Home Assistant beginners

Poolybit · Saturday at 14:12

dtokez said:
Anyone been to ikea? I've done 400 quid on their outgoing zigbee stuff

I was hoping to spend a quiet day in the house but this might be enough to make me jump in the car haha

Subliminal Aura · Saturday at 14:22

dtokez said:
Anyone been to ikea? I've done 400 quid on their outgoing zigbee stuff

Blimey £400 on what ?

What ikea Zigbee devices do you lot have ?

Poolybit · Saturday at 14:22

Their buttons, sensors and lights tend to be pretty good in my experience, especially for the price (even more so if they are massively reduced!)

dtokez · Saturday at 14:51

Subliminal Aura said:
Blimey £400 on what ?

What ikea Zigbee devices do you lot have ?

One more order to pick up tonight.
Got a bit of everything

andy_mk3 · Saturday at 15:05

That's an impressive haul

Poolybit · Saturday at 15:07

Very impressive. I've checked stock levels and for what appears to be left, I can't be bothered to drive the ~ 1 hour to get to my nearest ikea but the price for the buttons and bulbs definitely is worth grabbing.

andy_mk3 · Saturday at 15:23

I need to go to Ikea anyway, but probably not until Monday now. If there's anything left I'll pick up anything that might be useful. I'm pretty well covered for Zigbee stuff across the house anyway.

Poolybit · Saturday at 15:27

andy_mk3 said:
I need to go to Ikea anyway, but probably not until Monday now. If there's anything left I'll pick up anything that might be useful. I'm pretty well covered for Zigbee stuff across the house anyway.

Being pretty well covered has never stopped me from being tempted anyway :cry:

SoundsGood · Saturday at 15:44

I couldn't help myself and ordered £42 worth. Also found a £10 voucher in my account to sweeten the deal.

dtokez · Saturday at 20:54

Yeah I'm pleased with my haul, I'm going to be busy trying to get new bits integrated now that's for sure

Hope you guys get some goodies :cool:

SoundsGood · Monday at 20:11

Just finished setting up 3 of the water leak sensors with push notifications and battery alerts. A bit fiddly to connect them to HA as you have to keep triggering the sensor to keep it awake long enough to finish connecting. I now need to find a use for 2 motion sensors..

Jimbeam3678 · Monday at 20:36

I’ve just had a right battle connecting my google nest to HA. I’ve got a ton of sensors to set up later this week as well.

Poolybit · Monday at 22:49

Jimbeam3678 said:
I’ve just had a right battle connecting my google nest to HA. I’ve got a ton of sensors to set up later this week as well.

For use as a controller via voice or to use it as a speaker in HA?

Jimbeam3678 · 2025-12-30T07:23:58+0000

Nest thermostat to allow to me to control it with HA. Managed it in the end had to remove my google drive integration first then re add it.

dtokez · 2025-12-30T20:18:00+0000

anyone know where to start with triggering HA automations from google home speakers?

harryface · 2025-12-31T00:43:04+0000

Anyone had any luck with the kasa L530 RGB light integration into HA?

harryface · 2025-12-31T01:02:51+0000

dtokez said:
anyone know where to start with triggering HA automations from google home speakers?

I'd be interested in this...

robj20 · 2025-12-31T09:52:58+0000

My SMlight SLZB-06Mg24 has arrived, can I have two ZigBee coordinators in HA at the same time as I'm wanting to change the channel the easiest way will be to remove each ZigBee device from the old one in turn and they should be seen by the new one then.
I'll just set it up on the garage for now then I'll run a cable somewhere central when I have the time.

Bluecube · 2025-12-31T10:39:31+0000

robj20 said:
My SMlight SLZB-06Mg24 has arrived, can I have two ZigBee coordinators in HA at the same time as I'm wanting to change the channel the easiest way will be to remove each ZigBee device from the old one in turn and they should be seen by the new one then.
I'll just set it up on the garage for now then I'll run a cable somewhere central when I have the time.

Yes you can BUT each controller has to be tied to a different Zigbee “server”. In my own case I was moving from ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT so I plugged in the new coordinator, hooked it up to Z2M and the proceeded to remove devices from ZHA and add them to Z2M. I did this over a day or two.

If you want to have two coordinators linked to one instance of ZHA or Z2M then you’re out of luck. It’s probably possibly but likely to be painful.

LuckyBenski · 2025-12-31T11:05:28+0000

I'd try and put the coordinator near its final location before doing all the pairing. Routes/hops are configured based on physical location and signal.