Subj : Home Assistant
To   : Captain Obvious
From : deon
Date : Thu Dec 14 2023 10:26:29

  Re: Home Assistant
  By: Captain Obvious to deon on Wed Dec 13 2023 11:37 am

 >  de> Anybody playing with home assistant?
 >
 > I do. Extensively. Actually use two different HA systems. Homeassistant and
 > Homeseer. I've run Homeseer since 2001 and just started using HomeAssistant
 > about two years ago. Not quite as familiar with it as I would like. Use
 > NodeRED to connect the two.

What do you get your home assistants doing?

Mine really hasnt done much. Since I've added some Ring devices, I'm finding it useful to keep an eye on their batteries. I added the solar charger around the doorbell, but its not really in a good spot to get sun. We've had some crappy weather the last week, so its really hasnt got any charge from it - but I was surprised to see it did get a boost of charge from it about a week ago.

I've just managed to get it hooked up to my electric smart meter. It was on my list to do a loooong time ago, but worked on it last week, and happy it is pretty reliable getting the meter data now (via an EMU-2, which is zigbee to the meter, and serial port to ha).

I really wanted to get the bluetooth working, so that it knows when my wife and I are home (if possible) - and based on somebody being home automation can do some stuff (like randomly turn on lights)...

Might have to explore the bluetooth dongle route...


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