Home-assistan5_v2.db growing. Possible to shrink?
I notice that the above mentioned db keeps growing. Is it possible to clear it now that I’ve installed a new Raspberry pi system? The dB was restored together with my backup. 1 post - 1 participant...
View ArticleInsteon scene change
I recently added my Insteon to HA and got it all up and running. The Insteon hub still has old scenes that are firing, how can I either edit or delete scenes from insteon hub? So I can creat in HA and...
View ArticleHow to make sidebar categories permanently disappear
Hi, I’m wondering if I can make the categories Energy, Map, Media and such permanently disappear from the sidebar. Now if I hide them from the profile settings, they just reappear when I log in the...
View ArticleTracking the cost of power used on the energy page
I have a couple of Meross plugs that monitor power usage. They integrate with Home assistant and have a sensor that shows the watts used. I have used the integration sensor that makes the convertion...
View ArticleRemove template sensor entity
I’ve removed a template sensor from my template.yaml file, but the entity is still in home assistant and showing data like it was never removed. How do I remove this entity? 1 post - 1 participant...
View ArticleHelp: spot the error I am making in this blueprint that checks plant soil...
Automations created with this blueprint is not triggering as intended. blueprint: name: Plants low fertilizer detection and notification. description: Regularly test all plant sensors with...
View ArticleAd Guard Home - DoH & DoT - External nginx reverse proxy
I’m running Ad Guard Home on my RPi that is hosting Home Assistant. It works fine for local things, but I’m trying to figure out how to make it work with DoH and DoT when my Unraid box is hosting my...
View ArticleHelp with RESTful Command convert from python
From - RESTful Command - Home Assistant I am trying to reproduce this python requests statement requests.post('http://juke.local/zone_toggle.php', data={'index':1, 'id':'None', 'power':'off',...
View ArticleLogin attempt failed - Filling the log
Hello, I have installed Home Assistant via Docker on my Ubuntu server. I immediately started getting every 5-6 seconds the following info message in the log: 2022-05-02 00:19:08 WARNING (MainThread)...
View ArticleBeginners question, trigger lights with Aqare illumination sensor
Hi I’m new on HA and would like to runs some more compley (for me more complex) automations. For that I use an Aqare illumination sensor and I’d like to enable lights if illumination goes below 35 lx...
View ArticleHow to create an automation that sends a notification if a espHome...
Hi All, I wanted to create an automation if my esHome fridge sensor is not reacheble (and maybe the power is out). when I create an Automation I only see temparature and door which I added into...
View ArticleMigrating to HA with existing Insteon scenes in the hub
My setup is fairly simple and hasn’t changed in a long time. There are a few scenes in the hub that still work ok. If I wanted to migrate those into HA land, I would presumably need to reset the hub?...
View ArticleRESTful sensor count or retrieve Headers
Hi all, I’m hoping that someone can help. I’m trying to use a RESTful sensor on an API, to get the total number of entries only (don’t care at this stage about the data in it). Basically the endpoint...
View ArticleSetting Colours in Automations
Hi all, I have a basic automation to turn my bed lights on @ sunset and off @ sunrise. I’d like to expand on them a little but cannot find any reference to setting colours from within the YAML code...
View ArticleNeed help configuring Zooz ZEN76 switches
I’m in the process of moving from SmartThings to Home Assistant. I have added one of the switches and can control it just fine from home assistant when local control is enabled. When I enable to scene...
View ArticleUpdating Zigbee2mqtt from 1.25.1-1 to 1.25.1-1 - Unable to open Web UI
I just ran an update and can no longer access the web ui. I rolled the update back and have access to web ui again. I would ideally like to be able to update though. Any suggestions on what I should...
View ArticleAutomation always choosing 'default'
I followed this post and created an input_select that changes depending on when we are home or not. it is working great so far. Now that i have that working, i wanted to create an automation that...
View ArticleUsing an input_select to change a target sensor?
I have a generic hygrostat set up to control my dehumidifier, it currently looks like this: - name: Hygrostat humidifier: switch.dehumidifier target_sensor: sensor.room_humidity min_humidity: 0...
View ArticleCount total lights on for a light group
Hello All, I recently created light entities out of shelly switches and while i was at it I created light groups of those newly created light entities as well as existing light entities. I’m looking...
View ArticleMystery Lamplinc Dimmer found
It’s been interesting labeling all the devices HA found after first starting it up. I really don’t have that many but it’s clear that I forgot about many of them. Now there’s just 1 left I can’t...
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