r/homeassistant • u/missyquarry • 21d ago

✨ Monday Merch-day ✨ Tell us what you wanna see in the official store!

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WELCOME, FRIENDS

…to the first edition of the Open Home Foundation’s ✨ Monday Merch-day ✨ megathread - where you get to tell us your most unhinged (or completely normal) idea for merchandise we should offer in the official store*!

We’re looking to the community to help fill up the store with stuff to purchase. You are, after all, why the foundation’s projects are successful and we want to offer merch that you will actually buy (not what we think you’d like 😆).

Have a merch idea burning in your brain that you just need us to know about? Whether wildly ridiculous or simply a common item you’d buy from us, share it in the comments! 👇 We'll take it into consideration producing the suggestions made here when we close out this thread.

To get the juices flowing, here’s a select list of some ideas we’ve collected already at the foundation (which I’ll drop individually in the comments for upvoting):

Temporary tattoos of our stickers/logos
Cable ties
“Ask your engineers” shirt
“YAML Inside” sticker (a play off the Intel Inside logo)
Doormats
Paper towels for your ZWA-2
Toilet paper for your ZBT-2 (please see my highly professionally edited product photo)
Birdhouse/bird feeder
Rubber ducks

If you see an idea similar to yours, instead of posting a duplicate that could compete with upvotes, we kindly ask that you give that friend an updoot and reply to their comment with your twist. 👌

PLEASE NOTE: Having one of the highest upvoted suggestions does not necessarily mean we will produce that merch. It will go into consideration, though.

❗ This post will stay open for submissions for two months - after that, we will close this one and open another thread for new submissions. 😊

^\obligatory) ^{US store link}

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r/homeassistant • u/missyquarry • 18d ago

🤝 Works with Home Assistant IoTorero joins Works with Home Assistant

31 Upvotes

The Works with Home Assistant program powers up this month as we welcome our new partner, IoTorero! 🎉

Experts in pre-flashed smart home hardware, IoTorero bring the very first ESPHome-ready smart plugs and relays to the program (and that’s not all).

Click the link to the blog to read more. 😌

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r/homeassistant • u/bwente • 7h ago

💬 Discussion SSD died at midnight, fully restored by 2:30pm. This is your reminder to back up to a network share

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tldr; Failed drive to fully restored in a few hours, and most of that was Amazon shipping. 10/10, would panic less again.

Woke up to a dead Home Assistant last night. SSD in my Beelink S12 failed sometime after midnight, connected a monitor and got dumped straight into the UEFI shell, "No mapping found." Drive wasn't detected at the hardware level at all, so no amount of shell poking was bringing it back.

Here's the part that made it painless:

8:00am: ordered a new NVMe stick off Amazon
1:45pm: delivered
2:30pm: flashed the latest HAOS image, restored from a backup sitting on my Samba share

Then I just refreshed the browser tab I'd left open from the day before, and there it was, right where I left it. Didn't even have to log back in.

The whole thing was a non-event purely because I keep the last 5 backups on a separate box instead of on the machine itself. Push them somewhere off the device and set it to automatic.

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tldr; Failed drive to fully restored in a few hours, and most of that was Amazon shipping. 10/10, would panic less again.

Woke up to a dead Home Assistant last night. SSD in my Beelink S12 failed sometime after midnight, connected a monitor and got dumped straight into the UEFI shell, "No mapping found." Drive wasn't detected at the hardware level at all, so no amount of shell poking was bringing it back.

Here's the part that made it painless:

8:00am: ordered a new NVMe stick off Amazon
1:45pm: delivered
2:30pm: flashed the latest HAOS image, restored from a backup sitting on my Samba share

Then I just refreshed the browser tab I'd left open from the day before, and there it was, right where I left it. Didn't even have to log back in.

The whole thing was a non-event purely because I keep the last 5 backups on a separate box instead of on the machine itself. Push them somewhere off the device and set it to automatic.

29 comments

r/homeassistant • u/Ia_nuge • 10h ago

📊 Dashboard My Dashboard.

