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?

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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

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...

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 used to have Google homes in each room, but if you own a Google home you know how bad they are now.

Basically, I'm wondering what I can use as a music player and (maybe) have llm ai voice support? I can self host an llm etc, just wondering what the best way is to go about this?

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.

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?

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? 🙌

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

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?

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!

Again, HA noob here. I created a first automation and it works. When one button is pressed, all lights in one room should be enabled. In my first version, I explicitly listed all entities to be turned on. However, I would prefer to to set which area and which label to activate. When I select the respective area and the label, both conditions seem to be connected with an OR, so all devices within the area or with that label are turned on. I need all entities within the area AND with that label. What would be the best way to do that?

Hello everyone,

I use Homeassistant OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 to record my consumption and the electricity generation from my PV-system.

The image below shows the consumption of my household. Due to (probably) temporary connection interruptions, there are "jumps" in the meter reading. For example, the meter reading briefly rose from 6,000 kWh to 18,000 or fell to -12,000 for a few seconds. This distorts my statistics.

I have some basic programming skills, but unfortunately I don't know where to start. For example, where would I need to enter a command to filter out such jumps? For such a case, i would try this script.

sensor:

- platform: filter

name: “Filter meter reading”

entity_id: sensor_ID

filters:

- filter: outlier

window_size: 4

radius: 1000

I hope you can help an absolute Homeassistant noob.

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 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.

Http://dad.myfamily.rocks

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!

It seems like the only way to trigger a personal IOS shortcut from HA is through 1 of 3 ways:

• Pushcut and having an old iPhone or iPad always on to serve as the Pushcut server

• Have HA send me an email

• Have HA send me a text

Are there any other ways to trigger an IOS shortcut (not a home automation, just a personal shortcut) via home assistant?

OK, I'm curious if anyone has made their mailbox smart and would like to know how. Not technically about the sensor, but more about the automation behind it. Sensor, possibly a helper, and alerts.

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!!!

I have a few spare phones lying around so was wondering if it was possible to hook em up with HA and create a custom voice assistant. Google and Alexa is just not doing it for me. Plus it would be great to use the brains of gpt.

I have tried Wyoming satellite but I am kinda lost and there aren't many tutorials around.

Please lmk, thanks!

My home Internet goes down for a few minutes after midnight most Sundays and occasionally at other times. When this happens Home Assistant's Nabu Casa connection goes down and stays down. It can't be reached remotely and automations using Alexa fail.

When it happens, the main Settings page on Home Assistant Cloud shows "Logged in and connected". Drilling into the Home Assistant Cloud submenu shows my account and "Cloud connection status: Not connected". If I sign out and sign back in there with my login and password everything is again operational.

I have the following automation which attempts to disconnect and reconnect automatically:

alias: Nabu Casa Auto-Reconnect
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: time_pattern
    hours: "*"
    minutes: /5
    seconds: "0"
conditions:
  - condition: not
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.remote_ui
        state: "on"
actions:
  - action: cloud.remote_disconnect
    data: {}
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
      milliseconds: 0
  - action: cloud.remote_connect
    data: {}

Trace shows that it's running and attempting the disconnect/reconnect when the connection goes down. There are no obvious errors. I originally had just the "cloud.remote_connect" and added the disconnect and delay when that didn't work by itself. Any thoughts on where to start? Thanks!

So we bought this fancy night light for our child’s room: the Hatch Rest+ 2nd generation, and I found an integration for it on HACS. The integration seems to work well so thank you Bren Dahl for your excellent work!

However, ever since I setup the integration with HA I’m unable to connect to the device with the iOS app.

I tried disabling the HA integration and reconnecting the device to our WiFi network but that didn’t make a difference.

Has anyone else had this issue? If we can only use either method I think we’d prefer to use the native app. Thank you!