Hello everyone! I’m brand new to this community and to openHAB as well and I wanted to tell how impressed I was when I’ve discovered such a generous, helpful and savy community! I live in UK and I need to buy a new heat/smoke detection system for my home. My electrician wanted to provided an old fashion and awful wired system with detectors and buzzers and a control panel on the wall but I would like to have a smarter system I could check when away and with an app on a tablet/phone instead of an awful control panel on a wall… Something like this: But I don’t want this!! British Standards says that my detectors (heat and smoke) needs to be interlinked together and be connected to the main power. I was about to go straight to Nest Protect but what I read in this forum makes me think it might be a big mistake to go down that route… Would you have any recommendations on main powered smart detectors which would work with OpenHAB? What sort of equiment/devices do I need to buy to make it work? I was planning to have OpenHAB on a tablet as a control panel instead of the awful panel shown on the link above… Many thanks in advance for your help! Chris
Last night I was awoken by alarm that there was a leak detected in basement. I raced downstairs to find a slug crawling across the top of one of these water sensors: WTH?!?!??!!? I am not sure exactly how that happened but there was definitely no water on floor and the sensor probes are on the bottom of the unit. BIZARRE!!!
I’m running the latest snapshot with the denon binding and a denon AVR-S720W. The issue is, after the unit sits idle for a stretch of time (approx. 12 hrs) it will not power on from the binding. I have to turn it on with the remote and then it will respond to all binding commands, including power on/off. I’m also having the second zone issue as described here, not sure if that is related or not. Please let me know if I can provide any more information. Thanks.
I have a smartthings hub in my house. I would like to add some devices in my detached garage. Unfortunately my garage is about 130’ feet away. I have a small barn that is about halfway between the garage and house, and put a Aeon SmartSwitch Z-Wave Plus plug in the barn, but it is won’t connect, even though I have another Z-Wave Plus switch in the house closest to the barn. I have Ethernet run out to the garage. Can I connect another hub in the garage as a slave to the Smartthings hub in the house in order to control some devices in the garage with the hub in the house? I want the switches (and routines/apps) in the house to be able to control the lights in the garage. I saw this which makes me think it can be done, but not sure if I understand it correctly or if it actually works. I’m hoping the hubs can communicate via Ethernet instead of having to communicate via Z-Wave.
I’m getting a bizarre issue when trying to integrate smart things and Google home. After signing in smart things shows no locations available. I have a feeling this has to do with smart things not forwarding me to the right Uri but can’t find an easy solution around it. Another user in the community has had a similar issue with Alexa integration on an iPhone so it seems to be on smart things end not Google’s(no solution on that thread so far).
I’m very interested in any advice or experiences regarding the integration of multiple brands in a single smart home setup. I’ve been experimenting with Z-Wave, Zigbee, and even some Wi-Fi devices, but I’m running into some connectivity issues and would love to hear how others have managed to seamlessly integrate different ecosystems. Also, if anyone has tips on troubleshooting devices that seem connected but aren’t responding, that would be incredibly helpful!
Thanks in advance for all your insights and experiences. I’m really excited to be part of this community and can’t wait to learn more and share my journey!
Best regards,
Chris