Function/class/variables are bricks, you stack those bricks together and you are a programmer.
I just hired a team to work on a bunch of Power platform stuff, and this “low/no-code” SaaS platform paradigm has made the mentality almost literal.
Would be real nice if the blackadder list somehow flagged devices that are no longer available.
OP asks for “lowest latency” but HTTP is fast enough, and later in the thread says “perceptibly instant” is the goal. HTTP is going to be your slowest option, almost certainly, but even the slowest solution is “instant”.
What exactly are you trying to do, OP?
(Esphome seems like the answer you’re looking for. It’s faster than MQTT and you can program parts of the automation and service management in the ESP hardware. RF is probably the only way to go faster.)
Yeah, lesson learned there, but to OP’s point, nothing ever seems to just work.
Fun part in my case is that the specific bulb I want doesn’t have a ZHA-compatible counterpart. (Hue a19 white& color 1100. The 800 isn’t bright enough.)
Yeah, except I bought a couple new Hue bulbs and ZHA wouldn’t find them. Z2M picked them up immediately. There really is no universal solution, even with “standards”.
Install the nginx proxy manager add-on, set up let’s encrypt for certificates and DuckDNS for name resolution, forward a port from your router. No need for homekit or a full vpn.
This looks like the right answer, since OP’s jinja is correct.
OP, you can go to developer tools to test your template syntax against the live data in HA.
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How are you getting your Hue bulbs into pairing mode? My new ConbeeII stick doesn’t see them. I tried connecting to them with the Bluetooth app and then doing a factory reset, no luck.
My initial Conbee and two hue lights arrived today, and between the pain in the ass that I apparently need a hue hub or something to put the lights in pairing mode, plus this makes me think it’s not going to solve any of my connectivity problems.
Just in time for my Wi-Fi devices to start dropping again for no reason.
My plan is to stick with Hue bulbs as much as possible. More expensive, but seem to be the most solid hardware.
Each device is a repeater, right? So I should try to make every device’s potential signal overlaps multiple others?
Why use the MQTT addon vs the native home assistant integration? Our am I misunderstanding the concept?
Perfect, this is super helpful. I ordered a Conbee per comments below, I expect it’ll work as well as your sonoff.
I think this is where I’m getting frustrated. (On top of my frustration that like 4 lights just decided to stop connecting to my Unifi for absolutely no reason again.) It’s not clear if I can just plug into the HA Zigbee or if I need MQTT or if they both have their uses or when/why, etc.
Is the Conbee 2 coordinator the same device as the poster below’s Conbee II?
Analogies are inherently false equivalences.
It’s illustrating the problem with the argument, not equating DRM technology with puppy kicking.
Not even close. Cuphead is a run & gun shooter, this is a Metroidvania. Cuphead is intentional hand drawn throwback art, this is Disney’s current iteration of the mouse and friends art style.
The only similarity is that both use cartoon drawings.
Free tier is super limited and super easy to accidentally break out of. I had a single file in S3, but because my logging settings were wrong, I broke the free tier with junk logs.
The t2 micro ec2 instances are fine, but you need to be very careful about their storage and network egress.
Best use I’ve had for AWS that has managed to stay within the free limits has been Lambda. Managed to convert a couple self hosted discord bots to a few Lambda functions, works great. Plugging it into CloudFormation and tying up CI/CD with CodePipeline and the like were overkill but good learning exp.
I don’t think there’s any ECS free tier, but you can fit a private container repository in the free S3 limits as well.