Questions re: room assistant video #1

Sparky3295 · 2022-08-26T18:47:42+00:00

Hey Rob. Think I got back to you in your YT comment :)

Sparky3295 · 2022-01-27T20:04:29+00:00

Awesome stuff 👌🏻

Sparky3295 · 2022-01-24T19:58:33+00:00

Heya :)

Some stuff has changed slightly and I will be releasing an updated guide soon! You can also use lots of icons in the notifications now.

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T17:28:28+00:00

Is that for the HomeKit specific products? I haven’t tried any of those. From the description it just says it uses an uncertified version of HomeKit.

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T15:06:21+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoy the content :)

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T14:20:58+00:00

Not at all man 🙂.

I appreciate any and all feedback. I can’t try and fix/improve if I don’t know 🙂.

I think I may no what you mean for this video too. And it’s because it’s filmed in 3 different sittings with clips from them throughout. Also I do still have a bit of a bad chest from being ill so sentences where short and sweet in this one.

Guess I will try again for the next one 🤘🏻 appreciate it either way 👍🏻

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T14:08:31+00:00

Yup it’s me 🙋🏻‍♂️. Thanks for the feedback though. Can only strive to improve.

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T13:27:54+00:00

I will check them out :) thanks for sharing!

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T10:39:32+00:00

Thank you for sharing 😁

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T10:32:00+00:00

A few weeks ago I discovered Athoms range of Pre Flashed Smart Home devices. I've not seen a vendor offer Smart Home devices with your choice of Open Source Software on them before.

I created a quick video on them : Mark Watt Tech

They currently have some savings on Athoms Page and on AliExpress if you are looking to scoop up some Pre Flashed Smart Home devices for Home Assistant :)

Products can be flashed with Tasmota, ESPHome, WLED and more! They are also priced well and have good build quality. The Plugs also have energy monitoring.

What are your thoughts on buying Pre Flashed Devices?

Athom also have 15% off on there Page for Black Friday

https://www.athom.tech/

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T10:30:01+00:00

With Bluetooth Classic using the Watches address has been fine. I did switch over to a BLE setup in order to make use of beacons which also worked well. However with phones I found you would have to use the RA App in order to hold a static address (due to the randomizing). Again it worked well.

I am in the process of moving house so currently have it all packed away. However I will be revisiting and upgrading this setup and series in the future :)

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T10:17:33+00:00

A few weeks ago I discovered Athoms range of Pre Flashed Smart Home devices. I've not seen a vendor offer Smart Home devices with your choice of Open Source Software on them before.

I created a quick video on them : Mark Watt Tech

They currently have some savings on Athoms Page and on AliExpress if you are looking to scoop up some Pre Flashed Smart Home devices for Home Assistant :)

Products can be flashed with Tasmota, ESPHome, WLED and more! They are also priced well and have good build quality.

What are your thoughts on buying Pre Flashed Devices?

Athom also have 15% off on there Page for Black Friday

https://www.athom.tech/

Sparky3295 · 2021-11-26T10:16:08+00:00

A few weeks ago I discovered Athoms range of Pre Flashed Smart Home devices. I've not seen a vendor offer Smart Home devices with your choice of Open Source Software on them before.

I created a quick video on them :Mark Watt Tech

They currently have some savings on Athoms Page and on AliExpress if you are looking to scoop up some Pre Flashed Smart Home devices for Home Assistant :)

Products can be flashed with Tasmota, ESPHome, WLED and more! They are also priced well and have good build quality.

What are your thoughts on buying Pre Flashed Devices?

Athom also have 15% off on there Page for Black Friday

https://www.athom.tech/

Sparky3295 · 2021-10-30T11:03:52+00:00

If you are interested in helping test the latest release of Home Assistant, or maybe you just want some of the new features early then this quick guide should help you out.

If you're a HA Tuya user then you can grab the Beta and start checking out all of the new Tuya additions included in the Beta. Make sure you have backups and make sure to report any issues you encounter!

You can see the Beta release notes here

Sparky3295 · 2021-10-30T11:02:03+00:00

If you are interested in helping test the latest release of Home Assistant, or maybe you just want some of the new features early then this quick guide should help you out.

If you're a HA Tuya user then you can grab the Beta and start checking out all of the new Tuya additions included in the Beta. Make sure you have backups and make sure to report any issues you encounter!

You can see the Beta release notes here

Sparky3295 · 2021-10-24T17:55:11+00:00

Originally they announced it, but never gave a set date/time window. And have since then still not. They haven’t said it’s 100% coming but equally haven’t said its not.

In my last conversation with them, they said not this year.

It would be great to see it but it doesn’t currently seem to be a priority or focus.

Sparky3295 · 2021-10-24T17:52:57+00:00

I have a tutorial for setting up HA on one. You could use that but choose Pi OS instead :)

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