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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.
Unsolved Building a New Z Wave Network
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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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Factory reset is faster (you’ll not need to wait for a luup restart for every device that’s removed), but there’s a link somewhere with a post by @rafale77 with instructions on how to clone Vera’s Zwave devices on an external key. ZwaveJS has the ability to specify a key and this route is maybe faster than re-pair everything.
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@therealdb said in Building a New Z Wave Network:
Factory reset is faster (you’ll not need to wait for a luup restart for every device that’s removed), but there’s a link somewhere with a post by @rafale77 with instructions on how to clone Vera’s Zwave devices on an external key. ZwaveJS has the ability to specify a key and this route is maybe faster than re-pair everything.
I'm aiming to migrate from Vera to Hubitat some day, but guess there's no cloning option - you'll have to factory reset (or re-pair) every single device?
Using MSR on Docker (Synology NAS), having InfluxDB, Grafana & Openhab, migrating from VeraPlus to Hubitat C-7
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@tunnus here’s the link to Rafael write up on some options.
@therealdb I was contemplating migrating using one of the mentioned options in the GitHub but ultimately decided to unpair each device and re add it, wanted a fresh start. Everything’s gone pretty well, got about 80% of my devices on HA. Some pesky Zooz ZEN22 switches left that refuse to include in the new network.
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Not to get off topic, but what are the reasons you are switching from Vera to either Hubitat or HA? More specifically, why did you choose one over another platform? I'm contemplating a switch now, having used Vera since 2016. Vera isn't really being maintained much anymore, and I'm tired of the lack of native device integration and cloud issues. They're putting all their effort into Ezlo, but I just don't know if Ezlo will be more of the same, and I might be better off with something completely different.
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@tamorgen I can only speak for my self, why I ditched Vera and turned to Home Assistent. Main reason was that almost every smart product can be integrated and is also easier to configure. HA is local, faster and can run on many hardwares. The UI aka love lace view, is fully configurable. The development is impressive and the forum is thriving compared to Vera/Ezlo. The users don't get banned for 150 years as well...
I started HA with my Veras still going side by side for almost a year. Slowly I transfered device by device until everything more or less had found it's way to HA. I still have a a handful of devices, all Philio PST02-A (a multisensor) - because they don't work that well in HA, at least when I tried last year. After the transfer to HA I'll never look back to Vera or Ezlo. -
@fanan said in Building a New Z Wave Network:
@tamorgen I can only speak for my self, why I ditched Vera and turned to Home Assistent. Main reason was that almost every smart product can be integrated and is also easier to configure. HA is local, faster and can run on many hardwares. The UI aka love lace view, is fully configurable. The development is impressive and the forum is thriving compared to Vera/Ezlo. The users don't get banned for 150 years as well...
I started HA with my Veras still going side by side for almost a year. Slowly I transfered device by device until everything more or less had found it's way to HA. I still have a a handful of devices, all Philio PST02-A (a multisensor) - because they don't work that well in HA, at least when I tried last year. After the transfer to HA I'll never look back to Vera or Ezlo.HA definitely looks like an option. My main concerns are:
- Envisalink/DSC integration (working)
- Geofencing/Presence detection (many options)
- Nest thermostat and Nest Protect integration (looks like they have it working)
I've looked at Hubitat as well, but what's always held me back is the Envisalink integration. The developer who had integrated it left in 2019, and it looks like it's been flailing ever since. Also, I'm not sure about Nest integration.
I may just take the HA plunge soon.
Thanks much for your feedback.
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@tamorgen well the reason why I switched was actually mainly for a better z wave network. My Vera’s network was losing devices daily and was slow. All the integrations I wanted were already supported through Vera.
HA allowed me to have way better control over z wave and also allowed me to use whatever dongle I wanted. Plus it has way way wayyyyy more integrations, I was able to automate soo many other devices that I wasn’t able to do before.
Also I have been using the Envisalink integration and it’s been working fairly well on HA.
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@pabla said in Building a New Z Wave Network:
@tamorgen well the reason why I switched was actually mainly for a better z wave network. My Vera’s network was losing devices daily and was slow. All the integrations I wanted were already supported through Vera.
HA allowed me to have way better control over z wave and also allowed me to use whatever dongle I wanted. Plus it has way way wayyyyy more integrations, I was able to automate soo many other devices that I wasn’t able to do before.
Also I have been using the Envisalink integration and it’s been working fairly well on HA.
Yeah, I get that. I've been having Vera loosing devices on me. I've actually got a troubleshooting call scheduled for this evening with them for one of my battery powered devices. It drives me insane.
You mentioned being able to use any Z-wave stick. I'm not really clear how that works with HA.
Are you running that on the same device that runs HA, or do have to run them on separate devices? I have plenty of overhead available on my home server where I could run HA, but I can't exactly walk around with my server and the dongle plugged in to pair my devices. At least with Vera, I could unplug it and move it close to the device I want to pair.
They make it sound as if a Pi 4 really isn't powerful enough.
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@fanan said in Building a New Z Wave Network:
I still have a a handful of devices, all Philio PST02-A (a multisensor) - because they don't work that well in HA
Still using MSR? I'd be happy to look at the Hass device in detail to see if we can do a per-devce exception to work around whatever issues you have. If it's an issue with Hass' integration, which happens sometimes, you can use MSR's ZWaveJSController to get even better access to devices that HA dumbs down too much or doesn't get right (Hass itself uses ZWave-JS, so you likely already have half of what you need running for MSR).
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@tamorgen you just basically plug the Z wave stick into your machines USB port. I only ever had to move my HA host once for pairing Z wave devices. Depending on the size of your home and the type of devices you’re pairing you may not need to move host around.
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@toggledbits said in Building a New Z Wave Network:
Still using MSR? I'd be happy to look at the Hass device in detail to see if we can do a per-devce exception to work around whatever issues you have. If it's an issue with Hass' integration, which happens sometimes, you can use MSR's ZWaveJSController to get even better access to devices that HA dumbs down too much or doesn't get right (Hass itself uses ZWave-JS, so you likely already have half of what you need running for MSR).
Yes - I'm still using MSR! I should try to add the multisensor once more to HA and see how it works. Last time everything seemed alright, but it none of it's entitys changed state. I read on the HA users forum that there could be a workaround if some parameters were changed - but that didn't work in most cases - and not for me. When I've done the transfer, and if the problem persists, I'll start a new thread/topic. Thanks for your sincere kindness!
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