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Hi there!

Let's gather all those recent inspiring Home Assistant dashboards that you have been working on into one thread.

Show off you creative layouts, and card choices, to hopefully give both new and current users ideas for their own setups!

Let's inspire one another! 😊

What is everyone using for the LLM model for HA voice when selfhosting ollama? I've tried llama and qwen with varying degrees of understanding my commands. I'm currently on llama as it appears a little better. I just wanted to see if anyone found a better model.

Edit: as pointed out, this is more of a speech to text issue than llm model. I'm looking into the alternatives to whisper

Hello,

quite new to the world of HA, but I've successfully set up some Tradfri LEDs and integrated my Valetudo robot to.

I've got a RP4 with a Sonoff dongle, and use ZHA to integrate all my devices.

Now, whenever I try to add the IKEA Styrbar remote control, it does get added to the device list, but no information about battery, nor firmware is displayed. Also, ZHA does not registrate any infos sent from the device, when clicking a button on it, nor does the “identify” command does anything recognizable on the device itself.

I've searched the internet for a bit, and for some it has worked by switchting to zigbee2mqtt. I've tried adding the device there with the same result: It does get recognized, but no information is received by the remote or from the remote.

I'm currently in the process of trying to manually update the firmware, but there is only one link to one firmware version, so I've found, and it's from 2023, the newest firmware for the Styrbar should be from August 2024.

So, did you happen to also have similar trouble with this particular device? Is it a good idea to manually flash the firmware? Do you know where I can find the newest firmware?

Thank you all! :-)

Edit: This comment by @[email protected] led me to update my Sonoff ZBDongle-P from its 2021 firmware. After removing the remote from ZHA and adding it back again, everything works like a charm. Sometimes it's the easy thing you miss, so never get annoyed by questions like: "Did you try turning it off and on again?" 😁

I've been using an Amazon tablet with Fully Kiosk for a few months but it frankly sucks ass. Keeps resetting itself or kicking back to the Amazon home screen to name a few issues.

If money isn't a factor, what tablet do you think would be the dream choice for integrating as a wall mountable Hass tablet?

Fully Kiosk is a great app but still very hacky, so I'd like a tablet that doesn't require workarounds to keep it in kiosk mode.

I hate telemetry and spyware as well so I guest that puts anything Amazon or Google based out of the equation.

In the office we have an automation system that talks in modbus. Right now I have Node Red that receives data from modbus (via IP), sends it to MQTT and send messages from MQTT to modbus. In HA I have 15 MQTT climates that works. I want to bypass Node Red; I've added an automation that gets triggered when a MQTT values arrives and sends the new value to mobus:

alias: Climate_update_modbus_setpoint_studio1
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: mqtt
    topic: home_assistant/thermostat/setpoint/Studio1
actions:
  - data:
      hub: picnet
      address: 1099
      value: "{{ (trigger.payload | float * 10) | int }}"
    action: modbus.write_register
mode: queued

The problem is that the modbus change takes a lot.

• I change the climate setpoint, after about 0.5 seconds the MQTT value changes and the automation gets triggered
• the modbus register changes in a range of about 0.5-3 seconds
• sometimes the automation gets triggered and I see the trigger bar yellow instead of blue and the modbus register changes after longer

With Node Red I have no problem with modbus. What can I check to try to find the source of the problem?

I've been running a very simple Home Assistant setup for a while now - just a few lights and a door lock. I've added a bit of monitoring and data gathering basically to see how MQTT works.

I installed a Reolink camera intending to setup Frigate PVR and do all the good stuff (including more cameras) with that, but my hardware is old and I need a TPU and they're all out of stock and back ordered until October, at best. I've tried ZoneMinder but couldn't get over all the false positives with fog and rain etc. So, I had given up on my camera project for a while.

Then I installed the Reolink integration in Home Assistant and see that it has basic "AI" capability and I can trigger automations based on "person seen" etc. I already created a basic "save 30 seconds of video if you see a person". I've got pretty basic requirements and can probably be happy with a few more basic automations like this, but this seems almost a waste - there is so much capability there. I had a bit of a look in the internal integrations repository and HACS and I can't see anything that looks like a PVR.

Does it exist?

Is it something I shouldn't be trying to do with Home Assistant? There was no noticeable increase in CPU usage when I enabled my test automation so I assume the "AI" is happening in the camera. I don't see a downside??

Edit - I've continued working and reading more about the Reolink Integration and now partially answer my own question: I think I'm going to be happy with just the Reolink integration and some automations. It seems to work very well!

I've got an IKEA Tradfri LED driver and a Rodret dimmer. When I first installed them I thought it would be good to also control some non-IKEA pendant lights with the same dimmer, in sync with the cabinet lights connected to the Tradfri - so, I created automations in Home Assistant corresponding to each of the actions the dimmer can perform and this is working fine. However, we've decided not to control the pendant lights in sync with the cabinet lights so it's now unnecessarily complicated. I plan to remove the automations and link the Rodret direct to the Tradfri again.

I understand that I can do this by following the IKEA procedure to pair the devices. But I'm also curious about the option in Home Assistant to bind devices.

Finally to my question - are these two methods to achieve the same result, or is IKEA pairing somehow different than Zigbee binding?

I lost my esphome config in HA. I have several devices (sonoff S31) that show up in HA asking for encryption keys when I try to add them, which I don't have as old HA vm is gone. Is there anyway to reset them to base esphome config without disassembling and reflashing esphome? From what I can tell googling this, the answer is no, but thought I'd ask before I go ahead with that plan.

