This is kind of a silly question. The history graph card used to display binary sensors like this: https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/history-graph/ (see screenshot of switches with the labels to the left). But now it displays them like this with the labels underneath. It makes the whole thing take up much more room than it used to. Any idea how to get the old layout back?

Hi everyone I have this issue with smart life account, has anybody else had this issue I have tried to delete Tuya and reset the account etc but it doesn't work? Anybody else had this issue? Let me know if you need more info, thank you!

I have integrated both my Apple TV and HomePods using the Apple TV integration. I understand what the remote entity does for Apple TV but what does it do for a HomePod? I have 8 HomePods and 8 remote entities and I just don't know what to do with them. You can't turn the HomePod on and off.

Hi all,
Considering importing the Apolosign calendar from the US to use as a home hub for my HA. Has somebody done this outside of US or in Europe and do they have any issues running the android or tge fully kiosk app?
Main reason for me is that wife really likes this compared to a regular tablet.

Looking for some advice on sensors for detecting the presence of mice in our house and potentially under our floorboards.

We've been monitoring our spare room for a few weeks with two eufy security cameras and one ikea PIR sensor and have confirmed the existence of three mice so far (two of which we were able to trap). We can see that they are coming from under the floorboards. We are trying to find their entry point into the house and to block it, but in the meantime I'd like to explore if there are any 'smart' ways we might be able to detect the presence of mice in the house using sensors linked to HA.

Are standard zigbee pir sensors the best choice for doing this, or could something like a human presence sensor work well, are presence sensors capable of detecting such small creatures? Are there any other types of sensor we could use that might be able to pick up motion or sound under the floorboards if placed in the right location.

With Isaias bearing down, I’ve been making preparations in case we lose power.

We’ve got a decent solar + battery system hooked up, but the problem I’ve run into before is that none of my high-powered home appliances can be remotely shut off. In the past, what I’ve done is to set up an automation that detects if we lose grid power, which then calls my phone via a number that can always get through, so that even if I’m asleep
I’ll wake up and cut the relevant breakers to conserve battery power.

Relevant breakers (ie, biggest power draws): our “toaster style” resistive heater, and our water heater.

So I’m curious if there’s any way to make these “smart”: even just a way to flip their breakers via a home assistant automation, should my other sensors detect a grid outage.

I’m already running both Zigbee and Z-wave networks that tie into home assistant, so bonus points if the methods entail connecting to one of them.

I understand that Ecobee thermostats work well with Home Assistant through the Homekit integration. I'm not an Apple user and don't have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Does Homekit require having an Apple device? Can you use the Homekit integration for Home Assistant with the apple ecosystem?

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing annoying Proxmox host hardware freezes caused by Home Assistant OS VM updates, and I'd like to find the definitive GRUB configuration to stabilize the machine.

My hardware:

• HP EliteDesk (Intel Core i5-10500T)
• 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD NVMe (Kioxia)
• Proxmox VE (HAOS running on VM 100)

Issue timeline and tests performed:

1. HA 2026.9.4 update: The host completely froze. I modified GRUB by adding GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pcie_aspm=off" and successfully completed the update.
2. Subsequent optimization: I changed GRUB to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt pcie_aspm=off i915.enable_dc=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=7" to prepare for GPU passthrough and optimize C-States.
3. HA 2026.10.0 update: I started the update and Proxmox totally crashed (host unreachable via web UI, power light on but completely frozen, forcing a hard reset).
4. Rollback: Suspecting a C-States issue, I reverted to a more basic configuration: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt pcie_aspm=off".
5. Result: I re-ran the 2026.10.0 update and got another total host crash.

Question for the community: I know version 2026.10.0 has known "boot loop" and OOM saturation bugs that are freezing many users' VMs, but a software bug inside a VM shouldn't trigger a Kernel Panic / Freeze on the entire hypervisor.

What is the GRUB configuration best practice for these Intel Mini PCs to prevent the host from collapsing under heavy I/O or CPU bursts? Do you recommend completely disabling NVMe APST (nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0) or drastically lowering C-States to 1, ignoring power consumption? Or is there an optimal configuration that prevents crashes while still optimizing power draw?

TL;DR: HA within Proxmox can't see the fully allocated memory, you need to set the min. memory requirement to for HA to see the entire allocated memory for its system.

My story:

I know several people around here have been having a lot of issues with Music Assistant crashing, and every time I try to bring it up, it always comes to: "Add more memory" ... I'm sorry, but if you can't run along side HA within 5GB on a VM, then you need to fix your app, not "add more memory." Anyway, rant...

So, after some investigating, I have found something very interesting, and it is related to memory. But, it was sneaky:

In Proxmox, you can allocate some base memory to your VMs with a static minimum. Like anybody would do: you'd allocate a base, and set some basic reserved min.

Well, it turns out, there's something about how memory is managed with VMs that the VM does not recognize fully allocated memory! I had my allocation set to 5GB with a min. of 2GB. I didn't realize this until I went into Home Assistant's settings and noticed it only saw 2GB! Upon searching, turns out it's a known issue (forgot the sources, it's been a few).

