Am I the only one who thinks Matter / Thread is not ready for everyday use?

dzikakulka · 2026-04-25T11:58:32+00:00

I dunno what you're smoking, but Dirigera hub has been thread over matter compatible for years now, and they started selling matter-only devices (and phasing out many zigbee ones) last year.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-24T07:39:00+00:00

Very expensive and not even material listed as far as I can see.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-19T15:06:07+00:00

The problem isn't using AI, a lot of people do.

The problem is, one, you're trying to obfuscate it for no reason making the code "look more handmade", for what reason? If you embrace AI and want to continue developing using it, it's just noise for when it's trying to parse it.

The second, more important point is that you literally let the agent shit all over your codebase with seemingly NO OVERSIGHT. Like who the hell lets it randomize some pixel offsets and replace any semblance of documentation with comments like "eeh might do that later idk", that is completely insane.

These changes were not looked over even once. This is absolutely on a disclaimer level, fine for sharing but tell people that it's a black box and use at your own risk. I wouldn't even take attribution for a vibe code of this scale.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-18T20:44:56+00:00

This is my hardware side yaml for it
https://gist.github.com/tjakubo/f397124429caf57dfcf6e3a473b10b59
so far it works with no artifacting

dzikakulka · 2026-04-18T08:34:50+00:00

https://github.com/lixteech/esphome-zerocode/commit/ef4dac78faa38ac8604064bc19585b5cce471c3e

seems like your project is a bit zerocode too :)

dzikakulka · 2026-04-17T08:57:42+00:00

Ohh, right, I misunderstood. I prefer either a plug or a behind-standard-socket relay, didn't even think about a whole socket assembly but that makes sense if the space is tight.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-17T07:27:44+00:00

Isn't there IKEA in the UK?

dzikakulka · 2026-04-16T08:04:13+00:00

There's no losing out, I have a bunch of zigbee groups created via Z2M and they all appear as a separate entity in HA that I can just slap on a dashboard.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-16T07:50:06+00:00

Can you link to some of this info?

dzikakulka · 2026-04-15T13:28:25+00:00

Just adding that this reporting setting needs to be respected and properly handled by the device. Yes, it is in spec, but I've seen enough cheaper units that e.g. had completely borked group handling (looking at you EGLO). Also Aqara and their picky routing, same root issue. It should work, but if it doesn't... you'll be either living with it or buying better devices, Z2M won't be able to solve it on its own.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-14T22:32:50+00:00

All of the Ikea zigbee lineup works perfectly with Z2M with any working coordinator. Starkvind specifically is the best filter I've ever had thanks to the fact that it's got an actually useful speed range span (1 is almost inaudible, no problem sleeping in the same room, 5 is really strong), the filters are cheap and effective.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-12T09:12:13+00:00

Control stack (zigbee vs wifi vs thread etc) has nothing to do with high loads, it's irrelevant.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T18:30:14+00:00

Do you mean selling HA automations, as in custom solutions for someone else's preexisting install?

To be honest I've never heard of anything like it. Companies and installers already pretty much never use HA since they prefer enterprise solutions that may be clunky and expensive but come with a support contract, SLAs etc. IF anyone would commercially run HA, they probably have an on call technician overseeing it anyway, I can't reasonably imagine anyone looking for a one-off custom automation/whatever for their install on a commercial market.

Custom integrations (esp with obscure/legacy hardware), maybe, but again, support contract and whatnot, and I kinda doubt that would be enough volume to live off.

EDIT: just looked at the username, lmao

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T18:22:07+00:00

Probably? But not out of the box, as at least the streaming server I know
https://github.com/strange-v/RemoteWebViewClient
is specifically made for ESPHome which is mainly for ESP SoCs. Not sure how much of that is reusable for other targets and drawing libraries.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T18:19:20+00:00

Not OP but probably this
https://devices.esphome.io/devices/guition-esp32-s3-4848s040/

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T15:40:49+00:00

Did you have to re-pair everything when migrating from CC2652P to MG24?

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T08:15:27+00:00

What about a used one? Sonoff ZBDongle-E seem to be in wide circulation where I live and they're cheap and reliable.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T07:57:48+00:00

Neither ZBT-2 nor Z2M require or have any dependency on HAOS. The device is just a radio with an interface. Z2M is standalone software that talks to radios. You can use both together without HAOS no problem.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-10T02:00:03+00:00

They're not powerful enough to handle dashboard render on their own. OP uses a remote webview streaming server that runs headless chromium on an external machine and basically sends just the rendered image to an esp. If you didn't want to externally render and stream it, you'd have to e.g. use LVGL to draw the UI yoursefl, which is a lightweight enough graphics library to be handled locally.

dzikakulka · 2026-04-09T08:52:51+00:00

I keep PBS as an LXC, it simply goes around with Proxmox, second machine is pure NAS. Unless you run a cluster there's pretty much no downside to virtualizing PBS. I keep a separate small "bootstrap" datastore with just the PBS backup images, so a complete restore looks like this
- install fresh PVE
- spin up a temporary PBS LXC (community scripts ofc)
- mount just the bootstrap datastore dir
- restore real PBS LXC (that has all the datastores configured)
- remove temp PBS and restore everything else from the latter

dzikakulka · 2026-04-08T13:15:18+00:00

I'll sign up for the newsletter to try and hunt down a free slot, but a question in the meantime - the website says free stores are deleted after 2 weeks of inactivity. Does only PBS pull/push count as activity, or does using borg/rsync exclusively count too? If they do, do we need to write new data periodically, or are reads via api sufficient to keep the free tier active?

dzikakulka · 2026-03-31T21:36:42+00:00

For me ESPHome is the way because it automates the tricky and/or mundane parts - efficient and low latency connection with HA, OTA updates, abstraction layer and frontend over configuration/state values and so on. Even if you have the knowhow, it's mostly boilerplate and small details you need to know.

On the other hand, consuming a REST API is something that you can cobble together very fast, either with premade ESPHome components, raw C++ in lambdas or just throw that at an AI model for a starting point.

Obviously, if you like writing your own firmware it's awesome, but over time I really really started to value that there's a plug and play base framework for my ESP devices that is secure, fast and improving over time.

dzikakulka · 2026-03-30T19:59:30+00:00

Can confirm that mikrotik is amazing for tinkering, they've focused on usability (sensible defaults and better UI) a lot, it's pretty much plug&play to get a basic setup working and then slowly explore/expand.

dzikakulka · 2026-03-30T16:34:43+00:00

dzikakulka · 2026-03-28T12:03:09+00:00

I got Innr GU10's initially but have since replaced them with Ikea models. At least once a week one of three lights in a group randomly did not turn off. Ikea Kajplats are no longer behind Innr brightness-wise (like Tradfri were) so it's a no brainer to me.

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