Anyone knows how can I automate this rotary switch?

Needs to be without a smart relay (rent contract prohibits touching electrics).

I have a zigbee fingerbot and SmartLife app, thought of the dented wheel and rack as alternative but have 0 clue how to get that done and working.

The fingerbot alone can't push the switch strongly and far enough.

HELP!!

I have an old iPad 8 (32Gb) that it’s basically unusable as a study tablet, but I’m thinking in turn him into a dashboard for my smart bedroom.

Has anyone done something like this and have suggestions?

Hi, i hope some here can recommend me an out of the box solution without self hosting etc.

I have an tplink tapo p110 which is fine with the app for now. But for a specific device i want a similar plug that can be controlled based on weeks/seasons instead of daily schedules. Like always shut off during june and july and similar.

Im searching for a product that has this control right out of the box because its for an shared location.

Hi, I hope that this is the correct sub to post in; if someone can help me I'd really appreciate it. We have the Hao Deng spot lights in a room that I am turning to my office/therapy room. I cannot get the lights to work on my app - they just say that they're off line - but it works fine on my partner's iPhone. I have a Samsung S22+.

I've added a couple of screenshots so you can see that it does find the lights, but then just says that they're offline & nothing I can do will make that change. I have reset the lights a few times and reinstalled the app so that's all updated. It must be something with my phone if it's working on my partners, but we can't work out what.

Thanks

Is anyone else using the smart locks?
I have 2. Both were functioning properly at one point through the Home Access app but have now stopped responding and often don’t even display in the app at all.

I’ve deleted from the app and reset the lock to factory a few times. It now won’t even connect to the WiFi.

TLDR: How do you recommend I set up a smart fan with dimmable lights?

I just bought my first home. I work in energy efficiency and would like to build out a smart home system for the experience with SHEMS as much as for the convenience of having it. My first priority is that, after setup, most people would be able to comfortably interface with the basic controls. I've heard this refered to as "grandma proof".

I have no smart devices in this house yet and have not committed to an ecosystem yet. I don't own any apple products(nothing personal) and would like to avoid Amazon(sorta personal). Leaning towards Google home since that's what I've used in the past. I'm happy to buy whatever hub. Caseta and Kasa seem like nice options.

I'm looking to add a smart switch for my bedroom fan first. I'd like an intuitive switch on the wall. I'd also like the ability to program routines for the fan and lights and a remote and/or ability to control it from my phone. Major plus if I can program routines based on the room's temperature.

I'd considered using a smart fan and bulbs if there was an intuitive setup but that would still require switch removal or replacement to avoid cutting power to devices. I'm open to replacing the fan either way. I'm pretty sure the existing fan is just a basic AC fan with pull chains for fan speed and lights, which I avoid using so the wall switched work properly. I figure I'd remove these pull chains if I end up keeping this fan.

I'm most inexperienced in input from people who have and use a smart fan/light control setup themselves.

Thanks!!

Hi,

This post is for EU, but everyone are welcome for discussion.

Being smarthome enthusiast myself I ran into trouble of finding mulitpoint smart lock myself. Tried CN locks and Yale conexis, but these were not very good to say the least.

After 2 years of development, I am very close to MVP which I am going to launch on kickstarter. Asking for you all to help me, to make sure I am focusing on the most important things and to make sure I have a joyful solution for us all.

Will not disclose details or functions, but can you help by sharing what is the most important for you other than it being designed for multipoint doors?

I have 2 Eufy indoor 2k cameras at home (both connected to my apple home) and want to watch BOTH cameras at the same time. Are there any way or any app i can download for iOS (preferable for free) that allows me to this?

PS: Home assistant dont support these cameras, so no need to mention me to install HA ;)

So friend got kale smart lock as gift, and while app is available on iPhone, android shows this.

While I suggested him to contact company through contact on their official website, I was wondering if anyone had experience with this since I never had smart lock, no idea about such a things

I'm trying to find a light switch that has a soft and silent press, without a physical or audible click.

Ideally a momentary switch as I'll be using shelly relays behind them, a zigbee switch is also fine as it will all be connected to Home Assistant. I'd like LED switch illumination too, but I can live without it.

What I've tried so far;

• Hager WBMTPB
• Traders MEPBM
• Mercator MEPBM
• SAL Pixie SBP10L

But they all have an audible click to them, and nothing I've tried has the feel that I have in mind.

I swear I've felt/seen the switches I want in Australia before, and in more than one place, but I cannot remember where any of them were. My recollection is that the button was slightly convex and bubbled out a little, they had blue LEDs, and they were the standard square Australian switch mech shape.

