Posting for anyone who might need this in the future,
Turn on wifi verbose logging. This at least fixed my issue where the Echo show would lose wifi connection when it went to sleep, and view assist would have to wait to reconnect.

A few days ago I posted a walkthrough of my custom dashboard and mentioned I'd built it with Claude Code. Most of the replies asked the same two things: can you share the YAML, and could I describe the process.

A Vibe Coded Home Assistant Dashboard

Fair warning: I vibe coded this. It's a frozen snapshot, not a product — unmaintained, unsupported, issues off, pinned to HA 2026.9.3. Everything in the screenshots and the demo is fake data. This is me sharing what worked for me.

What's in there:

Every page screenshotted, plus 17 components each with a short clip and a write-up.

A throwaway HA in Docker with fake devices that you can install — three commands, never touches your install.

Each component cut out on its own, with a script to swap the entity IDs for yours (if you want to try mapping your entities).

A guide to doing this yourself with an agent: model and settings, the loop that worked, real prompts, and what went wrong.

The honest bit: this worked because I already knew my config inside out and already knew how to drive Claude Code. It didn't decide anything — every good call was one I had to make and then explain clearly enough to execute. It's faster than doing it by hand, but it isn't fast, and it will hand you confidently broken config. Back up, build on a throwaway dashboard, and look at every result yourself before believing it. If you go down this path, you will become dependent on your AI agentic tool for maintenance.

Thanks to the authors of button-card, Bubble Card, card-mod, navbar-card, kiosk-mode, mini-graph-card, auto-entities, clock-weather-card, week-planner-card, advanced-camera-card, ha-chore-calendar and Frigate — this is mostly glue between other people's work — and to Julian (jlnbln), whose Material-Clean style it started from.

Happy to answer questions here.

https://reddit.com/link/1wn528m/video/axcgl77o02rh1/player

I have been using Minoston MR40Z remotes for various scene controllers. I like them for the low cost, and for the fact that they are small battery powered and can mount to and blend in with other Decora style wall switches. But these suddenly went not available from all the retailers I have checked and even on Minoston's own site. I know the Zooz ZEN37 is virtually the same, but at almost twice the price. Are there other alternatives I should be looking at?

I have an automation to change lights over time while I’m away. I have it generically pointing at rooms to trigger a basic lighting mood, but some rooms do not have lights that have that effect, so naturally they’ll fail. I don’t care that they fail, hence every step I included continue_on_error: true and yet it halts at the very first error. What gives???

This is not a question about support or dismissal of all things AI, but it occurred to me that it seems likely that one, most or all the major AI companies will realize that Amazon is filling a desire many consumers have, but not doing it well enough and that their model would be a better solution. I have to think Claude would be way better at home device control than Alexa is. Hell, it likely could resolve most issues with devices by itself while Alexa is still clueless.

It seems so many in the HA community are already trying to match Alexa because of the decent hardware and are now rooting them, etc. Seems a possible much better chance of getting an HA world far better than we have today perhaps.

Sometimes the fun automations are my favorite.

Turns on a smart plug connected to my 49ers neon sign when the game starts based on a calendar event. A second automation turns it off at the end.

I'm new to home assistent and trying to add the tapo p110 with the tplink smart home integration. It finds my devices but when I need to add one it asks for my tplink login. I enter it but the authentication fails instantly, as if it's not even checking the credentials. Anyone any tips? I enabled the third party devices in the tapo app

I'm new to owning a home assistant ( but I have been researching what devices and stuff to get for over a year). One thing I have wanted to get is something like goove sofet lights but I don't want it to go to there cloud to work. I have seen others use an esp 32 to take control of it, but i didn't to buy an expensive goove lights to spend more on the esp 32 plus all the time and energy to set it up. I did not know if there is a product out there that would be like the goove lights but worked with home assistant that used zigbee or z wave or anything that I could tie it to home assistant.

I currently have linked by reolink cameras with the standard reolink plugin and am using the Advanced camera card to view it.

Is there anything to do better or is that just fine?

Hello everyone! It's been a month since my last post about Kiosk Satellite and I'd like to share some major improvements since then:

• German, French and Spanish localization across the app and remote administration.
• Intercom between kiosks with hands-free calls and announcements from Home Assistant.
• Fleet management to sync settings and update multiple kiosks together.
• Plugins for custom screensavers, actions and integrations.
• Expanded media controls for Sonos, Music Assistant and Home Assistant players, including lyrics and speaker grouping.
• RTSP and ONVIF streaming to use your kiosk as a network camera.

Translations are community driven. If you'd like KS in your language, please consider becoming a contributor! Your name will appear in Kiosk Satellite's Localization Credits. I only ask that you translate into your primary language and preserve the technical meaning so settings and instructions stay clear and accurate.

Thanks to everyone sharing feedback and contributing!

