Looking for manufacturers or suppliers and any recommendations for frameless flush wall mount for tablets.

Any idea or well tested solution are available?

I have a sensor (cleaning progress of robot vacuum) that change demand to his cleaning progress. how can I convert him to act like timer that I can show\represnt him on dashboard ?

Hey guys

Got Ha running and local tuya. When I go to configure and add device it doesn't show the name only device ID. Any liners?

TL;DR: I'm considering switching back to Home Assistant from Alexa for better control and integration with my smart home devices. I want to maintain compatibility with Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and Google while also having local control. I need advice on integrating my devices with Home Assistant, including ones not officially supported. Any suggestions?
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Hi everyone,

I wanted to get back to Home Assistant, and I say back because I used to have Home Assistant setup when I first started with my Smart Home, then I switched to Alexa because using HASS was way too time consuming and I found Alexa routines to be more easy to use. I've always liked it even if it took longer to run the routines it was pretty acceptable for it to be based on the cloud.

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Recently (today) I decided to switch back to Home Assistant but I don't really know if it's worth it and how to give my 10 alexa devices any use if I start over with home assistant. Any suggestions? I'd like my Smart Home to be integrated with Alexa, Apple Home Kit and Google but at the same time I'd want to be able to control it locally.

Also, I got a DIRIGERA Hub and some EZVIZ Bulbs and some more chinese tuya-based things that searching on the home assistant docs aren't usable. What can I do to use them with HASS aswell?

So I'm planning on installing home assistant on a raspberry pi 3. Should I get a case with a fan and heatsinks since it will be running all day? I'll install it on an external m.2 SSD, should I get a heatsink for that too or does it not use it much?

Every time I try to do an update it takes multiple attempts to get it to work.

I uncheck 'Create backup before updating' so it can fail faster, press install, it says installing. After a bit of time it will say 'Connection lost. Reconnecting', it comes back online saying there's the same update available.

Eventually after multiple attempts it will work but I don't know what's causing it to behave like this.

2024-04-21 11:09:09.136 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.api] Updated Home Assistant API token 2024-04-21 11:09:16.397 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.network] Updating local network information 2024-04-21 11:09:46.262 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Updating Home Assistant to version 2024.4.3 2024-04-21 11:09:46.263 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.interface] Updating image ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.2 to ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.3 2024-04-21 11:09:46.264 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.interface] Downloading docker image ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant with tag 2024.4.3. 2024-04-21 11:10:35.627 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.jobs] 'MountManager.reload' blocked from execution, mounting not supported on system 2024-04-21 11:21:50.081 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.interface] Can't install ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.3: 404 Client Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.43/images/ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.3/json: Not Found ("No such image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.3") `2024-04-21 11:21:50.083 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Updating Home Assistant image failed

I have an automation that I want to assemble that I thing the rest of the community might find really useful. I was listening to the Home Assistant podcast the other day when a similar problem was raised.

My bedroom is fairly small and I have lights and two z-wave sensors in there. I need the sensors to be fairly sensitive to motion so that when I walk into the room and it's dark the lights will come on but then they are two sensitive. When I move just a little bit or my dog moves around in the night bang the lights come on.

I have a Withings sleep mat. They are pretty cool for tracking sleep, snoring, etc. and not very expensive. The cool thing for automation is that they track when you are in bed and when you are not. I think by figuring out my specific problem a lot of folks could use this to trigger all sorts of things.

Withings has an API whilst ideal in terms of being closer to the data it is much more complex.

I have my sleep mat instrumented in IFTTT. I can send a webhook trigger to my HA box when I'm in bed and a trigger when I'm out of bed.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this in HA. I have not really worked with scenes much to this point. The more complex and comprehensive answer is to probably build a scene called sleeping which not only drives what I'm trying to do at the moment but other things as well. But the short term answer would be to structure an automation specific to lighting.

