homeassistant

Trying to upgrade from a 2021 release to the latest one, absolutely no idea whether this will work or not...

Originally I abandoned this install because the API I used to integrate a DIY addressable LED strip (controlled by a media player entity, changed colour to match the cover art) was removed and replaced with something else, and I didn't have time to redevelop it.

For a while its been possible to do something pretty similar with WLED - at that point I was just putting off the upgrades to not break anything 😅

At this point it's probably a better idea to re-install but let's see how this goes!

I've been looking for a zigbee temperature sensor that has a long (1-2m) probe. I can find general room temperature zigbee sensors, and WiFi devices with probes, but not what I'm looking for. Searching online just comes up with people saying I'd need to make make soemthing myself with esphome.

I'm not opposed to getting into esp at some point when I've got some free time, but I'd like something quick and easy I could just buy and have working easily. Anyone know of anything suitable?

Hello everybody,

Im currently planning on migrating my smart home to Home Assistant and run the HA docker image on my home server.

Most of my devices communicate via Zigbee so I was thinking of getting the Connect ZBT-1.
I also have a few Matter/Thread devices which would be nice to integrate as well, although not necessarily in the initial migration.

I read the ZBT-1 can experimentally be used with Thread as well. Now my question is: Is it possible to buy two devices and connect to Zigbee and Thread devices simultaneously?

Maybe someone has a similar setup and would like to share their experience.

Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend!

UPDATE:
I did not find where DOODS2 or any other add on stores any info, but I did discover that you can simply create a directory in the /share/ and point to it. I created /share/doods/ and added my .onnx model and got it to work. The model needs work, but I believe it is actually my model now.

I recently installed DOODS2 for doing some image analysis stuff using my cameras. And a friend and I are working on a custom model based on YOLO, but using my collected training data. The model is trained, and it works pretty damn well when you just send images at it. So I want to deploy it in DOODS2. The documentation is pretty good for what you have to do: just move your model into the 'models' directory inside DOODS, and add a stanza to the config.yaml...

problem arises when you can't find the damn 'models/' directory!!! All of the documentation is saying it should be somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere... come to think of it, I can't find where ANY of the add-ons are storing data. I guess this is the main argument for running HA as a docker, and all your add ons as individual docker containers. But I'm too deep in the weeds already with the supervisor install in Proxmox that I'm not looking to overhaul the whole system just to add a custom model to my image analysis!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

places I've already looked:

• /config/
• /config/doods (doesn't exist)
• /mnt/data/supervisor/addons/data/ (also doesn't exist, none of those directories. Literally nothing in /mnt/)

I can't use the "docker" command to find the container, because HA claims docker doesn't exist. I'm feeling a bit lost.

Hi All. This might not be for everyone, and is very rough around the edges, but I have written a tool to more easily test how custom addressable RGB effects work.

Simply copy the code portion of the lamba into a text file, and then build and run, and it will output on your terminal how the effect will look.

It is very rough, you need a C compiler, and a RGB/TrueColor capable terminal.

If it works for you, let me know, if it doesn't, also let me know.

https://github.com/cameroncros/ESPHome-ARGB-Tester

I wanted some temperature sensor that can place outside my house, it is simple and not very expensive, which directly integrates with HA would be ideal but not 100% necessary.

I have seen these in Aliexpress, I don't know if someone has them or if you think they can serve me https://acortar.link/5vbeT2

Thanks for the aid, I am starting with all this and I see good resources in this community

EDIT: Thank you very much for all the answers, it is incredible how fast you have helped me. You have also given me many interesting options to investigate more before making a decision

Hi All,

Looking to steer into HA, but have some questions on how data is handled.

First, I don't mean the opt-in on the scant analytics. HA is very clear about that which is great. Awesome clear policy.

Second, I understand that "integrations", which use a device manufacturer's/services software/infrastructure, are outside scope here (although I do have some questions).

My goal is to find and work a system where no one knows when my lights are turning off and on, and is only on my hardware. IE: If the internet went down, but I was still connected to local wifi, can my HA still work?

The answer seems like a strong "yes", but I want to double check. I also want to make sure if I do use an integration that there's not an avenue for telemetry beyond that integration. IE: I don't want Spotify to gain access to what temperature I keep my house just because I want to play music.

I also have questions about the mobile app, but if the rest is truly locked down, I can navigate that.

I currently have an automated bog garden, but how I did it isn't really scalable. It's all modbus components with values passed to a local server to generate a dashboard. I'd like to expand to more actual "home" automation, and this seems like a great tool!

Thanks for any clarification.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/28357841

Are you interested in a Proton Drive backup location in Home Assistant's new built-in backup tool?

