TRV
The Holy Grail of Heating Thermostats: A Plot Twist (TRV801Z vs TRV801_1)
I bought 8 MOES TRV valves and discovered that firmware lottery can ruin your heating automation. Here's what I learned at -14°C outside.
zigbee
When Rain Actually Makes You Happy: The $10 Zigbee Guardian of Your Outdoor Laundry
A punchy summary that highlights the key selling points - the price, dual functionality, practical use cases (laundry + irrigation), and the advantage of real detection over forecasts. It's short, engaging, and gives readers a clear reason to read the full article.
zigbee
The Silent Killer and the 25$ Zigbee Guardian: Safer Home with the ZC-HM Carbon Monoxide Sensor (Home Assistant compatibile)
The heating season brings a deadly risk: carbon monoxide. See how a $25 Zigbee sensor (ZC-HM) and Home Assistant can protect your family. A simple setup for a priceless peace of mind. #SmartHome #Safety
homeassistant
I Just Found the Holy Grail of Heating Thermostats for Home Assistant
For years, I was content with my old Zigbee thermostats. They worked well, but after 3.5 years, about half of them required additional zip ties to keep the fragile battery covers from falling off. Plus, with their two-battery setup and inconsistent contacts, they drained power way too fast. Why
homeassistant
The ultimate solution for controlling everything with this smart switch!
UPDATE: How to regain control of this switch (and others) after update to Zigbee2Mqtt 2.0 The problem I had was that over the years I had changed a lot of things to smart things in such a way that they could not be controlled directly. These include wall lights
homeassistant
My simple, yet powerfull irrigation solution with Home Assistant, Zigbee valve and moisture sensor
Spring is here, so of course I had to do some tidying up and tending to my lawn. After mowing, scarifying, aerating, reseeding where holes had appeared and fertilising, the only thing left to do was to keep the lawn well watered. The grass I sowed was Wimbledon. The optimum
homeassistant
Home Assistant Energy Management in 2021.8.0 not showing all devices with power monitoring (zigbee2mqtt)
In newest release of Home Assistant there is cool new feature called Energy Management which adds dedicated dashboard when you can monitor all your devices that can do such measurment, mostly smart sockets. This should work out of the box, and generally it is working, but in my case I