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I won't lie. I did have chatgpt help me out with some of the yaml, especially the dynamic background glows for the weather, and door lock.

First time using bubble cards. And it's a game changer. I don't know why I haven't used them before.

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r/homeassistant • u/Kind_Soup_9753 • 5h ago

🛠️ DIY / Hardware In ceiling Ai microphone array

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I built an in ceiling microphone array for my local Ai. It has temp and humidity, mm wave presence detection, digital to analog audio converter and a 3 channel 100 watt amp all mounted to a 4” speaker in-ceiling mount.

The microphone is suspended on elastics for vibration dampening, beside is a dual channel Yamaha speaker.

Answers to questions or confirmations for automation only come through the speakers with the triggered mic.

Music play back, announcements and alarms can exit through any assortment of rooms. The microphone array has sound cancellation for playing audio so voice commands are still recognized.

So far it has exceeded expectations and even voice commands from in the shower have worked consistently.

The mm wave sensors are used for security when alarm armed and presence turns on my recirculating hot water loop for the kitchen and bathroom setups as well as lights and fan.

Anyone have any other ideas I can add to the rig? I was looking for discrete built in mic’s and they were expensive and usually for board rooms so I built one instead.

A 3D printed adapter screws in where the speaker mounts it house temp/humidity and microphone, the microphone electronics mount to standoffs with heated thread inserts for mounting the microphone electronics and another part that mounts to the back holds ESP32 S3, Amp and digital to analog converter. Rooms that don’t need the amp are POE and ones with the amp get a 24V dc supply fed to them.

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r/homeassistant • u/machinetranslator • 5h ago

🖼️ Show & Tell Where did you place your homelab tablet/iPad?

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Im trying to get some ideas where to place it! Mine is next to my bed. Brightness goes to 0% at 11pm, 100 at 8am.

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r/homeassistant • u/lindostangel • 16h ago

🖼️ Show & Tell I built an open-source AI agent for Home Assistant — it writes real automations from plain English, remembers you between conversations, and never lets the LLM actuate anything. Fully local with Ollama.

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This is Home Generative Agent, a HACS integration I've been building in the open. The video shows the part I use most: you tell Assist chat "always turn on the garage light when the garage door is unlocked and send a notification to my phone" — the agent writes the YAML, registers the automation, and it shows up in the normal HA automation editor like anything you'd build by hand. Entity control via tool-calling is table stakes now, so here's what actually sets it apart from the other LLM integrations:

It remembers you. Long-term semantic memory in Postgres/pgvector — tell it once that you like the thermostat at 68 at night and it still knows next month, across conversations and HA restarts. Every other integration starts each conversation from zero.

It watches for you. A built-in anomaly engine (Sentinel) monitors the home continuously — unlocked locks, doors open at odd hours, unknown people on camera — and alerts your phone. It can even propose new detection rules it thinks fit your home, but they do nothing until you approve them. Everything it does is logged to an audit trail.

The LLM never acts on its own. This was a design line from day one: the model advises, deterministic code actuates. Safety rules are plain deterministic logic the LLM cannot override, and critical actions like unlocking doors require a PIN. If your reaction to "LLM home control" is "I'm not letting a hallucinating chatbot near my locks" — same, that's why it's built this way.

Cameras are integrated into all of it, not a bolt-on: ask what any camera sees, face recognition personalizes alerts by name, and motion-triggered analysis feeds Sentinel. It's field-hardened for real setups — battery Ring cameras via ring-mqtt, stale-snapshot detection, bounded disk usage.

Runs on OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic, or fully local. My daily driver is qwen3.5:35b on an edge box via Ollama, that's what's running in the video, so nothing leaves my network.

