Hi there!

Let's gather all those recent inspiring Home Assistant dashboards that you have been working on into one thread.

Show off you creative layouts, and card choices, to hopefully give both new and current users ideas for their own setups!

Let's inspire one another! 😊

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1374246

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I want to leave HAOS live and also run docker for an arr stack sparately.

I got a good deal on a pi5 16gb. I wont get another and NUCs are expensive. I want to put an arr stack, deluge and Jellyfin for local single device viewing. I don't see HA using more than 6gb of RAM, or close to it, so tere should be room to manage this.

I have a 256gb sd, I will change eventually to ssd, so I think I have the resources.

I just need the know how, could anyone advise on some walkthroughs that could allow me to not knock HA while I build out the other side.

Hi!

**My ask up front: **Can someone walk me through the process of how a github project written in python winds up interacting with YAML on an ESP32? Looking for some orientation so I can "RTFM" better.

Background: I have Espectre up and running in my house, which is cool. What I also have in my house is LED crown molding controlled by WLED.

I think the ESP-32s I'm using for the lighting have enough juice to run both items of code (and probably a few other sensors). However, I don't know how to combine them.

What I'm specifically confused about is when I provision a device with ESPHome, I'm not actually clear on what it does. As in: I gather it's making a framework specific to the board to handle running the code in the YAML, but I'm not sure what that looks like specifically. Which means I don't know how to take the code from WLED or ESPectre and also include it (is it as simple as an include?) so that I can make YAMLs that utilize the functionality those to projects provide.

I am especially confused what is happening when YAML code calls specific github projects. Is it literally pulling code from the repository?

For context I have decent capability and experience, but mostly within code, bridging multiple architectures like this is new. I have stumbled on for years doing some fairly advanced projects, but I mostly am a very determined monkey banging on a type writer.

Hi All!

Recently purchased a Honeywell t6 Pro Z-wave thermostat, and a Zwave dongle to go with it.

I'm running HA in docker, so I spooled up the Z-wave JS UI in a seperate docker container as well. I then added the HA integration for Z-wave and got it talking to the ZwavejsUI

I can tell something went right because the thermostat shows up in the HA integration as "Node 2", but there aren't any exposed entities that have anything to do with thermostat functions; It shows things like "node status", "ping", etc.

Edit: It also shows up as a "unknown manufacturer" and product in ZwavsJSUI

So something is working... just not as a thermostat.

Any help? I'm a few steps away from returning it and just using a shelly relay to short the two wires together.

I have a KIA, it is decent but I would love more freedom ans I sont trust that access will remain free. VW is paid now.

I am in europe and looking to buy in2027.

My least favorite noise is the low battery chirp that normal smoke detectors emit when low at night. I'm looking to replace my 8 hardwired smoke alarms with new ones that don't have that. I just moved and miss my nest protects only bc this sound doesn't happen. I've read that protects have been discontinued and replaced with these sc5's from first alert . Since I've degoogled I don't really need the "protect integration"

So I need hardwired interconnects (US law afaik bc existing are hardwired) but mostly would like the voice alerts and no battery chirp. I've read that xsense is fairly decent but these new ones that have the voice alerts don't appear to be UL certified so that's a no-go, unless I've just missed it.

I was looking at the anyplace alarms as I saw them in another thread, but can't tell if the low battery notification is a chirp or not? Anyone had any experience with these? They also appear to be out of stock on home depot so no idea if/when they'll be available.

I'm open to all options that are hardwired.

ETA: I've reached out to x-sense to see if the XP0J-SA is UL/ETL certified. I'm waiting to hear back

I just picked up a 4K commercial display to upgrade my TV for cheap. It has an RS232C port on the back for control, and Home Assistant has a native integration to control it via a local Linux tty. The hitch is that my Home Assistant server is located in a spot not near the television, and running physical serial line to it would be inconvenient. But, since I have a Raspberry Pi connected as the streaming media box, I should be able to plug a USB adapter into it and route the serial data over the network, right?

Is there a a good way to do this in HAOS?

I'm trying to start using Thread devices in Home Assistant for the first time. I've gotten a Sonoff Dongle Plus MG24, flashed it with OpenThread firmware, added it as an OpenThread Border Router in Home Assistant, and added the Matter integration.

However, when I try to commission a Matter/Thread device using the Home Assistant companion app on my GrapheneOS phone, I scan the QR code, get to the screen that says "power on your device and make sure it's in setup mode," and "connect your phone to your main 2.4GHz network" and tap the "I'm ready" button, but then it gives me an error that I have "no Wi-Fi connection" even though it is definitely connected to the correct (2.4Ghz, not 5GHz) network.

