Solgaard Lab

Hans Solgaard

Tools for Home Assistant and Zigbee, and devices tested on a real network.

I build free, open-source tools for Home Assistant, mostly around Zigbee, and review smart-home devices for people who'd rather know how something behaves before they buy it. This is the home for all of it.

Projects

ZHA Bindings Manager

Home Assistant integration and card · in HACS

See, check and manage Zigbee direct bindings in ZHA: a map of what controls what, guided setup for remotes, lost bindings noticed and put back, and swapping a device without losing what it was bound to.

Zigbee Capabilities database

Community open data · CC0

What Zigbee devices really support, per firmware, from scans shared by their owners, plus answers about how they behave in daily use. Free for anyone to use, whatever Zigbee system they run.

Lighting Manager

Home Assistant integration

One place to look after the lights in Home Assistant: organise them by room, spot the ones that need attention, and replace a light without breaking the automations and dashboards that use it.

Reviews

Each device is tested on my own Home Assistant network, in daily use: pairing, what it really supports (scanned and shared to the database above, so anyone can check), direct binding, and how it behaves day to day.

Contact

Questions about a project are best asked on GitHub or in the forum thread, so others can find the answer too. For anything else, including review requests:

lab@solgaard.uk github.com/hsolgaard