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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/raptor_champs on 2024-06-25 00:39:13+00:00. *** 👋, after living 4 years in this house and adding a lot of automation we sold it, and the new buyers wanted the automation as part of the deal. Which we agree. I am a developer and am used to Hass. We have many moving parts : networking(vlan , firewall rules), blue iris for cameras and Hass, etc. things frequently stop working for one reason or another, it is a complex system, but I just go and fix myself. It is fine and fun for me.

However I want to setup the new owners for success. They are CPAs, know very little about automation and never heard about HASS. What should I do? Is there any newbie friendly dashboards? How can I setup something that won’t break?

For starters I will simplify their WiFi, and remove all firewall and vlan setup , also am planing to get a simpler nvr that works for ip cam, and have a simple Hass setup. Any recommendations?

Thanks

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/szymucha94 on 2024-06-25 02:24:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/unlucky_gagball on 2024-06-24 13:09:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/szymucha94 on 2024-06-24 11:54:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/QazCetelic on 2024-06-24 09:00:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/3d-designs on 2024-06-24 09:00:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/NorsePagan95 on 2024-06-24 00:22:16+00:00. *** Hey everyone, as the title says I want to move away from Google home to a fully local home assistant.

I used to love Google home but have lately found it to be terrible, it's either slow or full of "Hmm I don't know what device you mean" even when it's the only device of that name registered in Google home.

I have home assistant set up with the majority of my IoT devices on a local system, and have been using it for physical control from my phone etc when Google is being a pain or on the rare occasion my Internet goes down.

Does anyone have any good guides for setting up a local LLM with home assistant for full home control, ideally I would like an LLM that can access the Internet for questions I have about events or stuff so it can search the Internet for what I'm asking if but not rely on it for simple stuff or stuff that is in home assistant already.

Also if anyone has any good recommendations for wireless local speaker/mic systems I can use with home assistant that have 0 cloud reliance that would be much appreciated too

Thank you.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/NeoID on 2024-06-23 09:51:43+00:00. *** IKEA is apparently retiring the Fyrtur blinds. I've visited my local IKEA in Norway and noticed they where almost 50% off. Got told they will be discontinued in November this year. Anyone who has inside information if they are going to be replaced? I love these blinds and I'm about to move to another house so it's really unfortunate timing. Too early to buy them now without knowing the windows sizes, but the discount isn't bad at all. Would love to see a smaller second gen though...

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/gtwizzy8 on 2024-06-23 13:47:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BiHatch on 2024-06-24 02:38:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Sunday-Diver on 2024-06-23 19:51:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Incromulent on 2024-06-23 01:11:00+00:00. ***

I recently updated to the v18.0.0 Node-RED add-on and experienced widespread failures in my flow automations. After about 10 minutes of troubleshooting, I opted to restore from backup to get the lights working ASAP.

While I confirmed the breakdown of all zha_event listeners, the full extent of the update's impact on other HA connections remains unclear.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ButCaptainThatsMYRum on 2024-06-22 02:42:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/shannonhochkins on 2024-06-22 10:41:56+00:00. *** HA COMPONENT KIT - New Update & New Dashboard =============================================

A MASSIVE new update to the component kit was just released, a few minor breaking changes, nothing too dramatic, but lots of cool new features!

Links:

Discord: 

Repository: 

Documentation:  (documentation website not responsive, see demo)

@hakit/core - 

@hakit/components - 

4.0.0 =====================================================================

hakit/components ================

• AlarmCard - Alarm entities now fully supported, down to keypad control and more
• All Cards - now have the ability to display related entities and featured entities which behave similar to home assistants new features option
• Overhaul on the styles and responsiveness
• MULTILINGAL - the entire code base, core and components are now supported in all languages that home assistant supports and by default will render in your preferred language of choice from the config

hakit/core ==========

• NEW useDevice hook - a hook to retrieve the device information, this is different from useEntity
• NEW localize, useLocale, useLocales - hooks to help you with language optimisation - fully typed so you know what's available
• HassConnect - you can now login via a token as well as redirecting to the HA login screen

Much has changed in this release, see the notes below

Github Release ==============================================================================

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Jay_from_NuZiland on 2024-06-22 01:23:34+00:00. *** Ok not strictly HA related, but I guess from the myriad of people asking about location tracking that many people do not use the companion apps.

What is a decent app to centralise notifications?

I'd like to be able to revisit/review the notifications later, which HA's companion app doesn't let you do - once it is dismissed there's no way to see it again.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/daKEEBLERelf on 2024-06-21 23:35:49+00:00. *** moving to a new home and need to begin the process of planning how to smart-ify the house, specifically the light switches. My current house is smaller and with fewer switches. I used Z-wave leviton switches, so I'm familiar with the process of switching those out.

