Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

DrJohnZoidberg said:
Anyone have a recommendation for a replacement for the CBI astute (the one that goes in the db)? It has a really unstable wifi connection, even though it's about 1.5m away from the access point.

I see Shelly makes one but it's only 15A and I that would be pushing it with my geyser.
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That's interesting. Mine is pretty solid. It switches between two mesh AP's at random ( the nature of mesh ). But there's never an outage. Currently it's connected to my main router - 7m away through three walls. 259 hours and counting

That said, there are apparently two different hardware revisions of this device. Mine is a v1. So there might have been some changes to the Wi-Fi component in the later version, although never explicitly mentioned. We'll never know ;)

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hilt_ctn said:
That's interesting. Mine is pretty solid. It switches between two mesh AP's at random ( the nature of mesh ). But there's never an outage. Currently it's connected to my main router - 7m away through three walls. 259 hours and counting

That said, there are apparently two different hardware revisions of this device. Mine is a v1. So there might have been some changes to the Wi-Fi component in the later version, although never explicitly mentioned. We'll never know ;)

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I've got two of them, the other one doesn't seem to have any problems although I don't monitor it as closely as the one for my geyser. It's also in a different location and connected to a different access point.
 
Tinuva said:
Convert it using the esphome converter. Will probably magically work better
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Have you done this successfully? It seems most (if not all) new Tuya devices are not flashable without soldering or replacing wifi modules etc.
 
Syphonx said:
Have you done this successfully? It seems most (if not all) new Tuya devices are not flashable without soldering or replacing wifi modules etc.
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Have not, but people on zateck slack have.

This is different. This is for the non-esp tuya devices. So different from converting the original tuya esp based stuff to esphome/tasmota.

The new belkin chips can't run tasmota. However, someone converted esphome to run on the belkin chips. This is what this new method is all about. So you should require no soldering.
 
Tinuva said:
Have not, but people on zateck slack have.

This is different. This is for the non-esp tuya devices. So different from converting the original tuya esp based stuff to esphome/tasmota.

The new belkin chips can't run tasmota. However, someone converted esphome to run on the belkin chips. This is what this new method is all about. So you should require no soldering.
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Thanks, trying to figure out which Tuya devices from <random_vendor_name> are flashable is a nightmare. I've opted to use Sonoff wherever possible.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Anyone have a recommendation for a replacement for the CBI astute (the one that goes in the db)? It has a really unstable wifi connection, even though it's about 1.5m away from the access point.

I see Shelly makes one but it's only 15A and I that would be pushing it with my geyser.
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I have the CBI on my geyser without issues, but also now one of these on a big Aircon that the CBI cannot handle. Working well so far.

www.robofactory.co.za

63A 1P Smart Circuit Breaker with monitoring - eWelink

Connect this high powered Smart Switch to your high current appliances and control it from anywhere. This device is perfect to control your geyser (up to 63A). You can set this device to automatically switch off your geyser during peak times and switch it back on during off peak times.
www.robofactory.co.za www.robofactory.co.za
 
furpile said:
I have the CBI on my geyser without issues, but also now one of these on a big Aircon that the CBI cannot handle. Working well so far.

www.robofactory.co.za

63A 1P Smart Circuit Breaker with monitoring - eWelink

Connect this high powered Smart Switch to your high current appliances and control it from anywhere. This device is perfect to control your geyser (up to 63A). You can set this device to automatically switch off your geyser during peak times and switch it back on during off peak times.
www.robofactory.co.za www.robofactory.co.za
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www.geewiz.co.za

EWELINK WIFI Smart Circuit Breaker Type Timer - 63A with Power KWh Monitoring - Ewelink Smart App - Geyser Timer

Timer | Power Meter | Amperage set | Surge Protection Surge Protector Remote on/off Control Timer function Voltmeter Power Metering / Energy monitoring Ammeter Over/under voltage protection Over current/power protection Amperage Control Remote control at any time from anywhere...
www.geewiz.co.za www.geewiz.co.za

Just FYI. Geewiz has one at half the price.
 
TheRobbo said:
I got one of these ultrasonic water tank level sensors last week:

Tuya Smart Ultrasonic Water Level Sensor (220VAC or Solar) - ISP Home

Smart Ultrasonic Water Level Sensor designed to monitor the water level in tanks.
isphome.co.za isphome.co.za

Installed it over the weekend and working very well so far, for anyone like me who is not going to build one. Only issue is when the borehole is filling the tank the readings jump around a little with the water movement, but still usable. You just need to follow this when loading it:
github.com

Ultrasonic level sensor · Issue #946 · tuya/tuya-home-assistant

Hello, I have two Ultrasonic level sensor by Tuya, they are not in the supported list but would love to see this integrated with Home Assistant and will do whatever I need to help this. Can anyone ...
github.com github.com

Yes, tuya is not the ideal situation but for R1100 didnt seem too bad.

