Have brought both a cheap Motion Sensor and Vibration Sensor to try and get lights to come on automatically.
However i cannot get the smart life app to alert quicker than about 4 seconds, which is just too slow for what im trying to achieve
Is this a limitation of the device or the app? Any way i can speed it up to make it instantly alert so i can set automations off the back of it?
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Hi
I made an automation that monitors the changes of an iPhone GPS tracker to calculate the speed. That works, most of the times. Sporadically I get a template error that ‘max’ can’t compare str with float.
I’m staring blind I guess. Who understands how this error can be possible?!
I think I nailed down the error coming from `max’ in my automation (trigger by the iphone gps tracker):
- variables:
speed: |
{% set dm = (distance(trigger.to_state, trigger.from_state) | float(0)) * 1000.0 %}
{% set dt = (as_datetime(trigger.to_state.last_updated) - as_datetime(trigger.from_state.last_updated)).total_seconds() | float(0) %}
{{ (dm / <b>max(1.0,dt)</b>) | float(0) | round(1) }}
Please help
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Hi there, I´ll start with a disclaimer, I am a bit slow with getting acquainted to HA…
I have a raspi4 installation running but not in active use.
Plan was/is to control homematic smarthome installation (>>100 devices), and my heating & cooling (NIBE heat pump and several aircons with WLAN), and then continue from there.
I didn’t really get the Nibe controlled so I stalled. (Hope to get to this once I learn a bit more about HA).
But now I have a really urgent topic:
I have a SMA based photovoltaic system: two non hybrid tripowers (STP9000TL-20 & STP5000TL20) as well as a Homemanage2 and a Sunny boy Storage 5.0 with 7.7kWh BYD H battery. All controlled with Sunny Portal, and also read by my OpenWB Wall Box for solar charging the car. (Integration in HA was planned as second priority).
Now I want to extend my solar zoo by an SAM STP8000SE hybrid with 11kWh battery on it. But for some friggin reason SMA only allows one battery per setup. I don´t want to connect the second battery to my SBS5 as I would be limited by charging and discharging at 5kW. I want the 10kW from the hybrid to charge the new battery and the 5 kW from the SBS for the old one.
In the photovoltaikforum.com some one wrote that he has a solution. If you unregister the SBS in the Homemangaer both batteries can coexist in one network, but of course only the hybrid gets controlled from the homemanager.
But the SBS can be controlled via MODBUS! This can be done by reading the power balance (import/export in kW) of the Homemanager power meter function and a self defined logic what to send to the SBS.
Implementations seem to work in FHEM and iobroker. Both of which I do not use - I am looking into setting up a tiny FHEM server just for that purpose, but that is again a steep learning curve.
I would much rather do it in HA, but would need help….
Is this doable at all and who could point me to the help I will need?
Thanx in advance
Hannes
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Hi,
i currently run Home Assistnat in a docker container on my synology NAS. Most of my smart devices are connected without problems, but my matter devices like Eve energy plugs wont connect.
I currently use a Homepod mini as my central for homekit and homebridge to get everything connected that is not homebridge compatible like some fritz! shelly devices. Now i would like to move to home assistant, how can i connect the matter devices to home assistant? Is there a way to use the homepod mini to connect to the eve plugs or do i need to plug in a skyconnect usb antenna into the synology? Will this work with a docker container or do i need to install a vm with home assistant instead?
