So I moved into an apartment with these "illume" wifi bulbs that I can't seem to control, I've tried third party smart home apps but they can't be discovered. The company does not seem to exist anymore and was once sold at home depot, I tried emailing the company who made them called Dals lighting but the support email is no longer even registered. The bulbs all show up on wifi but I have no Idea how to control them. Are they E waste? ​​​​​​​

Hi

I need a recommendation for a smart washing machine brand.

What I need is for the washing machine to run an extra spin cycle when the wash is over, and then send me text that it's finished

So basically what I want to know is which washing machine brand has the simplest smart environment .

Thank you in advance🙏🙏🙏

I'll try keeping it short
Currently my PC runs Voicemeeter Potato, etc. etc.
I recently discovered that I can just stream my Macbooks Audio via VBAN to it and use my advanced Speaker+Subwoofer setup and settings with my Mac as easy as connecting bluetooth, in that case through VBAN Talkie.

I also have a decent Home Assistant setup in my Home running on a mini pc(server) with Proxmox(aka DockerContainer but cooler).

I will move from my Parents House, so I'll expand my Smarthome from a single room to multiple ones, therefore my Idea:

Run Voicmeeter on a lightweight OS (ideally sth. like ubuntu, but I heard windows is required, so idk Tiny11 or sth.) on that external server to allow for turning of my main pc and still having the audio as follows:
Main pc connects via network vban to server hosting voicmeeter which then sends it to the speakers.
Mac or smartphones can also connect to this voicmeeter instance via airplay, bluetooth or vban talkie easily.
Also Multiple Outputs, like speakers or headphones at my desk, other speakers in the dining room and alexa or else at my bed, kitchen, bathroom, etc.
Everything shall be controlled via home assistant controlling the macro buttons or voicemeeter directly for the "i am in the kitchen therefore i want to hear my stuff there" things

Does this make any sense to you guys?
opinions? fears? don't you dare's? ur idea is awesome's?

anyone experiences with voicmeeter and tiny11?
Advice highly appreciated though I know this is a very very specific usecase

I’m looking for little individual lights that I can put around my house/shelves/furniture for ambient lighting. I do not want an LED strip and I don’t want cords everywhere.

Ideally I’m looking for:

• Rechargeable, preferably USB-C
• Individual puck/disc/mini lamp style lights
• RGB with a full colour wheel, not just 6 or 8 preset colours
• Alexa or Google compatible
• Ideally able to use scenes/effects, like candle/fireplace/flickering, colour cycling, etc.
• Bonus points if they’re magnetic or easy to move around
• And preferably sold in a decent-sized multi-pack rather than 2–3 lights for $50

I’ve found a bunch of rechargeable RGB puck lights, but they seem to use a remote and aren’t smart. I’ve also found Alexa-compatible RGB pucks, but they’re plug-in.

Has anyone actually found a good solution for this? I’m willing to use a hub/bridge if that’s what it takes.

I’d especially love to hear what lights you actually use and whether the colours/effects are good!

Does anyone one a smart switch that I can link to a smart bulbs? I tried using Alexa app and setting up a routine but it won’t recognize the switch as an even. I had switch that controlled wall outlets that had lamps with smart bulbs but anytime switched it off it knocked out my WiFi and tv. I basically bypassed the switch so the outlets are hardwired. I thought this would be easy :( maybe I’m dumb. I bought an Eaton smart switch

For my smart home i purchased a sonos speaker for every room (not saying it is the best purchase but easy at the time). Currently I use them mainly through the Sonos app or Music Assistant. I don't like this setup as it is proprietary products, rigid and beyond the integration to HA not realy open.

This leads me to my question, what do you all use for Home Media Management?

Hello

i recently moved some major switces to zigbee paired with Scene switches.

looking at it all seems to be reliant on the Hub.

i would hate to wake up one day hub is dead and need 3 weeks to get another.

so i ask how resilient are Hubs?

has anyone had one die on them

mine is on a UPS and a high Quality Charger

I teach philosophy at a vocational school in Germany. I started building this because the sunrise alarm in the Hue app never quite did what I wanted, and I was tired of setting the same thing in three apps every night.

One alarm across all three: the Hue lights fade up over 10, 20 or 30 minutes, a Sonos favourite starts at the wake-up time, and optionally the phone rings as a backup.

The part I care most about is where the alarms live. The app writes a schedule into the Hue Bridge and an alarm into the Sonos speaker — not into the phone. They go off even if your phone is dead or you're not home. There's no account, no server, and nothing leaves your local network.

