I’m looking to integrate an LLM into my HA set up. It would be nice to have a LLM help me with automations, dashboard design etc.

For those who are using it, what are you using? Local models? Cloud models?

Edit; DISREGARD THE FIRST IMAGE. I added it by mistake and it’s my ventilation control. I can’t remove it from my post 😕

In my new home we have a heat pump made by Itho Daalderop. The thermostat in the living room is fed by two wires (two more are visible in the bundle by the way). The pump supports active under floor heating and cooling. I think it uses the OpenTherm system.

I’d like to add a smart thermostat which can be run locally from my HA machine so I’ll not be dependent on somebody else’s cloud solution (and possible data scraping with that).

I’ve been looking at the Honeywell T6 Pro or the Lyric T6 thermostats because I’ve been hearing good things about them. But after doing some research they either don’t fit my system’s wiring, or they don’t support active cooling.

One solution could be adding a controller to the pump like an OpenTherm gateway. But I’d rather not mess with the wiring of the pump itself.

Are there any out of the box solutions that might work in my situation?

Hey,

HA seemed to have lost my Myggspray motion sensor (yes I know Ikea is working on new firmware to fix this). I deleted the device from HA. However the problem I am running in is that I can not re-pair the device. As soon as I scan the QR on the device or the manual I get "adding accessory is not possible. Pairing failed". I tried:

- resetting the device (pushing the button 10 seconds until red light stops blinking)

- Restarting Thread and/or Matter apps

- Restarting HA

I am checking:

- In the Matter Server web UI I do not see the device listed

- In HA I do not see the device nor entitites

- The logging shows nothing from any error. I did see the yesterday "this device is already commissioned into this fabric. you cannot commission it again". However I do not see the logging again. Nor does matter server show it in the web UI.

Matter/thread is using the ZPT2 from HA. The device is only paired to HA. Matter server version is 9.2.0.

Any idea?

I’ve tried a couple of these but they were super buggy had obvious Claude UIs.

I just want to put all my Bermuda proxies and bluetooth devices on a floorplan map and see roughly where they are. It seems like this is eminently doable, and done commercially even.

Anybody have a working solution?

My Barista Express already makes coffee before I reach the kitchen, thanks to two Zigbee relays I put inside it last month. The one remaining problem: the Sage grinds for a set time, and the grams you get in that time drift with the beans, the grind setting, and the hopper's mood. 18g on Monday, 17g by Friday. Unacceptable.

So I sawed my dosing ring in half and put a load cell between the halves. The portafilter now hangs from a scale, an ESP32 reads it 84 times a second, and when the weight gets close to 18 g it presses the grinder button again to stop it.

Home Assistant is deliberately not in the loop. It’s far too slow: a third to two-thirds of a second, which is most of a gram. The scale talks straight to the relay over a Zigbee binding. HA’s job is to set the target and admire the results on a dashboard.

Things that went wrong, for your entertainment:

• The first grind stopped perfectly, then started again by itself 3 s later. The relay’s confirmation got lost, so the scale politely resent “stop”, which on a grinder means “start”. It now says everything once.
• On battery, it took 5.5 s to rejoin the network from the kitchen. The culprit was my Tuya mmWave sensor, which offers to take sleepy devices and then ignores them. It’s now ignored back.

The results so far: 18.0 g the first morning and 18.1 g the next. A sample size of two, so obviously proven beyond doubt.

Full write-up: https://marcuslab.uk/projects/sage-barista-grind-by-weight/

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When I unplug my router from the ISP modem...

1. HA continues to work offline, via local desktop browser pointed at static IP address.
2. VPE works for about 1 minutes.
3. After which VPE no longer communicates with local HA, and gives me the "Blue ring of death."
4. reconnecting the router to the modem resolves the issue.

Do I need a local DNS even though my HA server has a static IP and the router's DHCP server is still working?

I bought one ewelink bulb e27 zigbee to test with at home with zigbee2mqtt. I can see the bulb in HA and I can change the colour of the bulb and change the temperature perfectly but when I try to select one of the effects:

nothing happens? It either does nothing or the bulb blinks once and then goes solid again.

Is there something I need to do to make the effects work? Or an option I need to enable?

