I know that the fat companies want to get fatter and fatter with our data and we don’t want to play along. I like that very much so far.
I’m new and don’t know whether there is generally open hardware or whether you have to play the cat and mouse game with the hardware developers for every device. They want to sell their own cloud shit and we want to build our own. OK.
Now i have bought a shutter zigbee relay (Schneider Electric 1GANG / SHUTTER / 1) and the “test device” works just okay. Now I’ve bought a dozen and they have different firmwares and don’t work at all anymore. I only have 4 days left if I have to send them back.
But here’s my question:
do I have to implement this correctly myself somehow I read something about cluster. would that be a normal procedure or only for professionals? Should I send the bought devices back and buy other hardware that is more open or maybe just wait for one of our community professionals to update them?
Please give me some advice on how to do it with the zigbee devices.
For all the makers and helpers at this point, a very big praise and respect.
that is exactly that device…
the newer firmware now seems to react completely differently to the integration than the old firmware or at the moment they no longer react because the buttons are grayed out. That is why I ask about the typical procedure.
Hey no sorry I use the covers without the function to drive to a specific position. I hope that with the coming standard matter, companies will stop selling such bullshit. But we know our species, we know they want our data and do everything they can to sell their own products, so the answer is obvious. We idiots get to keep wasting our precious lifetimes on their bullshit just mentioned. I’m sorry, this topic is tiring…
It sucks when you have to search and research every little bit of info and when you can’t find it you beg around. If someone has a tip, I would also be happy for private messages, since nobody is officially allowed to post it publicly, because it doesn’t fit the forum topic perfectly.
German bureaucracy is a joke in comparison.
Tried to help with the little information based on my own knowledge of Zigbee solutions even though I am no longer using Zigbee2MQTT, but based on that reply do no longer feel I want to help any further.
FYI, I understand it can be frustrating trying to get help from open source projects but keep in mind that you are not paying for professional support so should not expect it, and please consider at least being polite as this is only a community forum so we here are only volunteering to help our fellow hobbyists for fun in our spare time because this is our hobby, and also keep in mind that Home Assistant is a free and open-source project that is mainly developed by unpaid enthusiasts. Obviously getting told you are slow to respond or suck is not fun, especially not when we are not getting paid.
PS: I for one do not offer personal 1-to-1 assistance via private messages as giving personal support in private messages is very time-consuming and in the end you only helped one person so no one else can read the leasson lerned from it so it is not sharing the knowledge with the whole community as per the spirit of open source reuse and transparenty.
My frustration is not aimed at the people here… don’t you understand that one can just be frustrated when a small thing takes a lot of time? I’m a developer myself and part of this community so what a misunderstanding, oh my god. And then this hatred… I’m getting off the subject at this point and no, I haven’t smoked anything, nickrout. Look for another enemy, possibly in social media or in the real world. Not with me.