Home Assistant beginners

Bit yet another bullet and just ordered a 4 pack of zigbee smart plugs off ebay for £29.99. I'll probably replace a couple of the WiFi smart plugs that are nearby to 'build up' the zigbee mesh
 
I am confused slightly. I am getting 20-30 LQI on this motion sensor, but the occupancy just doesn't trigger. When I move it a little closer, works fine
 
What Zigbee channel are you on? I changed mine to one outside of the Wi-Fi range and it helped signal quality a fair bit. Lqi of 20 is very low and zigbee should be able to cover a fair distance.

Just looking at my zigbee devices, the lowest lqi is 132 and that’s a hue bulb out in the garden.
 
andy_mk3 said:
What Zigbee channel are you on? I changed mine to one outside of the Wi-Fi range and it helped signal quality a fair bit. Lqi of 20 is very low and zigbee should be able to cover a fair distance.

Just looking at my zigbee devices, the lowest lqi is 132 and that’s a hue bulb out in the garden.
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It was on 11 but I've put it on 25 yesterday
 
It's definitely not as easy no. But there's blueprints for the hue controls and stuff to make life a lot easier. Plus you can make the hue dimmers control anything you want, like blinds, bathroom extractor fan etc :D

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ShivP said:
Hmm, that is tempting then. Can you do stuff like the "hue" button on the remote cycling through scenes?
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Yeah that's definitely possible, although may require some manual tuning to make it work. Someone will have done it on the HA forums either way :D Can also have things like turning on lights/scenes for a room from the button change for the time of day, I do this with my bathroom lights, so after 11pm the lights will turn on dimmed from the switch, but during the day/evening they will be full brightness, although I will eventually be going back to a motion sensor in the bathroom.

The possibilities are endless. Always good to flick through the HA subreddit or the forums to get some ideas.
 
andy_mk3 said:
Yeah that's definitely possible, although may require some manual tuning to make it work. Someone will have done it on the HA forums either way :D Can also have things like turning on lights/scenes for a room from the button change for the time of day, I do this with my bathroom lights, so after 11pm the lights will turn on dimmed from the switch, but during the day/evening they will be full brightness, although I will eventually be going back to a motion sensor in the bathroom.

The possibilities are endless. Always good to flick through the HA subreddit or the forums to get some ideas.
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Hmm OK... I guess the integration with Google home is similar as well? My parents shout at Google home a lot
 
Has anyone moved from a hub based setup (ie Hive, Hue) to Home Assistant entirely? I know I can do so but I worry that if HA goes down that basics such as heating and lighting go down as well. If you’ve made such a move, what’s your backup plan if HA goes **** up?
 
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