External Blinds/Venetians/Louvres will stop the heat hitting the windows - will not do much in winter though!
We have a number of different external solutions - Vental Exterior Venetians for Westerly facing windows, somfy powered blinds on a couple of the Eastern facing windows - work pretty well.
Have you investigated pumping cellulose or expanding foam into the cavity in your walls ?
Craig
Hi Guys,
I am not happy with my Nue Zigbee Fan Light Controller as the difference between low and high is very small, that is, the low speed is too fast. Since I have a fan with a knocking noise I was going to replace it anyway and I have thought maybe a different route. Here is a new fan coming which uses Tuya. I am assuming I won’t be able to flash it OTA, correct me if I am wrong? (I have flashed plug in switches before so can do it)
Anyone with any experience of Tuya Local that could comment on the likelihood of me being able to get the fan to work with that? My quick read suggests that you need to get the local key for it and I just want to make sure that Tuya hasn’t changed somehting in their recent products to make that impossible?
Thanks in advance!
Tuya grab - localtuya key finder
Slightly easier way to grab the keys. You still have to do the iot.tuya setup part. I put a post a couple weeks ago with links for that in this thread. Should be easy enough to add to localtuya.
Hey I just bought one of these fans (Arelec Ceiling Fan / Light), I’m trying to get my head around the options. What is wrong with TuyaLocal? Why is esp32 better?
I need some help flashing my Deta Fan controller (6014HA). It no longer works with tuya convert so the only alternative is to open it up and flash it manually. Does anyone have a diagram of the pins?
Great news people, the next version of ESPhome (1.16), currently in Beta supports H-bridge lights. This means all the Mirabella fairy lights will finally work properly.
Unfortunately I discovered this a little late to make the best use of it, but hey.
This thread should be split up into sub-threads, if at all possible.
Moderators?
I disagree. It’s easy enough to use the search function to search the thread for something if needed.
Does it fix the Tuya flashing issue?
Not if such an issue currently exists. The stock I have though is old so should flash ok. Not sure that Mirabella lights have been blocked from Tuya-convert yet. My understanding is that the sockets are still flash-able so hopefully the lights are too.
There was an attempt at this before here:
But so far nobody used that tag (as far as I can see)
I agree, some topics have become very big and could deserve their own thread, but overall it is nice to come here for all things Aussie/Kiwi.
That is useful, but how do you tag a post? 
Does that mean the IR controller will work too?
Actually I think you tag a new thread, not a post in an existing thread.
However I can’t see that tag in the edit thingy.
No, my post is purely about the H-Bridge component which is required for the Mirabella string lights.
never too early to be prepared for christmas 
How’d you go with this ? Anyone in VIC using the Rainforest 200 with HA ? Seems like a good option and no wiring too.
I would love to know. I am using a Raven USB stick from Rainforest Automation, but I am running a legacy Python script that uploads to emoncms, and pulling data from there with HA, would much prefer a direct connection to HA if possible
No, I didn’t get anywhere much with it. Although I didn’t look overly hard either. You need to be able to pickup zigbee security protocol(as opposed to home automation protocol) so at a minimum you need a dedicated zigbee device. I am not sure if zigbee2mqtt has looked into that as yet. It would be interesting to try if someone had the service active already. The suppliers won’t activate the communication protocol unless the hardware is acceptable…
Not quite, but I recently got powerpal installed for free. The free version is Bluetooth only; however, I was told by the installer that there is a zigbee version available as well.
I’ve been thinking of sniffing the BT traffic to see if there are ways to integrate with HA.