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So, I think I'm in a bit of an unusual situation. I work at a camp & retreat center that has wifi throughout. I want to put a few switches in the office that can control outdoor lighting throughout the camp. We currently have switches in each of the buildings, but it is a particularly frustrating job to get all the lights on in the evening when it is brutally cold out or we are short staffed.
Most of our staff is not very tech savvy (my boss literally has his wife print out his emails for him each day!!!) so, I'd love to avoid having to set up any sort of raspberry pi or new phone app.
Is there type of 3-way switch that can connect to the wifi, turn on a light in another building AND turn on an indicator light in the office, without having any sort of wire running between the buildings? Hopefully looking for a simple solution without breaking the bank too.
I greatly appreciate any input that you can give. Thank you!
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I have a X10 wall switch system and I want to get rid of it. What would be the easiest transition to something more modern and easy to use with either wifi/homekit capabilities? My current X10 controls 3 zones in my bedroom. All zones are dimmable.
Zone 1 is 4 canister ceiling lights. LED bulbs
Zone 2 is 1 canister ceiling lights. Halogen Bulb
Zone 3 is 1 canister ceiling lights. Halogen Bulb
I have an old plug-in remote from Radio Shack and a wall switch with 3 buttons, each controlling one zone. (images attached)
My wall switch has one two wires from the wall. One black, one white.Is there any solution easy to install without the need of an electrician? Thanks for any feedback.
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I was just going to add my support for a Update Button for the bare bones version of MSR and find the thread has been removed.
I'm wondering what was so provocative that required it's removal?
Have we become as paranoid as an owner of another forum?Anyway +1 for an Update Button.
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Good morning all,
I'm working on weaning myself off of being totally Vera dependent. I've installed MSR on my Fedora home server, and I've been migrating luup Reactor rules over little by little. My hope is to use Vera as a bare bones z-wave hub, until I replace it either with Ezlo (not so sure about), or perhaps Hubitat. I'm just tired of zero new development in Vera, empty promises of native device integration, and cloud services that go down and leave my automation hanging.In any case, I digress. I've attempted to use Gcal3 on Vera to integrate Public calendars, such as Federal Holidays, School Calendars, etc. It use to somewhat work, but more often than not, all I get from Gcal3 is "token error code: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request". The developer no longer is active, and it's effectively not working anymore.
I'd like to use these public calendars as Entity Attributes or Constraints in MSR. For instance, if it's a Federal Holiday, I don't have to work, and I may want to sleep in, which means lights may not come on as early, window coverings in the bedrooms may open later in the day, etc. Similar idea with a school calendar. If "closed" is in the event, my daughter may want to sleep in, and not want the window coverings opened as early.
I'm aware that Ezlo has integration through NuCal to all sorts of web based services, including Google Calendar, but as I stated earlier, I'm undecided on going down that path. Is there anyway to do this on MSR through any of it's abilities, such as HTTP calls or MQTT ( not experienced in MQTT, so I don't know now it works really).
Has anybody already done this?
Thanks for any advice in advance.
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Hello all, I am finally ditching my Vera and moving to HA using a Zooz ZST10 Z wave stick. I have around 50 Z wave devices with a good mix of battery devices, locks, sensors and switches. The plan is to include all the AC powered devices first, starting from the ones closest to my Z wave stick then moving outwards. Once that is complete I will go back and include all battery powered devices in the same fashion.
My question is there any quick way to exclude all my Z wave devices from Vera, or should I just delete all devices without excluding them and factory reset each device before pairing to HA?
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Some of you may know that I took at shot at building an alternate geofencing solution for Vera. The core of it was system agnostic, using the OwnTracks application and AWS lambdas to track devices and keep a central data, then disseminate that to the Vera via a websocket-based plugin. It worked with other apps as well, including Tasker and GPSLogger, but of the dozen people that were testing it, most used OwnTracks.
A lot was learned in the process, not the least of which is that the success of any such solution is highly dependent on the phone and its settings. Phone manufacturers love to set things up for the longest battery life, of course, but that's usually very anti-geofencing behavior. In the case of at least one brand, it was unusable and the settings could not be modified. It was also cost-prohibitive to maintain on Amazon, as AWS grabs a dime here and a dollar there and before you know it, it added $100/month to my AWS bill, which my wife deducted from my Scotch budget. Unacceptable.
But it's quite reasonable to use OwnTracks to a local endpoint, and I could pretty easily replicate the functionality as a local application, or maybe even as an additional endpoint built into MSR's API (still separate port and process, but in the package).
