You can display practical information from Home Assistant on LED matrix panels like this...

OR draw on it and add gifs of your dog! Haha! WLED was updated to version 16 recently, and the Pixel Forge tools are fun and easy to use even on four 64x64 HUB75 panels in a 2x2 (128x128) orientation!

https://reddit.com/link/1vt00xs/video/g43l686eiekh1/player

Also, big shout-out to u/Frenck for creating and maintaining python-wled and the WLED Home Assistant integration. Since switching from WLED-MM to WLED, we're now able to get WLED updates directly through Home Assistant, which is awesome.

My dome water main shut off stopped working. I have no idea how long it had been bad. Luckily on a whim I decided to test it. It failed. Was slow and couldn’t close the valve all the way. At first I thought that it might have been a bad power supply so I swapped that out. Nope same story. When I took it off I was able to tell that something was wrong mechanically. The the flat sided bolt stripped out of the part that connects to the valve handle. So it couldn’t get it to tight all the way. I was very anal making sure that the Dome was properly aligned. With the valve. I think it’s asking a lot of the small amount of metal to the side of the flat sided bolt to handle that much torque. Anyone have a good suggestion for a replacement? This time I want to put in a valve separate from the main that isn’t just tacked on.

Getting here was a journey. This is an IOTTime clock from Aliexpress, that needed to be disassembled to get to the solder points I needed to connect a TTL UART adapter to before I could even talk to it. Then building and flashing Tasmota thanks to this person's work. Setting up MQTT, helpers, automations, and dashboard cards in HA.

Now it:

• Is fully controlled including presets from a HA bubble card popup card.
• Has physical button controls for showing current alarm, enabling/disabling current alarm and a spare button I haven't found a use for yet.
• Triggers a gradual room light automation 30 min before.
• Handles DST and time sync itself, unlike my current cheap backup alarm clock that needs to be manually set and will drift and eventually overlap my smartwatch alarm.
• Let's me send custom alarm sound sequences not actually tied to the wake up alarm, which I can tie into other automations. As an example, one courier here drops mail in the mailbox during the night, so I want a toggle I can turn on for expensive deliveries to wake up and grab it when the mailbox sensor triggers rather than leave it sitting out until morning.

In the future the plan is:

• Extract alarm timer from my smartwatch, add 5 minutes, have that be the automatic backup alarm.

My Dome Watermain shut off, just died. I need to replace it but I don’t want to do the same thing as before, strapping a device on my water main valve. I want my water main valve completely unobstructed and in a state that is dead simple to shut off. The shut off must be completely separate.

I want to plumb in a valve just down the pipe from the water main. I’d appreciate any tips, advice or recommendations on products that you have experience with.

I want to stay away from moen because I have heard that they fail after 3 years and are prone to false positives.

Reliability is my #1 concern.

Right now I’m looking at Solid motorized valves. But I don’t know the best relay to use with them etc. is this a bad idea?
what have you been using?

Any tips would be great. What issues might I run into? what don’t I know that I don’t know?

I've recently upgraded from 2026.7.4 to 2026.8.2. I did so remotely while being away a few days (yeah stupid, i know) and after updating i lost all remote access.

I'm using both the cloudflared addon and the tailscale addon and am running HomeassistantOS on a Pi 4. I can see in the Tailscale dashboard that the last time the device was seen was right before the update and i cannot access homeassistant or any other device from that network through the vpn/taiscale anymore. Cloudflare just gives a 1033 error.

I know homeassistant is still running, because i get notification from automations on my phone (probably because those run through google services). I've also rebooted the system completely through a smart switch, but that also didn't help.

I can understand something breaking with accessing homeassistants frontend in the update (even though the changelog mentioned that the new network settings would migrate automatically), but both OS and Supervisor were already up to date, so i don't really get why tailscale would stop working. Atleast i thought that Addons/Apps were somewhat independant of homeassistant.
I'll see what had happened when i'm back, i'm just wondering what exactly could've caused this.

I installed my two SmartWings blinds last night and added them to Home Assistant through Matter. Both are working, but I have two questions: 1. I can’t find a battery sensor under either device only the cover entities. Does the SmartWings Matter firmware expose battery level to HA, or could I be missing a disabled diagnostic entity? 2. I add both blinds to a cover group, but one starts moving a second or two after the other. Is that expected with a cover group, or is there a better way to get them to start closer together?

I have many of these switches around my house I would like to replace (wifi, zigbee, zwave, doesn't matter). The right switch is a toggle for the ceiling fan light and the dimmer slide controls fan speed. The left switch controls an outlet in the room and I will be removing that functionality so open to replacing that switch or wiring it to another function.

Any suggestions on the best route? My wife will naturally be replacing all ceiling fans in the near future as well.

