For the past few years I’ve been wrestling with Aeotec sensors (purchased because they seemed to be highly recommended everywhere). First it was spending weeks trying to get Z-Wave JS UI (nothing better than this??) to perform firmware upgrades, then replacing a Z-Stick 7 with an older version due to unfixable bugs in that, and now it’s on again / off again factory resetting and connecting the sensors back to the controller.

As time has passed my wife and I have essentially forgotten about automating anything based on temperature or presence. I replace the batteries in sensors from time to time (since they’re never not showing 100%) with no effect.

I ask because I’m planning on buying some Aqara devices that depend on WiFi. Preferably I’d like to use something other than WiFi since it’s usually the extremely congested 2.4 GHz band.

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.orgOP
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    1 month ago

    You know, I think I was rushing through things too fast after a day of programming for 8 hours with close to no breaks.

    After I calmed down, ate dinner and came back to it in a more leisurely fashion I found it to be pretty easy.

    I think what got me was that I’m not too familiar with Matter and Thread, so having to have another Docker container going was unexpected and frankly I wasn’t in the mood to learn anything new.

    The sensors seem to be reporting happily and often. I’m pretty impressed so far (other than the ports on the hub, but I can live with that).

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      1 month ago

      Awesome! I avoided going the matter route because it’s very very new to me except at a surface level.

      How is it for you? Something worth switching to or not yet?

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        1 month ago

        Maybe, I mainly used it just to connect to Home Assistant. I already channel everything into it for it to control everything, so I’m not really doing things like connecting Aqara and Hue for example.

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          1 month ago

          Interesting, I may make that my next tech project, first I need to configure my lighting console.