Given all the positive reviews and apparent strong sales of the ZWA-2, do you think HA should make a version for Zigbee? I know I’d personally love to have a solid Zigbee device with an excellent antenna! It would be a day 1 purchase for me.

I’m also thinking since they’ve released a Zigbee/Thread stick previously, it would make sense to improve it and use a similar design language to the ZWA-2 for a version 2 device. Ideally not a combo radio though, I’ve never had great luck with the dual radio sticks.

I have a SLZB-MR2 and all devices connected to it are around 2–3 meters distance to it. The router and coordinator are about 7m apart without walls in between them.

However, for some reason, almost all my Zigbee devices prefer to connect to the Sonoff P dongle router instead of the SMLIGHT coordinator.

I was expecting the nearby devices to stay directly connected to the coordinator (since it’s closer), but instead they route through the Sonoff P.

Any help?

My main dashboard for home use contains both drill down detail for example all lights and a variety of short cuts to actions like clean this room. I try and keep the actions relevant but that changes over time .

I would like to be able to drill down to a specific light and have it listed as a recently used item on the main screen. Similar to how phones show you your last x amount of apps based on your usage .

Anyone done something like that? Cheers

Get it on Makerworld

I needed a way to tell if the garage door was left open at night so i made a magnetic enclosure for the Zigbee-based door sensor from Aqara which integrates very well in HA. The magnets do not interfere with the readings since they are mounted on the side and far away from the sensor. Since this sensor is not rated for outside use i made the enclosure as waterproof as i could and it has been working very well.

I also made a version that attaches with screws and another without mounting options which can for instance be used with double sided tape (i put one on my window, see the last photo).

Starting with SCD40, we gained a lot of knowledge about CO₂ sensors, and then we manufactured the SCD41 sensor, which has improved accuracy and range.

However, we have reevaluated our approach. If we do not require a smaller form factor, we can utilize the third-generation SCD30 sensors, which offer excellent accuracy, a very wide range, full NDIR technology, and faster response times.

These features make us believe this could be an excellent sensor for applications requiring CO₂ measurement in large areas such as greenhouses.

This is the first batch, and we anticipate firmware updates to enable ASC shutdown in the near future.

Well, welcome to this new carbon dioxide sensor adventure. We are offering a 15% discount. In the future, we hope it will be our most affordable carbon dioxide sensor (under $30).

We will continue to manufacture the SCO2-1 and SCO2-1S, as they have proven to be stable.

https://shop.screek.io/products/sco2-30

Hi folks,

Very new to HA and really excited by how capable + compatible it is. As I get my rig set up I've been screwing around with custom themes, but I'm finding it really tricky to edit the visual side.

My current dash (screenshot) is most of the way to where I'd like it, with the current stack being the Graphite theme with some of the rules modified to pull fonts from Google / Typekit and then some card_mod edits on individual sections, which sometimes work and sometimes don't appear (specifying font-weight in particular is about a 50/50 shot).

I'm curious if there is a community-approved tool for styling the whole dashboard at once, ideally without editing three different things independently. I can host my own webfonts and write my own CSS, so I'm not scared to do some typing, but this loadout is so janky that I have to believe there's a better way.

Thanks!

I'm looking for a small light up button or something I can use so my wife can see when the dryer is done. I'm going to use a vibration sensor. And was thinking of a small led sign but looking for other ideas also

I am heading out of town in a few weeks, would love to hear folks favorite vacation automations.

As a note, our dogs will be staying at home, isolated to 1 room. Our neighbors will be spending a decent amount of time at our house either stopping by to feed them, or spend some time with them. Planning on buying a Ring Keypad to make our Alarmo more accessible for them.

Anything anyone has setup that they love? Thinking of a script to turn lights on semi randomly throughout the day/evening...

EDIT: Went to PG&E site and realized that they have a down for maintenance message posted there that My Account will be down until Monday. This may be the source of the problem and not my config.

