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does that go for the updated hub?
https://homekitnews.com/2022/08/30/matter-thread-enabled-ikea-hub-due-in-october/
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the hue ones can be a bit finicky and need multiple button presses
Can't be doing with that if so. The good thing about Shelley modules is the switch just works like a light switch. Also if it's in on position and you turn it off remotely you need to turn the switch off then on to turn the light on (or vica versa) which is quite pleasing.
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Yes i can do that too. All my bulbs newer than LCT010 will not turn back on if turned off in the app when using an on/off motion with the wall switch. V annoying
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Got carried away with Home Assistant, and then realised that everything in Home Assistant goes to Prometheus, meaning I can plot everything over time in Grafana Cloud.
So here's the temp in all rooms for the past week, and when the heating has been on (the red vertical bars). There's a 6'c difference between the warmest and coldest rooms.
Sensors are the Philips Hue motion sensors which include thermometer. But I also have an Aranet4 in my office, and the Nest thermostat is reporting temp, target temp and whether or not it is heating.
This detail isn't in Nest in any meaningful way, so seeing it like this is great.
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There's a Grafana Add-on for HA that does without Prometheus as an integration.
That does mean that you need to have the right type of installation though, and have Supervisor installed.
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I prefer all my stuff to do one thing only.
So the NAS is just file storage.
The Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant is just Home Assistant.
The Plex server is just the Plex server.
The Grafana is just the Grafana.
And so on.Been burned far too many time by "this thing failed, and oops it's also these 2 other things and now it's all lost.".
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Directionally correct is good enough. I've had the Aranet4 (which is fantastically accurate and calibrated) in the various spaces and it's confirmed the other temperatures are roughly correct (a couple show 1'c lower than what the Aranet4 has measured, but most are surprisingly accurate). Even for the ones that are slightly out, it doesn't matter... perfect accuracy isn't needed, just a roughly correct and consistent way of measuring over time.
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I hear you, particularly when it comes to Pis. I'm enjoying using an old laptop instead, and rumning multie things with a much greater degree of confidence.
And i get to remote backup various virtual images much more painlessly than some incremental OS dependent backup.
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You should see a doctor if your body temperature is that low.
(ba-dum-tish)
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I prefer all my stuff to do one thing only.
The Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant is just Home Assistant.
Are you saying that you therefore won't use add-ons or integrations in Home Assistant?
Because that kinda defeats the point of HA :P
(I am possibly misunderstanding because I don't really know what Prometheus/Grafana do)
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Are you saying that you therefore won't use add-ons or integrations in Home Assistant?
Because that kinda defeats the point of HA :P
(I am possibly misunderstanding because I don't really know what Prometheus/Grafana do)
I use very few add-ons in anything.
I'm probably just old and grumpy. But experience has shown me that relying on something is futile if it's not a core part of the thing being offered.
Example: Used to run a Squeezebox server on a NAS... the server software was updated frequently, but the NAS version was not. It also came with limitations and wasn't fully featured.
That's an old example, so a really recent example from a company currently seen as being best-in-class... Tailscale. A VPN client/server, where installing the OSS on Linux is up to date but the NAS Synology is several versions behind and so is the Home Assistant version of Tailscale today... this example is right now, Tailscale is about 6 months behind the current version as an add-on within Home Assistant and most of the last 6 month point releases are security releases!
What I've found repeatedly is that add-ons are always secondary to everything else. They're unfunded by companies, or companies dislike the packaging and release processes, or companies can't make money out of them... and they become community owned. Some random person does their best to occasionally update something and after a year or two they become disinterested and it no longer gets updated.
I've found very exceptions to this. It keeps happening.
So if there are things I care about running then I take ownership of deploying them (I don't use add-on stores that much at all) or I take ownership of implementing in some way I can maintain.
I do use add-ons, but only the very few basic ones: Let's Encrypt, Nginx, Backup, Syncthing. All ones I've watched and seen get updated often.
I use Home Assistant purely as an integration point for everything, out of house control, and the built-in scripting and orchestration. I trust the community to maintain integrations (the bit that makes HA valuable) but don't trust the community to maintain add-ons (as already being proven by Tailscale being many versions out of date).
Prometheus is two things, instrumentation for metrics and a client/server that collects metrics and can send them elsewhere. I send mine to Grafana Cloud. Prometheus is backwards compatible through to 10y ago and won't be changing any time soon, so I'm very comfortable using this.
Grafana is a visualisation layer for everything including metrics. I already have Grafana Cloud for monitoring and alerting on the systems that run LFGSS, and for debugging the forum. I additionally have a dashboard that shows the metrics coming from Home Assistant. Grafana is entirely separate from Home Assistant, and of course you can install the add-on (it is out of date!).
As much as possible one tool for one job, and a toolbox of many different tools. As opposed to a multi-tool trying to do everything.
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It's obviously daft as I could show a dashboard that told me how many people were concurrently on any of the websites and how many posts were made during the time I brushed my teeth. Which is pointless.
But the upside is that I really don't look at any dashboard often, by having all of the data in one place I can create alerts in one place. I know Home Assistant has a "Battery below 10%" alert capability, but here every alert from every system is one in place. I can put controls over all of it, like "don't alert me about such things overnight" and route different things to different devices of channels. I can even automatically page myself (literally the system will phone me and supersede any quiet mode on my phone) to tell me if something critical is happening (like one of the smoke sensors detecting fire).
All of this stuff (this site) runs so smoothly because of all of this monitoring and automation. I apply the same stuff to my home too.
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Just been having a play with a little hyperpixel screen attached to a raspberry pi showing home assistant in kiosk mode. The hope is this might fill the gap in the wall when I remove the thermostat (making it wireless).
I have a sneaking suspicion that it may not be easy to mount flush though, need to have a look at 3d printed mounts I suspect which will be annoying.
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No personal experience but I looked at these on the recommendation of my boss who has put one into his garden office and seems very pleased with it. https://adax-solaire.co.uk/
They do various options that might work?
Only reason I didn’t go for it was going for a moveable fan heater vs fixed panel for a garage
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Don't buy the IKEA hub, it's meant to be shit and lose connection a lot.
The bulbs are fine but if you're looking at GU10s the Tradfri ones are an odd shape that won't fit in a lot of fittings.
Pretty sure all Hue lights come in plain warm white or white where you can adjust the warmth. I have zero colour bulbs and will not be buying any!