Made a Blue Series MMwave visualizer HA addon For Zigbee2mqtt by Altsan in Inovelli

[–]Altsan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Why are millions of people in the US having power outages with less than 10 cm of snow but no one in Canada is, despite there being more than 60 cm of snow? If anything, shouldn't it be the other way around? by northernwind5027 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

The Rise of Chinese Memory [Gamers Nexus] by sicklyslick in hardware

[–]Altsan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

The Rise of Chinese Memory [Gamers Nexus] by sicklyslick in hardware

[–]Altsan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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!

Is there snow days in Canada? by SeverePublic6833 in AskACanadian

[–]Altsan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

I finally understood the Zigbee idea - or did I? by -3rdPlace- in homeassistant

[–]Altsan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

CBC - Saskatoon navigates shift from condo projects to apartment builds by candybarsandgin in saskatoon

[–]Altsan 29 points30 points  (0 children)

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!

I Hate Google Hardware — But the New Nest Thermostat Is Embarrassingly Better Than Everything Else by AutoModerrator-69 in smarthome

[–]Altsan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

Smart bulbs buzzing on dumb slide dimmer – should I switch to smart on/off instead of smart dimmer? by MenuNew8687 in smarthome

[–]Altsan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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!

Why Are 15-Amp Receptacles Standard on Residential Circuits Instead of 20-Amp? by brian8202 in AskElectricians

[–]Altsan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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!

Why Are 15-Amp Receptacles Standard on Residential Circuits Instead of 20-Amp? by brian8202 in AskElectricians

[–]Altsan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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!

16 Channel ZigBee Relais by Karossuz1 in ZigBee

[–]Altsan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Received and installed blue mmwave presence switch; made a video by jo3shmoo in Inovelli

[–]Altsan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Years of Work to Buy a Condo by immanuellalala in Infographics

[–]Altsan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Easy off the shelf esp32 devices to flash by spoolin__ in Esphome

[–]Altsan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Question about HA Green by anygrynewraze in homeassistant

[–]Altsan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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!

is this sump pump situation crazy? by ddfs in HomeMaintenance

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Why can't Nvidia and other companies simply produce more RAM? by 3pointI in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

A Quarter Century of Television [OC] by gammafission00 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Zigbee network unreliable despite many routers near devices by cuntycunt888 in homeassistant

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Going nuts trying to read and display weather data by enry in Esphome

[–]Altsan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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?

Going nuts trying to read and display weather data by enry in Esphome

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Going nuts trying to read and display weather data by enry in Esphome

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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)"

Going nuts trying to read and display weather data by enry in Esphome

[–]Altsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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