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Looking for quick and easy door sensors (self.homeassistant)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Number1 to c/homeassistant

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Looking for some well priced door sensors. I heard the Xfinity / Comcast ones on ebay do well and also do temperature.

Anyone have any experience with them or know if anything better priced?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have some cheap ass Tuya Zigbee sensors from AliExpress. In my experience they are reliable, quite small, i sill haven't changed the battery, and they are super cheap. Make sure you get the Zigbee ones, not the wifi version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

tuya means one relies on their API keys right? i just love the m5stack and feel safe about updates and apis for the next decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's zigbee, that shouldn't be a problem. The tuya headache is their wifi stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ah ok. nice. thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm by no means an expert, and I'm not sure what API keys you are referring to. I know that Tuya smart devices usually have two versions, a wifi and a Zigbee one. The wifi ones require you to add them using a terrible smartphone app, and the integration with Home assistant sucks. The Zigbee ones work like any other zigbee device, locally controlled. I have several Tuya Zigbee devices which works great, they are integrated in home assistant using zigbee2mqtt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ah ok. i just have one tuya fan left and it uses wifi and i thought all tuya have wifi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

only for wifi version, witch shuld be avoided becouse batteries dies fast on wifi.

[–] Toylerrr 1 points 2 years ago

With these its only via zigbee no outside connecton? the price on these is good.