Just a TIL - if you buy a #aeotec #smartthings hub, and it was manufactured before April 2024, there's a good chance it won't work, as the SSL cert in factory images before that expired in March 2025. You will likely get an error 33-504.

Once the firmware is updated, they're fine, but getting it to update is a challenge.

Workaround is to block NTP on your firewall, so the hub doesn't know what time it is upon reset, and it'll then happily work and update.

I just got a second hub from Amazon UK and it was manufactured in 2021, so it took a bit of digging to get the thing working.

https://community.smartthings.com/t/troubleshooting-smartthings-hub-2018-and-aeotec-hub/298332

#homeautomation #homeassistant #iot

@Mumonkan I know the trade war has left them unable to pay 1000 Chinese employees there and there is a big protest about it.

" Employees at Sengled Optoelectronics say the company has failed to pay their wages for three consecutive months, which prompted protesters to march to the local town hall to demand a resolution on April 29.

A Sengled employee confirmed the protest in a telephone interview with The Epoch Times on April 30. “Over a thousand of us went to the town hall to protest,” the worker said. “Employees’ wages haven’t been paid for half a year.”

“Over a dozen people were arrested,” he said. "The company owes wages to over 1,000 full-time workers. We are all entitled to full benefits—pensions, retirement funds, unemployment insurance. The amount they owe is huge, but they haven’t given us any explanation."

The worker said that the factory owner owes the government a great deal of money and the “factory should’ve shut down long ago.”

Supposedly there are youtube videos about it, too.

#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation

https://www.ntd.com/us-tariffs-trade-war-push-workers-to-protest-in-china_1065961.html

Anyone else having issues with Sengled lightbulbs. They seem to be having server issues for the last 20 or so hours and we're having to turn the lights on and off like it was 2015 again.
Even logging into the app fails.
#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation

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Mmh… where should I connect an ESP8266 to my doorbell to recognize someone being at the door, the speaker or the blinking LED? 🤔
I really need that for HomeAssistant to relay the signal to my computer, I can't hear the damn doorbell with headphones on 75% of the time. 🥴 Can't modify the doorbell itself though (belongs to the landlord), so I have to use clamps and a *very* flat cable to get the signal out of that box.
#diy #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

Hat irgendwer von Euch die #Shelly Plug S Gen3 #Steckdose?
Lt. Datenblatt hat die < 1 Watt #Eigenverbrauch. Hat jemand mal nachgemessen und kann mir genaueres sagen?

#smarthome #homeautomation

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Automate Your Windows With THIS 👇Smart Roller Blinds Controller From @Zemismart_Sky

Connect To #Apple Home, #Google Home, #Alexa & @home_assistant via Matter over Thread

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#SmartHome #HomeAutomation

In the immortal words of Hannibal Smith - "I love it when a plan comes together".

As the sun is finally creeping through the clouds, I just remembered I'd turned off the automatic EV charging routine on Home Assistant yesterday as the weather was too overcast and it was struggling to keep the car and house battery topped up and I'd rather keep the house full given a choice.

Home Assistant automatically resets those automations at sundown ready for the next day in case I forget. Well dear reader, I forgot, but Home Assistant didn't, and has been charging Eddie (our EV) for about the last hour with no input from the forgetful meat entity.

#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation

Someone on my team has made a nifty jukebox-based UI for Sonos, and it looks awesome!
#HomeAutomation #Sonos
https://github.com/mehstg/dimepi

#homeAutomation folks! I have a gas fired Ooni pizza oven which often blows out because it's windy here in Scotland. Other half is wanting a temperature sensor that we can poke inside the oven that can handle temps upwards of 500C to make sure that the flame is still burning. Ideally, it would connect somehow to @homeassistant which could notify us both even when we're not standing right in front of it.

Any suggestions for a sensor that can deal with those high temps?

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/

#HackerNews #ModifyingHDMI #EDID #RaspberryPi #TechDIY #HomeAutomation

Smart Door locks with fingerprint and multiple ways to open in #pakistan #smartdoorlock #doorhardware
#smarthome #homeautomation

https://omnicloudsolutions.com/product-category/smart-door-locks/

De elektronische vliegen/insecten zappert is weer geïnstalleerd in de keuken. Meteen maar een "slimme' stekker ertussen gezet zodat dat ding bij zonsondergang aan gaat, en bij zonsopgang weer uit. Overdag heeft het toch weinig nut.

#HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

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#SmartHome #Shelly #HomeAutomation

Todays #homeautomation win with #HomeAssistant. SMartified our non-smart washing machine. WHen its ready, it delivers a notification to the phones of those who are at home, and shows a notification banner on the livingroom TV. The banner repeats itself every 2 minutes, until the washing machine door opens, AKA its emptied. THis also clears the notification from everyones phones. If nobody is at home, then the notification gets delivered to those who arrive home.

I started documenting my home automations now that I have Home Assistant up and running.

First up, starting projector and AV receiver when Playstation 4 is woken from sleep.

https://notes.hamatti.org/my-projects/smart-home/automate-living-room-when-ps4-powers-on

#HomeAutomation #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

I had fun last weekend building a small automation with #Python, Playwright and my Epson projector's web UI.

https://hamatti.org/posts/starting-my-video-projector-with-python-and-playwright/

#blogging #HomeAutomation

Amazon reports 1M+ users now have Alexa+ access—up from “hundreds of thousands” in May—and aims to expand availability this summer. #Amazon #Alexa #smarthome #homeautomation #technology #amazonalexa #innovation