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.

Greetings good people! Sorry for the long post, I'm really hoping I can get some help with this one. Not sure if r/homeassistant is the right place, but I might crosspost to some other places. Here goes.

I recently decided to replace my Conbee II with an SLZB-06 for my ZHA integration. That turned out to be way more complicated and more work than I thought it would be... Anyway I eventually managed to wipe my existing network and restart the whole thing re-pairing all my devices. At this point I was very happy that everything was working perfectly fine, until I noticed one device that did not. I was unable to send commands to my Nimly Touch Pro lock. I received state changes when I manually locked the door, but commands failed with an error saying something about no route to the device.

A bunch of research - and failed attempts at getting my lock working - seems to show that I was unable to get the SLZB-06 to properly establish a route to the Nimly lock. Apparently locks are a bit weird in the Zigbee world. I tried Zigbee2MQTT too, which ended up having the opposite issue. The command went through and the lock did physically respond after some time, but it seems that the response to the command did not come back through the network, so the state did not update.

Just as a side note: I did try reducing the network to the simplest topography possible. Even with all routers powered off and the coordinator being literally the closest device with only a couple meters uninterrupted air between them it did not work. So I don't think signal strength or topography shenanigans had anything to do with it.

At this point I figured I'd have to bite the bullet and keep using my Conbee II just for the lock. I wanted to keep my primary network on ZHA with the SLZB-06, so I figured I'd try setting up the Conbee with Z2M. Unfortunately, I was not able to get that working. I decided to try the deCONZ addon. Finally I was able to control the lock again with these actions available in the deCONZ interface:

However... The lock was not exposed to Home Assistant. After some more research I figured out I needed to edit the DDF as that was set to "Draft" with no other settings applied. I made a minimal edit that looks like this:

And the lock finally showed up in Home Assistant, but missing most of its entities and no actions available.

So, can I get this working without having to manually map every single Zigbee command and state? Anyone else got this working with a Nimly lock?

TLDR: Cannot get the Nimly Lock to work with ZHA and the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 as coordinator. Attempts at getting it to work with the old Conbee II and alternative means (Zigbee2MQTT or deCONZ) have thus far been unsuccesful.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Struggling with getting home/away working in home assistant. There a two members of the house, both on Iphones

Geolocation with HA Companion app

• Doesnt Update Well. Left the house for several hours and one user never appears "away". I have checked all settings and they seem to be in place. Location logs in the companion app show multiple location changes, just never updated in home assistant ( last change 2 hours ago, last update 2 hours ago)

Ping/arp device tracker

• When iPhone enders idle state ( at night when asleep), wifi is turned off apparantly.

Homekit automation

We do not have a HomeKit Hub device. So spouse cannot be added to the home bridge virtual home ( or whatever).

Hey folks,

I have been troubleshooting this for a few days now and it is driving me crazy…

This is an example. Basically all my 15 Shelly devices become unavailable every 1 to 15 minutes in random intervalls for a few seconds to up to a few minutes.

When looking into the logs, I see the following:

