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I have been fighting Tuya lights for some time (Costco Feit branded color bulbs). I had picked them up at something like $5/each there in a 4 pack and overall have been happy with them. This started to change about a few months ago, it seemed that they would lose their pairing with Tuya's servers in China and would randomly and usually just when I needed them the most, become unavailable. I had placed all 4 of them in the apartment, 3 in the living room and one in the bedroom. The one where I felt it the most - the bedroom. 5 minutes before I retire for the evening, it's set to turn on the light, and then after 30 minutes, if I haven't already, turns it off. I also have the living room lights programmed to turn on during certain times of the day and off using the Simple Scheduler plugin (I highly recommend it!)

Fast forward to last week, I was sick and tired of the random connectivity issues so I went on the hunt and settled with a pack 6 Matter color bulbs and jumped at the chance. So, I bought them, and they arrived today. I can honestly tell you, that there was absolutely NO problem paring them to Home Assistant and the color control is amazingly accurate! The comfort of knowing that I shouldn't have to worry about losing my light connectivity is priceless now. :) If anyone is curious, this is the brand and so far I can say they are simply amazing!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLTWFJWY?psc=1

About Tuya and Tuya Local

I'm not totally abandoning Tuya itself, but the goal is to eventually be independent from their devices. Right now, I have a dehumidifier and all of my old lights and a massively long 400 light string light all connected via Tuya. The bulbs, will probably be stored as a "backup" or filed away for use in non-essential areas where connectivity is not as important.

Tuya Local is an amazing and awesome option, which completely lets you control your devices locally and I use that on the dehumidifer. I also had the old bulbs on there as well. The string lights, I tried, but it's a major process of learning what 'DP' Codes correspond to what color you want. I just left those paired to the cloud as Tuya provided the necessary mapping.

You may ask why then, if I had them on Tuya Local, why didn't I just use that to control my lights? The answer lies within the process of obtaining the local key from Tuya. If anyone who has done this knows, Tuya loves to change up their site's navigation and settings and it's seemingly random when they do. I finally got smart though and mapped out the device ID and the super secret and important "Local Key" and recorded those in Joplin. I lived with them like this for a couple of years, but I started to encounter random "crashing" of the lights if you will, where they would go offline and in spite of switching to Tuya Cloud (I have the app on my phone), they would refuse to become available, so I had to factory reset the bulbs to the ever familiar blinking lights process. What I didn't realize at the time, but I later did, when you reset the lights, the local key also resets to a new one. There was a time too, where more recently and was my final decision when within a 72 hour period, I had to reset a light three times.

Matter

It's encouraging to finally be able to use the Matter integration in Home Assistant, it's justifiably flagged as (Beta). Simply put, there is a slight delay from when you trigger the light before it turns on or reacts. This really isn't a big deal for us though. Additionally, I was able to add these to Google Home effortlessly which also makes them Wife Approved. :) The lights do not have a delay there, also, the app they want you to use experiences no delay.

Overall, for my first experience with the Matter devices, I was simply amazed at how easy it was to connect. I discovered that Home Assistant asks you to use the phone app to scan the QR code on the box (The bulb in this case) to obtain the pairing code and it seamlessly integrated it. My phone is a Pixel 8a which has Android 15 on it and before I even got to Home Assistant, it was asking me to scan the QR Code for matter setup.

**Light Quality and impressions

I will say these are pretty bright and not blindly so, but they are plenty bright. :) They have great color to them and the color temperature is awesomely simple. Ours are set to a nice 4000k.

Construction of the bulbs feel to be of decent quality. At least with Amazon, where I bought these, finding locally controlled bulbs was not too easy, and this brand (OREIN) was the only seller which sold Matter devices. If you are looking for a supported Matter light bulb, this may be what you need. :)

Solved!

Solution was to create a group and perform an action on that:

action: light.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: light.kitchen_cabinet_sink
data_template:
  brightness_pct: "{{100*state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling','brightness')/255}}"

Original:

Trying to run an automation to match one light's state (on/off/dim) to another's. Have this currently:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

That works fine to turn the lights on or off, and I have triggers in the automation for that and changes in brightness. But using a non-static number for brightness_pct (yes, I know I'll probably have to math the 0-100 scale instead of 0-255) is giving me trouble. When I try something like this:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: {{state_attr("light.kitchen_sink_ceiling", "brightness")}}
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

I have also tried {{states.light.kitchen_sink_ceiling.attributes.brightness}} instead. Both seem to have the correct value when I play around in the developer tools. But when I put it in the automation, I get an error that a float value was expected. I see some similar issues online, but it always seems to be in a different context and people fix it by changing some value I never had.****

Hi.

