Home Automation - Smartkit

SauRoNZA said:
Nah they are WiFi. You just need the gateway to register them once to Home Assistant was my understanding and then after that you can use their Fake Gateway.

But I didn’t read it in too fine a detail just seemed like work.
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The gateway is zigbee/wifi but the sensors are very much zigbee only.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Okay so the gateway is an absolute must?

That sucks.

Stick to the Sonoff options then.
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There are people running it with other Zigbee gateways such as Samsung smartthings or even using USB Zigbee adapters and Home Assistant. But yeah, the reason people like the Xiaomi stuff is because it is one of the cheaper gateways.

Compared to Sonoff it is still more expensive though.
 
Tinuva said:
That's how I assumed the battery last longer as WiFi uses too much power.
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Yeah makes sense now.

I assumed it was because it only polls every 15 minutes or whatever as I saw many moans about it not updating regularly enough.
 
ebendl said:
There are people running it with other Zigbee gateways such as Samsung smartthings or even using USB Zigbee adapters and Home Assistant. But yeah, the reason people like the Xiaomi stuff is because it is one of the cheaper gateways.

Compared to Sonoff it is still more expensive though.
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Just wish the Sonoff wasn’t on a wire.

On a straight 3.5mm RCA and stick to the side would have made more sense for my application.

Maybe it’s easy enough to cut and re-solder.
 
Morning all, some Tuesday good news... T1 is flashable OTA :D now just need some gawd darned neutals!!

[video=youtube;Z7SlNtkmYyE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7SlNtkmYyE[/video]
 
And top comment is the crappy mounting posts. They don't even fit properly in the US.
 
Ok, solutions for 2 and 3-way switching with the T1s or Basics?

eWelink/Tasmota/GPIO, etc?
 
I would also be interested in that... I have outside patio down-lights I'd like control over, but they run on two way switches.
 
I have two panel heaters I'd like to connect to a Sonoff basic - am I current that 800w/220v = 3.63A draw? (don't know much about electricity)
 
xrapidx said:
I have two panel heaters I'd like to connect to a Sonoff basic - am I current that 800w/220v = 3.63A draw? (don't know much about electricity)
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My opinion is that if it comes with an earth cable use a POW. You calculations, however, are correct - just make sure there isn't a larger inductive load. If you do use that Basic please remember to keep the earth intact - for everyone's safety.
 
phaktza said:
My opinion is that if it comes with an earth cable use a POW. You calculations, however, are correct - just make sure there isn't a larger inductive load. If you do use that Basic please remember to keep the earth intact - for everyone's safety.
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Good point - its the 400w panel heater... can't recall if its on a 3pin or 2pin plug.
 
Yeah I would get a RF button of sorts, hopefully one that looks like light switch, and let that send mqtt command, which then get relayed to the actual light switch. Will work out the same as a 2/3way switches.
 
Hi folks,

I thought I'd bring back this discussion again regarding Paradox alarm systems and HA.

It seems to have become quite clear that the IP150’s that one can purchase nowadays comes with the later firmware which apparently doesn’t seem to work with any of the solutions out there for Home Assistant.

I'm taking this a step further and rather going to read the data from the serial port on the board (I’ve got an SP6000) using a NodeMCU and output via MQTT to HA. Hell, this solution is A LOT cheaper with a NodeMCU at Communica for R145.

I found this project on Github - https://github.com/maragelis/ParadoxRs232toMqtt

I loaded the above code onto the NodeMCU board (with some minor modifications to log to TCP/IP to check that all was good) and voila! I can receive the MQTT messages in Node-RED. I am thinking of changing the code so that each zone has its own topic, not to mention "prettying up" the data in the payload to easily determine what the system is doing. I want to see if there is a standard in representing this type of data instead of rolling your own.

When one arms the alarm, a good couple of messages are received, but one only really needs one, but it would be quite cool to be able to interpret the values so that if one wants to use any of those auxiliary events, one can do so.
[MENTION=25919]xrapidx[/MENTION], do you have to set up a binary sensor for each zone with the current implementation that you're using? Is each zone being published as a separate topic?

So happy about this!
 
Tinuva said:
Yeah I would get a RF button of sorts, hopefully one that looks like light switch, and let that send mqtt command, which then get relayed to the actual light switch. Will work out the same as a 2/3way switches.
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In my case I can't replace the switches, or get to much of the wiring.
 
ipodmusicman said:
[MENTION=25919]xrapidx[/MENTION], do you have to set up a binary sensor for each zone with the current implementation that you're using? Is each zone being published as a separate topic?
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Yes - I just did it in Excel to generate the YAML code. (lost the Excel doc though - so need to create another one)
 
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