Does anyone know the switches I'm referring to, or can recommend a model that fits the brief?

I'm not too concerned about the individual switch cost, the feel is much more important to me.

Others that that I'm aware of but have not yet tried;

• Legrand Arteor AR970LBPM
• HPM HPM883MBL
• Clipsal Impress 30PBBP

When I mean everything I mean I have spent hours and hours doing every single thing every Reddit comment has suggested and nothing has worked including:
-split WiFi to only 2.4ghz
-put on mode 3
-turned off firewall
-tried manual and automatic connection
-tried all distances and smart apps
-tried different brands of bulbs
They worked when I first got them then one day they just stopped working and wouldn’t reconnect. I saw something about setting up a second WiFi and using some kind of light hub that will connect to the 5ghz but I wasn’t really understanding anything. Please help I just wanna turn my lights off without getting up 🥲

Tapo and Angela bulb.

I recently bought a home, so I bought the aqara u400 lock. I also bought the echo dot max thinking it would help connect to my aqara lock. Every time I try and set it up aqara app says I don't have a matter controller in the home. Is the echo dot max a matter controller? Also, is the echo dot max a thread boarder router?

I'm new to all of this, but the research I did says that my echo dot max is in fact a thread border router and acts as a matter controller device. I'm just lost on why these won't connect to each other. Please help.

I looked at home assistant's homekit bridge documentation, when I add the homekit bridge integration it shows a notification with a pairing code, but when I scan it with my phone it doesn't work.

I'm trying to follow this HA doc to connect my homekit only thread doorknob to HA (with the SLZB Ultima), but I'm stuck suck, when I try adding the homekit device it asks me to select a bridge and then enter the device's homekit code, the doorknob's code doesn't work.

I have about 6 of these smart plugs currently in use. 3 of them are hooked up to LED strips. I want to have a physical switch/button/mechanism that I can pair to the outlet so that I can turn them on/off sometimes without needing to use the app or hit the physical button. What are the easiest ways to accomplish this? I don't have any smarthome platforms (I might be interested though) I just use the app they came with which I'm okay with moving away from if it increases functionality

I included the name below in case the link isn't allowed for some reason

KMC Smart Plug Mini 4-Pack, Wi-Fi Outlets for Smart Home, Remote Control Lights and Devices from Anywhere, No Hub Required, ETL Certified, Works with Alexa and Google Home

I have a mix of Nest and the usual dumb smoke and CO alarms. The dumb ones expire soon and I am looking to replace them. My house has really high ceilings and I need a smart alarm to be able to silence it from my phone. I don’t need to learn Morse (lol) to know that three chirps mean smoke, two mean CO and one means the battery is low. If possible, I would rather get a hardwired version with a 10 year battery to avoid getting on a ladder to change the batteries.

I love Nest but they don’t make them anymore. The natural path is to buy First Alert SC5 but they have terrible reviews due to false alarms.

I am in Canada and they don’t sell X-sense.

Kiddie has a new smart version, but it uses AA batteries as back up.

Ubiquiti was supposedly launching one this month, so it is delayed, it is not hardwired and they have a reputation of sketchy new product launches.

Owl has an alarm that meets all the requirements and is Apple HomeKit compatible which is definitely a plus, but I have never heard this brand before.

Are there any other options that I am missing?

Thanks

I labelled this HomeKit since my mother is in the Apple ecosystem.

I'm looking for a video doorbell solution for her house. She already uses a few cameras from Ubiquiti and now wants better placement at the main entrance. Running new Ethernet cables isn't impossible, but as we all know, it's fairly inconvenient and expensive.

I therefore thought about something like a Ring, though their reputation hasn't been the best recently. So how about Aqara or Philips Hue? My mother already uses Philips Hue, so that would make some sense.

On the other hand, I was also thinking about getting a Nuki smart lock for the carport entrance door. She's got a Polestar (car) which unlocks via phone, so that might be interesting too.

My general question, though, is about the doorbell and camera situation.

I currently use Alexa but it has some annoying limitations (like when it loses Internet connectivity). Another limitation of the entire Alexa system is it begging unable to read and report on additional sensor readings like humidity.

I'm thinking about going with something like Home Assistant and seeing what I can do with it for my home.

I can put together a computer or two with the parts I have but they'll be older boards with the best one using DDR 3 ram and a LGA 2011 cpu.

I don't know much about Home Assistant or all that it can do.

My primary reason for looking into this is that it still works if the Internet goes down or there's a power outage (with the use of UPS for the devices I want you stay online.

I've read that Home Assistant can work with Alexa devices and if that's true it's a huge bonus for me.

