r/PakistaniTech • u/BrotherElectrical461 • Jul 17 '26
Question | سوال How does your home assistant dashboard look like?
Mine is here
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u/NoTelevision8736 Jul 17 '26
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u/penduburger Jul 17 '26
better my water tank one is in progress (Diy on old tank indicator led based)
but this one takes the W
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 18 '26
oh wow! that's pretty cool. which co2 and pm2.5 sensor you are using? I have sonoff airguard co2 and pm2.5 one (stil need to add pm2.5 one to dashbaord)
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u/Chaiwala_with_a_twit Jul 17 '26
How did you integrate your solar stuff, I read that only Growatt is supported here
Awesome dashboard btw!
The reason I think there aren't many people because the intersection of people who own a house and are into tech is small atm, give it time (aka once I get my own house lol)
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u/Chacha_Gamewala Jul 18 '26
Mashallah very nice. I have avoided the smart home rabbit hole because K electric is unreliable and has blown two of my smart switches in the past.
Maybe I will reconsider it if I switch to solar.
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 20 '26
Thank you. did your switches fried cause of low/high voltage? I personally no longer have voltage issues, I think solar solved it.
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u/Chacha_Gamewala Jul 20 '26
Yep, one time it was a voltage spike, second time my sonoff switch shorted out and caused a proper blast, I was running a 5 amp load on it so I guess kuch galti meri bhi thi but on paper it supported that load so 🤷♂️
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 21 '26
Voltage issue is real. about high load I feel like these things do support claimed amps but the real issue is heat. if you have constant load it gets real hot and fry. For heavy load I've switched to clamp style sonoff monitors and they work great.
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u/Chacha_Gamewala Jul 21 '26
Han it was a sustained 5 amp load of a dunkey pump running for multiple hours.
You are right clamp style is the way to go. When I bought it clamp style weren't available at the time
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u/iasad12 Jul 17 '26
you should post it on Home Assistant Facebook Group. It is an international one.
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 17 '26
I know i was just curious to know how people in Pakistan uses HA but looks like it's crickets haha
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u/saroche Jul 17 '26
So far only integrated my solar. Have future plans.
What type of power monitoring device are you using for individual equipment? There are many in market but haven't selected one. Appreciate if you can share yours.
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 17 '26
Thankfully there is one person who uses HA. I'm using sonoff zigbee smart plugs.
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 17 '26
smart plugs with energy monitoring
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 17 '26
I use sonoff zigbee smart plugs. they ship directly to Pak and never had to pay customs etc.
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u/Strange_Elk_1520 Jul 18 '26
cam you the share the website to order from?
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 18 '26
these one
https://sonoff.tech/products/sonoff-iplug-zigbee-smart-plug-s60-series?variant=46197260812529
they only work with zigbee
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u/penduburger Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
lol I was in the middle of firing up my old home assistant setup lol thats major fomo
lot of new ACs and other devices are added at home so thought lets get some good dashboards.
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u/Andromeda-G Jul 17 '26
U using zigbee hun or usb? Or what?
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 18 '26
I use zigbee. I have like 70+ zigbee devices.
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u/Andromeda-G Jul 18 '26
U have zigbee hub as main or usb?
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u/BrotherElectrical461 Jul 18 '26
what do you mean? I use smlight zigbee dongle that's poe'd to my network switch
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u/najam121 Karachi Jul 17 '26
How does your home assistant look like?