1. Could I create a virtual device that is either on or off depending on whether I'm in bed or not that gets toggled by the web hook inbound from IFTTT?
2. Then I need to figure out how to assemble the automation. I have the external URL all worked out.
3. I need to work out what I put in the body for "in bed" and the body for "not in bed"
4. Then I need help with what to setup in HA for the device so that it toggles

I'm guessing this is the cool way to do it because any other automation could leverage the state of the device but I'm wide open to thoughts on a more intelligent way to structure it.

If someone wants to really go nuts on this I have some servers doing nothing in a data centre that are exposed. We could leverage the API from Withings and avoid IFTTT if this is something that folks want to use more broadly e.g. a new HACS automation.

The obvious next tactical step would be to change the lighting from 00:00 to sunrise if I get out of bed to pee so that I'm not blinded in the middle of the night.

Hi there, I did some tests and I realize I need to move the zigbee antenna from the pc in the basement to the main floor. I'll do it or via USB extension cable or I'll buy one on these (btw has anone tried it? I have in the false ceiling a POE port so would be super easy installation)

My door sensors will be the ouvopo because among Sonoff and Ikea are the more reliable (maybe because of today weak signal, I'll give another try to Ikea's one).

Questions:

• I'm planning to create an alarm system in HA using automations: if something get open and we are not at home start the siren -> do you see any complication?
• Do you know a reliable ZigBee siren?
• I'm thinking an option on how to "turn on" the Alarm, that would mean "activate" the automation (using also the shelly button, I'd like to have something physical to give to my parents in law that could come to check the house when we're not at home). Any idea?

Generally speaking I'm trying to create a sort of alarm system via HA, that I'm finding very reliable as of know.

Backup option is Unifi Protect, already in place with its notification when cameras detect something

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I have a FoxESS inverter installed in my house and connected to the home network.

I installed the integration https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha and configured it (I hope) properly by appending this YAML to the configuration.yaml file.

sensor:

- platform: foxess

deviceID: 7xxx1

deviceSN: 6xxx4

apiKey: exxx3

As you can see on the screenshot the entity generates some data but the energy tab is empty.

energy tab configuration

energy tab

entity data

foxess cloud

Hello everyone,

after one hour of unsucessful research, I think I need your help. I would like to use the Deye-Cloud (https://www.deyecloud.com/) data to show energy production of my small solar setup. As far as I can see, there ist only the solarman app/addon, that requires a cloud-free integration. I can not find an integration that uses the Deye cloud?

Second question would be: What kind of chart/dashboard can I use to show the consumption of all Meross smart plugs and the production data from the Deye cloud?

Any help is much appreciated!

My wifi had problems, so I started fresh and reset the router.

I kept the SSID and password same. All my devices that are not using HA are reconnected and started working. But, HA stopped working.

I am getting following error. Not sure how to fix this. Please help.

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get readings from a Watchdog Sonic oil monitor using rtl_433. I have the mqtt broker running fine but the Watchdog Sonic sends out the signal once every couple of hours.

Setup is a Nooelec NESDR Mini 2: RTL-SDR & DVB-T USB Receiver, RTL2832U & R820T2 Tuner and it works fine if I put the device on an old laptop running Ubuntu and the device. I then tried a Raspberry pi 1b running the same but it never picked up the Watchdog but also came up with an error which suggested the Pi didn't have the cpu capacity for it.

When I connect the RTL-SDR directly to my unraid server the signal never reaches the server. Other signals do work so I know it's working and suspect that is due to vast about of metal in the house construction blocking that signal and the Watchdog has a lower powered signal.

So, what other low cost bridge devices are there? Something out of the box would be great even if it was a cloud device.

As I continue to play with automations, I’m starting to wonder what automations I could add. O hope I can learn from you. What is your favorite automation? This could be either Nice to Have or really useful.

I’ll go first I have made my own Ambilight experience, using HyperHDR (this is mine). Which itself turns on whenever my TV is turned on.

But I used Home Assistant to turn off the lights when a movie starts playing. 1 light in the corner remains on, but dimmed, and the others turn off. The HyperHDR lights are made brighter. Whenever I pause the movie, the lights come back on. The same happens whenever a movie had ended.

