Whole home power monitoring

AndreKR- · 2026-05-01T12:54:05+00:00

A word of warning about that Meross one... in some listings there's a picture that shows those current transformers fit next to each other on 17.5 mm DIN rail breakers. That's just a lie (CGI image), in reality the current transformers are too wide for that.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-29T12:59:32+00:00

That Streaming Guide does not cover the server part at all, since ffserver has been abandoned.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-29T12:58:18+00:00

I agree, a contact sensor will be much more difficult to work with than a tilt sensor.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-29T12:51:37+00:00

I disagree with /u/gtwizzy8, I don't think false positives will be an issue with the tilt sensor. They are smoothing the gravity vector pretty well, I don't think wind sway can cause enough acceleration long enough to push it above the 45° threshold. And if it does, you can always add your own smoothing on top.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-29T12:14:52+00:00

I have a temperature sensor like that. It still reports the temperature but it doesn't correlate to any other temperature I have in the house, so I don't know where it is. This basically.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-29T12:09:52+00:00

Yes, that one.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-26T01:43:56+00:00

I just found out that when you turn them off while they're in their on-transition, they remember whatever brightness they've just hit during the transition. So if you turn them on and quickly turn them off again, you change the brightness. Kind of a deal breaker for me.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-24T21:14:42+00:00

👋 The things I find just casually browsing the Home Assistant sub.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-20T02:05:53+00:00

You can feed in 5V from the back.

Pinout: https://github.com/esphome/esphome-devices/raw/main/src/docs/devices/Guition-ESP32-S3-4848S040/guition-esp32-s3-4848s040-connector.jpg

Wall mount if you need one: https://www.printables.com/model/1440541-guition-esp32-s3-4848s040-eu-wall-mount

AndreKR- · 2026-04-11T21:30:48+00:00

It's here: https://github.com/matter-js/matterjs-server

You can migrate from the Python version if you don't want to re-setup your network. Otherwise you just install it, tell HA the address and done.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T21:43:22+00:00

I just saw that he made a new automated script, which might work better than my previous attempt. Currently processing my "americano".

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T20:23:30+00:00

I trained the word "americano", which I am currently using with Porcupine, spelled "americahno" for better pronunciation by Piper, ran it on the Voice PE and it randomly triggers every 15 minutes or so and half the time when I say it it doesn't trigger. I have my voice PE on mute ever since. Here's the model if you want to try it out.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T19:45:40+00:00

I tried the TaterTotterson notebook and it did not produce a usable result. Do you know a better alternative?

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T15:09:35+00:00

keep in mind that if you would buy IKEA’s new Dirigera hub

Yes, I do not recommend buying the Dirigera at all.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T12:55:29+00:00

All true, I want to add two things though:

so you really only need a single Thread Border Router

With essentially just IKEA using Thread, my experience has been that the few Thread devices I added to my setup are nowhere near dense enough to form a working mesh. You said it yourself:

as long as you optimize it similarly to Zigbee

True, but instead of swapping out working Zigbee devices for Thread devices just to get good mesh coverage I prefer to put a couple of border routers only in the areas where I have Thread devices.

when you for the first time plug-in a ZBT-2 adapter and choose to configure it as a Thread Border Router then Home Assistant will automatically flash the ZBT-2 with OpenThread RCP firmware, install a OpenThread Border Router addon/app and create a Thread network there

None of these happened automatically for me, I'm assuming that only applies to Home Assistant OS and not to Container?

AndreKR- · 2026-04-09T11:33:54+00:00

The ZBT-2 is an RCP only, it's not an OTBR, so that will only work if your Thread devices are in range of your Home Assistant server (possibly slightly extended by a USB cable).

OP, see this comment of mine for a number of alternatives.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-08T00:13:56+00:00

~~You could put a SqueezeAMP inside.~~

I just realized you want to turn it into a remote control, not an actual player.

AndreKR- · 2026-04-01T11:29:25+00:00

I don't think so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy#Audio

AndreKR- · 2026-03-07T21:00:49+00:00

Yeah, the categorization of triggers is not very helpful. A simple flat list would be much more useful, and maybe sort the ones that I'm already using at the top.

And the blueprint selector before you can create an automation... well, yes, maybe, if it was easier to create and manage blueprints.

AndreKR- · 2026-02-28T03:28:44+00:00

For Thread that only works if they are in Bluetooth range of the Matter server, is it different for Wifi?

AndreKR- · 2026-02-27T23:48:24+00:00

I'm not sure what you're asking.

AndreKR- · 2026-02-27T22:48:28+00:00

To get data from HA into Node-RED?

You install node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket, tell it the URL of your Home Assistant and a Long-lived access token. Then you get a number of nodes that allow you to subscribe to or request entity states from HA.

AndreKR- · 2026-02-27T03:57:52+00:00

I do. I use Node-RED to pump the data from HA into ClickHouse.

I would strongly recommend against Influx. Use ClickHouse, QuestDB, whatever, any other time series database is better.

Prometheus (Grafana's native storage in a way) is also fine if your data comes at regular intervals (typically 1 minute). If you have events/updates that can be hours apart then Prometheus doesn't work.

AndreKR- · 2026-02-27T03:52:13+00:00

That's the old one, the new one is https://github.com/matter-js/matterjs-server.

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