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| https://www.home-assistant.io/
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| I now have MiLight and Wink and Feit Electric (Tuya) parts functioning and want them to work together
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| and more importantly, work BETTER!
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| Wink is cloud based, so basically sucks on that count. :-)
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| MiLight is cheap junk where the IoT things are WiFi based and controlled via a phone app + cloud.
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| They also have RF remote controls that do WiFi. There is no hub. When you use the phone app, it's cloud based. I think they use cloud for configuration but once config is done control is local. Actually clever but still requires a server be operational out there in the cloud.
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| Yesterday I bought a couple Feit Electric color changing bulbs at Costco, and one works! (Grr more cheap junk.) They are on WiFi and also cloud controlled.
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| The software is much better than MiLights. I need to track the network traffic and see if the cloud server always stays in the loop as it does with Wink.
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| How long will it be before one of these outfits goes belly up and their entire global deployment of lights bulbs goes permanently dark? In 2014,
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/05/revolv-devices-bricked-google-nest-smart-home Google acquired Revolv and shut it down.] [https://www.cnet.com/reviews/revolv-smart-home-solution-review/ Revolv] competed with Nest. [https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/09/22/quirky-bankruptcy/ Wink came really close to bankruptcy.]
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| I want to get out from under that "cloud" hanging over me.
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| The IKEA Tradfri (Zigbee) gateway is capable of local only control under Home Assistant and costs $30, might be a good choice.
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| Using Home Assistant it should be possible to bring control under one roof,
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| access them from a Web page instead of two separate apps,
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| and eventually to get rid of the Wink hub entirely and control the Zigbee light bulbs from Home Assistant.
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| First let's work with what we have.
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| == Task 1 : Set up Home Assistant ==
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| === Not using docker ===
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| I first tried to put it in a Docker on [[Bellman]] where all my other Dockers live.
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| cd source/docker
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| mkdir docker-homeassistant
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| cd docker-homeassistant
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| docker pull homeassistant/home-assistant
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| docker run --name home-assistant -p 8123:8123/tcp -d homeassistant/home-assistant
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| docker update --restart always home-assistant
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| docker exec -it home-assistant bash
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| pip install homeassistant
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| hass --open-ui
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| === Direct install on Bellman ===
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| Use these instructions with a few minor exceptions,
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| https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/raspberry-pi/
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| Docker works but since it is just a Python app anyway and it's configured by text files
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| I ended up installing it directly on Bellman (not in a Docker container).
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| It's running in virtualenv so it's still pretty well contained and isolated.
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| sudo useradd -rm homeassistant -G dialout
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| cd /srv
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| sudo mkdir homeassistant
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| sudo chown homeassistant:homeassistant homeassistant
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| sudo apt-get install python3-venv
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| sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
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| cd /srv/homeassistant
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| python3 -m venv .
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| source bin/activate
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| python3 -m pip install wheel
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| pip3 install homeassistant
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| hass
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| Hass does download and install stuff on first run, and starts a server running.
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| '''In your browser, TURN OFF your ad blocker!'''
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| and then go to http://bellman:8123 and be patient. It's now visible in the browser but unconfigured.
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| Here are some resources to get started:
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| - Configuring Home Assistant:
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| https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/configuration/
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| - Available components:
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| https://home-assistant.io/components/
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| - Troubleshooting your configuration:
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| https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/troubleshooting-configuration/
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| - Getting help:
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| https://home-assistant.io/help/
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| "Onboarding" failed on my first try with error 500.
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| I deleted the files "auth" and "onboarding" in ~homeassistant/.homeassistant/.storage
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| and tried again and it worked.
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| The config files are in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/
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| === Restart at boot ===
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| https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/autostart/
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| == Task 2 : Control MiLight LED strips from Home Assistant ==
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| See https://www.home-assistant.io/components/light.limitlessled/
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| Once this is done I can decide if I need to order a second MiLight controller.
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| Possibly I can use more channels on the one I already own? Not sure how that works; for example, can I put one strip on WW and one strip on CW and control them independently?
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| == Task 2 : Control Wink from Home Assistant ==
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| Follow these instructions to set up access on developer.wink.com
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| https://www.home-assistant.io/components/wink/
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| Added "wink:" in yaml file.
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| In the config page look for "ZWave" even though I have no ZWave components
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| because there is no listing for Wink.
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| == Task 3: Is there a nice Android App? ==
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| I said I don't want to use the Android MiLight and Wink apps but that's because (1) they suck (2) I want one app to control everything not several. I also
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| have 0 interest in logging in every time I want to dim a light. (I did say already cloud sucks somewhere I think.)
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| == Task 4: Get rid of Wink ==
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| Now that we have everything working smoothly,
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| find a device that does Zigbee in Home Assistant and use it to replace the Wink thus eliminating all need for the stupid cloud connection.
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| Then eBay the Wink hub!
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| == More ==
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| * What about that BLE controller on the garage door?
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| * What about sensors including that [[Pi Zero W]] camera?
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| * What about other remote controls? I have a few IR remotes but RF would make more sense. What can I use with HA? Maybe [https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub/wiki/Using-Milight-Remote-with-HomeAssistant MiLight]? They are pretty cheap.
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| [[Category: IoT]]
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