diff --git a/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/Thread.png b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/Thread.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8d43cfa4 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/Thread.png differ diff --git a/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/index.md b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/index.md index b74ce037..c9818fd7 100644 --- a/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/index.md +++ b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ --- title: "Starting My Home Automation Experiment" -date: 2026-03-29T20:46:01+02:00 -draft: true +date: 2026-03-31T08:46:01+02:00 feature_link: "https://www.midjourney.com/home/" feature_text: "by IA Midjourney" description: "I am starting a Home Automation in my home and this is how I start it" @@ -9,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - home-automation - hacking - self-hosting +- raspberry-pi +- home-assistant categories: - tinkering series: @@ -130,17 +131,46 @@ This antenna is a little special: you can flash it for changing it form Zigbee t #### Setup the Antenna +First I flash the antenna. I need to port from Zigbee to Thread[^flash_firmware] and with the online tool it was so easy I thought I did something wrong. + +[^flash_firmware]: [Sonoff dongle flasher/](https://dongle.sonoff.tech/sonoff-dongle-flasher/) + +After this I connect the dongle and start to config the Home Assistant. + +First I need to have installed Thread from "Add Integration" and it showed an empty list of device. This is correct because I didn't have a Thread router installed. + +So we add a OpenRouter. How? Installing from the officials app of mine Home Assistant. + +![Open Thread on a menu](Thread.png) + +After this I edit the config in this way (the device was auto-finded) and I set this for my device. [^note] + +[^note]: This config work for me, it can not work for you + +![Open Thread config](openThread.png) + +For checking if all was ok I went and seach in the log for the OpenThread for a specific line. + +![Log Antenna](log-antenna.png) + +After this I went to check if the Thread integration showed the Ikea sensor and it didn't show... Why? Because I am STUPID. + +#### Setup the last little things + +Alpstuga (my air sensor) is not Thread, is Matter over Thread, so I need to add the thing with the Matter integration. And with this last integration the system worked! ![Its alive](its-alive.gif) +I am happy of this system? No. Why? I have the wrong time on the Alpstuga. +This thing I don't understand so I search online for understand how can I fix the time on the device. - - - - -[^flash_firmware]: [Sonoff dongle flasher/](https://dongle.sonoff.tech/sonoff-dongle-flasher/) +I find this is a common problem with the Alpstuga device and someone made a Hacs[^hacs] plugin[^matter-time-synk] wich add a cron and a button for sync the Home Assistant's clock. I also add the plugin for integrate my Playstation Network in my Home Assistant[^psnetwork]. [^hacs]: [Home Assistant Hacs](https://www.hacs.xyz/) [^matter-time-synk]: [Matter time synk](https://github.com/Loweack/Matter-Time-Sync/) [^psnetwork]: [PlayStation Network Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/playstation_network/) + +## Conclusion + +For now this is what I had done but I want to have automation (for now I don't have any) and some stuff for lower the gas bill so there will be more post about my smart home. diff --git a/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/log-antenna.png b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/log-antenna.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..859c3a68 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/log-antenna.png differ diff --git a/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/openThread.png b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/openThread.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..34c42597 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/post/2026/starting-my-home-automation-experiment/openThread.png differ