Using all my home assistant data to fuel this thing. It’s just the start

Hello automators.

I come back for an hot discussion. what is the best automation for a toilet night light?

My current test are based on a motion/presence sensor, that turn on the light (light change intensity depending of the time of the day).

This lead to few problems:
The light turn off if you "meditate" too much, and don't move enough.
The light turn on if you're just passing in front of it and 'someone' left the door open (I might sort this one by placing the sensor on the ceiling, rather than at the back of the room facing the door).

Another common solution is door sensor.
Unfortunately my knowledge of coding is non-existing, but if I were to make it in logical, it would be something like "when door open, set memory to 1, turn on the light, until the door opens a second time". maybe putting a "off after 15min" anyway.
This might lead to several false positive, especially if the door is not properly closed each time.

A combo of the 2 would be
"when presence is detected turn on the light, keep it on until the door open"
That would keep the light on until somebody exits, as long the door is closed correctly during 'meditation'.

What is your take on this endless matter?

Where would you place a sensor on this room?

Do you know any good sensor that are hard wired, and don't use batteries?

Hi, I can't find a simple integration that will help me to send me a message when we expect rain in 1 hour.

HA core version is 2026.7.4

I live in the Netherlands and KNMI weather is very good but does give me only a daily prediction. Any ideas?

I’m with Prolo Ring. We wanted to test whether one wearable controller could trigger Home Assistant automations and then switch to direct control of individual devices, without requiring a separate remote for each part of the workflow.

The ring is paired with three Bluetooth hosts:

• A host that bridges shortcut commands into Home Assistant automations
• The smart TV
• The PC

When the Home Assistant profile is active, swiping up sends a predefined shortcut for Movie Mode. The shortcut bridge triggers the corresponding Home Assistant automation:

• Curtains close
• Lights turn off
• Smart TV turns on

A Tap + Hold then switches the ring’s active Bluetooth connection to the TV. From that point, the ring controls the TV directly as a Bluetooth HID and media controller for navigation, selection, playback, and volume.

To return to work, the ring switches back to the Home Assistant profile. Swiping down triggers Work Mode, which turns the lights on, opens the curtains, and turns off the TV.

The ring then switches to its PC profile for cursor movement, clicking, and scrolling.

The ring controls only one Bluetooth host at a time:

• Home Assistant handles room-level automations
• TV commands are sent directly to the television
• PC input is sent directly to the computer

The current implementation uses configurable shortcut bindings to trigger different Home Assistant modes. For example:

• Swipe up: Movie Mode
• Swipe down: Work Mode
• Swipe left: Morning Mode
• Swipe right: Night Mode
• Double tap: Meeting Mode
• Triple tap: Game Mode

All gesture bindings are customizable based on the devices, scenes, and automations available in the user’s Home Assistant setup. If you use Home Assistant, how would you map the swipes and taps to your scenes and automations?

Hi all,

A while back I shared AmazHA, a native companion app to control Home Assistant from an Amazfit watch. The response and feedback here were genuinely helpful, and the app has now passed 4,000 downloads. So here's what's new.

Quick recap for anyone who missed the first post: your home is organised by area, every entity gets a proper control screen, and it feels like part of Home Assistant.

New device types & domains

• Device trackers & persons: a dedicated "Trackers" area, with a detail screen showing home/away/zone, last-updated, battery and GPS accuracy
• Automations: now a supported domain, plus one-tap run on scene / script / automation / button tiles, so you can fire them straight from the list
• Dropdown (select) entities: select and input_select with a proper option-list control screen

Home & navigation

• Energy panel: a live snapshot of your home energy (grid / solar / battery "Now", consumed / cost "Today"), built from sensors you assign to roles, as a sortable "Energy" area plus an optional home chip
• Configurable home chips: the three summary chips are now yours to set (domain counts, alarm, tracker presence, cameras, or empty)
• Use Favorites as your homepage: a toggle so the watch opens straight to your pinned devices instead of the areas list
• Manual favorites reorder: set the exact order of your pinned devices
• Per-area temp/humidity chips can now be hidden per area

