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    Mios dashboard isn't displaying anything. Anyone know what is going on?

  • A place to talk about whatever you want

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    CatmanV2C

    Well after much trepidation, and some additional work, I think we are complete.

    After the successful virtualisation of my Home Assistant and Music Server hosts, and a successful POC of the main Vera / MQTT / MSR / everything else box I did some testing with a spare UZB stick to make sure I could connect it to the virtual host.

    With a long weekend ahead to solve any issues, this morning I bit the bullet and shut down the hardware device, moved the production UZB stick over to the NAS and spun up the VM.

    It was not entirely smooth as for some reason Z-way-server was saying it wasn't connected and AltUI claimed an authentication issue, but with some judicious restarts and testing, everything that I can think of to test now works!

    Some of the Z-wave commands from remote controls are a little slow, oddly, but I suspect the network needs to sort itself out as it's nearly two months 'old' Direct control from web interfaces / voice commands seems fine so I'm not overly worried.

    So, barring any unforseen failures, I have a fully virtualised system. Better even, when reading about the Synology range, I decided to source an older unit as a backup cluster device so I have some serious resilience 🙂

    Thanks for all the support an input!

    C

  • A place to put some How-To documentations

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    CatmanV2C

    What is the trigger for the Apple Home automation? Any screen shots might help

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  • Share and discuss your lua creations here

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    akbooerA

    Why use any individual scene code at all? Per the reference docs you cited, if you define a scene_prolog global (presumably with the exact same code as your existing executeSceneNumber) that should work directly.

  • Hardware related - Small board computer to IP Camera and technologies like Zigbee or Zwave!

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    To manage high temperatures (600°C) with Zigbee and Sonoff iHost, you can use a high-temperature thermocouple (like a K-type) with a MAX31855 or MAX6675 converter. Then, connect it to an ESP8266/ESP32 microcontroller with a Zigbee module (like Sonoff Zigbee). This way, you can read the temperature and integrate it into your automation stack via MQTT or HTTP.

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    CatmanV2C

    For anyone coming on this later, you can't specify ip / port in Z-way server. You need to run socat on the z-way server host as specced here:
    https://forum.z-wave.me/viewtopic.php?f=3417&t=32593&p=83558&hilit=socat#p83558

    If you're using ser2net you shouldn't need to use socat on the host that's serving the stick

    C

  • The goodness of vera without the bad. Discuss installation problems and improvements.

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    "AK: Your best bet would surely be to register a callback handler to listen for messages on a specific address?"

    Yep - that seems the most obvious method - just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed some other turn of events. With your own callback handler, you can clearly sort out any email encodings, etc.

    On the Doco - Goggle doesn't seem to index github io pages. Seems to me you need to have some sort of URL redirect, that looks like say https://smarthome.community/openluup, that would get indexed? ie via the web server set up or similar.

  • Got a question, a comment about the community or the forum? Ask away!

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    toggledbitsT

    That's the beauty of community support!

  • Blog posts from individual members. Feel free to talk about your project, your smart home setup!

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    The locksmith is trying to persuade me to purchase the BE-TECH K35 touchscreen lock with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, claiming it's better than the Yale Assure Lock 2. What are your thoughts on this? Which one would you recommend?

    Here is the link to the Chinese brand BE-TECH: BE-TECH Smart Deadbolt K3S.

    The other smart lock I am considering is the Schlage Encode Plus.

    Thank you!

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