A channel that's all about helping you setup your Apple Home (including Siri Shortcuts) and Home Assistant to automate your life. Tips based on my own experiences in trying to make things do what I want, whilst also not annoying my Family.
@@garethjones5068 oh cool, thanks 🙏 someone commented the other day giving me an extra idea to see if I can tie into any actual delivery APIs, so that’s the next step now
@@louisviciedo that’s the one bit that’s manual in the process. I run a shortcut on my home screen when I get a notification from Amazon or whichever courier so that the next ring of the doorbell does it all.
I saw this comment and was very confused so had to rewatch my own video 😂 It’s just the background for my fitness focus, the best black background one I could find on a google 🙈
I bought the controller from Amazon and this video helped immensely getting it set up with Home Assistant. I'd got it all hooked up to MQTT etc and was expecting it to be auto-discovered somewhere/somehow. The trick was giving the first virtual LED strip a name and then it appeared as a device under the MQTT integration!
@@DuncanSmart oh amazing, glad to hear you got it all working. We have some updates coming to the hardware, so when that’s finalised I’ll post another updated walk through.
@@jeffrey6577 it will need an Apple Home hub of some kind. I believe that is the case for all Matter devices, they need a controller. So for Apple any HomePod or Apple TV.
IMO, most people (regulators?) don't appreciate/understand the R&D costs associated with developing and maintaining an ecosystem like the Apple Store. The quality of the Apple Store, and development (APIs, etc.) provided to customers and app developers is extremely high quality. But there's a cost to providing an ecosystem like the Apple Store, so yeah, app developers can't expect to have the ecosystem for free just like brick and mortar stores can't expect not having to lay rent for the stores.
🤯, wow 2 month old SSD failing 🤪. Buy 3 SSD's, run two in raid 1 and have a spare for when the inevitable happens. BTW. I've been running running docker with several containers (now upto 😂15) for 4 years. I was using an SSD, but moved to a usb stick (crazy i know). However other than a psu issue and my mishaps with pihole, i've never had an issue. Although because of this I now have a second pi for complete redundancy. Good luck
Thanks for the tips! Technically, the SSD is probably much older as the machine is second hand. My buddy bought it off ebay and set it up nicely under proxmox for me as a Wedding present, so yesterday I just had to learn how to do it myself lol
Sorry to hear about your SSD. I've been burned by SSD issues in the past too. Some years ago, I setup two vSphere/ESXi servers to run my VMs (which contain many VMs including HomeSeer and more recently Home Assistant which I've been experimenting with). I can easily migrate or restore VMs to one of two hosts in case of problems. Yeah, lots of trouble having to setup a VM environment, but I was having fun with it back then, and now that things are setup, it's easy to create and maintain VMs. Anyway, I've been migrating to almost all HomeKit devices over the last few years. Very thought of using Home Assitant's HomeKit Controller, but I'm reluctant to have HA as a single point of failure. If I add a device directly to HomeKit, then if an Apple TV goes down, another Apple TV will automatically take over. But of course, automations aren't as powerful in HomeKit, but mostly good enough (old 80/20 rule applies to HomeKit automations).
Very nice! I don't do things by halves, so within days of deciding to go the Home Assistant route, I had all my native HomeKit devices moved into HA lol It's all good as long as things are working, so situations like this leave my highly motivated to improve my backup and redundancy situation... Matter stuff is much better thankfully, as that all continued to work just fine within Apple Home while HA was dead.
@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs Yes, Matter is nice since it ought to work directly with HomeKit and HA. All my lights are also Lutron Caseta or Philips Hue, and it's great that they can work directly with HomeKit and HA, so no need for HomeKit Controller.
Thank you! Such an informative video. I was going to install the tado system that has been sitting in its box because while I seek advice r.e my multi-thermostat system. I’m still learning so apologies if it’s obvious or I’ve overlooked an update video/ links on your website. My current understanding is that the tado and other smart heating systems are wired into the boiler too.. Since you're planning a giveaway for the tado system does this mean that the tado relay has or will be replaced with another relay or has it been totally replaced by zigbee room, minir4 sensors and the radiator actuator valves linked with the zigbee bridge ultra and the ewelink app/ controller for apple home kit app? P.s i can’t find a link to the valves on your website but I found some via a quick search and they are promoted for underfloor heating too? Thank you (in advance)
@@Wildling247 are you after Tado valves or the same wired ones I’m now using? (I’ll add both to my site shortly) But yes you’re right, atm things are a bit disjointed because I’ve half migrated some valves, so I’m relying on the Tado heating a room for my other valves to get hot water going through them. But I’ll ultimately have to wire another relay to the boiler in order to control it whenever one of the other relays is on, likely using a separate automation.
I was thinking of getting this for running ADB commands to run Home Assistant in WebView but after looking at the specification, it uses the same CPU, 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. The GPU was updated as this has a higher resolution display. If Sonoff had updated the CPU to a slightly faster version and put 4GB of RAM in it I imagine performance would be way smoother. The WiFi/Zigbee radios may or may not have been updated as Matter uses IPv6 or thread which is essentially Zigbee 2.0 so they may have been able to do this with just software/firmware.
Why not create a new user just for the bspanel, optionally install kiosk mode cor that user to hide the sidebar, and create a custom dashboard for the nspanel and assign it to the new user in HA? I know the above takes time creating new dashboard(s) but you could have custom isers for each room to have specific dashboards tailored for that room 5hat way.
I have just created a custom dashboard view for my study and set the url in the app to go straight to that view which works pretty well without needing to create a user. Thanks for the tip.
@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIs true but being able to toggle the screen with an external sensor etc is what makes the current panels great. And with the nice resolution off these it would be great. I wonder if they'll fit in a deep round. 68mm box
@@Newmusicreview oh no that sucks… This new version was surprisingly easy, I was particularly impressed it paired to Matter without needing their app at all.
@@HomeIsWhereTheSmartIsCreate a new user and dashboard in HA for the napanel. Assign just that dashboard to the new user and sign in as that user on the napanel.
Hello, i ordered some of these controllers of the Amazon link, i already like the form factor. I saw on Amazon in one picture there was some sort of case for the controller, do you have a case that I can 3d print for this controller somewere. Thanks.
Thanks! Yeah sure, on the site with all the docs there should be an STL for that case. led.revk.uk Or if this works: github.com/revk/PCBCase/tree/1f12e66d4369ebbe39dc88c8067bd6cc91bb0bfb
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@@digitalMarketing-h8c not the lights themselves but the idea is you can pair them with any supported strip on Amazon, some options will be linked on my website too
In all honesty I wasn’t aware of that particular accusation. I have recently heard a few dodgy things starting to come out about their products. But I’d forgotten that link was even on there, I have removed it.
My HomeKit crashes when I select the motion sensor in the IF statement!! I'm on iOS 18 Developer Beta; I'm hoping the issue goes away when we get to the final release.
@@MICH7811_yt you could always make this move, but it was a very manual process. Exporting them all from one and importing into the other. Now it’s much more direct and seamless.
