Yikes, speed and reliability is a concern. I’ve got switches for the entire house sitting in my basket ready to go. With clipsal branding and pricing I would expect a very seamless product. I’m somewhat prepared that I’ll need to buy the hub simply to perform firmware updates… hopefully they are better once updated?
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I flashed mine with Tasmota
I wouldn’t be surprised if my wiser dimmer is running a pretty old Zigbee firmware.
If I was fitting the house with these, I’d 100% buy the hub just for the firmware updates before reconnecting to my Zigbee2mqtt instance.
Does anyone have a Mercator ikuu ZigBee hub I can borrow for firmware updates and troubleshooting?
Hi @SgtBatten ,
I don’t have a hub, but i am interested in how you go with this.
I have a few of the Mercator mech switches and dimmers and have noticed that they ‘squeel’ a little bit (as if it has coil whine). Just wondering if you’ve seen this with your Ikuu switch as well?
If there’s a firmware update, im wondering if it fixes it…
I have a few of the 2AX clipsal wiser mechs. They respond SUPER fast through ZHA.
I do however have the issue mentioned above of having to physically press buttons twice if an automation changed the state of a switch that no longer matched what someone had last pressed.
Backlight reflects this properly though. I’m pretty happy, just wish I didn’t have to 2 press… hmmm that hub $$$
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Hey @benflux,have you made any progress on this issue? I recently had an issue with a double GPO that Z2Q was identifying as a different product and subsequently not working properly. Is your product being identified correctly? It’s not showing as unknown, is it? As my issue looked like a Z2M issue I created an issue on github. Koenkk gave me fantastic support and gave me a new external device file to make it work perfectly. I would suggest engaging over on github and offer some support (by way of coffee).
Good luck.
Brian
I bought a couple of these about 2 years ago and flashed them with tasmota. Im looking to get a couple more. Does anyone know if they can still be reflashed? or have they changed the chipset?
I got into the home automation game late, so every single piece of Tuya kit I’ve bought from Bunnings has had the newer chipset, be it Brilliant, Arlec, or Deta.
Does anyone who has an IoTaWatt installed know how accurate it is compared to your energy provider’s billing?
My SMA energy meter is inconsistently inaccurate. I could calibrate it if it had a reasonably consistent error but day to day it varies from 10 to 20% different from my energy provider (both production and consumption have different errors too). It’s connected correctly so the only difference I can attribute this to is integration/response time.
Pretty close - I have 3 of them
Yesterday for instance - i am being told on my providers portal (Ausgrid - Sydney - Origin Energy) that i used 73.97 KWh (thats what they have billed me for)
My IOTAWATT on the mains tells me i have used 75.2Kwh - and thats adding back in the solar i pushed out - which was 1.2Kwh (we have batteries) so pretty damn close (and within the 1% margin of error i would expect)
Craig
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Thank you. I think I might have to place an order.
Do you use the custom or core integration?
I actually run mine through my Node Red system and manage all the stuff in there.
I do have the standard integration running but do not do anything with the data (HA wise)
Craig
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Hi everyone - quick question. What is everyone using to control LED strip lighting? I was looking at the gledopto controllers but looks like they aren’t SAA accredited.
Thanks!
Gerard,
I currently use in various places, sonoff basic, sonoff 4ch pro (like this one for smaller loads), shelly 2.5 and am just investigating using a mosfet and esp32 to handle a bigger current than the 10A limit on the 4chpro.
They are either flashed with tasmota or run the sonoff LAN interface.
Pat
Great thanks. Those don’t look specific to LED strips? I’m looking for one that can manage dimming for a single colour LED strip. I’ve got Shelly dimmers for led down lights but they don’t seem to work great for dimming the LED strips.
I’ll look at the sonoff ones. Was hoping for ZigBee ones but I’m ok with wifi too.
Thanks again!
Gerard
quinled has a great range of prebuilt led boards that will do dimming and other fancy stuff. All esp based.
Pat
What voltage is your LED strip? The Shelly RGBW2 works with 12/24V and gives you 4 single colour channels. I use them with multiple different LED strips and they work very well.