@CatmanV2 said in HDMI oddness:

It does however have a SCART socket. Maybe I should use that

@Pabla said in Single protocol?:

Not sure if anyone could possibly use one protocol for everything however, in my case for my switches, plugs, door locks and some door/motion sensors they all are using z wave.

No specific reason why, it's mainly because I started with vera which had built in z wave so It was familiar to me when I switched over from HA.

The opposite effect for me… when I finally gave up on Vera, I ditched all my Z-wave devices and switched to Shelly using WiFi for all wallbox switching devices. So, I’m at a loss to understand this comment…

IMO you can't go wrong between Zigbee or Z wave. I would stay away from any wifi devices though since you limited to what local control they offer, and definitely avoid, at all cost any cloud reliant devices for obvious reasons.

Wi-Fi seems to give all the control I need, integrates easily with Apple Home, which I use as my main control, now. For some individual lights I use Zigbee, in the form of Philips Hue, which also has a native bridge to Apple Home, which also offers a secure cloud connection for off-site access. I’m slowly upgrading to Shelly Gen 4 devices which offer Matter protocol which will enable me to abandon the Homebridge software running on my NAS for further simplification.

This is great timing! I’ve just been re-jigging my Homebridge config, finally removing the Hue bridge plug-in in favour of a native connection through my Home Hub mini.

But there’s more to do, and this might help. Thanks.

Support for RGBW LED strips is excellent!

You inspired me to give the original wall display a go…

…I like it! (More configuration to do). This is unmodified Shelly firmware.

I got a bad impression of Zwave from Vera, quite incorrectly. Should have stuck with it but actually dumped it. Mostly Shelly now, and its Gen 4 modules are Matter capable.

Well, that seems remarkably easy configuration…

Just added a Shelly 2PM Gen4 (dual switch) to Apple Home. It just required me to scan the QR code from the Home app and wait a short while.

No other configuration required initially. In particular, no need to set up IP addresses or anything.

Subsequently, I did enable MQTT and openLuup picked up on it immediately (although as a generic Shelly device, because I haven’t included that as a recognised device, yet.)

Control seems to work instantly from Apple Home app. Now need to link it to automation and other switches.

So far, so good.

Is anyone using the Matter protocol to connect devices?

Ooohhh. Nice!

Yes indeed, let’s hear/see more!

…had to happen.

@CatmanV2 said in Home Assistant Voice:

Cheers! I shall try and make some time
(Is it just me that hates having to watch videos? Can't we just have instructions written down? )

Not just you! Such a lot of very poor narration and not so easy to refer back to! A modern disease.

I didn’t go the HA route, but have voice control through Apple HomeKit and Siri. Works OK, but don’t use it much.

What’s the difficulty? Does your switch wiring have a neutral? What country are you in?

Impressive.. great when it all works too!

I’ve been very happy since I moved everything I could to Synology.

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Yes, if it’s openLuup, then I was going to suggest that… rather depends on what you were trying to do.

Bizarre! … but good catch.

I’m a Siri user, myself. How do you link Alexa to openLuup? My link to Siri is via HomeKit (of course) for Hue and Shelly devices.

@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

To keep things so they are more likely to work, it's suggested the email address should be totally case insensitive regardless.

Yes. I see from the ource code comments tht eraly-on I removed address wrapping to lower case. It's an easy change, but I'm going to find out why I did that in the first place, before reverting.

@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

Is it your preference to leave the saved files in the raw mode or would you consider translating the base64 text in the openLuup code base?

Don't see why not. Again, I need to dig in to see why that isn't working out of the box. There's plenty Base64 decoding going on within the server anyway.

@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

On a side note, does the reception of an email by openLuup generate some sort of trigger that can be watched.

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

I have another big project ongoing with some sort of a deadline at the start of December, so I'll need to leave things until then before I can get back to this code.

Thanks again for your documentation efforts. I did say I would provide a link from the openLuup app... perhaps in the footer, like there is for the forum?

You have been doing your homework!

I need to remind myself of what I did way back when before being able to reply sensibly.

But thanks for the excellent analysis.

Not sure if your controller handles WiFi controlled devices?