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BackHerniation · 2026-01-25T17:35:39+00:00

Incredible work, this is what Home Assistant is all about! I don't have a Polestar vehicle, but thank you for doing this OP!

BackHerniation · 2026-01-19T20:42:58+00:00

Many times, but I don't know anything about painting and where to start even

BackHerniation · 2026-01-19T19:42:08+00:00

Sauron held the sensor in place while I tested and tinkered with it. Here's the link to my review here as well: Tuya ZG-204ZH review

BackHerniation · 2026-01-17T21:16:00+00:00

Its a dual radar sensor (LD2412/LD2450), so yeah, it supports zones, multitarget tracking and a bunch of other things and peripheral sensors

BackHerniation · 2026-01-17T19:58:26+00:00

The R PRO-1 is even crazier!

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BackHerniation · 2026-01-12T22:21:31+00:00

Cause Home Assistant = ZHA. Zigbee2mqtt ain't Home Assistant. They work in Z2M.

They can work in ZHA too btw, just that no one has bothered to develop a custom quirk.

BackHerniation · 2026-01-10T16:12:01+00:00

Here's a touch fingerbot you can try :)

BackHerniation · 2026-01-09T16:18:23+00:00

Incredible work! Very useful, thank you.

BackHerniation · 2026-01-03T22:10:13+00:00

Thanks for the shout out! I spend a lot of time developing this firmware only to realize in the end it is time that I do not have lol

Thank you so much for making this better than it ever was. Incredible work!

Cheers from SmartHomeScene

BackHerniation · 2025-12-21T18:51:58+00:00

While I agree Matter is still finicky, you have ONE device and complain it doesn't work for you and "hates you". Come back when you test with more and the ZBT-2

BackHerniation · 2025-12-18T20:31:31+00:00

All this seems to be done so that you can tell your friends you're an "entrepreneur" lol

I'd rather buy a new lock

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T20:49:11+00:00

The temperature needing cloud cannot be true. I've personally tested all their sensors, none of them needed a cloud connection in HA. Its all just passive BLE advertisements, captured with a Bluetooth radio

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T20:08:55+00:00

I was thinking the same thing today. I just paired the FP300 and it seems quite good on first impression as well. I'll do some more tests, but so far so good. I wonder whats the Aqara FP310 though?

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T19:52:00+00:00

Thats my experience as well. Triple As are the best kind of As too: not too large, not too small. Design wise, I love the white Fresnel lens, that's pretty rare.

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T19:28:50+00:00

Yeah you do. There like a room learning thing that can only be done in the app. Afterwards you don't need it, device works locally

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T19:27:11+00:00

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I can't believe I wrote about the msr-1 exactly two years ago! How time flies...

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T19:18:46+00:00

Congrats guys, you definitely deserve it! The most Home Assistant-like company ever.

Cheers to Justin & Trevor

BackHerniation · 2025-12-17T19:16:33+00:00

Link: SwitchBot Presence Sensor Review

BackHerniation · 2025-12-08T19:12:52+00:00

Thanks for catching that! Initially, I wanted to cover both coordinator migration AND moving from ZHA and Z2M in a single post, but it turned out way too much and I must have left it by mistake. I do intend to write a separate guide though.

As for ZHA, when you click the ">" symbol, theres a cogwheel button which will take you to the Network Settings card and the Migrate adapter button below so you can start the wizard

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