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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

+1. No idea what's supposed to lead to this conclusion. I'd say that's a bad PID tune.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's the point of smaller hubs? What kind of benefits do they provide?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you really just want to know if the kid (or better, the ble tag) is at home, then no - I'd probably use any other ble beacon (iBeacons are cheap on Ali)

Afaik, Tile tags work somewhat like AirTags and are trackable wherever they are. If you want/need more precise location information then I'd stick to Tile.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are you comfortable with flashing microcontrollers? https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html might be a solution to your BLE beacon idea. buy any esp32 board for like 5$, put it somewhere in your living room or wherever makes sense and have it proxy BLE scans to HomeAssistant.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I'm on Z2M, mostly because it supports more devices I'd like to use. If ZHA supports everything you have or might want to get in the future, I don't see a reason to switch.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd love to upvote this more than once. What's the point of all those super high quality graphics if the core gameplay hasn't advanced in the slightest 🙄

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you are the only one using the services, then go for a VPN instead of port forwarding or sth. This way, your stuff isn't openly accessible from the internet to anyone poking around