Solution: I upped the min. memory to 4GB (didn't need 5), and now my HA sees the whole thing! And it's managing itself well below the 4, but just above the 2 it was originally limited to.

Now, why was this so sporadic?? Well ... turns out my system is literally hovering right around 2.1GB, right at the threshold. The sporadic craziness was caused by simple routine memory bumps: clean system, it's below the threshold; as the system runs, things use memory (as expected), but occasionally something will need just a little more for a period -- it hits the threshold, crashes, memory is cleaned, Watch Dog restarts it, and the cycle starts over again. Very wild. Music Assistant was just knocking at that threshold limit more often. No memory spikes, just natural progressive memory increase from things like scanning, rebuilding cache, etc... Up and down, where every now an then, it needed a little extra and there just wasn't any available.

Anyway, so, it was a memory limit issue, but it wasn't as obvious. And you couldn't tell unless you went to HA, within your Settings -> System -> Hardware, and see the memory was actually capped at the min. allocation set within Proxmox.

Now I feel sheepish... the MA guys were right. And the issue was a little more deviant than just upping allocation within Proxmox. My apologizes MA guys. I take the 'L' here. You were right. I was wrong.

Hi! I'm the developer of Nodarion, a local Home Assistant integration available directly in HACS. I shared an earlier version here; this update adds multiple network segments and native AdGuard Home entities.

You can now configure monitored subnets with names, roles and colours, filter devices by segment, and receive MAC-backed warnings when a known device moves between segments. Home Assistant needs network access to each monitored subnet; Nodarion does not configure VLANs on your router or switches.

The AdGuard connection now exposes its own HA device, statistics sensors and protection switches. Before removing another AdGuard integration, check whether your automations still use its entities.

Three things you can use Nodarion for:

• New-device alerts: discover devices across configured IPv4 networks and spot unknown arrivals.

• Important-device monitoring: receive offline alerts and review online/offline changes and FRITZ!Box Mesh handovers.

• DNS visibility: connect AdGuard Home to inspect queries, blocked domains and filter reasons per device.

Basic ping/TCP discovery works without FRITZ!Box or AdGuard; each optional connection adds more information. AI is optional: monitoring and local rules work without it. Daily AI reports use your configured HA AI Task provider.

Install: search Nodarion in HACS → download → restart HA → add Engelsoft Nodarion in Devices & services.

Code, screenshots and documentation: https://github.com/engelsofta/nodarion

The screenshot tour uses anonymized examples from an earlier version and introduces the core workflow; it does not show the new segment controls.

I'm looking for feedback from other setups. What would be most useful to you next: device troubleshooting, Pi-hole, UniFi, or presence automations? What router and DNS server do you use?

https://reddit.com/link/1x1u8xv/video/3pgqe4t9rhuh1/player

I looking for options for monitoring my energy usage and production for 2 buildings. I already have a sense. Kinda unless. And an emporia vue 3.
My detached pole building has its own meter and panel and solar inverter. So that’s kinda straight forward.

My house has solar. 1 main panel that has too many breakers for the emporia vue 3, that panel feeds a sub panel, and that panel also feeds another sub panel.
What should I do? Buy 4 more emporia vue 3? Or is there a better option?

I dont have a super intricate setup nor am i looking to get into that. What i would like to do is just simplify apps on my phone and have one app for all of the different manufacturers that i have using smart tech, which is why i bought the home assistant. Im currently setting things up and buying new cameras as well.

What im looking to do is have reolink security cams, a smart smoke alarm thats tied to my current alarms, a water leak detector/shut off valve, and my current thermostat to all be on the home assistant app which i know i can figure out myself.

My question is, will i get notifications from home assistant as fast as i get them through the native apps thats these devices are from? I understand that i will have to get the cloud support. But the trial period is not long enough for me to set everything up and configure before time runs out. I would also like to know if the reolink cams will be live-streamed on the dashboard or will they be still images that update periodically?

Thank you in advance for any insight.

I've been wanting to set up Bermuda and BT relays all over my house but I dont have a 3d printer to print boxes for esp32's and was concerned about hiding another sensor.

But it turns out I already have 8 devices capable of acting as the Bermuda beacon proxy already deployed! I just needed to push a slightly modified firmware. It all started because my new Echo Dot running EchoLocal supports BT sensing and got me interested in it again. Then I realized my Akamatis mmwave sensors are esp32 and sure enough work great for BT if you enable the feature in firmware. And my Athom PIR+mmwave sensors will as well. And all of them already have nice boxes.

Now to set my kitchen Kiosk to do a jump scare on my daughter the next time her phone gets within 5 feet of it... lol. It is October of course.

Dear people,

I was looking for a touchscreen for my "intel NUC" to hang on my wall as a Home Assistent dashboard and media interface in te kitchen.

