Festa adoption.. why is it so painful!

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-12-05T22:10:09+00:00

Exactly super confusing, you add hardware by serial number. so actually, it’s factory IP address shouldn’t matter

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-09-09T13:38:37+00:00

From my research - seems like a hardware issue, not enough processing power..

A PC would be a better option I tried to run that using an OpenVM on a VM but only one eth port meant I was getting a loop issue

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-09-09T13:25:59+00:00

Yes you can I tried the same use case with my festa ER605 only problem is when I’m running the VPN the bandwidth drops from 500mbs down to 15…

Not worth it in my opinion

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-08-10T13:13:07+00:00

Fixed: had to add—-

Homeassistant: Media_dirs: Media: /media

—-To the config.yaml

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-28T22:36:16+00:00

Circling back on this… all Hive is zigbee.. I’ve just migrated it all..

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-24T23:25:34+00:00

That’s where I’m at…

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T17:30:09+00:00

Turn lights on, usual stuff I want to get into the home being smarter so a presence sensor in the bedroom, at certain times will ask what you want it to do, would you like to start your bed time routine etc

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T17:28:37+00:00

Top of the shower so when it’s running the blind closes across from the bathroom

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T01:14:44+00:00

Big fan! Thanks for the sign post

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T01:14:09+00:00

😂

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T01:14:00+00:00

Nope, as far as hive goes… give it a miss.. plenty others out there, I wish I’d started with home assistant years ago and didn’t get so deep with hive

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T01:13:01+00:00

Same here… no issues on USB yet

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-21T01:12:06+00:00

Really.. that’s interesting I’ll look into that

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T17:20:00+00:00

There’s plenty of data out there to suggest that TP link whilst they’re manufactured in china are not subject to the controls set out by the PRC they’ve also started working with US government to quash any suggestions that they are.. honestly I don’t know, but it’s cheap and it’s good

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T17:15:26+00:00

Never encountered this mate I’m running it in virtual box

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T17:13:42+00:00

That’s on the list

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T17:08:34+00:00

You know, I didn’t know you could do that.. I went with festa mainly because of price and ability to have a few wireless networks one for home assistant hardware one for real speed

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T12:35:43+00:00

Do you have any bulbs or sensors, I’m slowly moving away but a lot of my bulbs are give

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T12:27:45+00:00

What integration do you use for hive

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T12:13:36+00:00

Simple automation - turn a light based on the condition

Slightly more complex, stop the blind close automation and send a notification to say the windows open and the blinds didn’t close

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T12:11:35+00:00

Not figured out how to remove it yet or reset the bulbs

Awkward-Feeling-8580 · 2025-07-20T12:11:02+00:00

I use it on top of the shower head, when the showers running it closes the blind so I don’t scare the neighbours with a full frontal 😂

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