I started my Home Assistant setup using an SLZB-06 for Zigbee. The SLZB-06 worked so flawlessly I got another one for matter and it does a great job at that as well. I haven't mounted them to a wall yet, but I'm thinking I'll print a housing and cable channel to put up on them to improve the appearance. I will, I think, need to add a small, quiet fan to the housing and tap into the POE to power it.
The Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 might be your answer to matter. It is a Zigbee dongle made/designed by the Home Assistant team but also has Matter capabilities via software/firmware updates. It just plugs in with USB
I live in this bizarre space where I love watching video's like this, but you couldn't pay me to install most of that stuff in my home. I actually like the 1990's era non intrusive "smart" features better. That said the Conch Plus hotend is the first non stock hotend I've seen I'm seriously interested in. It is rather annoying they only have two resellers in the US and neither of them have it. Edit: Nevermind found another reseller hidden near the bottom of the list that has it..and under $40? Thank you! for this amazing suggestion.
Yea I was so close to motion controlling that, but I was worried about when folks don’t want to use them at all. Say in the middle of the night (the light is visible in our bedroom when the door is open).
Welcome to the world of Homeassistant this open source software pulls down all of the devices that use the cloud and expose's your actions to who knows where and keeps it local and the power to create automations is absolutely outstanding look forward to more content in your new journey!
@@Anziilife I wonder why they’re a serious risk in Norway, but the risk is statistically insignificant in North America. Don’t get me wrong; wire nuts suck to use in comparison to wago.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad well, generally in Norway, it only takes a few fires in order to deem a product unsafe and move away from it. Much like our gun policy, where you need to be evaluated and certified in order to own a gun. All weapons also need to be functionally unable to function while stored in a locker. -But back to the electrical installations. We need to be able to use multimeters without disconnecting anything, in order to make sure the circuit is off. 👍
I know this may be a little late but home assistant does not need a matter bridge/gateway. Matter uses Wi-Fi to connect to the network. Home assistant has an add-on that acts as a matter bridge that you just install using the add-on installer. No additional hardware is needed.
I just started down the Home Assistant home automation path. I would love to see more of what you come up with for this. You have a very good way of showing/teaching things and I'm having a hard time finding good sources of HA how-to's.
As a fan of docker, you dont need to swap anything, home assistant will run on any environment that can run docker. I'm running HA on my beefy router (as docker container)
I used to run HA in a Docker on my Unraid box. Problem was that installing community add-ons were more difficult if not nearly impossible. That’s exactly why I moved to Pi based. That and lower power consumption.
@@MandicReally Yes they are harder to install but it's not impossible. With docker you can run pretty much any addon with exception you need to configure it yourself as separate docker container. But I will not agree about power consumption. Having yet another mini pc to run will consume more power than just running it as docker on my router. Unless you do not have a mini server at home i guess. Docker has yet another advantage, it can also run 3rd party unrelated to HA software on the same mini server. So instead of having 5 mini PCs. I have one beefy router that works as router, HA, NAS, webserver and network supervisor.
My goodness, I knew the V-Core 4 500mm was a beast, but seeing this in your garage, it is MASSIVE!! Cool video btw! How is the responsiveness from the doorbell?
Surprisingly good so far. I had a Wyze doorbell before that would be a 30 second to 1 minute delay when rang to the notification on my phone. I believe the Unifi Protect stuff is processing locally for the majority of tasks so it’s MUCH snappier. It rings and a second or two later I get a notification on my phone. Actually useful.
I have a 6 zone bhyve and it is quite good as long as the weather source for your area is good. Initially our airport only updated the weather info like once a day so it would be raining and irrigating at the same time. I have not integrated anything but I do have Ecobee, Lorex cam/security, Lutron lighting, Grundfos water recirc, and Hunter Douglas blinds. I think having a stable tablet/console is what is keeping me from integrating, I don't want it all on a phone.
Ikea Dirigera is a good Matter bridge and then if you want POE to it, you can just get a POE to USB-C/Ethernet adapter. Useful if you end up using any other Ikea smart home stuff but not required. Definitely more expensive than some other hubs.
