I’ve been using OH for a few years now, and pretty pleased so far. Took me a while to warm up to OH3 UI, but recently I have transfered my item and things to UI based config, but my rules are still 95% DSL file based. However… There some things I would like to connect to… My Brother Laser printer,…

You summed up HA vs OH pretty well imho. HA is extremely good at how easy it is to add things and build nice pages. OH is way mir robust on the Modeling and automation part. The additional layer of things and items makes you much more flexible. In HA a light is a light. In OH you have things with …

As for Brother lase printer - which model do you have? I found that lots of them are fairly easy to integrate with without dedicated binding, only by using SNMP binding itself.

I have a mixture of Hikvision and cheaper TPLink cameras. The Hikvisions are great within Openhab if you use the line crossing detection trigger for rules. I run the TPLink cameras through Motion on the same raspberry PI to trigger motion alerts and to convert the stream to display on the same web p…

If you have HA and OH running, you’re almost there. Use MQTT to communicate between the systems. HA has a feature called MQTT Statestream. Use that and a few (simple) automations on the HA side and you are up and running. [image] 344clinton: I want to stay with OH due to my (perceived) impre…

If you know, what’s “under the hood” and keep track of changes and “I did this with software/framework X”, it should be no problem using HA, OH and let’s bring it others as well. The biggest “no-go” (at least in my opinion) is to use devices, that rely on proprietery hardware or cloud access only. …

[image] kjknauss: I run both for this exact reason. I treat HA as an additional “binding” that lets me integrate devices OH cannot. hehe - I wrote a whole bunch of paragraphs, but you summed it up in one sentence! :wink:

I have a MFC-7860DW. I’ll try the SNMP binding tonight. Thanks.

Some hints on snmp thing: It may be disabled o default. Try to look settings in web configuration panel of the printer. You may need a snmp browser, like snmp walker or sthng to browse all resources exposed by the printer. I bet it will be more than couple hundred endpoints :wink:

[image] matt1: Regarding Tuya I would caution the use of them, the are known to break the Zigbee rules and have issues with other Zigbee devices. In the case of WIFI products of theirs, you can sometimes install Tasmota onto them and that is the way to go Yeah, I’ve tried the smart plugs with…

[image] Spaceman_Spiff: Before buying new devices I check that they either work with an open standard (e.g. ONVIF for IP-Cams) or that they have some kind of local API which allows access. Some things it’s not possible. For example, my electric company uses the EAGLE 200 to interface with, bu…

I'm at a crossroads

jswim788 (John Schmitz) December 19, 2022, 10:32pm 20

The Eagle is happier sending data than being polled in my experience. I set up a simple nodejs script and have it accept data from the Eagle and push that into OH. It’s worked well for me for years. I’ve never had an issue with it.