2025-08-25 09:19:20.779 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shelly] Error fetching Shelly-projector data: An error occurred while reconnecting to Shelly-projector
2025-08-25 09:19:24.555 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shelly] Error fetching Shelly-diningroom-table-light data: An error occurred while reconnecting to Shelly-diningroom-table-light
2025-08-25 09:21:41.707 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shelly] Error fetching Shelly-ceiling-lights-hallway-eg data: An error occurred while reconnecting to Shelly-ceiling-lights-hallway-eg
2025-08-25 09:22:26.188 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.broadlink.updater] Error fetching RM4miniJonas (RM4 mini at 192.168.86.176) data: [Errno -4000] Network timeout: No response received within 10s
2025-08-25 09:22:26.267 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.broadlink.updater] Error fetching RM4miniTvCabinet (RM4 mini at 192.168.86.69) data: [Errno -4000] Network timeout: No response received within 10s
2025-08-25 09:22:27.393 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.broadlink.updater] Error fetching RM4_office (RM4 mini at 192.168.86.27) data: [Errno -4000] Network timeout: No response received within 10s
2025-08-25 09:22:27.548 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.broadlink.updater] Error fetching RM4miniSophie (RM4 mini at 192.168.86.115) data: [Errno -4000] Network timeout: No response received within 10s
2025-08-25 09:22:27.626 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.broadlink.updater] Error fetching RM4miniTV (RM4 mini at 192.168.86.175) data: [Errno -4000] Network timeout: No response received within 10s
2025-08-25 09:22:48.075 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shelly] Error fetching shelly2pmg3-e4b3231f1804 data: An error occurred while reconnecting to shelly2pmg3-e4b3231f1804
2025-08-25 09:22:48.140 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.shelly] Error fetching shellyplus2pm-441793ad20f0 data: An error occurred while reconnecting to shellyplus2pm-441793ad20f0
2025-08-25 09:23:10.396 WARNING (SyncWorker_13) [py.warnings] /usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1097: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host '192.168.86.1'. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#tls-warnings
  warnings.warn(

This again is just an example and it happens to other devices (all ip-based) as well.
It started happening after I updated from 2025.6.1 to 2025.8.2.

What I tried:

• Powercycling all devices
• Assigning shelly devices fix IPs
• Disabling BSS and some other stuff on the unifi network
• Basically everything I could find in Shelly forums, unifi forums home assistant reddit… Sorry that after so many attempts I can’t recall everything

I ran pings from both my laptop terminal and home assistant terminal to one of the shelly devices. While it became unavailable in HA, pings still worked. I am also seeing no disconnect log entries in unifi.
Shellys are also still available in their app and at the device IP in the browser.

Since this seems to be not limited to a single manufacturer (at least shelly and broadlink) and it also does not to appear that the devices actually go offline, I assume something in the HA core or OS brought this problem.

I would REALLY appreciated any kind of help, suggestion or nudge to troubleshoot this further.

Cheers and thanks in advance

➜  ~ ha info
arch: amd64
channel: stable
docker: 28.3.3
features:
- reboot
- shutdown
- services
- network
- hostname
- timedate
- os_agent
- haos
- resolved
- journal
- disk
- mount
hassos: "16.1"
homeassistant: 2025.8.3
hostname: homeassistant
logging: info
machine: qemux86-64
machine_id: 3d99e2e90fcec5c244f87311157f291a
operating_system: Home Assistant OS 16.1
state: running
supervisor: 2025.08.1
supported: true
supported_arch:
- amd64
- i386
timezone: Europe/Amsterdam


➜  ~ ha core info
arch: amd64
audio_input: null
audio_output: null
backups_exclude_database: false
boot: true
image: ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant
ip_address: 172.30.32.1
machine: qemux86-64
port: 8123
ssl: false
update_available: false
version: 2025.8.3
version_latest: 2025.8.3
watchdog: true

Hello all, im unsure if this is the right place to ask this, or not. I work in an auto plant and we're looking to do some open source automation for fans initially, and potentially expanding. The auto plant is approx 770,000 square feet, and we're looking at Z-wave plugs that we can plug into the wall and hook the shop fans up to.

The issue im running into, design wise, is that it seems that Z-wave devices can only transmit up to 4 hops across devices, and that doesnt seem like it'll work in 770,000 sq feet. We have the plant divided into 4 major sections. My thought process was to put the raspberry pi controller towards the center of the plant, and run powered USB extenders to have multiple antenna's in different zones.

Is something like that possible? I know theres USB over IP and USB over Ethernet. There's powered USB hubs, but USB hubs like that seem kinda limited?

Hello, if i put two live wires through a Shelly Pro current transformer, is the reading the exact sum of the current flowing? The wires are both connected to the same terminal block (far away from CT)

Thanks

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?

Anyone have a way to gather data from this thermostat in home assistant? I have two of these in my house and would like to gather the current temp and even control it. Is this possible?

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.

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 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)?

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.

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 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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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.

Why font is so small?

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 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