I didn't have that particular B-Hyve setup, but the one I did have (and every HomeKit compatible hose valve) was so frustratingly unstable and unreliable that I ended up buying a 4 zone digital timer instead. The ones I had wouldn't stay connected to the WiFi gateway/Z-Wave/Zigbee/whatever it uses hub and would only work when I was close enough for bluetooth to connect directly to each valve from my phone. Then it would claim it was working but not actually do anything. So frustrating. Good luck with that one, though! I hope it's more reliable for you.
Right on! I need to redo my Home Assistant setup. Haven't had it on for some time now.. and need to fix it and get it back to working! Just ordered the Qidi 4 Plus printer, and recently got the Bambu A1 Mini.. a pretty good printer. Have a voron 0.2 waiting to be built and my S1 Pro still sitting apart from when I was upgrading it with x/y/z linear rails. One day I hope to get that working again as I spent more on that than my Qidi 4 plus ANd the A1 mini combined!
Your going to want to get Sashco eXact Color caulk. It's tint-able with paint, so it will match your siding perfectly. I would have used it myself, but it wasn't out at the time. However since I have red siding I just used red RTV.
@@MandicReallyi personally prefer running haos on a vm on my nas has been the most reliable for me and have a zigbee to mqqt running on an old pi for all my zigbee devices
On the ecobee, it would've been cleaner to patch and paint the drywall and mount the ecobee. I love 3D printing but as a handyman the ASA piece sticks out.
It’s been patched and painted once already and would have added a day at least to the project. Versus 10 minutes of design and 45 of printing. I don’t disagree but my work demands being nimble and things like that are the difference between getting a video out or not.
I have the Home Assistant blue but the stupid Odroid SBC decided that its USB port would no longer work. I swore off using SBCs and moved my install into a VM on my TrueNAS, I just needed a USB card to pass through for my USB radio sticks.
The pressure that would create would introduce more noise. Most likely it would run well without a fan at all some the air movement of drawing air out will do plenty.
Not yet. It is standalone but priced really well. They announced MSRP is $24 for the Conch and $39 for Conch Plus. Which for silicon carbide I think is kind of crazy. They told me they are working on complete units that should be available “soon”.
i've found there's some decent poe -> ethernet & usb power adapters, i use one of those with my hubitat base station (and i've got the hubitat integrated w/ home assistant). the hubitat C-8 models support zigbee, zwave & matter
I find the accessories to homeassistant a bit pricey, so I tend to build my own. Weird how you'd mod a device rather than get a second hand touchpad. HA can then run on a pi4 and be hidden anywhere.
hello the itead Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-ZBDongle-E is a basic zigbee dongle whose firmware can be easily changed to a zigbee thread and matter compatible firmware
Remember when people were so paranoid about "big brother" spying on them and now we open our whole lives up to let tech, corporate and the government see everything we are doing out of convenience. Not trying to hate, I love automation too but it's worth thinking about...
Home Assistant runs locally. That’s one of the benefits. You get the controls of the smart devices without “cloud control”. Just didn’t break down the ins and outs as I didn’t want to bog down the video.
mmwave radar presence sensors that's peak of home automation. frick buttons! you got 20GHz presence detecting beam turning lights FOR YOU I split 5V from my AC head unit control boards to mount them discretely. It ie. turns night mode for AC, when you leave living room/office for the night or turns lights on and off
I was heading down the motion / presence sensor territory for the step lights, but decided to go “easy” with a switch for now. (Didn’t work out clearly 😅)
There is a downside to the thermostat provided by your power company. We actually had a setup where we got a discounted rate for our electric water heater and our HVAC heat pump. In exchange for that discounted rate, we were giving our power company the ability to turn off our water heater and/or HVAC based on power demands. A couple of really hot days this summer we noticed the AC had been turned off. While not extreme, our house did rise in temp by several degrees. So while the $30 thermostat from the power company sounds like a good deal, it might be worth checking the fine print to see if and how much control you are giving them.
Our company offers a separate program that works that way. The rebate on the thermostat and water sprinkler controller is not part of that. We can opt into that and get a reduced rate, at the expense of that loss of control. Working from home that’s a no go for us. Good info for others though. 👍🏻
While I was filming this I saw a FedEx driver walk up and press the gold button. That certainly happens but a lot of my packages call for signatures, so they doo ring the bell fairly often.
I feel like you didn't really read of watched any starter guides regarding the hardware (dongles etc) compatibility, you could have known the hub wasn't a match. But my nagging aside, great video!
