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This is really great and works fine, thanks! Any chance you can filter out sensors in your script, in the similar fashion that you do in the blueprint?

OK, I have Frigate via an LXC (not with Docker) but have managed to passthrough the Coral USB and mount a Proxmox hosted ZFS drive. What I can't seem to do is to get it showing in Frigate for recording.... Anyone got any ideas?

Once you’ve programmed your leds to an animation you want to keep do you need WiFi to continue using them?

hi Alan, I want to use my rpi to backup my server. My backups will be my opt folder and a smb share with photos. Is it smart to install duplicati on my rpi to keep the workload of my server? This will be the main purpose of running the rpi. The rpi will be at another place and connected through wireguard to my home network. Thx!

Iframes are being phased out in favour of dashboards which point to a web page which loads it in in the same way. Be careful with some apps which use security headers e.g. X-Frame-Options or Content-Security-Policy, you will have to allow your home assistant domain in this policy. This is a good reason to deploy your home assistant installation on a proper subdomain with SSL i.e. reverse proxy.

I was hoping for the tips to get rid of cats.

piece of piss......love it...made me spit out my tea

Running a Sonoff ZIGBEE 3.0 USB DONGLE PLUS (CC2652P) in my basement as well, with flaky connections in the past weeks when my network grew a bit after a delivery from AliExpress ;L) I was dreading the migration to the SLZB-06. I read you need to change the IEEE address of the coordinator, and I coultdn't find anything really usable about that online. For anyone else finding this: If you have one of those sonoffs (or I guess any CC2652P coordinator) don't dread the switch, I actually did not need to repair anything. I stopped my Z2M, changed the config.yaml, as well as the port: section in HA addon config GUI (only added the IP address line in the config GUI, and the full config provided by the stick into the yaml), I renamed my coordinator_backup file and started Z2M again, fully mentally prepared to go around my house and re-pair everything... Turns out: not necessary. I even checked if I really unplugged the sonoff, because everything just connected to the SLZB-06... I did not need to re-pair a single device, and now I have my coordinator actually in the middle of my network :) Thanks for showing off this amazing thing!

I'm considering the same, currently have a USB. Am concerned about creating a point of failure with having an up and running network

Fantastic and helpful video. Thanks very much and say hi to dad for me.

Alan, I am curious if you've done any HA WLED projects with reactive sound. I want to know if WLED exposes the microphone to HA. Is it possible to create an automation based on sound level?

I also installed the Aqara light switches but they've been very temperamental. Constantly dropping off the network and the physical clicking sometimes not working (you have to click around the switch until you find the sweet spot). One has stopped working altogether. Also, recently physically clicking on a light switch no longer triggers any automation (but it works if the light is switched on remotely) - think it may be due to a recent HA update... Any tips to improve the experience? Thanks!

Thanks!

Any chance you can update this guide with espresense companion

Thanks legend. That was a sick tutorial

Thank you, im coming from ZHA SkyConnect multi-pan, and im starting to get tired of the zigbee issues, so I got what you recommended, SLZB-06 (non poe) will transfer the skyconnect to thread old and the new stick ZHA. If i can simply migrate to ZHA, i will try that first, then go to Z2M if i still experience issues. Cheers

thank you very much , can this ethernet zigbee router be used as a zigbee repeater also?

TIL a new device from Ukraine! Thanx a lot!

Excellent video, really interesting. I didn't realise you could get a network zigbee coordinator, so I immediately ordered one to replace my USB one.

Great writeup / video! Just having a play with one and find that it works when I get into bed but then thinks I get out when I lay down. I am guessing positioning is important - it looks like you have yours folded over -0 is that the key? Cheers!

The use of ser2net seems like a good solution for relocating the Zigbee coordinator. My Zigbee2MQTT is running, as well as Home Assistant in Docker using a docker-compose file. In it, under devices, there's a reference to my USB device /dev/ttyUSB0. By relocating it to a Raspberry Pi device elsewhere, that USB device is no longer available, and I get an error message. Is there a solution for this?

News: SkyConnect don't work flawlessly with ZHA neither. Same disconnection issue.

lost me 4 mins in on about zigbee, and then not quickly saying what it was, did or required. so therefore if i don't know if i can use home assitant without having to purchase extra bits there is no point in carrying on.

