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?

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 everyone,

If you live in the Rhein-Neckar region (Germany) and use Home Assistant, I’ve built a custom integration that pulls live departure times for trams and buses from RNV (Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, etc.).

• Real-time data from the official RNV OpenData API
• Easy to set up via custom HACS
• Creates sensors in HA with the next departures from your chosen stations
• Perfect for commute automations or Lovelace dashboards

GitHub: mirko-sommer/homeassistant-rnv

Would love feedback, ideas, or feature requests from fellow locals!

If you find it useful, I’d really appreciate a ⭐️ on GitHub. It helps others discover it!

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.

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

I'm new to 2MQTT and adding devices (so far only setup a few sensors). Just added this INNR bulb https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/AE_270_T.html but can't seem to get it configured properly to be controllable. Any thoughts on how I can fix? Hoping I don't need to update a .yaml file and it's something easier? TIA

As you can see from my Zigbee Network Visualization, this is my network map. I have tons of questions:

1. I have an orphan device (in green) and while it is connected to the Zigbee network, none of the automations work when it gets triggered. I tried re-pair, tried to delete the device completely and pair and even tried to use one of my outlets to see if could connect to that. I even tried to re-pair them standing next to the smart outlets and it wouldnt work. It will only pair to my SONOFF Dongle 3.0.
2. How do I get some of the devices to move over to the smart outlets? Some of them are right beside the smart outlet but it still connects to my SONOFF (which is downstairs).
3. There is an outlet which is connected to a device but that outlet is not connected to the main SONOFF. The automations work but is it ok if it is not connected? I has been like this for weeks.
4. For the offline device (thirdreality water leak sensor), I think the device itself is broken because I have re-paired it and even done a fresh install over 5 times and it keeps showing offline.

Hopefully someone can assist here

I have Midea LAN integration for my AC, also created a switch in Home Assistant for HomeKit, that will set the AC to a certain setting, turn of status lights on certain cameras.

However Midea LAN doesn’t have an entity to turn the status AC light off, Sensibo does. I’ve integrated it but whenever I switch the status light off, it turns the AC off… on the Sensibo app it only turns off the status light.

Any ideas?

Is there a smart switch available that reacts to a change in state ?

I have a 12v switch that's either on or off. This switch is controlling light in my van.

I would like to have the option to control my light using alexa but also with the existing switch.

So I want to be able to turn on the lights using the switch and turn them off using alexa and then turn them on again with the switch and off with the switch. if that makes sense.

Is there some 12v smart switch on the market that can accomplish that?

Out of curiosity. Who would have an interest in an expanded version of the SmartHub integration that would allow to see your current balance, maybe integrate with Sequence for automatic payments. I am open to suggestions.

Plzzzz help me out. I'm looking for a thermostat for my Daikin air conditioner. Does anyone have any suggestions? I saw the "MOES Tuya ZigBee Smart Knob Thermostat Star Ring Series" on AliExpress. I don't know if I can use it. Are there any other suggestions?

Thanks 🙏

Yesterday I installed the latest update for the Cloudflare integration. Since then, I have been getting an Error 502: Bad Gateway when trying to access my installation of HA. The page that comes up shows the browser and cloudflare are working with an error on the host.

I know my RPi 4B running HA is fine because all of my zigbee/z-wave devices are working.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to try to resolve this issue?

I am new to home assistant so the following might have a very obvious answer: What is the best approach to keep a defined values of a switch or a configuration? I guess this depends on the concrete device so here are my current examples:

• I have blind actuators which could also be used for e.g. two lights or in dry mode. In my case, both outputs must not be active at the same time. This is implemented with an Interlock switch, which should be On all the time. Since there is no physical button that can be pressed, I would just disable this switch in HA. The setting could still be changed in zigbee2mqtt if ever needed. This applies also to some configuration options that set-up the behaviour of the actuator such as operation mode, power on behaviour etc.
• I have some energy plugs. All controls and settings except the actual energy switch should stay as they are. In the case of these devices, nothing bad would happen if one of the settings were changed. Thus, I would just keep them. If I understand it correctly, normal users can only adjust what the administrator allows so this should not be an issue.

Does it make sense like this?

Hey, lately I found out that I miss a clock in my living room and thought that some kind of home assistant would be perfect. I thought about second hand tablet, 10 inch preferably. My only concern is the safety - won't it cause problems with the battery? How about screen life? TIA

Main widgets I'm interested in are: Clock To-do list Calendar Weather app

Hi all,
I am considering to buy either the home assistant green or the home assistant yellow, for my smart home automation based on zigbee.

My part provider who will also be helping me with setting up HA, told me that I am not sure, that HA green can be used in Remote Access. He told that it maybe requires a subscription. something like, you might not be able to operate your home automation from somewhere outside, you might only be able to do that once you are connected to the Local Network of your home. But he has very well done it using Lumi Pro.
He told we tried to do this few years back even on a raspbery pi, by installing the HA on it but it did not work in remote access mode.
So is this true guys?

Also, since I also have a RPi, can I somehow check this myself?

Thanks alot to everyone.

