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Smart Home, Let's discuss
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celciuz
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Sep 25 2023, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE(amduser @ Sep 25 2023, 01:56 PM) recently i bought a set of magnetic smart track light from china taobao for my new house the track light can be connected to xiaomi home, but when i try to pair it with the app in my phone, it always show device is offline, when i contact their customer service, they recommend me to use 小爱音箱, or the xiaomi bluetooth mesh thingy does anyone has experience connecting smartphone to those magnetic track light? I have already changed my xiaomi home region to china, and the track light seems to only be able to pair with my phone bluetooth when using batch connect, if try to connect individually it always fail I have some GU10 (about 12 using BLE). I also connect them to a Tuya BLE hub, so I'm able to control remotely or use scenes when I'm out of bluetooth range. Maybe same situation as yours?
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celciuz
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Sep 25 2023, 03:28 PM
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QUOTE(amduser @ Sep 25 2023, 02:52 PM) have you tried to connect them individually with your phone bluetooth and control them through the app? seems like the hub is compulsory if need to use more feature I've done before connected via bluetooth directly (that time my hub had issue so under RMA). All functions available as long I'm in the bluetooth range.
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celciuz
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Sep 27 2023, 07:03 AM
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QUOTE(WildChai @ Sep 26 2023, 01:36 AM) Got it from taobao. Cheapest yet. Very good quality. Premium feel. About rm130+ for 3 gang. Will get whole home. There is even 4 gang, sweet. Is the back deep? Like deeper than D1?
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celciuz
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Sep 27 2023, 11:11 AM
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QUOTE(wailing81 @ Sep 27 2023, 08:58 AM) i tried to search around. From what i found, the forth bottom button can only act as wireless toggle. Ah, it’s not a 4 gang switch? Seems only a few HomeKit offers 4 gang eg. Terncy.
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celciuz
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Sep 27 2023, 02:18 PM
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QUOTE(goolie @ Sep 27 2023, 01:50 PM) What will be difference in electrical works cost for doing smart home system? Will it double the cost of normal wiring? Extra 1 neutral cable… and other than that is similar.
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celciuz
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Sep 27 2023, 05:46 PM
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QUOTE(lucaswjk @ Sep 27 2023, 05:40 PM) can discount more... adding neutral cable is cheap, coz most of the ppl simply tapped it from aircon's switch or water heater. the headache part is 2ways switch, which is not available. i have to sync the switch status for it to work. What I did for my 2 way switches is that one of them is a wireless switch on battery. The other is an actual switch. So I just set some rules and viola it works just like 2 way. But nowadays my stairs one I added motion sensor instead ✌🏻 If house follows code, the lighting and 13A or AC will be on different RCCB. This post has been edited by celciuz: Sep 27 2023, 05:47 PM
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celciuz
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Sep 28 2023, 06:49 AM
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QUOTE(WildChai @ Sep 28 2023, 12:22 AM) Eh... Not sure. Never used a D1 before. But it fits into my regular old switch box. So that's that. 25mm box? So should be quite standard size, E1 is much shallower than D1.
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celciuz
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Oct 10 2023, 01:16 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 5 2023, 03:07 PM) What is your zigbee setup like? Using what hub or coordinator? What brand stuff do you use? If Aqara older ones they are stubborn one, they will stick to the initial paired router or repeater. You can try off your whole house electricity and on it back to power cycle switches if you have that. What is "older"? Is D1 switches similarly? I have 1 switch that responds a bit slower than the rest (despite there other switches in the same room that's blazing fast).
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celciuz
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Oct 10 2023, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 10 2023, 02:55 PM) BTW did a full migration from Aqara to Z2M and i would say i am pretty pleased, although its no where as close to being noob friendly using the manufacturer hub. Even started over my HA, now move to docker instead of vm, so far so good. Can share HA? Last time I tried to do PAI via HA, but in Docker mode I can't get the "super" user thingy to execute some stuffs...
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celciuz
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Oct 10 2023, 05:28 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 10 2023, 05:21 PM) Whats PAI? So far i got HACS which works just like the os version, got vs code and file editor, z2m and my mqtt broker i am using emqx all in their own dockers, now starting to mess with frigate docker as well. Paradox Alarm Interface, to talk to my Paradox alarm. I got it integrated to my HomeKit now, originally wanted to start using HA via Docker tapi got some issues with setting up the PAI on HA due to some permission that requires some so called full install.
