Hello … In the north of the Côte d’Or we have a very old small house (thick stone walls) and several outbuildings … The area is almost white which suits me well since I’m rather electrosensitive … nevertheless we have fiber (Bbox) and at the same time as I was redoing the entire electrical installation I deployed a « big » RJ45 network (without PoE … too bad) … Thanks to the training I installed Gladys on a LENOVO Thinkcentre M83 PC (Ubuntu Server 22.04 - SSD 520 GB
Hello and welcome to the Gladys community.
Can you give us the model of your electric water heater (cumulus)? Is it connected (smart) or simply electric?
Same for the equipment in the cellar.
Besides, you say you haven’t deployed PoE… But essentially you just need to integrate one or more PoE routers into your existing setup… Unless it’s very specific?
The water heater is a simple 200-liter Acapulco-brand unit currently controlled by a Wiser Controller and relayed by a Wiser L-Relais from Schneider Electric…. But the « service » management is no longer supported…. So I’m left with the last settings without being able to control it anymore… hence my desire to switch to Gladys and to an RJ45 connection and relays…. I imagine measuring the solar panel current with one or two clamp ammeters, giving the choice between solar heating or nighttime heating. This setup could be reproduced on a second equally basic 100-liter water heater, which also has a nearby RJ45…. Currently the « big » water heater heats 01:30 per day under the night tariff for the period 12:40 / 14:10 (this period is not managed by the day/night contactor) and that suits us in terms of hot water except that I would prefer to consume our solar energy when it is available….
For the cellar, also on RJ45 with the same solar availability info, the idea is to control a fan on the fresh air inlet as well as the dehumidifier function which generates heat and condensation water (this water is collected by a small pump). All of this is on a timer that controls these functions at night…. Now if I could choose based on temperatures and humidity levels and the sun….. all of that with Gladys…. Thank you for listening.
I will look into this option .Thank you
If I understand correctly, you want to use the LANmanager integration to control your devices.
If that’s the case, I’m sorry to disappoint you but currently it only supports presence detection…
Thanks Too bad I’ll wait in the hope that Lan Manager becomes more feature-rich …
Is this limit specific to Lan Manager or only to Gladys?
Actually, technically, Gladys can communicate with all devices on the network (Wi-Fi or Ethernet) and even some devices available via the Cloud.
But the communication protocol (the way to talk to those devices) must have been developed.
For example, Philips Hue for lights, MEL for Mitsubishi air conditioners, …
The LAN Manager was developed with the goal of being able to detect devices (like phones) on the local network to indicate users’ presence or absence.
So in your case, either a developer would need to implement the integration of Wiser Controller/Wiser L-Relais (but given that the service is no longer supported, I doubt we’d embark on that).
The other option is to buy an Ethernet-controllable relay (like this one Maintenance). It would be compatible without additional development because it can be controlled via HTTP request
I have never tested this kind of device.
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Great, thank you very much, that gives me some hope…
Or even better integrated if compatible with Tasmota, for example.
You’ll find the list here:
Simply enter ‹ Ethernet › in the search field.
There are simple modules ready to be flashed or combined with others and up to 32 relays on a single board…
What’s your level of tinkering?
Thank you for your interest … my level is nil … I spent 3 days just to install the weather especially thanks to the training… but I am rather
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Hello I have to face the facts: I have neither the financial means nor the IT skills to carry out my project as previously defined… So I am going to use Zigbee following the course instructions as the topics concerning me (and the hardware purchases) are released.
Could you guide me to a tutorial to install in/next to Gladys in Docker a file and photo backup system currently in iCloud so I can cancel that subscription in favor of Gladys Plus… As backup hardware I have a Dual Dock QS Station from LDLC with 2 HDDs of 1TB; the drive of my ThinkCentre M83 that runs Gladys is a 520GB SSD with 8GB of RAM… Thank you for your attention JJM
Hello. For backups, it’s a complex topic that requires understanding, setup and testing.
Most people use a NAS (Synology for example) Backup & Data Protection | Synology Inc.
For photo management, you can try Quick start | Immich or Setup - PhotoPrism
For managing photos I also recommend Immich, which I’ve been using for a while. A piece of software that’s going to be big!
For backups at home I use Syncthing: Welcome to Syncthing’s documentation! — Syncthing v1.27.5 documentation
Bogdan Cerovac created Immich and likes finding solutions, so he might be interested in Gladys 
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Thank you very much …I’ll find out …
Hello, I can’t change in « Zigbee network discovery » the state « Allow association » … the Zig
Hi @MABILLE,
The Texas Instruments C2531 is on Zigbee2mqtt’s list of not-recommended USB dongles 
( Source → zStack adapters (Texas Instruments) | Zigbee2MQTT )
Why didn’t you choose a recommended adapter from the list?
This Sonoff is recommended, for example: https://www.domadoo.fr/fr/interface-domotique/6315-sonoff-zbdongle-e-cle-usb-dongle-zigbee-30-antenne-externe-20dbm-v2-6920075777659.html?domid=17
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Hello, it’s our daughter who has just given it to me for Father’s Day …. Bad choice … sorry for the inconvenience … Thank you
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