Hello everyone! I was just wondering if anyone knows how I can remove the citations from a response that assist gives me after I ask it a question. I am currently using ChatGPT for assist and I am having it search the web to give me answers and I am finding that it is giving citations that disrupts text to speech. Is there a way to remedy this? Thanks in advance.

I've setup an automation that kills the power to my home cinema setup, once all devices are turned off (in standby) for +1 hour. Otherwise, 40W is consumed. In a year, that's a lot of power. Especially when you consider that I only use the setup for max 2h per day (on average). The rest of the day I don't use it.

I've added a few of the devices in question to Home Assistant so I can use 1 device to rule them all. ;)

HA however doesn't like it when they loose power completely. It throws errors in the logs that it can no longer connect to them. It concerns a Yamaha Receiver & Android TV.

How can I prevent these errors from showing up, without leaving them on standby.
Home Assistant for some reason 'requires' always on? Which isn't very sustainable. ;)

I've recently moved into an apartment with a Dimplex PW4 4 zone thermostat. It's broken and I'm struggling to find replacements that fit as most thermostats including the one I own (a Hive) are all single zone.

I've got a few ideas but I'm not sure what the best one is.

Ideally I'd like it to do the following: * Centrally turn on/off the heating * Per room control * If using separate relays, I'd like them to timeout after a few hours in case home assistant goes down * Some rooms have storage heaters, and it would be good to take advantage of them * Scheduling through home assistant (so it's not required on the room devices themselves)

And I've got a few ideas:

Central thermostat wired all zones together (Hive) with Sonoff relays/temperature sensors in each room which can be controlled. But the disadvantage is that there won't be a thermostat able to be controlled physically

Remove the current thermostat and pass through control to each room. So there is a thermostat in each room, either a cheap aliexpress one or Hive. This would work but I'm concerned about the cost

Ideally I'd prefer not to use ESPHome but it may be a good cost effective option

Any other ideas on how to sort this would be greatly appreciated!

I like this Energy widget but I can't figure out why Home here says 3.2kW when the entity it is specified to use (FranklinWH Home Load) is under 1kW. (Earlier it had been steadily showing zero when the actual value was around 1kW.) I just want it to display the value of FranklinWH Home Load... Thanks for any advice.

I recently just set up Home Assistant, and have been putting a lot of work into configuring it. I’m also taking some time to set up my voice assistant, which I plan on using a lot.

One of the motivations of setting all of this up is because I’ve seen people using echo devices for HA microphones and speakers, and I already have a few set up around my house, but I can’t seem to find how to do that. I have the Amazon Alexa addon, but that seems to just detect if the device is in do not disturb mode, or make announcements. Other options I’ve seen (without using HA cloud), is do further setup to control some smart home features through echo, like turning on and off the lights.

Is there a way I can configure Alexa to communicate with my HA voice assistant and take commands that way? Alexa itself is pretty dumb, I’m hoping to give it an upgrade.

I have a SLZB-06 hardwired to create my Zigbee network controlling a Zigbee Sonoff water valve using ZHA. Everything was running well until a few weeks ago.

I went outside and the device failed to respond to a "close" valve command (leaving the water running).

I have tried to reconfigure the device, as well as remove and re-add. The device gets added, but whenever I try to toggle the valve on, it never does anything. I sometimes get an error like this: "Failed to perform the action switch/turn_on. 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'nwk'", but usually just nothing happens.

Please help! My wife's plants are dying and she is pissed!

EDIT: When I hit the toggle in HA, I see the light flash on the device, but am getting the error now: "Failed to perform the action switch/turn_on. Failed to send request: Failed to send request: <Status.NWK_NO_ROUTE: 205>"

2d EDIT: Somehow it just started working. No idea what caused the problem or how I fixed it.

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 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...

So this past week I bought a power strip with a battery backup as a lifeboat for my smart home operating devices should the power go out. At least to give me enough time to properly power them down and monitor the battery consumption with the NUT integration.

I also just so happened to add Tale Scale this week so I can monitor my smart home while I’m not home/on the VPN network. Well, wouldn’t you know it, tree went down this morning and the power went out. Sucks, but perfect time to test my brand new integrations to see if they’re working correctly.

I have Tailscale added to two of my personal computers, my phone, iPad, and RPI that runs HA (obviously with the TaleScale add-on installed and running). The power strip with the battery backup/nut integration has my RPI (Running Home Assistant), my router, and my media server (spare Mac) plugged into it.

I have successfully connected to HA away from my home using the VPN this past week in testing, but when the lights went down (literally speaking) it did not work. Modem was on, RPI on, Server also on (although irrelevant to this case), and I could not connect to HA locally or on the VPN. The machines held on for about 90 min before ultimately succumbing to battery failure, however, I was unable to actually monitor the status of my battery backup without tail scale pulling its weight. Which was an enormous bummer, and basically defeated the purpose of combining that and the nut integration so I could monitor things like this when they happen in real time.

Anything I’m doing wrong? Any tips? TaleScale runs on startup, and never had issues connecting with it outside of this one incident. The internet router was still providing internet to my personal computer, but HA was inaccessible both locally and on the VPN. Bit stumped but HA kinda let me down on this one

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