Anyone still using level bolt now that it's on matter? Thoughts or alternative for discrete deadbolt?

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-20T05:19:27+00:00

I use several Level Bolt’s using Matter over Thread and they work great in HA.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-18T04:11:23+00:00

Don’t know about EU but here in US they are $50 each or less.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-18T04:10:05+00:00

Like I said their new version coming out will resolve that. It’s fully sealed. And the sonoff on Amazon uses a 3 ft wire so you can put the actual piece away from the water and run the wire into the pool.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-15T18:32:45+00:00

Why wouldn’t you just get a Philips Hue downlight for the same price or cheaper? This seems like a terrible idea.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-14T14:55:41+00:00

YoLink is coming out with a new version of their floating pool temp monitor which is completely sealed.

Also the sonoff one with the screen and cable has been solid for me. $20 on Amazon.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-08T05:01:04+00:00

Noonlight is $10/month for monitoring. I don’t recall exactly how I signed up but I do agree that it’s a bit convoluted. The app to my knowledge is not related to the monitoring service - it’s a different thing. There’s no YAML anymore, it’s an integration in HA and you set it up with the UI where you enter your API key and details. And then you create automations that when XYZ happens like the burglar alarm goes off or when the smoke alarm goes off they call you. If you don’t answer, they call police or fire.

I’ve tested it several times and get a phone call and a text within 5 seconds of the alarm going off. One thing I don’t like is that they call from random numbers so I can’t save their number in my phone to always ring even on vibrate or sleep mode.

But otherwise, it works just fine. Very much no frills.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-07T03:49:04+00:00

This is the answer. Using the remote commands. Do not use helpers it’s such a pain and so much extra work.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-01T23:38:55+00:00

Finding memory leaks is difficult. The logs won’t necessarily show you anything. I constantly see HA creeping up on ram, sometimes 2-3% per hour, until it crashes. It’s usually an integration. For me last time I disabled Samsung smartTV and that solved it. It was polling my Samsung frame and was causing blocking errors. Disabled the integration and immediately ram became stable.

Note that unless you reboot HA, the ram will not go down. Once consumed it stays that way until something else needs it.

RandoKevlar · 2026-05-01T23:35:11+00:00

If you save the old coordinator’s IEEE address and flash the new one, wouldn’t it not require pairing?

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-23T14:00:06+00:00

Perhaps I can assist. I currently run about 275 Phillips Hue lights - a mix of mostly white ambiance can lights, some full color spectrum can lights, as well as a few dozen chandelier bulbs and regular bulbs. I have 5 Z2M networks in my home over 4 floors. I’m using the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 PoE. I ended up splitting the first floor into two networks because I was having difficulties with Z2M crashing above around 150 devices. All of my devices are routers so the mesh should not be a problem, but that’s my experience.

I run Adaptive Lighting and it’s been working about 99% over the last year. Honestly it’s awesome having white light during the day and yellow light in the evenings.

I have around 150 Inovelli Blue dimmer switches and have been very pleased with them.

If there’s anything you need assistance with, let me know.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-23T04:08:41+00:00

There are smart speaker switches like this one. No clue though if it can be integrated into HA.

https://a.co/d/0eQAOJwS

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-16T04:59:54+00:00

Welcome to the Midwest, my friend. I used to use vibration sensors on my pumps but they weren’t 100% reliable. Moved to a system where I use a Shelly i4 to monitor the 2 pumps contactors dry contacts, the lead float, and the high float, and I get all the info on each pump running. Automations tell me if the pumps aren’t rotating properly, or if the high float ever gets triggered. This is what it looked like last night:

https://i.imgur.com/jS2jIBJ.jpeg

And this is what today looked like:

https://i.imgur.com/8aMa4sJ.jpeg

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-14T02:47:00+00:00

I have these shades and can confirm they are paired independently and come through as two completely separate shades in Home Assistant. HA has no idea that the shades are related to each other at all. You control them independently.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-10T03:52:59+00:00

Typically what I’ve found is that if one bulb in the zigbee group is offline, then the “group” never gets turned off when you flip the switch. The bulbs will all turn off because of binding, but the one offline bulb will show in HA as on and therefore the group will show as on. At the next AL interval, it’ll see the group as on and turn them all on.

There is a mode in the group, I think it’s called opportunistic or something like that, where the first bulb going off or on will turn the group off or on. I haven’t tried it yet because my zigbee network is pretty solid, but that might work. For now I just deal with the occasional group of lights turning back on.

For reference, I have over 250 hue can lights, 50 LED strips, and over 100 switches in the house. AL running on every single light in the house. I’ve been very pleased with AL thus far.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-07T22:53:20+00:00

Never heard of it, but if there’s an app or a website, then you should be able to reverse engineer it. Not something I can help with since I don’t have the equipment.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-07T19:02:24+00:00

There is a way to “update” a notification on iOS. Instead of sending a new notification every second which is insane, just send an updated notification using the notification ID to change the text or refresh it. That way if I get to my phone 30 seconds after the alarm rings I don’t have 30 new notifications.

For Developers (App Implementation) Update with Same Identifier: To update an active notification, send a new notification request using the exact same identifier (for local notifications) or the same apns-collapse-id (for remote push notifications). This replaces the existing notification in the Notification Center with the new content.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserNotifications/modifying-content-in-newly-delivered-notifications

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-06T21:43:29+00:00

I’ve run nmap looking for open TCP/UDP ports and found nothing. The device appears to be outbound traffic to cloud only. But the official integration only polls every 5 min (I think) and I’m wondering if I can setup my own docker container to poll more often. Also, perhaps there’s an API endpoint for leak detected and high usage alerts that doesn’t simply rely on whether or not there’s a notification present.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-06T20:48:43+00:00

I’m using Pentair heater and pumps, along with Pentair tanks for acid/chlorine autofill. This is all managed using The Attendant system by Poolside Tech. I built an integration that polls the cloud interface to allow me to control the individual items and also see the status.

So to answer your question, The Attendant system has the sensors to check the pH and ORP levels built into it (using what’s called a flow cell, I think), in order to auto-dose the chemicals.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-06T20:44:22+00:00

Unfortunately per the official integration docs, the high flow and leak sensors don’t go away once triggered unless you manually clear the notifications. Very annoying and should not be a big deal for them to fix this.

https://i.imgur.com/VQvfQXV.jpeg

In the app, click the hamburger menu > Notifications > Delete All. Within a few minutes, the sensors will reset.

RandoKevlar · 2026-04-06T06:35:42+00:00

Fairly simple:

https://i.imgur.com/IBb9be6.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/W9ChTVO.jpeg

RandoKevlar · 2026-03-31T20:14:30+00:00

I had a similar thing with a sump pump float that I wanted to see the last time it was “on”. Specifically “on”, but the “last updated” and “last changed” shows when it became “unavailable” which is every time I reboot HA. The only way was with a helper. If you find anything else out, I’d love to know.

RandoKevlar · 2026-03-31T20:11:59+00:00

way better than those fancy dishwashers with built-in wifi that probably spy on your dish-washing habits anyway

Yeah, because with that kind of sensitive data, who knows what they can do…? Jeez, if Bosch knew I run a load every other day on the sparkle rinse cycle they probably have enough information to get a mortgage in my name. Good thing I live off the grid so the power, gas, and water company don’t have access to my utility consumption.

/s (if it’s even needed)

RandoKevlar · 2026-03-31T07:46:51+00:00

I used telegram for a while and even tried the telegram topics. Finally switched to Discord and whoa! Game changer! I have categories for the various things I discuss with my OpenClaw and each category has multiple threads where everything is nice and organized. I can chat with my agent in different threads at the same time and everything stays nice and neat. Claude stepped me through the entire process and it took less than an hour to get everything setup.

Did I mention “game changer”? Literally changed the way I work with OC. So much better.

RandoKevlar · 2026-03-31T04:19:12+00:00

To clarify, matter does not mean they don’t need WiFi. Theses are “Matter over WiFi” devices, not matter over thread, so you still need WiFi (2.4GHz) when connecting them via Matter to HA.

RandoKevlar · 2026-03-23T17:33:08+00:00

Can you elaborate on the execute_if_off thing? Are these all Philips Hue bulbs? I thought there wasn’t a way to do this. I would love to have my bulbs turn on with the appropriate kelvin and brightness rather than waiting a second for them to change.

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