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I also do this with zwaveJS2mqtt and node-red they are installed directly on the low power device.Įverything works very well. The HA integration for nut communicates with this via IP. Now use rtl433 loaded on the low power device with an rtlsdr sending MQTT to HA.įor APC UPS, use NUT instead and load it on the low power device.
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I’ve actually gone away from RFXtrx due to long standing reliability issues that were present with HS. Works very well and is extremely reliable.
HOMESEER ALTERNATIVE SERIAL
It’s the same utility HS uses for the Z-Net to transcode serial to IP. Then you need to find if the home assistant integration can communicate over IP or if it needs a local agent installed on the low power device.īasically, you use ser2net for MySensors and RFX. Technically it’s not necessary but I’ve found it’s better to separate the integrations that use USB to a separate device so they can maintain connection while the main home automation server reboots. What you will find is most people using Hyper-V also use a low power device (raspberry pi or thin client) with linux loaded (rasbian or debian) and the USB devices plug into this.
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What are my options for (USB Devices) success in the least amount of resistance?
HOMESEER ALTERNATIVE FREE
I’ve have tried several free methods without success, and really don’t want to spend a bunch of money in paid solutions to allow USB Passthrough if at all possible. I have several USB devices (MySensors, APC UPS, RFX) that cannot be seen by HA. I realize this is not an HA issue, but more of an OS application for me (Windows 10 Host, Running HA in a Hyper-V). The latest, and most difficult hurdle to overcome is USB. I’m VERY impressed at what HA has to offer, even though there seems to be a lot more resistance (IE things that should work out of the box, but don’t) to creating a functional solution. I really like HomeSeer, and if it wasn’t for a major Event Engine and Virtual Device bug that has gone unfixed for several months I don’t think I would be looking for alternatives. Successfully added a few integrations custom and otherwise.
HOMESEER ALTERNATIVE WINDOWS
I’ve installed HA on a Windows Hyper-V using the provided image. New HS refugee here (well trying to make that determination). This was SUPER simple compared to anything in the HS world. Things that have really shined… Geofencing with the native HA iOS app. This was not so clear as on the dashboards the cards show “opened” “closed”. Example is the Envisilnk sensors (door) if I want to trigger on these I had to learn to trigger on “on” or “off”. In HA automations, there is a lot of work to find what the actual “states” are. “devices and child devices” in HS seems to have identified “selections” in the events. This has been a challenge.Įnvisalink DSC, got this moved over to HA natively but struggled at first with automations based on trigger events. Entities and how they are mapped from the homeseer interface. I found some articles and created some templates to sort of map data from sensors. I had to edit the actual Z-wave device in HS (controls, and set each R/G/B channel as an independent “switch” to achieve this).Įnergy devices, I have a bunch of switches that report energy, plugs and other things and would like to utilize the HA energy stuff. One example, I have an Aeotec Smart Plug with the square’ish light ring plugged in by the back door, when alarm is set it turns red, alarm disarmed it turns green. RGB - is there any way to somehow map this in HA? I have many devices that can change colors. On the homeseer integration, few questions I can’t seem to figure out: Ordered a Aeotec Gen5+ stick and will play around with that and cut a few over to see how well it performs. New HS4 convert here too… I have HA and HS in parallel and moved all automation to HA with HS only being the z-wave interface for now (Z-Net).