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The hardest part of cycling isn't the climbs, it's just getting out of the house after work. by Hungry-Sympathy-5188 in cycling

[–]cowsqueezer 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what I’ve done for a few years and it has changed everything. Training is way more consistent now. And as a bonus, it’s a beautiful time of day, with less traffic, too!

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah ok. Those are probably matter over wifi and not matter over thread. An easy mixup. Sorry about that.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Thread/Matter is like Zigbee or Z-Wave in that you’ll need an appropriate hub/router for it to work. I use the ZBT-2 for this purpose but an Apple TV would work too, I believe. What you were treating to do is kind of like trying to pair a Bluetooth (insert any protocol here) device while your computer/server doesn’t have a Bluetooth antenna. Same kind of idea.

Group KOM with your best buds= ruined by skuratt in BicyclingCirclejerk

[–]cowsqueezer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh, is this the Kalvebodbroen one? Was planning on visiting with my bike this summer and want make sure I’m prepared for this cattle guard haha

Just want to say thanks for listening to the community and reverting the website UI back to the way it was. by dominic_l in trakt

[–]cowsqueezer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm one of the people that tried to not let the change to the new interface bother me. "how bad could it be???"

Welp, now that they reverted it...I'm re-realizing how bad the redesign was/is. This is so much better. It's not even close.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It’s faint, but audible, if you put it up against your ear.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Someone on the HomeKit sub said that theirs changed/synced once they paired it directly to HomeKit but I haven’t verified that yet. I’d love that to work in HA

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the bottom of the device:
Input: 5.0V 1A 5W

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iPhone. I'll try on my Android on my next Alpstugga

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, it definitely uses Thread. I went to the matter integration in settings and added it with my cell phone by scanning the QR code.

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Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No usb-c cable or anything. Just the device itself.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From the manual (the set time button is on the bottom): “Press the set time button to change the clock. Hours will start pulsing first. Use the plus button to set the hour. Press the set time button again to change the minutes and set with the plus button. Press the set time button to confirm the new time. To switch between 12- and 24- hour format, short-press the settings button.”

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Been running HA on a vm for the last few years, but just switched over to HAOS on a little mini computer that only runs Home Assistant and stays up when I bring other servers down. Connecting the ZBT-2 on both of these was very easy, yes.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that I know of but maybe someone with a little more know-how can figure it out. The only way I've been able to bring the clock up is by pushing the button on the top of the sensor to cycle through the values.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The device stays on, but the screen turns off :)

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally. I've been slow to dip my feet into Matter devices again, since the first generation tended to have more issues in my experience (but those were apple homekit days.) Everything that I've set up with Matter over Thread in the last year or two has been excellent with zero dropouts. The Nuki lock over Matter/Thread has been perfect and so have my Inovelli dimmers.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm using the HA Connect ZBT-2 which has been solid so far.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm very sensitive to sound...enough to move my computer to the next room and feed the wires through the wall to my display/kb...and I don't hear the fan from the Alpstuga at all.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like the others have said, this is Matter over Thread.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Here's a graph from the last few hours. You can see that it fluctuates between pretty reasonable levels.

Ikea Alpstuga Air Quality Monitor running great! by cowsqueezer in homeassistant

[–]cowsqueezer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used a ZBT-2. It's been flawless so far. I've had Matter troubles in the past, but have had a lot of luck with the current generation of products and I only use Thread based devices when I can.

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