I’m a long time OpenHAB user but switched to Home Assistant a couple of years ago. I’ve also just recently moved to Hamilton… I’d be keen to see if there are any locals to connect up with and swap stories,ideas etc….
Not Hamilton, Christchurch in fact, but happy to chat to a fellow kiwi (even from the wrong island!)
Hey Nick! So what’s your MO, I’m just a bit of a tinkerer really so just monitoring whole house power and water usage at the moment… Have a few power plugs and one smart light switch. My only true automation is turning on the pool pump for a couple of hours each day 
A tinkerer. I started with a hue starter kit. I have a lot of unfinished projects.
Ha, I have way too many unfinished projects too 
How have you found the Hue stuff? I got a rgb bulb a while back but took it out because family just kept turning off the lamp with it’s manual switch and then the "smarts"would be redundant!
Hi fellow NZers.
I’ve got a medium sized system. Shelly switches on all lights, garage door, aqara temp and humidity everywhere, AirTouch4, blinds, vibration sensors for mailbox and gates soon, musiccast speakers.
Mix of wifi and zigbee.
A few helpers for towel rail and light timers and toggle indications.
HA running in a nuc11 vm on esxi.
My dashboards are pretty lame. Wish I could make some pretty ones, but I use voice control for almost everything.
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I would describe mine as medium too. Running debian 11 + supervised. I have a number of technologies (which is one of the great things about HA):
A number of shelly devices for lights, and motion detection.
A zigbee network via Z2M. Motion detection, temp/hum sensors, scene controllers, smart bulbs.
Sensibo for the AC units
Some esphome devices for powering on the lights around the spa, and reading some bluetooth.
A number of LMS/Squeezebox players for whole house audio.
Any number of other media devices, amplifiers, tvs etc.
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First person to see this that lives in Hamilton / a 15km radius of Hamilton and posting back. Like the others - defos a few unfinished projects. Hopefully will get the irrigation project finished before Christmas to keep my grass nice and green unlike the previous summers. Got my electric fence setup with a relay so my wife can turn the fence on and off without having to walk out to the paddock to turn it off (my 1 year old touched the hot wire a few times and didn’t like it 
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Greetings @crayleb good to see someone in the local area!
I actually bought a few actuators and flow meters to try automate the greenhouse irrigation but it never got anywhere…
I have not automated the electric fence but that sounds like a good idea, although our kids have eventually learnt not to touch it LOL.
I have automated the water pump though as it switches off after 30min of continuous pumping which isn’t ideal when irrigating, so I have a wifi socket that can be used to just power cycle the pump to get it going again. This has been used a few times!
After many years of sitting on the sidelines I have finally got Solar installed on the house… Not as cheap as it used to be but having also just bought a second hand leaf it felt like the right thing to do…
It’s been going real well with no issues and the GoodWe inverter got auto detected by Home Assistant which was a bonus!
I got the OpenEVSE car charger and had fun putting that together and just yesterday I got it working so that any excess Solar is used to charge the car rather than export to the grid 
I wonder if there are any more local HA enthusiasts now?
Hi from Wellington, not Hamilton sorry…
What I am running
- HomeAssistant OS VM running in Bhyve on a TrueNas
- Zigbee network (1) - Zigbee2MQTT - with Aqara sensors, PDL Iconic switches, Hue bulbs
- Zigbee network (2) - Hue “Native” - remaining Hue Bulbs, sensors, TV lights
- Shelly integration for Projector screen
- ESPHome for custom devices
Did you get all zigbee ionic switch modules?
I decided against it and went with Shelly behind my ionic, but I would like the ionic push button mechs some day.
I am progressively upgrading to the Iconic Wiser Zigbee from PDL 600. Very happy with them so far (except price - but they are NZ certified), haven’t felt the need for the Wiser Hub at all with Zigbee2MQTT (though I have made a few PRs to achieve parity with the native app).
Yeah they are like super ridonculous in terms of pricing…!!!
Hey guys, from the West Island here. Hope you’re all doing well.
Hey Bill, LOL had to think for a second there… Welcome!
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Tauranga user here been going a year or so, in conjunction with house reno over the last 9 months so have now got a wee bit running:
- Airtouch 4
- Automate Pulse blinds (11)
- Fronius Solar inverter
- Nest smoke alarms
- OpenGarage doors (2)
- Sensibo
- Shelly (3 dimmers, 2 RGBW drivers, Shelly1s)
- Zigbee - Aqara: window sensors, Curtain motor, motion sensors, buttons. Few Hue lights detached from the Hue hub and run through ZHA, Yale Zigbee lock)
Hamilton here. Running HA on a Pi4 with a ssd. Have about 20 Shelly’s around the place, 40 or so zigbee lights a few hogar zwave switches. Aquara door and window sensor x20 a couple of their humidity and motion sensors and about 4 to 5 ex hue remotes and motion sensors. I ditched the hue bridge a while ago abd have a zigbee dongle running ZHA and another zwave dongle. Looking at hooking up some arlo cameras soon and when I get some cash together buy some blind motors from Ali express.
Awesome, that’s a lot of kit…. You renting or own?
I sold my Arlo cams and went for the Reolink 8k Poe wired ones with a PVR…. The quality is superb and the HA integration is pretty slick!