I do the same for TV shows and series, but I have the lights dim less.

The condition for all is that the sun has set. I still plan to have the curtains close too, but I want to base that on the sun alone, I think.

I have the Problem that I have no total energy sensor but I have a sensor for each floor, is it now possible for me to calculate all the floors together and have them displayed as an entity with Energy total?

Hello,

is it possible to send push notifications to all connected mobile devices at once?

I can send it to one phone via "Call service node" and Domain:Notify, but in case of change of phone for example I don't want to recode all node-red nodes...

thank you.

Hi
I have made an automation which should only fire on specfic days, but it is running on all days - can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

alias: Sluk lyset, tv og sæt alarm hverdage

description: Slukker alt lys, tv og sætter alarm efter kl 24 på work days

trigger:

• platform: time

at: "00:00:00"

condition:

• condition: time

weekday:

• mon

• tue

• wed

• thu

• sun

  • condition: zone

entity_id: person.[PERSON]

zone: zone.home

• condition: or

conditions:

• condition: zone

entity_id: device_tracker.[PHONE]

zone: zone.home

• condition: zone

entity_id: person.[PERSON]

zone: zone.home

• condition: zone

entity_id: device_tracker.[PHONE]

zone: zone.home

• condition: zone

entity_id: device_tracker.[PHONE]

zone: zone.home

action:

• service: light.turn_off

metadata: {}

data: {}

target:

entity_id: light.home

Hi,

I am trying to balance the consumption of my Shelly 3em. With this code I found it works, but I can't add the sensor in the energy dashboard. It is not displayed there for selection.

What could be the problem?

- platform: template

sensors:

energy_total_2:

friendly_name: "Energy Total 2"

unique_id: energy_total_2

unit_of_measurement: 'kWh'

device_class: energy

value_template: >

{{ states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_a_energy')|float(0) +

states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_b_energy')|float(0) +

states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_c_energy')|float(0) }}

availability_template: >

{{ [states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_a_energy'),

states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_b_energy'),

states('sensor.shellyem3_485519dbe5a6_channel_c_energy')] | map('is_number') | min }}

I'm not sure if this is breaking change from the latest update as I'm just noticing it now and I don't see anything this difficult but I'm not sure what else it might be.

I have an RGBWW bulb connected with Zigbee2MQTT and I noticed now that I only have colour temperature options and no RGB, both in the front end and the Z2M UI. I tried refreshing it in Z2M but not sure what else to try besides completely removing and re-adding.

Thanks

Hi all, I have a sort of unique problem that I'm not really sure how to solve. I have one of these lights shown below from Govee. As you can see, it has multiple "segments", and, when adding it to Home Assistant using the Govee to MQTT integration (the best one tbh), each segment is its own entity.

What I want to do is basically set each segment to a certain random color. So, say I have red, green and blue. I want to set each segment randomly to one of those 3 colors. However, there's a small complication added, because those "random colors" I'd like defined based on the month. Basically each month I have a set of colors, like red and green for december, red white and blue for july, etc. And I want each segment to set its color to a random color defined by the list of colors that changes every month.

Anyone have any idea how to do this? I do this with all my other lights already using a template helper, but the added complication is having 8 segment entities instead of 1 single light.

https://preview.redd.it/dhjmyhhajrvc1.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cfd5a90b8c753ab131422e92f48b815950aa4f2

I do not want to capture a live image to post as the camera detects motion etc. I see this searching everywhere but not my issue. I have 3 motion sensors, each is setup to blink a small button card for 12 seconds each time it detects motion. How do I switch this button card blinking, to a photo and have it alternate between 2 photos when detecting motion?

https://preview.redd.it/v1vuuqb4arvc1.png?width=538&format=png&auto=webp&s=0871f197d90a7a706b2ff502a7a893582c14f17f

Hello fellow Redditors,

I'm completely new to the world of home automation, and I've been eager to dive into this exciting field. Initially, I was torn between choosing Alexa or Google Home, but concerns about privacy and cloud dependency led me to discover Home Assistant. The idea of a private, locally controlled system was enough to pique my interest in this platform.

