zoob
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We had a few threads about home automation here and there but I felt like it was sort of intrusive to other people's (lowfat's mainly -_-) threads to post about my own setup or just to ask about some general stuff. Seems like there are a few people here dabbling with this type of stuff but not enough to dedicate a whole subforum, so how about a general thread?
Here's my current setup after dabbling with it on and off for a few years. Finally got it in a presentable state.
Started with a Pi + RaZberry hat for zwave, moved to a Zstick, added on Hue, SmartThings, and finally a Zigbee sniffer. Went from openHab 1 to 2 and now to Home Assistant (HA)
Home Assistant HassOS running in a VM with the following integrations:
- Zwave via ZStick (GE/Leviton/zooz light switches & dimmers, Monoprice/Dome/Ring door/window/garage/leak sensors, water main shutoff motor)
- Philips Hue integration (requires a Hue bridge)
- Hue emulation to expose it to Amazon Alexa (requires an Echo dot, and voice control via Alexa on Sonos)
- Ecobee integration for temperature sensors (ecobee 3)
- MyQ garage door opener control
- Sonos (it can do TTS for audible notifications!)
- TPLink Kasa (HS110 power reading and switch controls, no cloud required)
- MQTT for zigbee2mqtt, airthings2mqtt, BlueIris security camera events
RPi 3B running Rasbian to read things and send to HA via MQTT
- Zigbee via Zigbee2MQTT using a CC2531 sniffer (use Hue remotes for anything, SmartThings sensors to trigger other actions)
- 433 MHz device sniffing via rtl433-to-mqtt using a RTLSDR dongle (Acurite temperature sensors, still need to fix this)
- BLE polling of Airthings sensors via a custom MQTT python script (Radon and air quality readings)
Here's my dashboard:
Long press a light switch:
Airthings sensor exposed to HA via my python script which will go up on github eventually
Inspiration for the light buttons:
- sparkydave light button card
- matt8707 light button hold-action pop up card
- using the two ideas above also made a custom button for Kasa HS110 power meter switch to toggle power / display wattage
Mini graph card for stacked graphing of temps etc:
Node-red automations:
- We have no HRV or ERV ... our house was designed to use the bathroom fan as whole home ventilation (built one year before building code required an HRV)
- When heating/cooling is on I limit it to 30 min to minimize the amount of exhausted air
Manual automations:
- Notify me via HomeAssistant app (150 free notices per day) about front door open/close, basement leak, security camera motion, washing machine done
- Smartthings motion sensor to turn on basement stair lights since my hands are generally full and the switch is in a hard to reach spot
- Hue dimmer remote on main floor to shut off all basement lights
- Hue dimmer remote to control Ikea lamp on a zwave plug-in dimmer module
Using the Hue remote you need to program each action... you can have press, or hold, or multiple presses... so it can get messy pretty quickly. I only use press.
ZWave items exposed to Alexa via emulated hue:
Please share your configs, customizations, uses, and ideas!
Here's my current setup after dabbling with it on and off for a few years. Finally got it in a presentable state.
Started with a Pi + RaZberry hat for zwave, moved to a Zstick, added on Hue, SmartThings, and finally a Zigbee sniffer. Went from openHab 1 to 2 and now to Home Assistant (HA)
Home Assistant HassOS running in a VM with the following integrations:
- Zwave via ZStick (GE/Leviton/zooz light switches & dimmers, Monoprice/Dome/Ring door/window/garage/leak sensors, water main shutoff motor)
- Philips Hue integration (requires a Hue bridge)
- Hue emulation to expose it to Amazon Alexa (requires an Echo dot, and voice control via Alexa on Sonos)
- Ecobee integration for temperature sensors (ecobee 3)
- MyQ garage door opener control
- Sonos (it can do TTS for audible notifications!)
- TPLink Kasa (HS110 power reading and switch controls, no cloud required)
- MQTT for zigbee2mqtt, airthings2mqtt, BlueIris security camera events
RPi 3B running Rasbian to read things and send to HA via MQTT
- Zigbee via Zigbee2MQTT using a CC2531 sniffer (use Hue remotes for anything, SmartThings sensors to trigger other actions)
- 433 MHz device sniffing via rtl433-to-mqtt using a RTLSDR dongle (Acurite temperature sensors, still need to fix this)
- BLE polling of Airthings sensors via a custom MQTT python script (Radon and air quality readings)
Here's my dashboard:
Long press a light switch:
Airthings sensor exposed to HA via my python script which will go up on github eventually
Inspiration for the light buttons:
- sparkydave light button card
- matt8707 light button hold-action pop up card
- using the two ideas above also made a custom button for Kasa HS110 power meter switch to toggle power / display wattage
Mini graph card for stacked graphing of temps etc:
GitHub - kalkih/mini-graph-card: Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI
Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI - kalkih/mini-graph-card
github.com
Node-red automations:
- We have no HRV or ERV ... our house was designed to use the bathroom fan as whole home ventilation (built one year before building code required an HRV)
- When heating/cooling is on I limit it to 30 min to minimize the amount of exhausted air
Manual automations:
- Notify me via HomeAssistant app (150 free notices per day) about front door open/close, basement leak, security camera motion, washing machine done
- Smartthings motion sensor to turn on basement stair lights since my hands are generally full and the switch is in a hard to reach spot
- Hue dimmer remote on main floor to shut off all basement lights
- Hue dimmer remote to control Ikea lamp on a zwave plug-in dimmer module
Using the Hue remote you need to program each action... you can have press, or hold, or multiple presses... so it can get messy pretty quickly. I only use press.
ZWave items exposed to Alexa via emulated hue:
Please share your configs, customizations, uses, and ideas!