homeassistant

Hi all,

I'm looking for zigbee temp and humidity sensors that work with HA, are pretty accurate and either are mains powered or have use a battery that can be recharged e.g. AA or AAA.

I like the Sonoff SNZB-02D, but they use disposable coin cell batteries.

One I found that looks like it might fulfill these criteria is

https://3reality.com/product/temperature-and-humidity-sensor-with-digital-lcd-display/

But they're kinda spendy. Anyone have any recommendations?

Hi all,

I’m looking for a reliable smart plug with current/energy monitoring that meets these requirements:

• Ideally <1s time resolution (I need fast updates, not just averaged every few seconds.)
• Wi‑Fi connectivity preferred, with MQTT client support out of the box (similar to how Shelly devices can publish to a local MQTT server when the load current changes. I'd rather not have to poll a device's HTTP endpoint a few times per second.)
• Provisioning/config: Bluetooth for setup would be a big bonus (I think the Shelly Plug S Gen3 can do this, too.)
• Reliability/manufacturer: Needs to be from a well‑supported brand or at least something that’s proven stable and not a "cheap no‑name" option.

I’ve been testing a few devices already. Most average power consumption over longer periods, while e.g. newer Shelly devices come frustratingly close to being exactly what I need.

Does anything on the market provide sub‑second resolution for current measurement? Most consumer plugs I’ve tried either average readings or only publish once every few seconds, which isn’t quite enough for my use case (measuring transient behavior and categorising operating modes of certain appliances).

Has anyone come across a plug that ticks these boxes? Or maybe a hidden configuration with Shelly devices that I’ve missed?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Edit: What I’m actually looking for is a fast response time to significant changes in power consumption (by more than a set amount or a percentage), so a high sample rate within the plug. A constant delay until the message is sent out wouldn’t be a problem at all.

Does anyone have much experience with robot lawnmowers? I've been considering one, but trying to find info now involves digging through a lot of AI slop.

Id prefer one that plays nicely with HA, as well as not internet dependant. It's also for a small garden (50m²).

The best bet I've seen so far is to modify a yardforce mower with open mower. What other (good) options are there?

Hi,

What I'm trying to do is that if someone sends a message on my telegram with the text: "/todo (name-of-task) (due-date) (due-time)" (example: /todo empty the dishwasher 16-08-2025 14:00)

to get that in node-red and put that in vikunja via an http-request (or if you think there's something better, please advise)

I'm getting problems in the form of "message not found" and/or "malformed token" (that last one is a bit longer but you get the point)

The token works with a curl command, so I guess it's ok. I tried adding the headers to each http request in my flow and also tried leaving the headers empty and putting them in the function. Same result.

Can you help me out?

code located at: https://pastebin.com/suT710Yn

Has anyone got any recommendations for a small wired speaker that would be good to connect to the Voice Preview Edition. I'm really enjoying it, but just wish the audio quality could be better.

Also are there any other improvements that you can recommend I add to it?

I created a very simple hacky card to download and display Met Office rain images for a few hours ahead. It is probably very buggy so use at your own risk :) Unfortunately the API only supports the whole UK or Europe at the moment so can't zoom in. But I find it quite useful.

Not the things that you depend on, but automations that are just for fun

Luckily I already have a Plex/Jellyfin server, so having a device running 24/7 isn’t an issue. But my experience is primarily on the HTPC side of things, so I’d appreciate any tips! I’m probably going to run it headless for now, but may eventually install a dashboard once the dust has settled on getting this running.

I recently integrated self-hosted Ollama with Home Assistant and it's pretty cool.

I'd like to also be able to ask the Home Assistant Assist things like "What movies are playing in MyCity?" and have the model in Ollama search the web and summarize the results. I use Open-WebUI as a frontend for Ollama and it can do that, but I can't see how configure HA's Assist to do it.

Has anyone done this?