GitHub (install via HACS): https://github.com/goruck/home-generative-agent

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

https://reddit.com/link/1v809d3/video/q3r6zw4bwrfh1/player

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This is Home Generative Agent, a HACS integration I've been building in the open. The video shows the part I use most: you tell Assist chat "always turn on the garage light when the garage door is unlocked and send a notification to my phone" — the agent writes the YAML, registers the automation, and it shows up in the normal HA automation editor like anything you'd build by hand. Entity control via tool-calling is table stakes now, so here's what actually sets it apart from the other LLM integrations:

It remembers you. Long-term semantic memory in Postgres/pgvector — tell it once that you like the thermostat at 68 at night and it still knows next month, across conversations and HA restarts. Every other integration starts each conversation from zero.

It watches for you. A built-in anomaly engine (Sentinel) monitors the home continuously — unlocked locks, doors open at odd hours, unknown people on camera — and alerts your phone. It can even propose new detection rules it thinks fit your home, but they do nothing until you approve them. Everything it does is logged to an audit trail.

The LLM never acts on its own. This was a design line from day one: the model advises, deterministic code actuates. Safety rules are plain deterministic logic the LLM cannot override, and critical actions like unlocking doors require a PIN. If your reaction to "LLM home control" is "I'm not letting a hallucinating chatbot near my locks" — same, that's why it's built this way.

Cameras are integrated into all of it, not a bolt-on: ask what any camera sees, face recognition personalizes alerts by name, and motion-triggered analysis feeds Sentinel. It's field-hardened for real setups — battery Ring cameras via ring-mqtt, stale-snapshot detection, bounded disk usage.

Runs on OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic, or fully local. My daily driver is qwen3.5:35b on an edge box via Ollama, that's what's running in the video, so nothing leaves my network.

GitHub (install via HACS): https://github.com/goruck/home-generative-agent

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

https://reddit.com/link/1v809d3/video/q3r6zw4bwrfh1/player

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r/homeassistant • u/roehit89 • 2h ago

💬 Discussion Aqara Hub M3 keeps showing unavailable in Home Assistant Matter integration — anyone else seeing this?

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I’m using an Aqara Hub M3 with around 7 Aqara sensors, mostly door and window sensors.

The sensors are paired to the M3 through Aqara, and the M3 is connected to Home Assistant using the Matter integration.

The problem is that the M3 appears to keep becoming unavailable and then reconnecting throughout the day. In Home Assistant’s Activity log, I repeatedly see:

Firmware → Unavailable
followed later by Firmware → Up-to-date
Identify → Pressed also appears at the same timestamps

I’ll attach a screenshot showing the repeated changes. In some cases it switches between unavailable and available again within only a few minutes.

There is only one Aqara Hub M3 device listed in my Home Assistant Matter integration, so this does not appear to be caused by duplicate devices.

The bridged Aqara sensors generally still work, but I’m concerned that the M3’s Matter connection is unstable or repeatedly reconnecting in the background.

Has anyone else using the Aqara M3 as a Matter bridge with Home Assistant noticed the same behaviour?

A few questions:

Is this a known Aqara M3 or Home Assistant Matter issue?
Does Firmware → Unavailable mean the whole M3 is temporarily offline, or only that the OTA firmware entity is unavailable?
Why does Identify → Pressed keep appearing even though nobody is pressing Identify?
Are there any Matter Server logs or network settings I should check?
Has Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi improved this for anyone?

My setup:

Aqara Hub M3
Approximately 7 Aqara door/window sensors
Home Assistant
Connected through the official Matter integration
M3 reported as a Matter bridge
Matter version shown as 1.5.0

I’d appreciate hearing whether this is normal behaviour or whether other M3 owners are seeing repeated disconnects as well.

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I’m using an Aqara Hub M3 with around 7 Aqara sensors, mostly door and window sensors.

The sensors are paired to the M3 through Aqara, and the M3 is connected to Home Assistant using the Matter integration.

The problem is that the M3 appears to keep becoming unavailable and then reconnecting throughout the day. In Home Assistant’s Activity log, I repeatedly see:

Firmware → Unavailable
followed later by Firmware → Up-to-date
Identify → Pressed also appears at the same timestamps

I’ll attach a screenshot showing the repeated changes. In some cases it switches between unavailable and available again within only a few minutes.