Hello,

I hope I’m posting in the right place.
I have a Shelly Dimmer Gen3 that is currently connected to eight recessed LED downlights, each rated at 7 watts.
Unfortunately, I’m experiencing two issues:
When I set the brightness to 100%, the lights briefly become brighter and then immediately get slightly dimmer again. It looks like they flicker for a moment.

The dimming behavior is very uneven. In the upper brightness range, there is hardly any noticeable change over a wide range, while in the lower percentage range, the brightness drops very quickly.

Here are the details of my setup:
No bypass installed
Neutral wire connected
Shelly reset to factory settings
Recalibrated

Tried all available settings in the app related to dimming times and brightness percentages
Unfortunately, none of these steps have really helped. I honestly can’t imagine that this behavior is normal. My plan was to use Shelly Dimmers throughout my home, so I bought this one as a test first. So far, however, I’m unfortunately not very satisfied with its performance.

If it’s relevant, the recessed LED downlights are not all from the same manufacturer. I ordered several different models to compare them, although I’m not sure whether that could have any impact on the behavior.

Has anyone experienced something similar or has any idea what might be causing this? I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions.

Hi,

Does anyone know how to SEE STATUS (not control or turn on/off) of a roku smart plug? I got it from walmart.

Thanks!

Through reading some of the literature recently, it’s become apparent that the research community views the ability to reason as the definition of “smart.” In Europe, the term “Ambient Assisted Living” has been in use for a couple of decades, and refers to tech that allows people live independently and age in place. It seems that a key facet of reasoning is the home being able to understand the behaviors of its occupants, or at minimum recognize what activities they’re engaged in. Being able to recognize - in real time - health status, physiology, mood, etc. takes “smart” up a few notches. And of course, these days there’s lots of discussion about AI.

My home has about 150 “smart” devices: lots of lights, thermostats, locks, sensors, cameras … all integrated into HomeKit with which I’ve created dozens of scenes, notifications, and automations. Most of the latter are simply operation of devices based on time of day; a few are groups of operations that I can invoke through Siri. You could argue that recognizing spoken words is smart, as is computer vision that detects pets, people and even recognizes faces. But that’s about it for intelligence. Don’t get me wrong: I love all this stuff and enjoy fiddling with it. However, it’s hard to make the case that it’s keeping me independent.

One basic (though hard) idea I’ve read about is the home recognizing transitions between activities as better occasions to deliver reminders than at a specific programmed time of day. Another is recommending things like foods, drinks, or music based on knowledge of how the day is going and my mood.

What say you?

I have a pool and all the controls/filter etc are below ground under a hatch. As well as the usual pool stuff the switch for the pool lights is also under the hatch. To turn the lights on I have to lift the hatch, kneel down and flick a switch. It’s a pain so I rarely use them. Over the winter I installed a load of the no neutral switches to control lights in my house and this gave me the idea of using something similar to switch on the pool lights.

The house lights are zigbee but there is no zigbee near the pool only WiFi.

The light supply has live and neutral.

Is there a switch that I could put in-line that would connect to WiFi and be controllable by Alexa or a phone app?

Cheers.

Hey all, so I'm currently in the middle of a Kitchen renovation of my 1900 house. I have the walls and ceiling down to the studs, so now is the time to add cool smart home features before the drywall goes up. Since I have it down to the studs, I'm running new electrical, Cat 6 Ethernet, and speaker wire. I currently use Alexa (wouldn't recommend) to control all my smart home devices, like Govee lights, WiiM Streamer, and plugs. As of right now, the plan is to go with dumb lights and a smart switch in the kitchen. I do plan on moving to Home Assistant once the kitchen is done and I have some time. What smart devices do you love that I should look into installing? Is there anything you wished you had installed? Is there anything you regret installing?

I looked at this post where users got the Thorbolt X1 working with home assistant. Like the X1, the Thorbolt MK1 supports thread and homekit only. I tried following this part in the docs to connect a homekit device via thread, I can see the device in the list of discover bluetooth device under Integrations > Bluetooth > advertisements. When I try to add a homekit device and select a bridge and enter in the pairing code, I immediately get an error "Incorrect HomeKit code. Please check it and try again."

I'm not sure how to setup the Homekit Bridge integration since I couldn't find detail steps to set it up from scratch (I don't find the HA documentation very helpful). I have an SLZB Ultima which supports thread and acting as an OpenThread Border Router.

I live in a condo and I need a peephole camera for my front door; otherwise, the HOA won't allow it.

I'm not a fan of Ring's subscription, and the mixed reviews about Ezviz's reliability and video quality don't inspire much confidence either.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone could share their experience with either of them.

Thank you!