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Cake day: March 24th, 2026

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  • My first ‘issue’ is I have everything in ZHA. I want to move to Zigbee2MQTT, but with 40 zigbee devices and associated automations it’s a pita. So I figured get the zbt-2 and migrate that way. ZHA doesn’t report LQI and RSSI, so measuring the mesh isn’t completely empirical. First issue was a window sensor I use for the mailbox. It was a 3rd reality sensor and it was losing network connectivity about once a week. It’s just outside the front door, and I have a 3rd reality zigbee outlet in the front entrance. The Sonoff coordinator is mounted on the wall at the bottom of the stairs, which go down from the front entrance. (difficult to visualize, I know).

    I then tried another window sensor on a closet door in the kitchen to trigger a light when the door was opened. Another zigbee outlet very close to the closet. Sensor (aqara in this case) can’t stay connected for 5 minutes.

    So, considering I want to migrate to zigbee2mqtt anyway, I figured this was an opportunity to experience that pain.




  • I’ve been using the one offered here.

    https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp

    Before I configured Claude, I was completely lost with dashboards. With Claude, I had a couple of false starts, but I now have a fully working dashboard.

    I have also used it to rationalize entity names for devices that have changed rooms/uses.

    I have a couple of automations that are incredibly useful. I used Claude for all of them, but I will say a few of them needed tweaking.

    Living Room blind: close blind if both people leave home. (we do not subscribe to nabu casa, had to be failed ping on phone). Then if either person returns home, open blind except if after sunset, then leave blind closed but turn on lights on driveway.

    Washer/Dryer: We have a dumb washer / dryer. Used a 4 gang switch from Amazon to service 4 people. If you want to be notified when washer/dryer is done, press your button. If you want to unsubscribe double press button. Here’s the great part. Log all washer/dryer completions in a Google Sheet. (yep, Claude did that).

    I have a bunch of others, but this post is too long already. (nfc tags, motion detector, etc).