As we’re trending, I thought I’d lean into it and see what everyone is using.

  • stonewall@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I started a few years ago with Telekom smart home (our ISP in Germany is having their own smart home devices) because I got a good deal as an employee there. Soon I found out that it‘s quite limited because it‘s made for the normal consumer who don’t want to know too much about technical stuff, so I switched to Home Assistant which is now running on a Raspberry Pi. At the moment I run various light systems (IKEA, Philipps and some other no names) in it, have a weather station in it, my LG tv is fully controlled via smart phone/laptop now, and I just start to install Shelly’s on all of our blinds because: why not? In my old flat I also had the radiators in my smart home system but now with floor heating it‘s a little bit more complicated but I am looking forward to solve this with some ESP32 boards in a far future 😄. And the doors have at the moment sensors to see if they are open or not, I also want to get more for the windows to get a whole overview again after I lost have of my sensors with the moving to the new flat. And Roborock and Bambulab are also integrated in Homeassistant 😄 Last but not least: the raspberry pi is running AdGuard and Bitwarden (both with a fallback on my miniserver + backups on a NAS) which is playing nicely together with OPNSense. It‘s not a lot but I am quite happy with it and my wife as well.

  • Mex@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I think this covers the basics.

    • Home assistant running under proxmox on an ancient hp micro server
    • ZZH zigbee gateway stick
    • Xiaomi/Aqara light switches, with one more switch than circuit going to switch to act as a button for lamps
    • Ikea
      • Bulbs for lamps
      • undercounter strips with zigbee for office mood lights
    • Nest hubs for music + 4 room house amp system
    • Tado for heating
      • Mex@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 years ago

        It’s the one I use, I would recommend a ZZH-P if they ever get released! Failing that I have heard good things about the sonoff stick.

        • Mkengine@feddit.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          I have problems finding any information at all about this, could you link a website to see what it is and the current status?

          • Mex@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Not sure if zzh is on sale at the moment, what are you trying to achieve?

            • Mkengine@feddit.de
              1·
              2 years ago

              Just trying find a webpage with information, I can only find a page for zzh CC2652R and only a GitHub issue about the zzh-p which is apparently CC2652P? You seem to follow the release progress, so where could I read about it?

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
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          3 years ago

          There’s two Sonoff sticks on Amazon both look identical but they have different specs:

          ZBDongle-P:

          • USB 3.0
          • Pre-flashed with Z-Stack 3.x.0 coordinator firmware
          • Base on TI CC2652P + CP2102N

          ZBDongle-E:

          • USB
          • Pre-flashed with Zigbee coordinator firmware based on EZNet 6.10.3 out of box
          • Base on EFR32MG21 + CH9102F

          The first seems the right one but they’re even.yhe same price!

            • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
              1·
              3 years ago

              So doing some homework I found this, which suggests:

              • ZBDongle-P - Zigbee2MQTT and ZHA
              • ZBDongle-E - Matter and ZHA, Zigbee2MQTT still experimental

              Apparently, the former is the Dongle Plus, while the latter is the Dongle Plus V2. So, despite the letters, the -E is the newer one.

              All of which means, the -E seems the best option for me.