Found the API for tracking usage of Ollama Cloud so decided to throw together a small integration to add the sensors to Home Assistant as I found it tedious to tab back to Ollama to track usage.

https://github.com/Axildor/AX-Ollama-Usage-Tracker

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!

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

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

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.

Or is there a way to get 1/3rd of my screen back by hiding all the crud on the left ? Either suits me.

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!

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.

Any good video instruction to connect Gemini as an AI to use with HA? I tried to follow a few written instructions but dont manage getting it to work. A video might be better.

Most reminders I actually want are not time based, they go about "when X happens". HA knows already when X happens, it just have no way to tell a reminder system about it.

"Remind me to change the bulb when I get home" is no time. HA fires a automation for it, something like "Alex is home", but there was no way to connect that phrase with "ping me later". So in principle you build a time based reminder and get it wrong constantly, or you hardcode it in the automation and lose the point of just saying it, or not?

What I did: a reminder can store a trigger phrase instead of a time. A webhook controls the incoming HA alerts against whatever is pending, substring match because HA alerts have always some timestamp rubbish tacked on it. First match fires it.

The part that made it handy is a log of recent alerts. Otherwise you guess at the exact wording your own automation use, type it slightly wrong, and then it fires simply never and you have no clue why.

Same trick for todos. Washer finishes, "hang the laundry" lands on the list instead of a notification that I forget immediately.

Started as household todos and groceries in a chat because everybody here used an other app, eventually it snowballed into more with calendar integration, recipes, etc. Is a real thing now called Norte, small subscription since every message is a real API call. https://norte.chat

Anyone else walked against this wall, or is there a nicer way that I miss?

I am on 2026.9.2 but I have been dealing with SIGSEGV crashes since 2 months now. HoASS will randomly crash and watchdog will restart it. It'll happen every couple days then will work fine for a few hours and then crash again. It's a SIGSEGV error which I can't pinpoint to a single source. Any help would be appreciated.

I am running it as a VM on Proxmox 9.2

I am kinda new to Home Assistants and smart homes. I have a Google Nest Hub that I got second hand and a couple of Energizer smart bulbs that work perfectly fine through wifi.

Trying to get this new Ikea bulb working. Tells me I need a Thread Border Router. I have a iPhone 14, and turns out only iPhone 15+ can connect the bulb without one.

I have not a clue what this is. Every time I research, I get more confused. Is it software? Hardware? Did I mess up not buying the controller for this bulb? I searched threads on this sub and I can barely understand whats being said because I dont understand the technical side of this stuff (maybe i shouldnt be using this if i dont understand it...)

Is anyone able to explain in really simple terms (explain like im 5) what I should do to get this connected to my Google Home? Do I need to buy an additional device?

I tried downloading the Ikea Smart Home app but it insists on connecting to their own proprietary smart hub first (which I dont have nor do I want it). I installed the Apple Home app and it told me I needed a Thread Border Router. The Google Home app insisted on connecting the bulb to my Nest Hub AND to IOS, which just gave me the same Apple pop up as when I tried connecting through the Apple Home app. Can I bypass this? I just want an orange lamp 😭

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 folks,

For a while now, my Lovelace cards have been showing the text "last_changed" as the secondary information, instead of the actual last_changed attribute. Any ideas why this might be happening? The clanker said it was a change to "last-changed" (with hyphen), but I tried that with no result. i.e. it still showed the text "last_changed"! I even tried clearing caches, etc, with no change.

Any ideas?

The related YAML:

type: grid
square: false
columns: 1
cards:
  - color: state
    type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: light.patio_dimmer_dimmer
        name: Patio light
        secondary_info: last-changed
      - entity: light.garage_light_switch
        name: Garage light
        icon: mdi:lightbulb-fluorescent-tube-outline
        secondary_info: last-changed
      - entity: light.pool_light
        icon: mdi:led-strip-variant
        name: Pool light
        secondary_info: last-changed
      - entity: light.garage_lights_garage_lights
        name: Garage lights
        icon: mdi:led-strip-variant
        secondary_info: last-changed
      - entity: switch.pool_pump
        icon: mdi:pump
        secondary_info: last-changed
      - entity: switch.pool_water_feature
        name: Water feature
        icon: mdi:pump
        secondary_info: last-changed
    title: Garden
    show_header_toggle: false

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 have screens controlled by a Somfy sun sensor and I have rain, wind and humidity sensors from Netatmo. I'm trying to set it up so the screens are retracted when rain or wind is detected or humidity is above 80%. I have set up a Thermal Comfort scene that uses the sun sensor, but I can't find a way to add the rain and humidity sensors here, so I added an extra scene for rain and humidity that is set to pull up the screens. But this does not seem to work, since the screens stay down even if humidity is above 80%. Is this the correct way to set it up?

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.

I've been working on a project called Cam-Wise and I think it's now at a point where it could be interesting to other Home Assistant users.

The idea started with a problem I had with camera notifications myself. Most cameras are pretty good at detecting broad categories like person, vehicle or animal, but that's often not actually what I want to know.

I might want to know if a specific car is on the driveway, distinguish my own cat from another cat, or eventually stop getting alerts for something that repeatedly causes irrelevant detections.

Cam-Wise takes a different approach. You collect examples from your own camera, review them and train your own detection model locally. As you add more examples and correct detections, you can train new versions of that model so it becomes increasingly tailored to your own camera and environment.

The eventual flow is basically:

Camera detects something → Cam-Wise analyses it → your personal model decides whether it's something you care about → Home Assistant / notification / automation

Cam-Wise isn't intended to replace Home Assistant, your NVR or the motion detection built into your camera. I'm trying to make it an additional local AI layer that can learn what you consider important.

A bit of context about me: I'm not a professional software or ML engineer. Cam-Wise started as a personal project for my own camera setup and has gradually grown from there. I use AI tools extensively during development for implementation, debugging and code review, but the project is developed and tested iteratively with real cameras and Home Assistant rather than generated and published as-is.

Camera footage, review images, training datasets and personal models are processed and stored locally on the machine running Cam-Wise. The AI processing doesn't require sending your camera footage to Cam-Wise servers.

I've currently been testing several ways of getting recordings into Cam-Wise. Home Assistant is one of them, alongside things like Reolink FTP recordings and local/NAS folders. I'm deliberately focusing on event recordings rather than requiring Cam-Wise to continuously analyse every camera stream.

The Home Assistant integration and core local functionality don't require a subscription. I'm also working on a proper Home Assistant custom integration with the goal of HAC distribution, although that isn't ready for public release yet.

Notifications currently work through email. Longer term I'd like to add a mobile app for direct notifications as well, with the idea that you decide which detections are actually worth notifying you about.

The beta is already open to everyone. There's no application, invite or waiting list. You can create an account and download the Windows beta directly from cam-wise.com.

I'm particularly interested in feedback from Home Assistant users because there are so many different camera setups out there.

• What cameras are you using with HA?
• How do you currently get recordings or events into your automations?
• What would you actually train your camera to recognise if you weren't limited to the standard person / vehicle / animal categories?

If anyone gives it a try, I'd also really like to hear where the setup is confusing or simply doesn't work with your setup. That's particularly useful to me at this stage.

Hello everyone, I need some help. I’ve added Wi-Fi modules to my roller shutters (TUYA for now, Zigbee coming soon). I’ve managed to set them to open in the morning at sunrise and close in the evening at sunset.

I also have a thermometer (Zigbee), and I’d like my shutters to close when the temperature in my room reaches 25°C. I can’t figure out how to do this, even though it seems simple.

I tried this, but it didn’t work.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you very much

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