I thought I'd pop this up here, as I've now had mine almost a year.

I've had sonoff zigbee sensors for a while, and wanted to try this slightly updated one with a display.
To cut a long story short:

• It works
• It communicates and pairs with HA ZHA integration out of the box.
• I've not had any issues at all since I bought it.
• The display is clear
• The bracket sticks to the wall, then the sensor magnets into the bracket. The sensor also has a fold-out stand for placing on a surface.
• After almost 1 year on the included battery, it's showing 60%
• I paid about £12, they're now around £14

Battery use should obviously be taken with a pinch of salt, but I would not be surprised if it's still trucking after 2 years.

Accuracy is fine for consumer level gear

I also discovered (after updating to HA latest) that temperature and humidity thresholds can be set on the device.
And that it will show symbols on the display when these limits are breached. By default, it shows a snowflake when it's under 19'C.

So, yeah. For areas where people are likely to want to check the temperature quickly, they're neat little dooberies.

I built a new house last year and moved in this January. This is my first time living in a house that's air tight enough to have an air exchanger. Through the winter it was fine - I just left it run its own Eco mode and everything seemed good. I'm finding spring really frustrating though - most days are nice and warm and we open windows, most nights are cool and we close the windows. I don't like wasting electricity by running the air exchanger all day when the windows are open.

I've considered window sensors and a smart plug on the air exchanger, but I don't really want to install 13 window sensors.

Are there air quality sensors that are accurate, and reliable, enough for me to turn the air exchanger on whenever the CO2, or whatever it is that make a house feel stuffy, level gets high enough?

My air exchanger is a very basic "builder" model and won't do this itself. It has an air quality sensor and changes the fan level to what it thinks we need, but it won't turn off when we don't need it.

Hi, I used to monitor my Car Charging using a Shelly Plug S but now it's dead and I want to replace it. How do I swap it out so that it's continuing the work of it's predecessor? I want to have it neat.

I hope y'all can help me with this one.

I would like to start using floorplans/maps with various device actions on them. This means I need locally stored images, that can be seen over the network.
I managed to upload images to HA, but as they need to be accessed with a token, I either need to refresh the token every day (no), or have an image with a long-lived token (also not a good idea).

How have other people done things?
Is it worth spinning up an http image host?
Or maybe throwing files into an nginx folder inside HA?

Thoughts on a postcard :)

I've been running Home Assistant for about a year now and always installed every update as soon as it's released and never had any issues at all.

Yesterday some time in either the zwave js 15.6.0 or core 2025.6.0 update (I am too complacent and did them both in quick succession without testing anything) I lost my Zooz 800 zwave controller. Reloading HA didn't bring it back. I had unplug and replug the Zooz USB stick and then reload again.

Not a big deal, just sharing FYI.

I've got several Amcrest cameras connected through Frigate (running standalone) to HA but I'm not sure how to properly setup the camera card so that the 'thumbnail' shown on the dashboard cards refreshes every so often.

Previously I had them connected directly to HA via the Dahua integration and set the camera streams as both the thumbnail image and as what's displayed when you click the card and this all worked fairly well (the thumbnail would refresh every few minutes) but now after switching to Frigate, the thumbnails have remained static since the day it was initially set up and never refresh and I'm not sure how to fix this.

The cameras are all PoE and connected to an Amcrest NVR which does the main recording while Frigate just sees the substream and uses it for object detection and remote viewing through HA. Clicking the camera cards allows me to view the stream but for whatever reason the thumbnails never refresh.

This isn't specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I'll give that a go.

I don't really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

I recently setup my ZigBee network in Home Assistant, using a Conbee III with deConz on my Synology NAS.

I purchased a few Aqara Temperature sensors and a couple of Mini Switches.

I was able to get them to pair just fine, but they won't remain online for more than a couple days. They then drop off and I can't even reconnect them easily. I need to try to pair them again like 10 times before they come back online.

At this point I don't know if the problem is my network, the Conbee III, deConz, or the Aqara devices.

I don't know much about ZigBee, but a couple things that I tried so far were:

1. Use a USB extender instead of connecting the Conbee III directly to my NAS.
2. Bring the devices as close a possible to the gateway. I don't have a big home, so I don't think distance is a factor here, but still, I put of the sensors right next to the gateway, and it would still drop after a while.

Do you have any hints on things to try to get this fixed, or at least identify the problem?

I have recently setup a reverse proxy with the nginx addon for my home assistant server. Everything works well with the exception of the local calender integration. For whatever reason it throws an error "Could not retrieve events for calendars: " when connecting through the external URL. I also get a failed login attempt but only if I open the calender tab.

Does anyone know why it does this and how to fix it? I would like to use the home assistant calender for my family and acces is while away from home.

As I'm currently doing a re-wire, it's a great opportunity for me to put some metering in the house.
I'm single-phase, but I plan to monitor multiple sections of the house, which are each wired for 100A independently.

I'm currently eyeing up either the Shelly Pro 3EM – 120A or the 50A.
As it will fit nicely in the consumer unit, and supports Ethernet.

I previously looked at the Aeotec clamp devices, but they seem to be difficult to find with multiple 100A connectors.

Emporia Vue was also a consideration, but I'm always a little hesitant to buy products that require custom firmware to even work properly, when others are available. And I'd also like to avoid using 2.4Ghz wifi for connectivity.

I'd love to hear any experiences people have had with similar devices, good or bad. And how the integration with HA went.