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I installed the early fix to PG&E support including the manual creation of the opower folder and contents in custom_configuration.

Today I got an authentication failed message. I've removed the opower folder per instructions here https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/146468 but I can neither remove the OPower integration nor reauthenticate.

No password or account changes recently. Anyone else having problems authenticating?

Running home assistant via docker on raspberry pi 4b.

Have Model: ETI-AD06001440038SNA LED lights x 2 similar to https://www.homedepot.com/p/ETI-LIGHTING-4-ft-5200-Lumens-Garage-Light-LED-White-Wraparound-Light-120-277V-57W-Bright-White-4000K-Low-Profile-Dimmable-54677441/314184483 .

Would like to integrate them with home assistant. Current non dimmable switch shown at https://imgur.com/ZaKsJQz and https://imgur.com/N9yzA6o .

What is simplest way to control this light from home assistant? Simpler wiring is ideal even if a little more expensive, as I’m not sure I can turn off the circuit easily from the breaker (it does have a GFCI which I might be able to turn off).

Thanks!!!

Hey folks,

I just released a new video on my YouTube channel where I show how to build a budget-friendly alarm system in Home Assistant using the Alarmo integration.

This setup is great if you:

Don’t want to spend hundreds on a proprietary alarm system

Already use Home Assistant for automation

Want full control over notifications and triggers (doors, windows, motion sensors, etc.)

👉 The video is in German, but YouTube’s auto-generated English subtitles work surprisingly well, so it’s easy to follow even if you don’t speak German.

Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/GS2aEk-dcf0

I’d love to hear: Has anyone else here built an alarm setup with Alarmo? What sensors or setups do you recommend? 🙌

This thing took an unreasonable amount of effort to set up (for me at least). So I just wanted to show it off. Waveshare esp32-s3 7 inch touchscreen. It's an unholy combination of openhasp, yaml, node red, and some ha addons to get looking the way I wanted. Yes the wallpaper is currently AI, but it was the quickest way for me to test out having it change for different weather, as well as day/night, and holiday images (same house but snowy, halloweeny, etc). It also required Visual Studio to get it flashed, and a wire soldered to a pretty tiny pin on the back to control screen brightness.

I am going to go ahead and buy a physical alarm clock to wake me up in the morning instead of using my phone, as it’s just much more reliable, in terms of my phone being dead in the morning or the volume being turned down or whatever. But the issue is that I have with those physical alarm clocks is that if you leave on vacation or whatever and you forget to turn off the alarm. It will just go off and there’s no way to turn it off. 

Is there a way I can use the Bluetooth integration within a home assistant so that way if I forget I can use home assistant to turn off the alarm clock alarm?

I do not think this is possible, but was looking to get the Emerson brand of clock. I already have a Bluetooth dongle from back when I was using HA in VBox, I just need to set it up with Proxmox as I never had a use until now.

I have a good use case for the H2 Switch in one of my bedrooms. But they don't guarantee the extra button is available on all platforms. I watched some videos and this one Youtuber did connect it to ZHA(which I use) but didn't have access to the extra button. He then connected it over Matter and did have access to it, but it was the Matter Bridge method using an Aqara hub.

I have a SLZB-07 which I flashed to use as a Thread Border Router so I would prefer to use that. Considering the extra button is exposed using the Matter bridge method, does that mean it should definitely be there when connected directly to HA using Matter over Thread? I hope someone who has it could just tell me. But I figure that logically that should be the case right?

Just had about a 24 hour power loss. Needless to say my place lit up like a Christmas tree when power was finally restored. Everything is back to running as normal…..well that is everything except the remaining matter lights I have yet to phase out. All of my main kitchen lighting (4 large overhead bulbs and 3 candle island bulbs) dropped off during the power outage and now will not reconnect to home assistant, and I’ve basically tried everything. So now it’s back to breaking out the ladder again and re-pairing 7 more bulbs……AGAIN (third time).