This works fine in the template editor:

{% if states('sensor.apollo_mtr_1_cca750_presence_target_count') | int > 0 %}
  Detected
{% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_1_occupancy', 'on') %}
  Detected
{% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_2_occupancy', 'on') %}
  Detected
{% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_3_occupancy', 'on') %}
  Detected
{% else %}
  Not Detected
{% endif %}

But when I try to create a binary_sensory from it in configuration.yaml, I get "'binary_sensor' is undefined":

template:
  - binary_sensor:
    - name: "Lounge Presence"
      state: >-
        {% if states('sensor.apollo_mtr_1_cca750_presence_target_count') | int > 0 %}
          Detected
        {% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_1_occupancy', 'on') %}
          Detected
        {% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_2_occupancy', 'on') %}
          Detected
        {% elif is_state('binary_sensor.apollo_msr_2_c7bfe8_radar_zone_3_occupancy', 'on') %}
          Detected
        {% else %}
          Not Detected
        {% endif %}
      device_class: presence

I'm probably using incorrect syntax or something. Can anyone help me with this?

Hello everyone,

Haven't deal with my dashboard for a long time so want to take advantage of some recent features like visibility condition (not sure that's proper wording) to create a new clean adaptive phone and tablet dashboard, but missing inspiration so curious how yours looks like. How did you organised it? which card (also card combination) is your favourite?

So sue me, I don't keep up all that well with all the changes in Home Assistant and I recently found something that is quite useful to me.

Because I live in the American South and because we recently had our water plumbing explode, the humidity in our house tends to be sky high. Like 60% or higher high. To counter this, a while ago I picked up a large dehumidifier from Amazon which has worked pretty well controlling the humidity in the house until recently.

Recently though, I noticed that the humidifier kept turning off and on. Dehumidifier was set to 35 but the household thermostat was reading 55% humidity. As a check, I set the dehumidifier to run continuously. It stayed running and the humidity in the house started dropping and went to the 30’s in the room where the device is located and down to 46 at the thermostat. My conclusion was that the humidity sensor on the device had failed.

I could go the hard route. Take apart the dehumidifier, try to find the problem and do a board level repair. Go the expensive route and replace a generally functioning dehumidifier. Or I could take cheap, simple, and admittedly jerry-rigged option. Home Assistant.

Turns out that Home Assistant has a new (to me anyways) helper called a Generic Hygostat that can connect a humidity sensor like this one to a smart outlet or plug and control that outlet based on a humidity level you set. It can be set to control either a humidifier or dehumidifier. Once you've created the helper you can add the helper to your dashboard and it gives you thermostat like control over your de/humidifier. Pretty slick.

I'm considering upgrading my dumb digital thermostat. I'm only interested in one if it works seamlessly with HA (and is reasonably priced).

I figured I might be able to find some answers here. I've been off and on trying to install home assistant after setting up an old desktop with proxmox, but I've never been able to get it running. I've been getting this issue:

[supervisor.docker.interface] Can't install ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.10.3: 500 Server Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.47/images/create?tag=2024.10.3&fromImage=ghcr.io%2Fhome-assistant%2Fqemux86-64-homeassistant&platform=linux%2Famd64: Internal Server Error ("Get "https://ghcr.io/v2/": net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)")

Attempting to go to ghcr.io/v2/ seperately in browser results in it saying I'm unauthorized

I just bought a 58" TCL TV with roku built in and could not get it to work with homeassistant. It would go offline after 20 minutes of being powered off. I have my IOT devices in a clan with no internet access but I decided to update the TV and it still didn't work.

What I found out I had to do was update the TV AND create a roku account so that this would finish the update. I then finally had the fast startup option and enabling that it works now! Even with internet access blocked again.

Hopefully this helps someone else.

Hey all, anyone know if there are any directions on how to swap out to the assist_satellite from this depreciated sensor? Normally when there is a swap like this, the Home_Assistant folks give us some directions, but I can't find squat on this.

My SmartThings Hub is (slowly) starting to error out more and more. I'm doing a soft reset monthly to keep everything up ( I did a hard reset about a year ago when I moved), which works, but I think it's time I start learning a new hub, preferably one not discontinued. My original plan was to put everything in Home Assistant when this time came, but a.) I really like it as my home coordinator with my custom scripts and addons and I don't want to mess with what is working right now and b.) while I'm getting the hang of running zigbee on there, zwave is in progress and thread...not really working most of the time.