EDIT: I see they are sold out now, so not very helpful for now
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Hey Robbo

How has this been working for you? Any issues with Tuya? Just got a tank installed today and looking for a solution as well
 
Mzezman said:
Hey Robbo

How has this been working for you? Any issues with Tuya? Just got a tank installed today and looking for a solution as well
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Working very well so far, no connection issues and running on localTuya. If I remember correctly it was a bit tricky selecting all the Tuya DPS numbers and allocating the attributes but successful in the end.

The percentage is accurate when stable or emptying but when refilling from the borehole the inflow obstructs the sensor and so the % goes all over the show. I mounted the sensor on the lid because I was nervous and a lid is cheaper to replace, but the lid is next to the inflow hence causing the inaccuracy, so more my fault than the sensor.

Recommended so far.
 
TheRobbo said:
Working very well so far, no connection issues and running on localTuya. If I remember correctly it was a bit tricky selecting all the Tuya DPS numbers and allocating the attributes but successful in the end.

The percentage is accurate when stable or emptying but when refilling from the borehole the inflow obstructs the sensor and so the % goes all over the show. I mounted the sensor on the lid because I was nervous and a lid is cheaper to replace, but the lid is next to the inflow hence causing the inaccuracy, so more my fault than the sensor.

Recommended so far.
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Thanks, will look to pick one up next week as well
 
TheRobbo said:
Working very well so far, no connection issues and running on localTuya. If I remember correctly it was a bit tricky selecting all the Tuya DPS numbers and allocating the attributes but successful in the end.

The percentage is accurate when stable or emptying but when refilling from the borehole the inflow obstructs the sensor and so the % goes all over the show. I mounted the sensor on the lid because I was nervous and a lid is cheaper to replace, but the lid is next to the inflow hence causing the inaccuracy, so more my fault than the sensor.

Recommended so far.
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I previously tinkered with ultrasonics in my Jojo Tank without luck -
condensation on the sensor was an issue and also there was a minimum distance between the sensor and the water level (something like 20cm so had to 3d print a cone to increase it's height).
Does this device have these issues?
 
Muttley said:
I previously tinkered with ultrasonics in my Jojo Tank without luck -
condensation on the sensor was an issue and also there was a minimum distance between the sensor and the water level (something like 20cm so had to 3d print a cone to increase it's height).
Does this device have these issues?
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The specs say 10cm but mine is mounted 25cm away so can only say it works well at that range.
No condensation issues so far, it's been in for 4 months and so hasn't lived through the max heat of summer and is also very shaded.
Not very helpful in answering your questions but that's my experience :)
 
TheRobbo said:
The specs say 10cm but mine is mounted 25cm away so can only say it works well at that range.
No condensation issues so far, it's been in for 4 months and so hasn't lived through the max heat of summer and is also very shaded.
Not very helpful in answering your questions but that's my experience :)
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Good to know... thanks for this!
Please keep us posted re what happens in summer.
This is a much easier solution to recommend to others :cool:
 
Muttley said:
I previously tinkered with ultrasonics in my Jojo Tank without luck -
condensation on the sensor was an issue and also there was a minimum distance between the sensor and the water level (something like 20cm so had to 3d print a cone to increase it's height).
Does this device have these issues?
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I had the same issues with condensation - also tried a laser sensor - I think its because my tank was in the shade for half the day, and then in the sun - causing extra condensation.

If I smacked the top of the tank - suddenly the measures came right again :D
 
Is anyone running high-availability / failover for HomeAssistant? If so - how have you configured it?

I'm considering doing something like this:
  • 1 HA VM on a primary server (proxmox host)
  • Setup a job to periodically backup VM to a backup server
  • Use something like keepalived to monitor the primary VM and if it falls outside of bounds then redirect requests to backup server
Is this even possible? I erroneously setup my proxmox hosts with different ZFS pools so proxmox HA is not possible unless i rebuild one of them - which is something i didn't want to have to do
 
Mzezman said:
Is anyone running high-availability / failover for HomeAssistant? If so - how have you configured it?

I'm considering doing something like this:
  • 1 HA VM on a primary server (proxmox host)
  • Setup a job to periodically backup VM to a backup server
  • Use something like keepalived to monitor the primary VM and if it falls outside of bounds then redirect requests to backup server
Is this even possible? I erroneously setup my proxmox hosts with different ZFS pools so proxmox HA is not possible unless i rebuild one of them - which is something i didn't want to have to do
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Hmm.. .this got me thinking. I'm running a HA docker image, and docker swarm looks like it can do this. Thanks for giving me more work :laugh:
 
abudabi said:
Hmm.. .this got me thinking. I'm running a HA docker image, and docker swarm looks like it can do this. Thanks for giving me more work :laugh:
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The never ending rabbit hole that is Home Automation

Docker swarm can definitely do this but im not running docker so will have to find another solution. Let us know how your implementation goes
 
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