Recent content by jado84

With 200 bulbs (let alone accessories) you'd be exceeding the max devices per bridge for Hue anyhow. Have you got one of the sonoffs with relay contacts and switch contacts? I've not used the sonoff app much, but IIRC there are automations in it. You should be able to link the output of the...

Do you have neutrals at the switches? How deep are the boxes behind the switches? If no neutrals, probably the simplest way to achieve this would be with Philips Hue bulbs and Hue's wall switch module. Essentially you connect the permanent and switched live feeding the bulb together, bypassing...

Not familiar with selfmon, but from reading their docs I'd suggest you need to add the panels as MQTT Alarm Control panel and the detectors as room presence. Obviously if you don't want the panel, you don't need that. Doesn't look like the IO module uses an MQTT schema home assistant can...

I've never cut open a coax cable so don't know what they look like inside, but the single conductor makes me the suspicious it might be. Is there any writing on the sleeving of it? Is it just the single middle conductor, and no conductors in the five triangles surrounding it? Based on where the...

Sonoff makes one that's on Amazon (https://amzn.eu/d/gd8Jutg) - it's usb A on both ends, despite the fact it has "micro USB" in the name. I've never used it but it claims Alexa compatibility. Worth noting this is 5V 1A only so your phone will charge slowly with this (better for battery life...

Hue uses a wireless communication protocol called ZigBee, not WiFi. The hub "translates" from ZigBee to your network. ZigBee has some advantages over WiFi (lower power consumption, strictly 2.4GHz, more plug and play, it forms a mesh which means devices can repeat the signal, lower data...

As an aside, if you do get the Shelly's installed would you mind posting an update as to how you've found them? We're looking at doing something similar (granted, with everything and not just lights, and with contactors for certain things that exceed the amp rating of anything shelly has) in a...

Not aware of any brands offering security sensors that are wired over ethernet (probably are some but they are likely more enterprise-grade with an enterprise grade price tag...) Does seem like the sort of thing unifi will have done and then abandoned at some point! Do you have wired sensors...

Anything battery powered will realistically need a hub unfortunately. Any ecosystem without a hub will use WiFi (or possibly BLE, but that brings it's own problems..) - WiFi uses simply too much power for devices to run on batteries. Zigbee and Z-wave (et al.) work on batteries because the...

Shelly probably make something you could use, relatively cheap and baked in Alexa compatibility. I know they at least used to have something with loads of contacts you could power with relatively low voltage DC. There's also almost certainly someone out there making a commercial product that...

As in the unit you wire into your boiler? In Nest speak, this is called the Heat Link.

If you want to go all-out, Genius Hub even have motion sensors to deactivate heating when zones are vacant. I don't know how it copes with, for example, someone sleeping as we've never used the motion sensors for anything but lights. I don't know of any brands who offer "smart radiator valves"...

Most valves measure the temperature so you can achieve a target temperature in each zone. At their simplest, you could use them as bog standard thermostatic radiator valves, except you use an app to configure the set point rather than twisting the dial to arbitrary numbers. (They often also...

Yes, smart radiator valves are akin to someone manually adjusting the dial on a conventional radiator valve. The benefits are that you can set temperatures per zone, and the system will call for heat when required. There are quite a few systems on the market that do this. Heat Genius and Tado...

Your local council probably offer a service for bulky waste collection. Depending on where you bought the mattress from (and if it hasn't been delivered yet) the retailer supplying your new one may offer to take the old one away for a fee. You can also probably find waste contractors on google...