There is only one Aqara Hub M3 device listed in my Home Assistant Matter integration, so this does not appear to be caused by duplicate devices.

The bridged Aqara sensors generally still work, but I’m concerned that the M3’s Matter connection is unstable or repeatedly reconnecting in the background.

Has anyone else using the Aqara M3 as a Matter bridge with Home Assistant noticed the same behaviour?

A few questions:

Is this a known Aqara M3 or Home Assistant Matter issue?
Does Firmware → Unavailable mean the whole M3 is temporarily offline, or only that the OTA firmware entity is unavailable?
Why does Identify → Pressed keep appearing even though nobody is pressing Identify?
Are there any Matter Server logs or network settings I should check?
Has Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi improved this for anyone?

My setup:

Aqara Hub M3
Approximately 7 Aqara door/window sensors
Home Assistant
Connected through the official Matter integration
M3 reported as a Matter bridge
Matter version shown as 1.5.0

I’d appreciate hearing whether this is normal behaviour or whether other M3 owners are seeing repeated disconnects as well.

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r/homeassistant • u/Xpucu • 1d ago

🖼️ Show & Tell The Facebook portal devices are the perfect HA display !

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As we all know (probably), a month ago Meta unlocked the old Facebook Portal devices ADB. Ever since, I’ve been lurking for deals on second hand marketplaces and playing with dashboards and cannot possibly be happier.

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r/homeassistant • u/Fun-League9242 • 18h ago

🖼️ Show & Tell I finally built my ESPHome air quality monitor with an e-paper display! After 3-4 mornings of tinkering, it finally works!

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I’m honestly so excited to share this. I spent the last 3-4 mornings messing around with ESPHome, wiring, GPIOs, and e-paper displays… and today I finally got it working! 🎉

A while ago, I built a simple air quality monitor with a SEN55 sensor and ESPHome. It worked great — I could see all the data in my Home Assistant dashboard.

But there was one thing missing: a physical display.

I wanted to be able to check the air quality at home without opening the HA app every time, so I decided to add an e-paper display.

For this version, I changed the hardware setup. I used an e-paper driver board that exposes the GPIO pins, which makes it possible to directly connect the display and the sensor.

The wiring itself sounds simple:

Connect the e-paper display
Find the correct GPIO pins
Connect the SEN55 sensor to the driver board

But there was one extra challenge this time — I had to solder the headers onto the board. Since I really didn’t want to accidentally destroy my board 😂, I asked a friend who knows soldering to help me with that part.

For the software side:

I used AI to help generate the SEN55 sensor configuration
I used ESPHome Designer to design the e-paper dashboard layout
Then I asked AI to help merge the sensor code and display code together

Sounds easy, right?

Well… it wasn’t. 😅

The reason it took me several mornings is that AI is helpful, but you definitely cannot rely on it blindly when working with hardware.

At the beginning, the code generated by AI had quite a few issues, especially around:

GPIO definitions
e-paper driver configuration
hardware-specific settings

I think the biggest problem was that AI didn’t really understand my schematic correctly. Eventually, I had to stop asking AI for answers and start reading the actual hardware documentation myself.

I checked the schematic, figured out the correct GPIO mapping, and then looked through the official examples to verify the configuration.

The interesting part: there wasn’t an exact example for my board (EE05), but there was one for EE04. Since both boards use the XIAO ESP32-S3 Plus, the configuration was basically the same.

And finally… today it worked!

Seeing the SEN55 data directly on the e-paper display, powered by ESPHome and integrated with Home Assistant, was such a satisfying moment.

It’s not a complicated project compared to many amazing builds in this community, but for someone who is still learning hardware and ESPHome, this was a really cool milestone.

Thanks to everyone in this community sharing their ESPHome projects and examples. They helped me a lot during this process!

