Home Assistant

Are you running HA in a VM on that?

Not a topic for this thread really, but tteck has a script for creating an LXC (application container) so that you can eliminate the VM.

https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

Frigate too.

Have you seen the new version of Frigate? It's crazy good. I have a Coral to offload the CPU and it's really worth it if you're going down the self-hosted NVR with AI detection route. Have a play.

Watching two security cameras that I have had installed since 2020. Means that I only record footage for events where there is movement or a detection.

Using HA Blue for 6 months, no issues so far.

I use it to detect sheep which come in to my wife's vegetables. HA sends an alert 'Help the sheep ate eating my vegetables again!!!' 😀

Yes, coral usb, its running with no issues.

If you setup another thread we can help with troubleshooting?

I'm using a HA Yellow for about 6 months. It was hard to find a seller back then but found and ordered the Home Assistant Yellow kit and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 from

https://raspberrypi.dk/en/shop/category/home-assistant-en/

A major win for Home Assistant today. Water leak sensor under the kitchen sink alerted me. The outlet pipe from the dishwasher going into the main waste pipe has got loose. Only a few drops came out but enough to trigger the sensor, an aqara one.

Yeah, small leaks like that can do huge damage to cabinets before they are discovered. Gets time to soak into the boards and swell up. At least with a big leak, it's noticed quickly

Have one other leak detector in the office toilet but going to invest in a few more now. I'll probably get the new IKEA ones, a bit cheaper and quicker delivery.

Aqara stuff not cheap anymore. Think I gave €7 each for those two sensors, around 12 now. IKEA one 10

Wow, I didn't even know such a thing existed. Tbh that's much better than the likes of changing the hue of a lightbulb. Up to this point I personally never had a genuine purpose for HA

Highly impressed with myself today! I installed a Shelly 1PM Mini on one of my light switches. I have a new build (2021), and I had assumed (because I only looked behind one or two light switches) that I had no neutral in my lighting circuits. The ones I looked at didn't have a neutral wire. Anyway, I was going to put the Shelly at the light fixture, but I discovered that my switches do have a neutral wire. Delighted!

But it wasn't that simple. It was a two-gang, two-way switch, so there were a lot of brown wires. 🙂 I consulted Google Bard, uploading the Shelly instruction manual and describing what I had and what I wanted to do. To be fair, it did a bang-up job and explained it to me in very simple terms. (I am using Google AI Studio.) I also, obviously, looked at the Shelly install videos, and between the two sources, it worked out first time—no sparks!

Now I can switch the lights on and off from the wall switch, but I can also switch them using Home Assistant and run some automations. Also, no moaning from the family since they can physically use the switch.

The next project is to automate my garage door, but that is going to be a bit more complicated as I have to use a Shelly 2PM Also, I must order a load more Shelly Minis. I am lucky in a way, as my light switch boxes have a good bit of room because the builders used plasterboard on top of the block walls, so they stand out and extra 20-30mm, giving enough room for a mini.

@10-10-20 Its not a dimmer switch just a regular on off replay with power monitoring dont really need the PM but it was only 3 euro more so why not. I have it set up on my stairs landing lights and they are just GU10 LEDs.

On other lights I just use Philips HUE lights as they are Zigbee and help with my Zigbee network but I have to tape down the swiches where I have them because I cant trust the missus not to switch them off

Shelly 1PM Mini Gen3 - All products - Shop - Shelly