No logs - no issue.
More on my Z-wave journey:-
After many interactions with Oz Smart Things I contacted Shelly support and even sent them videos. They then agreed that my suspect device was faulty and that I should get a replacement from my supplier. (I had to pay to send the faulty one back though)
I then looked into buying directly from Shelly (which I have done many times before) but that threw up more questions than answers on their web pages.
I couldn’t find any “ANZ” devices when selecting New Zealand as my country.
I did then find them when I selected Australia.
Then several of the ANZ devices showed that they were the wrong frequency.
Then I had to convince them that CEPT frequency is not for NZ or AU.
They have now apologized and thanked me and said that they will correct their web pages.
Now, when I select New Zealand, I see more Shelly Wave devices and they all show the correct frequency. Yay!!
Yeah that’s also one issue im facing with reporting it, it just says unknown error and doesn’t continue. The logs show nothing.
What do you guys find is the best weather integration for us, metservice says its raining here atm but there’s not a cloud in the sky. Metno has it as sunny but the temperature is wrong.
Alternatively does anyone have any good local solar powered weather stations?
I use the Metservice and suck it up a little bit, but in Auckland, it is raining somewhere and sunny, cold and warm all at the same time LOL
OpenWeatherMap … appears to get mosgiel right more often than not… even pinged the thunderstorms down within an half hour this after noon on hourly forecast
use there so called paid server and limit the calls under 1000
Looks like the contact energy integration got forked. GitHub - notf0und/ha-contact-energy: Contact Energy integration for Home Assistant
Is there a recommended setup to get this to work with the energy dashboard in terms of setup and data usage
Hi There!
As a learning project I started with setting up a Home Assistant system based on Docker on a Raspberry Pi mainly based on this wonderful post:
Following video shows local speech interface based on Wyoming protocol with Whisper and Piper controlling an ESP8266 (programmed with the integrated ESPHome):
Eventually also added a LLM (Llama3.2) which is running on a desktop NUC as a Ollama service.
Would like to share some knowledge on HA here in NZ (Auckland).
Remind you I am just starting out, so not an awful lot of knowledge on all the integrations.
Would also be interested if there are any commercial applications of HA here in NZ.
Cheers
I’m just about to jump to wholesale power relying on the EM6 HACS integration. Does anyone know if it possible to make it faster? I casually observed the reading in HA usually updates about 15 minutes after it the 30 minute interval. Tonight I was watching the EM6 webpage and that updates at 9:01, but my HA display and subsequent automations based on it don’t happen till 9:15. I was looking for anything I could do manually to it to force an update and found none. Maybe someone has an idea. It’s otherwise a great thing to have.
Could you use an automation to reload the integration - i have done that before with something else.
I was thinking of something like that but I figured there would be an option to reload it manually to see if that worked. I couldn’t find any method to force it to do anything.
Although I am stumbling blindly in the code and it looks to me that the sensor will update evey 30 minutes, but doesn’t say when that 30 minutes starts from. So probably it starts from when it booted. I’ll try booting it closer to the data change and see it it moves my update from xx:15 to when it booted.
Yep - 1:04 and it updated after I booted it at 12:34. So that works just fine now I know its a thing.
Another subject: Philips Hue
Has anyone found places that have better prices than “normal”?
I’m not looking for heaps, just buying the occasional “upgrades” or lights for renovations etc.
I generally find Bunnings and Mitre 10 have the same prices, which are generally much better than the Hue Store (unless it has a 25% off sale, then it’s about the same!). I’ve not found anywhere cheaper than them, even amazon etc tends to me more.
I did happen to stumble into Bunnings at just the right time a couple of weeks back… I got $770 of Hue gear for $127, because they were re-arranging and offered me ALL the clearance items as a bulk lot, and halved the clearance prices 
I didn’t need all of them, but found uses for most of them 
I’ve also purchased a few used items (or “new”, but on trademe/facebook etc), but some of the used prices mean buying new makes more sense, for the warranty etc.
Thanks.
I moved to Ecotricity wholesale plan after Flick was sold.
I also currently use EM6 integration to trigger battery charging when price is low,
but had not yet noticed the update issue.
Did you manage to create an automation that would restart the integration at a useful time?
The electricityinfo website also has forecast information and an API which could be used to retrieve data. TLCs allow personal use but there is no explicit fee mentioned.
Anyone got Android TV working with TVNZ+ and Threenow?
I’ve tried com.mediaworks.android.tv and nz.co.tvnz.ondemand.tv but neither work despite being the app ids that show on the firetv
Hey @Krispkiwi I’m using metservice but for precise rain detection I’m using this device: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007455040469.html?spm=a2g0n.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.7f3ef19c3CRvyB and it works great to let me know when it’s raining so I have an automation that makes Alexa to tell me to close the windows when it start raining. Its very precise so it works even with very light rain and it’s solar powered
Contact energy provides only data after 3 to 5 days, so when you setup the integration, you can see the energy dashboard for the previous days. Change the date on your dashboard an you’ll be able to see data. The integration also provides some entities related to your bill
sorry, I cannot remember the specifics but if you go to Firemote Git, I helped this guy a few years ago with NZ apps but cannot find the details, you should be able to search his Git though.