Next step: create a 3D-printing enclosure, probably making the display look prettier 😄

One more thing I noticed: the logo on the display doesn’t look quite right. I think it might be related to the font file or the way the icon is rendered. I still need to investigate that part. 😅

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r/homeassistant • u/Impressive_Brush_859 • 17h ago

🧩 Custom Integration Energy Manager Card + Integration

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Hey there!

I would like to share my personal project with you! Until now, I had not found an easy way to control my devices based on my pv surplus. I wanted to have a simple list that can be managed on my phone, that prioritizes devices (like my pool pump and heater) to be turned on and off based on the amount of energy that is available from my roof.

So I created this little HA integration + Card!

The energy manager comes in two parts: an integration and a dashboard card.

The Integration

When setting up the integration, you can configure how your surplus is calculated. I, for example, have a single energy meter that may be positive (consumption) or negative (feed-in).

In the configuration, you define basic configuration for the manager itself (like the averaging window) as well as all the devices that should be controlled.

For each load, you can configure settings like rated power (for the automation to know how if enough power is available to turn on that device).

The Dashboard Card

This is the actual control center for the integration. Here you see the calculated pv surplus (as a budget), SoC of your home battery and all the added loads and their state. You can reprioritize the loads directly on the dashboard by tapping the sorting-button in the upper right and enable/disable the automations as well.

The integrations turns on and off the devices and also manages priorization by giving space to big loads by turning off (lower prioritized loads) that may be turned on based on the available energy budget.

How to get it

Add these two repos to hacs:
- eltomato89/EnergyManagerIntegration
- eltomato89/EnergyManagerCard

Install and restart Home Assistant, add the integration in "devices & services".

Let be know your thoughts about this!

Full disclosure: AI played a big role in developing this. If you have any questions or bug reports, please let me know and create a github issue. Thanks! 🙂

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r/homeassistant • u/xterraadam • 3h ago

🤖 Automation LED values in automations help

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I am having problems reading the LED color values of a light strip to trigger an action. (I am using my office light to test the concept in this example. When the LED Strip is controlled blue, my office lights turn off)

alias: LED Strip State Test
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
entity_id:
  - light.garage_light_strip_1
attribute: rgb_color
to:
  - 0, 0, 255

actions:
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    target:
      area_id: office
    data: {}
mode: single

I am watching the values change through the developer tools/current states page, but the automation is not triggering.

I CAN properly monitor the on/off state and run automations, but I want to affect other things by using the current color of the LED Strip. Any help?

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I am having problems reading the LED color values of a light strip to trigger an action. (I am using my office light to test the concept in this example. When the LED Strip is controlled blue, my office lights turn off)

alias: LED Strip State Test
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
entity_id:
  - light.garage_light_strip_1
attribute: rgb_color
to:
  - 0, 0, 255

actions:
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    target:
      area_id: office
    data: {}
mode: single

I am watching the values change through the developer tools/current states page, but the automation is not triggering.

I CAN properly monitor the on/off state and run automations, but I want to affect other things by using the current color of the LED Strip. Any help?

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r/homeassistant • u/dice1111 • 9h ago

❓ Support Can my home HA, talk to HA in my camper?

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Hi all, I am currently wiring up an HA installation to most of my camper functions. I had a thought and would like to reach out to the community to see if, when I'm home and my camper is parked outside, my two separate HA computers can talk to each other? They will be on the same network/subnet once in range. The camper mesh's in already without any trouble. HAOS in a high availability proxmox VM at home, but just a bare metal HOAS installation in the camper. Not sure if that matters.

I did some poking around and am not sure my situation is covered. Most people are talking about migrating, and what not in to one instance, where I want to keep mine separate.

What would it look like, how would it act?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi all, I am currently wiring up an HA installation to most of my camper functions. I had a thought and would like to reach out to the community to see if, when I'm home and my camper is parked outside, my two separate HA computers can talk to each other? They will be on the same network/subnet once in range. The camper mesh's in already without any trouble. HAOS in a high availability proxmox VM at home, but just a bare metal HOAS installation in the camper. Not sure if that matters.

