[Introduction] mutmut

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Hello everyone,

I’ve FINALLY taken a bit of time to introduce myself (yes, yes, I’ve been following you for a little while :slight_smile:).

Stéphane, Alsatian by adoption, 48 years old this year, not a developer but a good tinkerer and an Iron Man fan since the early days. It was actually a few (a lot of) searches on Jarvis that led me to discover Gladys!

Genesis
I started home automation (2013) with a Zipabox, RF433 and Z-Wave. I wanted something simple to program and Zipato had integrated Scratch for that (fun and simple).

Then I continued and switched to Jeedom (some time after they started) because I had a Current Cost sensor from Envir (electricity consumption monitoring) and Jeedom was the only one with a plugin that handled that. And then a few more RF433 and Z-Wave modules allowed me to progress but I never fully automated everything (those little Z-Wave modules add up a fair bit).

At the same time I was following Gladys but I didn’t really understand the concept and above all no Z-Wave integrated, mainly Zigbee which I didn’t have.

Anyway, one day I bought a Zigbee dongle (Conbee II) and I was able to make my Gladys v4 Zigbee prototype (and I still didn’t really get the philosophy…).

Infra
On the hardware side, I started on RPI (the early ones!) with a Z-Wave dongle, then moved to an Odroid C2 (it was powerful at the time). Then tired of changing SD cards that crashed, I moved to Proxmox with only 2 mini-PCs (mainly to test virtualization and backups, backups are important!).

Now it’s better :sweat_smile: : I have Gladys in Docker on my Synology (DS918+/16GB RAM), Jeedom on a « real » Proxmox cluster of 3 PCs (i5/4 cores/16GB RAM/500GB NVMe SSD) with Ceph for HA. For Zigbee I switched to an SMLIGHT SLZB06M over PoE, and I therefore externalized MQTT and Z2M as Docker containers on the Syno.
I haven’t forgotten my little UPS that powers all this, you never know :wink:

Nowadays
So now, does Gladys make more sense to me?!?
Well yes, I just had to come across THE tutorial « Domotiser sa machine à laver » by @prohand to see things more clearly and really start home-automating, now with about a dozen Zigbee modules.
I still have Jeedom and I recently installed the MQTT Manager plugin which sends data to my external MQTT that handles my Z2M, Gladys and Jeedom data, which finally allows me to push info (like the TIC of my Linky) to Gladys.
On the other hand I miss if/then/else in Gladys … (I did a lot of development in Basic, RPL and a bit of VBA, and I used it a lot)

I still have some trouble with MQTT (impossible to retrieve a TEXT value for example, and I haven’t yet understood the difference between sender and listener) but I’m making progress, which I really enjoy.

What’s next
The goal is to have Gladys as the main system, and if I can’t find what I need in a plugin, I pull it from Jeedom via MQTT!

I should post some tutorials soon because I’m on TEMPO since this summer (thanks Linky) and I had to adapt the management of electricity costs (following prohand’s tutorial).

Anyway, happy to have finally taken the plunge and if I can help (not with dev though, more proofreading docs/PR/typos/etc.) it will be with great pleasure :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Welcome to the @mutmut community :slight_smile:

Great introduction, very thorough!

Indeed, Gladys seems like a good fit for your use case — I think you’re going to have a lot of fun ^^

Feel free to create specific topics for your questions, the whole community is here to help and we’re quite responsive.

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Thanks @pierre-gilles, Gladys works well for me and it’s true that I’m missing a few small things (you’ll see that in my responses to the survey), but I almost always find a workaround to make it work.

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Welcome @mutmut and thanks for sharing your experience!

I just switched to Proxmox and I’m running Gladys in an LXC container (USB passthrough and Docker installed to be as close as possible to the official installation). So far, so good!

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Welcome, @mutmut

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I think you should post point by point on the forum in Configuration so we can help you :slight_smile: Don’t hesitate to create 10 different threads if necessary, we answer everything and it’s absolutely not spam to do that, on the contrary it’s recommended!!

I see questions about LAN Manager, Netatmo, scenes, the laundry tutorial, Node-RED, Somfy — all these questions belong on the forum and we’ll be happy to answer them!

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Welcome, and thanks for the tag :slight_smile:

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Next step at my place with the help of the tools from https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#proxmox-ve-tools

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Thanks, I won’t miss it :wink:

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thanks for the tutorials :ok_hand:

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Welcome @mutmut. Very nice choice of first name, by the way :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

And I was going to suggest you vote for the if/then/else here, but I see you’ve already done so :wink:

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For info @mutmut you need to use the project’s new site: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
The previous developer is no longer with us; he transferred his old repository to this one.

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:flushed: I hadn’t seen that, thanks for the info @lmilcent

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