Fibaro Home Automation

[james.wilson]

Following on from the texecom thread DD said he was using Fibaro Stuff

Im addiing all sorts to my HA setup and wondered what you were using this for Stuart?

 

[datadiffusion]

I'm using the (now frankly ancient, based on some old Intel Atom based ITX board intended for POS applications) Fibaro Home Center 2 (HC 3 must surely be pending, esp. since the Italian takeover)

as I found that the HC Lite was bobbins, although I intend to reuse that as a secondary gateway once the annexe is finished.

 

I have about 40 Fibaro brand devices, mostly dimmers and relays, with a few Qubino where there was no Fibaro equivalent e.g some LED downlights that only supported 0-10v dimming, and a couple of window openers.

 

For door contacts (kept separate from alarm) I've used the flush Aeotec ones, but I do also have a few sensors where the Fibaro 'universal contact', a tiny PCB with flywires, sits neatly hidden behind, it piggybacks

on the sensor and emulates the state of it's contacts via a tiny relay on the board. It's easier to do this on sensors because there is the 12v supply and the space, of course.

 

I've a few fibaro fobs, but find we hardly ever use them. TBF given my experiences with the system, though it is much more stable now, I'd never trust it with smoke alarms let alone intruder!

I've learnt now that if you can do anything with direct association, e.g PIR sensor for hallway lights, do it that way in case the HC blows up. It's also less load on the HC and switching is instant, not the sometimes 1s delay.

 

A lot of the scenes need doing properly, e.g. in code not blocks, but that can wait. 

 

Heres a shot of the HC2 homepage, showing abot half the devices.

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by datadiffusion

[al-yeti]

29 minutes ago, datadiffusion said:

I'm using the (now frankly ancient, based on some old Intel Atom based ITX board intended for POS applications) Fibaro Home Center 2 (HC 3 must surely be pending, esp. since the Italian takeover)

as I found that the HC Lite was bobbins, although I intend to reuse that as a secondary gateway once the annexe is finished.

 

I have about 40 Fibaro brand devices, mostly dimmers and relays, with a few Qubino where there was no Fibaro equivalent e.g some LED downlights that only supported 0-10v dimming, and a couple of window openers.

 

For door contacts (kept separate from alarm) I've used the flush Aeotec ones, but I do also have a few sensors where the Fibaro 'universal contact', a tiny PCB with flywires, sits neatly hidden behind, it piggybacks

on the sensor and emulates the state of it's contacts via a tiny relay on the board. It's easier to do this on sensors because there is the 12v supply and the space, of course.

 

I've a few fibaro fobs, but find we hardly ever use them. TBF given my experiences with the system, though it is much more stable now, I'd never trust it with smoke alarms let alone intruder!

I've learnt now that if you can do anything with direct association, e.g PIR sensor for hallway lights, do it that way in case the HC blows up. It's also less load on the HC and switching is instant, not the sometimes 1s delay.

 

A lot of the scenes need doing properly, e.g. in code not blocks, but that can wait. 

 

Heres a shot of the HC2 homepage, showing abot half the devices.

 

Why there sensor on bidet

[datadiffusion]

Lots of tealeaves round these parts

[PeterJames]

Ive just added my Dahua CCTV to the alexa show using the imou app.

 

Alexa Who's at the front door? 

[norman]

Yeah I have the temporary Blink things on the show too, nifty.

[al-yeti]

3 minutes ago, norman said:

Yeah I have the temporary Blink things on the show too, nifty.

Can Alexa order from Gregg's ?

[norman]

Just checking now...

 

sadly no

[PeterJames]

22 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

Can Alexa order from Gregg's ?

 

21 minutes ago, norman said:

Just checking now...

 

sadly no

LOL!

I new it worked with Blink but I was unable to get it to work with Dahua, Im pleased with the work around

[norman]

I genuinely looked for the alexa skill, maybe through delivaroo etc.