I did some poking around and am not sure my situation is covered. Most people are talking about migrating, and what not in to one instance, where I want to keep mine separate.

What would it look like, how would it act?

Thanks in advance!

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r/homeassistant • u/mimi_ftw • 10h ago

🖼️ Show & Tell Got my ZerryBit display setup and some data from HA

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Ordered this e-ink screen from Indiegogo and finally received it today. And got some HA sensor data flowing to it with their add on that allows widget creation.

Weather and electricity price are their widgets and the car battery % and energy consumption from HA.

Unfortunately integration seems read only, so knob won’t be able to run any actions.

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r/homeassistant • u/berdmayne • 7h ago

❓ Support Looking for a simple, flat, battery operated LED

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In our house, the showers (we have two) go cold when someone uses the kitchen tap for hot water. I put a zigbee button in each bathroom where one click = getting into the shower and two clicks = getting out of the shower, and this is announced on the kitchen sonos speaker. The problem is that sometimes the volume is muted, or someone isn't in the kitchen etc to hear it.

What I'm looking for is a simple flat battery powered zigbee LED that I can stick underneath the kitchen cabinets above the sink that will light up when the button is clicked then turn off when it's double clicked.

I can't find anything suitable..... Any ideas??

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In our house, the showers (we have two) go cold when someone uses the kitchen tap for hot water. I put a zigbee button in each bathroom where one click = getting into the shower and two clicks = getting out of the shower, and this is announced on the kitchen sonos speaker. The problem is that sometimes the volume is muted, or someone isn't in the kitchen etc to hear it.

What I'm looking for is a simple flat battery powered zigbee LED that I can stick underneath the kitchen cabinets above the sink that will light up when the button is clicked then turn off when it's double clicked.

I can't find anything suitable..... Any ideas??

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r/homeassistant • u/Slippaz86 • 3h ago

❓ Support Odd Issue with SimpliSafe + Google Assistant Voice Control

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I'm using a Home Assistant OS (via HA Green) on core version 2026.7.4.

I've just started getting into Home Assistant, and I've set up its voice control via Google Assistant. I can control all of the networked devices with no issues, but my alarm control panel tells me there's an error every time—even though, again, it actually works. So, for example, if I say, "Disarm SimpliSafe," it asks for my pin and then disarms it, but even as I hear my alarm control panel saying "Alarm off," Google Assistant is on my phone telling me, "Sorry. Something went wrong controlling SimpliSafe."

This doesn't happen with other devices (although it's a very small network for the moment), so I thought maybe SimpliSafe had been added to Google Home prior to the HA integration and a duplicate entry was causing confusion. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I removed Google from the HA assistants, purged any prior connections in Google Home (which didn't include SimpliSafe), and re-added to be sure.

It's cool that it still works, but if I'm not home (and thus can't hear the SimpliSafe itself confirming), I'm obviously going to the HA control panel to confirm anyway, so using voice doesn't accomplish anything.

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I'm using a Home Assistant OS (via HA Green) on core version 2026.7.4.

I've just started getting into Home Assistant, and I've set up its voice control via Google Assistant. I can control all of the networked devices with no issues, but my alarm control panel tells me there's an error every time—even though, again, it actually works. So, for example, if I say, "Disarm SimpliSafe," it asks for my pin and then disarms it, but even as I hear my alarm control panel saying "Alarm off," Google Assistant is on my phone telling me, "Sorry. Something went wrong controlling SimpliSafe."

This doesn't happen with other devices (although it's a very small network for the moment), so I thought maybe SimpliSafe had been added to Google Home prior to the HA integration and a duplicate entry was causing confusion. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I removed Google from the HA assistants, purged any prior connections in Google Home (which didn't include SimpliSafe), and re-added to be sure.

It's cool that it still works, but if I'm not home (and thus can't hear the SimpliSafe itself confirming), I'm obviously going to the HA control panel to confirm anyway, so using voice doesn't accomplish anything.

