Just to add… if you don’t want this, the minimal version of the HA app doesn’t use 3rd party systems for notifications (you’d need to setup something yourself), so if this is a problem for you, there’s also that option…

Just sayin’…

Yeah, it’s good to see actual data to back up claims, and TBH, justify what some of us were probably thinking, but didn’t have the time / motivation to research… like many Ras Pis vs 1 traditional PC.

Wyzecam (V2) / Neos Smartcam with Dafang Hacks

Works like a charm. Cheap. Cheerful. I have 3 around the house all streaming to HA

Ah, ok… I see. I guess you’ve not filtering on distance then, ok. I see all my neighbours stuff on 1 sensor, so automatically started filtering (and then attempting to tune)

Good point on the negative room sensing, I think I need to start this again… but also ditch the crap module.

Thanks

Noice.

But… how much faffing did you have to do to get the tuning right?

I’ve recently started using this and have 3 different ESP modules and I’m having a hellofatime getting them to show near-enough results, let alone accurate.

1 of them literally has the phone on top of it and it thinks it’s 4m away.

I’ve gone upto absorbtion factor 10 (Spock) with an RSSI adjustment of 6, and that’s passible on 1 device, but not another

So… what’s your secret?

Well written

Nice to know, thanks

Just out of curiosity, I presume a full backup (inside HA, not of the VM itself) can be restored to a completely new HA VM and everything returns? Addons? Integrations? HACS?

Edit: and history?

Or… not?

What graph card are you using?

Not OP, but take a look at Open Energy Monitor - I use EmonPi which is a Raspberry Pi based system with current detection sensors

Uses the Emoncms Integration to read the data into HA.

You can also embed it’s own webUI into HA with a webcard

Yep. This is the way…

IMHO the only accurate way to detect a sleeping person that doesn’t move for hours, is by weight / pressure.

Nice. I like that idea. Thanks for sharing.

Only concern would be if the tape started going yellow over time…

But, who am I kidding, we’ll all be swapping our house cabling to fibre in a few years time anyway ;)

I have never seen nor used a WD MyCloud, but if you know that an upgrade allowed for HA to run (I presume in Docker), then how about just wiping whatever OS is on the NAS and installing a Linix distro, then moving up from there?

A few use TrueNAS to run HA in docker, but a few quick searches shows that won’t work on your hardware.

Probably a lot more work than you were intending, but should simplify the future for that NAS and prevent any kludgy workarounds from trapping you again in the future.

And… I presume you have a backup of everything on that NAS 😉

AFAIK, it was just to install, so yes, probably ok…

Take a look at Volumio… it can run on various hardware and has a plugin for Jellyfin and an integration for HA to control it.

So, in theory, that might work… but…

I run Volumio v2 on a RasPi3 with a DAC board to speakers. I have local (USB) music so I haven’t tried the jellyfin plugin, but it all works well.

My main hesitation is that the v3 software was so buggy and you need an account for plugins, that I just scrapped the upgrade and stayed at v2… so… try it, but it might be more trouble than it’s worth.

I have several Shelley H&T sensors around the house which take CR123A camera batteries.

These are wifi, rather than zigbee, so the battery life on them is relatively short. I did something similar and bought cheap ones, only to find they have low capacity and lasted just a few weeks in some cases.

It took a while, but I found LiPo batteries which have (almost) the same physical dimensions, but higher capacity and are obviously better than throwing alkaline batteries away.

Yes, I’d go for zigbee in the future, but until I can justify replacing them, then this is the next best thing.

The only problem I have is catching the batteries dying in HA to tell me to replace them… the voltage drops a little and then either flatlines or returns to 100%… neither are something I can reliably trigger on… but that’s an automation challenge for another day.

Has anyone tried this on a Pi3?

I also have some Pi Zeros with mic boards, so might try them as satellites and give this another go

I am in the same situation, but jave been compiling ESPHome on a laptop instead - a little inconvenient, but perfectly fine.

I was hoping this (or yellow, or blue) would tempt me to something “better”, but, no, not yet…

I don’t know the actual country of manufacture, but Energenie are good.

I have their individual RF controlled sockets, but I see they have a power strip too.

There’s a “smart” (I hate that marketing term) 4-way power strip and with some intervention I’m sure it could be integrated into HA with an RF bridge.

They do make a Raspberry Pi module, and I own one, but I had it before I had setup HA and just have never tried putting the two together.

Anyway, the sockets seem ok and they appear to have all the relevant certifications.

(And I’m not affiliated with them)

Sure

1st place to look at comparison of features (IMHO 😉) is the Arch Linux Wiki

And there’s also a good list on the Chrony site

But my brief list is:

• If you need to sync and provide time, then use ntpd.
• Otherwise, the (SNTP) client-only systemd-timesyncd is “better”, but, this doesn’t (yet?) use a DHCP NTP option and always writes to a file - not good for read-only filesystems / SD cards (source)
• For laptops / intermittent network connections, use chrony (Note: on LinuxMint, installing this removes systemd-timesyncd)
• For non-battery backed RTCs (ie Raspberry Pi), there’s also fake-hwclock

So, I go with the general theme of your article - keep it simple, don’t install multiple tools to do the same thing - but as you can see, there are use cases where I personally wish we could remove the systemd component(s) and keep the others.