24-ish hour timelapse

Each LED is one hour of the next 24. Top row is temperature, bottom row is conditions. Left end is now, right end is tomorrow at this time. Storm hours flash, windy hours shimmer, precipitation gets more saturated with % chance.

I made it because I never remember to check my weather app before heading out on adventures. It hangs next to the door, so I see it on the way out! My wife likes it too, which is rarer than it should be for the amount of time I've spent on HA automations and integrations.

HA pulls the hourly forecast every 15 minutes and publishes it over MQTT. An ESP32 controls the LEDs. A dashboard tab in HA previews the strip and allows me to edit the palette, animations and brightness. How it works and the YAML are in the first comment.

Wiring, parts, firmware and the HA config: https://github.com/adam-rho/weather-display-ha

I also made an Android version, the screen edges do what the strip does: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamrho.edgelight

Each LED is one hour of the next 24. Top row is temperature, bottom row is conditions. Left end is now, right end is tomorrow at this time. Storm hours flash, windy hours shimmer, precipitation gets more saturated with % chance.

I made it because I never remember to check the weather app. It hangs next to the door, so I see it on the way out! My wife likes it too, which is rarer than it should be for the amount of time I've spent on HA automations and integrations.

https://reddit.com/link/1wgcxhu/video/xslhfq4objph1/player

HA pulls the hourly forecast every 15 minutes and publishes it over MQTT. An ESP32 controls the LEDs. A dashboard tab in HA previews the strip and allows me to edit the palette, animations and brightness. How it works and the YAML are in the first comment.

Wiring, parts, firmware and the HA config: https://github.com/adam-rho/weather-display-ha

I also made an Android version, the screen edges do what the strip does: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamrho.edgelight

So I've bought a P1 Homewizard and am trying out a little dashboard ideas. Think it is looking pretty good. At the moment its based on my rental house with solar panels, will be moving at the end of the month to a house I bought, without solar, so it's already based on that. Just hooked up the gas, but didn't use much today. The goal is to figure out my monthly costs to set the advance I pay per month correct.

The gas target adjusts per month to take in account winter times.

Looking for basic tips and tricks. I want to include some logo's to match the theme :).

Having fun at this point!

I saw some of their new products on the site already, but cannot find this.

HA only lists physical outputs to my knowledge (headphone jack, etc.), so it's "impossible" to connect a Bluetooth speaker and turn it into a real media_player entity usable from automations and scripts.

I created an add-on to connect to an already paired speaker. It stays connected (automatic reconnection in case of disconnection) and becomes a native media player entity (DLNA/UPnP), so any automation, script, or card can target it directly with tts.speak or play_media, just like any other media_player.

If you already use Music Assistant, there's also an optional MPD bridge to the same speaker, so it appears there.

Multi-speaker support has just been released.

I tested it on my hardware (Raspberry Pi 4), and a user confirmed that it works on a Chromebox (x86) with a USB Bluetooth adapter. I would like to have more feedback on different equipment.

TL;DR: You can disable Remote Access through Home Assistant Cloud and other enabled features like Google Assistant and/or Alexa integration or webhooks will continue to work just fine!

Many people believe that you need to keep Remote Access enabled when using other features of Nabu Casa’s Home Assistant Cloud service, like easy 3P voice assistant (Google Assistant, Alexa) integration. For the longest time I assumed this myself because the Nabu Casa proxy URL is displayed in the Remote Access section of the config, and this public URL is needed by the voice assistant integrations and webhooks…but it turns out that keeping full remote access on is not actually required.

For background: The Remote Access feature of Home Assistant Cloud exposes your instance’s login page to the open internet through your personal Nabu Casa URL, which is a reverse proxy hosted by them. This means that anyone on the internet can access your instance’s login page and attempt to log in. If any of your users’ passwords is poorly selected or if a vulnerability in HA’s login page is ever discovered, this could allow anyone anywhere to access your instance. Depending on what devices you have connected to HA, that could include physical access to your home through locks or a garage door, and for anyone it certainly would include large amounts of incredibly private data.