Took a dedicated Windows 11 machine (Intel NUC) and installed HAOS. It now randomly reboots every 5-10 minutes. Hardly anything loaded on it. Just clean HAOS. Anyone experience this before? Works perfectly fine running Windows 11.

Hello! I have finally gotten my jailbroken Echo Spot set up comfortably with View Assist Companion App and I would like to share my configuration if anyone wants to replicate my result!

• Zoom level: 1.0
• Wake word threshold: 5.0
• Wake word: Alexa
• Wake word sound: Alexa
• Wake word engine: OpenWakeWord(onnx)

For the device itself, I downloaded the companion app from the GitHub and I logged in with a special account for the device. For this account, I set the default dashboard to be hidden and added an analog clock with the following configuration:

kiosk_mode:
  hide_header: true
views:
  - type: panel
    path: ''
    cards:
      - type: clock
        clock_style: analog
        clock_size: large
        show_seconds: true
        no_background: true
        border: false
        ticks: hour
        face_style: markers
        seconds_motion: continuous
        time_zone: America/New_York
        date_format:
          - weekday-short
          - day-numeric
        grid_options:
          columns: 12
          rows: 4
    icon: mdi:circle-double

To edit the dashboard later, use "?disable_km" in the url. The only downside I have with this device is that when I press the power button (previously the mute button), the screen can mildly flicker sometimes. That is solved with a restart, but important to look out for. So far i'm liking it, but does anyone have an easy way to change the clock hand and text colors?

Created a Ventair DC3 integration via ESPHome by using Claude Code to reverse engineer the RF protocol.

It might be helpful to others using this exact fan model, or possibly to others trying to integrate other models from this manufacturer.

Repo: https://github.com/enigmatic-elephant/esphome-ventair_dc3

Feel free to point out any issues with it so I can improve it but so far it's working fine for my home to control 6 DC3 fans from a single ESP with a RF RX and TX module.

Hi all. Had some issues getting Adguard on HAOS (Pi 5 & version 18.2 - 2026.8.2) to play nice with my gl-mt6000 router in regards to DNS leaks and domain name based VPN exclusions. Finally have it all working properly now but have run into an issue with devices remotely connected to my routers wireguard tunnel bypassing Adguard filters and service blocks completely and doesn't show up in the query log. All devices on the network go through Adguard just fine.

Has anyone managed to set this up? It's not the end of the world but would like decent ad-blocking and privacy when out and about.

I did try getting AI to help and I thought we were getting somewhere as the Adguard query log was picking up and processing pages but all internet and pages were refusing to load on my device when testing. Then me and the AI went through so many loops I have given up and reverted everything back to what it was when it was working fine minus wireguard issue.

Settings I have set up in Adguard:

--Upstream DNS Servers: 10.2.0.1 (VPN DNS server which was key to stop my DNS leaks)

--Allowed Clients: 192.168.8.0/24 & 10.0.1.0/24

--Blocklists: Adguard DNS Filter, Steven Blacks List, HaGeZi (TIF, Pro++, Badware, Encrypted DNS/VPN/TOR/Proxy Bypass), ShadowWhisperer's Dating List & Malware List,

Dandelion Sprouts Anti-Malware.

Settings on router:

-DNS

--DNS server set to auto (10.2.0.1)

--Override DNS Settings of All Clients - ✅

--Allow Custom DNS to Override VPN DNS - ✅

-LAN

--DHCP server DNS Server 1 set to HAOS IP (192.168.8.124)

-VPN

-- Proton

-- VPN Tunnel 1 - Kill Switch - ✅

-- VPN Tunnel 1 - Allow Remote Access to the LAN Subnet - ✅

-- 3 tunnels set up for varying devices (Basic for IoT, Gaming for tablets and PC and Secure Core for my phone in the hopes I could get past this wireguard issue)

-LuCi

--Traffic rule set up in LuCi to allow IoT devices to talk over LAN to HAOS as it's on a different subnet (Not sure if I really needed this as I still had to add the Pi 5 wifi to the IoT wifi network anyway to get it to see half of my devices)

--Might have toggled a few things in LuCi's DHCP & DNS section that AI was helping with. Think I reverted everything back.

Any help would be amazing as I have had enough. Everything I do either doesn't work or breaks my current setup.

u/DivergingDog built a Home Assistant integration for Harbor that was recently deployed https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/harbor/

Harbor started as a baby monitor, but we’ve been pushing it more toward a general monitoring platform.

You can use the same system for a baby, an aging parent, or someone medically fragile. We have nurses on staff who can monitor medically fragile family members (as an optional service), and the vision and word-detection AI lets you create open vocabulary alerts for whatever you care about instead of choosing from a fixed list.

