I had a humidity switch in ours a while ago (not smart) and it would turn on too much even if a shower wasn’t running but our windows were open. And, enough humidity was in the air. So that didn’t work out great.

It was a self contained deal not a smart switch though

I’m not sure if I’ve tried doing any PTZ stuff, but all the other settings for sure. The cameras I have all have SD cards so you could manage everything right from the UI and just have it record locally.

They want to connect to the mothership and destroy log files trying to get there.

All of the Amcrest “management” I do is within blue iris. I have a ptz IP4M-1041B but do not do any ptz stuff via HA. I use blue iris to send stream/alerts to HA via MQTT. This allows me to do notifications on motion. I would assume if you have location presets setup in BI you could call them from HA but that’s a guess.

I messed around with presets (camera location) in blue iris a bit bit didn’t have a real use case for it so I am not sure how robust it is.

I block internet access to all Amcrest cameras directly but can still access their local IP. I have access to my cameras again via blue iris which runs on a dedicated windows machine.

Been using enbrighten switches from Jasco. I use their Zwave but I think they have ZigBee too.

I use the ones that look like toggle switches over the paddle style to match the rest of the house .

I have them on all our bathroom fans too so they can be left on (steam / smell disposal) and auto shut off after 30 min.

I’ve got amcrest and I integrate them into HA via mqtt using blue iris.

But amcrest cameras need something like pihole to help block all their taking to the home base

I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I’m perfectly fine just using Garmin’s built in ‘news feed’ and tracking without giving my data to another company.

Hope it stays that way.

There’s all kinds of people being born every day, growing up and becoming self hosting unRAID users. Meanwhile current license holders are growing older and dying off.

How is continuing to charge for new people to get into unRAID unsustainable? If it’s worked this long but isn’t now then increase the prices, or watch your overhead.

I’m here until my pro license starts costing me again. If that happens, I’ll likely jump just like I have done with other products I paid for that changed our original agreement.

I add them each as their own entities but they are automatically totalled after that. You can see in my image left and right main. That’s each Emporia

Haha ya no doubt

I have two Emporia Vue 2s one in each 150a panel, flashed with esphome so they’re only reporting locally and it works great. 16 circuits per vue.

Nasty was probably strong word. I mostly expressed my disappointment and that I would steer clear going forward. And that would have a stronger economic impact on their bottom dollar.

I sent them a nasty gram from their contacts page. I don’t own anything from them right now but you can damn well bet I will avoid them if when/if it comes up.

I pointed them to Louis’ video also

I assume a zero chance of any purchases is a larger economic hit than allowing a small diy community to interact with their PURCHASED and OWNED product.

I agree if your diy an esp32 and a dht11 could easily handle those duties.

I use one with 2 DHT11s and two DS18B20s to monitor my HVAC temps.

Glad it was useful! My Ms paint skills are amazing aren’t they :)

I use zigbee mqtt Which of course integrates with mosquito broker.

But I tied in my ecowitt weather station data via mqtt into the broker so I have it in HA. I did this with weewx . There’s an mqtt add-on

I also integrated my blue-iris NVR in to mqtt for motion detection, notifications for cameras.

Life360 integration to help automate things based on who’s home

I use esphome and have a bunch of sensors/devices. I track whole house power utilization, I have temp sensors on my HVAC to I can watch all its performance stats.

Here’s my ugly drawing that tracks inside/outside/basement temps, geothermal water loop temps, in/out furnace air temps, water heater state along with both it and the furnace realtime watts usage.

I’ll definitely keep this in mind… They (some HA devs figured out a fix for life360) so with a small change to one file it’s back up. I should probably migrate off, 360 but the whole circle uses.l if for life 360 stuff.

Thanks!

Good to know about the Mac address thing, I’ve never looked at it that close or realized that.

What I’m hoping is this gets fixed and I don’t have to change things! But good to know there are options.

Doesn’t the companion app have gps access? I haven’t looked into it very closely since I was already using life360. I thought there was a tracking sensor as part of the phone (separate from life360) that may be able to be used? I do rather like the randomized mac address setting on our phones.

We are using it for presence detection, but not just for those that live in the house. Our life 360 ‘circle’ allows my parents to arrive and automatically perform actions (disarm alarm) but they are not users of HA since there is no real need.

We were already using L360 when I started using HA.

Thanks for the link, I googled looking for issues because I know there was one earlier this year that required a fix. Might be time to figure out a better way, but it’s just another thing to mess with :)