They changed their slogan a while ago. Guess why…

Or make it old school and use the hostname instead of the IP.

The hot water pipe to the kitchen is quite long. We have a pipe loop there with a pump. Back in the days we had an ordinary timer that let the pump run at the usual times when there is hot water demand to be expected.

I now use a Zigbee plug for the pump and added a button in the kitchen to start it manually. In addidion HA starts it in the morning and every time when somebody comes home. Another HA automation turns off the pump after 3 minutes and ensures that it does not start again for 30 minutes.

It reads “158 Tesla Megapacks”. But yeah, these could contain Duracell :D

… companies?

I would go with the dongle (and sell the gateway). Zigbee2mqtt works really well for me.

But you will have to add all your Zigbee devices to this new coordinator.

Consider buying one that is supported by Valetudo. It’s so much better to be cloud free.

Washing machine and dryer are monitored for power consumption. When the power consumption drops to a minimum for some minutes then my wife gets a push notification to her mobile that the machine has finished. Was a bit trial & error especially for the washing machine which has phases while washing where it does “nothing” for some minutes and at the end it turns the laundry every now and then after the program is done (to avoid crease).