After all this month unpublished since I told you how it looked my network Matter both from HomeKit with Eve, the Home app or Controller for HomeKit as from Home Assistant, where it is managed in a different way.
For all these weeks I have continued to do tests, I have made a billion changes, especially at Home Assistant because I told you that I wanted to remove Sonoff’s zigbee dongle, the most common device that uses almost everyone as a universal bridge at Home Assistant, and leave only the multi-protocol dyconnect, made by the same people who designed Home Assistant.
Well, I haven’t done that in the end. I’ve been seeing that the devices I have on the other end of the house work better with the Sonoff (which has a little antenna) than with the skyconnect. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen him, but he’s kind of, well, you got him. there in the YouTube video of the last time I talked about the Red Matter at Home Assistant, it’s like a kind of a life-long USB prick. It is true that you can put an extension cable and so on, but it has no antenna or anything beyond the cable that can make a little signal amplifier. And the truth is,
The devices I had at the other end of the house worked well, they didn’t get to disconnect, but the thing about seeing that now they had less signal than before, I said, let’s see, what need do I have to remove the dangle that is working well? So what I do is I have both.
That is, I now have the Sonoff for the zigbee network with zigbee2MQTT, and the other, the SkyConnect, I have it with ZHA. I remember Martín Guiroy, you know, from the MacIlustrated podcast network, where it has the Mini podcast and also participates in the Cupertino garage, because it said ‘Ya, what’s going on? That now Zigbee2MQTT is shit and we all have to pass to ZHA’
The reason is that ZHA is directly supported by SkyConnect people, while zigbee2MQTT is not yet. They’re there in the experimental phase, but then you’re supposed to be able to use both.
The thing is, it gave me a little repair to remove zigbee2MQTT because it has Mosquitto broker below, the MQTT, which is being used every day for more things. However, when you go to the SkyConnect page to see how you have to set it up and so on, they tell you to take everything off: remove zigbee2MQTT, also remove the broken mosquito because you’re not going to use it and you’re left alone with ZHA. And it’s true that it gave me a little bit of a thing to remove the whole part of MQTT. I’m telling you, it’s a protocol that’s being used a lot for more and more things and it didn’t make me much fun to take it off. But then, after all the evidence, I saw that I could have both of you living together and I’ve decided
Let it go. So right now I have SkyConnect for everything that is the Thread devices including those of EVE, which have already been officially updated to Matter, and I still have the Sonoff for all the life-long zigbee devices, that is, all the Aqara sensors, the Phips Hue lights and all the devices that are not yet going to be updated to Matter.
There’s no problem having it like this in Home Assistant or HomeKit, I mean, I’m looking at them all from both places and I can do any interactions I want and so on. A funny thing has happened to me with the door sensor of EVE and the sockets that I have out there from EVE too, which have been updated to Matter, and you know that Matter allows you to see them from several different standards, that is, it’s an intermediate layer, so I can see the socket from both Home Assistant and the Home App without any bridge or any interaction between media or anything. It’s a lot cool. But what is it? That I already had the plugin in Home Assistant for disposal
I will be published in the Home app, so that Home Assistant was a kind of universal bridge to see all the devices. So both the plug and the door and window sensors that have been updated to Matter, I see them twice. The time you connect to them through Matter and the time you are passing it on to Home Assistant as if it were a universal bridge. I mean, it’s all right, I mean, as simple as saying, «Look, this one you take away from me.»
And the truth is, the answer is just as good in both of us. And it’s a mockery because you go to Home Assistant and click on the plug and it’s on immediately and on HomeKit too. And you see the two of you light up practically at the same time on both apps, there’s not even a delay, not a second, nor… I don’t know, there’s probably some delay between each other but it’s imperceptible, not even in sight can be seen any difference.
If you follow me on Twitter or on Mastodon, you’ll have seen that I’ve been playing with the TV notifications, an LG, and that’s, well, I’ve integrated some notifications to get directly to the TV. If you have the TV on, it doesn’t matter that you’re through an HDMI watching something, for example Netflix, or you’re watching the TDT TV directly, it shows you a notification like those that come out in a little bit or on the top of the TV when you have some firmware update, for example, and tells you that it will update it as soon as you leave it alone. Well, there you can integrate any notification you want, both notify it.
an open door, for example, as someone is ringing at the doorbell, etc.
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