- that is not a joke, even tho I'm laughing
- that likely has, regularly, crossed more than one old mind in this Community
That is so true.... While I intended as a tongue-in-cheek remark, like most of my remarks, you do read about HA solutions having quite profound impacts on the quality of people's lives who need some level of care
As someone who recently (a couple of years now) became disabled. What started out as a fun hobby, really has a positive effect on my day to day life. Sometimes just walking into the next room or reaching for a light switch can be difficult. Having the ability to just ask Google to turn stuff on or off becomes so much more important.
Little things...
- Motion and/or voice control of every light/fan in the house
- Being able to set the thermostat or simply turn it on/off
- Knowing if the washer/dryer is finished without having to go check across the house to the laundry room
- Lock/Unlock doors
- Check every door/window before setting the alarm
- Automatically vacuum the house at set times
- Raise and lower blinds/shades
Amazing the things we can do now. Things that most people take for granted until you can't easily do them on your own. Especially when one day you can and the next you can't! Believe me, it's frustrating.
Technology just keeps getting better, can't wait to see what's next!
I did skip over a good point you made @PunchCardPgmr, and something I need to work on as well. I have a tendency to start setting something up and leaving it in an incomplete or flawed state. So I definitely want to refine what I have setup more than expanding too much more at this stage.
I have done a lot of that because I was in a hurry to get things going in the new house. I have to re address these things. At the same time I keep getting shite to expand with
Thanks to some inspiration from this thread, I contributed to the development of Home Assistant Device Bridge! Others had already done the hard work of developing and testing the code necessary to add thermostat devices (@gabriel_kpk @aaiyar), but I was able to submit the pull request (first-time github user here!), add a device state to the driver code, AND submit a pull request for the configuration app so that the thermostats are displayed in the app's discovery drop-down. I'm standing on the shoulders of giants, to be sure, but I've already checked off "learning me some groovy," and it's still 2021! Thanks to @SmartHomePrimer @tomw and @ymerj for helping me along! The HE platform is amazing because the COMMUNITY IS AMAZING! w00t!
P.S. And because of this work, I can rework my HA setup and skip the MQTT broker altogether!
To be clear, the hard work was all @gabriel_kpk and you. I’m just benefiting from both of your work!
I stumbled upon that thread today on accident. I've been forced to start a new instance of HA just so I can boomerang some functionality back to HE. As a result, I went searching for something that can put the devices into HE once I get them into HA. This seemed to be the best/most relevant approach I could find. I will start following in your footsteps over the next few days.
Everything is pretty much automated at this point I have 1 bedroom fan I want to replace. I need to buy a small UPS for the hub thats all I can think of beyond dashboards.
Well, in reading this post, I find myself thinking about the "elephant in the room".
How will "matter" (or whatever they are going to call it today), effect devices in the future? Or, will it have no effect at all?
Obviously the jury is still out, but it could have a monumental impact, or no impact, or something in between.
After seeing the companies line up behind it, it does appear that it has some "push" behind it.
Matter will be the most anticipated and watched rollout in this space. Will it succeed? Will manufacturers rush to produce matter enabled devices? Will there be a groundswell of new product announcements? I feel that no one knows, but it certainly bears watching.
2022 is the year that matter either takes hold, or gets buried.
So your question is "Will Matter matter?"
I’m hoping to settle on one Dashboard app and spend some time getting it right rather than toying with them all. It’s a time consuming aspect. Then I can install any wall mounted versions, if I deem they are appropriate.
I do hope to be able to stabilise the very few radio based devices I use by means of Matter and see if ZWave LR delivers. LoRaWAN has worked well for me so far for slow speed devices.
I will be moving more devices to MQTT and exploring what options I can really implement for a resilient ‘fail over’ automation system.
My personal opinion is that it will take some time to get off the ground. They will release items that for the most part we already own and unless they give some amazing level of additional functionality I won’t be buying soon. Large companies are still releasing new zwave and zigbee products, I’m not worried or exited
I also wonder whether what you hear about shortages in chip manufacture may also play a part....
In terms of my lighting, I am also interested in having my lights transition throughout the day along the lines of circadian lighting, as well as incorporating lux readings into my rules.
I have spent an absurd amount of time doing this over the last year. I can help with some circadian simulation .
Outdoor lux readings have eliminated the cloudy day syndrom when your circadians are timeblocked.
Thanks. Do you use an app, or a combination of rules? Or both? I have been meaning to start using the Circadian Lighting app myself...
It's a collection of rules. I use webcore but it can easily be adapted to anything once you know the settings (I've done so much white light testing).
I did this out of necessity because my LEDs didn't come with the same native circadian that all my bulbs have.
I would definitely be open to using an app. I've converted the CT values to probably any combination of commands you have access to. Rgb, Hsl, or CT.
What, ya gonna wait for July? Doesn't get any cooler than now.
(just realized your post was 6d ago. Good job, me. )
It's about 82 here right now. I'll wait till a cold front comes in this weekend maybe. I got all the switches installed. The RGB lights in the hall are probably going to be the hardest to run without making a mess of things. I already got the RGB strips mounted in a channel with a diffuser and placed in their spot but the wiring to the attic is challenging because of the location. The hallway they are in is an arch and dropped down about 4 feet below where I can stand from. Additionally there is a large expanse to the side of it where I need to get to run the cable that doesn't have any way for me to walk on.