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[Glen Beestone]

Jay,

what was that IR blaster unit you recommended to me last night

Cheers,

Glen

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[Jay S]

This was it

http://www.zmote.io/

If you wait until after Monday as I'm getting my hands on one and I will let you know if it's worth the money.

Jay

[Glen Beestone]

Cheers !

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[Glen Beestone]

Did you get one and have you had a chance to play with it yet Jay ?


G

[Jay S]

I did.

It works very well through their API. The web remote for it is rubbish. Haven't tried it with MQTT as it has to be reprogrammed to do this and it breaks other things.

I have it working with node red and my amazon echo via HA Bridge.

Jay

[Glen Beestone]

Cool, i'm goung to get one. What do you run HA bridge on ?
Same server that is running node red (pi?)

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[Glen Beestone]

Did you buy from their site or their eBay store ?

G

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[Glen Beestone]

If node red needs to be always on and so does the zmote, then I'm thinking of making a base to sit the the zmote on that contains a PiZero and WiFi dongle (assuming it will run on a PiZero). Then I can run them both off the same supply

G

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[Jay S]

I swapped mine with someone for some other bits.

But if you buy it from the tindie store you can use the code INSTRUCTABLES you get 15% off. Might work out cheaper.

I'm running HA bridge on the same pi as the one used for node red. My zmote is ran off a spare port of my other raspberry pi running kodi.

I don't know if a pizero would be powerful enough for node red as theres quite a bit going on.

You may be better off with something by friendlyarm with a bit more umpfh.

When ready, use Peter Scargills script from here to get it all going.

Jay

[Glen Beestone]

Thanks jay,

I'l give it ago

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[Glen Beestone]

Ordered
thanks for the discount code I got it for £28.56 !

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[David Pye]

A 'standard Pi 1' is more than enough for nodeRed - I can't remember what Zero doesn't do in comparison.

Personally I like the Pi3 with built in WiFi, but if you already had a zero, reckon it'll do fine :-)

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[Glen Beestone]

Afaik Pi Zero is about the same CPU power of an original model B but with more memory and less current consumption

I have both to hand but I reckon a zero will fit into a stand I make for the Zmote easier

Does the model 3 have WiFi built it ?
I have one and did not know that.

G


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[David Pye]

Yep, 3 has it all in:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/

Enjoy :D

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[Glen Beestone]

Lol I recall now when I fired it up with a WiFi USB in That I couldn't figure why it was showing two WLAN devices

:-/

G

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[Jon Davies]

Lmao %)

Cheers,

Jon.