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👉 Let me know how you’re using multi-target or multi-zone tracking in your smart home, or any interesting ways that you might.

Great video but how do you expand the volume after the fact?

Or you can just press the remote control to the garage door I honestly don' think this is the best example, but it helps people on how to set up the tag I guess.

The U in Ubiquiti basically stands for unlimited budget....the only people who can truly appreciate this companies tech, is typically smart enough to know a cheaper more practical alternative....it's nice to dream about ferraris but as Ubiquiti gets more popular, as you mentioned, prices went up....just like home assistant being here to stay....the ever reliable blue iris will never fade.....

Unify is great! I have CCTV and WiFi all powered by my UDMse. Also looking into expanding with more home automation lighting etc.

The SLZB-06 devices are a great device, not quite "entry level" but good if you want that next step up and a more robust Zigbee / Thread network. Just as a note some (not too many) unmanaged switches do have issues with the 100mbps Ethernet chip in the SLZB-06 devices, but most should work out of the box. If you have issues, the WiFi option is quite robust, or the USB option is available. I have been using an SLZB-06M that uses the SiLabs chipset in zha for quite some time and it works well, but if you do use Zigbee2MQTT, I'd still recommend the standard 06 model with the TI chipset as this is proven and highly robust and reliable in Z2M. As far as the P7 and P10 versions of the TI chipset, I wouldn't bother with the extra money buying them, The processor speed is identical and even the standard 06 only uses about 30% of the RAM with over 150 devices in the network, so you really won't run out of RAM and the firmware is not so robust with the P7 and P10 versions Note: If you use it as a Bluetooth Proxy, it will install ESPHome firmware and you will lose the web interface options.

Very cool!

What if you want to use it as a zigbee router - I already have a sonoff P dongle and need it for upstairs. Do I just add it to my current zigbee network?

Nice setup. I love all the outdoor cameras and wireless AP's. I can''t bring myself to install cameras inside just yet, it seems way to creepy :D

Why not eufy? I think it offers all of the benefits you talked about.

I'm just here to say that I agree with most points, buuut.. G4 Doorbell is an absolute nightmare. It has a hardware design issue with the wifi antena and it always has poor signal and Unifi never did anything to resolve the issue. (You can google the problem, the internet is full of complaints about it). Apart from that, yes, i really love all the rest of my setup.

I'm in college and the laundryview is offline for several months now - seems like it won't be fixed. Do you know any resources I can use to monitor them myself? I believe there are blue cables coming out of the combo that can be used for communcation.

Perfect explanation. Thanks

Oh man, this looks like a great way to solve a problem I'm "having." That of rapid recovery if my Home Assistant VM dies. The issue is that the USB Zigbee controller is married to the install, so I'd have to physically move both the config and the plug itself over to whatever I chose as my failover. This could do the trick for that. Thank you!

Mate you are on fire!

I'm using Reolink PoE cameras for my security. I've got 5 covering my yard, 2 for the driveway, 1 in the garage and a PoE doorbell on the front porch. I'm using 2 interior cams as well. They integrate easily in Home Assistant and are auto detected on the network when adding a new one. I'm using several automations based on motion events. One thing that I really like in Home Assistant is that I have the ability to place a semi-transparent lock icon in the bottom left corner on my doorbell camera feed. I can tap that to lock and unlock the front door if I have visitors. I think the lag is inherent with pretty much all cameras but it's not too bad. I experience 2-3 second delays. Back when I used TP-Link Wi-Fi cams, it was awful. Like you, I got sick of recharging and reinstalling regularly. At some point, I may try out the UniFi cameras. I love your sprinkler based animal deterrent automation. Fun to watch. 🤣

Can it be used as zigbee coordinator and matter over thread in Parallel?

How would you do an Automation based on the sleeping focus, as you can´t set "turning on sleep mode" or "turning off sleep mode" as a trigger in SC? You can only trigger on Relaxion time starts, sleeping time starts and wake up phase. The Problem here is, when you accidentally turn on sleep mode and then turn it off again the toggle turns on but never off because turning off sleep mode isn´t the same as the wake up phase. Any idea on that?

👉Let me know what you’re using for smart home security cameras, and what your experience has been.

Hello Michel! Thank you for your video, its is o good opportunity to chnage my zigbee coordinator. I have the universal Dongle E (not sonoff) with ember firmware, but i have problem with lights with cct+rgb in my mesh zigbee(failed: 'Error: ZCL command 0xa4c138da8ba1b2d0/1 genOnOff.off({},). Witch version is better 06 / 06M / 06p7/ 06p10 ??

Your video is very high level and not for someone new to HA. Not much explaining.

As a tech nerd married to a very luddite-like men, I've always hated that phrase and how people use it to play into stereotypes about women.

6:46 „please get a license” ;)

Very nice ideas I’ve had couple of them implemented already 🤗

This coordinator is a GARBAGE! It does not reconnect to the host if your ip network experienced interruption. Do this: connect it to the router via ethernet. Let it zha or z2m be started. Then power off the router for 2-3 minutes - done, your zigbee network is down untill you power on/off the coordinator. The implications of that are that you never know if your zigbee network is still alive if you use this scam...