Through this whole smart home journey there has been only one constant, whatever matter devices I have are shoddy at best. Just replaced all of the other bulbs with hue and it’s like nothing ever happened. I used to have a eufy matter smart lock, but that too had matter connectivity problems and would constantly drop off so I replaced it.

In the grand scheme of smart homing tech, I’m still relatively new to this world, within my first year. However I have tried tons of different devices over that time to see what I liked or didn’t like, and matter has always been the problem child. I know there will be the “what about matter over thread” comments but of the 60 or so devices I’ve owned since getting into HA only 1 had matter/thread capabilities (not counting HomePods).

All that being said I wouldn’t be surprised 5 years from now if matter over thread was THE standard, but for today I think it sucks, and I hate manufacturers trying to force it down our throats when I’m perfectly happy with and much prefer zigbee.

My irrigation system is dumb. Any ideas on how to know if it runs properly when I'm away?

I have been having some issues where some of my automations are not firing, specifically ones triggered when my phone leaves an area. Is there a way to have a helper or an integration that can monitor this? Maybe I create an automation to check and if certain automations don't trigger on a regular interval I get a notification...?

If you flash the Vue 3 to local firmware, how much data is it passing?

Does the othernet still work under ESPhome?

Does ESPhome work better with HAOS than Tasmota (why did everyone switch)?

Just got my in coop data monitoring and control system setup. Still adding sensors and automations but so far it's working well. When I moved my coop I ran conduit and two POE lines, one for a camera and the other for monitoring. Programmed though esphome. My roll off egg tray now has a laser tripwire to detect when an egg is ready to be picked up. Still trying to figure out if this is the definition of overkill.

I'm looking to set up an RSS feed to incorporate the top news stories of the day into my good morning text to speech from my voice assistant. I see some tutorials on youtube using Feedreader, but I don't really want to go and do a bunch of coding in my configuration.yaml or custom components file. I want something a bit more simple to use.

The goal is to get an RSS feed (or any news integration for that matter) into home assistant which I can then feed into Open AI to give me a brief text to speech summary of the top stories globally today.

Does anyone else use RSS feeds for news? How did you integrate them? Is there another, better method for getting news into Home Assistant? Interested to hear feedback, thanks!

Hey everyone,

I just uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel where I show how to send smart home notifications with Home Assistant directly to WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram.

👉 The video itself is in German, but YouTube’s auto-generated English subtitles are pretty solid and make it easy to follow along even if you don’t speak German.

If you’re interested in: https://youtu.be/19Z_sRItcNE?si=72D-SyVeERXtGlVK

Getting alerts when windows/doors are open

Notifications for alarms or events

Or just connecting your smart home directly to your favorite messenger app

…then this tutorial might be useful for you.

Here’s the link:

Would love to hear your feedback and if you’ve tried something similar with Home Assistant! 🙌

I spent 4-6 hours working on getting the home assistant MCP server running. I was able to confirm that with the home assistant API key it would return server generic info with empty tools. Then as a test I would give it the wrong api key and it would auth error.

I noticed the project hasn't had new commits in 2 months which is a long time for a MCP server. Has this project been abandoned? Anyone had success getting it to expose tools or anything useful? I don't see any additional configuration needed on the actual MCP server itself. It appears to just be installed on home assistant.

I was actually gonna build my own MCP server but after playing around with the home assistant API I realized it's gonna be too much work to maintain. Maybe the developers realized MCP isn't of much value here and there is a better approach?

I wrote a small python script that grabs the hourly results for temperature, humidity and vpd from my home assistant and it creates posts on my locally hosted WordPress site from them. It takes the posts and formats them into days and hours. It graphs the last 24 hours and shows the current readings up top.

I wanted a way to track my grow days and readings historically.

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Hi guys the green In the UK is around £80 pounds plus I need a dongle for around 30:. Is this the best way for me as a beginner. If it's cheaper to use a mini pc could you provide me links and costs at all . Would be really helpful. I'm comfortable using YouTube to install any os I need if I have too