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What's your smart home set-up? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/smarthomes@feddit.uk

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As we're trending, I thought I'd lean into it and see what everyone is using.

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[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Here are the main components of my system, which has become a bit of a collection over the years:

Home Assistant on RPi
zwave USB stick
a number of lights, switches and multi sensors on the zwave network
A cluster of four RPis for various scheduled and transient tasks (data ETL, solar energy forecast model training and forecast generation, house battery and EV charge planning and execution, scraping and processing council bin collection schedule)
two RPis handling motorised curtains and cooling fans in home cinema
three ESP2866s running ESPHome controlling relays for switching sauna, floor heating and water immersion heating on/off
ten ESP32s running WLED controlling LED strips inside and out

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think this covers the basics.

Home assistant running under proxmox on an ancient hp micro server
ZZH zigbee gateway stick
Xiaomi/Aqara light switches, with one more switch than circuit going to switch to act as a button for lamps
Ikea
- Bulbs for lamps
- undercounter strips with zigbee for office mood lights
Nest hubs for music + 4 room house amp system
Tado for heating

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ZZH zigbee gateway stick

Is that your recommendation for a ZigBee dongle to cut out the hub?

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the one I use, I would recommend a ZZH-P if they ever get released! Failing that I have heard good things about the sonoff stick.

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have problems finding any information at all about this, could you link a website to see what it is and the current status?

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if zzh is on sale at the moment, what are you trying to achieve?

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Just trying find a webpage with information, I can only find a page for zzh CC2652R and only a GitHub issue about the zzh-p which is apparently CC2652P? You seem to follow the release progress, so where could I read about it?