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I can't wait to try this!

Ah yes. UDI is in that list. Thank you.

I just checked my account on ecobee.com and checked the Developer page. I only see my Home Assistant application listed. Shouldn't Universal Devices (or whatever) be there too? It's been years since I set up the ecobee nodeserver and I don't remember how that all worked.

It was relatively easy to set up an NR to set the Line-in value to my Sonos devices. Is it possible (easily) to read the current value from the Sonos device too? I'm not terribly well versed in this stuff, but with enough Googling, and asking Gemini, I can usually copy and paste enough to get things to work. But I haven't been able to figure this out.

Ah HAH! Problems here too, but I've been having so many other network issues lately, I assumed the problem was mine alone.

Never mind. I got it. I was using the wrong device (RINCON). Thanks.

Would it be possible to shoot me a screenshot or something of your NR? I'm not getting anywhere with this. Just errors.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

After much head scratching I finally figure out that Line-in can be made a Sonos Favorite. So I did that. Somehow persuaded the ST-Sonos plugin to update it's list of Favorites to show the newly added Line-in Favorite. I set up a Program so the Action portion would Set the Sonos Connect device to the Line-in Favorite... I even added Play command too... and... big fat nothing burger. To verify, I selected a different Favorite to test, and that worked. But it won't switch over to Line-in with the Favorite that is Line-in.

I know support for this plugin is spotty since Simplextech abandoned it and us... Is there a way to control line-in? I'm just not seeing it.

Kudos to those of you who were braver than me. When this functionality was first talked about awhile back, I was all excited and planning on also moving my Home Assistant to my eISY. Ultimately I chickened out and bought another Quieter Mini PC instead to install Home Assistant. Issues like the one in this post were exactly my fear and why I chickened out.

SmartWings has a motor that is "Matter over Ethernet"... would that not be a third? Not arguing! I just want to be knowledgeable.

Same here. I have to remember to restart my plugins whenever the power goes out and resumes.

In my case, "easy" has nothing to do with it. Installing shades or anything else in my home comes down to doing it the way I want it, regardless of how "easy" it is. My wife says I'm "stubborn". 🤔 Are you talking about swapping out the shades down the road with another brand/vendor? I don't see the problem. Obviously any battery powered shades could be installed. And as far as the hardwire, the cat5e cabling could easily be used to supply 12V, or whatever, if desired.

Has anyone else seen the new SmartWings motors that are Matter Over Ethernet and PoE? Is eisy's Matter going to be able to control these? I was just about to start running 16/2 to a few of my windows. Even bought a 500ft roll of cable and a power supply. Then I ran across the announcement from SmartWings. This will probably change all of my plans.