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Home Assistant - am I missing something? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by rarkgrames@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I decided to spin up Home Assistant on a VM on my server yesterday, and so far I'm not having much luck getting to to much that is actually useful.

I'm wondering if it's me doing something wrong, but I can't see what that would be.

I've signed up for the free trial of the cloud services which all seems to have gone fine, and I have a couple of integrations working (Roomba, printer ink levels, Sonos and a couple of others) but mostly everything else I've tried just doesn't want to play ball

Apple TV - won't pair - I press the pair button in HA but the ATV doesn't respond with a pairing code
Ring doorbell / cameras - these are found but won't display a live feed
Ring alarm - not recognised at all
Netatmo thermostat - widget displays but doesn't sync correctly with thermostat and if I try to adjust temp it sets the target temp to 137 degrees C
Hue lights - having issues but this one might be my hub not HA

I was really hoping I could set up automations to, say, turn off my TV, turn off the lights, arm my house alarm - all with one press of a button but it looks like currently this isn't going to happen.

Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong perhaps? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but it just seems like the integrations with these devices just isn't quite there? I'd really be interested in other people's experiences and whether they were able to solve these issues (if indeed they had them at all).

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[+] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de -12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

If HA is the "answer", then vendor locked solutions don't look that bad in comparison.

Xiaomis cloud might stop working in two years, but HA is already not working today. That's not really appealing.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago

The HA android app just passed one million active devices. Saying "Ha is already not working today." might be true for you but it's obviously not true across the board.

[–] stooovie@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago

Absolutely wrong. I have dozens of devices integrated, from a lot of brands, all working. You can of course try to get a turnkey solution from like Loxone, but be prepared to pay thousands of dollars, and good luck adding anything that's not in their ecosystem. And there's a lot of that. And what is there is all pretty outdated.

Xiaomi is great and I use a lot of their stuff, but the options for automation are severely limited.