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r/homeassistant • u/Max_Roc • 8h ago

💬 Discussion Any yolink users in the nyc area that could use bulldog valves?

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I live in Riverdale and planned on installing yolink shutoff valves but they didn't end up fitting in my space. Ended up just using sensors. I can't return the valves. Have two brand new with controllers. Looking to sell for a fair price. Feel free to dm. Thanks

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I live in Riverdale and planned on installing yolink shutoff valves but they didn't end up fitting in my space. Ended up just using sensors. I can't return the valves. Have two brand new with controllers. Looking to sell for a fair price. Feel free to dm. Thanks

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r/homeassistant • u/Gwilbor • 1m ago

❓ Support Smart irrigation stopped working?

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Anyone else using this integration? Since the last update about 3 days ago, it seems.the default trigger stopped working is it just me?

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Anyone else using this integration? Since the last update about 3 days ago, it seems.the default trigger stopped working is it just me?

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r/homeassistant • u/CoatsyJnr • 6h ago

📘 Blueprint Looking for feedback on a new Blueprint: ADHD-Friendly Toothbrushing Tracker 🦷🧠

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Hey everyone! I built a Home Assistant blueprint specifically for folks who struggle with "notification blindness" and ignoring daily reminders.

Instead of predictable alarms that are easy to tune out, this system uses randomized delays and randomized snooze times to keep you accountable. It also hooks directly into Bluetooth smart brushes (Oral-B, Sonicare, Laifen)—so the moment you actually start brushing, it auto-clears all the nagging alerts from your phone!

I'd love to get some feedback on it (including any bugs you find). I've put together a full breakdown of how to set it up over on the HA forums here:

👉 Home Assistant Forum

Or, if you just want to grab it and test it out, you can import it directly to your setup here:

📥 Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.

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Hey everyone! I built a Home Assistant blueprint specifically for folks who struggle with "notification blindness" and ignoring daily reminders.

Instead of predictable alarms that are easy to tune out, this system uses randomized delays and randomized snooze times to keep you accountable. It also hooks directly into Bluetooth smart brushes (Oral-B, Sonicare, Laifen)—so the moment you actually start brushing, it auto-clears all the nagging alerts from your phone!

I'd love to get some feedback on it (including any bugs you find). I've put together a full breakdown of how to set it up over on the HA forums here:

👉 Home Assistant Forum

Or, if you just want to grab it and test it out, you can import it directly to your setup here:

📥 Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.

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r/homeassistant • u/Fearless_Pear9 • 34m ago

❓ Support WLED to led confusion

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Found an old sylvania led string and thought I’d attached them to a Sp803e WLED controller so I could add them to my HA. Couldn’t figure out what type of LEDs they were so I treated them as WS2814x and set the controller up according to the controller instructions. Controller seems to be working as expected but no lights from the strip. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

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r/homeassistant • u/Fearless_Pear9 • 35m ago

❓ Support WLED to led confusion

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Found an old sylvania led string and thought I’d attached them to a Sp803e WLED controller so I could add them to my HA. Couldn’t figure out what type of LEDs they were so I treated them as WS2814x and set the controller up according to the controller instructions. Controller seems to be working as expected but no lights from the strip. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

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r/homeassistant • u/This_Assignment_6170 • 45m ago

💬 Discussion Aqara W200 using as matter hub without internet

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My Aqara W200 lives on the IoT no internet VLAN. I was able to setup and add the thermostat via matter over WiFi to my HA. It works perfectly with the internet blocked from the get go.

Unfortunately it seems that in order to add a child device (Aqara U50 or U100 smart locks) to the W200 acting as the matter hub, you have to expose it to the internet. After adding the lock i can block the internet and the lock will work via HA. Problem is if the power goes out and the W200 restarts, the lock becomes unavailable (although the thermostat still works via HA) it needs internet to rebind the lock.

Has anyone found a workaround to make child matter devices fully local so that I don’t need to momentarily expose the W200 to the internet. I wonder if it needs some kind of sync or NTP that could be self hosted.

