It came with a plug in wireless chime, but nothing to wire to the old chimes. I have only been using it since October, but no issues so far. We live in the country, so not a lot of visitors either, but we have had several people use it over the holidays.

This is the exact one I purchased: https://a.co/d/88peOTU

I’m powering it with this: https://a.co/d/dpTUHh4

Mine is connected to the network wirelessly. It is powered from the doorbell transformer.

I have a Reolink Doorbell. We have about the simplest/cheapest mechanical chimes you can get. (2 total, one on each floor). The Reolink said I should disconnect the chimes and use their electronic ones, because it might mess up the doorbell if I didn’t. I ignored this advice, and the Reolink still rings the mechanical chimes when somebody presses the button. I have yet to see any issues with the Reolink. I did plug in their wireless chime also, and it rings too.

So I would say, YMMV, but there’s a good chance a Reolink will still ring your chimes.

You’ll want to research “room presence” systems.

Here’s one I’ve been looking at implementing for an example: https://espresense.com/

NTFY Any reason to pick NTFY over Gotify? I’ve been using Gotify for quite a while with good luck, but I would switch if there was a compelling reason.

“I’m never moving it again…”. As a larger guy that owns a pickup truck, I wish I had a nickel for everytime I heard that about a big rack I help move. (Or a baby grand piano, pool table, or gun safe) :)

I have installed 3 of these now. A little expensive for an outright cost, but well worth it when you see how easily it integrates with the garage door openers. You can a ton of information out of it and some other goodies like parking sensors. They did a great job of making it really easy to install and straight forward to add to Home Assistant. You save a ton of money in the long run over a MyQ subscription.

I use the M5Stack C124 AtomS3 Lite with the RS485 Base for direct local control of my Rheem water heater. (I have the heat pump version, but it works with other versions also)

https://github.com/esphome-econet/esphome-econet

Way better than using the econet integration in home assistant. It eliminates the need for the Econet account and cloud. Now it is all local and provides way more information and options than the built in integration.

I know it isn’t technically a stand alone project made by a specific company, but it was so easy to install and setup and really pretty cheap. No soldering and just some very minor modifications to an existing phone cable that I sacrificed to the cause.

My server uses about 6-7 kWh a day, but its a dual CPU Xeon running quite a few dockers. Probably the thing that keeps it busiest is being a file server for our family and a Plex server for my extended family (So a lot of the CPU usage is likely transcodes).

Have you looked into the Shelly Plus?

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-1pm-list-copy?variant=49667619684693

Paired with one of these?

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-add-on?variant=49666058813781

I haven’t installed them yet, but I just ordered some to use for floor heating. They work with Home Assistant, so I plan on using it for the logic and I’ll incorporate the in floor thermostat with them. I also will use a separate sensor in the room for humidity and temp for my automation.

Our dishwasher and washing machines take long enough that sometimes that notification is for the same person that started it. I’ve started the dishwasher and then gone about my business doing things, completely forgetting the dishwasher. This way I remember to go unload it and start it again. (We do a lot of cooking/baking at home, so our dishwasher probably gets ran ~2 times on a weekday and sometimes 4+ times on weekend days)

The washing machine is similar. Nice to know there’s wet clothes in the machine that need moved to the dryer so I don’t forget them. I don’t automate the dryer finishing because the clothes in there are fine if they sit.

I ordered the stuff and setup the ESPHome-Econet solution. It works really well! I actually deleted the Rheem integration just now because the ESPHome solution is so much better. It was cheap and easy to setup too. I spent about $25 US buying the parts from Mouser. (I used an old phone cable, so I didn’t have to buy that)

Finally getting back to this. I only recently discovered I can use the diagnostics port to try and control it directly. I’m probably going to attempt that but need to get some hardware.

I still don’t seem to have any issues with connecting or disconnecting.

I just upgraded to the 2024.10.1 version and I’m not currently having any issues with my Rheem Econet integration. I have nothing about it in my logs that I can see. Let me know if there’s something specific you want to see.

I’m not sure what kind of money you want to spend? The M2 Hat is ~$14 USD and a 2242 NVME SSD can be had for ~$30-$40 USD since you don’t care as much about performance.

The USB to SATA adapter is going to run ~$10 USD and the SATA SSD drives are going to start ~$20 USD are go up from there depending on size, performance, etc.

If size of storage is an issue, the SATA SSD is probably the better route. I believe the NVME would be better performance since it utilizes the bus on the Pi more fully.

I would guess that for the money, most M2 drives and SATA SSD drives are going to be similar lifespans

Which Raspberry Pi do you have? There are some very reasonably priced M2 hats out there that you can boot from on the Pi 5, including the Raspberry Pi branded one.

What I wish existed was a self-hosted version of OurGroceries.

If you want self hosted, I’d second all the Grocy comments. I don’t use it because it isn’t simple enough for my family, but I did like it.

I once heard a consultant refer to it as “The Fog” because it’s like a cloud that you’re inside of. 🤮

I’m honestly not sure. I’m doing the same kind of research myself for a new home I’m building right now and happened to stumble across this guy’s youtube channel. He does a lot of great smart home stuff. I haven’t actually purchased one of them myself yet.

It’s a year old video, but it still is pretty relevant I think.

Local Control Video Doorbells - Reolink, UniFi, Amcrest, Hikvision, Dahua. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCu6L0xn4Y&t=904s

If you’d rather read than watch the video, he has a nice companion blog. https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/local-control-video-doorbells-reolink-unifi-amcrest-hikvision-dahua/