Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

I've had my fun with smart home and now dumbing it back down so have a handful of hue bits to shift:

Philips Hue Bridge
Philips Hue Dimmer switch with Samotech switch cover x2
Philips Hue motion sensor
Philips Hue GU10 colour bulb x3
Philips Hue B22 white bulb x3
Innr B22 colour bulb x3

This is approximately £340 worth of kit, less than 6 months old (2 white bulbs have actually never even been powered on since setup), all in original packaging and working absolutely perfectly.

Would like to get £250 for all of the above. Not looking to split.

If you change your mind and split I'll a good chunk of that off you.

You'll be lucky finding someone who doesn't yet have a bridge that wants to drop £250 on Hue kit.

Fair. What bits would you want?

Given i have original boxes I'd consider splitting as follows:

1. Bridge, gu10 bulbs, dimmer and samotech cover - £145
   
2. Pair of b22 white bulbs x2 - £20 each
   
3. Three innr b22 colour bulbs - £50
   
4. Dimmer and samotech cover - £15
   
5. Sensor - £20
   

I'd be potentially interested in everything except the bulbs and bridge.

(Actually, maybe the bridge too if it's the newer one, dependent on price and whether you wanted to keep hold of it to sell with the bulbs).

It is the newest bridge but want to keep everything grouped per packaging as above.

Dibs the innr b22 bulbs, dimmer switch and cover.

Drop me a pm to make arrangements.

Can we wait til Feb?

#stillpayingforXmas

Fair enough. Dibs the sensor and if there are any dimmer switches/covers available I'll take them.

Moved

To be honest I'd rather first come first served as I've been burned with dibs before.

At the risk of this turning into a sale thread I've started a classifieds ad.

OK, I'll hang fire then.

Meh, grumble, meh, 12 years a forumenger, grumble grumble.

Has anyone figured out observability?

Like... how can you see what has turned a light on?

with Hue?

All I can manage with HomeAssist is to see that it has become turned on. I then trigger an ITTT routine to turn on some other (fairy) lights when the Huie bulbs are seen to be on. I do the reverse when the bulb goes off.

I don't think Hue exposes any information about the source of the action. Hue is crap in that it does not expose any events, only actions.

With Hue, and the other things.

I'd like to see some report of when things were turned on, how much by (i.e. brightness of lights, temperature of thermostat, etc).

If I had visibility over the house then I could improve automation. And I'd understand the most likely trigger for the event.

I don't know how much other people would value observability, but I feel blind without it.

I'm the same. Would really like Hive to log when the heating is actually on because without a smart meter it's the only practical way to estimate how much energy it's using. Even then, a smart meter can't differentiate between gas used for heating, water or cooking.

Does hive have an API? Could be pretty trivial to record events on a rpi or similar...

A quick google suggests it does. Unfortunately I wouldn't have a clue where to start, trivial or otherwise.

I don't know how much other people would value observability, but I feel blind without it.

I would like it too.

Most of these Home Automation product companies seem to be focussed on making their own stuff operate, rather than being good tech citizens in a wider eco system.

Isn't the answer to plug it all into Home Assistant, which logs everything, and integrates with pretty much every API out there?

Yeh home assistant logs when devices are on and off.

Like, duh!

Yeah I would like this too. Some kind of graph against target and achieved temps would be great.

If I had visibility over the house then I could improve automation.

Homeassistant / OpenHAB use whatever API the IOT thing has. Sometimes is uses dirty hacks when APIs aren't public.

HA is all python & yaml, and fairly straight forward to scripts & automations off the back of whatever states & history is reported