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Clear and helpful. I read lots of ways to edit files from VSCode in HA container, but yours is the one that works! I did have a problem with permissions, though, which you do not address. Apparently the HA installation procedure set up the whole directory structure as owned by root, whereas VSCode is logged in as MYUSERNAME. Any attempt to create or save a file gives a permissions error. It is therefore necessary to change the ownership of the whole HA structure to MYUSERNAME. In CLI, log in as root, navigate to /opt/homeassistant and use # chown -R USER NAME config After that VSCode can write and edit HA files.

Hi! Any chance for a "Home Automation Controllers/System" video. I use unif, with phillips hue (+bridge) and I'm just about to extend to aqara for some Sensors- yes I want to use home assistant but just realised I need the aqara m2/3 HUB aswell. Silly oversight but I still think a video on all the necessary controllers for a complete smart Home would make for good content (and important content) and how to maximise potential without having 9 different controllers and/or hubs for such a complete smart home project. Thanks from Aust. for the videos

Very nice to have found a fairly concise and technical channel. The biggest risk in building HA as an integral part of a home is robustness. Particularly pairing to the devices themselves. I would love to hear about strategies for making a HA setup as resilient as possible. E.g. are there ways to back up the zigbee device network itself? Usin wifi, you could assign IP's to mac adresses statically. Are there anything similar for zigbee and HA? Having multiple containers that need to talk to each other, you would want that configuration backed up too, so e.g. after an update that brakes something, you could rollback everything to last known working state. Do you have solution for that?

Do you need a running instance of Frigate for this to connect to, or does this method create everything?

Thanks for this video, I'm currently planning a smarthome network and have no experience with zigbee. This really helped explain all about it and now I feel confident it's a protocol I can adopt! Also, I know it's an old video, but there's a lot of random clicking sounds throughout, maybe that's been addressed in your newer content, but I didn't see anyone commenting.

As a newb ive watched countless videos on vlans but this is the only one where i got it!

Hi, great video as I’m looking to do this in my house to separate the landing and the entrance light bulb from one switch. Do you know if the decoupling mode has been added yet to ZHA before I buy the switches?

Silly question given that the Candeo do a faceless version (which if it fits a standard module wall plate is a superb feature for matching other electrical outlets) why couldn’t you just put 4 of them in a standard wall box with a 4 module wall plate?

Thanks for clarifying this. It can be a pain hooking these all up seamlessly into one hub.

i have a tuya zigbee hub... on the gateway interface, I don't see any where I can select zigbee channels. When I buy the gateway, the seller has no idea when i ask about what channel it works on. Finicky to get zigbee device to connect to the closest zigbee repeater. Very often the even repairing in site does not always help.

Really informative video - a list of the recommended products for each use case discussed would be super helpful!

Hey Alan! Thank you for the video. I just ordered also the same item since I was having also some issues regarding with slow response. How are you managing also the two/three ways switches? Dont tell me you also put zigbee bulbs :D

From your first setup video for Zigbee2mqtt on docker, I've been using the sonoff dongle plus as per your recommendation and its been solid for a year without hicups. Glad to see there is a good network adapter that doesnt cost too much. Thanks again for the great videos 😊

Great video. Based on your recommendation I got the same device. What is the difference between the core update and the zigbee update. Which one should I use? Cant seem to find any info.

Can you plug zigbee into a wall outlet that can take usb? Then use home assistant from your phone? Or would it have to be a smart plug?

One thing to note is this only works if you’ve already downloaded the template. If you haven’t, the first script doesn’t even work.

Ok so you didnt explain how to set the limiters for the zemismart up and down?

Can you help me with mine? It shows that the Pi bluetooth is added to HA but I can’t connect my bluetooth speaker to to and no idea where to do a bluetooth search to see a list of available devices.

I have tried and tried and research and research but still am not able to install bluetti2mqtt into my synology docker. Can you do a video on it?

Love the video, been thinking of doing this myself. But is there any way you could do a new video, as a detailed tutorial, where you hold our hand, through every step? As you lost me as a newbie in home assistent, after the helper, LOL... So now I don't know how to do the automation.

I have learned so much in this video, i am happy that i found this video and saved it for future reference, and i subbed!

After entering my synology password, visual studio says "Setting up SSH Host ....: Waiting for port forwarding to be ready". Not sure what to do. SSH is enabled in my NAS.

Are there any other options?

Hi I followed the instruction when trying to setup the integration it says connection failed?

Thank you for a such great overview and explanation!

Your videos are the best - thank you !

In my 5x1080P cameras setup, I had my CPU load down from 35% to 5% just by adding motion masks to ignore camera embedded timestamps 😅!

How did you make the lights dim when watching something? Plex or some other integration?

