Home Automation - Smartkit

xrapidx said:
Googling it a bit - seems HA is the better of the two - I'll try both though.
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Also done some reading up. For me the deal breaker is Alexa support. With OH they have OH Cloud so its easy to setup.

With AH they have a beta now with AH Cloud but only US is supported. Otherwise it means creating a Alexa skill, exposing your Pi to the internet etc etc.

Will relook again once Cloud is fully supported.
 
I also believe HA they will be charging you monthly for the Cloud connector.

OH is working on a similar project but no plans to charge at the moment.

The other reason I like OH is it seems to have better Windows support as everything is Java based, including the addins.

That being said you will probably do better loading it on a Pi3 - I need to buy one myself to do this.
 
ebendl said:
I also believe HA they will be charging you monthly for the Cloud connector.
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Saved me from wasting my time trying out HA.

https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/12/17/introducing-home-assistant-cloud/


We are making the beta of the Home Assistant Cloud publicly available today. During the beta period the Home Assistant Cloud will be free to use. We are currently planning to run a beta till March 1, 2018 0:00 UTC. Once the beta ends, the Home Assistant Cloud will be part of our Community Support package which will run at $5 USD/month.
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$5 is quite a lot but anyone running stuff in the cloud is going to have some way of funding it.
 
Son of a bitch - busy with the install - what will the cloud component do?
 
Off the bat - I'm impressed with Home Assistant, its picked up quite a few of my devices (all my Google devices, Squezeboxes, etc)
 
xrapidx said:
Son of a bitch - busy with the install - what will the cloud component do?
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It will in essence allow you to connect to your HA instance without having to set up VPNs and dynamic IPs and reverse proxies etc. More importantly it will have a single destination which makes it easier for authentication and connection of other cloud services such as IFTTT, Alexa and Google Assistant.

I don't think it is a bad idea and most of the actual processing still happens locally on your Pi or machine. It just makes it easier to connect to the thing.

IS that $5 a month worth? Not sure... But OH's is free so I will use that for now.
 
Ah. I already have a permanent VPN connection on my phone. So probably not that important for me.

Got the alarm working with MQTT in the terminal, just need to figure out how to get it working in Home Assistant.

Then - the Sonoff stuff, which seems to be the lost complex.

Easiest was Xiaomi Yeelight, they picked up automatically.
 
Sonoff, literally, do the firmware change using SONOTA (using wifi instead of soldering and flashing).
The custom firmware with MQTT just works. Really great actually.

Also, once you have things on MQTT, moving between HA and OH will also be easier.
 
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Thanks. Will give it a try. Not too concerned over it as it's only the pool pump and two lights.

Are you still able to monitor electricity usage? Or is that lost.
 
Besides the Sonoff stuff - I've gotten everything into Home Assistant.
*Lights scheduled to come on at sunset, off at run-rise
*Google Home devices announce when any of the access points outside the property open (via Paradox alarm)
*Cinema Room turns on and off the light when a movie is playing/paused
*Office turns on the light when I walk in (via Paradox alarm)
*Music on the main Google Home device starts playing when we get home

Only thing I haven't been able to do is getting Google Assistant to connect to the Paradox alarm properly for activation state.
 
xrapidx said:
*Google Home devices announce when any of the access points outside the property open (via Paradox alarm)
*Cinema Room turns on and off the light when a movie is playing/paused
*Office turns on the light when I walk in (via Paradox alarm)
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Would you mind sharing how you doing this and which paradox system you are using ?
 
spikegv said:
Would you mind sharing how you doing this and which paradox system you are using ?
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Quick update, using this to interface with the alarm:
https://github.com/Tertiush/ParadoxIP150v2
(check his documentation for setup)

Then - to automation script has the following:
Code: 
  - alias: "Garage Door Open"
    trigger:
      - platform: mqtt
        topic: Paradox/Events
        payload: 'Event:Zone open;SubEvent:Garage Door'
    action:
        service: tts.google_say
        entity_id: group.google_home
        data:
          message: 'The Garage door has been opened.'
 
This sounds pretty great. As my Openhab instance broke terribly I'm going to try HomeAssist next.

Are you running it on a Pi3?
 
xrapidx said:
Quick update, using this to interface with the alarm:
https://github.com/Tertiush/ParadoxIP150v2
(check his documentation for setup)

Then - to automation script has the following:
Code: 
  - alias: "Garage Door Open"
    trigger:
      - platform: mqtt
        topic: Paradox/Events
        payload: 'Event:Zone open;SubEvent:Garage Door'
    action:
        service: tts.google_say
        entity_id: group.google_home
        data:
          message: 'The Garage door has been opened.'
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Thanks man. Will read and check it all out.
 
I have picked up a problem. It doesn't seem to disconnect from the panel when you try connect with another app. (eg. Alarmin) will look into it sometime today.
 
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