Aaron Parecki

Nils https://coolworld.cc/@n • Sep 2
@aaronpk It's been done.. ..in Switzerland.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2zJ5dqDKBk

That's legit!

I'll update my thread once the part arrives

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Melissa Santos https://social.coop/@ansate • Sep 2
@aaronpk ooooo loving these updates!

haha thanks! I'm mostly doing this just so I have a record on my website of all the random home automation things I'm setting up

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Sadly my hopes of getting a mailbox opened notification seem to be a lost cause. The 433mhz sensor doesn't have enough power to reach the 80 feet to the street. The Zigbee one does reach that distance, but not once it's inside the mailbox.

I just found a LoRa line of home automation products, and while I'm not a fan that their Home Assistant integration is all through the cloud API, I might have to give it a shot for this anyway.

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carpetbomberz https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Aug 31
@aaronpk So I can see now why the home automation topic was burning a hole in your proverbial content pocket. Lots going on there, right now,... on the home front.

This is just one of many home automation projects in the works!

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I just got the Aqara C1 cat feeder and within a few minutes had it connected directly to Home Assistant via Zigbee, and all the sensors and buttons showing up and working!

However, I then realized the ZHA method doesn't expose the scheduling interface of the feeder, so I can only drive it entirely via Home Assistant, no local on-device scheduling option.

I really wanted it to be self sufficient, just reporting state and being able to dispense food with HA, but I think I'll stick with this for now anyway. The failure mode is that my HA server goes down for some reason or the Zigbee controller dies, and the food doesn't get automatically dispensed. But even if I'm out of town, I always have someone come by to check on the cat at least once a day anyway, so I guess that will be the manual fallback option.

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