Pi4 is fine for tuya convert. I used VNC to remote into mine but ssh will also work.
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Hi All
Its great to see a local topic.
Does anyone know any consultants or businesses who support Hubitat in Australia?
Looking for general setup support and advise.
Cheers
Joel
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Theres none i know of, or heard any any specific installers
But there is plenty of us on here, who can help..
Btw, welcome!
Welcome mate, yes as @bdydrp pointed out there is plenty of help in this community. What are you wanting to setup first etc maybe we can guide you?
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Thanks for the warm welcome, I have Hubitat up and running in my lab and testing a few devices but looking for advise on what I can do in a new home build. Whats good, whats bad etc.
What I have found is most installers prefer to use systems that utilise the cloud hence why I find Hubitat a good solution for my needs.
Anyway open to ideas on what you would automate on a new home and what you would not. One issue I foresee is Zwave and Zigbee coverage will be a issue as the house will be made of 25-40cm reinforced concrete walls, internal and external and 3 levels of concrete floors and I dont know if repeaters in every room is practical.
I know this sounds old school but having Ethernet connected automated devices makes a lot of sense for my purpose and security but I dont seem to find such solutions.
Cheers
JC
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If you're thinking Zwave OR Zigbee you HAVE to be planning on using repeaters !
You have to use either Mains powered devices like in wall Switches, Power outlets and Light Switches & Dimmers or plug in dedicated repeater devices (Typically these are mains powered or USB)
Without repeaters ( and I'm including multiple hubs here) you're not going to make a mesh !
You could create a solution using multiple HE hubs, LAN hardwired, but this might become challenging to "manage".
In such a case you could pair "only the devices within range of each HE hub" together and then use Hub Connect to connect all the HE hubs together.
Kind of expensive way to do things but do-able. 
I have 2 X 2 gangs sitting on my entry table that I was going to test with.
My life keeps complaining about me going to install them myself and wants an electrician to do it. But If I'm going to get a sparky i would prefer to change all the switches at once.
Does anyone have these up and running and have they been reliable?
Which one's mate the Nue's or Deta's? I've got a few Nue's in now and they've been working great.
Nue's sorry.
Thought i quoted the post above. Same model as these
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My 3-gang has been working fine, though I haven't done too much with it in HE, but the initial tests seemed fine.
My only other advice would be to always start small with anything new you want to introduce. I typically buy one or two of any new device and try to use them for a period of time until I feel comfortable they will work and I understand any issues I may run into.
Yep same as mine, i have 2 x 2 gangs, 2 x single gangs and a 3 gang. They've all been faultless over a couple of months. Being able to still control the light as a normal switch is a big plus at my place plus they look pretty nice imho.
I've got 1, 2 & 3gang Nue's across our newly built house and they have all been great. The only ones I had issues with was the 1gang's dimmers due to compatibility or failing/dropping off but the non-dim-able options have all been rock solid so clearly a different range. It's fine we never dimmed anyways so they were switched out with Deta's which have also been really good.
I also use some of my 3gang Nue switches as "virtual buttons" to control other things such as our internal Somfy blinds , WiFi lighting and hallway lights as I didn't want 2-way lights.
Thanks, guess ill pay to get the 2 x 2gangs installed and avoid the argument with the wife.
I have a 2 way switch on my stairs, anyone have experience with them in this enviroment? Or better off disabling the 2 way and just using one as virtual button
Will work with two way switching but your led colour will be out of sync with the light itself. you could create a rule in rule machine that switced both switches at the same time to keep them in sync.
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Yep, or there is an app that does this too. Rule Machine would be just as good though.
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@jchurch I'm getting closer to getting my rollers motorised and I checked recently with Bond and they don't currently delivery to Aus. Did you just get in early, or find some other way to get your hands on one?
If I can't get one, are you aware of any other options for somfy?
Excellent. I recently had 3 Somfy hard-wired motorised blinds installed on my rear deck they are very nice and work with the Bond like the battery Somfy's I have inside. Anyways I ordered the Bond from Ebay (US) there are plenty on there see examples here and here, Ebay allow you to pay a flat fee with their Global Shipping Program.
I have seen this before but you cannot connect to it locally only over IFTTT so it's not a route i'd go. The Bond Home has a local API.
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My mate printed this Bond mount out for me on the weekend and delivered it today. I wanted to mount it away and it fits great. You need to print to 1250% though otherwise it's tiny, lucky i noticed that in the comments 
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