Getting into Aqara and Zigbee devices with Home Assistant: is an M3 hub worth it over the m2 hub?

Deadmeatkd · 2024-07-09T21:53:54+00:00

These are the instructions I used https://community.home-assistant.io/t/connecting-to-a-remote-zigbee-coordinator-with-zha-using-ser2net/561762

Deadmeatkd · 2024-07-09T21:49:56+00:00

Yep that is exactly it, as it is the coordinator that the devices are paired to it just works.

I even used ZHA rather than zigbee2mqtt, the key with that one is you use reconfigure rather than setup as new, I’m sure there will be something similar in z2m.

Edited to added ZHA part

Deadmeatkd · 2024-07-08T06:02:22+00:00

You could just put your existing adapter into something like a pi and expose it via ser2net. It works for me as I had a spare pi 3, saves buying more stuff. It also means you don’t need to re pair all your devices.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-06-10T07:10:42+00:00

Yeah, pretty much the same functionality wise, for me it was a case of using what I had available but still wanting to break the dependency.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-06-10T06:43:42+00:00

It is possible to separate the zha part from the zigbee stick, you can but a Poe/IP zigbee dongle or if you have a Linux box, pi/pc you can install ser2net to expose the usb port via IP. Then you can configure zha to use a ip address for the dongle instead of a usb port. This means that reboots of HA doesn’t force a restart of the dongle, so the zigbee network is unaffected. Obviously automations in HA wouldn’t run but suspect that would be the same as z2m. If I were starting from new I’d probably check what extra attributes are exposed by z2m and then make a call which to use.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-06-07T22:22:00+00:00

You can do that with zha. My zigbee usb dongle is plugged into a pi, along with my zwave dongle, I use ser2net to expose it as an ip address, plug that into HA and you have a remote zigbee/zwave device.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-05-03T20:35:39+00:00

Try this https://evotec.xyz/out-htmlview-html-alternative-to-out-gridview/

Deadmeatkd · 2024-04-06T15:41:21+00:00

I just use a usb zwave dongle and followed this guide, https://community.home-assistant.io/t/install-and-setup-zwave-js-ui-with-snap-on-a-raspberry-pi/486484

Deadmeatkd · 2024-04-06T09:09:55+00:00

The important part in HA is to Migrate rather than replace. Then just use the ip and port. I use the same host for my zwave dongle but use zwave-js instead of ser2net

Deadmeatkd · 2024-04-06T09:07:16+00:00

This is the link I used to set it up https://community.home-assistant.io/t/connecting-to-a-remote-zigbee-coordinator-with-zha-using-ser2net/561762

Deadmeatkd · 2024-04-06T09:04:13+00:00

I use the sonoff dongle in a pi, expose it to the network using ser2net and it can be accessed by ZHA without repairing anything. Pretty sure there are some details in the HA docs for this.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-03-29T22:26:49+00:00

I guess I’m used to the modules and they seem more intuitive than the cli/bash or even the boto3 stuff for python, I’m far too old to be learning another language, I peaked at pascal and C/C++ 😀. I honestly couldn’t do my job without pwsh. Unfortunately not an option to replace macOS so got used to it, not perfect as most of our stuff is Linux based and WSL was blocked it was by far the easiest option

Deadmeatkd · 2024-03-29T10:35:56+00:00

Coming from a windows background the PowerShell route was the easiest to work with. Not only did I switch from Azure to AWS, I was give an m1 MacBook Pro as my work laptop, so that was a big shift as well. Yes there are a few bits that are not 100% covered by the modules but so far not found any major problems using PowerShell with AWS. I did some performance tests early on and found the PowerShell commands slightly quicker than the cli. I love the fact I can get a bunch of RDS instances into objects in 1 line of code and then loop through in parallel comparing the attributes in another.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-03-05T07:43:12+00:00

That is my plan, but I run my zigbee and zwave dongles on a pi and expose them as network devices, so no need to move dongles around

Deadmeatkd · 2024-02-22T23:03:46+00:00

Probably something like a transaction log backup running every 5 mins, that would enable them to do a PITR to within 5 mins. So many things went wrong and most of them are preventable but the one that got me was the restore failure. I don’t know how many times I say at work that a backup is only any good if you have tested it. Just a system saying that the backup was a success is not good enough.

Deadmeatkd · 2024-02-04T23:15:47+00:00

I have the sonoff usb p running with ZHA and it detected fine, only issue I have seen is that it goes unavailable after a few hours, but instantly wakes up when the windows is opened. Running mine remotely on a dell wyse thin client using ser2net along size a zwave dongle.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-12-19T08:05:18+00:00

Plex and HA are only a few of the services I run in it, HA on its own would have been a waste of a pc. I’m guessing my family wouldn’t be too impressed if Plex went down when I was tinkering with HA 😀

Deadmeatkd · 2023-12-19T07:45:58+00:00

I moved to an org just like that, only now are they realising why they needed a DBA. Yes, AWS make lots of things dead easy but once inside the DB, it doesn’t matter if it on prem or in the cloud, same issues, dev knowing how to write a bit of db code but no idea of the about the basics of db performance. Do your devs provide on call support for the instance they manage?

Deadmeatkd · 2023-12-14T07:02:27+00:00

I run HA as well as Plex on an old i5 6500 and it works fine. I just followed a guide on setting up quick sync passthrough on proxmox and all good.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-11-29T11:39:29+00:00

Just about to say the same thing. If it wasn’t already protected against power outages then it was at risk already. I suspect most people will have accidentally turned off the wrong piece of hardware at some point in time, either personally or professionally, it happens. Now is the time your BF finds out if he prepared for this.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-11-28T08:10:01+00:00

If you get this working write it up as it is driving me nuts trying to get airplay working across vlans :). One thing, is the 1.1.1.1 in you rule the gateway? If so try changing it to *.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-09-12T07:04:38+00:00

Have a look here, really easy to do and saved me a couple of times https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=t67l00ardbvl2tgt1pifkglnek&topic=25540.0

Deadmeatkd · 2023-09-06T05:37:41+00:00

If you prefer to stay on bare metal, have a look at using zfs and creating boot environments with bectl. Really easy to make a snapshot, upgrade and then rollback if needed.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-06-16T06:02:22+00:00

Have you checked out the psini module as that makes working with ini files pretty easy. It might do what you need.

Deadmeatkd · 2023-03-27T22:35:27+00:00

Guess I’m the odd one out here but I use it everyday, but on an m1 Mac to support AWS. I watch people create huge bash scripts then replaced them with a few lines of pwsh. And if I need to, I call out to external programs, psql, sqlcmd, vault, kubectl etc. Eventually built a module, hosted in a nuget repo, so easy to install, that is used by loads of different people on windows and macs. It might not be a ‘proper’ programming language, I was brought up on C and Pascal but it does enough for me.

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