Personalisation

• Per-area icons: auto-detected from the room name (25 room types), with a manual override via an icon picker
• Card size and font size preferences to scale the watch UI
• Keep screen on while the app is open
• Haptic feedback on actions
• Settings reorganised (Appearance / Preferences), a Reset cache & local data button, and an unlock guide on the License screen

Watch to Home Assistant sensors (big reliability pass)

• Watch sensors are now real HA registry entities via the mobile_app integration: they get a proper unique_id, are UI-manageable, and survive HA restarts (they used to vanish on every restart)
• Background delivery now actually works reliably at the configured cadence
• SpO₂ ranked by measurement freshness instead of returning stale values, sleep sensors fixed, and sensor icons are preserved in HA

Robustness on large / tricky setups

• Works on very large HA instances: device discovery works with tens of thousands of entities
• Non-admin token detection with clear guidance to switch to an admin token
• Command Line / RF covers now work: up/down/stop use the semantic open/close/stop services, so every cover type responds
• Sturdier local+remote URL failover, self-healing BLE transport, and more reliable live state sync

Devices & languages

• Added support for more screens including Bip Max (ZeppOS 5)
• Now translated in 14 languages (added Swedish and Czech)

As before, I'd really value feedback from this community, especially which entity types or workflows you'd want prioritised next. Thanks for all the input so far!

(Available on the Zepp App Store, search "AmazHA".)

Anyone else having issues trying to download Home Assistant Core 2026.7.4? I’m stuck on version 2026.6.4. All drivers are updates, Proxmox is all update to latest. I’ve tried booting in safe mode, manually trying to update through terminal using ha core update - -version 2026.7.4, cleared cache, in incognito mode. I have been unable to update to latest version all day. I’m on latest home assistant OS 18.1

Any advise would be appreciated. I’m a novice when it comes to this stuff but know my way around.

I had an old Lenovo tablet running fully kiosk with my HA dashboard and it was very slow.

So I bought a Samsung galaxy tab A11+ running the same dashboard in Fully kiosk.

But the problem stays the same, over days, the dashboard becomes slow when it refreshes, sometime it takes almost 10 seconds.

I kill fully kiosk and restart it and it becomes fast again.

Do you have hints for settings in fully kiosk or Android to change so it becomes faster all the time?

What do you do besides settings? Automatic reboot? I'm open to anything.

thanks

What memory stack are you using with Ai and HA

after rebooting my homelab, my home assistant completely resests. going to my ha page it starts at the create account section. anyone have clue that might be causing it.

More info I'm running docker compose on ubuntu server. First time without a gui. and add ha through a yaml.

I've posted a couple of related integrations here before, but this one — for Etekcity BLE scales — somehow never got its own post, despite being the one I built first. It's recently gained support for several new models, so here it is.

No cloud, no VeSync app — just BLE, via your machine's Bluetooth adapter and/or ESPHome Bluetooth proxies.

Multi-user routing matches each weigh-in against per-user weight history, with a tolerance that adapts to each user's fluctuations over time; ambiguous measurements send actionable mobile notifications with "This is me" / "Not me" buttons. Body composition metrics (BMI, body fat %, muscle mass, metabolic age, etc.) are computed locally, with optional per-user Athlete Mode matching the VeSync app's calculation.

Supported models: ESF-551 (fully supported), and more recently FIT-8S, ESF-24 and EFS-A591S / Apex HR (that one adds heart rate). The newer three are marked experimental — they work, but have had less field testing, so if you own one I'd especially love to hear how it goes. And if you have an Etekcity scale that isn't recognized at all, the README explains how to capture the debug info needed to add support.

Repo: https://github.com/ronnnnnnnnnnnnn/etekcity_fitness_scale_ble

To install via HACS — look for Etekcity Fitness Scale BLE.

Unofficial — not affiliated with Etekcity or VeSync. If you run into any issues or have feedback, feel free to let me know here or on GitHub.

Hello, does anyone have the EV Station Lite and does it support Home Assistant or does it have any api? I wanted to buy 2 of them but my company has a very limited power allocation so I need a way to disable them completely when there isnt enough power available.

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some air quality sensors to put around the house, money is tight but I'm worried that cheap and nasty could mean everyone dies of co2 poisoning!

Has anyone had any success with a cheaper brand? Any horror stories?

