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The Smartest House [thesmartesthouse.com] is having its Memorial Day sale on Z-wave home automation gizmos. Some good deals and sales on rarely-reduced niche products. Unlike previous sales where free shipping started at $99, this time it starts at $59. If you're going big, there're additional discounts at $500 (2%) and $1000 (3%).
Examples:
Hubitat HEC-7 home automation hub $70 [thesmartesthouse.com]
Zooz ZEN30 800LR double switch $26 [thesmartesthouse.com]
Zooz ZEN37 800LR wall remote $23 [thesmartesthouse.com]
Zooz ZEN73 800LR toggle switch $24 [thesmartesthouse.com]
Zooz ZEN53 DC motor controller $24.45 [thesmartesthouse.com]
Sale ends 5/28
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I have a c7 that works well for me and was going to post this same deal from the smartest house, but saw the better deal on ebay.
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I want to be able to remotely turn on my Unraid Server remotely. With not wanting to figure out how to setup WOL, i'm thinking about adding one of these and daisy-chaining it in with the power switch to the pc case.
https://www.thesmartest
You think it would work?
Get a smart plug, set bios settings to turn on when ac power is restored. We do this and also set it to turn on at 8am every day as an extra layer if we're away.
I'm not 100% sure this is the case, but unclean shutdowns are bad for a server and triggers a parity check that takes about 32 hours to complete....so i try to avoid that.
I'm thinking if the power goes out when i'm away, once i can connect to my network remotely, then i could send a command to the relay via hubitat to press the power button.
That isn't how it works. If a clean shut down is triggered, it will be offline until either 1) you power it on/ there is a second power blip long enough to kill the battery a second time OR 2) you set it up to turn on daily. Bonus 3) you use a plug to power off power on to turn it on after the clean shutdown.
Clean shutdown will not make the bios try to turn the computer back on, but actual power loss will. I get where your head is, that's how I tend to think, and there's logic in it.
I recently saw an interesting Atom-based "everything box" with SFP+ ports and a proper rear SAS breakout connector supporting 4 drives that I've been considering. Power consumption is obviously higher than an N100 though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUTzjA
Which RAID enclosure did you decide on?
I have a c7 that works well for me and was going to post this same deal from the smartest house, but saw the better deal on ebay.
https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-usb-stick-zst39?_pos=13&... [thesmartesthouse.com]
or
https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-usb-700-series-z-wave-plus-s2-stick-zst10-700?_pos=2&... [thesmartesthouse.com]
Want to know as well but my guess is that the 800 is better?
Can anyone confirm?
Can anyone confirm?
Home Assistant doesn't support Z-Wave Long Range with the new star network topology well yet, but they are working on it. I would go with the Z-Wave 800 adapter for that future-proofing. It's a big revamp of the Z-Wave standard that is actually pretty exciting. I've never been a fan of the latency introduced by the mesh topology, and a star topology where every LR device can connect directly to the hub should be much more performant. The range will also be ridiculous. I just hope the standard continues to survive in the face of the move to Thread and Matter. 2.4 GHz has always been a bad idea for IoT, but that's definitely the way the industry is moving.
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My previous research had me trending toward trying HA, but... I'm thinking of picking up one of these as option value for that *someday* when I have time to reassess/expand my minimal automation setup. Classic SD pathology, I know...
My firxt victory was creating dependent chains of events. (Example) When I send a Chromecast stream to my audio receiver, Home Assistant automatically turns on my subwoofer.
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Nothing wrong with using a pi especially for getting started.
One of the problems I found with Zigbee and Zwave is that there is standard functionality that isn't standard. For example, if you use smart plugs, there's no easy intuitive interface to set a timer to have it turn on or off in x minutes. There's no standard that allows you to set what a plug does if it experiences power loss. Does it return to the state it was in? Does it turn off or on?
Some of the WiFi devices you can get are just packaged with good apps.
Expect to spend a lot of time tinkering to get a basic system running. Smart homes are not anywhere near ready for the general public.
I would love to go down the Home Assistant rabbit hole, but I just don't have the time to dedicate to it.
My previous research had me trending toward trying HA, but... I'm thinking of picking up one of these as option value for that *someday* when I have time to reassess/expand my minimal automation setup. Classic SD pathology, I know...
Thanks to everyone for the great answers! Will probably use HA on an extra Beelink mini laying around rather than Pi based on everyone's advice, but maybe no on the Habitat. I guess it could be a low config alternative until I have the time to set HA up. One commenter said I could leave the Hubitat config in parallel. I might try that or just give it to family when/if I ever set up the HA.
I have a c7 that works well for me and was going to post this same deal from the smartest house, but saw the better deal on ebay.
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