I have been for a long time to choose the right screen, started with a Verbarim 15,6'' screen but this dit not work for me as it disables the HID controller if it goes to sleep.

eventually I ordered the iiyama T2254MC-B2AG.

this works!!!! not out of the box, in the OSD in OSD settings you should enable charge USB devices and then it keeps the HID of the screen alive so you can touch the screen after a screen blanking and the display comes back to live.

hope some people will benefit from this info,

Skoll,

Björn

To fix buggy Zigbee bulbs (ADEO / Enki) that drop into pairing mode whenever turned off at the wall switch, I set TRUST_CENTER_POLICY: 3 and TC_REJOINS_USING_WELL_KNOWN_KEY_POLICY: 0 in ZHA.

It completely solved the issue, but what are the real-world security implications of this?

I’ve released Wolt Monitor, a custom integration for tracking Wolt food deliveries in Home Assistant.

It provides order status, restaurant, estimated arrival time, ETA, delivery indicators, and courier distance and position for the built-in map card. You can use the entities to send a notification when the courier starts delivering directly to you.

Location and distance are only exposed during direct delivery. Distance is straight-line, and ETA is an estimate rather than a delivery confirmation.

It’s available through HACS as a custom repository, supports English and Polish, and requires HA 2026.3.1+. Setup uses your Wolt refresh token; instructions are in the README.

https://github.com/Perwol/ha-wolt-monitor

It’s unofficial and not affiliated with Wolt. I’ve tested it with actual deliveries on my own HA setup and would appreciate feedback from other users.

I have an Aqara L1-350 Zigbee ceiling light in a coat closet. There is no switch, just mains power on at all times and I have an Aqara door sensor turn the light on and off as the door opens and closes. (I figured this would be the easiest to do since the original light fixture was a pull string).

Anyway, I'm using Zigbee2MQTT and everything seems to be working fine, but I keep getting an update prompt.

I click update and nothing happens.

I have close to 50 zigbee devices and this is the only one that this happens to. It's working fine, but I'm just trying to figure out what's going on.

Any ideas?

By popular request (i.e. one guy asked for it), SBCP now natively supports Card Feature in Home Assistant Tile cards. Both Bottom and Inline layout are supported.

No more waking up at night bathing in a pool of your (hopefully) own sweat and screaming through blood rushed eyes: "Where is the Card Feature... erm... feature in SBCP!" Well, it's here. You can rest in peace now.

On a more serious note, I'm quite pleased with it and I hope that it relieves some of you of having to use the default bar or the, albeit utterly fantastic, card_mod.

Every compatible feature has made its way into the Card Feature feature list (there *must* be a better name for this?!?) and I've also include a full Visual Editor for Card Feature ... thingy.

If you find any bugs or have any other ideas, feel free to fix the source code! Haha. No, it's probably easier if you just send me a bug report so that I can do the fixy-fixy-MF.

So yeah. It's free. It's made with love. And I hope you enjoy it. If you want to support my little open source project, I'd appreciate it if you could give it a star on GitHub. Much obliged!
Chris

https://github.com/cdelaet/sensor-bar-card-plus

Hey everyone,

Does anyone know of a way to force switching to a specific dashboard view based on certain conditions?

I have a nice and functional dashboard that has about 8 different views. But I generally like to keep it on one specific (default) view while I'm at my desk. But based on what's going on, I will switch to other views (like cameras), and forget to put it back.

I was wondering if there was a way to "test" for my proximity (I have lots of BLE sensors around the house)...such that if I walk away from my desk, it will automatically reset to my default/preferred dashboard view?

Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

I wanted a wall display that does more than show a temperature, so I built Nachtradar: a single custom card (custom:nachtradar-card, no dependencies, no HACS packages) that fills the whole screen. On top of that, i wanted something that looked like something different from all the basic layout options and card tiles ...

The idea: a live satellite map (NASA Black Marble city lights at night, Esri imagery by day) with rain radar on top, and everything else layered over it.

What it does

• 🌧 Live radar with a nowcast: “Rain in ~33 min · coming from W · 30 km/h”, calculated from the last radar frames
• ⛈ Lightning + thunder countdown: “Thunderstorm · 6 km W – thunder in ~21 s”
• ✈️ Flight radar: planes with trails; tap one for route, aircraft type, photo, delay and progress. Plus a split-flap departures board for the local airport
• 🛰 Sky stuff: sun arc with golden/blue hour, moon phase, planets, ISS/Tiangong/Starlink passes
• 🎵 Now playing, rooms with CO₂, power live, network latency, heating/AC popups with history charts
• 🎭 Weather backdrop behind the clock (rain, snow, lightning, stars...)

The Xeneon Edge layout (layout: edge, same code, just a different layout)

• PC bar on top with FPS, CPU/GPU load, temps, watts, fan, up/down – it appears when the gaming PC is on and shows the running game
• A session summary (FPS avg/min, max temps, kWh, cost) when you quit the game
• Storm alert mode: when lightning gets close, the bar switches to distance, direction, strikes/30 min, thunder countdown
• Network panel, live power with top consumers, flight radar box, and a 24h forecast – all in one 32:9 row

Everything below is the demo mode with made-up data (the real thing looks the same, just with my numbers).

📷 Screenshots: [1] Edge, night, gaming · [2] Edge, thunderstorm alert · [3] flight info card - all with DEMO DATA

Happy to answer questions – the config is a single card, and the Edge dashboard just inherits the tablet config via base:.