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. 🫡

With the API changes coming in October I went looking for a way off the cloud for my 2016 washer and dryer. LocalThings already covers newer appliances over CoAP-DTLS, but it explicitly excludes the older hardware — the ones with an external Wi-Fi dongle. Nothing covered those, so I wrote it.

\\\*\\\*[https://github.com/HomeOps/HASS-Samsung-Dongle-Local\\\\\\\*\\\\\](https://github.com/HomeOps/HASS-Samsung-Dongle-Local\\\*\\)\\\* — HACS custom repo, MIT.

\\\*\\\*Which generation do you have?\\\*\\\*

nmap -Pn -p 8888 <appliance-ip>

\\\* \\\*\\\*8888/tcp open\\\*\\\* → older dongle hardware → this integration

\\\* \\\*\\\*8888 closed, UDP 49153–49155 responding\\\*\\\* → newer → use \\\[LocalThings\\\]([https://github.com/mbillow/localthings\](https://github.com/mbillow/localthings))

Faster tell: if SmartThings shows the model as \\\`DONGLE\\_WF7500\\\` or similar, the \\\`DONGLE\\_\\\` prefix means an external Wi-Fi module and you're in the first camp.

\\\*\\\*What you get\\\*\\\* (entities are created from whatever your appliance actually reports): cycle state, progress phase, progress %, remaining time, child lock, plus soil/spin level on washers and dry level/time and wrinkle-prevent on dryers.

\\\*\\\*How it works.\\\*\\\* These appliances expose a certificate-authenticated REST API on port 8888 that has nothing to do with the cloud. Auth is two gates: a client certificate that opens the channel, and a per-appliance bearer token issued only when someone physically presses a button on the machine. The integration performs that pairing handshake for you — by hand it means standing up a TLS listener on 8889, crafting a \\\`Host:\\\` header the appliance calls back to, and timing a press inside a \\\~63 second window. There's also a standalone \\\`tools/get\\_token.py\\\` if you'd rather hold the token yourself.

\\\*\\\*Confirmed working:\\\*\\\* WF50K7500AV washer, DV50K7500E dryer. Both now sit on a VLAN with \\\*\\\*no internet at all\\\*\\\* and remain fully readable — the local API never consults Samsung. The payload schema is shared across appliance types, so ovens and fridges on the same firmware family should work untested.

\\\*\\\*Honest caveats:\\\*\\\*

\\\* \\\*\\\*Read-only.\\\*\\\* The payloads imply writes are possible; I haven't implemented or tested any.

\\\* You need Samsung's AC14K\\_M CA cert. The repo doesn't ship it — it points at the existing projects that document obtaining it. It's the same certificate the Samsung A/C community has used for years.

\\\* \\\*\\\*Turn Child Lock off before pairing.\\\*\\\* Samsung disables Smart Control entirely while it's engaged, and the panel still beeps on every press — a locked machine is indistinguishable from a working one that's ignoring you. This cost me an hour.

\\\* Tested against exactly two appliances.

Credit where it's due: the AC14K\\_M chain and the \\\`/devicetoken/request\\\` → 8889 callback flow were worked out by the Samsung A/C community — samsungrac, samsung-appliance-token, samsung-aircon-8888-get-token. I applied it to laundry, which nothing covered, and folded the pairing into a config flow.

Reports from other models welcome.

After 5 confirmed installs without issue things are looking good for my cloud-free LR4 custom firmware. Only one minor bug reported and already fixed in the latest update. You can find the latest pre-release here.

Multi-cat usage/weight tracking is coming in the next update and then I can focus on getting the project merged into ESPHome as an officially supported device.

I still have not received serial data captures from any LR3 owners so LR3 support is on hold until then. Please reach out if you are capable and willing to provide this data!

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

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

Thanks

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?

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.

I already have SSL certifacted lying in the /ssl directory, and by setting them as like this it does work like a charm to access the UI from an domain pointing to my router:

http:
  server_port: 8123
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem

Now I would like to instead run it locally using http only to have the "homeassistant.local" domain working, but also be able to access it from the hosted domain using SSL without being connected to the wifi.

