Abort / kill announcement played on media player
Hi there, When someone rings our Unifi doorbell, an announcement (media file) is played on both our Sonos speakers. What I want to achieve is that this announcement is aborted / killed / stopped when...
View ArticleNested conditions in value template for automation
Howdy, Fairly new to home-assistant and getting into some more advanced activities that I know what I want to do, but can’t figure out how to implement the syntax. I have an automation that is...
View Article(Resolved) Matter pairing starts but then fails / Bosch Smart Thermostat II M+
Edit: Managed to get it to work. I believe, in the companion app, I initially only sent the credentials to the phone but never sent the credentials from the phone to the server. At least when I did...
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Shell script template entity remains unavailable
I created a triggered template entity that won’t become available: shell_command: battery_percentage: /config/scripts/BatteryPercentage.sh {{device_id}} template: - trigger: - platform: time_pattern...
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Zigbee2MQTT - HA doesn't know state of light manually turned on
I was doing to things in HA, as I am rebuilding my HA instance — which has been great to do after 7 years of running a totally polluted and hacked about HA… It was how I learned a lot Any way, one of...
View ArticleTemplate device tracker? Easily switching phones
Hi everyone. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, and I’d like to hear some recommendations: I switch phones maybe once or twice a year, mostly for testing purposes. And currently I...
View ArticleHA Voice: What does it add to Alexa and Google Home?
I have not really focused on HA Voice as I have Google Home and Alexa devices in every corner of our home (*) . What would HA Voice add to my Google and Alexa devices ? (*) For me, Alexa works best...
View ArticleZigbe2mqtt update and missing entities
Hi, I have a problem with my philips hue since the last zigbee2mqtt update (I believe). The dial behaves normally in the zigbe2mqtt integration. If I check the “state” and “expose” , everything...
View ArticleSwitching in dashboard works only once
I have new porblem with my dasboard. I started to integrate the lights to my dashboard which worked fine (respond time sometimes a bit slow like when switching a light of it took 1-2sec to change the...
View ArticleEcowitt apparent temperature entity missing?
The Ecowitt weather station (HP2561 v1.9.9) has an option for displaying either ‘feels like’ (default) or ‘apparent’ temperature, both calculated values. On setting up the Ecowitt core integration, 25...
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Midea AC latest integration
Hi Had midea Ac working fine with this in my /homeassistant/configuration.yaml climate: - platform: midea_ac host: xxx.xxx.x.xxx id: xxxxxxxxxxxxx Updated to the latest 2025.1.2 core of Home assistant...
View ArticleTrigger & Conditions Confirmation
I’ve been reading up on triggers and wanting to know what is the best practice to use in automations. I’m going to use a basic example to explain. As a trigger I have one on/off switch. The automation...
View ArticleHelp with Basic Timer Script
I know i am missing a step for the event when the timer set goes off. I start the 10 min timer as the first action but for the 3rd action i’d like it to wait until the 10 minute timer goes off I just...
View ArticleCannot get voice to trigger shades open or close
I’ve got HA Voice and a RM3 mini IR remote both working as expected. I have learned custom IR buttons to open/close shades, created open/close scripts that work, and added buttons that call the...
View ArticleTriggers: 'Unavailable' != 'unavailable'?
I have an ESPHome device for which I want an automation to trigger whenever it comes back from being ‘unavailable’ (i.e. offline, being rebooted, whatever). Seems simple. But… Setting up a trigger...
View ArticleCan't add second wled integration for a second controller
Tried to add second WLED controller in Home Assistant by creating another integration but it doesn’t recognize IP address or host info and returns error. I can access it from my browser on my network...
View ArticleScript light.turn_off or on doesn't trigger Tuya LED lights
I’ve set up a simple script to turn lights off on the ground floor. All lights are triggered except 3 different Tuya LED lights (a fairy light and two led strips). All these lights are confirmed in...
View ArticleDirectly link to file in media library?
Is there any way to directly link to a file in a local media library? I’ve tried some formats but I haven’t found any that work yet. My use case is that I’m trying to have the video from my doorbell...
View ArticleHelp getting idotmatrix working in HA
idotmatrix is an Android/iOS app using to configure LED displays (e.g. 16x16, 32x32) with images and GIFs as well as a number of other things. Work has been done to create a Python shell client as...
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IR motion detect goes OFF within 1 sec
So I have a SONOFF sn-zb-03p motion sensor in my hallway to turn the lights on and off. However sometimes within a second after turning it on it stopped detecting motion and turns off the lights right...
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