Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

Re:Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment by dotnet00 on Sunday March 31, 2024 @07:20PM (#39889160)

It's been a while since I bought my Hue bulbs, but they support Zigbee and you can make homeassistant talk to them over zigbee2mqtt and a usb to zigbee dongle. I haven't used the Hue app in years.

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Re:Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment by WirelessGigabit on Sunday March 31, 2024 @07:30PM (#39889248)

I bought a house full of zigbee sensors. Any recommendations for a good USB dongle?

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Re:Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment by thatfunkymunki on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:04PM (#39889473)

I like the Aeotec one, works well with home assistant. I also have their zwave dongle which similarly works well.

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Re:Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment by stavros on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:04PM (#39889472)

The Sonoff Zigbee one is the go-to. Works extremely well with Z2M.

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Re:Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment by dotnet00 on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:06PM (#39889861)

I've been using a CC2531 dongle, but that's a little DIY, being a bare PCB dongle that needs to be flashed with a firmware using a separate programmer cable (over, say, an RPi's GPIO). Back when I bought it, it was cheaper than a ready-to-go dongle and flashing it wasn't all that big a deal.

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