Hubitat for AUS/NZ Chat

Cool - I might pick one up just for testing at that price!

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Free postage on Ebay with Ebay Plus aswell from the Myer store.

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I use the dome sirens inside and also found, with the ring app, that the ring sirens on my cameras are exposed in Hubitat as well so I plan to use those as external sirens, yet to try it though so need to see how they go.

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I'd grab all the Samsung sensors you can find as I heard they are shutting down and pulling out of China so have dialled back and stopped a bunch of production.

Interesting. Good to see more and more products dropping locally. It would be worth testing them with existing drivers although very expensive :frowning:

I actually did order one of them and waited forever but the stuffed up and sent me the wrong device. Fortunately I was able to receive a full refund but I was really keen to try it out :slightly_smiling_face:

@jchurch I've ordered a motion sensor to test from the Myer Ebay store. Was $27 delivered, will see how it goes.

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Just something to keep in mind with the switches above, if your house burns down and they prove it's because of your non compliant switches you likely won't get insurance. I don't see any Australian specific certification. And an electrician by law shouldn't install them if you planned to use an electrician.

Thats a bummer!
Yeah I'm keen too and from a quick site search, zemismart seems to work with the NUE switch drivers so I don't see why these shouldnt work!

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Thanks. I'm aware this could be the case. But I think I'm happy to take this risk!

Anyone got experience with this sensor?


Same price as Hue really
I have hues currently, but thought would ask about these

Nope but if you want it cheaper I found it on Ali.

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Wow! Shows the markup some aussie retailers add!

Bout to place an order on Ali for the zemismart switches, so i think i might add 1 of these!

Thanks for the heads up!

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How'd you go with these sensors? recommended?

@dJOS, I hope you don't mind one more question about the Iconic switches: How hard are they to press? The reason I ask is because I also have a couple of older Clipsal bell press rocker switches that are similar, but they have "PRESS" written across the switch, and they are significantly more difficult to push compared to the regular Clipsal rocker switches. I'm hoping the Iconic switches have a much softer press feel to them.

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The iconic Bell press mechs are only slightly harder to press than a normal Iconic toggle style rocker switch, they are fairly firm but my Wife and kids (9 & 7) have no issues pressing the iconic switches. Although they think using Alexa for everything is way more fun. :rofl:

Those old style classic look mechs are not very nice to use in my experience. The shape and size of the Iconic rocker cover helps make it much easier to operate.

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So the Cygnett motion sensor turned up today and paired straight up. It's working with the generic zigbee driver and also the sonoff motion sensor driver with presence by @markus. It's not a bad looking thing and is pretty small. Here's a pic next to a xiaomi sensor for size.

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Has anyone had any experience replacing a thermostat that controls radiator heaters? I have one of these kinds of old thermostats that control ours:
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It seems like it's pretty basic in that it's just 240v behind this thing and the thermostat just connects the line or disconnects it to control the radiator units.

I think (?) this is called a line voltage thermostat, are there any thermostats available in AU that can replace one of these and connect to Hubitat?

This one seems like what I need but it doesn't look like it's available in AU:
https://www.sinopetech.com/en/products/thermostat/line-voltage/

I think sinope tech have a line voltage thermostat.

https://www.sinopetech.com

So far so good. Paired up perfectly and report fast.
My pool temperature project is going great. I stuffed one of the sensors in a plastic vegemite jar with an oval lead sinker, hot glued as a keel. The keel keeps the vegemite jar floating pretty straight up, which keeps the sensor above the water, needed for the radio signals.
It’s been bobbing around in the skimmer box for the past couple of weeks, quite happily reporting. :+1:t3:

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