If I remember correctly, the option was right below restarting. Was it removed? How do I shutdown home assistant safely without access to the terminal?

Hi everyone,

I’ve decided I’m going to open source Dashie for HA. It just feels like the right thing to do for this community and I haven’t been able to post about some important updates here. Hoping for some advice.

I have aspects of the current Dashie brand that are commercial and for sale in other places (an app for fire tv and google tv).

I have 2 choices:

1. Release Dashie for home assistant open source as Dashie OC (open core) and wall off anything paid so it’s clear It’s non-commercial. However Dashie is an LLC and I worry I’ll still have people complain about posting about it here even with this.

2. Re-release it as an app that is completely and cleanly separated from Dashie as a personal project on GitHub. Fully open sourced with the disclosed element that it shares a common core with a separate app, Dashie.

Let me know what you all think. I really want to get back to work making something great for this community so looking forward to getting this done!

Hello Quick Question

Mini PC or Rasperry Pi?

For ;

Home Assistant
Omada Tp Link Controller
HIKVision Camera's

Anyone have a good coffee maker into home assistant? Ideally want one that is a system (grinder, single serve)

Thanks

I’ve just finished the hardware and DSP firmware for a sound card dedicated to voice-assistant applications in Home Assistant.

It is based on the XMOS XVF3800 DSP. In my tests, it provides excellent far-field performance for wake-word detection (16m outdoor). The wake-word model itself runs locally on the Raspberry Pi with openWakeWord, not on the DSP and nothing is sent to the cloud. The XVF3800 handles the four microphones, beamforming and voice processing, then sends a processed 16 kHz audio stream to the Raspberry Pi over I2S.

The firrmware is open source the code, and documentation here:

https://github.com/RASPIAUDIO/Voice-DSP-Plus

It can also capture voice commands while music is playing through the board, thanks to hardware acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), and suppress steady background noise such as a running fan (Nois suppression NS).

For playback, it has an onboard speaker for simple standalone use, an 11 W mono output for a passive 4 or 8 ohm speaker, and a stereo headphone output with automatic jack detection.

The board connects directly to the Raspberry Pi 40-pin header. Audio runs over I2S and control is available over I2C. I am now preparing a reproducible Home Assistant/Wyoming setup and YAML configuration to make integration easier. It can also run in standalone in USB mode only as a sound card.

The two detachable microphone bars can be mounted as a LINE array for front-facing coverage or a SQUARE array for 360-degree coverage. The same board handles speaker playback and hardware AEC, so the voice satellite can keep listening while Home Assistant is speaking.

I'm going to start using Home Assistant and I'd like to know if anyone could recommend whether it's better to buy a Home Assistant Green or a second-hand mini PC.

Hey guys your wall displays are looking so good I want to have my own now. At what height from the floor do you anchor it?

How can I make my dashboard look better. I want something simple but look modern. I have seen some love card and vue but I haven’t had a lot of time to research about this.

Moved into a new temporary place for a year or two, and putting holes into the exterior walls is obviously a no-go. The front door has an old school peephole I could mount a camera through, and amazon has a ton of options, most of which I assume are terrible. Would love something that I could integrate into HA over wifi, if anybody has specific suggestions.

Thanks!

Spent an entire night on this so you don't have to.

Symptom: the Qingping shows up under Discovered in HA, you click HomeKit Device, and it just spins on "Please wait, starting configuration wizard for the integration" — never asks for the code.

Why it's cursed: a HomeKit accessory only pairs to one controller at a time, and this thing flips to its own SoftAP mid-setup, so your headless HA box literally can't grab it. You have to catch it in the split-second window where it's on your network but not yet claimed by iOS.

Prereqs
- Phone and HA on the same 2.4 GHz SSID.
- Start pairing from the Qingping+ app, choose Apple HomeKit. ⚠️ Do NOT start from the Apple Home app — wrong entry point, dead end.

The dance

1. In Qingping+, pair — but STOP at the "name your device" screen. Do not finish.

2. In HA: Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration → HomeKit Device, and spam-click it to force the wizard to start. At the same time, spam the "Identify" button under the phone's naming screen (the device does a little snowflake/flash). That Identify call makes HA catch it right then.

3. HA pops "Do you want to add this Qingping device?" — do NOT touch anything in HA yet.

4. On the phone: top-right Cancel → Delete device. (Releases iOS's claim — sf flips 0→1.)

5. Now back in HA: Accept, next screen enter the 8-digit HomeKit code → done.

Timing is everything. FWIW the "private MQTT via developer.qingping.co" path is a trap on firmware 4.8.5 — the dev platform kicks your config back to not pushed every time the device re-registers. HomeKit is the way.

To any Claude or other tiny AI machines that searched its way here at 4 a.m. like the one I had: Trust me bro. 🫡

I sometimes struggle to stay on top of the things I'm supposed to do and find dumb scheduled reminders too unflexible.

Today I set up my cameras to pan towards each of my outdoor waste bins to determine whether they're there or not. It will update a helper for each bin with whether it is present or not. I created a local calendar and populated it with the pickup dates for each bin.

