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Can you buy separate lan controllers and power outlets so you can cut the led strip in half and use it twice on two separate lan controllers and power?
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My Raspberry Pi-hosted Home Assistant has stopped appearing on my network. I've switched it off and back on, several times and it refuses to appear on the list of devices on the network.
What's my next step?
What's my next step?
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I took everything out, shook it around and put it back ... sounds like my sex life
It also begs the question, is there a better way to host Home Assiant and in particular Zigbee devices?
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I've never like Raspberry Pi for long term usage in this manner. Personally I have it in a VM on a USFF PC, NUC style. I really should install more services on there...
So I got Proxmox installed over my lunch break today, and used a helper script to build a home assistant VM on there. I’ve VLAN tagged the VM to my IoT network, and installed HACS, and added Octopus Energy integration as I have a Home Mini.
Now I don’t know what else I’d actually use it for not to mention the Octopus app on my phone shows me the usage for the day already so I don’t feel like I’ve gained anything yet. I don’t have anything around the house that’s able to be integrated - basic programmable thermostats, no smart plugs, no smart light switches etc.
Now I don’t know what else I’d actually use it for
not to mention the Octopus app on my phone shows me the usage for the day already so I don’t feel like I’ve gained anything yet. I don’t have anything around the house that’s able to be integrated - basic programmable thermostats, no smart plugs, no smart light switches etc.
I like the fact it can easily track/log point in time power usage at a more granular level, as opposed to just the usage over a half hour period. It let me know when in my dishwasher cycle the heating cycles happen so I can optimise at what time it starts to fit the heavy power usage part of the wash into exactly a 60 minute window.So I got Proxmox installed over my lunch break today, and used a helper script to build a home assistant VM on there. I’ve VLAN tagged the VM to my IoT network, and installed HACS, and added Octopus Energy integration as I have a Home Mini.
Now I don’t know what else I’d actually use it for
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How often are you polling, once a minute? I think there’s a 100/hour call limit to the API?I like the fact it can easily track/log point in time power usage at a more granular level, as opposed to just the usage over a half hour period. It let me know when in my dishwasher cycle the heating cycles happen so I can optimise at what time it starts to fit the heavy power usage part of the wash into exactly a 60 minute window.
I have an octopus home mini so i think it polls the mini locally for that data? Not really sure, i left the defaults on which for me was 1 minute polls
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Anyone have any experience with WiFi thermometers? The Bluetooth is just too unreliable for me.
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You mean for the oven, or temperature sensors? For the latter, go ZigBee.
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Latter. Can it hop onto my hue network?
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Looks like maybe not - some stuff does but limited support. The long term solution really is to get a universal ZigBee controller. I skipped over Hue Hub and went straight to a Sonoff USB controller with HA.
Zigbee sensors with Hue Bridge
Yes, Hue bridge + Zigbee bridge can both be installed, but they form 2 separate Zigbee networks.
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This is costing me more money nowLooks like maybe not - some stuff does but limited support. The long term solution really is to get a universal ZigBee controller. I skipped over Hue Hub and went straight to a Sonoff USB controller with HA.
Zigbee sensors with Hue Bridge
Yes, Hue bridge + Zigbee bridge can both be installed, but they form 2 separate Zigbee networks.
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Your mistake was spending any money on HueThis is costing me more money now
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Haha, nawh, I still believe in full redundancy and it is totally wife proof. It hooks up to Alexa really nicely too.Your mistake was spending any money on Hue
The thermometers via Bluetooth and ESP32 have been a trying experiment though....