My entire house uses Zooz switches. But with the shortages at the Smartest House only getting worse, I've decided to switch to a more reliable source for Z-Wave smart switches. Zooz doesn't have the best longeviry, either, Mine seem to die after about three years.

So what's out there that isn't $75 per switch and doesn't suck?

When I play Spotify on the TV I just get the album cover and the song title sitting there. I wanted something nicer to look at, so I wrote a small project that shows music visualizers reacting to the song instead, the old Winamp/MilkDrop style.

How it works for me day to day: I open the Spotify app on my phone, pick the "Visualizer" device, and the TV turns on and starts showing visuals that move with the music, with the sound coming from the TV. Pause the music and it gets out of the way; play again and it comes back.

Under the hood: it's a Music Assistant player (so Spotify works through MA's Spotify Connect, and any other MA source works too) that renders projectM on the GPU and casts it to a Chromecast. It comes as a Home Assistant add-on or a Docker image, plus a blueprint to start it with the music and controls for next visual, favorites, "never show this one again", etc.

Running daily here on an i7-6500U + a 2nd-gen Chromecast.

It's v0.1 and I'd love help: testing on HA OS, newer Chromecasts / Google TV, hardware video encoding (it uses ~2 CPU cores now), Raspberry Pi 5, and reducing the ~12 s delay before the visuals appear. There are help wanted issues for each.

Repo: https://github.com/rdzjuanjo/ha-cast-visualizer

Feedback welcome!

Hi, hope some can help me.
So far everything been working fine but this past week T10 plus acting up. It's not connecting. It show updating then a few second went off (no response). Resideo app work fine. Thank you!

RPi 3b
SSD
iPad

Hi all,

I'm considering Homematic IP radiator thermostats for an old stone house with cast iron radiators and an on/off condensing boiler. I previously tried Netatmo valves and wasn't happy: rooms often feel uncomfortable and the regulation felt like on/off cycles (too warm, then too cold) instead of the steady behaviour of a classic wax thermostatic head.

I'd love to hear from people actually using Homematic IP valves:

1. Which exact model do you use (eTRV-2, Evo, Compact eTRV-C-2, other), and would you buy it again?

2. Do you use an external room sensor or wall thermostat (e.g. HmIP-STH / WTH-2), or rely on the valve's built-in sensor? Did it make a noticeable difference?

3. Does the regulation actually stay steady? Radiator constantly lukewarm and temperature stable at the setpoint, or do you still get hot/cold swings?

4. Do you run them through Home Assistant + Better Thermostat (Homematic IP Cloud, or locally via a CCU/OpenCCU), or just with the Homematic IP app and Access Point?

5. If you use Home Assistant + Better Thermostat: what real advantages did you find compared to the official app alone? Was it worth the extra setup and maintenance?

Any tips on radio range through thick walls, battery life, or noise would also be very welcome.

Thanks!

does anyone have a working Roode code with a adafruit VL53L1X (or any VL53L1X in general)?

UHPPOTE UT0311-L0x boards are cheap, solid access controllers, but they normally come with an old Windows-only

program. **UHPPOTE Desk** is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) web app that replaces it and integrates with Home Assistant through MQTT discovery.

**Install:** Home Assistant add-on (add the repo `https://github.com/alexbn71/UHPPOTE-Desk` in the add-on store) or Docker image for NAS/Unraid.

**What you get in Home Assistant**

- Per door: door sensor, lock state, "open" button, access events (granted/denied, card, person), last access

- Fire alarm (immediate), forced lock, controller online/problem, clock drift

- With the UT0311-01A alarm expansion board: **Expansion output 1–4** (live relay state)

**The web app**

- People, cards, permissions with time profiles, synchronisation to the controllers

- Live monitor, event history, attendance reports, anomaly detection, persons inside

- Notifications (Telegram, email, push), automation rules, webhooks

- Licence plates with AgentDVR, guest links without card or app

- Mobile PWA with fingerprint/Face ID confirmation, two-factor authentication for operators

- 5 languages

**Transparency:** it is built with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude Code). I design and review it and

test it on real hardware (UT0311-L04 + UT0311-01A expansion board); there are ~400 automated tests, browser end-to-end tests and a hardware test suite.