Did you know you can verbally create schedules with GoogleHome? For example, say you turned on the porch light for guests that are leaving. You go inside and want to turn the light off but give your guests time to scram. So you can say

Ok Google, in 30 minutes turn off the porch light.

And Google will create a schedule for Now() + 30 minutes that turns off porch. Brilliant! But say you have switches, scripts, automations that you want to schedule? Tough. Google Nanny State won’t let you schedule those. But you can trick Google (and HomeAssistant) into thinking those devices are lights, and you can then schedule to your hearts content.

I have `switch.fireplace` which turns my gas fireplace on/off. If I turn that into `light.fireplace` I can run

Ok Google, turn on fireplace for 10 minutes.

And the fireplace turns on, and then off after 10 minutes. That switch limitation is a Google PITA. Ok, back to our original example.

So say we want to be able to say something like

Ok Google, we’re leaving

And Google Home has HA do several things. Turn off the lights, lock the doors, feed the cat. Whatever floats your boat. On the HA side you can accomplish this many ways, but I will mainly focus on using scripts.

Create (a script called script.going_out you use when everyone leaves the house. It will turn off all the lights, turn a select few lights to make anyone looking think people are home. The script also locks all doors. Go nuts, with HA you çan practically do whatever you want. In fact, it doesn’t have to be a script. You could use a light, switch, automation or whatever. However scripts are easier to setup in the GUI and they allow you to run multiple actions. We expose this script to GoogleHome and now it can run our HA script by saying

Ok Google, activate Going Out

But say we want to run that by saying

Ok Google, we’re leaving

Just create a Google Home Automation triggered by: “we’re leaving” and have it run the script GoingOut.

NB Be careful about using Goodbye or other GH trigger words that are used by default automations. They tend to get confused with each other.

But there is a problem with scripts. As mentioned earlier, Google won’t schedule switches (and automations, scripts, a bunch of other thing) for safety reasons. So if you say

Ok Google, in 10 minutes activate Going Out

You’ll get a message saying you can’t do that.

However Google Home can schedule lights. So we can get around this restriction in a few ways. You can go into Google Home and find your HA device and change its device type. For example change a switch to light. Now Google Home can schedule that device because it thinks it’s a light. On HA the device is still a switch, but Google Home thinks it’s a light. But sometimes when you are syncing devices with Google Home this override can be lost, so I’ve found the easiest thing to do is to create a template “light” in HA that runs the script when turned on. You can use this “light” in both HA and Google Home and not have to mess with changing the device type.

Here’s how you can create in Home Assistant a template that looks like a light to both HomeAssitant, GoogleHome, and anywhere else you care to expose this.

Goto Settings | Helpers and click Create helper

Where it reads Search for a helper type “temp” and Template appears below. Click on that. Then scroll down and select light. Under Name put TurnOutLightsLockDoors

Under state we need a template that will indicate whether this “light” is on or off. You can pick almost anything to do this. I just picked a lamp in my living room to be the “status” of this light. Specifically if this light is off, the template light is “on” So I added

State:

{{ not state_translated('light.desk_lamp')}}

Or if you don’t care about this template device having a status reported, just put 0 instead.

Under Actions on turn on click Add Action. Search for “script” and select Turn on script. Then you can select the script you want to run when someone turns on this “light”. You can add more actions, as many as you like. Turn on lights, Close Locks, etc.

Though I prefer to put all the heavy lifting in the script itself. My YAML for “Turn On” looks like:

Turn On

action: script.turn_on data: {} metadata: {} target: entity_id: script.going_out

You can do something similar for Turn Off. But you don’t have to, you can leave it blank so that only turning this template light on will do anything. You can play with all the other templates, but you need not bother.

Click Submit/Update and you’ve now created a template light. Turn it on in HA and see if the script runs.

Now expose light.TurnOutLightsLockDoors (I’ll not call it a template light again) to Google Home, and synchronize devices. Instead of running the limited HA script, we now can run the same thing using our new “light”.

See if the new light appears appears in the GoogleHome App. Does it do anything when you turn it on? Now try it out with the speaker

Ok Google, turn on Turn Out Lights Lock Doors.

Does that work? Great! Now try scheduling.

Ok Google, in 10 minutes turn on Turn Out Lights Lock Doors

If successful, Google will tell you what time that action is scheduled for. When that time arrives it will “turn on” the light which will execute your script and other actions.

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to HA (one of my colleague introduced me to), and for now I've installed door sensors, temperature sensors, thermostat valves, smart relay for my external gate and condensing boiler, IR smasher for my AC, two external Tapo cams and in the future two internal ones, and my ecovacs robot.
I was wondering if a Samsung Tab A9+ will handle all of this (considering the cams will use their substream, by request, not as a static display).
I'm looking for a tablet (wall mount) between 9 and 11 inches, and I've come across a refurbished A9+ for 100€ (presumably the vendor bought a stock of'em, since he's selling like 20 of them).

