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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 6/9/2023 (self.newzealand)
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

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[–] eagleeyedtiger 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the integration page on homeassistant.io it shows on the right hand side:

The Broadlink integration was introduced in Home Assistant 0.35, and it's used by 8.1% of the active installations. Its IoT class is Local Polling.

Defined by them as:

Offers direct communication with device. Polling the state means that an update might be noticed later.

If you look at the integration on the Settings > Integrations page in your home assistant, it would show a little cloud symbol if it had cloud dependency like this:

I wonder if you're having the same issue I had with inconsistent signal when it's standing the right way up. If I lie it down and point the top directly at the device it works much better

[–] sylverstream 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm yeah you're right, doesn't show a cloud dependency. However, I found it still very slow.

I have it standing up right and it can control the heat pump fine which is above it. It could also control the TV which was on the same height about 4 meters away (as long as nobody was in between). But I do experience that sometimes the heat pump doesn't pick it up, e.g. in my morning automation to turn it on, I'm just setting it twice. It's rare though, it works 97% of the time.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense with the heatpump. I suspect the layout inside it means line of sight isn't very good at the same level or below it. I'm trying to control something where the receiver is only around 60cm from the ground. Without pointing the top to it it was pretty inconsistent and the script that runs would often miss commands