Are you putting in the code they email you correctly? If you dont it will still open but you wont find any devices
I need beta testers for a local cync lan controller. Cloud free!
See the README for instructions!
any way to add the Cync light bulbs by bluetooth?
cync2mqtt on GitHub. It works but can be finicky due to the BT userland stack on Linux.
Bulbs work fine, plugs donāt seem to work to connect to reliably. Thatās why I created cync-lan, it does require a wifi device to act as a bridge and DNS redirection.
I posted this on Github, but posting here for visibilityā¦ Would it be possible to integrate wirefree devices? Iām mainly inquiring about this device.
How do I add these HA? cync-lan would work fine, can you recomend a bridge?
The ābridgeā is the wifi cync devices themselves. If you only have the cync Bluetooth bulbs, then you need to purchase at a minimum, 1 cync wifi device (bulb, smart plug, mains powered wall switch).
The wifi devices are wifi and Bluetooth and act as the bridge between http and Bluetooth. All controlling happens over Bluetooth. The wifi/http end is basically a remote command station that translates http commands into Bluetooth.
No, those devices are Bluetooth only and rely on BTLE sleeping to conserve battery. Until someone completely reverse engineers the cync devices and connects only via BT, this wonāt be possible.
Edit: basically anything that uses a battery is incompatible with current cync integrations.
There is cync2mqtt which connects over Bluetooth but the cync devices donāt follow btle standards and have their own secret sauce. Which makes it impossible to be stable and effective.
Tldr; any battery powered cync devices are currently not supported. Though we may be able to see data they send out via wifi devices re-broadcasting the battery powered devices status/commands.
Edit 2: I own 4 of those exact wire free (battery) dimmer+white temp switches and have not had any success trying to integrate them reliably.
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Yes, I have 3 of those and they work great as wifi to Bluetooth bridges.
Edit: annoyingly, when I reply from the email notification, it does not reply to your message directly. This is why I have to edit my reply to ping your username.
Edit 2: plugs are preferred as they are always mains powered, whereas bulbs usually get powered off. A mains powered wall switch would work just as well too.
Thank you, I will reply back once I get one
No worries, Iām here to help if possible!
ANybody used this recently? Canāt find repo in HA, I added it to the list, but never appears in the store:
(above: Added to list)
Does not appear here
Also does not appear here
Help!
Not trying to sound rude, but did you read the installation instructions on GitHub? You need to add the integration using HACS and then add the integration in settings. It will not show under Add-ons.
Not to sound dumb, my interpretation is, I donāt think Iām getting past step 1. I never see the option for it. What am I misunderstanding from there? Iāve added it, but itās not showing up, so I never go to step 2.
Embarrassing oversight on my part. No issues actually
I donāt know what to do. I am using the same smart outlets, but your tool doesnāt see both of themā¦ Only one of them. I wanted to get more, but iām not sure if this will be a lasting issue. Please advise.
If you have some skills in networking, I have a local control cync integration that works very well and removes the cloud from control/status.
It requires DNS redirection/hijacking/spoofing, so there is a barrier to entry.
Search for baudneo on GitHub and check out my cync-lan repo.
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You know, thereās multiple home assistant things I need to do in the similar way. I was thinking of a way to do them all at once. Do you have a seperate pihole? we could just make a set of pihole rules or a home assistant plugin to manage a pihole dns server remotely to have one interface
I use opnsense firewall and unbound DNS. With unbound I can override dna based on the requesting device IP.
- IP 10.0.0.2 asks for example.com, I can send it 1.2.3.4
- IP 10.0.0.3 asks for example .com, it gets the IP to example.com
- IP 10.0.0.4 asks for example.com, I can send it 5.6.7.8.
So, I have fine grained control over what devices get their DNS overridden. This is handy because I can allow my phone to connect to cync cloud to add devices and only override certain cync devices, like devices that are always mains powered and not controlled by a dumb switch.
Pi-hole only supports network wide DNS override. So every device asking pi-hole for dns, gets the overridden response, you canāt pick and choose which devices are overridden. I donāt have much experience with pi-hole, so am unsure of there is a rest interface or something where DNS override rules can be configured in real time.