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Home Automation - Smartkit
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Sinbad
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Hi
Could you post some pictures please?
Also will you be able to make a base plate that will allow a sonoff to mount to a 4x4 wall box?
feo
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I also have about 4 So off T1s and haven't tried fitting them yet.
I'm also interested in anything that'll help give a cleaner mount. So the T1s don't fit a normal SA wall box properly?
SauRoNZA
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It’s very limiting.
I would rather have put HA on a Pi and gotten HomeKit to work like that.
I don’t think this thread sufficiently prepared me just how **** these things mount!!
Calypso, will it be a huge mission to only send me one to start? Depending on how it fits, I might have to abandon the T1’s and do something else with the lights...
Sure, will cost you more in shipping that what its worth if you live out of CT though.
What issues you having with fit?
feo
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I don’t think this thread sufficiently prepared me just how **** these things mount!!
Calypso, will it be a huge mission to only send me one to start? Depending on how it fits, I might have to abandon the T1’s and do something else with the lights...
What's the issue with mounting?
Got a pic or something? I'm planning to attempt to mount it this weekend.
The back plate is too small to fit straight on the 2x4, and I’m not fond of the gap all around the switch. Both these are addressed by your backplate by the looks of it?
Where in CT are you? I’m in Durbanville, Northern Suburbs
The back plate is too small to fit straight on the 2x4, and I’m not fond of the gap all around the switch. Both these are addressed by your backplate by the looks of it?
Where in CT are you? I’m in Durbanville, Northern Suburbs
Also Northern Suburbs, will send you PM.
Do you have an Stl available for this?
Thanks, please see inbox, replied last night
The UK switches are smaller, I think the dimensions are 89mm x 89mm. So that will not fit on a 102mm x 102 mm wall box.
Installed Hassio and all the plugins (Tasmoadmin, Mosquito, Samba and a few others).
What do you guys do after editing the configuration.yaml - how do you restart? I go into Configuration, General and restart from there, but some of changes doesn't work - only thing that works is to unplug the Pi, but it feels risky and afraid I might corrupt something?
Also, I wanted to rename some of the Sonoff Switches to Lights, used the LightSwitch similar to this:
light:
- platform: switch
name: Christmas Tree Lights
entity_id: switch.christmas_tree_lights
But it doesn't do anything.
Any tips on how to get going would help - going to play some more with it over the weekend.
What do you guys do after editing the configuration.yaml - how do you restart? I go into Configuration, General and restart from there, but some of changes doesn't work - only thing that works is to unplug the Pi, but it feels risky and afraid I might corrupt something?
Also, I wanted to rename some of the Sonoff Switches to Lights, used the LightSwitch similar to this:
light:
- platform: switch
name: Christmas Tree Lights
entity_id: switch.christmas_tree_lights
But it doesn't do anything.
Any tips on how to get going would help - going to play some more with it over the weekend.
feo
Honorary Master
First thing I would do is to switch to the Lovelace UI, looks better and it's actually the default one now in the latest hass.io. Changes to the front end don't need a restart, just click the triple dot menu on the top right and click refresh.
To restart, there's a Restart option under, Configuration I think. It's right at the bottom of one of the pages.
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
You nee to rename things from their default in a “customize.yaml”.
Check on the docs it’s there.
Also an option in the GUI but haven’t used it. Might be easier in Hass.io to just try that as it’s more GUI driven.
I tried, I really did. I'm hitting a brick wall. It must be something small, but I can't find it. Spent half of today trying to get a Basic to show as a light instead of a switch, and NO go. I don't know if it's a combination of things that are fighting against each other or what...
