Got mine from China, arrived in just under a week.
Home Assistant beginners
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Got mine from China, arrived in just under a week.
Nice, I'll check it out. I was going to setup a second coordinator in my network for a garden office so this seems like a much nicer way of achieving that without the extra hassle. Cheers again.
Thanks for the replies everyone
Ok then, fun times ahead, Im not too worried about locking up the NUC, but if Im going to experiment I might as well go all in and try virtualisation. Im comfortable with installing Linux, updating packages I wasn't so sure on, but I was reading now that Linux has a package manager which should make things easier. Last time I used Linux was Mandrake and it would have been around the early 2000's and that was me testing it for moving away from Red hat, it has been a while, so this will be a fun little project.
Something tells me this could develop into a proper little rabbit hole
For VMs I’d use Proxmox rather than a standard Linux install. It’s got a bit of a learning curve but is relatively straight forward to use from the get go. There’s even a script to install HA which requires minimal work from yourself - https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/
Is that a distro or something more like virtualbox?
From a very quick google it looks like a VM environment/OS, Id rather have the additional functionality of a linux distro.
I might have got this wrong so will have a google later when I finish work
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Please never use 40MHz on 2.4GHz.Just a heads up incase it helps anyone as I was getting pretty annoyed with this for a few hours
Anyway I tracked it down to my wifi settings, these things do not like 40mhz wide on the 2.4ghz band. Switched it to 20mhz from 20/40 and they all connect in seconds now.
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It offers limited benefit but lots of risk, many client devices don’t support it. You likely need more than one AP, and therefore you’re chewing through channels or causing OBSS Interference or Adjacent Channel InterferenceLifes good when you have far away neighbours
Ha Ha, this NUC is older than I thought! By about 6 yrs!
2C/4T 4th gen i5-4250U, though 16Gb of RAM, and CPU supports VT-x
I think I will go for a bare metal install of home assistant so that it has all the resources available. It is good to repurpose old forgotten hardware and bring it back to life for something.
2C/4T 4th gen i5-4250U, though 16Gb of RAM, and CPU supports VT-x
I think I will go for a bare metal install of home assistant so that it has all the resources available. It is good to repurpose old forgotten hardware and bring it back to life for something.
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I bought a few(!) Aqara light switches from AliExpress.
I fitted a two single switches ok and then hit the problems.
Tried to fit a single switch that was one of a two way pair (bottom switch for the landing light).
Despite me trying all the wiring combinations I could think of, I couldn’t get it to work properly, either the light only worked on one switch or neither worked.
Doesn’t look like the switches work in a 2 way setup, so might have to change one of them to a purely wireless one, which will control the one that’s wired in.
Then went to fit the 3 way one in the kitchen, but it’s a shallow back box and the switch doesn’t fit
I’ve got an electrician coming on Monday to do some other work, will have to pick his brains.
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Another +1 for the VM route. I described my fiasco in this thread about a couple of weeks ago where something funky happened to my install that was causing it to crash about every 15 minutes. It was an absolute delight to be able to restore a working VM within minutes. It's that much quicker I don't even bother with the internal HA backup feature anymore.
Also another +1 for one of SMLight's POE zigbee coordinators. The fact you can just plug it into the network and it's picked up by HA makes it incredibly easy to setup.
Also another +1 for one of SMLight's POE zigbee coordinators. The fact you can just plug it into the network and it's picked up by HA makes it incredibly easy to setup.
It is definitely something I will look at in the future, especially on seeing how cheap mini pc's have become, but with a 10yr old NUC as a trial device for now a bare metal install will save on resources as I don't have that many to start with
2C/4T and 16GB of RAM...
Im going to take it into work tomorrow, USB boot works fine and I get to the Proxmox install screen but that is as far as I get, it isn't recognising my mech keyboard so I can't select an install option.
Gonna find some crappy usb2 keyboard and see if that helps
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Hi. does anyone use these https://www.tapo.com/uk/product/smart-light-bulb/tapo-l900-5/ or similar that works with HA?
I am looking for one and came across this one. However i seem to see that although many of these can be cut to length, it seems once you cut it, the discarded strips are useless as you need to get a seperate wifi controler and power cable for the other one and for TP link at least, i cannot find them selling the wifi controller and power seperately so you can in theory cut the 5m ligth strip in half and use two wifi controllers to connect and place the light strips in different locations
I am looking for one and came across this one. However i seem to see that although many of these can be cut to length, it seems once you cut it, the discarded strips are useless as you need to get a seperate wifi controler and power cable for the other one and for TP link at least, i cannot find them selling the wifi controller and power seperately so you can in theory cut the 5m ligth strip in half and use two wifi controllers to connect and place the light strips in different locations
I use govee ones. It has a web app and a lan controller
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Having had a few sonoff motion sensors fail on me, I decided to go for a Everything Presence Lite to go in my kitchen to turn the lights on when it's getting dark and there are people in the kitchen.
It arrived yesterday and I've quickly set it up and it seems to be working nicely, I setup a quick test automation to turn the lights on when I went in the kitchen and turn them off when the kitchen was unoccupied. This worked beautifully so I decided to update my kitchen light automations which I had previously been using with a sonoff motion sensor.
But I seem to be having a problem with the automations now in that they don't seem to be working if I have before/after sunset/sunrise as a condition? They used to work fine until the motion sensors died on me but now they're not. I can see that they have been triggered but the lights aren't turning on. When I remove the sun condition they work again.
Has anyone else noticed any issues with this?
It arrived yesterday and I've quickly set it up and it seems to be working nicely, I setup a quick test automation to turn the lights on when I went in the kitchen and turn them off when the kitchen was unoccupied. This worked beautifully so I decided to update my kitchen light automations which I had previously been using with a sonoff motion sensor.
But I seem to be having a problem with the automations now in that they don't seem to be working if I have before/after sunset/sunrise as a condition? They used to work fine until the motion sensors died on me but now they're not. I can see that they have been triggered but the lights aren't turning on. When I remove the sun condition they work again.
Has anyone else noticed any issues with this?