Loyal home

No Zigbee on the roof

Today is the end of my attempt to get sensors on the roof.

Intercom solutuion

I just jumped into topic of smart intercom (e.g. the one, you can use to see from or to talk via phone). Obviously, cloud-first solutions of unknown provenance and storage/external access policies are totally off (hello and bye-bye Ring).

Shifting from ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT

My home network is about 40 devices (including petty things like thermometers, and important things like electrical window shutters with smart relays). About 20% of lightning in my home was converted.

Getting started with nodemcu

(this is not a guideline, just my working notes and logs)

Device report: …a relay

No vendor, no model. Just an ‘ali relay’ for €5.5.

Device report: AUBESS ZigBee Smoke Detector

I suspect, YG500A is the true name of the baseboard…

Sonoff power regulator with thermal sensor: THR320D

I HATE CLOUDS. To be precise, I have consumer clouds which gobble data (for processing by third parties, etc, etc), and I hate to work through cloud. It’s breaking locality promise of the loyal home.

Device review: Sonoff door sensor

I assumed Sonoff to be higher grade stuff compare to average Ali assortment. I was wrong. Like really, really wrong.

Their door sensor is terrible quality. Soldering is bad, I got paring switch physically felt off, so I had had to short pins on…

Device report: Ikea Starkvind air purifier with Home Assistant