Another example would be to ask "what's the weather today?", and I realize that HA has a weather integration built in and thus I wouldn't need Ollama to search the web for results. Is there a web search integration for HA, so that any question (like "what movies are playing") could be passed to it?

My ultimate goal is to be able to ask questions about the world (i.e., search the web and summarize the results) and control Home Assistant devices. It doesn't have to be HA's Assist, but if I were to use Open-WebUI* for example, I'd have to come up with a way to link my audio-listening devices to it. It also doesn't have to be one "entity", but it should "feel like" one entity to the user (i.e., I don't want to have to speak to a different device or have a different wakeword to ask about the world than I do to control Home Assistant).

*Open-WebUI has integrations to control Home Assistant.

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What is everyone using for the LLM model for HA voice when selfhosting ollama? I've tried llama and qwen with varying degrees of understanding my commands. I'm currently on llama as it appears a little better. I just wanted to see if anyone found a better model.

Edit: as pointed out, this is more of a speech to text issue than llm model. I'm looking into the alternatives to whisper

Hello,

quite new to the world of HA, but I've successfully set up some Tradfri LEDs and integrated my Valetudo robot to.

I've got a RP4 with a Sonoff dongle, and use ZHA to integrate all my devices.

Now, whenever I try to add the IKEA Styrbar remote control, it does get added to the device list, but no information about battery, nor firmware is displayed. Also, ZHA does not registrate any infos sent from the device, when clicking a button on it, nor does the “identify” command does anything recognizable on the device itself.

I've searched the internet for a bit, and for some it has worked by switchting to zigbee2mqtt. I've tried adding the device there with the same result: It does get recognized, but no information is received by the remote or from the remote.

I'm currently in the process of trying to manually update the firmware, but there is only one link to one firmware version, so I've found, and it's from 2023, the newest firmware for the Styrbar should be from August 2024.

So, did you happen to also have similar trouble with this particular device? Is it a good idea to manually flash the firmware? Do you know where I can find the newest firmware?

Thank you all! :-)

Edit: This comment by @swizzlestick@lemmy.zip led me to update my Sonoff ZBDongle-P from its 2021 firmware. After removing the remote from ZHA and adding it back again, everything works like a charm. Sometimes it's the easy thing you miss, so never get annoyed by questions like: "Did you try turning it off and on again?" 😁

I've been using an Amazon tablet with Fully Kiosk for a few months but it frankly sucks ass. Keeps resetting itself or kicking back to the Amazon home screen to name a few issues.

If money isn't a factor, what tablet do you think would be the dream choice for integrating as a wall mountable Hass tablet?

Fully Kiosk is a great app but still very hacky, so I'd like a tablet that doesn't require workarounds to keep it in kiosk mode.

I hate telemetry and spyware as well so I guest that puts anything Amazon or Google based out of the equation.

In the office we have an automation system that talks in modbus. Right now I have Node Red that receives data from modbus (via IP), sends it to MQTT and send messages from MQTT to modbus. In HA I have 15 MQTT climates that works. I want to bypass Node Red; I've added an automation that gets triggered when a MQTT values arrives and sends the new value to mobus:

alias: Climate_update_modbus_setpoint_studio1
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: mqtt
    topic: home_assistant/thermostat/setpoint/Studio1
actions:
  - data:
      hub: picnet
      address: 1099
      value: "{{ (trigger.payload | float * 10) | int }}"
    action: modbus.write_register
mode: queued

The problem is that the modbus change takes a lot.

• I change the climate setpoint, after about 0.5 seconds the MQTT value changes and the automation gets triggered
• the modbus register changes in a range of about 0.5-3 seconds
• sometimes the automation gets triggered and I see the trigger bar yellow instead of blue and the modbus register changes after longer

With Node Red I have no problem with modbus. What can I check to try to find the source of the problem?

I've been running a very simple Home Assistant setup for a while now - just a few lights and a door lock. I've added a bit of monitoring and data gathering basically to see how MQTT works.