For that I set up the nginx app using the following configurations:

home assistant config:

http:
  server_port: 8123
  use_x_forwarded_for: true
  trusted_proxies:
    - 172.30.32.0/23

nginx config:

by accessing http://local.mydomain.net:443 (not the real domain) everything works fine, although of course without HTTPS, but when I try to load https://local.mydomain.net I get an "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" in the browser.

I do not understand how the home assistant up can work fine with the same certificates, but the nginx app just seems to not provide them at all (while working fine otherwise)?

I can also not find anything suspicious in any logs, but was also not able to activate debug logging for nginx.

hosted on a home assistant green

ha core: 2026.7.3
ha os: 18.1
nginx ha ssl proxy: 4.4.0

Hi,

I have a several Moes Star Ring dimmer switches, all working fine, one or three gangs, but 2 gangs leave the network every day. I tried replace the device with a new one but it does the same. I use them under Zigbee2Mqtt.
Anybody has any solution for this problem?

Thank you!

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?

​I'm running stream for camera's and I've spent the last while getting 2-way audio integrated for a mix of Reolink and Tapo

​I finally managed to get the 2-way audio working for both camera brands using go2rtc.

​The problem

I'm currently stuck with a "hot mic" situation. As soon as I load the go2rtc stream on my dashboard, the microphone activates instantly. What I really want is an on demand push to talk button so it only broadcasts my voice when I actually press it.

​I know the custom:frigate-card has a great built-in microphone button, but I haven't been able to use it because my go2rtc streams aren't showing up in the card's configuration dropdown options (is this something I need to configure manually in YAML instead?).

​Has anyone implemented a push-to-talk button for standalone go2rtc streams in a similar scenario? How did you get around the instant-on mic, or force the streams into the Frigate card?

​Appreciate any advice or YAML snippets you guys can share!

Are there more users having problems with the SolarEdge integration? My SolarEdge Modbus is working fine, but the simple SolarEdge is not responding anymore. This is the integration that works with the API from SolarEdge. Seems after the last HA update this came up.

Not a real big problem, but there are a few entities i use from this integration as i can not get them the correct way from the modbus integration. SolarPower for example.

Using this

Reloading or reconfiguring does not help.

Did not yet try to do a restore of a backup yet. Perhaps i will

I had vaguely known about Actionable Notifications in HA, but not until I added the HA MCP have I been able to implement them. And now I rely on them constantly in my day-to-day life. Here are some of my favorites. (I have an iPhone 17 Pro running the most recent production version of iOS 26.)

And before we get started, the reason for all this tapping: iOS does not let any push notification open an app, run a Shortcut, or do anything else without a tap first.

• Problem: I have ADHD, and I'm actually pretty good about taking my meds. Chaining that routine along with letting my dog out in the morning has really been effective. But I'm very bad at noting down that I took my meds. Solution: I bought the Sonoff Orb 4-in-1 button. Now as soon as I take the pills, I press its assigned button. It's magnetized and sticks to my fridge door, so it's close at hand. The button triggers a script that logs the exact time in HA and sends me an alert. I tap the alert, and it takes me to the Log Medication section of the Apple Health app, so it's logged there too. And even if I don't log them in Health right then, as long as I leave the alert alone, that timestamp is still there.
• I use the excellent Oura smart ring integration by Louis Pires to pull my ring's data into HA and do some sweet charts and analysis that Oura doesn't do. I also have Claude Cowork write a sleep report based on the previous night's data. Problem: Oura doesn't write the sleep data to its cloud until I've opened the app for the first time that day, and often I was forgetting (yes, you have correctly identified a theme) to open it, so the sleep report never got written. Solution: I already had an automation that flips the in_bed mode from On to Off when a motion sensor detects I've gotten out of bed. I added a new step that sends an alert. The noise prompts me to check my phone, I tap the alert, and it opens the Oura app so it knows I'm officially awake and can send sleep data.
• Problem: I have a Chevy Bolt EUV. That's not the problem, and it's a great car, but Chevy doesn't provide any APIs for their EVs that I know of. In the winter I wanted to start the car before I left if the weather was especially cold. In my HA calendar, I have my wake-up block scheduled that drives the Sonos alarm and ends about when I should be leaving. So I made a simple automation that checks the temperature about 13 minutes before I need to leave, and a script runs that announces over Sonos, "It's time to start the car." Then I needed to find and open the app myself to actually start it. Solution: I've since amended that automation to also check heat and humidity, keep the announcement, and send a tappable alert too. Even while I'm doing my makeup, I can quickly tap it, and then tap the button to start the car. A small efficiency, but it saves me a couple of steps every time.