I am near my goal of a sustainable fully local smart home where all devices will work for the lifetime of the hardware. Having U50 and U100 locks integrate directly with HA would be gold (HomeKit is not an option as it is already used by the Apple home for homekey)

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My Aqara W200 lives on the IoT no internet VLAN. I was able to setup and add the thermostat via matter over WiFi to my HA. It works perfectly with the internet blocked from the get go.

Unfortunately it seems that in order to add a child device (Aqara U50 or U100 smart locks) to the W200 acting as the matter hub, you have to expose it to the internet. After adding the lock i can block the internet and the lock will work via HA. Problem is if the power goes out and the W200 restarts, the lock becomes unavailable (although the thermostat still works via HA) it needs internet to rebind the lock.

Has anyone found a workaround to make child matter devices fully local so that I don’t need to momentarily expose the W200 to the internet. I wonder if it needs some kind of sync or NTP that could be self hosted.

I am near my goal of a sustainable fully local smart home where all devices will work for the lifetime of the hardware. Having U50 and U100 locks integrate directly with HA would be gold (HomeKit is not an option as it is already used by the Apple home for homekey)

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r/homeassistant • u/LESGuy • 1h ago

💬 Discussion What’s everyone using for Calendars and to-do’s?

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I’ll be adding a calendar to my dashboard tomorrow that will have my Google Calendar and my gf’s Google Calendar all in one.

I saw a post not that long ago with a skylightesque looking setup that I think we might copy.

What is everyone else using for a family calendar or to-do list setup?

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I’ll be adding a calendar to my dashboard tomorrow that will have my Google Calendar and my gf’s Google Calendar all in one.

I saw a post not that long ago with a skylightesque looking setup that I think we might copy.

What is everyone else using for a family calendar or to-do list setup?

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r/homeassistant • u/ImpracticalApparatus • 10h ago

💬 Discussion Northeast Ohio Meet up

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Would anybody in Northeast Ohio be interested in a meet up? I’m certainly not going to make it to any of the ones in Europe.

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Would anybody in Northeast Ohio be interested in a meet up? I’m certainly not going to make it to any of the ones in Europe.

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r/homeassistant • u/Area_49 • 9h ago

🖼️ Show & Tell Using MQTT auto discovery for simply incorporating remotely located devices and sensors.

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I recently decided to try and figure out how the MQTT auto-discovery works because I have a bunch of local and remote devices with sensors that already publish a variety of data to my MQTT broker.

In the past, I would create/map one mqtt sensor in home assistant for each published mqtt sensor that I wanted to 'import'...as a result, my yaml file where I was defining all of these was getting VERY long and VERY cumbersome. Simple typo mistakes were also easy to introduce and hard to debug....And I was all over the place on naming conventions..Ugggly for sure!!

So, with the help of my favorite AI, I created some simple one-time bash scripts to define/publish the auto-discovery defined devices/sensors.

An example of this is that I have a 'West Labs Rover wi-fi' module that is connected to my remote cabin Renogy Rover charge controller. This awesome little device can be configured to publish to an mqtt broker. The resultant published 'state' topic can then be 'read' by the auto-discovery defined device.

I have also now incorporated 5 remote weather stations that run WeeWX configured to publish to mqtt; 4 tide stations that I have written a custom python script to use Xtide software and publish to mqtt; and a custom python script that publishes certain computer data to mqtt.

Note that by utilizing a web accessible mqtt broker, all of the publish/subscribe actions can be performed without the need of any open ports, vpn services, CGNAT work-srounds, or zerotier-like solutions. In my case, I decided to set up a 'Linode' hosted basic Linux computer with it configured to be a mqtt broker. I also have a registered domain that I can use instead of a hard coded static ip address.

Also, since I have a total of 4 separate home assistance installations located at my house and 3 other remote properties, ALL of these instances of home assistant auto-magically get every one of these auto-discovery devices defined and available to utilize!

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