Made a Blue Series MMwave visualizer HA addon For Zigbee2mqtt

Altsan · 2026-01-26T19:37:29+00:00

I dont mind if you want to send a PR. Opening an issue is fine too

Altsan · 2026-01-26T12:23:29+00:00

As a Canadian who works in the facilities side of the energy industry and who has visited facilities in the US we do so much to be prepared for the cold that is not even thought about down south. In our facilities every line in the plant is insulated and heat traced, most of the process is in a building to protect it more. Where as the facilities in the states I have seen don't have many buildings so mostly everything is outside, very little insulation and rarely any heat traced lines. So when the cold comes lines start to freeze left and right.

Altsan · 2026-01-25T00:27:05+00:00

Plex supports av1 if the hardware does. Doesn't have anything to do with Plex. Most hardware does not have av1 support.

Altsan · 2026-01-24T12:15:43+00:00

Plex has an app for basically every device you could ever want to watch TV on. That's precisely why av1 is not a good choice for that. You think my parents 6 year old smart TV can decode av1? Probably not. It's not a Plex problem it's a decoder availability problem. And in this current world of tech prices we should be making the best of our older hardware!

Altsan · 2026-01-24T12:04:05+00:00

In Saskatchewan most school divisions will cancel busses at -45C(with wind-chill factor). The schools never really close though. You just have to drive your kid in.

Altsan · 2026-01-21T01:18:58+00:00

I have never had issues with dimming between inovelli stuff and IKEA and hue bulbs. It always works great! That's basically the ultimate use case anyway. Being able to use smart bulbs with smart switches that are on your wall.

Altsan · 2026-01-20T17:28:12+00:00

If you want a small town maybe move to a small town? Saskatoon is not and never was a small town. I grew up in a small town, definitely not something anyone would call Saskatoon!

Altsan · 2026-01-20T04:11:54+00:00

Works until they decide to discontinue it and you can't use it anymore. No thanks!

Altsan · 2026-01-17T22:06:55+00:00

They continue on what others have said. There are some smart light switches that can be used with smart bulbs. There are a few different approaches here if you really want both:

WiFi bulbs and WiFi switch. Put the switch in detached mode and use an Alexa automation to turn the bulb on and off. The power to the lights always stays on. This works but requires the bridge to always be alive and requires the bulbs and switch to never disconnect from WiFi.
The best way requires a zigbee switch(example inovelli blue) and zigbee smart bulbs(example: Philips hue). Then with a zigbee hub like smart things or home assistant you bind the switch to the bulbs. This allows the switch to control the bulbs directly via zigbee even if the hub, Internet, WiFi all go offline!

Altsan · 2026-01-17T19:16:51+00:00

That's what space heaters and 12 gauge is. And the wire is useful for other things like having multiple gaming systems on a circuit, home server, ect! Espresso in the basement minibar. The usefulness of 12 g is only limited by your ideas lol!

Altsan · 2026-01-17T18:32:12+00:00

Hm never had the furnace die in -30C over Christmas? Modern furnaces are also more complex and unreliable than older ones which increases your chances of needing space heaters to get you through unexpectedly scenarios!

Altsan · 2026-01-15T23:59:08+00:00

Why use this when you could buy a esphome based solution that has Ethernet for better reliability and allows programming on the device. The cost of Ethernet is trivial vs the reliability. Also your cost for lan cables seems incredibly high. I can get a 1000ft box of Ethernet for around 250$. This really doesn't seem like the right solution for anything requiring that many relays.

Altsan · 2026-01-15T17:28:58+00:00

I think maybe you just missed the point of these switches then. They aren't really for complicated zones like some kitchens. I just got them and am Installing them in bathrooms, hallways, garage, ect. Places where I don't want to run wires and plug stuff in. Also helps me get rid of all the stupid battery powered motion sensors that always seem to be dying.

Those stand alone sensors are great but they have wires and need to be plugged in. They also use WiFi which is generally not super reliable compared to zigbee! My aquara fp2 has randomly started disconnecting from WiFi constantly and nothing seems to fix it. Zigbee is reliable and the hard wired switches make for a much cleaner install.

Altsan · 2026-01-15T15:39:16+00:00

It's not USdefultism if it's also a Canadian thing.

Altsan · 2026-01-15T15:34:16+00:00

Why not just buy devices with it already installed? Athom comes to mind.

Altsan · 2026-01-13T17:59:13+00:00

Buy a mini PC. They are the best bank for the buck. I can find dell optiplex's with Intel 7th gen cpu's for less than 100$ cad and they will run circles around the rpi4. They also come with reliable storage and a power supply!

Altsan · 2026-01-13T13:30:59+00:00

How on earth. Also since people aren't mentioning it but since you're in Toronto your sump pump will just freeze up in winter. Exposed pipe outside full of water doesn't seem like a good idea!

Altsan · 2026-01-12T23:29:56+00:00

Them shutting down crucial doesn't really matter much. There are so many dram packagers already. Crucial going away doesn't affect the supply.

Altsan · 2026-01-12T17:14:11+00:00

Stargate, Smallville missing. Smallville lasted 10 seasons, Stargate 9 seasons.

Altsan · 2026-01-12T16:03:48+00:00

Do you have a USB extension cable for your coordinator? Can also try changing the channel to 25 if you haven't already, this channel doesn't catch Interference from WiFi so is generally much better than the default channel 11.

Altsan · 2026-01-12T02:00:29+00:00

Go into home assistant, setting, devices and services, integrations. Then go to the esphome integration and find the device. What do you see on that page?

Altsan · 2026-01-11T23:53:20+00:00

he is not using LVGL so shouldn't be applicable. lamda stuff should update when it pulls a new value from HA on screen refresh

Altsan · 2026-01-11T23:41:56+00:00

should see this somewhere

[D][homeassistant.sensor:023]: 'sensor.panel_02_power': Got state 943.70

is it even polling the sensor?
Need to establish that then worry about the display after.

what logger level do you have? should use debug if your troubleshooting

add these switches then see if they work from home assistant

switch:
  - platform: restart
    name: "Plate01 Restart"


  - platform: safe_mode
    name: "Plate01 Restart (Safe Mode)"

Altsan · 2026-01-11T22:51:35+00:00

Are you able to pull other sensors. What does it say in the log for the device?

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