind current flick switch. If you flick the switch to off mode, is the smart switch switched off? By extension bulb is also off?
Then there's the smart flick switch. Let's say you flicked it off, but have an automation for any bulb connected to it to turn on at set time. Does it still turn on or not?
The physical switch is just a signal to the Sonoff, it doesn't cut power to it. This allows you to use the physical switch and the Sonoff independently to each other.
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I am a week into owning Home Assistant Green as a first time user. My financee really wants a house alarm and i dont want to pay for a closed system so the home assistant journey started. I have alarmo working with a siren, amazon keypad and one motion sensor, with an additional two sensors being delivered today. Will likely add in a couple of door contacts front and back. I have been impressed!
Iv'e had an electrician in today to add new sockets in our master bedroom, three are Aqara Smart sockets and a samotech smart 3 gang light switch, with it all working. We have two ceiling lights in the room so went with a three gan switch. Now via an automation i can turn lights on and off with gang 1 and 2 independantly and with third gang i have used Gemini to automate a toggle to turn both of them on and off at the same time. Seems to work well.
I was going to put in 2 1600lumen Hue bulbs to get more light in the room as i thought they were the best for HA, what else is there that throughs out good amount of light?
Iv'e had an electrician in today to add new sockets in our master bedroom, three are Aqara Smart sockets and a samotech smart 3 gang light switch, with it all working. We have two ceiling lights in the room so went with a three gan switch. Now via an automation i can turn lights on and off with gang 1 and 2 independantly and with third gang i have used Gemini to automate a toggle to turn both of them on and off at the same time. Seems to work well.
I was going to put in 2 1600lumen Hue bulbs to get more light in the room as i thought they were the best for HA, what else is there that throughs out good amount of light?
Hue bulbs are excellent. The Hue hub and ecosystem not so much. I use multiple Hue devices in HA connected via my Zigbee dongle. I use Zigbee2MQTT to control everything
Bought 3 used hue bulbs, only 1 pairs with the app. Then I was able to get that connected to HA. The light switch toggling doesn't seem to be working for me to reset it, pulling my hair out now.
Which keypad and siren? Do these connect over wifi or zigbee/zwave?
Do you have a Hue dimmer switch? If so then hold it next to the powered bulb and keep on and off on the switch pressed until the bulb flashes.
EDIT: and do yourself a favour - don’t cheap out on things unless you know what you’re doing. The cash you save on buying second hand or cheap Chinese kit will be quickly eradicated by the a,punt of time you spend trying to get things working. I’ve been there. I’ve got the pile electronic junk only fit for recycling…
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No issues here running ZHA on HA 2026.7.4. My SLZB is on firmware v3.3.1 and Zigbee Coordinator 20260311.
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Zwave I got a ring keypad gen 2 and an aeotec indoor siren
Actually fairly recently i have been having issues where all my ZHA entities go unreachable.
I have this morning rolled back the SLZB to the previous OS to see if that helps, 3.2.4 i think. I dont know why but it seems the SLZB goes down as i cant access the webpage until i cycle the POE power then everything comes back online.
Read a couple of things saying POE power is not ideal so i may also try USB power next, but this is a fairly recent issue, say the last month or two.
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what kind of device do I need if I want to create a low-power bluetooth receiver to pair with an existing device, and send that output to HA on my network? I'm trying to replicate what this blog post did but without buying a whole new Pi. The OEM has a solution that would work brilliantly for £70 so needs to be way less than that. Although now I think of it I might actually have a Pi2 or 3 somewhere in the loft that I never used, would that be the ideal device?
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This sounds like a Bluetooth proxy that you’re after. In which case, all you need is an ESP32 board flashed with ESPHome. You’ll need to turn the proxy on in the YAML code but it’s not rocket science to do sowhat kind of device do I need if I want to create a low-power bluetooth receiver to pair with an existing device, and send that output to HA on my network? I'm trying to replicate what this blog post did but without buying a whole new Pi. The OEM has a solution that would work brilliantly for £70 so needs to be way less than that. Although now I think of it I might actually have a Pi2 or 3 somewhere in the loft that I never used, would that be the ideal device?
RAPT Pill and Home Assistant
Switch your RAPT Pill to Bluetooth and connect it to Home Assistant for a better data logging experience
Thanks that sounds exactly what I need. Is there a particular supplier to get them from? And since I just want to receive over BLE and transmit back over WiFi, do I actually need anything physical other than a power supply and a little box to put it in that I can print myself? I guess going over ethernet would be good but I'll just put it on my IoT network.
Supplier name changes all the time… Get them from Amazon so if you get a dud it’s easy to replace. As you say, all you need is a 5V power supply and you’re golden. Don’t even need a case.
I had a few set up and just used WiFi. Never had any issues