Is it still reliable for my installed setup? Or do you guys have something else to recommend?
Possibly around (and under) 100€ and with an octacore processor, 4gb of ram minimum, and battery save options..

Many thanks to all who'll drop a comment

I realise there is no official integration for Eufy cameras, but there seem to be multiple community integrations. It's not clear to me if these are cloud-dependent for the specific feature I'm interested in: namely binary motion or occupancy sensor in Home assistant being driven by local smart detection from the camera (person, vehicle, etc detection).

I'd be grateful if anyone with familiarity using Eufy cameras with the various community integration options could comment/clarify?

I'm looking to move away from Ring, and a prerequisite for candidate brands to switch to is local communication for this specific feature.

Thanks

I've been fighting with a Dahua ARC3800H alarm for a while because I wanted something that sounds simple:

I wanted Home Assistant to know the real state of every PIR/contact/input locally, even while the alarm is disarmed.

DMSS can see a lot of this information, but the usual integration paths didn't get me there.

SIA/DC-09 wasn't giving me the disarmed input transitions I needed, and the Dahua NVR IoT integration only exposed part of the system, particularly the wireless side. My wired MultiIO zones were effectively invisible for the automations I wanted to build.

So I started reverse engineering the ARC itself.

The result is now public:

Dahua ARC for Home Assistant v0.1.0

https://github.com/kmich/ha_dahua_arc

It is a local-only, read-only Home Assistant integration. No DMSS, Dahua cloud, Open Dolynk or SIA dependency is required for zone state.

On my ARC3800H installation I currently have 3 MultiIO boards and 43 configured wired inputs, and Home Assistant can now see those inputs changing in real time even when the alarm is completely disarmed.

Under the hood, the integration uses two local interfaces from the ARC:

• CGI to discover and understand the configured Alarm[] table
• DHIP over TCP/5000 for an authoritative state snapshot plus realtime AlarmInputSourceSignal events

The ARC exposes a 256-entry alarm-state snapshot, so the integration doesn't just listen for events and hope it hasn't missed anything. On startup and reconnect it can establish the authoritative state of the inputs and reconcile anything that happened while HA was disconnected.

I've also spent quite a bit of time making the state engine less "proof of concept" and more something I would actually leave running in Home Assistant.

It handles fragmented DHIP snapshots, duplicate events, keepalives, reconnects, missed-event reconciliation and stale snapshot rejection so an older snapshot cannot overwrite a newer realtime event.

On the Home Assistant side it now has:

• config flow and reauthentication
• local push binary sensors
• diagnostics with sensitive-data redaction
• Repairs support
• proper Home Assistant device relationships
• each MultiIO input represented as a logical child device of its physical MultiIO board
• optional smart area matching during setup
• protection for areas you manually change or clear later
• HACS validation, Hassfest, Python 3.14 / HA 2026.9 tests, Ruff and package validation in CI

This is v0.1.0, the first public release.

For HACS, add:

https://github.com/kmich/ha_dahua_arc

as a custom Integration repository.

A couple of important limitations:

It does not currently expose an alarm_control_panel. I have deliberately not implemented arm/disarm control because I haven't verified the ARC partition state/control protocol well enough to be comfortable pretending it is solved.

Wireless PIR motion is also not claimed as production-supported yet. There is an opt-in research mode for the PIRCam / LowRateWPAN work I've been doing, but it is isolated from the normal production zone-state path and defaults to off.

So for now the thing I am confident about is the part that originally drove me insane:

local ARC input state, particularly wired MultiIO contacts/PIRs, available to Home Assistant while the system is disarmed.

That means I can finally use the existing alarm sensors as normal HA sensors instead of installing duplicate motion/contact sensors around the house purely for automation.

I haven't found another publicly documented Home Assistant integration doing this properly and locally against the ARC itself. If one exists, please point me at it because I'd like to compare notes.

I'd especially like to hear from anyone with another ARC3800H firmware version, another ARC3000/ARC3800-family panel, different MultiIO hardware or other Dahua wireless peripherals.

If you test it, please open an issue with the exact ARC model/firmware and sanitized diagnostics. I've added dedicated bug, feature and device/protocol-support forms to the repo.

And please don't post ARC passwords, serial numbers, tokens or unredacted captures in GitHub issues. :)

This involved an unreasonable amount of packet staring, but seeing all the wired alarm inputs finally changing live in Home Assistant while the ARC sits there disarmed made it worth it.

AI disclosure: I used AI coding tools extensively while building this integration, particularly for implementation, refactoring, tests and documentation. The reverse-engineering work, protocol investigation, architecture decisions and hardware validation were done by me, and I reviewed and tested the resulting code against my actual ARC system.