That can become expensive obviously, especially as the new house is much bigger with a lot more switches. Is Shelly still a good cost-effective solution? Any other lower cost solutions/bulk discount sites I should look at?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Sir-Barks-a-Lot on 2024-06-21 18:26:42+00:00. *** I was looking at the integrations page for Homeassistant

And notice it says x10 has only on active installation. I happen to be using it in Homeassistant, but really? I'm the only one? Or is that inaccurate?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Nickduino on 2024-06-21 12:07:17+00:00. *** It's a Chinese generic (the listing says Topton but...) fanless N100 that comes with no manual, no spec sheet or anything of that sort.

Here is a pic of its guts:

I think it's a 2230 M.2 slot with an E key, my hope is that it is compatible with the $25 M.2 Accelerator A+E key. But the slot is called "WiFi1" specifically, not "M.2 PCIe". Is there a risk of a bad surprise there? Like it's not connected to a PCIe line but to a sub-chipset that handles network connectivity directly or something?

Does it show that I have no idea what I'm talking about? 😅

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/EmadMokhtar on 2024-06-19 15:55:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nickazevedo on 2024-06-20 18:46:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/longunmin on 2024-06-20 18:06:09+00:00. *** Ok, I did something (in my mind) dope as hell.

My new favorite automation. I have a camera in my kitchen, along with a esppresence.

Using combination of those sensors and time filters, I'm able to tell the first time I come into the kitchen for the day.

Which is cool, because now earlier in the morning, I run RSS feeds and weather through Ollama to create a daily briefing and I cache it and the TTS.

So as soon as I enter the kitchen for the first time in the morning, I have my daily news briefing read to me in the voice of Jarvis. Automatically, without the need for any voice commands or prompts. Gives me the news and weather, and then provides any reminders for weather based needs (i.e. "looks like rain, don't forget to bring an umbrella sir")

I just think that's neat

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ExpensiveRecord9842 on 2024-06-20 17:22:50+00:00. ***

1. Since I and my wife have the habit of losing our phones around the house, I have two little widgets in my home dashboard that when clicked rings my phone (even when silent or on do not disturb)

type: custom:mushroom-template-card primary: Ring [REDACTED] phone secondary: '' icon: mdi:cellphone tap_action: action: call-service service: notify.mobile_app_[REDACTED] data: data: channel: alarm_stream ledcolor: red color: red visibility: public media_stream: alarm_stream title: Phone lost message: stop losing your phone target: {} icon_color: blue

1. I have used adb to automatically adjust the backlight of my TV (when it is on) depending on the time of the day.

`alias: Slowly adapt TV backlight with time description: "" trigger:

• platform: time_pattern minutes: /10
• platform: state entity_id:
• binary_sensor.living_room_tv_power_monitor to: "on" from: "off" for: hours: 0 minutes: 1 seconds: 0 condition:
• condition: state entity_id: binary_sensor.living_room_tv_power_monitor state: "on" action:
• service: input_number.set_value metadata: {} data: value: >- {% if states.binary_sensor.grid_power.state == 'on' %} {{ [1, ([(12 - (now().hour - 12) | abs)*10, 100] | min)] | max }} {% else %} {{ [1, ([(12 - (now().hour - 12) | abs)*5, 50] | min)] | max }} {% endif %} target: entity_id: input_number.living_room_backlight mode: single`

This automation tracks a slider (input number helper) I have in the dashboard which allows me to quickly adjust the TV backlight. As suggested here you can use the command dumpsys settings to find the correct setting name for your TV.

`alias: Change living room TV backlight with slider description: "" trigger:

• platform: state entity_id:
• input_number.living_room_backlight condition: [] action:
• service: androidtv.adb_command metadata: {} data: command: >- settings put global picture_backlight {{ states.input_number.living_room_backlight.state | int }} target: entity_id: media_player.android_tv_[REDACTED] mode: single`

1. I like how easy I can interrupt my kids watching TV by just saying:

`alias: Play al-jazeera news from home voice assistant description: "" trigger:

• platform: conversation command:
• Play Al Jazeera news
• It is news time
• it's news time
• Al Jazeera news
• play jazeera news condition: [] action:
• service: androidtv.adb_command target: entity_id: media_player.android_tv_[REDACTED] data: command: >- am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo" mode: single`

I am pretty sure people might have better ideas on how to do some of these things, and I am happy to hear them.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/XeKToReX on 2024-06-20 12:31:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/theloneranger08 on 2024-06-19 15:03:52+00:00.

Original Title: I'd like to automatically unlock my front door when I get home. What's the best way to do this? Geo location doesn't seem to be very accurate. I was thinking of using an esp board to detect presence but want to hear y'all's thoughts.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ARAMP1 on 2024-06-20 01:41:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BadMadScientist on 2024-06-20 00:40:21+00:00. *** Hello, hopefully a simple question.

I have about 30 zigbee devices, and growing weekly; when I first set it up it was likely 8 devices.