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celciuz
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Oct 15 2023, 08:49 AM
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Updates on my Aqara S1E screen issue, so originally I had 2 out of 3 problematic... and since it was eye sore so I set it to blackout whenever not in used. Today I tried the remaining last one surviving... it was also faulty ugh... now the whole screen flickers. S1E really not recommended
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celciuz
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Oct 15 2023, 08:50 PM
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QUOTE(ZeneticX @ Oct 15 2023, 07:06 PM) I just got my Google Nest Mini gen 2 few days ago. For the price i think its loud enough. Usually just set my volume to 60 - 70%. How long gave you been using them? My Tuya panel *touch wood* almost 3 months now no issues yet About 10 months now, first one started at about 6 months mark.
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celciuz
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Oct 16 2023, 02:59 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 16 2023, 02:56 PM) Have to use something else https://github.com/ljmerza/frigate_plate_recognizerhttps://guides.platerecognizer.com/docs/other/gate-openerProbably easier to just put NFC tag in your car and you tap that, or use geolocation with your phone. Geolocation should be easiest... but only thing is I need to open the home app then it will detect my location ._. sometimes it will detect quickly in background and if it doesn't I need open home app. So I just rely on voice instead, only problem sometimes my iPhone gets buggy and Siri never respond when I say "Hey Siri".
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celciuz
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Oct 16 2023, 03:04 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 16 2023, 03:01 PM) Which model you using? Maybe time to upgrade LUL 13 Pro Max, leaving home is very consistent. Only when arriving home, its a bit of mixed. My other automation such as turning on car porch, disarm alarm I do use geofencing which works well. I guess because I use voice to open the autogate, then when that happens the other geofencing automations begins to run as well.
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celciuz
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Oct 16 2023, 04:14 PM
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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Oct 16 2023, 03:44 PM) Does that happen frequently or randomly? I kinda expected geolocation for homekit to be perfect and not too much battery consuming with the home app Based on the 2 weeks that I'm using location based to open my autogate when I arrive home... I would say about 70% hit rate. I usually drive up to my house, then I would align so I can reverse my car in. Sometimes it opens when I'm driving very near to my house (perfect situation...), sometimes it opens when I'm aligning my car to reverse park in... (still ok...) sometimes I need wait 1-2 minutes after I have standby to reverse in... and 30% of the time I just open the gate manually after waiting
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celciuz
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Oct 16 2023, 04:46 PM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 16 2023, 04:36 PM) Thats weird, i am using 13 Pro Max also, dont experience that but i dont always rely on it also so maybe i never noticed the times that i used the remote instead LUL That's why I change back to voice activate... before turn into my row, I just ask siri to open (only sometimes my Siri just don't get waked up with "hey siri" until I reboot my phone. By the time I arrive the gate is wide open ready to move in. And usually by then it will detect my location and hence all the other automations also run accordingly.
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celciuz
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Oct 16 2023, 06:34 PM
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QUOTE(Kiding @ Oct 16 2023, 05:16 PM) Frigate coral tpu uses old yolo object detection model which is pretty inaccurate, many times can’t tell person and dogs or cats, so don’t expect it can recognise car plates. This requires custom train model Enlarge your home location radius, this will help to increase success rate. My autogate auto open bases on my iPhone gps location running on home assistant companion app, the success rate is over 90% Hmm, unfortunately I’m on Apple Home and don’t have such feature 😅. QUOTE(simmarjit @ Oct 16 2023, 06:17 PM) Maybe need to factory reset your phone and start over because IMO thats not normal behavior (the hey siri thing) No energy to reset up everything 😂 been using it since the iPhone 6+ days. Last time every phone I change I start fresh but no longer la haha.
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celciuz
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Oct 19 2023, 01:40 PM
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QUOTE(ozak @ Oct 19 2023, 10:32 AM) Ya, saw some cheaper version. Might get 1 to play around. Wonder got the 1 use ewlink. Maybe want to use to switch ON my laptop earlier before I go in the office. So boss sees me very rajin.  Actually, I’m thinking if I could use to switch on my PC 🤣 I use my PC as media player in my movie room. Now I just have it on sleep mode, so when I press my wireless keyboard and it wakes up. But if can do shutdown even better la and use this bot to turn it on. Or actually, can those relay switch like for smart gate be used to trigger a pc motherboard to startup?
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celciuz
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Oct 19 2023, 04:24 PM
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QUOTE(ozak @ Oct 19 2023, 03:47 PM) Can. Parallel the PC switch wire out to smart controller relay. Put in inching mode. Ah, so follow same concept as autogate would work... next project then haha... Side note, my autogate I'm using a preflashed firmware with homekit... however now that I'm running a mqqt server, I can run others and just do it via mqqt? then homebridge? These sort, but last time no case like this... just board only. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/40011595517...1MY%21926922364
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celciuz
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Nov 3 2023, 08:20 AM
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QUOTE(simmarjit @ Nov 2 2023, 08:47 PM) You should be able to pair everything when change to china region. Global M2 can connect to China server?
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