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Can anyone help with the MIOS UI5 weblink? Not the getvera one.
Still running UI5 on a couple of sensors & lights and need to tweak PLEG but for the life of me I can't remember the link to tunnel back to the trusty machine.... -
The wifi on my router is turned off, and wifi around the house is provided using a mesh - 3 units altogether (one connected directly to the router) that are spread around the house.
I would like to start automating certain tasks around the house and intend to try adding a few smart sockets to my setup.
The mesh system I have supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and does not provide me with the option to control them - i.e. turn one or both on/off, give each a different SSID, etc.
The devices I wish to purchase/use only support 2.4GHz.
Will turning the mesh units off and temporarily turning the 2.4GHz wifi on the router to allow me to set them up be enough? Will I then be able to return to my usual setup and everything will work as it should?
Many thanks in advance
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Hey everyone, I'm currently working on developing a bed sensor that can detect when you're out of bed. It could be used to trigger other smart home gadgets, like lights or blinds, temperature etc.
The sensors are placed under the legs of your bed post. Should look and feel like "smart furniture pads" with size 2 inches in diameter and 1/4 inch thick.
Before we go any further, I'd love to get your thoughts on this - would a bed sensor like this be something you'd find useful? We're still in the early stages of development, so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -
ChatGPT samples:
Me:
Tell me about an iot program called openLuup.
It:
OpenLuup is an open source home automation system that is built on the VeraLuup platform. It is designed to be easy to install and configure, and provides users with a powerful and versatile way to control their home automation devices. OpenLuup offers a wide range of features, including support for many popular home automation devices, scheduling, scripting, and integration with other services. OpenLuup is designed to be customizable, allowing users to create their own home automation systems. It is an excellent choice for those looking to create their own home automation system without spending a lot of money.
Me:
Write an iot program using openLuup.
It:
--openLuup IoT Program-- -- Initialize Variables -- local device_id = "MyHomeDevice" local temperature_sensor_id = "MyTemperatureSensor" local temperature_threshold = 75 -- Create Devices -- luup.create_device("OpenLuup Temperature Sensor", 0, device_id, "D_GenericSensor1.xml", "I_GenericSensor1.xml", "S_TemperatureSensor1.xml", "") luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1", "CurrentTemperature", 0, device_id) -- Start Timer -- luup.call_delay("check_temperature", 10, "", false) --Function to Check Temperature-- function check_temperature() local current_temperature = luup.variable_get(temperature_sensor_id, "CurrentTemperature", 0) --Check Temperature Threshold-- if current_temperature >= temperature_threshold then --Send Alert-- luup.call_action("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1", "SendTextMessage", {PhoneNumber="1234567890", Message="ALERT! Temperature exceeded threshold!"}, 0) end --Reset Timer-- luup.call_delay("check_temperature", 10, "", false) endMe:
Write an iot program using openLuup.
It:
Write an iot program using openLuup. -- openLuup IOT Program -- -- Variables local lampState = false local lampTime = 0 -- Functions function lampTimer() if lampTime > 0 then lampTime = lampTime - 1 if lampTime == 0 then luup.variable_set('urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1', 'Status', 0, lampDeviceID) lampState = false end end end -- Setup luup.call_delay('lampTimer', 60, 0) -- Main Loop while true do -- Check for motion if luup.variable_get('urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:MotionSensor1', 'Tripped', motionSensorDeviceID) == '1' then if not lampState then luup.variable_set('urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1', 'Status', 1, lampDeviceID) lampState = true -- Set lamp timer to 5 minutes lampTime = 300 end end luup.sleep(1) endWhat??
luup.sleep(1)Not good - looks like I still have some semblance of a job to fulfill.
Me:
An iot program called openLuup was written by akbooer. Who is akbooer?
It: (note: answer redacted and as I understand it, also incorrect re: AltUI):
akbooer is the pseudonym of the software developer and home automation enthusiast. He is the creator of the openLuup home automation software, which is an open-source version of the Vera home automation system. He is also the creator of the AltUI graphical user interface for openLuup.
Me:
Who created of the AltUI graphical user interface for openLuup.
and
Me:
Who created of the AltUI graphical user interface for the home automation system Vera.
Names two different people - mmmm.
Regardless very impressive - give it a few more years.
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...which I'd like to do. I know I go about these things all wrong (namely think of something I'd like to do, then try and work out what I need to know) but that's me 🙂
Just looking for some pointers on what I should google for really:
What I'd like is to provide a selection of (basically two word) phases which I can select from randomly (or even pseudo randomly) and pass to Alexa to be spoken. There are 10 such phrases only.
So what should I be reading up on to get me started?
TIA for any guidance
C
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Hi,
I am a student and recently i am working on smart home project and writing a seminar paper about the way users handle and manage IoT devices. I you have 3 min, please fill below survey. Its really short.
