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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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15+ Smart Home Automation Ideas from Pros
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Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus
CrilleC
The promise of "all available devices will be supported" gave me hope for including more Zigbee devices into to my home as Vera was not a good option for Zigbee devices. Despite the support for new devices is extremely slow, the implementation of Zigbee has a lot to wish for and it seems a low priority at Ezlo I managed to include 22 of my 23 Zigbee devices as generic. But after 2 years of devices still missing attributes and randomly/every controller reboot loosing connection to the controller and had to be power cycled to connect again, and some even dropping off the network completely without any reason, I decided to give up. The positive outcome of all this: I bought a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and installed Zigbee2MQTT and never been happier. Suddenly the pairing were no pain and took a few seconds per device, all my devices were recognized, all capabilities of the devices were exposed and it never misses a signal to/from a device ever. I'm surprised how stable and configurable my new setup is. I can set device parameters, offsets, send messages handled by the bulbs them self like effects, broadcast for groups, transition time for power on/off. I can handle debounce for MQTT messages, do OTA firmware update on devices and much more! Most of this is probably standard for the common branded hubs like Hue etc but I never had one so this is new to me. A big plus for me is the MQTT part of Zigbee2MQTT as I'm migrating as much as possible to MQTT. My Ezlo Plus is now serving as a modified WiFi access point to my network and only have the VistaCam 1203 Doorbell still connected for evaluation. Time will tell if I ever move my Z-wave devices to it. Conclusion: I could really recommend both the Sonoff 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and Zigbee2MQTT to anyone going the same path!
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Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup And now to HASS - PerH
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Half-way migration from Vera
therealdbT
In a quest to further stabilize my Vera before I'll move to Z-Way+openLuup or something else later this year (I'm tempted to go the Home Assistant route, since all my friends are here, apparently), I've spent a couple of days removing HTTP calls from the system and I'm now fully using the UDP sender @akbooer has written in the past, to push all variables (and custom events/request as well) to my MQTT broker, then to some code doing the actual work. Responsiveness seems to be at its maximum now, and stability has improved. There's still a lot of code locally on my Vera, but it's mainly doing variables comparison/scenes, while all notifications and heavy logic are now running in my linux box. So, maybe, not insisting on the sockets and just use the same UDP server is the way to go for me.
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My Home Automation Story
rafale77R
Share your blog or adventure here. Here is mine: https://rafale77.blogspot.com
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My migration from Vera, or what I did on my holidays
CatmanV2C
Well here we go. A slow, considered migration from Vera to something (I hope) more reliable. Hopefully we'll end up with a decent documented process for people as right now I'm still not quite clear Starting point: I have a 'mature' Mios set up running on an extrooted Vera Plus with roughly 100 devices, both physical and virtual Integration with Alexa both voice control and TTS iPhones for Geolocation Volumio devices for music playing around the house. I have no user defined scenes, all automation is run from Reactor. My impetus is final dissatisfaction with the quality of UI7 software delivery and operational rigour (for full disclosure I am a senior IT Operations leader with circa 20 years experience delivering properly stable systems, so I probably have un-realistic expectations ) So initial steps: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (I think this is my 5, and 6th Pi in total. I may have a problem) Raspbian OpenLuup Verabridge That I think is stage 1 C
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Not so much a blog
CatmanV2C
...but I now only have house mode scenes left on Vera. All other automation is by Reactor and Switchboard / Alexa routines. WAF may be low tomorrow if it doesn't work C
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My Wandering
ElcidE
I am a Electrician. I installed hundreds of smart devices for others prior to having my own home automation. In 2013 I bought a new house and decided to make it smart. I did some homework and settled on Z-wave and VeraPlus. My installation comprises of 25 Z-wave dimmer/switch inserts 3 Z-wave door sensors 10 sonoff devices(basics,TH16 and Mini) , 4 Tuya(lamps and RGB strips) , 6 shellys(connected to motion sensors and 2 controlling dead DIY bolts ) 3 Amazon Dots(gen2) 2 Broadlink (RMPro's) 4 DIY RF Venetian Blinds 2 Multi button DIY remotes 1 NVR 1 Network drive/Media server/ftp server. 1 smart thermostat heating and hot water 4 wired 240v/battery Aico smoke and heat detectors (connect to zwave via Relays) 1 robot hover. 1 Siren Node-red server running on android. Testing openluup on android. Automate App running on andorid Boxes/phones. All tv's are connected to android boxes. No windows PC. Debian running on android box. Plugins Reactor, AlexaTTS, Switchboard and Virtual HTTP Switch. I can control all of my devices from anyone of these platforms Vera/OpenLuup, Node-red, Automate(phone/tv box) or Alexa. All devices have a standard/manual switch for anyone to control, and can be controlled even if my VeraPlus stopped working or internet out. My system is stable and may get a luup reload every couple of weeks. None of my sonoff's or tuya have been flashed. I found Shelly very late into game and will be using these more now i found them, as they offer local control. I have some coding knowledge from the 90's, but have never worked in the industry.
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This is me
CatmanV2C
Well, if I see further, it's because I stand of the shoulders of giants. I've got where I got because of the experts here. I started about 15 years ago with some really basic X10 stuff. When we moved in 2011 for some reason it simply would not work in the new house, so z-wave was the thing. Vera lite then Vera Plus. I'm a child of the 70s. I want the car on the drive to be KITT and my lounge a cross between the bridge of the enterprise and the Lars farm on Tattoine. Not there yet, but with about 250 devices (virtual and real) things are fun (when they work!) The absolute killer app for me is Alexa bi directional speech. To the extent that I've walked into hotel rooms and said 'Alexa turn the lights on....' I'm within a spit of never buying another control and doing everything via Alexa and Reactor (had to drop that in) So that's pretty much me. C
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My Home Automation 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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