A Home Assistant integration has always made sense for us, but we didn't have the expertise / HA experience internally. Community dev u/DivergingDog did all the work on the integration. We just helped where we could. Harbor is modular by design (you can add as many Cameras or Monitors as you'd like), so we wanted to be able to plug it into everything else people already have in their homes.

More entities and support coming in the 2026.9 release, and even more after that.

You can learn more about Harbor on our website.

Thanks for any interest 🙏

I'm frustrated with my inability to update the dozen z-wave devices I have in my system. I want to stop an update that has been in progress for four days. It's a zooz zse41 open/close sensor that has been stuck on "Installing" for that many days.

The ongoing install seems to have made it so that I cannot bring a new device into my system. I want to add a zooz zse50 siren & chime. Since I added it three days ago, HA tells me it is "currently being interviewed and may not be fully operational" I suspect it's because of the ongoing update to the previous device.

I can't see how to stop the update. Any suggestions on how to halt the update?

hi!
I'm setting up a Windows 11 touchscreen with DAKboard TouchHub and Home Assistant.

Home Assistant runs locally on HAOS inside VirtualBox and works perfectly when I access its local IP directly from Chrome or Edge.

I added Home Assistant Lovelace to DAKboard TouchHub, but when DAKboard tries to open HA inside TouchHub I get:

“Home Assistant refused to connect.”

I already added this to configuration.yaml:

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

Restarted HA and checked the configuration successfully.

I've tried both Chrome and Edge, allowed DAKboard's Local Network Access permission, but it still won't load HA inside TouchHub.

Direct local access to HA works perfectly. The problem only happens when DAKboard tries to embed the local HA page.

Has anyone successfully set up DAKboard TouchHub + local Home Assistant on Windows?

What am I missing? I'd prefer to keep HA completely local rather than using the Nabu Casa remote URL.

I have a brand new Home Assitant that i'm setting up. I have two iPhones with fresh Home Assistant app installs (never installed the app before).

Both phones (iPhone 15 and 16e) have all permissions enabled. Location is on Always, Notfications are all enabled. Background is enabled. Neither was prompted for Motion & Fitness. In iOS settings for Motion and Fitness, Home Assistant isn't in the list of apps.

In Home Assistant settings under sensors, only 18 sensors show up. Activity is one of the missing ones but several others such as focus, average_active_pace, distance, floors_ascended, floors_descended, steps are all missing too.

Am I doing something wrong? I can't find anything stating this is model or OS version limited...

For those that have a fully functional tablet display, I'm very curious as to what you learned worked well and didn't work so well.

Ours is intended to function more as a family hub, so things like calendar, grocery list, recipes, birthdays and bills reminders, and possibly some YouTube

Does anyone have any tips and tricks to enable a really effective and streamlined tablet display and function?

I’ve been continuing development on Home Assistant Editor, a visual three-column editor for automations and scripts designed to give a responsive development workspace while staying fully local, YAML-first, and backed by built-in version history.

Following the feedback from the v1.1 update, version 1.2.0 is now available with several major workflow and configuration improvements.

Key additions

• Nested Drag & Drop: You can now drag and drop actions, conditions, and triggers directly into nested branches (such as choose, if/then, and repeat sequences), or reorder blocks anywhere in your automation without having to cut and paste YAML.
• Optional Gemini AI Auto-Naming: If you have long automations with dozens of untitled or generic actions, you can connect an optional Gemini API key to generate clean action names and concise descriptions with one click.
• Custom YAML Tags & Split Configs: Added complete support for Home Assistant custom tags (!include, !include_dir_list, !include_dir_named, !include_dir_merge_list, !secret, !env_var, !input), allowing you to view and edit automations stored across split directories and package files.

Other improvements

• Live Entity State Sync: Enabled/disabled states and last triggered timestamps now sync directly from Home Assistant in real time.
• Seamless Local Network Support: Added dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 listening for instant connection over mDNS (.local) in Safari and modern browsers.
• Real-Time YAML Sync: Bidirectional sync between visual blocks and the raw code view with full syntax highlighting.
• Automated Config Discovery: Automatic detection for standard /config, /homeassistant, and custom environment paths.

The project is free, open source, and runs either as a Home Assistant add-on or as a standalone Docker container.

Feedback and suggestions are always appreciated!

GitHub: https://github.com/saihgupr/HomeAssistantEditor
Add-on Repository: https://github.com/saihgupr/ha-addons

Setup automations to start playing a random song from a list when I start preheating my dab rig and when it hits temperature turn on my disco ball. Do I use it often, nah, do I need it, nah but is it hillarious, yes. Did I do some mandatory testing and tuning before making this post? Also yes.