Thanks! I firmly believe that there is huge potential for home automation to help with accessibility.

Great tip, thanks for letting us know!

I would like to see this also please. I've just bought a cube and am at a loss on how to get it working well with Zigbee2MQTT. Thanks

Same here. I've tried a bunch of things but couldn't get it to work for most of the actions.

No need for zigbee2mqtt. I use extra input_variable which I set to the face the cube is turned to. Then left/right rotate automations check that variable in order to execute the corresponding action.

@@Alex-nt1br Thank you! Mind posting a few images of what you did on imgur perhaps and sharing them here? I'm still fairly new to all this so I'm unsure about how this needs to be approached.

Thank you!

Thank you! Glad you like it! I try and explain things the way I wish people would explain them to me

It's been really useful in the office for me!

I was curious along those same lines, how smart is it to realize accidental actions. Also, what when you set it back down does that register as a tap or is it smart enough a purposeful little up-and-down tap.

@@jamesd7448 in the end I only setup two rules for "flip to a particular side" - one for turning on the lights and the opposite side for turning them off again. I rarely actually use it because I'm getting something like a 30 percent success rate on it ever actually registering, so if I did drop the thing I think about as much would happen as were I to intentionally flip it (nothing). I've also setup three sides for "double tap" actions and they are just as poorly recognised. The only action I can depend on is shaking the cube. The "twist to control volume" I quickly disabled - I found it's too easy to trigger that by accident

Dropping the cube is an issue if, like me, you have cats.

Thanks 😊

Glad it was helpful!

That's sadly true of Blueprints

I just use the media player play/pause service calls. www.home-assistant.io/integrations/media_player/

Thanks Ian! I agree that it's mostly a bit of fun, I really enjoy playing with different types of smart home interfaces

Welcome to the channel!

I use the Elgato Home Assistant integration which brings the devices in as Light entities. When I twist the cube it calls the light.turn_on service to increase or decrease the brightness by 10%

The action of my Automation is a Call Service, and I use it to call the media_player.media_next_track service and set the target to my office Google Speaker.

Very clever Dave! Do you think that is something that could be added to the blueprint, or do you need to manually create the input_select outside of the blueprint?

@@HomeAutomationGuy it could probably be included in the blueprint. I haven't yet tried creating a blueprint so can't say for sure. All my configuration is old school yaml.

Please explain more.

Those are really cool use cases! Maybe I should look into node-red...

@@HomeAutomationGuy I was a NodeJS programmer for many years before I retired so node-red is a good fit for me. When I first got the cube I was not using zigbee2mqtt so I just listened to Dconz events in node-red, parsed the data and published mqtt messages. After switching to zigbee2mqtt I just subscribe in node-red. I actually use node-red for many things not related to home assistant (parsing feeds from ADB-S aircraft tracking radios, parsing feeds from my weather station). If you have a programming background node-red will be easy to master, especially because you can write your own functions to do what you need to do instead of hunting around to see if someone else has already done it. I use Home Assistant for displaying information but do all my control in node-red.

@@HomeAutomationGuy Yes would be nice. The way you explain are so great!! Maybe some youtube live (not only NR) once/twice a month where we can ask questions and you just go with the flow, then we also see the mistakes and process.

I use a Google Nest Audio speaker, that way it acts as a speaker to play my music and I can ask the Google Assistant to do things as well.

Nice! Let us know what kind of automations you create with yours. I love learning more about other people's setups

What a great idea! I didn't even know you could share Canva designs. Here you go: www.canva.com/design/DAEeFGcOvyI/njeSi3gRU1c--k1bz6x57A/view

I used moo.com for mine.

1.5 inches across

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks!

I'd never heard of a Silhouette Cameo, thanks for the suggestion!

You can use any Media Player that works with Home Assistant. I'm not sure about Apple music specifically as I don't use it

@@HomeAutomationGuy Did you do a video explaining how to use mqtt to create automationsfor twisting depending on whats facing up?

Mine too, I am not sure if that value is supported in Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA.

Do you see it in your Entities area and has it been detected as the appropriate device type?

Thanks for answering! I am using zigbee2mqtt. In the device information only this information appears "Mi/Aqara smart home cube (MFKZQ01LM) by Xiaomi". In the automation window appears the basic features to configure, such as flip90. flip180, ...

No problems! The blueprint in the video description only works with ZHA. For Zigbee2mqtt you'll need to use this different blueprint: community.home-assistant.io/t/z2m-xiaomi-cube-controller/263006

Thank you very much!

I use Zigbee2MQTT because it gives me a bit more control and works well with my Docker Home Assistant setup. But most people I know use ZHA and it works perfectly fine for their needs

@@HomeAutomationGuy i'm one of that prople.

@@jagadeeshv2763 There's absolutely nothing wrong with that!

​@@HomeAutomationGuy I'm using sonoff zigbee hub (tasmota) .. it have some connectivity issue. when my pc (HA) reboot , Zigbee hub will be disconnected . we have to manually turn off and turn ON the hub to connect or wait for 15 to 30 to connect. so only planning to change to hace new device. so only thing Zigbee2MQTT or Zha

@@jagadeeshv2763 Start with ZHA.

100% agree. But making the stickers was fun :-D

That's because the video is 15 minutes long and the "how" is later on...

Unfortunately the one I used to use stopped working and I've also been unable to find a replacement 😢

@@HomeAutomationGuy if I found out I'll let you know. But node red could also be figure out. Should be more straightforward, but I'm new to that so still trying to understand stuff 😅

Hi, I'm also trying yo find a good blueprint to use. For the moment I found Blueprint to use "Aqara Magic Cube Zigbee2MQTT - 2022-05-05" to be the most advanced. Please let me know if you find any other good blueprint.

I use the media_player.stop and media_player.start services for this.

@@HomeAutomationGuy of course, how could i not think of that 🤦‍♂ Thanks for the quick response!