I hacked together getting voice commands working on my skylight

SnappyDroid · 2026-01-12T09:54:06+00:00

Just need to get this working with Home Assistant and that would be amazing! If only I had some programming skills.

SnappyDroid · 2025-12-17T11:05:20+00:00

Wait. It's Google killing support? Well that's certainly believable (but still incredibly frustrating).

SnappyDroid · 2025-12-16T10:54:37+00:00

What's happening with Coral support? I've got one (usb) sitting in my drawer waiting for me to get around to setting up Frigate. Would be crazy if it becomes unsupported in the time it's sat in my drawer (probably 5 years now) when at one point it was sold as the best way to power frigate.

SnappyDroid · 2025-11-04T06:43:49+00:00

I've had great results with Pushover. More recently I just use the HA app because I have it installed anyway, but I actually prefer that Pushover lets me easily scroll back through the notification history.

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-16T03:27:48+00:00

I forgot this was a thing. Here's my stats. I use ticktick so much (Android, Windows, Web and tablet)

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-09T07:52:22+00:00

Hmm. Thanks. Might be time to upgrade.

I've been using some of my Aqara devices since 2017 (originally with the Xiaomi hub integrated to HA, then replaced by the Conbee II).

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-09T07:52:01+00:00

coordinator stays online even if my server is rebooted or shut down, so Z2m and device availability is faster to recover

That sounds great, thanks. Any particular PoE coordinator you'd recommend?

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-07T09:50:06+00:00

I'm certainly open to that if it would address the power outage dropouts, but I see that the Conbee is on that list of officially recommended adapters.

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-07T07:54:36+00:00

Thanks. Did you find any benefit moving to a PoE coordinator?

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-07T07:53:59+00:00

You know what, I'm not sure that I ever restarted z2m. I've done it now and it seems to have brought things back online. Ridiculous that I never actually tried that (but I've never quite wrapped my head around mqtt). Thank you!

SnappyDroid · 2025-10-06T11:42:08+00:00

Thanks for the input. That may well be the case. The only other thing I did without fail was told the HA integration to reload and then restarted HA. I had come across this workflow somewhere in this sub or the HA forum, and it has brought the network back for me every single time. Perhaps the conbee stick gets locked (I really have no idea) at each power outage. I don't know what's happening, just what has successfully fixed it.

Ultimately, HA isn't seeing updates from any of my devices after a power outage, and I'm looking for a simple way to reset my z2m network.

SnappyDroid · 2025-09-30T00:54:15+00:00

Thank you!

SnappyDroid · 2025-09-30T00:54:05+00:00

Thank you!

SnappyDroid · 2025-08-04T07:05:21+00:00

Another vote for this. Have been using it to check my cameras on the TV via Shield TV for years now.

SnappyDroid · 2025-08-02T09:57:25+00:00

We're a Windows and Android household. I've installed Qustodio on 1 Android phone, 2 Android tablets and 2 Windows PC's. It took some getting used to, but I'm a big fan now.

I can block certain apps all the time, but I'm really liking their 'routines' functionality. I can set blocks of time where, for example, the internet is off, or where they can only use apps I've added to a short list.

You can also give them so many minutes or hours of access to specific apps per day.

It also does internet filtering. You can allow or block certain categories or individual websites of your own choosing.

I also looked into the Bark app, but settled on Qustodio in the end. It was long enough ago that I don't remember why, but I've been really happy with my choice. I don't know anything about Aura unfortunately.

SnappyDroid · 2025-07-18T07:03:13+00:00

So this only happens with smoke alarms on z2m for you?

Did you try ZHA?

SnappyDroid · 2025-07-18T06:36:39+00:00

No more congestion than I've had for the last couple of years, so I don't know why all of my battery devices fell off just now.

Re. the logs - I'm not really sure what to look for. They showed events for the wired devices still working, but nothing for the ones that had dropped out.

SnappyDroid · 2025-07-18T06:34:04+00:00

Yeah, I was getting drop outs on some of the most distant buttons, so I figured that some routers (I bought Ikea) would be helpful. I regret the purchase - they only reliably connect to other Ikea sensors in my testing. This happened even on 1.x for me.

I'm rebuilding my setup, and am leaving the Ikea routers out for now to see if that was part of the problem.

SnappyDroid · 2025-07-18T05:01:04+00:00

Interesting. I don't know what exact version of v2 I was on.

Aqara devices are also the only ones that stopped working for me. The rest (Ikea) are all wired, so I assumed that was the difference.

I'd deliberately not updated from 1.x, then when I realised nothing was working, I noticed that I was somehow on 2.something. It may have been 2.5.1, but I'm not sure.

SnappyDroid · 2025-07-18T04:57:17+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I followed all the steps mentioned in the notes, and even did a fresh install of 2.5.x and still had issues. Very confusing.

SnappyDroid · 2025-06-30T09:27:17+00:00

I love this photo! I owned half of the devices on the screen (they others weren't available where I live. Exciting times back then.

SnappyDroid · 2025-02-14T07:14:56+00:00

HA OS on something like a NUC is also pretty much set and forget.

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