How it works underneath, since this sub tends to ask: Hue schedules go through the CLIP v1 API over HTTPS with a pinned certificate; rooms and zones come from v2. Sonos alarms go through the local SOAP endpoint on port 1400. Neither company officially supports these, and the app says so on its welcome screen — a firmware update could break it one day. The phone alarm uses AlarmKit, so it rings through silent mode and Focus.

This isn't a business. It's free, no ads, no purchases, no company behind it, and I'm not planning to change that.

What you need: iOS 26, a Hue Bridge (2nd gen or newer), Sonos optional — everything except the music works without it.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CErZnJXp

I'd especially like to hear from people with older Bridges, S1 Sonos systems, or split networks with a separate IoT VLAN. Those are the cases I can't test myself, and they're where I expect it to break.

Happy to answer anything about the implementation.

Hello hello, I’m trying to figure out what can I do to make this switches smart, it’s a 6 switch thingy, where most of them are two way (you can turn them on/off from two places), but I can’t think of a way of turning them smart.

I like clicky switches (not those touch pads that are available) or if I could keep the current switches even better.

Any suggestions on what to do here? I’m familiar with home assistant and homebridge, but if the solution could be a Matter supported solution it would be way better!

Thank you!

Technically I'm flaring this because I have home assistant, but this should be pretty controller agnostic. I was wondering if anybody else with an older home has experience with smart blinds in the windows that have what I think are called "stop bead adjusters". (On older windows, those are the screws and grommets sticking out down the sides of the interior framing).

I have some of the older Ikea smart blinds and while the blind fabric itself is perfect for the window, the bar at the bottom has plastic end caps that would overhang and catch on the grommets when opening or closing, eventually causing cords to snap. I'm primarily looking for honeycomb and blackout, does anybody know of a matter over thread Smart blind where the bottom bar is in line with the fabric and not overhanging by 1/8" or 3/16” on either side?

Every smart home app I have used is a list. Rooms, then devices, then a toggle. When you have forty devices, finding the one you want takes longer than walking over to the switch.

So I built SimpleHaven. You scan your home with the LiDAR camera on a recent iPhone Pro or iPad Pro, and it produces a 3D model of your rooms in a few minutes. Then you drag your Apple Home devices out of a list and drop them where they actually are: the lamp on the nightstand, the fan on the ceiling, the lock on the front door. From then on, you tap the thing in the model to control the thing in your house.

The scan is the easy part. What I spent most of my time on is making the model yours after the scan. Move the couch the scanner placed wrong. Delete the phantom chair. Change the floor to the color you actually have. Resize the weather widget. It is all drag and drop, no settings pages.

The setup I actually live with is an old iPad on the kitchen wall showing the whole house, always on. Guests get it instantly.

Quick facts:

• Apple Home only, so HomeKit and Matter devices. No account and no cloud, everything stays on the device.
• Free to scan your whole home and place five devices. Lifetime unlock is $39.99 one time, no subscription, shared with your family.
• Requires a LiDAR iPhone or iPad Pro.

I am one person doing this from Texas and 2.0.1 shipped this week. Happy to answer anything, including what does not work yet.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774370998

Hello! I'm designing a PCB and writing the code for my Matter enabled led strip driver.

I'm stuck between a few options to handle an issue

when you set the temperature to say the middle of your available range, 4500k will be much brighter than say 3000k or 6000k (min or max where one LED can turn on)

Problem 1) Would you prefer:

A) Both LEDs to be driven at 50%, ensuring consistent brightness across all temps. Side effect: you don't use the increased potential at 4500k.

B) LEDs are driven at maximum available output (adjusted by brightness), meaning you get both LEDs at 100% at 4500k Side effect: When you change the color temp the brightness changes a bit suddenly, say around 25% brighter at 4500k vs 3000k (both at 100% brigthness)

C) The board keeps both LEDs at 50%, but automatically changes it's own brightness value to 50%, meaning in order to get 100% at 4500k you have to first set the temp to 4500k then update the brightness again to 100% as it set itself to 50% automatically. This means it tells the software like home assistant to update the slider value.

UPDATE: Option C is against matter standards...

Problem 2) When setting LED strip to pale pink, the LED strips or most commercial lights are driven in RGB mode using their 3 LEDS.

Would you prefer

A) The software automatically notices this and uses the warm and cold white leds in combination with pink instead of using green blue and red to get white, so it'd be red and white for pale pink, side effect being this might be a bit charring brightness and aesthetic wise, but it'd be higher CRI

B) The software ignores it and just uses RGB like any other bulb

This is a bit stupid of a question but I was curious and couldn't decide 🥇

I’m looking to set up a smart switch that shuts off for a set amount of time. 30 seconds to a minute, each time a certain noise level is reached. Either by decibel or detected yelling.. what would be the best way to go about this?