I am wondering if it is somehow possible to tell which person is on which side based on weight difference? Are there alternatives to these pressure mats that can actually differentiate by weight rather than just on or off?

that was sharp !! very vell done sir thank you !! 🙂

Question: In one of your videos you mentioned the wifi mesh routers/ access points that you use, but I can't find that video. Could you please tell us what you use? I'm setting up a new home & upstairs has wifi reception issues, and I would love to know what you use for wifi. Thank you 🙏

Did I miss something? "I don't wanna use ZHA because I'd have to repair all my devices" then "I changed to this new coordinator, and I had to repair all my devices". What did I miss? Also, is there a way around having to repair everything when switching coordinators?

The site is crappy af. Half the strings are not translated so you have to translate them separately to figure out what the input is asking for and when you hit checkout they refuse your card for no clear reason. WTF does card type not supported mean? Your guess is as good as mine cause it's a visa card and they say they take it but they clearly don't. Could have used paypal but since I had a bad experience with them a few years back related to privacy I voted against doing that. And that doesn't even cover the fact that I have to figure out tax on the receiving end which I remember as not being the most straightforward thing in my country. Good thing is you can get it from aliexpress which is actually a one click buy withouth having to fidget with VAT. Honestly why even have a website with a buy option when even the payment doesn't really work.

your video will be more usefull if you show the steps on how yo set it all up, but know, you just asume that i im not a nubie

No links in the description for anything mentioned? Atleast get some affiliate revenue while making the viewers life easier lol

for 3 story house how many coordinator is best and all with Coordinator mode or Router.

I like Shelly products and they have a lot of capability. But, if you’re into energy savings, they’re among the worst smart devices around. Huge energy hogs. The custom devices using Zigbee, Zwave or BTLE are way more efficient than Shellys.

Thanks all for this great video! This is very valuable information for "us" as hobby home automation guys. We don't have the time and money to compare different devices but they have done it and experienced it on a way bigger scale! I really like to see more videos like this. I'm also interested in even more professional smart homes where they use KNX etc. They use probably wired contact and temperature sensors? The documentation part is also important for us hobbyists, if the maintainer is not there anymore the home can then easily be restored in normal non-smart home again. They also mentioned something about hiding the sensors, I wonder how they do that. For example a contact sensor: In a wooden door you can hide it inside the top of it by drilling a hole to fit a small contact sensor but this doesn't work with a PVC door right? I'm looking forward for more videos like this!

Thanks for giving away the answer in the first two minutes. Currently I've got about a dozen Wi-Fi smart home things, almost all of them Tasmota. Zigbee is my new project for battery powered devices and POE coordinators seem clearly the way. Love your videos, keep it up!

Is there a noticable delay switching zigbee devies over ser2net or the smlight-adapter?

I don't agree with the recommendation for the home network from these guys. Being in the IT Industry, I have found issues with unifi hardware, especially with IPv6, which is CRITICAL for matter support. You can get Matter to work, but the network needs to be totally flat, but restarting home assistant could take a lot of matter devices offline until the unifi stuff is also rebooted. It's way too complex for majority of home network. Majority of home users are better off with a much simpler mesh style system. Nest Wifi or similar would be ideal for 99% of home users. Keeps it simple, and doesn't have the maintenance and complexity that unifi has.

Let me get this straight... you didn't realize you were using a ***Z2M unsupported*** coordinator even after MONTHS of troubleshooting? LOL! That's a hilariously glaring issue you continually missed. I can't help but to poke fun at you a bit for that, but please don't take this as condescension, because I assure you I've done FAR dumber things in my HA journey :) Anyway.... The SLZB-06 looks cool, but you're conflating the reason for WHY it fixed your ZigBee network. It's not the ethernet connectivity. It's not the newly centralized location. You fixed your Z2M because you migrated to a ***supported*** coordinator. Plain and simple. Don't get me wrong, ethernet connectivity and centralized location certainly don't hurt. But this video is a bit misleading in terms of what ACTUALLY solved your problem. All that said, I really appreciate you taking the time to make this video, and I learned some valuable stuff from it. Cheers!

For now never had any problem wirh my first model sonoff dongle. Important to have the latest firmware instaled on this dongle as well

advice please.... i setup mqtt docker as i followed your explanation and when come to setup authentication all stopped when i clicked on console in mosquitto - error message said "Unable to retrieve image details" where have i missed?

Amazing video, and thanks to those lads for being so helpful!!!! Continued well wishes to them! Thanks to you for bringing them too.

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I know this is a old thread by now. But, can you help me by answering a problem. I have people vaporizing chemicals (bleach turned to chlorine gas) house hold cleaners and creosote made into a smoke screen. Do you know of something that can pick up on these? Something I can use legally. Not asking for legal advice obviously, but something to provide proof. I now have pulmonary hypertension brung on by scaring by these chemicals. Pointing me in the right direction would help.