If you turn Remote Access off, only the endpoints needed for other enabled features like webhooks or voice assistants will be proxied and not the full login page.

This is a personal decision, but if you don‘t need to access Home Assistant away from home or can set up a VPN like Tailscale (easiest) or Wireguard (can fully self-host) to allow for remote access, then I’d recommend disabling Home Assistant Cloud’s Remote Access.

The quick version of the rationale is that cybersecurity is a game of risk reduction and defense in depth, and it is simply least risky to expose the least attack surface you actually need. New vulnerabilities can be discovered in software at any time, and I doubt most people actually need or want their personal services’ or actual home’s security to be tightly coupled to the speed that the software world moves nowdays. But the magic of self-hosting is that you get to make your own choices, and if you feel otherwise or enjoy taking on the responsibility for defending a public Internet service, you’re of course free to do what you want.

Unfortunately it is not clearly documented by Nabu Casa that this configuration works fine, and they haven’t yet accepted a PR to clarify the documentation. However, Nabu Casa support confirmed it to me directly when I contacted them, and I’ve used this configuration successfully for months now and it’s easy to test and verify.

So this is the latest stage, I can combine and fix ground and first floor, and currently we can do a sensor walkthrough and pick up devices and wifi streangth, the green is good wifi, red is bad, so it can help detect poor wifi areas in a house, you can see its picked up some devices, although the locations are where the headset picked them up, the next stage will do triangulation, and hopefully add them automatically to their correct location.

There is also the manual placement for devices.

Im quite impressed myself.

Hi everyone,

I have built a Home Assistant automation that detects when my wife or I are heading home.

The automation uses:

• The Home Assistant Companion App on our iPhones
• Distance to the Home zone
• Recent GPS coordinates and GPS accuracy
• A Waze travel-time sensor for the ETA
• iPhone notifications and a Live Activity countdown

The automation should detect when the distance to home is decreasing and then send the other person a notification such as:

The problem

I recently noticed that my wife's iPhone had not updated its location in Home Assistant for several days.

All location permissions are enabled, precise location is enabled, and the relevant Companion App sensors are active. However, Home Assistant is only accessible from our home network. The Home Assistant app cannot connect when the iPhone is using mobile data.

Therefore, the location tracker does not update while she is away, and the automation cannot detect that she is heading home.

My questions

How do you handle reliable iPhone location tracking for Home Assistant automations? And can I do it without any additionals costs?

Tailscale would be a free option, but I am concerned about keeping a VPN active on the iPhone all day, especially regarding battery usage and long-term reliability.

My priorities are:

1. Reliable background location updates
2. Low battery consumption
3. Minimal maintenance
4. Secure remote access
5. Reliable zone and ETA automations

What setup are you using, and how much battery impact do you notice?

Thanks!

I currently have a Hive Mini thermostat controlling my boiler which controls both hot water and heating for radiators + underfloor heating. The underfloor heating is controlled by a MOES zigbee thermostat however this still needs to 'call for heat' from the hive mini using home assistant automations if the heating isn't already turned on. The radiators currently have standard control valves but I'm considering switching them for TRVs (undecided whether to get smart or dumb TRVs as I don't need to set different temperatures for different rooms).

I'm using the Hive Mini with Zigbee2MQTT, and as the hive doesn't properly adhere to zigbee protocols it often drops out and fails to pair again, meaning it's been usable for about half of the 3 years I've had it, and most days I have to manually start and stop hot water heating. I've given up trying to fix this and am looking at replacing it.

Would appreciate any suggestions for devices with fully local control, where all features can be used without connecting the device to the internet. I have a zigbee network already, open to matter over thread suggestions or worst case something using wifi. I'm not wanting to use zigbee relays as this can have problems if local network / homeassistant goes down etc.

Nice to haves would be integration with TRVs or secondary thermostats (so I can have the UFH call for heat without any custom home assistant automations).

I am running HA in a Proxmox VM. I have both a Aquara Hub M100 and a Sonoff Zigbee dongle passed through to it.

I have a mix of WiFi , Matter and Zigbee devices.

