Recent content by bbrendon

Not that I know of but should work with any contact sensor.

Did you check your deadbolt? Some have magnets in the bolt for this.

I tinkered with those. Definitely not a replacement for Alexa.

Long ago when I needed a lot of serial ports I used a digi. Now I only have one so I'm using a usb-serial dongle. When I need to connect to the PIM from windows, I stop HASS and start ser2net and then connect to over ethernet.

I am worried about this as well. I currently have a broken UPB (rare) switch that I can't find a replacement for at a reasonable cost. I don't have Zwave and I've been hoping to not introduce another protocol. I was considering looking into ESPHOME for light switches in the future but haven't...

Not sure but Considering the changes to TLS over the years, you're probably going to have to figure out something that is old-school (plain-text). I have two WC boards, lucky for me I'm not sending email from them.

Why not? Is there something wrong with OpenVPN?

IMO. Netgear is hot trash so I would port forward to the Synology and use that.

Pretty cool. I'd be interested in hearing about people trying to use these with pets and also about mounting them to the ceiling in the center of a room. Until then, I'll hold off and continue with my very old PIR sensors.

Ira, if you want a turn-key HASS solution, the Yellow is probably best. They just got the first voice assistant released. It's probably going to be awhile before it's stable but it's looking VERY exciting. I've always avoided RPI hardware because of the memory corruption but that may have been...

The "hang out" was the CQC forums and here AFAIK. I ran CQC for a number of years and migrated to Home Assistant. I even wrote a few integrations (forget what they were called exactly) for CQC.

araknis? Are you outside the US? Also probably a packet capture might make it obvious. I believe Sonos also prefers dumb switches.

Make sure to set your Monitor IP address in pfsense. I wouldn't use any automated bandwidth tests. IMO those mostly waste bandwidth. They are useful for periodic troubleshooting. Also, keeping traceroute logs can be helpful. At work we keep 1 year history of packet loss data, latency, and...

I'm not worried for myself but most people don't know what they are buying or doing with stuff on their network. Also the people that are vulnerable are the ones who are not going to read articles like that. Right to repair and other similar legislation for companies that abandon products be...

Thanks for that. Interesting read!