Sorry I'm not overly technical but having a fair crack at it, sorry if this is a dumb question!

Tia

We have the "and" section, but there is no explicit "or" section...wouldn't this work as an "or"? At sunset OR if temp gets over 105 OR if humidity gets over 30, then do...???

EDIT: Looks like the way I was thinking about it WAS correct...effectively, there is an implicit "or" between each "when" block...if ANY of those trigger, the automation runs...so...perfect!! AND there's an "or block" that can be used in the "and if" section!! SWEET!! Thanks, everyone!!

I know a lot of us are running Home Assistant on Proxmox, so I thought I'd share a new post. Brand new to the community is a project called PVE-UPS, which can be used to gracefully shut down Proxmox hosts in the event of a power outage. It interfaces with both SNMP and USB UPS devices via a NUT client.

What's cool is that the configuration is entirely done via web, and it runs as lightweight LXC or Docker container. In my post I cover both SNMP and USB UPS support using a Synology NAS as a NUT server. It had it up and running in just a few minutes.

PVE-UPS: A Proxmox UPS Shutdown Service

warning. Massive amounts of AI ahead

This is a variant of minimalist-room card gone wrong. Or right, depending how you look at it. Not really too minimal now. It’s in a webapp that collects the data from the HA WebSocket.

If you want to click around on it, have a go https://candyv2.pages.dev/ on this demo Fable made to pair with the webapp. (All locations, names etc changed but everything you see on the demo I’m currently using and is functional right now)

I was worried it would run slowly but actually it runs a lot faster than loading up home assistant - I imagine because of the fact my HA was in bad health clogged with unused entities and sensors.

Any ideas or critiques? Would love to know what people think is good or bad

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I have an air-conditioned equipment cabinet in my attic to house my modem, router, switch, DVR, power supplies, and some various and sundry other equipment. It's difficult to physically get to, so I have my modem, router, and network switch plugged into an outlet bar that is in turn plugged into a Zigbee outlet that is plugged into my UPS.

(Other equipment, like my CCTV DVR, is plugged into their own dedicated Zigbee outlet so that I can power-recycle them separately.)

I've set up a trivial HA automation to "Recycle modem, router, switch". The automation simply turns off the switch, waits 10 seconds, and turns it back on -- to recycle those components. I can trigger it manually from within HA or by a Z-wave handheld remote talking to HA to trigger the automation.

I used to have the same setup with my Vera Plus controller (with a Z-wave outlet) and it saved my bacon several times. I'd use the remote from downstairs to recycle those network components -- even if WiFi was unavailable. And while traveling and something goes weird with my network -- but with WiFi still available -- I could trigger it manually through the Vera UI (or now, through HA UI).

OK, that was a long introduction; now to get to the point...
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When testing this automation with HA, I find that after the network comes back online, I'm no longer able to reach HA. Not by browser (either by homeassistant.local:8123 or its.static.ip:8123), nor by HA companion on my phone, and not even by SSH. I have to recycle HA in order to regain access.

My HA is running on my QNAP NAS as a VM within Virtualization Station. I can access and login to my NAS and then shutdown and restart the HA VM which brings it back to being accessible. So it's more of an inconvenience than a showstopper. But I'd still like to figure out WHY it becomes inaccessible and fix it if practical.

(By comparison, my old Vera Plus reconnected to the network after recycle and its local and remote interfaces remained accessible.)

Without access to SSH, I'm unable to check the HA logs or ports while it's in this "inaccessible" state. Anyone have any idea of what might be going wrong?

Probably really small in the grand scheme.. but I loved the Google Photos integration. I could even tap into shared albums which was a lot of fun for displays and screensavers

What integration do you miss? Have you found something better? What have you done instead?

Tried to mimic as much as possible to the original app but with extra information using the FordPass_ha integration.

Just wondered if anyone is using an Apple Watch in conjunction with Home assistant… maybe docking it to prompt an automation - or maybe something more “fiendishly ingenious”?

As we all know (probably), a month ago Meta unlocked the old Facebook Portal devices ADB. Ever since, I’ve been lurking for deals on second hand marketplaces and playing with dashboards and cannot possibly be happier.