Old iPad transformed into a controller for ha, activated by movement (controlled with an aquara p1) 3 minute standby and charging managed with a Sonoff USB switch and an automation that controls charging and turns off the USB at 100 and reactivates it at 20

Hey everyone,

I’ve got a bit of a problem at home and I’m hoping someone here might have a smart solution for it. My partner is the deepest sleeper I’ve ever met. Light, music, alarms, Apple Watch vibrations… nothing works. She’ll just keep sleeping.

The issue is: every morning it somehow becomes my job to wake both of us up. The thing is, I don’t need to be up as early as she does. She often wants to start work early, which means I end up waking up earlier than necessary, trying to wake her, and then staying tired because she keeps sleeping anyway. I’m a super sensitive sleeper, so missing out on rest really gets to me and causes a lot of frustration.

Even on days when we have to get up at the same time, it’s still on me to wake her. And she usually gets annoyed at me in her half-asleep state, which then annoys me, and we end up starting the day with grumpy vibes and fights. None of this is “real” anger—it’s just sleepy frustration—but it does weigh on us.

Now, I’m switching our smart home setup over to Home Assistant and wondering: are there any smart devices that could actually wake her up without waking me? The tricky part is, even small stuff like her phone vibrating on her side of the bed can wake me up. So honestly, I’d also take anything that makes sure she actually gets up by herself—so it doesn’t have to be my responsibility anymore.

I was thinking about a vibrating pad under her mattress, but I’d love to hear if anyone has other creative ideas or gadgets that could work.

Hello...

I just saw a threat here taht was about sdr 433 acurite themometer and i wanted to follow, but i cant find it anywhere...can someone give me a hint?

Hello,

I have Home assistant running on my Synology DS1621+ as a virtual machine and I have been running a Sonoff Zigbee Dongle E which I had successfully set up and passed through to Home Assistant.

Whilst pottering in home assistant and looking at new integrations I happened to notice that my ZHA integration had disappeared. No problem I thought, I will re-add the integration and all will be well…..

I now can’t get my sonoff dongle showing at all within Home assistant as a device, even though it shows as successfully passing through to the virtual machine.

Can anyone help me establish my serial device path? I know it is passing through ttyUSB0 but trying the usual /dev/ttyUSB0 as the device path fails to connect.

The device is showing correctly in the pass through settings for the virtual machine but I can’t get it to show under settings/system/hardware in home assistant. Dongle seems to be working fine as i can connect it to sonoffs firmware updater and successfully update firmware.

SSHing into my synology and following a few guides online is showing it successfully connected to my NAS and drivers are installed correctly. Pulling my hair out as this was previously working flawlessly!!

Anyone have any experience with this no-band (likely Chinese) 32" android wall tablet?

I'm looking for a large wall mount display for a planned dashboard. Was about ready to pull the trigger on a Rpi + Viewsonic 27" touchscreen and then I came across this. Some nice benefits to a tablet in terms of size, simplicity of setup, touchscreen integration, etc. but I can find nearly zero reviews on this tablet itself.

Device name as shown above is P-WAL-230-ELC-02. My understanding is that this has no internal battery - which is fine as I had planned on hardwiring anyway.

-I'm not sure it has a camera, which would be a bit of a bummer from the standpoint of being able to have the display turn on and off with motion/presenece etc. but neither did my touchsceen solution...

-Would like to be able to display at least 1-2 video streams from IP cameras on the property. Would be fine with intermittenly updating still images (q 1-2 seconds) in most settings, then ideally click-to-go-live. Assuming it should be able to handle that but if anyone has one of these and can chime in I'd apprecaite it!

Thanks!

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...?

Why font is so small?

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!!!

My setup ran stable a while. Cleaned up my networkconfigfile, did some maintenance. Now cant reach my hoas anymore. Its running on proxmox on a laptop with a simple bridge. The service is running and listening at 8123. But I can, from my hoas ping to my router and other devices. Also couldnt get a ip with dhcp. Had to set it up manual (which was on my todolist but dhcp should work) Router seems ok. Always worked and other devices still work good. Didnt mess with iptables. Subnet are both /24. What can I try more? Why cant i connect?

Thx!

I'm trying to follow the steps in this video guide for installing Home Assistant, which recommends setting the boot mode to UEFI.

In the video, there's a BIOS setting called "Boot Mode Select", and they switch it to UEFI. However, I’m using a BeeLink Mini S Intel N100, and I can’t find that option anywhere in my BIOS.

Here’s what my BIOS looks like under the Boot tab:
Video of my BIOS screen

Has anyone else run into this with the BeeLink Mini S? Is there another way to confirm or change the boot mode to UEFI on this device?

Since Home Assistant has gotten me so addicted, I'm now reaching my limits with Zigbee. I have a NAS with Unraid as the operating system and use HA in a VM with a Zigbee to MQTT USB adapter, but it doesn't reach all the way to the bedroom. I've already looked at Zigbee LAN adapters, but I don't know if I can integrate them easily. Does anyone have experience with this?

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? 🙌

I am unable to get them to be discovered in with ZigbeeMQTT. Is this not possible?

I have Home Assistant running on a Windows Hyper-v VM and was curious how much RAM everyone allocates to their Home Assistant?

I have dynamically allocated memory, but it reserves 10GB, and in the dashboard it just says it continuously uses 3.5GB. I can't use dynamic memory if I want to pass through my GPU though (for Whisper), so how much should I reserve for Home Assistant? My main computer has 32GB of ram, so I'm not trying to conserve as much as I can, but I do need as much as possible for video editing and such.

I’m planning to hook up a SLZB-06M to a Beelink N100 and just wanted to check if it comes with all the necessary cables to get it running? I can't use PoE, as I don't have the equipment for that so I’ll need to power it some other way.

Do I need to buy anything separately to connect the slzb to a beelink n100?

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)?

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

Quiero compartir con ustedes la solución a este problema, especialmente para los más nuevos - I want to share with you the solution to this problem, especially for the newer ones::
Juan Oliver | Configurar y Solucionar Problemas de SSH en Home Assistant

Any idea on this add-on? I've only learnt of the integration the last few days and it appears to be broken. :(

I've installed Alexa media player and can see my devices in HA. I've tried to send a notification using the dev tools but nothing happens. what am I missing?

I have set up Bermuda using three ESP32 wifi Bluetooth proxies. I haven't calibrated it or anything yet but generally gets the areas right despite going 'unknown' from time to time. It's an excellent bit of kit!

I noticed that the documentation says to have a usb Bluetooth dongle but when I initially set it up with this it wasn't working properly so I removed and started again.

Are there any downsides to not having a Bluetooth dongle given this is specified as a requirement in the documentation? I run HA bare metal on a HP thin client.

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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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!