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More toying with home assistant. Zigbee2mqtt with the zigbee sniffer has been a revelation! It means I can now have a single hub that can be used to control any zigbee device! I have it working flawlessly with hue bulbs, and with the flashed rf bridge I have been able to buy cheap rf buttons to switch them on and off (or any other automation/script you want for that matter), thus satisfying the WAF!
The free google home mini from spotify has enabled google tts notifications from home assistant too which is a bit of a novelty. It currently welcomes my missus home by name, when her phone latches onto the wifi, which freaks the shit out of her!
Addition of the cloud was nice, makes it very easy to control the hue bulbs (and any other linked devices) with google assistant. Front end access is nice too, but I don't really use the front end for anything more than checking that devices are working. I found that the pihole add-on was blocking this on occasion, so I have gone back to a second pi running only pihole and openVPN.