Your "WTF" was gold. I was exactly there a few months go.

I dont know, Im just using git to avoid directly working on the host machine. This is normally mutch smoother and you can build your own pipeline that should also do all this stuf for you automaticly. So instead of configuring your IDE to the needs, configure your CI/CD workflow like a boss.

Loved the content 👍🏼

Thanks for posting, looks like a good option for when my current coordinator sleigh dies.

Will this network coordinator work with thread / matter (BTW great video)

I recommend getting the "p7" version. It's the same chip with more memory. I moved from a 2652p usband didn't have to repair anything

Thank you sensei

Given a single open and close per day, how many days do you estimate the battery will last on a full charge?

I have set my Home Assistant up with Home Assistant in charge overall, with multiple autonomous sub systems. This provides a higher level of resilience to single point failures. Ie Lighting is run by two Hue hubs, heating with Tado, Eufy security cameras,with Home Assistant running remaining zwave and zigbee devices. Home Assistant can operate everything everywhere so does all the extra clever stuff. This way if Home Assistant goes down lighting still works.

Thank you for this video. Actually, I learned a lot from your channel. But I have a question. I am using Home Assistant Yellow with MQTT. So, if i switch off the coordinator comes with HA yellow and use this instead would it help in resolving my issue? specially I am facing the same exact issue lots of connection drops I even switch off the 2.4 GHz wifi and still same issue.

Thank you, I’m at 58 devices, having the same issues. Went from SONOFF ZBDongle P to ZBDongle E, same as you, from trusted to experimental. I might do the same and change to the one you tried in the next 3 months. Again thank you. Le the re-pairing begin!

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My fix was removing the. "-" from "docker-compose up -d" to "docker compose up -d"

Who is your provider? I just signed a two year contract with EE for 150 MB down probably enough for this small house and just the two of us.

Great bit of heads up info, thanks

Thanks

Great video full of lots of useful information, but why are you not using ZHA?

Another thing that might marginally improve your network is pointing all external antennas straight up: Ideally all the antennas on your devices should be pointed the same way (being it upright, flat to the ground or at an angle) to avoid polarization issues, but since most devices will probably have hidden internal antennas that isn't really an option. The next best thing is point external antenna on rounters and hubs up, that way their "donut-shaped" propagation field will be flat to the ground and cover more space horizontaly than vertically (which is what you probably want unless you live in a tower 😁). This is probably a lot less important for a mesh network like ZigBee than it is to mostly point-to-point networks like WiFi, but if you are trying to get the absolute best out of your setup it might still be worth it.

What’s your thought about Ubiquiti UCG ultra + ubiquiti 16 lite poe switch

It's amazing how every smart home youtuber I see pushes the usb coordinators. I didn't even know network coordinators existed until a couple of months ago

I’m a complete noob, in fact I’ve not even started anything yet. I’m looking at buying a refurb dell mini pc 16g ram and 250gb ssd to start and want to start with zigbee but I’m not sure if it’s zigbee or zigbee2mqtt I’m best using. I’m looking to go for something I don’t have to replace for a some time. So which am I best going with zigbee ZHA vs zigbee2mqtt. Any help would be great, any sorry if it’s not tech terms but I’m a complete noob

I have the same problem with zigbee

It’s so true. My smart home still gives me grief. As a matter of fact, I’m writing this in the dark because my smart lights don’t think I’m here 😪

I am able to see everything working and can log into Portainer, but when i use the same IP and go to port 5000 It does not do anything? Also, not sure how to verify that TPU is actually recognizing and working ? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

As they say, "we learn more from our failures than our successes." I had a major home network failure recently and it came down to a single bit of corruption on one machine due to a power failure. I learned plenty before I got it fixed. But pairing up 100+ devices ? Yikes. I sure hope you have an uninterruptible power supply in your network closet. I do. Now. Great video.

When I first thought about trying HA, I went to the HA web site and found that they offered an OVA file for setting up a virtual machine. I set up that VM on my QNAP NAS and the process was absolutely simple and flawless. I wouldn't do it any other way if you have a NAS. Presumably this also works on Synology NAS's as well.

Another important thing to mention is that with this coordinator, it's easy to expand the network to remote locations using the built-in WireGuard.