First, I have a Kwikset Homeconnect 620 deadbolt. It locks and unlocks fine. I can add codes via the keypad itself but the manual recommends using the smart home hub the lock is paired with, which is HA of course.

I don’t see a way to do this in the Z-Wave JS UI.

Second question: I’m looking for a DLNA speaker to use for TTS announcements. I really wish I could just pair a bluetooth speaker with the raspberry pi that HA is running on, but that seems to be difficult to impossible, which is surprising. Is there an integrated (as in not a puck with a 3.5 mm jack) DLNA speaker that y’all would recommend?

Are any of you aware of any of the following. I don’t think I’ve ever seen these but they seem like no-brainers to me:

  • A zigbee/z-wave/matter over thread E-ink display for arbitrary visual or text output. E-Ink sips power, which would be perfect for these low power protocols.

  • Status lights, also running on the above protocols. By this I mean RGB LED arrays that I can program to display different colors to indicate different statuses of things around the home. Like red for bathroom occupied and green for bathroom free, etc. Yes I could get light bulbs to do this but I don’t want to use the same thing for both status and regular illumination. This nightlight comes tantalizingly close. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this? I guess I could just use LED strips, but I’ll leave this here in case anyone has any ideas.

UPDATE:

Regarding the granting and revoking of user codes for the lock, I still can’t find anything in the Z-Wave UI, but there’s an action that can be triggered from developer tools which in tern can by scripted.

  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Mopidy with the upnp extension.

    I’ve installed that directly next to a snapclient. mopidy and snap can use the same audio output at the same time.

    i actually ended up using the snapcast pipeline for the announcements (from music assistant) while mopidy ducks volume when the announcement fires.

    upnp let’s me control it from symfonium, mopidy-mpd let’s me pick playlists from home assistant.

    it is very slick and I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        it certainly was a little bit of tinkering but absolutely blew my expectations away. software mixer allowing me to have announcements directly on top of what I’m listening to regardless of what I’m listening to.

        mopidy has more extensions, i also use tidal and other stuff!