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Looking for quick and easy door sensors (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Number1@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Fiskekake@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] Janis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Fiskekake@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] Janis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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

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