Tag: homeassistant
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Home Assistant: WP6003 Air Box
I recently got a WP6003 Air Box (Aliexpress). The official product page seems to be offline but can be accessed through Archive.org. It’s quite straightforward to integrate in a Bluetooth Proxy and Home Assistant thanks to Omar’s work. The major problem I have with it, is that the Bluetooth (4.0) range is terrible. Neither my…
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Home Assistant: Zigbee routers
In my Home Assistant quest and simplifying (not sure if that’s actually happening) and getting more control (aka less reliant on the cloud and 3rd parties) I’ve been playing with Zigbee. Zigbee is quite cool because it’s a mesh network. As I used it before with my Philips Hue bulbs, I was eager to expand…
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Home Assistant: Getting rid of Philips Hue bridge
In my Home Assistant quest and simplifying (not sure if that’s actually happening) and getting more control (aka less reliant on the cloud and 3rd parties) I’ve been playing with Zigbee. Zigbee is quite cool because it’s a mesh network. As I used it before with my Philips Hue bulbs, I was eager to expand…
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Home Assistant: Assign entities to areas
I’ve finally started working with Home Assistant and while the learning curve has been steep, it’s been fun. I’m going to post some random notes (mostly for myself) on things I discovered, and I need to keep in mind. For example, I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer. I’ve…
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Home Assistant: ESP32-C3 Bluetooth proxy
I have set up an ESP32-c3 Bluetooth Proxy for a Mi ble thermometer (and I have a few other BLE sensors that I haven’t managed to set up yet). The proxy config can be found here. Be sure to modify the variables to match whatever you want to do. I’m using static IPs because auto…
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Ikea Tradfri with Philips Hue
Recently visited Ikea and had to get a Christmas star-light like I used to have during my childhood. Most of my (non-track) light at home is smart using either a TP-Link Kasa smartplug or Philips Hue (and I want to avoid adding more brands, more apps, and more shit). However, Philips Hue is quite $$$…
