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I don't know why you aren't using SmartThings as a bridge. But if you insist, this guy says he did it in a few hours.
Migrating from SmartThings to Home Assistant
I have been a SmartThings user for many years. The orginal reason was that, whenwe bought our current house in 2012, I wanted to turn the eave lights on atsunset...
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Agreed on the lock app, but only cause mine is Zigbee. There is a ZWave lock app. What did you need from Ecobee Suite?
I'm possibly biased because I never used a single smartapp when I could write an automation. I remember early on not being able to figure out how a light kept turning on and it was from an old smartapp. At that point, I vowed never to use them.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
The powerline networking shit the solar company put in for their monitoring tool has pissed me off for the last time.
Bought a TP-link wifi bridge off Amazon to do the necessary without the dongle.
Bought a TP-link wifi bridge off Amazon to do the necessary without the dongle.
I don't know why you aren't using SmartThings as a bridge. But if you insist, this guy says he did it in a few hours.
Migrating from SmartThings to Home Assistant
I have been a SmartThings user for many years. The orginal reason was that, whenwe bought our current house in 2012, I wanted to turn the eave lights on atsunset...
Agreed on the lock app, but only cause mine is Zigbee. There is a ZWave lock app. What did you need from Ecobee Suite?
I'm possibly biased because I never used a single smartapp when I could write an automation. I remember early on not being able to figure out how a light kept turning on and it was from an old smartapp. At that point, I vowed never to use them.
what are you doing with your lock? My main one is zigbee too and it just doesnt work.
I do zone equalization with the ecobee suite. Look at temperature from a number of temp sensors upstairs and downstairs and run the fan until they come within a certain temp of eachother to keep the load balanced.
oh, smartthings as a bridge would and does work just fine, but why would i switch to HA if i was gonna do that.I don't know why you aren't using SmartThings as a bridge. But if you insist, this guy says he did it in a few hours.
Migrating from SmartThings to Home Assistant
I have been a SmartThings user for many years. The orginal reason was that, whenwe bought our current house in 2012, I wanted to turn the eave lights on atsunset...
Agreed on the lock app, but only cause mine is Zigbee. There is a ZWave lock app. What did you need from Ecobee Suite?
I'm possibly biased because I never used a single smartapp when I could write an automation. I remember early on not being able to figure out how a light kept turning on and it was from an old smartapp. At that point, I vowed never to use them.
As long as you're using default handlers, ST is pretty much all local now, so it's really not much different than using a USB stick. For now, I guess you could migrate everything but your lock out of ST. I think I read there was a zigbee lock manager being worked on.
And equalization doesn't seem like it would be *too* hard. I can't think of a node that would do the comparison, but that should be pretty easy to write in a Javascript function. From there its just true/false to turn the fan on and off.
edit: I forgot that ST and HA can't communicate directly, so cloud is needed for that. Either way, you could still migrate everything but the lock for now.
And equalization doesn't seem like it would be *too* hard. I can't think of a node that would do the comparison, but that should be pretty easy to write in a Javascript function. From there its just true/false to turn the fan on and off.
edit: I forgot that ST and HA can't communicate directly, so cloud is needed for that. Either way, you could still migrate everything but the lock for now.
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Well, here's a start to managing pin codes. Manual might be kind of a pain, but honestly, how often are you setting lock codes?
community.home-assistant.io
So that should solve your lock issue.
Schlage Connect Smart Deadbolt (ZigBee): anyone have any luck getting user codes to work?
So I was able to receive the user code in a bit of a backwards way (I am assuming setting user codes will work in the same way if I can figure out the data to pass as args). I found the following link to zigbee cluster commands when I was reading the documentation on zigbee2mqtt: line 10192...
community.home-assistant.io
So that should solve your lock issue.
Then you probably want something simpler than HA to be honest. Try Apple.
Otherwise, you might as well get comfortable with the Developer Tools by setting codes there, as you'll be in there a lot testing automation shit.
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
Phillips Hue dimmer switches will control any HomeKit light. Don’t why I didn’t think of it before.
Took ten minutes to set one up that I had in place of the battery eater button.
Took ten minutes to set one up that I had in place of the battery eater button.
I really think you're overthinking this. HA will still be able to lock, unlock, and report status on your door. It's a bit of a PITA to add codes (as compared to ST, but MUCH easier than the default way - from the lock itself), but once you do - you're done. I probably haven't gone into the ST Lock Manager in a year. There's no need.
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
For now, there is no UI for Zigbee locks, only ZWave. So it has to be done through Dev Tools.Why is it difficult to add codes to the lock?
BTW, just a general FYI, you will regularly use Developer Tools to understand states and how to call services to do things for automations.