How die you Connect the Thermo controle with the Thermo Services in HA?
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Works with HA my arse.
Just got eve weather today and at first I was delighted the pairing process went smoothly with my otbr (ZBT-1), probably using an eve energy smart plug and two nanoleaf essential light bulbs as relays. So far so good. Then I was greeted by an update firmware for it message right in the HA Settings menu from 3.3.0 to 3.5.0. Amazing I thought, so happy I ordered three more eve energy smart plugs yesterday to support them instead of Onvis at half price.
Because Onvis is junk and the firmware update is near impossible and only possible on Apple Homekit and even then a nightmare (and future updates may or may not be questionable).
So I try the update and go for a shower. Came back 10 mins later, update failed. Okay, no biggie, I rebooted and watched at the screen this time as it went to 51%, became unavailable for a few secs and it was back to 3.3.0 again. So I googled it and found a thread where people were experiencing the same issue. Someone suggested updating through the Matter Server sidebar instead of the Settings menu. So I tried that, watched it go to 36% and fail and it showed as offline for a few mins only to have it reappear at 3.3.0. So I moved on to the next suggested “fix” - bringing down my entire Thread network (thankfully in my case it was two nanoleafs connected to a dumb switch and a single eve energy plug). Making sure all my thread devices are offline, I rebooted HA to make sure eve weather would connect directly to the zbt-1 placing it one meter away from the dongle/obtr. Got to 75% and failed again!! And it takes its sweet time to realize it failed. So, back to twiddling my thumbs as I anticipate removing the battery to see if that is going to help anything. So I remove the battery, reboot ha, wait until its fully loaded and only then do I reinsert the battery. Once it was back online, I started the update process yet again (this time from the Matter sidepanel). Anticipatingly, I slowly watched it go all the way up to 91% this time. Convinced removing the battery and having everything turned off as suggested by other people would help. Nope. Stuck at 91%.
So as a Hail Mary I reboot HA once again, making sure everything but the eve weather is offline and eve weather is one meter away from the otbr. Stuck at 22%.
I am completely out of options at this point, stuck with a device that won’t update its firmware, even with all the reccomended strategies provided in that topic. I was going to order another one, but after this horrible, horrible experience I refuse to buy any more smart devices at all. I really, really hoped matter over thread would be the end-all-be-all now that it was out of beta, but this is complete and utter bs. Even if I manage to update the firmware somehow (I’ll give it another one or two more tries before I just cut my losses, I want my thread network back up and running.
What if I had 30 devices? Am I supposed to unplug every single device I have just because I ordered another eve weather a year down the line?
This whole matter/thread shiznit better get fixed. Sooner rather than later at that. Firmware updates are a mess. I couldn’t even updgrade my Skyconnect to Thread after following the procedure to migrate to another dongle and disabling zha. It would start installing and just failed. Had to plug it into my pc, install the drivers and use the web flasher. This is just horrible though, both with eve and Onvis and what have you.