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I've been playing with it, I started with home assistant then tasmota on sonoff. Have a look it's certainly not above yours h

https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

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7 hours ago, MrHappy said:

I have a guy who does car ecu's ect...

 

He has been using https://nodered.org/ to mix & match home auto stuff

 

Its sound clever, but above my pay grade...

Hardcore stuff 

 

Ultimately ha is waste of time , it's lagging behind in tech , if it was the norm that all new build and people upgraded because devices were compatible enuf it would make life easier , 

 

So don't worry even if it's in your pay grade , you will be retired or dead before it really becomes something every household has got and it still wouldn't have happened

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1 hour ago, james.wilson said:

I disagree Al. Most home have some ha just nothing to do with the alarm Co. 

Most? If you call a.thermostat and doorbell ha yes 

 

Majority homes don't 

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Combinations of Node-Red, MQTT and Home assistant make for some nice integrations not bound by the logic of an alarm control panel.  SelfMon customers have already started building on top of the MQTT interface to the Galaxy panels.

 

I agree that this needs to be more plug and play though. Most setups require too much fiddling with config files. It's not complex, just requires knowledge of all the config file options. A bit like configuring alarm control panels...

 

 

 

 

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50 minutes ago, MrHappy said:

My HA project so far-

 

Hive £109.49

Hive Thermostat stand £5.99

sonoff plug top £8.71 (2019)

2  x tp link plug top + echo dot £35

 

ambitions

 

maybe a vertical blind thingy ?

Yes the blind thing would work , but mostly only tilt 

 

I have a new side project investment into soft furnishing didn't know so much money in it .....

 

Odd plumbing job pays well to 

52 minutes ago, MrHappy said:

My HA project so far-

 

Hive £109.49

Hive Thermostat stand £5.99

sonoff plug top £8.71 (2019)

2  x tp link plug top + echo dot £35

 

ambitions

 

maybe a vertical blind thingy ?

See what I mean tho, this is hardly ha me H 

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49 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

I have a new side project investment into soft furnishing didn't know so much money in it .....

 

Yep, £3k for a sofa which is basically pallet quality wood, polystyrene and fleece wrapped in fabric. Huge markups. Same with beds.

 

Easier than crawling around in attics and under floors...

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Just now, GalaxyGuy said:

 

Yep, £3k for a sofa which is basically pallet quality wood, polystyrene and fleece wrapped in fabric. Huge markups. Same with beds.

 

Easier than crawling around in attics and under floors...

Ha for sure 

 

But I can't help myself with alarms y......?

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1 hour ago, MrHappy said:

My HA project so far-

 

Hive £109.49

Hive Thermostat stand £5.99

sonoff plug top £8.71 (2019)

2  x tp link plug top + echo dot £35

 

ambitions

 

maybe a vertical blind thingy ?

 

I already had various lighting circuits, heating and garage door controlled by the Galaxy, so now connected through the echo dot. However, my wife does not want the dot in any of the main rooms, so it's in my office.   I want each of the rads controlled, but would rather have 12v devices as don't really want to be messing with batteries - not really an option though.  Some of the retrofit blind controllers seem a bit big.

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15 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

Ha for sure 

 

But I can't help myself with alarms y......?

 

Not for me now. I think it's two years since I installed a system and I was totally shattered after an 8hr install.   It's much easier selling the kit.

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Just now, GalaxyGuy said:

 

Not for me now. I think it's two years since I installed a system and I was totally shattered after an 8hr install.   It's much easier selling the kit.

Oddly the builders have run the cables for me , any existing sites existing wiring 

 

Anyone who wants new wiring has to pay more and I take a sub with me 

 

Hkc is exclusive u see lol

 

But I have to run some externally Monday and still taking a subby with me 

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