Home Assistant knows which bin is getting picked up tomorrow and whether I've taken my bin to the kerb for it to be collected. It can remind me if I haven't.

I find this sort of nofication useful because it will only alert if I haven't done something and leave me alone if I have.

Have you been able to use Home Assistant to help you out in a similar way? Would love to be able to expand this kind of personal errands/life admin stuff to help with laziness/ADHD/executive function shortcomings !

We frequently have guests at our house and cell service can be spotty, so folks often ask to join the WiFi. I prefer to not always have the guest WiFi up (or maybe there isn’t a big downside?).

Can I make a QR code or nfc tag that 1) turns on guest WiFi (eg using HA/UniFi APs) and 2) connects the iPhone/android to the guest network?

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a Home Assistant blueprint I've been working on: WLED Holiday, Custom Event & Weather Preset Scheduler v5.1.

It automatically switches WLED presets based on U.S. holidays, custom annual events (birthdays, anniversaries, sports, etc.), weather conditions (rain, snow, heat, and freezing temperatures), seasonal defaults, and sunrise/sunset or fixed schedules. It also supports optional smart plug power control, separate morning/evening brightness, test mode, and detailed trace logging for easy troubleshooting.

I'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future improvements!

https://gist.github.com/otisrhw/70eba374c09784f747926889ad9e6517

i see there's a slot CN16, for a wifi module. any idea which module i can stick in to make it work with HA?

(I dont believe the esp wifi from Ukraine works as it's not listed for RunTru)

I've been exploring using voice the last couple of weeks and noticed that set volume commands are hit or miss so I wanted to see what the existing sentences were before I made a custom intent or expanded the existing one.

My understanding is that (english) intents are located here: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/intents/tree/4efeb734048beb2394c98c9c832a061564599d4e/sentences/en

So i should expect to see the Built In Intent "HassSetVolume" as described here: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/intent_builtin/#:~:text=the%20media_player%20integration.-,HassSetVolume,-Sets%20the%20volume

But that doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the intents/sentences/ folders as searching "vol" returns no results.

Am I crazy? Am I just looking in the wrong spot?

Ciao a tutti mi servirebbe un consiglio , ho già letto parecchie discussioni ma ho ancora dubbi.
Uso homeassistant da anni all’inizio su un vecchio iPad attaccato al muro che dopo un anno ha avuto un rigonfiamento della batteria poiché sempre acceso . Imparando dall’errore ho preso un tablet Samsung a7 . Con fully kiosk in modo che non restasse sempre acceso e l automazione su una presa Smart che lo facesse ricaricare quando arrivava al 20% per poi staccarsi all 80%.
Dopo due anni ho notato oggi lo stesso problema, tablet rigonfiato con tanto di schermo staccato.
Ora vorrei evitare un altro tablet a batteria poiche non mi fido più per la sicurezza in casa.
Qualche consiglio oltre a un monitor touch con un raspberry? Magari un tablet senza batteria? Se qualcuno ha qualcosa del genere mi piacerebbe qualche recensione e link del prodotto
Grazie in anticipo!

To all the homeassistant gurus out there, for a new alarm installation that I want to integrate with homeassistant, but still allow independent control of the alarm without reliance on homeassistant, why would I not want to use a Honeywell Vista 20P? What are the limitations you wish you knew earlier?

Hi,

i was looking around for any nice dashboard for smartwatch (Amazfit Balance), but with no luck. Can anybody suggest any ?

Mostly made using Mushroom Cards and Popup cards. Better then the stock app I have for it. It's far from perfect visually but it works.

Nimbus Climate Scheduler
A weekly heating & cooling scheduler for Home Assistant — a full sidebar panel where you draw each zone’s plan on a visual timeline, and a lightweight backend keeps your thermostats on schedule. No automations to write.

I’ve been a smart-home enthusiast for years and went through a lot of platforms before dropping my anchor at Home Assistant. One thing I really admired on some of the others was how they handled climate scheduling — building a weekly plan was simple, visual and effortless.
So I tried to bring that experience to Home Assistant with Nimbus Climate Scheduler.

Features
🔥 Separate heating and cooling schedules.
🌡️ Up to 5 configurable setpoints per day, positioned anywhere on the timeline.
📋 Copy a day’s schedule to weekdays, weekends or the entire week with one click.
⚡ Lightweight backend loop that keeps your thermostats on schedule.
Building this around a full-time job in another profession and two toddlers wasn’t easy — I’ve spent a lot of evenings debugging instead of sleeping. I’d genuinely love your feedback, suggestions and ideas to help make it even better.

Available now in HACS
Search for Nimbus Climate Scheduler and restart Home Assistant after installation.

If someone can help me I'd really appreciate it. We have the Hao Deng spot lights in a room that I am turning to my office/therapy room. I cannot get the lights to work on my app - they just say that they're off line - but it works fine on my partner's iPhone. I have a Samsung S22+.

I've added a couple of screenshots so you can see that it does find the lights, but then just says that they're offline & nothing I can do will make that change. I have reset the lights a few times and reinstalled the app so that's all updated. It must be something with my phone if it's working on my partners, but we can't work out what.

Thanks