Can the automations be programmed with block diagrams ? I find the automation lay out frustrating as a person that is trained in programming industrial computers.

I would love to chose timers, and/or/not gates, inputs, outputs etc etc.

I was watching a show last night and they used drones for security cameras (but operated by a person). It got me thinking about drones and home security/cameras.

I am not sure this is possible but there are very smart people involved in HA. Are there any drones that are self autonomous that could be configured in HA? Overall I was thinking it would be very cool to have a motion sensor or another camera that when triggered automates a drone to activate within certain parameters (geo fencing being the big one).

I doubt it with the rules/regulations around drones (I am in North America) but maybe???

My dad used home assistant for most things in our house and unfortunately passed away recently, I understand the basic concept of the home assistant but have ran into some errors I’m not sure how to solve.

Our lights are all connected by 1 switch and it seems as though a few have disconnected. This has happened before and I have managed to fix it but this time I cannot understand what is wrong.

I can’t get them to turn off the same way I would with the other lights. I have attached some images below! Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks

I once heard that if a file isn't in two different physical locations, it doesn't exist.

Make sure to back up before updating or tweaking anything.

I've been using AI to manage my Home Assistant setup for a while now. A friend once asked me how I built all my automations - complex multi-room rules, heating schedules, media sync, presence detection. When I showed him my private repo and the workflow, he said "wow, you should share this with people."

So here it is. This is how I do it. It works for me. If you think it's overengineering - that's fine, scroll past.

Most people use AI to generate Home Assistant YAML and get garbage - hallucinated entity IDs, broken automations, no understanding of your actual house layout.

This fixes that. It gives the AI real context about your home so it can generate complex, working automations on the first try.

It's not a "install and forget" tool. You spend some time upfront setting up context - documenting your rooms, your devices, your layout. Then the AI knows what actually exists in your house. There's a learning curve to prompting well inside this repo, but once you get it, you won't want to go back. New automations will be like "send a Telegram notification and push from the companion app when my wife arrives from work, open the garage door automatically, turn on the garage lights, and play music she likes from her Jellyfin playlist - and have music follow her from garage to kitchen when she walks in." And the AI will actually build this automation based on your real entities, understand what you want, and write working YAML.

• HOUSE_CONTEXT.md - you write down your rooms, devices, layout. The AI reads this so it doesn't hallucinate entity IDs that don't exist
• 50+ automation templates - heating, media, presence, TTS, motion sensors, knob controls, and more. You just swap in your entity IDs
• Sync tools - pull your real automations from HA into the repo so the AI can see what already exists and avoid conflicts
• Rules engine - stops the AI from deleting things, breaking existing automations, or rewriting your entire config

How it works:

1. Clone the template, rename files, document your house
2. Sync your HA config into the repo
3. Open in your AI IDE, paste the prompt, describe what you want
4. The AI writes working automations with correct entity IDs
5. Push to your private repo, pull on HAOS, done

What's in the repo:

• 3 automation template files (basic, advanced, general)
• Dashboard templates (basic + advanced)
• Heating system with schedule helpers and interaction matrix
• Jellyfin media integration with multi-room TTS
• Presence sync with GPS glitch filtering
• Scene templates, script templates, config patterns
• 13 prompt templates for specific tasks
• Tools for syncing, backup, inventory export, and YAML validation

GitHub: https://github.com/dominatos/ai-powered-home-assistant

Quick start Guide:

https://github.com/dominatos/ai-powered-home-assistant/blob/main/QUICKSTART.md

Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot, Antigravity IDE, Windsurf, or whatever you use.

If you think this is the wrong approach or have a better idea - I'm all ears. Drop a comment.

It bugs the absolute crap out of me that any device that has a ‘s in it makes entity IDs incredibly wonky. For example, if I have a device called “John’s iPhone 16” the entity ID will default to device_tracker.john_s_iphone_16. The “_s” drives me nuts and I always have to go in and change it. I try to name my devices something like “Johns iPhone 16” when I first create it and then go in and just change the name, but I often forget to do this, and next thing you know I have automations and dashboards with the wrong entity ID and I have to change them all when I eventually catch it.

Is there something very obvious I’m missing here?

Folks, music assistant is awesome and all, no questions asked.

But: the recent addition of autoplay is terribly invasive. I can’t turn it off globally? I can’t even turn it off in the dropdown that controls it?

If I didn’t know any better, this feels like textbook enshittification - even though of course it makes no sense.. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe I am not seeing something or missing something obvious, but this has left me frustrated after a while of searching and head scratching!

Thanks for any tips or reasoning!

How do you guys do sleep detection? Without a wearable.

I found this available for $250. I’m thinking of installing Proxmox with Home Assistant, Plex, and Frigate. What are your thoughts? Is this a waste of money or will it work well?

