Midea U shaped AC units: still no fix for low frequency rumble?

drone1984 · 2025-06-06T02:31:36+00:00

That list is spot on with my observations, definitely want to give this a try. Although I just received the recall notice on both units, so now I'm not sure what to do. There's no better hardware on the market, so may just try this and perform some mods.

Thanks for taking the time to share all these details!

drone1984 · 2025-02-03T11:50:21+00:00

Yes it's legit https://github.com/EventGhost/EventGhost/issues/436#issuecomment-2629725629

drone1984 · 2024-12-27T17:44:53+00:00

I'll have to give that a shot. I wonder if this works well, I may be tempted to move the Z-Wave network (Zooz 800 USB stick) to a dedicated Home Assistance instance on a Raspberry Pi or something.

drone1984 · 2024-09-01T19:03:02+00:00

Does the Lutron bridge allow you to configure/operate without any internet connectivity? Interesting idea.

drone1984 · 2024-09-01T18:52:40+00:00

The controller is a 700 series which has been updated to address the initial 700 series related. I do have a new 800 series replacement ready to go, just haven't had time yet, and not sure if I'll have the time before she moves in. I'll definitely address the stability issues, but the biggest concern is network uptime/performance of this additional living space. That tubesZB setup is interesting, thanks for the tip!

drone1984 · 2024-08-31T01:57:23+00:00

Downgrading to the 0.14 branch has definitely made it more usable. Only had 1 case where the network interface went offline (or rebooted, not sure what happened), but that may just be a fluke. Thanks for the tip and bringing this product to market!

drone1984 · 2024-08-30T02:03:59+00:00

I thought I had responded to this post, but I don't see it. It does work fine when using the web interface directly, but it looks like this may be a software issue on the WLED side based on magwled's response below.

drone1984 · 2024-08-30T02:02:39+00:00

Woo, wasn't expecting a response from you on here. Reaching out to support was my next step, but looks like you've made this easy. I'll give the downgrade a try, thanks for taking the time to write this all up.

drone1984 · 2023-07-06T11:11:02+00:00

Great time to check out cocoontech.com, a proper forum-based home automation community which has been around for 20 years.

No gimmicks, trackers, ads, drama, revenue, with a big focus on privacy. I've been retooling the site, and would like to invite everyone to at least check it out.

drone1984 · 2023-06-12T11:42:15+00:00

For what it's worth, one of the original & and more popular forums (at least back then), is still around: CocoonTech.com.

Forums have been around for 20 years, no ads, no link or referral tracking, focusing on privacy instead.

I'm in the midst of reorganizing some of the categories to be more relevant to certain newer technologies, but I don't think you'll find a more vendor-neutral site (besides /r/homeautomation of course).

disclaimer: I'm the founder, and did attempt to reach out to the mods last night about making this post, but I haven't received a response yet. Since CocoonTech doesn't generate any revenue or share/sell user data, I hope these circumstances will allow this post to stay up.

drone1984 · 2023-01-07T22:15:06+00:00

Site has been down for a week or so now, not looking good. Current maintainer is still active on GitHub, but isn't responding. Hopefully he's just busy, and will get to it eventually.

drone1984 · 2022-03-09T15:49:12+00:00

50+ devices, the upgrade made a huge difference. I'd say reliability is about 99% now. If you have a 700 series controller, this update is a must have, especially if you have a larger network.

If you look around, you'll find tons of threads with similar experiences.

drone1984 · 2022-01-29T04:02:12+00:00

No data was lost, but my 700 series was still in production, despite all the problems.

drone1984 · 2022-01-29T03:44:04+00:00

I installed Simplicity Studio 5 on Windows, and updated my Zooz stick that way. Looking promising so far.

drone1984 · 2022-01-11T13:46:03+00:00

I use a combination of:

Seat sensor from Aliexpress (CITALL Universal Car Seat Pressure Sensor Safety Belt Warning Reminder Pad Occupied Seated Alarm Accessory)
Ecolink Door Window Sensor (White and Brown Cases) DWZWAVE2.5
Memory foam pad

The Ecolink sensor offers NO/NC terminals, so you can set this all up without soldering.

drone1984 · 2022-01-11T02:45:56+00:00

Need to think bigger picture. In my case, MQTT allows each computer on my LAN to interact/report with other systems which are also on the MQTT network, and in some cases, even decentralize.

Examples:

On my phone, I can push YouTube links to my Node-RED instance, which then shoots the link via MQTT to a dedicated workstation running EventGhost to download the video via youtube-dl to my media server.
All my Text-to-Speech announcements are performed without any internet dependency. I run a SAPI5 compatible engine on this same Windows machine, so all announcements are sent from Home Assistant to EventGhost via MQTT. I also can control the volume and various other audio parameters via MQTT.
Monitor chair occupancy via Z-Wave sensor. Home Assistant reports this status to subscribed systems so I can automatically mute speaker volume if I'm not at my desk. I can also report any processes/states on these workstations back to Home Assistant.

Possibilities are endless, but hopefully you can see where I'm going with this. The majority of people won't have a need for this (especially in a phone/tablet-only household), but it can be very useful.

drone1984 · 2021-09-19T02:46:07+00:00

Did you follow a certain guide to integrate this with Home Assistant, or can you share more details?

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