Warm regards,
Teimo
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Hi All,
It’s a known issue on Github. But wondering how many people have this issue also…
On AppleTV you see many popups that it can’t connect AirPlay etc…
This issue is going on for a while already…
2025-03-12 15:24:00.577 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.apple_tv] Failed to connect
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 223, in connect_once
await self._connect_once(raise_missing_credentials)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 208, in _connect_once
await self._connect(conf, raise_missing_credentials)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 327, in _connect
self.atv = await connect(conf, self.hass.loop, session=session)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/__init__.py", line 155, in connect
await atv.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/core/facade.py", line 723, in connect
if await setup_data.connect():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/__init__.py", line 661, in _connect
await api.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/api.py", line 151, in connect
await self._protocol.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/protocol.py", line 100, in start
await self.connection.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/connection.py", line 81, in connect
await self.loop.create_connection(lambda: self, self.host, self.port)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1166, in create_connection
raise exceptions[0]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1141, in create_connection
sock = await self._connect_sock(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
exceptions, addrinfo, laddr_infos)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1044, in _connect_sock
await self.sock_connect(sock, address)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 641, in sock_connect
return await fut
^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 681, in _sock_connect_cb
raise OSError(err, f'Connect call failed {address}')
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connect call failed ('192.168.100.14', 53608)
2025-03-12 15:24:15.593 ERROR (MainThread) [pyatv.protocols.airplay] Failed to set up remote control channel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/__init__.py", line 347, in _connect_rc
await session.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/ap2_session.py", line 70, in connect
self.connection = await http_connect(self._address, self._control_port)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/support/http.py", line 654, in http_connect
_, connection = await loop.create_connection(HttpConnection, address, port)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1166, in create_connection
raise exceptions[0]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1141, in create_connection
sock = await self._connect_sock(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
exceptions, addrinfo, laddr_infos)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1044, in _connect_sock
await self.sock_connect(sock, address)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 641, in sock_connect
return await fut
^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 681, in _sock_connect_cb
raise OSError(err, f'Connect call failed {address}')
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connect call failed ('192.168.100.14', 7000)
2025-03-12 15:52:20.110 ERROR (MainThread) [pyatv.protocols.airplay] Failed to set up remote control channel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/__init__.py", line 347, in _connect_rc
await session.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/ap2_session.py", line 71, in connect
self.verifier = await verify_connection(self._credentials, self.connection)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/auth/__init__.py", line 105, in verify_connection
has_encryption_keys = await verifier.verify_credentials()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/auth/hap.py", line 116, in verify_credentials
resp = await self._send(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<4 lines>...
)
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/airplay/auth/hap.py", line 143, in _send
return await self.http.post(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"/pair-verify", body=hap_tlv8.write_tlv(data), headers=headers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/support/http.py", line 433, in post
return await self.send_and_receive(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"POST", path, headers=headers, body=body, allow_error=allow_error
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/support/http.py", line 467, in send_and_receive
raise exceptions.ConnectionLostError("connection was lost")
pyatv.exceptions.ConnectionLostError: connection was lost
2025-03-12 15:52:20.118 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.apple_tv] Failed to connect
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 223, in connect_once
await self._connect_once(raise_missing_credentials)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 208, in _connect_once
await self._connect(conf, raise_missing_credentials)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/apple_tv/__init__.py", line 327, in _connect
self.atv = await connect(conf, self.hass.loop, session=session)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/__init__.py", line 155, in connect
await atv.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/core/facade.py", line 723, in connect
if await setup_data.connect():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/__init__.py", line 661, in _connect
await api.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/api.py", line 151, in connect
await self._protocol.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/protocol.py", line 100, in start
await self.connection.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/connection.py", line 81, in connect
await self.loop.create_connection(lambda: self, self.host, self.port)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1166, in create_connection
raise exceptions[0]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1141, in create_connection
sock = await self._connect_sock(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
exceptions, addrinfo, laddr_infos)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1044, in _connect_sock
await self.sock_connect(sock, address)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 641, in sock_connect
return await fut
^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 681, in _sock_connect_cb
raise OSError(err, f'Connect call failed {address}')
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Hello everyone,
I am new to blueprint and have not found a suitable solution to my problem using the search function. I apologize if I have overlooked something and for my beginner’s question.
I have integrated a Moes smart button in ZHA and would like to change the color of my LED strip to a specific color every time I press a button. The LED strip is connected to a Zigbee RGBCCT controller and is also integrated in ZHA.
I hope you can help me or maybe you have a suitable link which I have overlooked in my search.
1 post - 1 participant
Hi,
I have version 0.15 running under a Proxmox LXC.
Its running fine with my 4 Dahua Cameras and my Coral TPU.
How can I config it to record video to my QNAP NAS ?
And is it possible to have all 4 Camera pictures in a row?
1 post - 1 participant
Every time I log into HA, I see an error message in the Settings tab that the Z-Wave JS failed to start at boot time.
What I do not understand is that I have cleared the error several times already, and my ZWave integration has already started. So I am not sure why I keep seeing the error message.
If I click on Start, it tells me the issue has been resolved, yet the following day I see the same message. System Core Logs are empty as well.
I am running Z-Wave JS UI 3.23.0 and have just updated to home assistant OS HA Core 2025.3.2 (was previously on 2025.3.1).
Any suggestions or recommendations?
Thanks,
Eric
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Hi there!