I've also checked that the Home Assistant app has all the necessary permissions (network, nearby sensors, etc.)

Help?

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Edit: I just found these bug report threads that look like they're relevant, but I'm still reading through them:

• https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/6690

• https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/2383

What is your update policy? Are you on auto update, or do you manually go over stuff, do you pick a day to just flush it all though, or are you just on an old version?

Share why and how you run your updates? I would like to hear how you all manage them

Had an old iPad in a drawer that can't install anything from the App Store anymore, so it became a photo frame. It loads a fullscreen page from a Home Assistant add-on I wrote and cycles through family photos straight off the SMB share on my NAS. No cloud, no account.

In the morning the hallway motion sensor switches it into weather mode for a couple of hours, so every 8th photo becomes a weather screen with the next 12 hours. The latest version also has a small weather badge in the corner that can stay up all day, or only show up when rain, snow, frost or heat is coming. HA just pushes to it with two rest_commands - the frame itself has no token for HA.

The part I'm happiest with is the bin reminder. The frame tells you the day before which bin goes out, and you don't type the dates in: you upload the PDF leaflet from your municipality and it reads the dates out of it, locally, no OCR. It works off the coloured cells in the calendar grid (row = ISO week, column = weekday) and checks each one against the printed day number.

It does ingress now too, so it opens from the HA sidebar, and with Mosquitto running it creates MQTT entities for the next collection, photo count and weather mode on its own.

Most of the work honestly went into old Safari. iOS 9 silently ignores half of modern CSS, so everything has px fallbacks and the weather screen is laid out with tables.

Install: Settings > Add-ons > Add-on Store > three dots > Repositories > add https://github.com/emo546/ha-snapframe

If you have an ancient iPad and something looks broken on it, tell me the iOS version.

https://map.projectmonarch.org/

We now have tiny trackers that are being put on Monarch butterflies to track their migration. They use GPS and bluetooth. Citizen scientists download the app on their phone and when a tagged Monarch flies near their phone, the data is updated with its location and stored data.

Now that we have bluetooth working on Home Assistant, is there anyone who knows how we could get an integration to identify these butterflies and update the master database?

I'd definitely set some sensors up outside to help this project.

For years I have had my zigbee network functional with a ConBee2 zigbee coordinator in my home assistant box.

But this week, devices started to randomly drop off the zigbee network. I could re-pair them and get them in again. But yesterday, it suddenly dropped 24 devices... Sensors, buttons and lightbulbs seem to be the most common ones.

I've restarted the ZHA integration, restarted the docker container, even downgraded to 2026.8.3. Still the same.

I checked the Home-Assistant github repo issues and there are lots of issues regarding zigbee and dropped devices in the last 2-3 weeks.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this happened all of the sudden?

The zigbee network has been stable for years before this.

EDIT: At this time I have re-paired all the devices and will see if they start dropping off again.

Just read about this and was wondering if anyone has tried it. Pros/cons/notes? This seems pretty neat on the surface and I plan on trying it myself.

https://github.com/francescopace/espectre/tree/main

Switched from a Conbee 2 with Phoscon, to a Sonoff Dongle Max and ZHA. Bit of pain remaking the network but now everything works as before or better. Aside from the showstopper that’s the buttons NOT having anything useful! What’s the point of a button that has to drop the battery past a certain point to trigger anything? That can’t be right. Help please? :(

Edit: solved! Thanks to the helpful comments, I found out my SNZB-01P has a blueprint. Didn’t know how to use them but wasn’t hard so I’m back to fully operational :D

I am looking at getting the voice thing from nabu casa.

I have seen people mess witb nests and echos and similar products either through jailbreaking or full on board replacements and I am trying to pick a lane.

I just want to be able to do simple commands for now but if I got the premium it would sit in the comms cabinet floors away from me. Does it act as just a brain and I can attach any mic, echo, nest to the system after?

I have had a bunch of little issues which ultimately come down to a knowledge gap, me just not knowing enough about Home Assistant to know where to even look. I've solved most of my problems with persistence and searching for other people's issues, but some issues are just not going anywhere.

It used to be that a project like this would have an IRC chatroom and tonnes of handy experts would be there chatting and helping to point you in the right direction. Now that IRC has largely gone by the wayside where do you all go to have that quick back and forth chatting to get a vague idea of where to go with next steps?

To be clear, I'm not so much asking about where on the system to find logs or the like, I more mean the community of people chatting and helping each other troubleshoot issues.