Home Automation
Running the building the node sits in: Zigbee, Thread/Matter, Z-Wave, Philips Hue and Daikin devices, adopted into one vocabulary and automated by blueprints, with no vendor cloud in the loop.
Introduction What local home automation means here: the node as the gateway, one capability vocabulary across four radios, and what you need to own. Setting Up a RUAL Nano The runbook: Redis, an MQTT broker, Zigbee2MQTT against a ZBT-2, the config section, first boot and proving the radio is connected. Discovering and Adopting Devices Pairing per radio, why adoption is a separate gate, names and rooms, forget versus unpair, and what survives a restart. Trigger Reference All 28 start-of-flow device blocks, and the three rules that decide how often they fire: transitions, threshold crossings and unknown-previous seeding. Action Reference The 24 action blocks: lights, switches, climate, doors and gates, the generic capability write, the registry queries and fleet management. Example Flows Nine complete automations, block by block: motion lights after dark, a leak shutting a valve, a house that empties itself, an unknown card at 3am. Device History and Energy Why the node records what changed rather than what was said, buckets versus raw readings, meter deltas and the energy view. Troubleshooting Symptom first: no devices, a trigger that will not fire, a door sensor that reads backwards, an empty chart.