Mastodawn

I don’t want to set up a #smarthome, but the current timer switch just doesn’t cut it. Unfortunately, the documentation for smarthome stuff seems to assume that you already know everything…

I’d like to use an existing headless #RaspberryPi with a RaspBee II to control a single Ikea Trefakt socket. What would be a lightweight way of doing this without GUI, without #HomeAssistant, without Docker?

Would #FHEM fit the bill? Or any other recommendations?

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🦉 Yannick Loiseau Mar 21

@mxp
I would say zigbee2mqtt

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Michael Piotrowski Mar 21

@yloiseau I already had the Website open, but I don’t understand how you actually control the connected devices… It seems like you also need an MQTT broker, and then you still need a client to actually control the devices?

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Flo Mar 21

@mxp @yloiseau yes for the broker and client.
You can use Cli mosquito, did you see this page? https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/usage/mqtt_topics_and_messages.html#zigbee2mqtt-friendly-name-set

What kind of use case are you after?

MQTT Topics and Messages | Zigbee2MQTT

Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges

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Michael Piotrowski Mar 21

@flogib Ah, thanks! I’d looked around there before, but couldn’t make sense of the jargon…

Use case: My goal is to replace the timer switch with something that can turn on/off the lights with sunset/sunrise and maybe have 3 scenarios for when someone’s in the apartment, short absence, and longer absence.

@yloiseau

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Flo Mar 22

@mxp @yloiseau ok I was wondering if a wifi plug with tasmota firmware could be a more standalone option. I don't have any but they can have a webserver, and timers (handing sunrise/sunset) apparently https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Timers/