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You don't really want to be drawing 13A through a smart-plug if you can help it. For Wi-Fi, I'd probably just go the likes of Tapo which work fairly well
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Its mostly going to be set-up to monitor my solar and switch on a few lights etc etc…..nothing too taxing.
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Why not? Bad idea?
Anyways it's mainly for use with my coffee machine and lamps /lights in the house
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Yeah although they're rated for 13A, really you don't want to be sat on the limit 24/7, so I'd always overspec and go to a 16A rated smart plug for a 13A device.
It's the same reason that we design our home circuits the way we do, for a dedicated supply of a device of 13A, we would always go with a 16A circuit because of inrush current etc
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If you're not running say a dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer etc through it I wouldn't be so concerned, but yes that would work via a Tuya Integration
I've used kasa mini plugs for years, work perfectly with HA!
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Apparenlty the TP ones with new firmware disabled HA ability on it aka blocking is API access....
Really, you got a link? Think mine are all updated firmware and working absolutely fine?
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Ah yeah, saw that blip - if you read the thread and around it a bit, you'll see TP Link were forced to put access back - instructions in the sub link.
Lots of good alternatives now, so don't blindly recommend Kasa - plenty of other options regardless!
It was quite well advertised well over a year ago, they did come out with some custom firmware for a brief bit of time - might have have been on the privisio that owners accepted all responsibility for 3rd party API access, but they eventually withdrew it anyway.
There needs to be a blacklist for the open source community for vendors who behave this way. That way anyone who do wants to promote open source will steer clear of these types of vendors.
Ah so is it still not working? Thought they'd folded.
Agree entirely regarding the blacklist - think that's a great idea, might muse it a bit as working on some stuff!
Agree entirely regarding the blacklist - think that's a great idea, might muse it a bit as working on some stuff!
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Decided to start a parallel HA install using VirtualBox on my Windows server. The main reason was my PSA Car Controller app just wouldn't function properly - I guess the RaspPi its on may have some explaining to do, but god knows.
Anyway, a nice fresh install made me want to fix the camera streaming performance. I have 3 outdoor cameras (1 not properly fitted yet) and my little girls cot cam. The performance is garbage through the native apps - but I stumbled across WebRTC Camera on HACS. It uses a Go2RTC app as a streaming server. Works amazingly well, and super easy to setup - although you need to research/fiddle with your cams to find the right ports and what not for ONVIF.
They now stream like I am watching television, zero lag. They also load so much quicker. Very happy!
Anyway, a nice fresh install made me want to fix the camera streaming performance. I have 3 outdoor cameras (1 not properly fitted yet) and my little girls cot cam. The performance is garbage through the native apps - but I stumbled across WebRTC Camera on HACS. It uses a Go2RTC app as a streaming server. Works amazingly well, and super easy to setup - although you need to research/fiddle with your cams to find the right ports and what not for ONVIF.
They now stream like I am watching television, zero lag. They also load so much quicker. Very happy!
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Got the RPi4 all built up with case, fan, heatsink…..put in the sd card with HA stored on it. Then damn it couldnt find my spare network cable. So will fire her up tomorrow and start building my HA energy programme monitor the import, export and generation.
Bane of my existence - I have a billion "somewhere" but when you need one, god knows where they are.
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So since moving from an RPi 3B+ to a VirtualBox VM, I've encountered much better performance on CCTV camera streaming (Web2RTC was a game changer, do not use any built in app if you have ONVIF cameras!) but some Bluetooth glitches where it intermittently dies and then the entity reports unavailable.
Tempted to try and migrate my new fresh install back to the RPi3B+ now!
Can anyone remind me if an RPi3B+ is sufficiently powerful enough to do what I want? I bought it ages ago from EVH on here, so no idea how much grunt it has and whether an upgrade to an RPi4 is required...
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I really need to start HA but i got put off it when i was struggling to add my reolink camera’s to itDecided to start a parallel HA install using VirtualBox on my Windows server. The main reason was my PSA Car Controller app just wouldn't function properly - I guess the RaspPi its on may have some explaining to do, but god knows.
Anyway, a nice fresh install made me want to fix the camera streaming performance. I have 3 outdoor cameras (1 not properly fitted yet) and my little girls cot cam. The performance is garbage through the native apps - but I stumbled across WebRTC Camera on HACS. It uses a Go2RTC app as a streaming server. Works amazingly well, and super easy to setup - although you need to research/fiddle with your cams to find the right ports and what not for ONVIF.
They now stream like I am watching television, zero lag. They also load so much quicker. Very happy!
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You should look into grabbing a NIC or mini pc that is the size of your palm and runs an actual intel or AMD cpu low powered that eels around 10w idle ish but capable of heavy loads if need be
We can jump on a call at some point and I can guide you through it -- this Web2RTC is a game changer. It is like near real time high FPS. It is only the Reolink doorbell where you need to enable some other stuff using the Reolink app.
Yeah maybe - let me check out the members market
I do have a mini PC hosting the VM at the moment, but bare metal always better when communicating with hardware I find...