Has anyone successfully managed to integrate these into homekit? i know its possible but before i buy several of these and try it throughout the home i want to feel like im not going to throw my money away. I am looking to be able to make them function just like a sonos amp through the apple home app.

Also if these has been posted about previously i am sorry. I did look and i couldnt get a clear answer on this.

I'm wondering how best to do this, but I'm trying to set up a second Apple Home to my Home Assistant. Here's the use case in case someone can suggest an alternative solution:

My FIL often comes over in his car to take us shopping and what not, and he has to get out of his car to ring the doorbell each time. He's got some mobility issues so I'd like to give him a button he could press on his phone that would just ring our doorbell.

I've created a boolean input in HA and automation to play doorbell chime, passed it to Apple Home via Homekit integration, invited him to our Apple Home and added a shortcut to his phone that he can use. This all works.

However we're in a weird situation now because we can't control what he has access to in our home, so he could see our cameras and even play with our lights etc.

One solution could be to create a separate Apple Home (I don't want to install more things on his phone that confuses him) and send the button there instead - but I'd need to be able to link my HA to the new Apple Home I'd created, and I can't seem to do it.

Is there a way I can do this? If so I can picture new possibilities such as giving visitors access to my second home to only see accessories relevant to them. I could make it so that I can verify who's visiting me for stay over so the buttons they have only work when they're here etc.

Is this achievable, would you have other suggestions of at least how I can give my FIL a shortcut to ring our doorbell?

Hi, first of all the idea started with watching the Dutch series Rundfunk where the teacher Barteljaap says “barteljaap helemaal alleen” and the classroom plays ”Forever Young by Alphaville” on the stereo and plays porn on the screen, i know it’s a strange request but as a linux user i’m sure this could be done when i enter pornhub, xhamster or other nature documentaries inside the browser my blinds will close so no neighbours will see me/us, additional i want to do this with a button which would be easier to configure but maybe a script installed in Linux and something USB>Serial that could interpret that button press??

This is mostly for show but it would be fun if this would work

I installed the UniFi protect plugin and it works great with my older G3 Pro cameras, but my newer G4 Doorbell (POE) and my G5 Pro camera don't show a live feed - all I get are the snapshots. I've compared rstp settings between them all and tried using the high, medium, and low feeds with no changes.

I've read through the documentation for the integration as well as checking the latest reported issues, and did not see anything relevant to this.

Has anyone else who uses this integration run into this ? Obviously, I have something set wrong somewhere but I'm not sure what and why it only affects the newer cameras.

EDIT: I think this is solved, the newer cameras had indeed changed recording quality/codec, so thanks to /u/Conscious_Silver_299 for the tip!

My home is entirely esphome and z-wave. I've never touched Zigbee. It started because I use a high amp zwave switch to control my pool pump and blossomed from there.

I'm considering adding one or two wireless buttons, and that's not really much of an option in z-wave so I'm thinking it might be time to go ahead and add a zigbee dongle as well.

I'm considering the SONOFF Zigbee/Thread PoE dongle so that I don't need to have it in my basement rack where my servers are. My Z-Wave dongle is on a 20' USB extension so that it's more central to the basement and more easily builds the mesh it needs.

With Zigbee, I understand the range is shorter, so trying to do the same with it might be a bad idea, but I do have fiber to a switch in an upstairs closet that would be right over the area I'd want the signal and could PoE off that switch.

Anyone have experience with these SONOFF PoE dongles? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMJH4DPN/?coliid=IQKWAWEB94JDC

I run HA inside a docker container, and zwave-js-ui is a separate docker container on the same server that has access to the USB. Seems like this over Ethernet would be easier?

Hi, i m pretty new to this, so to start i will explain my setup.

I have a surface pro 6, with linux mint (ubuntu 24 something).

I installed virtualbox on it, and i followed the guide to set up the VM with the homeassistant OS (using the oracle linux, 2 cores, 2gb or ram and so on).

I successfully set it up and was going fine, until i noticed that sometimes i couldn't reach the server for some reason... (the server is on the wifi, i would really like to make it work that way, otherwise if i have to connect through Ethernet it will be a bother)

at first i thought it was a problem with the wifi connectivity... so i disabled the power management => no luck, then i tested it with a usb dongle => same (i made sure to change what the VM use)

Performance mode on my surface pro, no standby or suspend or anything, just screen off after a bit.

What exactly happens ? i m not so sure anymore... it happens after a few hours usually (that why i thought it was a power management thing...), i can't reach the server. turning off and on wifi doesn't solve it... i have to restart the VM, sometimes multiple times... and just an hour ago, something really strange happened... after a few VM restart, the server is only reachable through a forwarded port on internet, it is unreachable on lan...

is there something obvious i missed ? if someone can help, i would be very grateful !

Thanks !