homeassistant

extant, 6 months ago in Connection refused after latest update

Power cycle the device?

champagne_laugh, 6 months ago

I have been a few times. I connected a screen and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. One error message popped up though, about not starting overlayfs. It might be that my SD card has corrupted all of the sudden. Trying a restore onto a new SD card now.

NarrativeBear, 6 months ago in Help with BHT-002-GCLZB thermostat

Take a look at zigbee2mqtt this is what I use to add any of my ZigBee devices to home assistant. You may find there is more frequent reporting/polling with this so you have more updated information in your home assistant instance.

ZigBee is the way to go IMO for the most “local control”. Your thermostat is probably pretty good and would not need replacing for a long time.

For automation of your thermostat and other items in the house you will need to setup your own automations that work for you. Home assistant won’t do this for you automatically like other 3rd party thermostats that “learn” your patterns.

Home assistant is pretty powerful in what you can do with automation as it’s allows you to use other sensors around the house, even poll outside stats like weather. So in theory you can set automations that turn off your heathing if your phone or all phones have left the house. You can set automations that turn on the heathing when the outside temperature reaches a certain temperature and the house temperature drops to a certain point.

chunkystyles, 6 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I definitely recommend zigbee2mqtt over ZHA. I originally went with ZHA and just recently went through the hassle of converting over. It was worth it. IMO, it’s best to just start with zigbee2mqtt, and to convert before you have a lot of devices and automations.

Edit: before I posted this comment, I couldn’t see any comments other than the one I was responding to.

unixorn, 6 months ago

@chunkystyles @NarrativeBear

I did the #ZHA -> #zigbee2mqtt migration last year and it was totally worth the hassle.

I took the opportunity to normalize the naming scheme for my devices since I was going to have to update my automations anyway.

sabreW4K3, 6 months ago

So I’m trying to update the reporting interval and it’s not letting me.

https://lemmy.tf/pictrs/image/aa907e75-87f9-4c08-8602-02a3b8893951.jpeg

NarrativeBear, 6 months ago

I have not played with these setting touch, most of it I just leave as default. Not sure if anyone else can chim in here to help you out.

I did see something here regarding your device that you may need to add to your configuration yaml file.

www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/BHT-002-GCLZB.html#sto…

sabreW4K3, 6 months ago

This is super helpful. Thank you

sabreW4K3, 6 months ago

Regarding the thermostat, this is in the state tab of Zigbee2MQTT

<span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "child_lock": "UNLOCK",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "current_heating_setpoint": 12,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "heat": "OFF",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "linkquality": 184,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "local_temperature": 20,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "local_temperature_calibration": -2,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "max_temperature": 45,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "min_temperature_limit": 1,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "preset": "program",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "preset_mode": "program",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "program": {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p1_hour": 6,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p1_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p1_temperature": 14,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p2_hour": 8,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p2_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p2_temperature": 16,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p3_hour": 8,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p3_minute": 30,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p3_temperature": 15,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p4_hour": 20,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p4_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "saturday_p4_temperature": 12,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p1_hour": 6,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p1_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p1_temperature": 14,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p2_hour": 12,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p2_minute": 30,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p2_temperature": 16,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p3_hour": 14,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p3_minute": 30,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p3_temperature": 15,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p4_hour": 18,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p4_minute": 30,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "sunday_p4_temperature": 12,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p1_hour": 6,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p1_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p1_temperature": 14,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p2_hour": 8,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p2_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p2_temperature": 16,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p3_hour": 8,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p3_minute": 30,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p3_temperature": 15,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p4_hour": 20,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p4_minute": 0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "weekdays_p4_temperature": 12
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    },
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "running_state": "idle",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "sensor": "AL",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "system_mode": "heat",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "deadzone_temperature": null,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "max_temperature_limit": null
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

I theorize that I need to give it a hard reset to clear everything that got ported over from the previous set-up?

NarrativeBear, 6 months ago

I should add you need to install Mqtt broker from the addin store as well.

Once you get this installed under integrations you should see Mqtt and this is where your new ZigBee devices will be listed. (As opposed to the ZigBee integration)

No need to hard reset the thermostat as once you add it through zigbee2mqtt and get mqtt integration added the device will be new to your HA installation.

sabreW4K3, 6 months ago

I have it coming through Z2M, hence why I thought maybe a hard reset might fix it and give me the new climate card.

AlternateRoute, 6 months ago in Problems with Zigbee2mqtt

www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/…/homeassistant.html

Did you enable home assistant discovery since you were doing a manual installation?

<span style="color:#323232;"># Optional: Home Assistant integration (MQTT discovery) (default: false)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">homeassistant: true
</span>

nogooduser, 6 months ago

I have thanks. I have tried just doing the basic setting of ‘true’ and the more advanced options with no joy.

