Iāve been coming across Gladys on YouTube for two days! I was about to try out Home Assistant (HA) and now Iām hesitating between Gladys .
In terms of hardware I bought a Raspberry Pi 4B with a Zigbee dongle to run Home Assistant by default . I saw that the dongle could be modified to support Matter and Thread if Iām not mistaken.
You can absolutely start with the Raspberry Pi, but itās not whatās recommended or the most reliable for the long term, whether for Home Assistant or Gladys by the way .
The best is to go with a mini PC directly as recommended by @pierre-gilles
You can buy it yourself or go through the starter kit:
Which dongle did you buy?
For info Gladys is not compatible with Thread but is compatible with Matter.
You can very well start with that hardware and see later if itās not powerful enough, but I doubt it. The main issue is the SD card, which needs to be of good quality or you can even take the one offered by Raspberry Pi.
I need to look more into Gladys because I have WiāFi and Zigbee at home. Iām a beginner in the world of Home Assistant (HA) or Gladys, so I need to find my bearings, but for now I find Gladys harder to get into than Home Assistant
Donāt worry, weāve all been through that and there are people on the forum who can help and guide you.
But if you already have an RPi, it means you know your way around a bit
Thanks, I have it but I havenāt plugged it in yet because Iām waiting for my SSD
What would make me switch to Gladys is if it were in French, but I need to read up more on the subject ā maybe you have some links you could recommend I read to properly master Gladys, etc.?
If youāre starting out in home automation, I donāt recommend switching your Sonoff Zigbee dongle to Thread/Matter right away.
Itās better that you first get familiar with a Ā« simple Ā» technology before moving on to a technology that should become the standard in a few years.
Personally thatās what I did: first on Jeedom (2014, a French project, simple and very extensible at the beginning) with Z-Wave and RF433 at the time (the best of the moment), then Gladys for over a year with only Zigbee.
For reading, you obviously have the doc, and otherwise I recommend watching the videos on the GladysAssisatnt YouTube account, or you can take the training that @pierre-gilles set up. Itās not free but it allows 1.) having documentation and tutorials that evolve over time and especially 2.) supporting the project because without financial support, an open-source project unfortunately dies.
And as I said, the community is quite diverse so that someone can help you with a specific request/config.
A silly question, but if I install Gladys on my Raspberry Pi, do I have to delete all my Alexa devices or can I leave them? Same for my scenes? My voice commands? Of course Iāve looked into how to set up Alexa with Gladys
Going forward, we agree that I no longer need the IKEA hub, etc.?
No idea, Iām against external cloud services! (so I have my own cloud)
On Alexa, I think you need Gladys Plus (but not sure because I donāt use it).
For Hue devices, Gladys manages them via the integration.
For Ikea, what exactly are you managing/doing (I donāt know the capabilities of that box)? Their products use Zigbee (and/or Thread/Matter with the latest devices) but I donāt know more about the interaction with the box.
I just watched this video which explains well that devices are pushed to Alexa by Gladys Plus, but my question is: do you need a clean account with no devices, preferably, to perform the procedure?
Does Gladys manage WiāFi devices as well? Because I havenāt found anything about that yet. I have WiāFi shutter switches.
However I wanted to say as a noob in the field and having seen Aylabsā video that made me discover you, I find that itās not as easy to do things on Gladys as on Home Assistant (HA). For development, I canāt find enough videos about Gladys; granted I havenāt yet bought the starter pack but by comparison itās easier to find information on YouTube for Home Assistant than for Gladys. Similarly for the terms used, it might be good to explain the terms in a post? In the video you say youāre doing things simpler for beginners etc., but from my noob perspective it seems more complicated than Home Assistant. Please donāt take this the wrong way, Iām trying to explain myself. When I receive my SSD Iāll try Gladys and that way Iāll be able to give feedback as a noob
Again this is only my opinion and my feeling about the matter.
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