My coordinator is SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2 - my HA is inside a virtualbox; i have 5 HUE bulbs, a handful of sengled bulbs (non repeater) and close to 20 ThirdReality power monitoring plugs. The coordinator is in the middle of the house, on the middle floor; it's connected back to the main server via a powered USB hub (10' cable from server to USB hub, 6' cable from hub to coordinator).

My zigbee network is on channel 25.

I have two other wifi networks - one for home use (tp-link X55 mesh, channel 10 & 36, and an IOT orbi mesh (1 main, 1 sat) on channel 6 (5ghz is switched off). I also have a LoRa network (YoSmart / YoLink) with 62 devices on that network.

My question is, as the zigbee network grows, does the routing change to utilize newer nearer router power outlets? My network is getting laggy in some areas, and a couple of the bulbs are very laggy, with some "undelivered" messages in the HA log. Some days, two of the lamps will stop responding for a while, then catch up a couple of minutes later (so if you turn it on & off five times, and it does nothing, when it does catch up it will go on & off five times quickly).

Any ideas on what I can try to stablize the zigbee network?

my current zigbee network.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ph34r on 2024-06-19 16:45:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/code_to_bet on 2024-06-19 14:45:51+00:00. *** My wife and I just purchased a house and I'm excited to make it a "Smart Home". We've lived in a small condo for the past few years so I have been able to get away with just having various smart plugs that I would control with alexa.

I stumbled upon Home Assistant in my research for the best way to create a smart home. Some of the solutions you all have is truly unbelievable to me and far beyond what I thought I could do.

The issue is that I am pretty tech savy but HA seems like a whole other level. I am going to study these forums the next few months but I don't think my knowledge will be up to par by the time we move in so my question is two part.

1. Security is my biggest concern and I want that day 1. Can I just pay for Ring or Simplisafe then later connect it with HA when I'm ready? Is there a better solution to use for cameras and sensors for the time being that I can later connect with HA?
2. If I get the HA Green is that relatively simple to set up for a complete newbie with no coding experience?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/morbidlyobesepenguin on 2024-06-18 16:53:44+00:00. *** API seems to be having issues, starting at 10:56 CDT.

``` 2024-06-18T16:37:58.481Z ring-mqtt Starting Device Discovery... 2024-06-18T16:37:58.481Z ring-mqtt 2024-06-18T16:37:58.481Z ring-mqtt New location: REDACTED (REDACTED) 2024-06-18T16:37:58.727Z ring-mqtt WARNING - Unhandled Promise Rejection 2024-06-18T16:37:58.727Z ring-mqtt Response code 500 (Server Error) 2024-06-18T16:37:58.727Z ring-mqtt HTTPError: Response code 500 (Server Error) at Request. (/app/ring-mqtt/node_modules/ring-client-api/node_modules/got/dist/source/as-promise/index.js:118:42) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) 2024-06-18T16:45:17.497Z ring-mqtt Home Assistant state topic homeassistant/status received message: offline

```

edit: If you absolutely cannot wait for a fix to be pushed, you can modify the addon's docker image as follows to restore functionality. Don't forget to commit the docker image when you're done.

``` Modify /app/ring-mqtt/node_modules/ring-client-api/lib/rest-client.js in vi once you've accessed the docker image and change "appApiBaseUrl = 'https://app.ring.com/api/v1/'" to "appApiBaseUrl = 'https://prd-api-us.prd.rings.solutions/api/v1/'" on line 22. It appears to fix the problem.

```

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/kritike24 on 2024-06-17 16:33:02+00:00. *** Share your frigate dashboard

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/scgreg on 2024-06-18 13:31:44+00:00. *** I’ve had an automated home for getting close to 10 years now. Lights, motion sensors, alarm, cameras, audio - it’s all automated, and run by HA on a self hosted proxmox server.

I’m moving soon and wondering what everyone would do if they weren’t tied into their ecosystem? Who’s top of the game in their categories?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JesseWebDotCom on 2024-06-19 02:51:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Bod1173 on 2024-06-19 00:13:29+00:00. *** As a Home assistant noob, after a few weeks I have been strutting with a swagger around the house with Z2m and 52 connected devices set up, and thinking I'm the main man. 🙄

That all came to a crash and burn this evening when I talked the wife into getting the aqara E1 blind motor for her very expensive velvet Roman bedroom blind. 'Just go downstairs and make a brew, I'll be 5 minutes' I said.

5 minutes later with all the blind ripped down, all the strings snapped, me stood there shitting myself.....

Could I stop the bastard as it was going up, could I balls, no idea why, all I know is its cost me at least 400 quid, as she now wants it replaced and not me dismantling it to try to repair.

A frosty evening ensued.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Decent_ension7526 on 2024-06-18 23:17:54+00:00. *** I have two questions, currently I know of: Alexa, Google home, Apple HomePod.

Would you recommend any other I should consider?

If I wanted to build a DIY or one that isn't uploading to the cloud (for privacy) are there any options?

My HA hub is a Pi5.