That’s a nice approach but for me it’s more useful to have a lux sensor in the room that controls the intensity. But u will have a look at it anyway

The cool thing about these is they also have ESP32 chips which are one of the easiest I have found to configure for ESPHome. The devices themselves can also be flashed directly via USB A<>C via a PC (with the right drivers) and yaml can be uploaded easily 1st time via USB and they will boot up during the discovery when flashed without any fooling around with reset buttons or shorting jumpers on pins etc... There is also some great code in the online manual you can upload to run them as joint Zigbee or Matter devices as well as BT proxies or ESP32 devices. This can be easily set up first time via the main web interface. That is pretty cool. Though doing this memas the device control for everything appears in the ESPHome dashboard and you lose the original specific web interface..

Good stuff! Thanks for a great, real-life review of what's worked (and what hasn't) with these.

I have 3 - all doing POE> I'm trying to set up a SMLIGHT SLZB-06M to do Matter but am unable to get the Open Thread Border Router configured.... it just won't show up! Edit - thanks to you dude... I got it working! The second I have set up asa BT Proxy and BT beacon (for Bermuda). The 3rd I might try as both a BT proxy and and a ZHA router

SMLIGHT SLZB-06M (EFR32MG21) is considered stable. I would even argue that it is more stable. The only thing you have to make sure is to use the correct firmware/driver (Ember instead of EZSP with firmware version 7.4). The info about the "listed in the experimental section" isn't correct anymore.

It was so fun seeing Ashley’s perspective on the channel, and I’d love to see more of her in future videos if she might be up for it!

I'm using the SMLight SLZB-06 via PoE with Zigbee2MQTT. The Home Assistant ZBT-1 (Skyconnect) with ZHA. I'm slowly migrating everything over from ZHA over to Z2M, so that's the reason for running both. It also eliminates any downtime. Using a Sonoff dongle Plus-E, reflashed as a Thread Border Router. ZooZ ZST39 LR for Z-Wave. And lastly, a Bond Bridge for RF (ceiling fan). I think that the SLZB-06 is the best coordinator available for Zigbee. So many options and it's been rock solid. Thanks for another great video! 👍

I’ve noticed that your logs showed an error starting zigbee-herdsman 6:41. Which I’m currently facing. How were you able to fix that? I’m struggling to find a solution online.

Did you consider mesh setup rather than access points?

Does each access point have its own SSID?

With wifi access points, doesnt your devices have to hop between access points as you move around the house? Does each of the access point have their own SSID?

This is really pointless without the how 😭

Great video! Curious what you’re using for the white noise machine in the bedtime routine.

I've used this Zigbee controller for over a year, almost no issues despite my very suboptimal setup and positioning. It's a good way to avoid interference from USB 3.0 ports, and allows you to have fallback if you're running HA in a virtual machine. Since it's not connected to one machine via USB, the Zigbee network stays up even if one of the cluster nodes running an HA instance goes down, as long as another one is up.

I currently use Homeseer using zwave. The old version back from 2012 . Would like to update to new version not using z-trollers . If you have video on how to do this would be nice

👉 Let me know what controller you’re using for Zigbee or Matter-over-Thread, and how you think this device stacks up.

Great ideas but without any guidance in setting it up in Home Assistant it really is worthless!

Awesome! Please, I have two questions if you don’t mind: 1- Do you use the ISP Router in a bridge mode?. 2- Do you use the UDM Pro just like an UniFi Controller because you don't use its ports except the WLAN port and one SFP+ port? Thanks for this great video

Thank you for the detail about Home Assistant. I assumed that I could add it that way. We really need a smart fingerprint/code lock that we can manage the users/codes/fingerprints from a centralized location like HASS. I fear that might not ever happen.

How do you set all that up? How do U make a video of automation and not show how to set them up? That’ll be nice. Thanks

Any videos on how to set these up?

I have a small tablet wall mounted at the top of the stairs so if during a certain time im going up stairs to bed and ive left any lights or windows open downstairs a motion sensor on the stairs will turn on the wall tablet thats in front of me and displays a HA dashboard view that shows which ones.

👉 Let me know any additional ways that you’ve automated your notifications, or would like to see.

Great video, as always. Michael, do you have a video tutorial on how you integrated Home Assistant with Alexa to receive notifications? Also, if you have one on how to receive notifications from Home Assistant on your phone, it would be much appreciated. Keep up the good work!

Nice job Michael! 👏 One of mine sends an actionable notification if the garage door has been left open and both of us are out & traveling away from our home zone. Another sends repeated nagging reminders over the smart speakers, to open the doggy door if it's been left closed over 15 minutes, only after it's been closed over 1 hr and it's between 7am-9pm. We lock the dogs in during certain times and it really helps as everyone always thinks someone else took care of it. Also receive notifications if the dog's water and food bowls are getting low. 🐾