I see a lot of posts about people who like their Zigbee and Z-Wave products. As I'm setting up the hardware in my home, I'm using Wi-Fi products because I already have Wi-Fi. I don't see much difference in price. What is the actual benefit of setting up a separate network for home devices? Is there a reason that I should consider setting up one of these networks?

Motion Dimmer is for people with lots of dimmers and motion sensors in their smart homes. Control how the dimmers behave when activated under different conditions.

Hi guys! I'm considering purchasing a Xiaomi air purifier 4 (possibly). I wanted to make sure I can use from the Home Assitant app, while the router's firewall blocks its online connectivity outside the home network. Do the xiaomi devices connected in HA need online connectivity in order to continue to work?

Also...many of their wristbands series for example need at least to connect once in order to get an auth token that you can then use on gadgetbridge. Do you need any kind of shenanigans to get the purifiers to work on HA?

Had a leak under the sink in our kitchen. I don’t want to imagine what this would have meant on a larger scale, compared the 20€ I spent on the sensor and the 10mins it costed me to install it.

Hi guys. Got some curious behavior.

HA (automation) switches the TRV from off to heat to off to heat...

As I changed the TRVs (Bosch to Sonoff) a few days before, I first thought, it is the new one. Looking through the logs, it also happened with the old one. I am not sure, but it looks like it happens since the last HA Update. Currently running 2025.1.4.

The automation checks on every room-temperature change if it is over or under the target temp. It switches from heat to off after the room has reached the target and switches from off to heat if the temp is under the target.

For example a is 20°C, it happens between 20°C and 21°C. If the setting is heat and the temperature is between 20 and 21 the TRV is switched to off or the other way, if it is on off. I tried to round the temp, but this does not change the behavior. It is always switching to the other setting in this 1°C range. If the room temperature in this example is over 21°C it stays off. Under 20°C it stays on heat.

I never noticed this before, so I think something has changed with 2025.1 but I don't know what and can't find a solution.

Maybe somebody can point me in the right direction to find the error.

I have a routine that plays an audio file on the top of every hour and it worked great for the first few days but lately the audio has been lagging or stuttering. At first i thought it was because i was using an old chromebook in kiosk mode but my home assistant voice is doing the same thing with voice replies. Any idea what could be causing this? Home assistant is being ran as a vm on my hypervisor and the audio file in question is an mp3 saved locally in the media folder on home assistant.

It's an automation template to control your heating/cooling. It has every feature you can think of to create a really smart climate control

I have a set of Samsung washer and dryer that can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings. I have no interest in making a Samsung account and having my washers and dryers communicate with anything outside of my network.

But since it has some kind of "smart" functionality, I was wondering whether anyone has been able to get this information without ever onboarding it with SmartThings?

Both machines set up their own WPA2-protected WiFi network when running.

Is there any way to group zones together? I would like to define zones that are not necessarily circular in shape. I can accomplish what I want by overlapping several of them, but I really want to group them together and treat them as one zone. Is this possible?

I suppose I could probably script up a template trigger...

Are there any recommended best practices?

I'm doing a fresh setup on a new system and want to use this opportunity to organise things better. Previously it was quite a mess 😅

Some loose thoughts:

• I don't really want to use the brand, so I could replace devices
• Not all devices have a fixed place (e.g. the phone), so using the room in the name might not be a nice solution, or I could use "portable" instead for those

For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

I bought several Sonoff mini4r to add some automation to my lights, and wanted to post a short review:

Pros:

• price is excellent. Got 5 for <$50 cad.
• Size is amazing, itsy Bitsy.
• Build quality feels good.
• Should be easy to flash, if my soldering skills were better, with exposed pads.
• Connected to my home wifi quick and easy.
• SonoffLAN easily picked them up, with full control.
• Detached relay mode works great, with switch fallback if wifi goes down.
• quick response time, under a second.

Cons:

• only rated for 10-12 amps, means I can't install this on switch controlled outlets.
• wish it had headers for flashing.
• wifi only, wish there was a ZigBee model.

In the end, I'm likely to buy more, and some Shelly units for where I need 16-20 amp relays.

I have an early 2000s house and they went wild with a) the sheer number of wall switches and b) the number of 3-way switches. I want to replace a good number of them while accepting my wife's requirement that they look and function as dumb paddle switches when necessary.

I've looked around and these seem to be the best at fitting all of my requirements but Mama Mia, the price 😭 😭 😭 😭

https://www.amazon.com/Inovelli-2-1-Smart-Switch-Dimmer/dp/B0BG329SH3

Anyone have some suggestions?

I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for a physical remote control that can be used with HomeAssistant? I'm hoping to find a multi-button zigbee or wifi device that HA can recognize and allow me to configure buttons to HA automations.

I'm already using a couple single button devices that can be configured to perform different actions on single press, double press, and long press, but would love a single device with multiple buttons for some locations.