I have a use case which, until getting started with Home Assistant, I was able to somewhat manage with a mix of Ikea Home Smart and Google Home. I’d like of course to make things tidier and more robust with Home Assistant, but I’m not sure how.
I have a door sensor installed on a freezer. I also have a color bulb in another room. That color bulb lights up white as part of a “sunset” automation. What I want to do is:
-If the freezer is opened for less than 10 minutes, do nothing
-If the freezer is opened for 10 minutes or more (it’s been forgotten), turn on the light if off and turn its color to red
-When the freezer door is finally closed, revert the previous state (white if it was already turned on, white then off if it was previously off).
I’m not completely comfortable using the concept of “if”, and I’m absolutely clueless about the concept of reverting to a previous state. In short, I have no clue how to achieve this, but I’m sure it’s possible.
Thanks in advance for any input!
2 posts - 2 participants
Hi,
one of the family members has diabetes and uses a dexcom glucose sensor (version 6, sometimes 7) which integrates via bluetooth with the dexcom app on his android phone.
The dexcom app sends it’s data to the cloud mothership and the cloud mothership has an api, which is conveniently interfaced with by the dexcom integration of home assistant (that uses the pydexcom library).
The integration exposes the glucose value and the glucose trend (rising/falling etc)
I’ve used this sensors glucose reading for adjusting light settings in my bedroom at night (red for low values, 100% bright red if crashing, nothing if ok, orange if high) so I’m warned and can take action if necessary.
His ulanzi clock with awtrix on it has colored arrows indicating direction and color for where in the gluco range he is, so he can quickly see what’s up at night.
Today I created a badge with the mushroom template badge so I have person location and the glucose value and trend (indicated by arrows) in a single badge.
the ‘label’ part of the mushroom badge contains this code. and using this it resembles a basic entity badge with a person entity (showing the picture of the entity and the location/state of the entity
{{ states.sensor.patientzero_glucose_value.state | default('-', true) }}
{%- set trend_value = states.sensor.patientzero_glucose_trend.state | default('-', true) | lower -%}
{%- if trend_value == 'steady' -%}
➡️
{%- elif trend_value == 'rising_quickly' -%}
⬆️
{%- elif trend_value == 'rising_slightly' -%}
↗️
{%- elif trend_value == 'rising' -%}
⤴️
{%- elif trend_value == 'falling' -%}
⤵️
{%- elif trend_value == 'falling_slightly' -%}
↘️
{%- elif trend_value == 'falling_quickly' -%}
⬇️
{%- else -%}
{%- endif -%}
hope it helps someone with diabetes in the family for inspiration 
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Hi there,
I want to send screenshots of any motion on my camera to my iphone.
this is my automation:
alias: Cam Motion
description: ""
triggers:
- type: motion
device_id: 8e4ba3445bff615bfed0ebc1cf8db983
entity_id: fb29f9b0a71e2947e28becb1375c08b1
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 3
conditions: []
actions:
- action: camera.snapshot
target:
entity_id:
- camera.q1615_0
data:
filename: /media/camera/snapshot.png
enabled: true
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 1
milliseconds: 0
- data:
message: Cam Motion
data:
attachment:
url: /media/camera/snapshot.png
content-type: image/png
push:
sound:
name: default
critical: 1
volume: 1
action: notify.mobile_app_ip16b
mode: restart
the snapshot.png is always placed in the folder, can confirm this.
I also get the notification on my phone, but the picture is not shown.
getting the error:
also tried jpg instead of png - same result.
Any ideas about this?
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I wanted to create a single automation using if then statement to integrate different commands.
I tried to set it up like this:
alias: Telegram
description: ""
triggers:
- event_type: telegram_command
trigger: event
conditions: []
actions:
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.command }} == \"/ping\""
then:
- action: notify.notifyuser
metadata: {}
data:
message: Pong
mode: single
The proble is the the value_template of the condition is always false.
First of all I do not know how to escape the /, i tryed using quotes, doublequotes, no quotes but the result is always false.
Considering I couldn’t find any sample I was wondering if this can work.
