Home Assistant: ZHA OTA Updates

Recently i stumbled across the fact that my Sonoff TRVZB (Zigbee Thermostat available via Amazon* ) had the old firmware and i had no update offering in my Home Assistant Instances. Since i’m running ZHA i started investigating why. First of all, i believe it is interesting to see that ZHA is based on zigpy  which implements all the ZigBee features in a handy python library. So whenever something cannot be found or is unclear in the ZHA help pages, a look into the repo of zigpy might help....

Homeassistant - Exposure of binary_sensor state to the KNX bus

Recently i wanted to expose a binary_sensor state from Homeassistant to the KNX bus of my home. For this i wrote a simple automation blueprint: