Tailscale, because it’s a peer-to-peer VPN based on WireGuard with very little setup and Cloudflare Tunnel for external access to HA

I have had this for a while, I believe I have enabled experimental features on it.

There are some specialised esp32 devices sold with cases (sometimes optional), but 3d printing is another fun thing to get into since you seem bored;)

Yup, same here. Sometimes they wouldn’t bother to call, and would just take the package with them if I wouldn’t answer.

Or tell the courier to leave the package in whatever place I ask them to.

He was asking about satellites, the end devices that have mics/speakers.

That wouldn’t really work for treacking Apple devices since they randomize their MAC addresses. Which is why I’ve added them using private ble integration in HA. It is able to detect their presence (or lack of it) via my ESPHome devices which are set up as Bluetooth proxies. What I would like though is know which room are they in - I have an ESP32 device in pretty much every room, and I wish I could leverage them without adding dedicated ESPresence ones.

Is there any alternative to ESPresence I can add to existing ESPHome devices? Some solution building around private BLE (which I did set up, but I’m not using) and stuff? I have quite a few ESPHome based devices doing their work and not using Bluetooth around my home.

The coordinator crashed and would stop responding until I rebooted it. It mostly happens to people with a lot of Tuya Zigbee devices. Testing of FW is ongoing: https://github.com/Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware/discussions/496

Tuya Zigbee devices send information so often some coordinators have issues depending on their firmware - I had it on my CC2652P7 based coordinator and had to test coordinator firmware to find out what the issue was.

Not HACS - Addons. The ones that run in containers

I’d say it’s not that trivial and makes you the maintainer of your add-ons. Of course it gives you more flexibility, but you do have to manage them/update yourself.

Couldn’t agree more. ZHA is supposed to be more simple to use, but if one is already using HA it’s not going to be long before they reach its limits. Zigbee2MQTT has better device support and more features. While the basic setup may be a little bit more complicated than ZHA you get the benefits mentioned earlier, and you don’t really need to understand all of its functionality from the start - you can learn as you go.

I have achieved that on a mini pc with 4 Ethernet ports running Proxmox

Haven’t used traccar client. Having a dedicated device can help you track stolen car, integrating tc with ha can let you use its location for automations (like opening gate, etc.).

It is available as an addon and pretty easy to set up. I am using it with a dedicated GPS tracker

Yes

This, plus read something about zigbee channels before you at it up. Some might interfere, others may not be supported by some devices, so choose wisely. I’m using >70 devices with a conbee 2 coordinator (which I recommend).

No, it’s throwing names you need to change

I am NOT looking forward to the MQTT breaking changes. With Z2M and 80+ Zigbee devices it is going to be awful if there aren’t any good tools to help with naming transition.