I have 2 Eaton WiFi switches that control 2 floodlights each, one for the front corners and one for the back corners of the house. This was before I decided to go with HA and get a bit more fancy.
I have searched for an AddOn that would allow me to enable these on HA with a WiFi Dongle but do not see anything. Is it even possible ?
Speaking of dongles, I know it’s common to have a Z-Wave and Zigbee dongle running on HA at the same time, is it possible to have a bluetooth or WiFi dongle also, meaning 3 communicators for the widest variety of choices and range in HA?
Generally running your HA server over an Ethernet wire is preferred, but it’s your system…
Just make sure you put at least a meter extension cable on those radio dongles to keep them away from the RF noisy computer and away from each other.
Sorry you misunderstood… I am not running HA via WiFi it’s in my IT room sitting on my router connected. I am looking to see if I am able to add a WiFi dongle to have HA work with WiFi enabled products.
In this specific case I would like to have 3 dongles, one WiFi, one zigbee and one Zwave. I am waiting on the Zwave dongle to arrive and have it up and running on a SONOFF EZMINI as a test device with a SONOFF 3.0 Zigbee dongle.
You don’t need a wifi “dongle”. Wifi is connected to HA via the wired network so if your router supports wifi your HA server can already connect to wifi devices. If it does not, then purchase one or more Wifi Access points (APs) and connect them to your router. Purchase as many APs as you need to cover your house, there are online tools for this. Locate them well spread apart and on channels 1, 6 and 11 for the least interference.
The zigbee controller I already have and it’s working.
OK so is the question is can Home Assistant see and talk to Eaton Switches or is that some protocol that no one has written an intergration for ? I have searched Bright Layer (The native app) and Eaton the brand sold at Lowes in HA and nothing comes up.
As mentioned already, if your wifi devices are on the same network as HA, they should have no difficulty seeing each other. The problem is not one of accessiblity, it is one of protocol. Many wifi devices are ‘skins’ of Tuya Smart, allowing you to use this integration - but it doesn’t seem the case with Eaton. And it doesn’t look like anybody has reverse-engineered the protocol to create an integration for HA (as an aside, HA add-ons are different - they allow you to run other applications on the HA machine).
However, since Eaton integrates with Amazon and Google, you could control Eaton from HA via one of them. I don’t have Amazon, so can’t comment on that, but for Google you would install the Google Assistant SDK, and the as per the documentation:
This integration allows:
Sending text commands to Google Assistant to control devices supported by Google Assistant but not by Home Assistant.