Hi! I’m new on this Reddit so I hope I can convey all the important details. Im not sure if what I’m looking for even exists… but if it does I assume I would find it on Reddit!

Im not new to home automations, although I primarily use TAPO, because it is very intuitive and I find it easier to have everything on one app. I recently got the smart doorbell (the battery powered one) for my balcony and would like to also install a lamp turns on whenever the camera from the doorbell detects movement… I simply cannot find a lamp that has all the features that I need:

- battery powered/ wireless since I have no where to attach it to on the balcony for power
- changeable light bulb so I can put in any of the TAPO smart light bulbs (they have E27, GU10 and E14)
- weather resistant (since it would be on the balcony, outdoors and I live in Germany, so lots of rain and snow…)

As you can see I also have Alexa.

Hi all,
We’re doing a remodel of part of our house. The laundry room is the current preferred place for a networking hub (router/gateway, switch, NAS, amp for in-ceiling speakers, HA green, UPS, etc) Another option is my v. small home-office in case the laundry room is a horrible idea, but I worry about fan noise/heat.

It seems like placing something in upper cabinets won’t allow for enough depth, so I was thinking of creating a space below the counter. If I’m getting custom cabinets, should I just ask them to leave an open space for a rolling network cabinet (seems like that would allow for the most airflow, flexibility, etc) but it won’t look as nice as if they try to do something custom (though maybe they could attach a cabinet-front to a rolling cabinet?)

Any ideas? I’m not even sure what to search for. TIA!

Hey all,

I want to switch to a smart thermostat at my office. I have permission from the landlord, they’re not much help on what I need

It’s a commercial building, heat and AC blow from the ceiling vents over head.

I’ve attached the current thermostat.

Please help

Thanks!

We have three windows set into a faceted corner in our living room, similar to a bay window but without projecting out from the wall. There’s an outlet under one side, so I’m deciding between three separate smart roller shades or one powered curtain track around the whole corner. The shades would give us separate control, but the curtain may be simpler than trying to keep three motors moving together. Which option would you use here?

hi, I'm looking for advice to make my smart home setup.

Currently my smart home devices are from ikea, both older and newer generation, so some of them using zigbee protocol and some of them matter protocol. In the future I'm planing to add more smart home devices from other brands, so would be nice to have flexibility and possibilities in the future. Also I'm iphone user and want to use apple home kit.

One option is diy setup. I have macmini 2014 and I can usi it as a smart home server, but I need a USB zigbee/matter dongle. What would be recommendations for that?

Another option buy a already existed today for dedicated smart home hub. What good options would be for that? How about ikea dirigera?

thx.

Looks like I don’t have a C wire in my old thermostat, the board downstairs does show a c connected though. Are there any smart thermostats that work well without a C connected or am I missing anything with my existing wires?

Getting everything configured, updated, and wired up on the desk first to make the actual install go smoothly. Gotta love a clean pre-configuration bench test!

Anyone else prefer setting things up in the office rather than troubleshooting live on site?

I swapped four fixtures and the whole room went noticeably darker even at full output. I now realise I never checked lumens once, I just bought whatever was on the shelf with an app. Trying to work out whether bright smart bulbs actually exist or whether the colour capability inherently costs you output. What are people using where the room stayed as bright as it was before?

I own the following

SONOFF SNZB-06P Zigbee Human Presence Sensor, Zigbee Smart Motion Detector with 5.8GHZ cmWave Radar, Requires ZigBee Bridge (1)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D146T6QG?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2

I have 1 in my bedroom

Human Presence Sensor ES1,Smart Motion Sensor with 24G mmWave Radar,Occupancy Sensor Requires Tuya Zigbee Hub for Home Security and Automation,Compatible with Alexa,Smart Life,Z2MQTT,ZHA

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7C6L66J?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3&th=1

I own three of them and one is directly starring at my computer monitor and someone claims can see everything I see.

Meet Homey Portal, a sleek smart home controller with a round 2.8-inch touchscreen wrapped in a stainless steel ring.

Assign it to a zone, and it controls everything you’ve connected there, with a tap or a twist. Anyone in the room can use it.

Pre-orders open today, at an introductory price for the first production run.

Take a closer look:
https://homey.app/homey-portal/

I’m thinking about getting SmartWings cellular shades (I like the energy saving benefits) for my kitchen . The problem is that the window is directly behind the sink, and I’m worried that cooking oil, tomato sauce, or other splashes could stain or damage the fabric.

Would this be a good choice, or should I go with a different type of shade? Thanks, everyone!