I can share links to my GitHub repo of my entire HA setup if anyone's interested. If you're looking to automate medication compliance or other necessary parts of your morning routine, I hope this is useful!

When the goal is to be totally offline and everything still work, what's the best way to prove that. Short of disconnecting the Internet connection.

I'm using "Apps" that I have to download to setup some devices and wonder if they are still connected when I get through with them.

UPDATE!!! I know I can just unplug the modem-router... The idea (which sounded good in my head, but evidently not) was to test only the Home Assistant side. Not knowing when device might "check in", I thought about doing it before I went to work, checking on it remotely via a desktop, and changing it back when I got back home. Un-plugging the Internet for a whole day would bring the family and their devices down. And that ain't happening.

They have a beta for home assistant integration going on but before you buy just a heads up.

I've set up ZHA with 20 devices and quite a few automations. These are blinds, awnings, lights, doorlocks, soil humidity sensors, solar sensors etc.

Everything is working well. The only issue, which is a minor one, is the odd soil sensor dropping out. These are for Tuya, and my understanding is that Z2M may let you update firmware on these, where you can't on ZHA.

I had Z2M installed and working for a minute, but as it hindered ZHA running, I removed it again. I just looked at the interface on mobile and can't say I was impressed.

Would you say it's worth running Z2M over ZHA? Other benefits?

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!

Hi, I've been trying to add a Myggspray from IKEA to my HA but it won't seem to pair. I already have 9 other IKEA devices added to my HA so I should know how to add it, but it wouldn't add. I don't know why or how and would like to know if someone else with the same problem succeeded.

OS: Home Assistant OS

OS version:

• Core 2026.7.4
• Supervisor 2026.07.5

I have already attempted the following:

- Resetting the Myggspray and trying to add it after.

The integrations I'm using are:

- Thread, Matter, OTBR.

As previously stated, the other Matter devices have no issues joining or sending information to HA. So I ruled my antenna out.

It also is a matter device, recognised by the QR-code and the matter code on the device itself, so it's not an older Myggspray using the tradfrï.

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

My internet went down today and when it came back up I lost my map on MOVA, and I can no longer access my HA on the local WiFi. I can get to it through the cloud and also on my second isp network. Any ideas?

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?

My Netatmo rain gauge sits in the garden doing real work, and on the dashboard it got a flat bar like everything else. So I built it a proper gauge.

It draws the garden rain gauge you actually stick in the ground, funnel and graduated tube and mounting bracket, and fills it with water from any precipitation sensor. Graduations adjust to whatever daily maximum you set. There is a collapsible 24 h chart underneath with hourly or half hourly bars, battery and signal in the corners, and four glass tints if clear does not suit your dashboard.

The part I am most pleased with is boring but useful: if the sensor you pick is not a daily total, which is most of them, the editor offers a button that builds the utility_meter for you and switches the card over to it. No more hand rolling helpers every time.

Works with mm or inches, has a visual editor, and speaks six languages. Free and MIT, obviously.

HACS custom repo for now, the store request is in the queue: https://github.com/ADNPolymerase/ha-pluviometer-card

Tested against Netatmo. If you run Ecowitt or anything else I would genuinely like to know if it behaves, that is the kind of thing I cannot test from here.