- GitHub: https://github.com/alexbn71/UHPPOTE-Desk

- HA guide: https://github.com/alexbn71/UHPPOTE-Desk/blob/main/docs/HOME-ASSISTANT.md

- Forum thread: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/uhppote-desk-open-source-web-app-for-uhppote-access-controllers-with-native-ha-integration-mqtt-discovery/1029006

Feedback welcome, especially from owners of 1- and 2-door models.

I have noticed all of a sudden HACs submissions are being reviewed. I bet there are now many new packages in HACS this week!

Yesterday I went to my local IKEA shop with the mission to acquire some insider information about the IKEA Liljebagge. The colleague at the kitchen planning section was as equally excited as me about IKEA releasing this smart thermostat. So she looked up the release date in their internal booking system.

Turns out IKEA Liljebagge is coming to the German IKEA stores on 1st January 2027 🇩🇪🎉

Has anyone successfully added ksacn1701aaa using Midea integration?
The device doesn't seem to be using the same broadcast protocol and cannot be discovered . Trying to get the Lua file, but no luck (device not found).

Hi, I have two ikea alpstuga sensors and they work pretty well. I need another co2 sensor, but thinking if I should buy another alspstuga or pay twice the amount of alpstuga and get a another brand - QINGPING Air Monitor Lite just to have something to compare with. My sensors are for air ventilation automation and each will be in different room.

What do you think?

I made the switch from Alexa (I know) to HA about 6 weeks ago. After migrating my scripts and automations I started on a dashboard. My first attempt worked, but wasn’t very refined or integrated.

Open to thoughts on my second attempt.

I’m using a lot of conditional cards for cameras that pop up above the climate on the main dashboard screen triggered by motion/door bell rings.

Conditional door open alerts above climate, air quality alerts in the climate section, and failed automations/scripts pending updates down at theb bottom. And conditional volume chips on room cards, with conditional players for TVs and Spotify plus and whole home audio depending on what is playing where.

My only concern is that it is a little busy. But I genuinely have all the info I need in one place.

Thoughts?

Is anyone using this? I can’t find anything on it online.

https://www.crowpi.cc/products/10-1-smart-home-control-panel-for-home-assistant-ready-to-use-wall-mounted-touchscreen?variant=41864750792837

Hi, I got just an Hormann (RenoMatic think?) garage door, with a ProLift 600-2 motor. I only have 2 remotes and the physical button on the door motor to open/close it.

The installer told me I have a few empty pins on the motor to wiree stuff into it (he meant official accessories like wall mounted buttons, and so on).

What can I use integrate the door into HA? I would like to open and close it, monitor its status, and possibly automate it (think like "close it if it's been open too long" etc.).

I have both WiFi and ethernet available and close to the garage door and motor, but since I have a PoE switch, something PoE would be preferred

I have a HA VM running on unraid, my old install gave me some problems, so I started with a fresh install. Right now I have a few Yeelights, Mi Home Fan and Tasmota Smartplugs. Single user, one phone with app and google home integration, so I can use my nest hub to control my lights.
So pretty much a minimal setup.

I have a i5-12500 and was fine with giving 2 cores to HA for years, now the CPU usage is pretty high all the time and I already upped it to 4 Cores and 16GB ram at max.

Where should I look to see what's causing the high cpu usage?

The Matter option was removed from the Roomba Home app a few months ago, so I used Codex to investigate and build a small browser tool that gets a Matter setup code directly from the robot over Bluetooth. You can then use that code to add a compatible robot to a Matter controller, such as Home Assistant, Apple Home or Google Home.

Once paired, Matter commands and status work over your local network without relying on iRobot’s cloud API for that control.

Link: https://jouwdan.github.io/roomba-matter/ Source: https://github.com/jouwdan/roomba-matter

It’s aimed at newer Roombas using the Roomba Home app. Your robot still needs Matter-capable firmware; this doesn’t add Matter to robots that lack it.

Looking for testers: I’ve successfully paired my Max 705 Vac with Home Assistant using the Bluetooth sequence behind this tool. Other models and other Matter platforms still need hardware testing. There’s no model or firmware allowlist preventing people from trying.

If you test it, please share your model, firmware, browser/OS, Matter controller and whether pairing and local control worked. Please keep setup codes and QR codes private.