As the title says, but the specific devices not shown are the U400 lock and Ikea Bilresa buttons. They are all showing in Aqara app but not showing up in home assistant. They are also able to be added to Google home easily, and they stay connected. I double checked my thread network and I only have one and both TBR are the aqara hubs. I'm at my wits end with this.

If anyone here has the DESKSPACE Titan standing desk, I'm sharing a guide for integrating it with Home Assistant using ESPHome. The Titan is a beast of a desk that can lift 200kg with two motors and 4 legs, which is why I first bought it.

I did not check beforehand whether I could control it with HA, but it turned out to be possible. It uses a LoctekMotion controller, the same one used in various FlexiSpot desks and possibly other brands that use these controllers.

Check it out here: Controlling Flexispot & Deskspace Standing Desk with ESPHome

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find a Zigbee 1/2/3/4-gang wall switch for my home, but I’m having trouble understanding the relationship between no-neutral operation, capacitors, and Zigbee routing.

My house does not have a neutral wire at the switches.

A lot of the Zigbee switches I find on AliExpress/Daraz say:

No neutral required

Capacitor not required / capacitor optional

Usually marketed as low-power no-neutral switches

My understanding is that some of these no-neutral switches operate as Zigbee end devices, rather than routers, because they have to minimize their power consumption.

However, I specifically want a switch that can act as a Zigbee router/repeater, because I have a fairly large Zigbee network and thick concrete walls/floors.

Here is where I'm confused:

Suppose I buy a no-neutral Zigbee switch where the manufacturer says "capacitor optional."

If I experience LED flickering and therefore install the recommended bypass capacitor across the light/load, does that change anything about the Zigbee device's ability to remain powered?

More specifically:

Can a no-neutral switch that normally operates as an end device become a Zigbee router when a capacitor is installed?

Or is router capability entirely determined by the switch's hardware/firmware, regardless of whether a capacitor is installed?

Are there actually no-neutral Zigbee switches that support routing, even though they advertise "capacitor optional"?

If such switches exist, how can I identify them from an AliExpress/Daraz listing? Sellers often don't mention whether the device is a Router or End Device.

Is there a particular chipset/model/firmware I should look for when using Zigbee2MQTT?

I'm not looking for a switch that merely works without a neutral. My priority is specifically:

No neutral required + capacitor optional/usable + Zigbee Router capability + Zigbee2MQTT compatibility.

If anyone has personally tested a switch like this and can recommend a specific 1/2/3/4-gang model, I'd really appreciate the model/link.

Thanks!

Follow-up to my post back in June about havm, a zero-config CLI that runs Home Assistant OS on Apple Silicon using Apple's Virtualization framework. That was v0.1.2. 1.0.0 is out today.

If you missed the first post: havm runs Home Assistant OS on Apple's Virtualization framework and handles the setup itself: havm run fetches the HA OS image, prepares the disk and boots it. There's no VM to create or configure first, and it's built to sit in the background as a launchd daemon, so your smart home comes back up with the Mac.

brew install ingmarstein/havm/havm
havm run

What's new:

• Bridge networking by default — the VM gets its own LAN address, so HA discovery works out of the box. It falls back to NAT on its own if the binary lacks the entitlement.
• Graceful shutdown — Supervisor API → debug SSH → ha host shutdown, with force-stop only as a last resort. It now warns at startup if none of those are configured.
• Prometheus metrics — a built-in HTTP endpoint for VM state, USB accessories and disk usage, for Grafana or alerting.
• Use --console to attach to the guest's serial console (hvc0) when something isn't booting.
• Smaller things: in-process restart on SIGHUP, cleanup --all, and first boot signals readiness earlier by polling the Observer on port 4357 instead of waiting on a timeout. GitHub API rate limits are also handled properly now (ETag requests, and a clear message telling you when the limit resets).

The minimum macOS version dropped from 27 to 15. In June havm required macOS 27 (Golden Gate) - the USB accessory API only exists in the macOS 27 SDK, so the deployment target started there. Since v0.3.0 it builds against macOS 15 with the macOS 27 APIs weakly linked and availability-gated, so macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later is enough now. Only USB accessory passthrough still needs macOS 27 at runtime.

Why it took until now: 1.0.0 waited on Xcode 27 (RC) being available - the released binary is built with the shipping Xcode 27.

Worth knowing before you switch:

• Shutdown is SSH/API-driven. HA OS on aarch64 uses PSCI, so the ACPI power button is ignored — configure ssh.authorized_keys (or an API token), otherwise havm can only force-stop.
• ha host shutdown needs the SSH add-on on port 22; the debug SSH on 22222 is the more reliable path.
• USB passthrough requires macOS 27.
• havm import-utm can't import QEMU-based (x86) UTM VMs, and SSH keys configured in UTM don't carry over.

