expiredEragorn | Staff posted Aug 26, 2024 11:17 PM
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expiredEragorn | Staff posted Aug 26, 2024 11:17 PM
The Smartest House Home Automation Sale: Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Smart Plug
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Setup is a bit techie, but the app is mature and documentation is pretty good these days.
SmartThings is the entry and HomeAssistant is the end game for smart home. What can't it do.
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The $5 is merely an option if you want to get to voice control with a few dead simple clicks.
By not paying the $5, one can totally achieve the same - setup your own environment yourself so that your HA would integrate with Google Assistant or Alexa, get the API keys and authentication going. You can also integrate with ChatGPT and do other fancier stuff, and that's not all - if you want to and know how to, you could even roll your own language model locally and do the whole voice control thing within the 4 walls of your house, in a way that you get to decide the wake words, what to do, etc., without any of your voice leaving your house and feeding the Google or Amazon mega machine.
So is it for everyone? No. Habitat still has its place (and quirks). Z-Net probably has its place also but can't comment on that.
I ran into limitations with Hubitat, and went to Home Assistant to get to the possibilities I want, and never look back.
Also, it is interesting that people in this thread (me included) are not actually talking about the deal. haha. 😀
For example, I have an automation that detects my wife's phone charging wirelessly after 10pm. That means we're going to bed, so the automation fires off things like closing garage door, locking doors, turning off any music, turning off the ice machine, turning off our lamps, and finally turning the alarm on.
I have a 500 series Aeotec usb I use in parallel and they seem to work equally well.
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Setup is a bit techie, but the app is mature and documentation is pretty good these days.
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.n10_charger_type
to: wireless
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.s22u_charger_type
to: wireless
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
enabled: false
condition:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: time
before: "06:00:00"
after: "21:00:00"
- condition: state
entity_id: light.our_lamp
state: "on"
enabled: true
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: light.our_lamp
attribute: brightness
above: 1
enabled: false
action:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.patio_sliding_door_back
state: "on"
then:
- wait_for_trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.patio_sliding_door_back
to: "off"
continue_on_timeout: false
timeout:
hours: 2
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
alias: If Patio Door Open, wait for Close
- type: turn_off
device_id: --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
entity_id: light.daughterss_lamp
domain: light
- type: turn_off
device_id: --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
entity_id: light.our_lamp
domain: light
- device_id: --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
domain: lock
entity_id: --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
type: lock
- data: {}
target:
device_id:
- --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
- --UPDATE THIS TO YOURS--
action: cover.close_cover
- data: {}
target:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_night
mode: restart
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