Sounds good too, but I really can’t understand if there are any pros or cons to use the ZHA component with a HUSBZB-1 USB stick instead of the Conbee. To me that seems like a more complete solution than Conbee, as you get Z-Wave for free too?
By the way, do HUSBZB-1 and Conbee support the same Zigbee protocols, like Zigbee Pro?
Please tell me what you believe is the best solution, as I cannot figure out the pros and cons!
EDIT: By the way, is there any difference in frequencies, or does these Zigbee/Z-wave work as good in Europe as in US? I live in Europe, and I plan to use this Zigbee controller with Ikea Trådfri lights and Xiaomi sensors (like door sensor, humudity sensor, temp sensors etc).
Zwave have different frequencies in different parts of the world. So if you’re in Europe it’s probably not compatible with devices you have easy access to.
Well if you choose a device that directly supports hass you have one less software you need to host. But I can’t say anything about specific differences in protocol and device support. There are some threads on the forum as I said earlier. I don’t want to say that conbee is the best one since I honestly don’t know.
I chose conbee because it was easily available to buy.
If it will be easy to install Deconz to Docker I think I will go with that. As you said, this is the only thing easily available here in Europe, or Sweden to be exact.
To get back to my original question, do you think the Ikea Trådfri Dimmer will work with Home Assistant? From what I understand there is no button, you turn it on by twisting it fast, and dim by twisting it at normal speed, and turn off by twisting it fast the other way.
Would Home Assistant be able to pickup these different states? To turn on and off, and change volume by twisting?
I’m not sure if Raspberry Pi docker images work for my server. I have a Debian server with amd64 (normal Intel processor). From what I heard RPi are ARM-based images?
I’m currently working on stable deCONZ Docker images for both ARM and x86_64 though both are a little ways off yet (and before release I need to get my Conbee and RaspBee hardware to test them ). The idea is that they will be installable alongside Home Assistant via Docker on both normal hardware and on Raspberry Pi 3, and also I will be releasing a deCONZ addon for Hassio as the final step of that work. On my roadmap is also a deCONZ panel for Home Assistant so that you can add lights etc to deCONZ without leaving the HASS GUI.
I have a HUSBZB-1 stick that I’m currently using on my production machine for Zwave. As far as I know the frequency won’t work for Zwave in Europe though, so consider that before buying. I have tried the zha component with the stick also and while it works OK, there is still a lot of work to be done to support more components. In particular with zha you have to be very selective with which lights and accessories you buy and I would advise checking the forum threads to see what people have tested and what works.
I like the idea of the Conbee and Raspbee hardware with deCONZ because you have the support of a company whose interest it is to make their software work with as broad a range of components as possible and make it work stably in order to sell their hardware. While zha (and bellows, the python library that supports it) is very well done, it is ultimately an open source project driven by one or two people, which isnt necessarily worse but is something to consider when the hardware and support in hass depends on the efforts of those individuals.
Very nice to hear that! I think I will purchase a Conbee then. Where can I follow your work?
Would be great to get updates on the progress, because I won’t be doing this before the docker image is available, the ease of use with Docker beats everything, and together with Watchtower, updates is a breeze!
In the coming weeks I will be setting up a GitHub repo for the Docker image once I think it is ready to publicly test and will push a built image to Docker Hub for ease of deployment.
Has anyone confirmed that the Ikea wireless dimmer or the remote control work with the ZHA component? Just because Home Assistant has ZHA doesn’t mean all Zigbee devices will work with it. I’d love to get confirmation.
I have added my Tradrfri Wireless Dimmer in DeConz, as per the howto instructions.
It shows up as a “group” named “Tradfri Wireless Dimmer 3” in DeConz, and as light.tradfri_wireless_dimmer_3 in HomeAssistant.
It has a brightness attribute in HA but it never changes. The only thing changing in HA is the state, and it only has the values on or off. Not very useful if I want to control things with automation in HA.
Adding my lights in the group inside DeConz works fine, but it doesn’t give me the control I’d like to have inside HA. Also I would have guessed that it would show up as a sensor in HA and not as a light.
Are there other ways to add the dimmer in DeConz that will make it show up as a sensor?
I haven’t started moving my PIR sensors from my Trådfri gateway to DeConz yet. Will they also show up as lights? Will the time set on the back side of the PIR sensor keep the sensor as on for the time period set on the hardware dial on the sensor, or will it fire a state on event everytime something moves in the room?
Are there other ways to integrate ConBee to HA other than DeConz? I only started playing around with the ConBee and DeConz yesterday -> totally green.
It just goes, on or off in HA. So as soon as the lamp is lit on its lowest brightness the Dimmer goes to state on, stays on whatever brightness is set (reasonable), and the goes to state off when the lamps birghtness reashes zero.
It seem that it is the lamps brightness that sets the state for the dimmer.
Inside HA I have both the lamp as in this case light.bedroom_window_lamp and the dimmer as light.tradfri_wireless_dimmer_3.
The light.bedroom_window_lamp brightness attribute updates properly. The dimmer also has a brightness attribute, but it never changes. So I can’t use the dimmer to control other things if I’d like to.
Do you possibly have any references to the documentation that you are referring to? I have so far only been able to see my dimmer showing up as a light component.
). The idea is that they will be installable alongside Home Assistant via Docker on both normal hardware and on Raspberry Pi 3, and also I will be releasing a deCONZ addon for Hassio as the final step of that work. On my roadmap is also a deCONZ panel for Home Assistant so that you can add lights etc to deCONZ without leaving the HASS GUI.