Home Assistant
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How to Flash Sonoff Zigbee USB (ZBDongle-P)
In this article I will go through the steps to easily flash a Sonoff Zigbee USB Dongle (ZBDongle-P) Download the python program Download the firmware (in this article I use the router firmware) Extract the files to a folder on your PC Flashing your Sonoff Zigbee USB Stick Open your terminal cd to the folder where you extracted the python program and firmware Plug in your Sonoff Zigbee USB stick type ls -l /dev/serial/by-id and press enter This should show you what the device is recognised as i.e. /ttyUSB0 but it might be different on your PC Make a note of the output above(Before you run the below, make sure…
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ONVIF integration failing with “Couldn’t connect to camera x, please verify that the credentials are correct. Error: Invalid data”
A few weeks ago I noticed that I was unable to view one of my CCTV cameras from within Home Assistant. After some investigation on the ONVIF integration I noticed the below error: ONVIF integration failing with "Couldn't connect to camera x, please verify that the credentials are correct. Error: Invalid data" I checked the credentials set for the camera and confirmed that the credentials were not the issue. After some research I found this github issue which pointed me to NTP. I then logged into the camera itself and enabled NTP as per the picture below. I then refreshed the integration in Home Assistant and the integration managed to…