So. I need to buy a general all-protocol hub; any recommendations that are fully compatible with Home Assistant? One with custom scripting would be a huge plus; I miss doing that in SmartThings.

Did something change recently with Home Assistant and Node Red? I upgraded and suddenly 20+ issues with messages like “Entity ID ‘switch.main_lights’ should be in the data.property, not the target property”

Hi everyone

So, that's a 2 in 1 post. First a more general question then looking for advice for a friend.

• What is your preferred way to access HA from outside (and why)?

• a friend of mine use duckdns and I often read (recently) that some people are having issue with it. Is wireguard a better way or another solution that is not too techy to deal with?

Is anyone else having issues with the Rheem Econet integration? It worked so well for so long but now it spends most of its time disconnected from Econet. It appears to reconnect every few minutes for a bit but it seems like every time I open the home assistant app, my thermostat is not functioning. The actual thermostat in my house is functioning normally and connected to the network.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Please don’t be scared; it is October, Halloween is coming, and so is the next Home Assistant release: 2024.10! 🎃

Does anyone know the current state for re-flashing Inovelli Blue switches to Thread? I haven’t been paying attention the last year so I don’t know if they released that or if it works reliably. I did try looking through the community pages without finding anything definite (plus that might not include any actual experience trying it)

I recently saw a couple new Thread devices, so maybe it’s time to start using that. My entire Zigbee network was intended to be flashable to Thread: all I have is SkyConnect and some Inovelli Blue switches. More importantly, that should be a good foundation for a strong mesh to support other devices (and I don’t have a reason for a strong Zigbee mesh). I know SkyConnect multi-protocol didn’t work out but I believe reflashing to Thread is fine. I know Inovelli Blue can’t be reflashed over the air, but that’s ok. Is there Thread firmware and what are your experiences with it?

Hello,

I'm looking for a keyboard for my alarm using alarmo on home assistant. I found this but it's too expensive : https://frient.com/products/intelligent-keypad/

Do you know similar products ?

Thanks

I'm excited to see this as I'm pretty much only use Z-Wave. Also interesting is they are developing their own dongle

Hello everyone,

When I first installed music assistant, it was recommended to get the beta version, so I did but for some time now, I have 2 music assistant server.

Was wondering if there a reason I should keep both?

Hello all, I am moving into a new apartment, and was planning on replacing the thermostats with Z-Wave ones. I currently have a Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave in my current apartment, and was planning on picking up a couple more.

When I was at the new place today, I took a look inside of one of the thermostats and saw something I was not expecting. They are all 120VAC line voltage thermostats. The heating and cooling is shared between the building, and whether heating or cooling is on is a whole building schedule. The person in the leasing office that was touring us around the new place when we got our keys said that it switches to heat in october or November.

Attached are a couple of photos of the thermostat and a photo of the vent in the wall (although not sure if that is helpful). The thermostat is a Honeywell T651A. I am not sure of what the actual HVAC equipment looks like.

This obviously throws a hamper in my plans, and now I have to look for alternatives. I am not super familiar with 120VAC HVAC, so I wanted to get some advice from others. I believe it is a heated/chilled water system, and the thermostat simply controls the pump/blower in the wall panel (one of the photos). The fact that there is both heating and cooling is what is confusing me, since all of the 120VAC thermostats I have seen are only for heating. Obviously it all boils down to how the temperature is compared to the set point. If the building switches to cooling (which won't be a problem for about 6 months after it switches I am guessing), the comparison will be backwards.

If anyone is able to point me to any resources on how I can learn about this control system, that would be great. I found the Stelpro KI Z-Wave Thermostat which I think will work, but I am not sure what happens when it switches to cooling in the spring. I prefer Z-Wave since I have found it to be far more reliable (especially in a larger building. This is a 7 floor building with ~15 units on each floor. So there is a lot of 2.4GHz traffic I assume), however if anyone knows of a product that will work for this (if the Stelpro one won't) I'm all ears.

I was accidentally locked out of home again, and I had to call a professional to open the lock.

But if someone was home, they could have just turned the knob of the door from inside. There's a device that can do that? It needs to do 3 full turns and it requires a bit of force to do that (armored door with iron bars that slide in every direction, so it has a big inertia to start)

I saw a ready solution on a store, the iseo x1r, but that costs 1000 euro + another 200 for the gateway (not mandatory but otherwise it uses proprietary Bluetooth protocol and so it can't talk with HA

HACS offers great additions to the functionality of HA, but there are so many options it feels overwhelming. What are your favorite HACS?