Home Assistant beginners

Has anyone installed Shelly Relays in their light switches or ceiling rose? Kinda stuck with having no neutral in the light switch and ceiling roses being too small to install :D.
 
bash247 said:
Has anyone installed Shelly Relays in their light switches or ceiling rose? Kinda stuck with having no neutral in the light switch and ceiling roses being too small to install :D.
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ZigBee or WiFi? There's some pretty small Sonoff units I was planning to install behind the roses. It was that or deepen all the switch back boxes... Faff.
 
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I have been looking into the newer sonoff units for our outside lights. I think I need to wait for a bit for the price to come down on the matter units.
 
I've currently got HA running from SSD attached to a pi3b+, but I want it to run on my unraid server but I'm bamboozled by the best way to do this.
I think I have two options

1) install home assistant as an app in Unraid
2) create a virtual machine and install hassos

I really am a bit confused by the different options here. As I installed home assistant from raspberry pi imager, I can't remember what type of home assistant I have (HAssio, hassos? I dunno!)

The more I look into doing this, the more confused I get about what I actually want/need to do to simply move the install to a different system.
 
Finally after months after @katie279 sent me an Rpi I have had the time to get it up and running with HA with some help from a friend. He's suggested the skyconnect usb for zigbee and matter, can't see it mentioned in here, wondering if anyone has any experience?
 
Has anyone got this working with their Zappi and can offer some advice. I'm wanting to set it to stop charging at 16:00 and go back to eco+ at 19:00 to avoid it using my solar export during the flux high rate period. I've set it to last option at 4 which I would assume is Stop and then to previous option at 19:00 which would be eco+ if going by the interface. Ignore found the correct opitons.
 
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Pickers said:
I've currently got HA running from SSD attached to a pi3b+, but I want it to run on my unraid server but I'm bamboozled by the best way to do this.
I think I have two options

1) install home assistant as an app in Unraid
2) create a virtual machine and install hassos

I really am a bit confused by the different options here. As I installed home assistant from raspberry pi imager, I can't remember what type of home assistant I have (HAssio, hassos? I dunno!)

The more I look into doing this, the more confused I get about what I actually want/need to do to simply move the install to a different system.
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So more research and it seems if I set up a VM then I can install the HA Operating system, which will work like my current setup.

If I install the HA App it's effectively a docker environment for HA rather than the operating system - all this seems to mean is no 'add ons' - any Home assistant add-ons (like node red) need their own containers outside of the HA container, so potentially more fiddling if I want to use add-ons...

Am I right??
 
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All sorted, quick google showed I needed to add this email into the test user group.
 
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katie279 said:
I've got one for the Fire 10...

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Hopefully you might get some ideas from this and obviously PM me if any extra questions/bits not clear! :D
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Urgh. kiosk isnt accepting homeassistant.local - it forces https:// which isnt correct... Getting "ERR_name_not_resolved. If I use the ip address to connect I get "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR"
 
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Automated my pvoutput but seems to be about 1kwh off for the 3 days automatically uploaded so far compared to givenergy. Anyone any ideas?
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Comparing where to where, sorry?

"Energy GivTCP PV Energy Today kWh" gives me 12.9kwh today

Givenergy app gives me 12.85
GivEnergy portal gives me 12.90
 
fish said:
I have been looking into the newer sonoff units for our outside lights. I think I need to wait for a bit for the price to come down on the matter units.
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I've got one of the newer Sonoff units acting as the boost switch for a central extraction unit in the attic, ties in really nice with Alexa and works very well, think I paid about £12 with a voucher on Amazon.
 
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