As an addition after re-reading your post requirement for multiple chargers, if you had a cheap smart plug on each charger, you could measure the current draw and use that as a condition for different automation actions (combined with the mobile app charging state sensor). That way you could identify which charger your phone was placed upon.
Agree that this is probably best, maybe combined with a time condition (if you have a regular bed time!).
Something to note with iPhones- you can’t scan a tag for home assistant and have it auto-execute your automation. It prompts that a tag has been scanned and then asks if you want to open home assistant…at which point just make a Lovelace button to toggle your automation as you’ll have to interact with your phone! There are hacky work arounds (last time I checked) with the shortcuts app to bypass this, but at that point maybe just use the mobile app sensors!
Could you explain why this is the same?
You have the ability to whip up this BS about proton, but a web search for “private email provider” was too much?
Looks like one of the qotom/topton boxes you can find on aliexpress.
Can also pick them up with preinstalled *sense from Protectli (which I did I regretted nothing, totally great experience.)
I run a number of Shelly devices on an iOT vlan with opnsense, but I used the integration- could that be an option?
I found a couple of the shelly devices (the humidity & temperature sensor and the smoke alarm) needed to be able to access HA to send updates so I created an opnsense alias to allow them just to access the ip it’s on. I could see MQTT being useful for these maybe?
I also have a couple of plugs and plus 1pm’s that just sit isolated on the vlan and get accessed by HA from the LAN. The integration was super easy to setup for these.
I have two window units and a switch on the wall wired in to turn power on and off to them like yours. It would be the same as pulling the plug. I added a Shelly relay to each of them to turn them on and off via home assistant.
I can’t change any settings on them as they are physical dials on the front of the unit. However, I generally keep the dials the same and just turn them on and off with the relays.
There’s a warning not to turn the units off and then back on in 3 minutes (I’ve seen this on quite a few units), but I think lots of units only enable the fan if they are switched on in that time frame as a precaution. The compressor comes on after the warning period passes. No idea why.
I use a Broadlink RM4 for exactly this! Works great once set up. Had to let it connect to the internet to set up the first time, then blocked it on my iOT vlan so only Home assistant can talk to it. Has worked without any intervention for several years.
I ran it manually installed for years in a vm, then an LXC. It broke…a lot.
Then I ran it as docker containers with MySQL for a few years. It broke…less-ish.
Then I ran the AIO container. It was (and is) quite irritating because it’s so opinionated compared to regular docker containers. However, it hasn’t broken. It works pretty well. It’s faster than my old install and the office stuff seems to work better. However…want to do something different to the way Nextcloud AIO recommends? Nah, fuck you go kludge something together. You kinda have to do stuff their way, including things like backups.
It’s annoying to have all my other compose containers work with volumes and similar settings and Nextcloud be kinda its own thing, but I’m sticking with the AIO container. Takes a while to set up, but at least the documentation can’t be accused of being sparse.
That’s been my experience anyway. I’m sure smarter people than me have managed to bend it to their will a bit more.