I installed a Reolink camera intending to setup Frigate PVR and do all the good stuff (including more cameras) with that, but my hardware is old and I need a TPU and they're all out of stock and back ordered until October, at best. I've tried ZoneMinder but couldn't get over all the false positives with fog and rain etc. So, I had given up on my camera project for a while.

Then I installed the Reolink integration in Home Assistant and see that it has basic "AI" capability and I can trigger automations based on "person seen" etc. I already created a basic "save 30 seconds of video if you see a person". I've got pretty basic requirements and can probably be happy with a few more basic automations like this, but this seems almost a waste - there is so much capability there. I had a bit of a look in the internal integrations repository and HACS and I can't see anything that looks like a PVR.

Does it exist?

Is it something I shouldn't be trying to do with Home Assistant? There was no noticeable increase in CPU usage when I enabled my test automation so I assume the "AI" is happening in the camera. I don't see a downside??

Edit - I've continued working and reading more about the Reolink Integration and now partially answer my own question: I think I'm going to be happy with just the Reolink integration and some automations. It seems to work very well!

I've got an IKEA Tradfri LED driver and a Rodret dimmer. When I first installed them I thought it would be good to also control some non-IKEA pendant lights with the same dimmer, in sync with the cabinet lights connected to the Tradfri - so, I created automations in Home Assistant corresponding to each of the actions the dimmer can perform and this is working fine. However, we've decided not to control the pendant lights in sync with the cabinet lights so it's now unnecessarily complicated. I plan to remove the automations and link the Rodret direct to the Tradfri again.

I understand that I can do this by following the IKEA procedure to pair the devices. But I'm also curious about the option in Home Assistant to bind devices.

Finally to my question - are these two methods to achieve the same result, or is IKEA pairing somehow different than Zigbee binding?

I lost my esphome config in HA. I have several devices (sonoff S31) that show up in HA asking for encryption keys when I try to add them, which I don't have as old HA vm is gone. Is there anyway to reset them to base esphome config without disassembling and reflashing esphome? From what I can tell googling this, the answer is no, but thought I'd ask before I go ahead with that plan.

I thought I'd pop this up here, as I've now had mine almost a year.

I've had sonoff zigbee sensors for a while, and wanted to try this slightly updated one with a display.
To cut a long story short:

• It works
• It communicates and pairs with HA ZHA integration out of the box.
• I've not had any issues at all since I bought it.
• The display is clear
• The bracket sticks to the wall, then the sensor magnets into the bracket. The sensor also has a fold-out stand for placing on a surface.
• After almost 1 year on the included battery, it's showing 60%
• I paid about £12, they're now around £14

Battery use should obviously be taken with a pinch of salt, but I would not be surprised if it's still trucking after 2 years.

Accuracy is fine for consumer level gear

I also discovered (after updating to HA latest) that temperature and humidity thresholds can be set on the device.
And that it will show symbols on the display when these limits are breached. By default, it shows a snowflake when it's under 19'C.

So, yeah. For areas where people are likely to want to check the temperature quickly, they're neat little dooberies.

I built a new house last year and moved in this January. This is my first time living in a house that's air tight enough to have an air exchanger. Through the winter it was fine - I just left it run its own Eco mode and everything seemed good. I'm finding spring really frustrating though - most days are nice and warm and we open windows, most nights are cool and we close the windows. I don't like wasting electricity by running the air exchanger all day when the windows are open.

I've considered window sensors and a smart plug on the air exchanger, but I don't really want to install 13 window sensors.

Are there air quality sensors that are accurate, and reliable, enough for me to turn the air exchanger on whenever the CO2, or whatever it is that make a house feel stuffy, level gets high enough?

My air exchanger is a very basic "builder" model and won't do this itself. It has an air quality sensor and changes the fan level to what it thinks we need, but it won't turn off when we don't need it.