Leviton is pretty proprietary, isn't it? I'd say avoid it if so. Unless they have Matter/Thread stuff, those should be compatible with various other brands stuff.
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Sure thing, I'll be happy to take a glance. I'm not a super expert, but I have some experience trying to do some weird bits.
Yippee!
Are you handy with code? If so, you probably could do it and contribute a PR to fix it
Ah, good luck. Probably can hop on the discord and get some decent pointers on where to start/structure.
My HA instance is kinda old and somewhat wonkily setup. I'm debating if I want to just start from a fresh setup. I have some stuff in configs and such, and they've done a lot of progress to put config more UI and such. Plus what I know now about setting up the dual homed stuff and so on.
Could you maybe come down from the top or up from the bottom, through the walls, for rewiring work like that, without disturbing much, if any, of the plaster? And could you run some kind of flexible conduit to meet code without having to staple down to things, even if you do end up having to leave wire in the walls that's stapled down but not connected to anything.
@Scotttheking you're referring to Zigbee/ZWave controls?
I was using old style Groups, I need to redo those to be the newer Groups, so that I can use the Voice PE to start controlling things.
I was using old style Groups, I need to redo those to be the newer Groups, so that I can use the Voice PE to start controlling things.
Yeah, Zigbee (and I think Matter/Thread) allows direct control too. Although I've never done so, always have it go through HA.
And my Groups were the old, yaml configuration ones. I only recently discovered there's a UI to create Groups now! Thus my thought of maybe I need to scrap my existing, and give the system a full revamp from scratch with all of the lessons learned.
And my Groups were the old, yaml configuration ones. I only recently discovered there's a UI to create Groups now! Thus my thought of maybe I need to scrap my existing, and give the system a full revamp from scratch with all of the lessons learned.
Considering my HA instance runs over top of FreeBSD NAS/Server, I don't know that Docker would work, or would be a lot more effort, so a VM it is. HassOS to be specific, and I also like the Add-On easy install/etc bit too.
Although I do run Frigate in it's own VM, and I use the Proxy Add-On, because it was before HA added better external/network/additional data storage functionality.
Although I do run Frigate in it's own VM, and I use the Proxy Add-On, because it was before HA added better external/network/additional data storage functionality.
You can always use a dynamic dns service instead of static IP. In my experience, home IPs generally don't change very much, unless you're offline for quite a while.
Innnnteresting. I'm very much wondering if that's baked into the hardware, or something baked into ESP-IDF, their development framework, and a update to that could strip all those BT things out. If the ESP-IDF update is viable, that'd be nice.
Ah. I've done so via reverse proxy TLS Nginx, I haven't done a wireguard/whatever VPN from my phone/laptop to my home yet.
Hrm? Backdoor was fake? How do you mean? Any info somewhere about that?
Wait...so these commands are Host -> BT? Not Remote BT device -> device Host?
I mean... huh? Thank you very much for this. Doesn't really seem like anything to freak out in the slightest. It's neat how they figured out that it was there...but such non-news. sigh
Well, if you have ZigBee you can get a variety of ones, https://zigbee.blakadder.com/ is generally a good spot for a list that you can find things that likely will work.
DIYing with ESPhome shouldn't be so hard either
https://community.home-assistant.io...that-works-with-esphome-home-assistant/379459
https://theorangeone.net/posts/esphome-dht-sensor/
https://www.instructables.com/Humidity-Temperature-Sensor-ESPHome/
https://home-assistant-guide.com/guide/the-best-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-for-esphome/
https://github.com/jepnoda/ESP-Temperature-Sensor
Among many other guides out there.
EDIT: Oh, you want an actual thermostat? That could be more of an issue, maybe check to see what kind you currently have. Is it simply closing a relay (2 wire) to turn on and off? That should be easy to do. However you'll also want some minimum time on/maximum time on configured as well. They generally don't want to go on-off-on-off sort of behavior within seconds.
DIYing with ESPhome shouldn't be so hard either
https://community.home-assistant.io...that-works-with-esphome-home-assistant/379459
https://theorangeone.net/posts/esphome-dht-sensor/
https://www.instructables.com/Humidity-Temperature-Sensor-ESPHome/
https://home-assistant-guide.com/guide/the-best-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-for-esphome/
https://github.com/jepnoda/ESP-Temperature-Sensor
Among many other guides out there.
EDIT: Oh, you want an actual thermostat? That could be more of an issue, maybe check to see what kind you currently have. Is it simply closing a relay (2 wire) to turn on and off? That should be easy to do. However you'll also want some minimum time on/maximum time on configured as well. They generally don't want to go on-off-on-off sort of behavior within seconds.
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