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My Kuna security cameras turn lights on at night and off at sun-up. My Nest already has presence detection and adjusts temps based on that. More importantly, I didn't buy a Kuna for lights on and off with the sun, nor a Nest for presence detection, so I still don't see these functions as killer apps for HA.
My $8 "dumb" LED outdoor bulbs have sunrise/sunset sensors built in...
Is anyone else here completely confused at how much hype there is around automated light management systems? I don’t get it. Is it really that hard to turn on and off lights manually that people really need all this stuff? What am I not getting?
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> The Home Assistant community appears to be more active (about 2x) and the barrier for entry is much lower. I would go so far as to say Home Assistant is literally the best open source community out there today. Very active, lots of folks happy to help users with issues, and lots of devs happy to help newer devs through the PR process.
Having contributed to a number of projects via github, this is not true at all. I have had prs closed within minutes with curt replies. That is not how you “help newer devs through a PR process.” In another case this happened for a very clear bug. I’m cool with making amendments but maintainers do not seem open to that often, feeling more content to close things because they see the fix as a “hack”. Compared to other…
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Contributions to improve Open Z-Wave integration are always welcome :) We already allow reloading the most important pieces of configuration: groups, scripts and automation.
You allow reloading, but that is not the same as hot reloading. Love your work btw.
If you want automatic reloading when a file changes, feel free to contribute a watchdog component to Home Assistant so people can hook it up themselves.
Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/
Is anyone else here completely confused at how much hype there is around automated light management systems? I don’t get it. Is it really that hard to turn on and off lights manually that people really need all this stuff? What am I not getting?
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Hass.io? In case you don't know, hass means hatred in German.
Interesting. It is also a not uncommon last name.
Is anyone else here completely confused at how much hype there is around automated light management systems? I don’t get it. Is it really that hard to turn on and off lights manually that people really need all this stuff? What am I not getting?
Cron job on my home server starts sending commands over zwave at 6am for about half an hour to slowly increase the brightness of my master bedroom light from 0% to 100% at 1% increments. So when I get up, it's not pitch black, and I don't go from zero to blinding light in one moment. Probably my favourite thing I've done with home automation so far.
Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/
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My $8 "dumb" LED outdoor bulbs have sunrise/sunset sensors built in...
Can you have them turn on 30 mins before sunset?
A simple sunset/sunrise detector can be had from a cheap photo-resistor. 30 minutes prior to sunset sounds like it needs at least a micro controller with a real time clock and a lookup table with sunset times