In a few months, I'll be moving into my own apartment, and I'm keen to set up a smart home using Home Assistant. However, I could use some guidance from experienced users on how to get started and make the most out of this platform. Here are some initial questions I have:

1. Understanding Home Assistant: I'm considering purchasing the Home Assistant Green, but I'm not entirely clear on what it does. Does this device enable connectivity to various smart devices? I see that it also has some USB and HDMI ports, what can they be used for?
2. Voice Assistant Integration: Is it possible to have a voice assistant with Home Assistant? I'm interested in issuing voice commands and receiving feedback audibly.
3. Home Assistant SkyConnect: I came across Home Assistant SkyConnect, which appears to create a Zigbee connection. Can someone explain its purpose and whether I need one or multiple units?
4. Compatibility with Smart Devices: Can I connect any smart device to Home Assistant? I've heard mixed information about its integration with other smart home ecosystems like Alexa.
5. Coding Knowledge Requirement: Do I need coding knowledge to use Home Assistant effectively? I have a basic understanding of coding but feel intimidated by open-source platforms.
6. Suggestions for Smart Devices: Any recommendations for smart devices that work seamlessly with Home Assistant?
7. Benefits of Smart Home: For those experienced with smart home setups, what are some aspects of daily life that have significantly improved with a smart home?

I apologize if these questions seem basic, but I want to start my journey into home automation on the right foot. Any advice, tips, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you all in advance for your help.

Hello everyone,

I have a house that has (when facing from a driveway) a garage on right and entrance on left with stairs. There is driveway leading to the garage and yeard in front/right of the stairs with several trees. Thre is one tree in the middle of driveway as well, about 50 ft away from the garage.

I have Zigbee bulbs in front of garage as well as at the entrance. I want to turn them on for a period of time (like 2-3 min) if someone comes to the entrance or a car drives to the driveway.

The problem is that PIR or other motion detections have really large false positive amount - like they react on movement of tree branches when wind blows (that happens quite frequently in our area). Some of them react even on birds flying in/out.

I am looking for an ideas how to implement budget frendly human/car only motion detection (that does not require from me to put cameras and implement computer vision motion detection and object recognition).

Noticed randomly my Sengled RGB bulbs lost color control but still let me control color temp, I restored the Z2MQTT add from a backup and it reverted to 1.35.3-1 which restored color control. Has anyone else noticed this? I have a mix of E11-N1EA bulbs with a couple of E21-N1EA ones. Seems like all lost color control.

I've been looking around to see if there's a way to change the Amazon Polly voice within the automation or if you can only choose a voice in the config? Would be nice to give a different voice depending on the automation or who it's for.

Thanks in advance for your tips!

Goal: Control the exhaust fan (off, speed1, speed2) via home assistant.

240v power, plugged into an outlet. I can access the wiring box to add in a relay(s).

Will a Shelly 2PM Plus achieve what I need? Or is there another/better way?

https://preview.redd.it/ozm72owfeqvc1.jpg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=866061cb10d224b9454982b9d814bbc86c3cd80d

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Hi all, really digging the functionality I'm seeing avail in HA. Can't find much guidance on this, but what are the recommended steps to switch from a working HB setup on a raspberry pi 4B running w/ z2mqtt + a sonoff dongle ? I have a mix of native HomeKit devices paired through HomeKit (VOCOLinc plugs, Eero Router, MeRoss, etc) and then the zigbee devices coming through Homebridge (hue, IKEA blinds, etc.).

A few needs:

- GF won't like to learn anything new....So will need to have capability for basic on off functionality of lights in the HomeKit app. I see there is a bridge there? We won't have more than 150 devices.

