Anyone have a view on how this overlaps on the Azure platform? MS are pushing Bing Chat Enterprise alongside the API access.
It does! They added it a while ago, you need to tick the restore check box when you create it and it will survive reboots. It’s very clever.
Nice tutorial! You used a date time helper. I did something similar using a timer helper instead.
You set the timer for your duration, then every time you turn on/off the boiler you ‘reset’ the timer. You can then have a trigger in your automation for when the timer reaches zero. Same solution but without the need to work with templates and other ‘codish’ things.
You need Alexa Media Player
This integration will allow you to call a service that does TTS for whatever text you send it. I use it to announce when my wife gets home if I’m in the study at the back of the house. I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”
Is this your site? If it is, thanks! It’s usually my go to for figuring out what is supported, links to what the pairing process is etc.
I’ve been using HA for a long time. I love that it is capable of aggregating all the data sources and orchestrating all the different sensors that are on the market. I haven’t used everything below, but I have used a lot of it and can give some pointers.
Instead of a Conbee II I would suggest the Sonoff Dongle. I reached a point when I had a lot of devices that the conbee couldn’t quite keep up.
I have smart bulbs from ikea, innr, linkind, Aldi. They all paired to the zigbee mesh pretty well. I also had some Osram ones that didn’t behave as relays so I took them out.
The BT sensors look nice, and I believe they integrate with HA well, but your HA needs to be in BT range for them to be able to communicate. You could also look at the Sonoff environment sensors. I use these tucked away in different rooms and they are great.
Cameras, the general advice is to make sure they support RTSP and ONVIF, with brands being Hikvision, Dahua or Amcrest. Everyone will say you should feed your cameras into a Network recorder first, with options often recommended being BlueIris, Frigate. I use Frigate.
Feel free to ask any follow up questions, I’ll do my best to guide.
I’m currently in the middle of a renovation so my HA instance is down, but let me give you some pointers. I think it’s possible but it’s getting right into the guts of what makes HA powerful (and complicated)
Firstly, template lights this is how you can surface a light that reads values from other elements and presents them as light settings.
Then the attribute you want is rgb_color and you want to parse out the red value (for the red channel) and convert it to a brightness for the template lamp.
Lastly you’ll need to work how to update the red value of the led strip when the brightness of the light changes. This will involve pulling back the green and blue values of the led strip and updating the strip’s rgb_color with the combined list. this page has examples.
I’m sorry I can’t give you any sample code but this hopefully gets you started.
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