So the question really is... would you do it, or would you be too concerned about the security risks associated (e.g., dynamic DNS and NAT mapping in the firewall necessary for the phone to contact the service when not on LAN)?
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The Debian Linux machine that MSR is running on, has developed an issue and I can no longer login to it via SSH or directly on its terminal.
It was fine earlier this morning I connected to it via WinSCP to copy all the MSR files down for a backup to my laptop.
Then a bit later I could no longer connect to it. Either in WinSCP or Putty SSH, it now says access denied, even though my password is correct.
I then connected a monitor and keyboard up to the Debian box and I cannot login to it directly either, I put in the username and hit enter and I am not given a password prompt to enter it and something I could not read flashes up on the screen very fast and then disappears. I had to record a video and skip through it to capture what is says, see screen capture below.
I tried logging in as user root and my own username same thing happens, it does not even give me a prompt to enter a password.
If I boot the box in to Debian recovery mode instead I am able to login as the root user OK.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks
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Sigma have released a new Z-Wave Product that may be or interest to some here.
ThunderBoard Z-wave development board.More details are here....ThunderBoard
Also Dr Z-Waves blog link text
Makes for interesting reading.
It's attractively priced at $64.95 and might be a Z-UNO alternative? -
Two stores apparently have inventory of RPI 4Bs with 2GB RAM. Get them while they last!
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Is the Smarthome company still existent? If so, are SwitchLinc switched still available?
Ooops
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I appear to have been suspended from the Mios forum. I suspect for linking my migration post
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Fanfuckingtsastic
Account suspended until June 27, 3020: spam and putting links to competitor sites
It was only a matter of time!
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What competitors site? This is interesting... The old place went from being a discussion forum to share ideas and user/community support and development and it has become mostly a spamming ground for ezlo’s dubious advertising... one can survive there only if you stay in line, helping their platform without criticisism or keep quiet about your dissatisfaction and disappointment as a customer. I just couldn’t do it...
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Wow, that sucks. Their traffic is down too in the latest weeks. Doing community the since early days, this is not the way to have a healthy ecosystem. We'll see.
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I fail to see the infraction, is this site a competitor?
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I fail to see the infraction, is this site a competitor?
<meh>
Ask Melih. He gets right arsey if someone says something that casts doubt on the glorious new world order that will be created when Ezlo gets out of Alpha...
I mean @rafale77 was also classed as a spammer! All pleas for him to be re-instated fell on totally deaf ears. I don't recall that any of the staff even acknowledged the requests
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Your pleased, i'm sure you mean pleas
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Did you get any warnings?
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Did you get any warnings?
Nope, but I was partly expecting it. I've had a couple of run ins with Melih. He's never impressed me and the current quality of their output seems frankly shocking, but I'm not a tester and haven't tested it. But judging on the reports of defects.....
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I'm testing and the system is fast,but it's buggy and in my opinion not beta ready.
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I'm testing and the system is fast,but it's buggy and in my opinion not beta ready.
That was kind of my take. I work in enterprise IT operations and what I would expect from beta would be a lot fewer critical defects than people seem to be reporting.
The latest Mios cloud outage was the trigger to get me off Vera totally.
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Though not very surprising at this point, it is still pretty weird of them to miss the point by this much...
- We are not a competitor. We sell nothing. We are just users sharing our experiences in developing our smart homes.
- The existence of this forum is a direct consequence of the blind and sly behavior of Ezlo, misleading the entire vera community like lemmings into a dead end.
A customer base which is complaining is actually good for a company. It means that the customers care and still have hope in you. What you need to worry about is when you only get praises or the customers are quiet... It means that they give up. One would have thought that a little competitive intelligence would have been beneficial but no they chose the ostrich option of sticking their head in cow byproducts. I feel really bad for the old community but even more so for the employees who don't have a choice. That's really the only reason for this post. This is really more their loss than ours.
As I have predicted, given their methodology, they will have a product which would have been competitive 5 years ago in a couple of years and it is really a downgrade compared to the old vera. There is only so much one can do... bringing a thirsty horse to the river.
I am still a vera user and I made it work perfectly... by bringing it back to its OEM state of being a Sercomm device and integrated back into a vera like environment called openLuup.
It's beyond time to move on... My system has never been working this well... wow my door locks have not seen a new battery in 6 months now! new record and we are using it every day, multiple times a day. This was impossible with the vera.