- Would appreciate if this didn't take 6 hours to do. really I'm hoping there is a way to do this w/o wiping the RP4 and starting from square one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a morning routine automation which primarily triggers once my phone or my wifes phone is the last one to take itself off charge of a morning. This works great almost all of the time, but on the odd occasion, it fails because of our iphone states and this condition (images below). Is there any way to strengthen this condition so it doesn't fail? Basically it failed because it checked to see if the iphone state was 'Not Charging' but it was 'Full' because she had left the house earlier than me and put her phone back on charge in her car - thus the whole automation didn't run.

https://preview.redd.it/kh1v8dpawpvc1.png?width=1675&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab4f4af6b1b43dd48e504c5448d12ee200341a3d

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I have installed Tasmota on my Sonoff Zigbee Bridge Pro and everything was working with the zigbee2mqtt add-on, but it suddenly stopped working. Here is what I get from the log:

[19:25:14] INFO: Preparing to start...
[19:25:14] INFO: Socat not enabled
[19:25:16] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-20 19:25:20: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2024-04-20.19-25-20' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-20 19:25:20: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.36.1 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-20 19:25:20: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.40.3)
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Configuration is not consistent with adapter state/backup!
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: - PAN ID: configured=58534, adapter=58534
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: - Extended PAN ID: configured=9a73a66514242763, adapter=9a73a66514242763
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: - Network Key: configured=40cdd6f0b798b6a04d8d548256f28dd5, adapter=40cdd6f0b798b6a04d8d548256f28dd5
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: - Channel List: configured=11, adapter=11
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Please update configuration to prevent further issues.
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: If you wish to re-commission your network, please remove coordinator backup at /config/zigbee2mqtt/coordinator_backup.json.
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Re-commissioning your network will require re-pairing of all devices!
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Failed to start zigbee
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html for possible solutions
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Exiting...
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-20 19:25:24: Error: startup failed - configuration-adapter mismatch - see logs above for more information
    at ZnpAdapterManager.determineStrategy (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/manager.ts:229:35)
    at ZnpAdapterManager.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/manager.ts:63:26)
    at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:132:29)
    at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:62:27)
    at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:109:27)
    at start (/app/index.js:107:5)

I have Home Assistant Yellow, my model has Ethernet, ZHA is built in, I have a Bluetooth adapter/extender added also.

HA Yellow Info:

* Core 2024.4.3

* Supervisor 2024.04.0

* Operating System12.2

* Frontend 20240404.2

I've been having issues for a while now and ended up turning it off in frustration.

But wanted to get things working so turned it back on last week, did updates & had to reconfigure a couple automations. There were Entity errors where they were fine previously.

Last week I turned it back on, a few days later Philips Hue Hub internet LED dropped off, I had local control but no remote control at all, next Switchbot hub(wifi) lost connection & refused to connect.

Then found that my NAS was having connection issues & had a heap of error notifications in my NAS software, Plex stopped working & a friend of mine couldn't access a shared folder.

The automations I had set up stopped as well.

Yesterday I unplugged HA Yellow again, restarted both the Fibre ONT & Router.

Now everything is all working as it should.

I have left HA Yellow unplugged.

Why would Home Assistant cause these issues?? Like its corrupting my whole network?

Can anyone help?

I've seen similar posts on the forum but with no resolution. Hoping someone can advise?

I have posted in the HA Forum as well, been told HA wont be the issue. Thought there might be more help here?

I'm getting close to giving up on HA. Its been a steep learning curve but thought it would be worth it in the long run. At this point I'm just disappointed in it.

I put a request in on HA Community to pull the sleep state from a Fitbit which I'm thinking we should be able to gather as per https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/device-api/sleep/

I put the request in here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/sleep-state-from-fitbit-sleep-api/719581?u=pronown

Being able to trigger automations on fall asleep would be useful. For instance I could set an automation to wake me up if it senses I fell asleep in the tv room or haven't opened my pill safe to take my meds. Automatically turn off an OLED to avoid burn in. Set Alarmo to night when asleep, and then auto set to home when you wake up. I'm sure people with kids could use it to know when they wake from a nap and stuff.

Please vote on the forum to bring this to life. Or if someone wants to help me build a custom integration that would work too.