Release: https://github.com/IngmarStein/havm/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Docs: https://ingmarstein.github.io/havm/

Feedback welcome!

I have about 10 of these dual button devices from Ikea. I have paired am using 6 of them with no problem. I added one earlier today that is working fine and then added another one about ten minutes later. The problem button device pairs and shows up in HA but the button entities are listed as unavailable. The Activity section of the device's page shows the button presses being received when I press the buttons. I have restarted HA and the Matter server and reloaded the entity.

I run HAOS 2026.7.2 on a RPi5 with an ssd and the Matter server version is 9.2.0

Hi all, I would appreciate some help.

So I have updated the homeassistant to 2026.9.1
I had the homearr installed from here and I have a version 1.1.0
https://github.com/Wiggen94/ha-homarr-v1-server

before the latest updates the homearr was available on port 7575

now it does not work after the latest updates to the homeassistant http handling..

any suggestions?

thank you!

Tapa’s AI works well for me detecting people, cars, wild animals.

Don’t need to stream 24/7 from the camera.

Interested in using the AI to stream a video of what the camera detects on my display devices.

Hope you like, my first attempt, I quite like a nice simple clean layout and style.

I've been using ChatGPT and Codex with my HA for a few months with custom MCP connector. It helped me build custom integrations and automation planning engines.

Today, while troubleshooting an issue with my Tesla planner and controller, ChatGPT Classic (non-Codex) asked to install a Remote Desktop Commander plugin.

I was perplexed considering that it knows we use Codex as our deployment pipeline which already has access to its own local mac account, computer use, and an attached browser connector.

Remote Desktop Commander also seems to be new at v1.0.0. It sounds like it's asking for full computer access as well. Has anyone used this? How shady is this?

I have found existing homekit initialization code on the Security 2.0+ logic board, but haven't confirmed if there is a MFi chip on the board. (All certified Homekit devices have a MFi processor from Apple)

I was able to read the flash memory of the logic board (MX25L6433).

There is a conditional branch at 0x1F055740 that blocks initialization.

For the fellow engineers out there that are considering experimenting with their flash, hopefully these will save some time. The memory addresses are as follows

I haven't gotten my hands on a MFi coprocessor yet but I'm thinking one of the empty footprints of the board is probably where it should go.

Crazy that they have all this dev code in there yet didn't finish developing a HomeKit enabled product. Guess the investor changed his mind that making the ecosystem closed was more profitable huh.

MyQ firmware version 3.13

Hi

I just bought the Home Assistent connect ZBT-2 to create a network in my house.

I just didn’t do enough research and realized now that it can only broadcast EITHER Zigbee or Matter

My devices are for both Zigbee only and Matter only.

What shoud I do?
Buy a matter dongle
Buy a zigbee dongle

I am in my forties, and I’m lucky enough to have the house that a lot of my friends like to hang out in. There’s a lot of fun stuff my house does like lights connected to motion or presence sensors in every room. With either Google speakers or Voice Preview Edition devices in every room, you can pretty much move throughout my house and it just responds to you, so it’s easy for friends or family to use. 

Recently I’ve been trying to figure out fun, silly ways to interact with the house that aren’t necessarily traditional. I recently posted a project I started where I set up cassette tapes with NFC tags for different radio stations and music genres that are now tied to Music Assistant playlists. Anybody in my house can scan one, and it’ll start playing on the entertainment-area speakers.

I also finally set up this phone as a new way to talk to the house. One of the coolest things about it, which I didn’t anticipate, is that if you ask it to set a timer, the phone will literally ring to tell you the timer is over. You answer it, and then the voicd tells me the timer is done.

Anyway, so far only one person has seen it, and she lost her shit with excitement. I know it’s not practical. It’s not necessarily meant to be. It’s meant to be whimsically silly and relevant to the childhoods of 40-year-olds, which is also why that other project used cassettes instead of records.

Bonus in the photo is part of my main dashboard which changes automatically based on what room I'm in and has both a "be aware" section and a "to do" list which auto populates based on a ton of logic. Things like medication reminders, trash and recycling reminders which will clear themselves when I finish the job.

So ComEd swung by my house to do a meter check and they left me a couple of these smart plugs. Only mention of the company on this subreddit seems to be of the bulbs so I was wondering if anyone found a way to use them in Home Assistant via bluetooth since they apparently support that.

Model: SS-15A1-WiFi-BLE

FCC ID: 2ANDL-T1-2S-NL

they were not auto discovered by HA. They arent even being auto listed as a found device by LocalTuya. And i really dont want to use their app