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For what it's worth, I've been putting the finishing touches on a much-updated version of my DP Apps spreadsheet -- specifically intended for HE users, at least for now -- and invite you all to take a gander http://bit.ly/hedb23 at the PDF one-page version.
Corrections and edits welcome (esp. for the HOMEKIT column, just added yesterday)! Thanks in advance, especially because I'm not a big dashboard user myself, but somehow accepted this role as "keeper of the list" as it were.
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Hello guys,
I would like to achieve two different things with lights, but I am not sure it could be done. I am starting with smart things, and I am far from any electrician knowledge, wo any help is really appreciated.
I have dumb switches in my hall, controlled from 3 places. I understood that installing one smart module before first switch will make them "hybrid", both smart controlled and dumb controlled.
I would like to buy ceiling light with two bulb sockets. What I would like to achieve is I would like to have one bulb for normal daily usage (lets say cold white full brightness), and second for night time (aprox from 10pm till morning) with some red/orange - minimum brightness.
So question are:
Is there a way to keep both bulbs turning-on separated? So only one will be on during day, and then only second during night?
And could that be done with pressing dumb switch? What would I need to achieve it? (maybe another module into the ceiling lights)
Thank you in advance
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Aften some testing I watt to clear KWH how ?
Regards Bjarne
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Hello,
I have a kitchen light that can be controlled by two switches, using either to turn it off or on. I have been slowly changing things over to be a smart home but this is the first switch I am attempting to install.
I am in a double wide modular home (mobile) that was built in 1994.
At first I thought I would need a 3 way switch but when taking the normal switches apart I realized that was incorrect because the wiring on my switches are different than anything I could find online.
For one a 3 way smart switch requires 5 wires and there are only 2 wires going into the primary switch with 3 wires going into the secondary switch from the primary switch (at least I think the 3 wires connect the two switches together). Images will be attached of the wiring.
There are two wires (one black and one white) going into the first switch and 3 wires (black, white, and red) going out of that and into the second switch (I assume). The odd thing is the red wire going to the second switch is connected to the white wire going into the first switch and the white wire going into the second switch seems to be a bridge wire or a traveler wire. Not exactly sure. You will see what I mean in the images.
I need to know what kind of smart switch I can use in this set up with one remaining a normal switch.
Note that for some reason the images got switched around when uploading them. The image with 2 wires on one side and 3 on the other is what I think is the primary and the image with just 3 wires is the secondary.
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You lot are more likely to have a view than most I know. Our much used Logitech Harmony is (not so) slowly dying.
And Logitech have discontinued the entire line.
And no one else appears to be making something similar.
Was going for a Sofabaton X1, but no numeric keypad. Sofabaton U1, but no favourites.
Anyone got suggestions?
Needs to have those features, oh and not be only a phone app.....C
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Since one member asked at one point about the "front end" and "back end", I drew this showing the controller from the base to the tip along with what I have found to be the best options from my testing. Almost every controller will try to integrate all elements, especially commercial ones but... they all have strengths and weaknesses so if one can have a medley of the best ones...
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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.
Need help backing up Raspberry Pi
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Hello
I have a 64GB SD card in my Raspberry Pi.
I read some guides online and the ones that looked easy to follow use a program call Win32 Disk Imager to make an image of the entire SD card.
I shutdown the Pi and when I insert the SD card in to my Windows 10 PC, I can see drive letter D:\ appear and its label is "boot"
Looking at this disk in Windows Disk management it looks a bit strange however as it has a massive unallocated area.
Anyway I proceeded to backup the disk D:\ using Win32 Disk Imager program.
It took a long time but it has created an .img file which is 27.4GB in file size.
I then put the SD card back in to the Pi and powered it on.
Here is a "df" output from the Pi
Looks like I am not using the full 64GB of the SD card.
When I first setup the Pi I was using a much smaller SD card and then I bought a decent Sandisk 64GB card and followed some other user guide found online to clone my original smaller card to the new card and expand etc.
So have I actually just backed up the Pi's SD card and all its contents successfully ?
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Yes, almost certainly. But when you cloned your smaller drive, you didn't expand the partition.
You should be able to extend that partition to use more space, or, format it and mount it somewhere else.
Make sense?
C
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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Hi thanks for the reply.
I think my original SD card when I first got the Pi was like 8GB max.
I'm not sure which online guide I followed now to clone the SD card and move to the new SanDisk 64GB card as it was some time ago now.
If I expand the partition now then my Win32 Disk Imager backup with be even bigger at 64GB etc.
I have seen some other user guides for backing up a Pi that didn't image the entire SD card and the resulting backup file(s) were much smaller. But those guides look more difficult / involved to follow, with many more steps etc.
