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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Looking for quick and easy door sensors (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking for some well priced door sensors. I heard the exfinity/ Comcast ones on ebay do well and also do temperature.

Anyone have any experience with them or know if anything better priced?

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

tuya means one relies on their API keys right? i just love the m5stack and feel safe about updates and apis for the next decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If it's zigbee, that shouldn't be a problem. The tuya headache is their wifi stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm by no means an expert, and I'm not sure what API keys you are referring to. I know that Tuya smart devices usually have two versions, a wifi and a Zigbee one. The wifi ones require you to add them using a terrible smartphone app, and the integration with Home assistant sucks. The Zigbee ones work like any other zigbee device, locally controlled. I have several Tuya Zigbee devices which works great, they are integrated in home assistant using zigbee2mqtt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ah ok. i just have one tuya fan left and it uses wifi and i thought all tuya have wifi.