I'm at my wits' end! We have a scent machine that is supposed to run (pump scent into the HVAC system) only when the HVAC fan is running. We have Ecobee thermostats and I'm using the HomeKit HA integration.

I've tried the fan mode trigger, but that seems to detect (unsurprisingly!) the mode of the fan: on vs. auto. What I'm trying to detect is whether the fan is actually running: fan active vs. fan inactive. HomeKit doesn't seem to offer that as an attribute.

Probably irrelevant to the question, but the scent machine doesn't offer any API, nor have I found one that does. For that I'm just using a Lutron Caseta plug and switching that on and off based on the trigger.

Help!

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.

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!

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

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?

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 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.

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?

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. ;)

Does open-source code exist to automatically throttle charge current of a L2 EV charger based on solar production? We just had over 20 panels installed on our house, and it’s irritating me that I have a battery 6x the size of my Powerwall (my car), yet I can’t easily program my system to dump excess power production into the car.

Any suggestions? I’m slowly trying to learn how to code in HA, because my research showed me that most of what I need is available via open APIs.

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

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.

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

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!

I just bought a pair of curtains on aliexpress while my antenna is on the mail, so I can integrate it with my HA. I decided to wait for the package while messing around with the native Tuya app and Smart Life, but I can't find the device on my phone, in spite of the zigbee hub being found and the remote controller working synccing with the device. Have you guys ever had this issue and how did you fix this?

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 am not sure if i am thinking straight or not. I need a Zigbee USB dongle as a router instance in Household A while having the home assistant instance running in Household B. Basically i want HA to be running on my server cluster rather than on a single point of failure device in household A.

How can i get there? Hardware is no issue for household A. i got a raspberry pi and other derivatives and am not afraid of headless linux (which was always the intend actually)

Thanks

Can someone explain to me the most up to date guide on how to set up LocalTuya? I set it up but the light just shows unavailable and I can't control the light regardless of what I do.. when I try to add cloud credentials it does not auto detect anything either but all the lights show up and get detected within Tuya platform when setting up the project and such.

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?

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?

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'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.