Home Assistant / Hass.io 2021

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#285700 11-May-2021 11:51

I've been using Home Assistant for a few years, primarily with Zigbee devices and Zigbee2mqtt. It's probably been a year or so since I last dived into configs and set up. But I got a couple of new devices and so put aside a day for setup since I knew I would need quite a bit of trial and error with MQTT message syntaxes and YAML spacing before it would all work as intended.

*Super* pleasantly surprised to see how much more user friendly everything is in the current version of Hass.io. I was able to both do all my Zigbee config and automation scripting from the GUI, almost no faffing about with code. Appreciate I am probably very late to the party on this, but it really feels like it has come a long way in the last few versions in terms of user friendliness.

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#2705943 11-May-2021 13:10

HA is dope! I love it so much and it has come such a long way!

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#2705966 11-May-2021 14:15

What are you using as your MQTT broker for Zigbee2mqtt? My HA auto-updated the Mosquitto MQTT broker to v5.1.1, which caused some light switches in my house to turn themselves off intermittently/randomly. The family was not impressed! It took me a while to debug what was going on (I was blaming the light switches without realizing the auto-update had occurred) and revert back to the older version. The worst part is that it looks like the issue has still not been resolved after 2+ months of being broken.

While I love HA, I think it still has a long way to go to make it user friendly compared to some of the other (less flexible) commercial alternatives.

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#2706079 11-May-2021 15:01

mdf:

almost no faffing about with code.

It wasn't even "code" though right?! Just stupid bullocks YAML that if you stuff up one indent and that's it. If you haven't already, install the Node-RED add-on and you can do all your automations within Node-RED and have an even easier time doing complex links/logic between devices.

But yea, HA rocks. It works so well now I'm even setting it up for my boomer parents.

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#2706177 11-May-2021 16:48

catdog:

What are you using as your MQTT broker for Zigbee2mqtt? My HA auto-updated the Mosquitto MQTT broker to v5.1.1, which caused some light switches in my house to turn themselves off intermittently/randomly. The family was not impressed! It took me a while to debug what was going on (I was blaming the light switches without realizing the auto-update had occurred) and revert back to the older version. The worst part is that it looks like the issue has still not been resolved after 2+ months of being broken.

While I love HA, I think it still has a long way to go to make it user friendly compared to some of the other (less flexible) commercial alternatives.

I've had some odd issues with services randomly turning on as well. I'm using a container version

mosquitto version 1.6.12

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#2706282 11-May-2021 20:23

catdog:

What are you using as your MQTT broker for Zigbee2mqtt? My HA auto-updated the Mosquitto MQTT broker to v5.1.1, which caused some light switches in my house to turn themselves off intermittently/randomly. The family was not impressed! It took me a while to debug what was going on (I was blaming the light switches without realizing the auto-update had occurred) and revert back to the older version. The worst part is that it looks like the issue has still not been resolved after 2+ months of being broken.

While I love HA, I think it still has a long way to go to make it user friendly compared to some of the other (less flexible) commercial alternatives.

Hit this when I did an upgrade, but rolled back to 5.1.

Have a similar issue with Unifi Controller stopping me from moving forward with that.

I like the ability to take snapshots and rollback :-)

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#2706331 12-May-2021 02:13

I'm running mosquitto in a container via podman so in theory I can roll back to a different tag.

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#2706636 12-May-2021 16:29

Not directly answering your question, but I migrated from Zigbee2MQTT to ZHA a little while ago, and have had no issues since then. It's a very clean integration if you have a supported coordinator