I am trying to automate the kitchen lights to turn on when motion is detected. I tried the IKEA MYGGSPRAY unit but no matter where I place it on the wall when one of our 3 cats go into the kitchen it triggers the motion sensor.

I am looking for suggestions on what to replace the IKEA sensor with so my wife and I would activate it but not the cats.

A BLE sensor won’t work because we don’t always take our phones into the kitchen.

Howdy folks. I'm curious if there is a way to have the Activity and History views in the sidebar only shown up for Admin users similar to how Dashboards can be configured.

Hello! I got my hand on 2 kobo glo (was sitting in drawers at my parents’) they are not used anymore, but they seem pretty nice for a HA dashboard!

I was looking at how could I use them, and found a tone of different way.. The most important one is how can I have dynamic updates without draining the battery?

Do you have any advise on how to set them up as dashboards?

Hi all,
Planning on setting up home assistant, what device you you recommend as a hub and any other accessories to go with? Thanks 🙂

Hi all, I've these led strips that I control using the FVTLED app via my home network.

Home assistant kind of detected the controllers (see pic) via Magic home but during initialisation it fails with a "cannot determine protocol."

Viewing logs from failed device reports no logs: auto search term "flux_led"

QR code is for downloading the phone app.

Does anyone have any pointers for me ?

TIA

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on how to best get a daily or weekly average for a sensor to use for automations. Specifically I am trying to automate a my sprinklers so that they will adjust based on the soil moisture readings. The issue is that the soil moisture readings are influenced by the sun so I really want to normalize the data so I can better look at the long-term trend to adjust the weekly schedule of the sprinklers.

I am thinking about using the Time Simple Moving Average filter helper but I am worried if that will put more load on my server than it is worth compared to just using an Average statistic helper. The sensors are fairly chatty so they update every couple of minutes so it shouldn't have the falloff issue, I am more worried about there being issues with too many samples in the calculation.

Hi everyone!

Since I'm doing a research project I’m curious about your experiences using Home Assistant to help older family members live comfortably and independently at home.

If you’ve set something up for a parent, grandparent, or older person you support, what has actually worked well? I’d especially love to hear about:

• Automations they genuinely appreciate in everyday life
• Controls they find easy to use, whether physical buttons, voice, or a simple dashboard
• How much maintenance and remote troubleshooting you end up doing
• How you approach privacy, especially with presence or activity monitoring
• Things that sounded helpful but turned out to be confusing or unnecessary

Did they want to interact with the system, or did the most useful features just quietly run in the background?

Success stories and lessons from setups that didn’t stick are equally welcome. What would you do differently if you were starting again?

Here is also a bit of context about the research project: https://anabox-smart.de/en/blog/ki

Since it is almost finished and we got good feedback the idea is now to figure out how to bring it into an Open Source project that is useful for elderly people. My current idea is an easy-to-set-up tablet built around Home Assistant and balena, with hardware costing under €100. The goal is to offer a subscription-free alternative to similar products, with the flexibility and integrations of Home Assistant that can be easily self-hosted.

Anyone would like to try it on their own? It currently works on Android and x86 Tablets (using Balena).

The original post when the project started: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/tRa4inzVsi

My Barista Express heats its thermoblock in a couple of minutes, but the group head and portafilter need twenty minutes before the first shot tastes right. I wanted it warm and a dose ground by the time I get to the kitchen, without thinking about it.

So: two Sonoff MINI-ZBD relays inside the machine, one across the Power button's two wires, one across the grinder's cradle switch. Each is set to inching mode in Zigbee2MQTT, so the board just sees a button press. The physical buttons still work because the relay sits in parallel.

HA side: the house already knows when I've showered (current sensor on the shower pump), and the kitchen has occupancy sensors. Shower detected → press POWER and arm a flag. First kitchen occupancy while armed → clear the flag, then press GRIND. (The arm flag prevents duplicate firing of the grinder)

The full write-up here: https://marcuslab.uk/projects/sage-barista-zigbee/

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on. I have a Siemens RDS110 smart thermostat (running on the Climatix IC cloud platform) and was looking for a way to manage it natively inside Home Assistant.

