Smart Home Dev Journal

Devices

Kind	Hubs
Zigbee/Z-Wave	Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee USB Stick

Zigbee Repeating Devices
IKEA Tradfri lights

Zigbee Devices
Samsung SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor

Home Assistant Configuration

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

Setup Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee USB Stick

Resources:

# check usb devices before inserting device
$ lsusb
# insert usb device
# Check devices again
$ lsusb
# it showed up for me as "Bus 001 Device 006: ID 10c4:8a2a Silicon Labs"
# you may also check for the device path with the following
$ sudo ls /dev/
# for me it showed up as both /dev/ttyUSB0 & /dev/ttyUSB1
# it shows up as two because one is zigbee and the other is zwave
# to get more info on the device search the logs for when it connected
$ journalctl | grep -C 10 ttyUSB
# output looks like this
Oct 04 12:25:48 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=8a2a, bcdDevice= 1.00
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: Product: HubZ Smart Home Controller
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 61302481
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: cp210x 1-1.2:1.0: cp210x converter detected
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: cp210x 1-1.2:1.1: cp210x converter detected
Oct 04 12:25:49 gian-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8 kernel: usb 1-1.2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB1

The following is then added to the home-assistant.nomad job to give it access to the devices from the usb stick.

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/docker#devices

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/docker#privileged

      devices = [
        {
          host_path = "/dev/ttyUSB0"
          container_path = "/dev/ttyUSB0"
        },
        {
          host_path = "/dev/ttyUSB1"
          container_path = "/dev/ttyUSB1"
        }
      ]

The following may require you to escalate the privileges for nomad/docker to access the devices. For me I didn't need to. This may have been due to the following in the client.hcl

plugin "docker" {
      config {
              allow_caps = ["ALL"]
      }
}

Setup Home Assistant with Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee USB Stick

Add the following to the home-assistant configuration.yaml file.

zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/ttyUSB0

zha:
  usb_path: /dev/ttyUSB1
  database_path: /config/zigbee.db

Setup SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor with HUSBZB-1

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smartthings-multipurpose-sensor-2018-with-husbzb-1/66683

Hacs

Note I actually installed this dependency with this:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack

sudo curl -o /opt/home-assistant/config/custom_components/hacs.zip "https://github.com/hacs/integration/releases/download/1.6.0/hacs.zip"
sudo unzip hacs.zip -d "hacs"
rm -f hacs.zip

Circadian Lighting

Add the following to the custom repos in hacs:

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Video of setting up adaptive-lighting integration

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/jabhso/ha_has_it_before_apple_has_even_finished_it_i/

UI card for adaptive lighting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/enpeik/i_keep_seeing_my_own_theme_on_reddit_so_now_its/

HomeKit

Ensure Multicast DNS is allowed in Unifi gateway.

Disable Auto-Optimimize Network
- This setting blocks multicast dns
Enable Multicast DNS
Disable Multicast and Broadcast Filtering
Enable multicast enhancement

Ensure the docker container is set to host mode with the following entries in the nomad job:

config {
  image = "homeassistant/home-assistant:stable"
  network_mode = "host"
  ...

network {
  mbits = 10
  mode = "host"
  port "http" {
    static = 8123
  }
}

Add the following to the home-assistant configuration.yml

zeroconf:
  default_interface: true

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    homeassistant.components.homekit: debug
    pyhap: debug

homekit:

Reboot home assistant and you should receive a notification with a qr code you can scan in the homekit app.

troubleshooting

# delete homekit state & restart home-assistant
ls /opt/home-assistant/config/.storage/
sudo rm /opt/home-assistant/config/.storage/homekit.XXXXXXXXXXXX.state

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Smart Home Dev Journal

Devices

Home Assistant Configuration

Setup Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee USB Stick

Setup Home Assistant with Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee USB Stick

Setup SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor with HUSBZB-1

Hacs

Circadian Lighting

HomeKit

Casting

Inspiration

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