Recent content by DuncThePunk

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    Smart Curtain Motor

    I've been using the SwitchBot Curtains for a few years on 3 windows. They are a bit pricey since you have to buy one per curtain, and each window has 2 curtains on it. They are BlueTooth, but I have an ESP32 running Switchbot BLE to MQTT on it which integrates nicely into HA. These were the...
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    Disney Plus Issues and Solutions

    A few weeks ago my Apple TV Disney + app suddenly started switching into Dolby Vision when playing some content, and the Atmos seems to be working reliably. Still no indication of what is available in DV / Atmos, but at least the newer stuff all seems to be working properly. Only took over a...
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    Auto Arming Alarm when Leaving Home

    I have a similar setup except that I send an actionable notification asking if I'd like to arm the alarm rather than just doing it. Been working for well over a year without any issues. HA checks every minute if all the conditions are met, then runs the automation. alias: Alarm Arm Request -...
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    Been getting very slow updates from ESP API recently (like once or twice a day tops). Dug into it a bit today and and seeing this error: "Free account abuse detected - Limited access . Please pay if you can." Anyone else getting this? I'm doing less than 50 requests per day. I tried another...
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    Mine did to, but I just had to restarted the add-on. Solar Assistant data started arriving again. Didn't need to roll back.
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    Aqaba devices

    I use many Aqara devices (Door sensors, Leak sensors, buttons, motion sensors) with my Zigbee2MQTT setup running with a Sonoff USB Zigbee dongle on Home Assistant. They work beautifully. Highly recommended. No Aqara hub required.
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    Ignore this. I figured it out. There is no Next Load Shedding slot to calculate. I had not considered the fact there there may not be a next slot since it’s been so long since we’ve had anything less than stage 2. I have used the new sensor group option in 2023.2 and have added the calculated...
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    This was working perfectly for weeks, but (I suspect since 2023.2.1 update which I did yesterday) I'm now getting an error saying. "UndefinedError: list object has no element 1" and the sensor is unavailable. Might be that my database is still undergoing the schema conversion so will wait and...
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    Nope. Still waiting. 20 hours and counting. My database is about 4 GB, and they did mention that it could take a while. Everything seems to be working ok though.
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    I ran this on a Pi Zero for a while and it worked fine, so a Pi1 should be fine.
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    Worked Perfectly!!! Yours is the second sensor!! Awesome. Thanks so much. This was my last outstanding little issue.
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    This was the issue I raised earlier. I added a sensor from your earlier post and it seems to be working. I also have a 10pm-2am slot tonight to test for the first time!! I did have to make some small tweaks to the names of the start and end values based on how I get them from the ESP API, but...
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    Zigbee Sonoff Local Comms

    I would recommend rather getting a USB Zigbee stick. I have used both, and the connection to the Sonoff WiFi hub was..... acceptable at best, and I have a full Unify setup with multiple APs and great coverage. I switched to the Sonoff USB 3.0 Zigbee stick and it's been brilliant. Fully local, no...
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    Thanks so much for the help. I’ll check both these ideas out.
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    Anyone figured how to use EskomsePush to control switches on HA

    Part 2 checks if the air conditioner is on or if it is likely to be on based on room temp and if so, adds 5% to the SoC level and starts charging off the grid if rerquired. alias: Solar - Start Charging Off Grid description: >- Starts charging the batteries off the grid. Working in...
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