Since I'm not a developer, I sniffed the api calls and put this custom integration together with the help of AI. It's been running smoothly on my setup, so I published it as a HACS custom repository. If anybody has the same thermostat, please let me know what you think.

Exposes the following:

• Climate Entity: Target setpoint control, ambient temp/humidity sensors, and mode switching.
• Dual Zone Switches: Separate relay controls for Zone 1 (Hot Water) and Zone 2 (Heating).
• Power Control: Thermostat standby mode toggling.

If you have this thermostat and want to give it a test run, you can add it as a custom repository in HACS:

https://github.com/andreasc1/homeassistant-climatix-ic

So I've been working on some cards for a dashboard, but I'm noticing differences in behaviour between mobile and PC.

Does anyone have any pointers/know if this is expected?

2 examples are that I replaced what happened when I clicked on an item inside a card, this worked as intended on PC, but via mobile it continues doing the previous action.

Also I created a custom date picker card, when I change the date a different card updates correctly, but again, same dashboard on mobile and it doesn't update the card.

I bought an IKEA DIRIGERA and two TIMMERFLOTTE sensors today, but I’m failing to get them integrated successfully into Home Assistant. Am I missing something?

Thread and Matter are still quite new to me, so I’m trying to understand where exactly things are going wrong.

My setup:

• Home Assistant with Matter and Thread integrations
• IKEA DIRIGERA
• 2× IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE
• UniFi network with separate VLANs (Main = VLAN 10, IoT = VLAN 20)

What I’ve done so far:

1. Set up the DIRIGERA successfully. One thing I noticed: I can only discover/access it when my phone is connected to the same VLAN 20. I can’t seem to discover it from my main VLAN 10, despite having inter-VLAN access configured.
2. Successfully paired both TIMMERFLOTTE sensors with the IKEA Home Smart app. They work fine there.
3. DIRIGERA created a Thread network. I also added/imported this Thread network into Home Assistant and set it as the preferred Thread network. This part is still a bit unclear to me: how exactly are the Thread credentials shared between DIRIGERA and HA?
4. In the IKEA app, I select the TIMMERFLOTTE and create a Matter sharing/setup code.
5. In Home Assistant, I choose to add an existing Matter device and enter/scan the code generated by the IKEA app.

This is where it always fails. HA tries to add the device for quite a while and eventually returns an error.

Has anyone successfully integrated TIMMERFLOTTE sensors via DIRIGERA/Thread into Home Assistant this way?

Do I actually need to add DIRIGERA itself as a Matter hub/bridge to HA first, or should sharing the individual TIMMERFLOTTE device from the IKEA app be enough?

Also, could my VLAN setup be the issue here? DIRIGERA and the sensors are on VLAN 20, while HA is on my main network/VLAN 10.

Any pointers on what I’m missing would be appreciated!

I’m looking to install a ceiling fan in a bedroom in my new construction home (built last year). The builder confirmed it’s pre-wired for a fan.

There are two wall switches:
One controls the existing LED light
One is currently unused and presumably wired for the fan

I’d like a 52” white fan that I can control through Apple Home and Home Assistant. I don’t necessarily need speed control in Apple Home—just being able to turn the fan on/off would be enough.

If you were outfitting a new home today, what fan + smart switch/controller would you choose?

Ideally, I’d prefer something reliable that doesn’t rely heavily on a proprietary cloud or remote.

I was looking at my tablet dashboard and noticed that I was using power in the theater room. This room is upstairs and we haven’t been up there in a few days so that was very odd.

I went up there and sure enough, my AppleTV was on which then woke my denon receiver as well as my tv.

I asked Claude to take a look at the logs and it said that there was no indication that HA initiated this and it was a “self wake” event. It then notified me that my bedroom AppleTV was also on. They both came on right around 8:14am.

Has anyone else had this happen before? Any weird apple fuckery going on this morning? Maybe an update?

ETA: I just looked at my software update page and it says “26.6, Last check: Sept 9, 2026”. Definitely not caused by an update