AlternateRoute, 6 months ago

Odd I have done the full setup several times As I run pure dockers / separate HA, Mosquito MQTT and Zigbee2mqtt and the devices all just auto discover and appear in HA has devices with entities with full control.

gazoinksboe, 6 months ago in Problems with Zigbee2mqtt

I haven’t had this issue specifically but I’ve noticed when adding color changing bulbs, the color changing ability doesn’t show up in Home Assistant until I change the color in the dashboard of zigbee2mqtt. After that, home assistant recognizes the bulb’s capabilities. What hub do you have?

nogooduser, 6 months ago

I have the older SONOFF stick.

I’m pretty sure that I have tried that. The kind of sure that means I’m going to have to try it again. 😀

sue_her_birds, 6 months ago in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

I like this thermostat except for one issue. When i manually change the target temperature with the HA thermostat card, it has a maximum temperature of 40 degrees. With Fahrenheit, this is obviously no good. it has something to do with the MQTT configuration but i cant figure it out. Luckily service calls in automations work fine.

roofuskit, 6 months ago in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

You know, you don’t have to use the wall plate just because it’s in the box.

friend_of_satan, 6 months ago in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

Yo dawg, I heard you like wall plates.

overzeetop, 6 months ago in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

I wish I could figure out the code to get my T6 to control the Confortotal mini split I got off eBay. I have to think they’re using some genetic code base, but I couldn’t find a matching one.

Omacitin, 6 months ago in Another successful Honeywell T6 install

I’ve got a T6 Z-Wave also, controlling a 2-stage heat pump. I have it connected to HA through Zwave2mqtt. It’s been pretty great except for two things:

A. Changing the time has no effect, as if the clock is read-only due to a hardware issue. I’ve had to set up the daily schedule in HA instead, but it’s probably better that way anyway.

B. I can’t see the stage and aux heat status in HA. Looks like all it exposes is a ‘heating’ or ‘cooling’ state. Anybody know how to get more info?

Bluesheep, 6 months ago in Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK)

Better than that, if you are after more than one (and with GU10s, who isn’t?)

ikea.com/…/tradfri-remote-control-kit-smart-wirel…

This gives you 3 bulbs and a handy remote that also works with HA.

thegreekgeek, 6 months ago in Notification system

I’ve actually been trying to implement something like this myself, but I’m trying to do it natively in HA. What I’ve done so far is make an automation for each appliance that calls a script (with variables passed through for messages and whatnot) which notified each member of the household in parallel, based on whether they’re home or not.

My eventual plan is to make each appliance automation flip an input_boolean that sends an initial notification which can be dismissed (either by sensor, NFC tag or notification action). Then every so often or based on a trigger (like door opening, toothbrush doing off, etc.) it triggers the notification script again.

padook, 6 months ago in Building from scratch

I would spend the money on smart switches before smart outlets. I personally find that I want smart control over almost all of my lights/ fans but only some of my outlets.

Another reason for my avoidance of smart outlets is they are much more expensive than smart plugs and it’s rare that you want to control both plugs in an outlet anyways.

As far as wiring if you want window/ door sensors or motion sensors you might consider running power to those locations. Much better than changing button batteries constantly.

Use conduit to future proof any network cables you run…

That’s all that comes to mind at the moment

jubilationtcornpone, 6 months ago in Building from scratch

I don’t get as much into automating for the sake of automating. Personally, I prefer technology that makes my life easier. Anything “smart” in our house has to be manually overrideable.

That said, one thing I’m working on automating is the HVAC. Eventually I’ll have the Central heat, central humidifier, and whole house fan controls all integrated with HA. My goal is to maximize both comfort and energy efficiency. Being able to maintain the comfort level by automatically switching between A/C or fresh air (via the whole house fan) would be pretty cool (figuratively and literally).

walden, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago) in Building from scratch

It might be easier to have the electrician install normal switches at first. That will give you time to figure out which ones you want to be smart, which ones you want on dimmers, etc.

Sensors will all be outside the wall, although you should make sure the thermostat wire has enough for a C wire.

I don’t know about smart outlets – I don’t think they’re very common. Most smart outlets are designed to plug in to normal dumb outlets.

If there’s a good spot on the ceiling, I’d have them run some ethernet cable to a box. You can leave it covered, but it’ll be there in case you decide to mount a WiFi AP there.

__init__, 6 months ago in Building from scratch

1. Network cables everywhere. Way easier to do that before drywalling if that’s something you want.
2. Neutrals in your switch boxes will make smart switches easier later. Though I heard that might be a code requirement for new construction anyway?
3. Also heard oversize switch boxes are a thing, which will also make smart switches easier later (assuming price difference is negligible).