So now I am unsure how much space my Pi can currently use?
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@cw-kid a decent imager won't make your backup bigger, i.e. it won't back up the empty space. That being said, do you have some kind of limitation on your backup size? 64G is not exactly big on the current scale of things.
If run df -h it will give you human readable sizes
My reading of that is that it's currently 64G give or take, which is what you'd expect, but I'm not working at my best due to side effects 
Do df -h and see what the numbers come up as.
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The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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59GB with 5.7G used ?
So why did this Win32 Disk Imager program create a 27.4GB .img file ?
If there is better imager program I should be using? I can swap to using that.
The portable disk I stored the .img backup file on, is large enough to cope with a single .img file of 64GB in size if need be.
Thanks
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Don't forget that you're not looking at discs here. You're looking at partitions and mount points.
What I am seeing is you've got a full 64G SD allocated and mounted to various points in your file system. Most of it is in /root and most of it is unused.As to why you ended up with a 27G backup, I have no idea other than Windows is probably not terribly happy reading Linux file systems and partition info. It was never terribly well supported.
I don't really know many Windows tools these days, being a dyed in the wool BSD / Linux guy.
If you only have Windows, I used to use Acronis (many years back). The other thing you could do is use a live Linux CD and use one of the tools there. Even the terribly basic dd would be able to do it.
I would expect though that a properly functioning tool would create a 7Gish backup file. So yes, something is amiss. Can't tell if that means your backup is non-functional or not, though.
Have you got another SD card? Restore to that, shut the pi down and try and boot from the newly restored card if you need to test.
C
C
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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Just to toss another alternative in here, I use Clonezilla for imaging just about everything. It's not very user-friendly; you need to know a bit, like be able to correctly and surely identify which disk (/dev/sda b c d e...) is the source and which is the target, but it's a wrapper for standard tools (partclone, mostly) that do a good job of making filesystem images that back up only the used space. It also automatically grows and shrinks filesystems to new target partitions (if they fit) on restores, etc. You just make a boot CD/DVD or USB stick and off you go. It supports pretty much all filesystem types (msdos, ext2/3/4, ntfs, and of course, raw/unknown), so there's little you can't back up with it. I keep a 1TB M.2 drive in a USB 3.1 enclosure to use as a target for the images and then copy them to my NAS for long-term storage.
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Exactly the kind of tool I'd use (although CCC on the Mac basically means you don't have to) but figured the lack of user friendliness would be a down point here
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In Win32DiskImager there is a option for "read only allocated partitions". It is shown in the instruction linked from this thread.
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@archers said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:
"read only allocated partitions"
I did not tick that box as you can see in my screen shot above
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@catmanv2 said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:
Have you got another SD card? Restore to that
No I haven't. Not the same size anyway.
I think I will buy another SanDisk 64GB SD card and make sure I can actually restore to a new card etc.
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@cw-kid said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:
@catmanv2 said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:
Have you got another SD card? Restore to that
No I haven't. Not the same size anyway.
I think I will buy another SanDisk 64GB SD card and make sure I can actually restore to a new card etc.
That's a sensible approach anyway.
As for the 'Read only allocated partitions' it seems that Windows struggles to see the Pi partition (other than /boot) as allocated....C
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I have got a USB stick with an Ubuntu desktop Live on it. I could run that up on my laptop instead.
And then maybe use a different tool to do the job.
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You could indeed!
C
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I found these instructions for Linux / Ubuntu here using the dd command. Think I will give that a try.
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Just make sure you get of and if correctC
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If you'd run
ddon an Ubuntu laptop for images, you might consider installing and runningpartcloneinstead. It's the workhouse underlying Clonezilla, and it will produce smaller backup images (it only copies used space; dd copies, all blocks used or not).To make an image of a disk (
/dev/sda2in this example):partclone -c -o /path/to/image-output -s /dev/sda2And to restore that image later (same target device):
partclone -r -s /path/to/image-input -O /dev/sda2Since the images can get very large (and may even grow larger than the filesystem allows), you can compress and split the image like this:
partclone -c -s /dev/sda2 -o - | gzip -c | | split -a 2 -b 2G - /path/to/imagefile.gz.This will compress the output and split it into 2GB files, each having a '.gz.xx' ending, where xx is a two-letter code that keeps the parts sorted. To restore it:
cat /path/to/imagefile.gz.* | gunzip -c | partclone -r -s - -O /dev/sda2 -
A simple to use "cloner" is Balena Etcher - it's gotten me out of trouble many times.
aka Zedrally
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@black-cat said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:
A simple to use "cloner" is Balena Etcher - it's gotten me out of trouble many times.
Mac only, though, isn't it?
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No, I use Windows.
aka Zedrally
