A little one among the big ones 😂

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Bonjour a tous,

Je m’appelle JĂ©rĂŽme, j’ai 37 ans, je suis de Reims et j’utilise actuellement Alexa et les box domotique Hue et Ikea.

Je tombe depuis deux jours sur Gladys sur Youtube ! J’étais Ă  deux doigts de passer sur HA en dĂ©couverte et maintenant j’hĂ©site avec Gladys :sweat_smile:.

Niveau matĂ©riel j’ai achetĂ© un raspberry 4B avec un dongle Zigbee pour mettre HA de base :sweat_smile:. J’ai vu que le dongle pouvait ĂȘtre modifiĂ©s pour passer en matter et thread si je ne dis pas de bĂȘtises.

J’espĂšre me dĂ©cider rapidement :joy:

Voilà pour la petite présentation :grin:

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Hello and welcome :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

You can absolutely start with the Raspberry Pi, but it’s not what’s recommended or the most reliable for the long term, whether for Home Assistant or Gladys by the way :winking_face_with_tongue:.

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.

By the way I’m discussing Thread with a compatible key (slzb-mr1) on this topic to see how we could integrate it into Gladys if @pierre-gilles agrees :wink: :
https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/mise-en-place-openthread-avec-la-cle-slzb-mr01

But Gladys is fully compatible with Zigbee thanks to the zigbee2mqtt integration :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Welcome here! I hope you’ll enjoy it :wink:

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Welcome @G_rom0304

You can very well start with that hardware and see later if it’s 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.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/sd-cards/

On top of that install Ubuntu Server and you install Gladys by following the following tutorial.

And after that it’s fun :blush:

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Hello and welcome to Gladys!

Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions

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Merci, je remplace la carte SD par un SSD.

Faut que je me renseigne plus sur Gladys car j’ai du wifi et du Zigbee a la maison. Je suis dĂ©butant dans l’univers de HA ou Gladys donc faut que je trouve mes marques mais pour l’instant je trouve Gladys plus compliquĂ© que HA a en lire :joy:

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Merci, j’ai achetĂ© le sonoff zigbee 3.0 dongle plus. J’ai vu via Howmnation que l’on pouvait le “dĂ©bridĂ©â€.

Pour ĂȘtre honnĂȘte pour le moment je trouve Gladys plus compliquĂ© que HA car trĂšs peu de vidĂ©o trouvĂ© sur les procĂ©dures :slightly_smiling_face:. Je suis dĂ©butant dans le domaine :grin:

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Welcome @G_rom0304 !

Don’t worry, we’ve 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 :wink:

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Thanks, I have it but I haven’t plugged it in yet because I’m waiting for my SSD :joy:

What would make me switch to Gladys is if it were in French, but I need to read up more on the subject — maybe you have some links you could recommend I read to properly master Gladys, etc.?

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If you’re starting out in home automation, I don’t recommend switching your Sonoff Zigbee dongle to Thread/Matter right away.
It’s better that you first get familiar with a « simple Â» technology before moving on to a technology that should become the standard in a few years.
Personally that’s 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. It’s 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.

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I was going to paste a link to the docs, but my message would look dumb next to @mutmut’s :sweat_smile:

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Merci pour toutes les explications !

Je viens de manger les vidéos, comment installer Gladys sur RPI, puis installer un dongle Zigbee :joy:

Ça fait plusieurs annĂ©es que je suis sur une domotique basic, mais lĂ  je veux Ă©voluer sur quelques choses de meilleur !

Je verrai par la suite pour prendre la doc je pense


Et le vrai plus de Gladys sont vraiment une communauté principalement Française.

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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 I’ve looked into how to set up Alexa with Gladys :joy:

Going forward, we agree that I no longer need the IKEA hub, etc.?

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No idea, I’m against external cloud services! (so I have my own cloud)
On Alexa, I think you need Gladys Plus (but not sure because I don’t use it).

For Hue devices, Gladys manages them via the integration.
For Ikea, what exactly are you managing/doing (I don’t know the capabilities of that box)? Their products use Zigbee (and/or Thread/Matter with the latest devices) but I don’t know more about the interaction with the box.