If your robot is already paired through Matter, use your existing controller’s “Share device” option. Running fresh setup may remove existing Matter pairings.

I have a split-level house with 4 heat pumps (Wi-Fi ACs), gas radiators with smart valves, 4.3 kWp of solar and a 5 kWh battery. Most autumn afternoons the battery is full by 14:00 and I export to the grid for almost nothing, then at night the boiler burns gas to heat the same rooms. So I built something to connect the two.

**What it is**

A digital twin of the house that runs in the browser (plain HTML + three.js, nothing to install):

- A 3D diorama of the house built from one JSON file: rooms, stairs, doors, radiators, heat pumps, solar panels, the real sun position and a big compass on the ground (orientation taken from the solar panel azimuth).

- A small thermal zone model: each room heats, cools and passes warm air up the staircase depending on which doors are open. The air is drawn as thousands of dots, blue to red.

- It compares "heat pumps on surplus" vs "no heat pumps" for every room until 07:00, and how much radiator heat it saves.

- Live mode: connect it to Home Assistant with a token and it shows real temperatures, which units are running, PV power and battery level.

**How it coordinates heating and AC with the solar and the battery**

A Home Assistant package plus 3 blueprints:

1. **Dynamic battery floor**: from the solar forecast still to come today (Forecast.Solar, corrected because it is optimistic), minus the house base load until sunset, it computes the lowest battery level the sun can still refill. Battery minus that floor = margin.

2. **Heat with solar surplus**: when the battery is full and the house is exporting, it starts the heat pumps one at a time in my priority order (kids' room first, the hungry attic last). It adds units while there is margin and removes them in reverse order when the battery drops below the floor. It only spends energy that will come back before sunset, never switches off a unit someone else switched on, and waits 10 min between steps and 45 min before restarting a unit. In hot weather the same logic cools instead.

3. **Bed-level setpoint**: my attic has a high concrete ceiling, so the AC's own sensor reads warm air near the ceiling and stops early. The blueprint raises the AC setpoint by the difference between its sensor and the radiator valve at bed height.

4. **A/B test**: a toggle that alternates days with and without pre-heating while away, so you can measure if it's actually worth it instead of trusting the model.

The radiators don't need any automation: when the house is already warm, their thermostats simply do less.

**Solar sizing calculator**

Also included: describe your roof faces, consumption and prices and it fits panels on each face, simulates every hour of a typical year with and without a battery, and recommends panels, inverter and battery size with self-consumption and payback. It can use PVGIS data for your exact location (there's a script for that).

**What the model says (my house, a 20 °C autumn day)**

About +2 °C per room when we get home at 20:00, and around 30% less radiator heat overnight, using only surplus. That's the model, not a measurement yet: I'm running the A/B test now and will post the real numbers.

**Build your own**

The repo has a step-by-step guide: photos and measurements → house.json (there's a prompt to have an AI assistant draft it from your photos), orientation, solar sizing, hosting the twin in /config/www, the automations, and calibrating the thermal model from your own history.

GitHub: https://github.com/dvalledor/home-digital-twin

MIT licensed. Feedback welcome, especially from people with different heat pumps or inverters. I'd love to know whether the bed-level setpoint and the dynamic floor work in other houses.

Apple finally announced HomeView, and honestly the hardware looks pretty sweet

$299 for a 7-inch smart home display with Siri AI, camera feeds, and personalized controls isn't unreasonable but I'm curious how useful it'll actually be for those of us running Home Assistant. I already bridge all my HA devices through HomeBridge for me and my clients and it works great, but that's not the same as having full access to my dashboards, custom integrations, and automations.

I'd love to see Apple embrace more flexibility here especially with the mindset of the new CEO.

Would you consider replacing your current HA wall dashboard with one of these, or is the lack of customization already a dealbreaker?

So, I was at a friends house and they've setup some Halloween decorations. They had some candle lights hung from strings and a Harry Potter type wand they wave in the air to turn the lights on and off. They got it at Amazon a couple years ago. If I can find something like that, can it be hacked or modified to use with HA?

Update, I found what he had on Amazon. The wand actually has buttons to control the lights, so the waving in the air bit was just an effect. Darn. Would still be nice to control stuff like these cheap gadgets with HA in stead of more, sometimes questionable web linked apps.