Regards
1 post - 1 participant
i switched over some automations from yaml to nodered, most things i switched worked brilliant.
one automation won’t work i hope that someone can help me
its a text to speach on a phone which works fine in yaml
i created a action node with a notify to my phone as a service.
in the data i did this in the data field
"{
“message”: “TTS”,
“ttl”: “0”,
“priority”: “high”,
“media_stream”: “alarm_stream_max”,
“tts_text”: “er wordt aangebeld”
}’
this is copied from the yaml code.
but after testin with an inject node i got this error
‘HomeAssistantError: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘ttl’]’
i dis this in json i figured out that my syntax is not good. but how it should be?
thanks in advange
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I’m planning to migrate my Masonry based default dashboard with dozens of devices (and many more entities) to the new Sections layout this weekend.
Even though I would characterize myself as an experienced HA user, this task seems a little bit overwhelming right now.
Therefore, I’m eager to hear other user’s stories and recommendations how to go about the migration.
1 post - 1 participant
hi
I’m trying to find the shortest distance with name between phone and GPS locations. I have enabled phone location and tried below code but the result is unknown. Can someone help?
{% set locations = {
"San Francisco": (5.169231175822279, 76.50155407099898),
"Los Angeles": (5.169135339347688, 76.50266904873067),
} %}
{% set phone_lat = state_attr('device_tracker.iphone', 'latitude') %}
{% set phone_lon = state_attr('device_tracker.iphone', 'longitude') %}
{% if phone_lat is not none and phone_lon is not none %}
{% set min_dist = 9999 %}
{% set closest_location = "Unknown" %}
{% for name, coords in locations.items() %}
{% set dist = distance(phone_lat, phone_lon, coords[0], coords[1]) %}
{% if dist < min_dist %}
{% set min_dist = dist %}
{% set closest_location = name %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
Closest Location: {{ closest_location }}
{% else %}
"Unknown"
{% endif %}
2 posts - 2 participants
Hi all,
I’ve had my somfy tahoma Switch box integrated with overkiz (cloud) and HomeKit (local) for like a year.
Now the local access does not work anymore and I cannot see why this would be the case.
It seems to have stopped working Monday, as can be seen from this entity’s availability:
I tried reloading the integration, restarted HA, installed current version of HA.
Overkiz works fine.
Checked somfy website - Dev access still enabled (not sure if required for homekit).
I did a port scan of the port reported by the integration error message:
Nmap says it’s closed, so maybe/probably not an error on HA side.
Any idea how that might come? I found nothing on Google regarding port and somfy, so out of ideas what to do. Can someone else do a port scan of this is normal?
1 post - 1 participant
Hello, I have HA running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM and I purchased a huge ultra fast 1TB uSD card to run every thing on. The reason for the huge card is that I intend to establish either a YAML or JSON file that the Chat bot can use as her local memory.
I have a scheme to make the local memory file work, but in the mean time I came up with a potentially easy way to do the same thing using a HA To-Do list. I have a To-Do list called ‘Sarahs memory’ and in her persona file I’ve instructed her to create an item in that list when ever I say something like “Remember that Sarah” or “write that down somewhere Sarah”, this is working quite well except for one thing, she can write to it but can’t read it, I have to copy it and bring it back to her each time.
So, does anyone know how to expose a To-Do list to the assistant so that she can read it.
1 post - 1 participant
I’m using ESPresense to track the status of my trash bins. The data is noisy, but I can see that it’s useful. The presense source will switch back and forth frequently but I can tell by looking at the history when I moved my trash bin - I just cant figure out how to capture the change in a sensor. Here’s what the history looks like from last evening. I moved the can just after 8pm and you can see that after that point that the status is mostly “espgarage” yellow rather than “esplivingroom” blue. I’ve tried delay_on/off on a template sensor, but that doesn’t appear the best solution.
1 post - 1 participant
Hey there,
quick question I can’t seem to find an answer for. Can I use the official MQTT Addon for home assistant OS with user authentication and a user password combo or is it either or?
Background: My internal network uses user and password auth since not all devices have the option for certificates. But now I need to open up MQTT to the internet and would of course only use the SSL version. If I read the documentation corretly thats not possible?
Cheers
1 post - 1 participant
I am trying to use the proximity integration but upon testing a simple automation, nothing triggers.
I have set up in the people, the device tracker for “pam”. Her iPhone has the home assistant companion app and I have a home zone set up around my house but the automation does not trigger. Hoping someone might be able to help me sort out what isn’t happening.
The sensor in the proximity integration is set to meters, so I have 3200 for the trigger to my iPhone that she is nearing home.
I can see in the proximity integration that she goes, away from, towards and arrived.
alias: pam is nearing home test
description: “”
triggers:
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