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Questions tagged [home-assistant]

For questions regarding Home Assistant, the open-source Python home automation platform. Do not use this tag for general questions about smart assistants such as Google Home or Alexa.

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How can I handle IP addresses changing when the router reboots with Home Assistant?

I have setup multiple lamps and sensors in my Home Assistant configuration. However, I want to know how to best handle the following scenario. If there is a problem with my router or a power cut and my router is rebooted. In this case there is a…
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Which off-the-shelf wireless door/window sensor can I easily interface with Home Assistant?

I am thinking of setting up my own home security system using Home Assistant. For motion sensors I'm going to build Wi-Fi MQTT transmitters using the WeMos board. But for door sensors I want something battery-powered, with a small form factor that…
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Will Home Assistant's face recognition data be stored permanently in the cloud?

Home Assistant v0.37 includes face recognition: FACE RECOGNITION USING THE MICROSOFT FACE API @pvizeli has been on a roll with the image processing integrations. This time it’s the Microsoft Face API. This means that now it will be possible to…
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Controlling normal bulbs brightness using Sonoff devices

I am doing a home automation project in which I should be able to control the lights on/off but more than that, the brightness of the lights. I am using Home Assistant (not hassbian) and Node-Red along with MQTT. I am using a normal bulb I purchased…
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How to trigger on solar noon in Home Assistant?

The sun component has sunset and sunrise events, but I would like to trigger on solar noon. This page tells me I can use the elevation for this. What number should I enter to achieve what I want?
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Send values from HomeAssistant to ESP8266 via MQTT

I would like to send values from the HomeAssistant to an ESP8266 via MQTT. I have already successfully done it the other way around (sending temperature values from the ESP to HomeAssistant via MQTT) however now I would like to be able to send…
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What are the conceptual differences and similarities between OpenHAB, Home Assistant and Node RED?

I have at home some ready-made sensors I bought and more custom ones will come, therefore I would like to collect all their data and to set rules/actions based on them. I looked into the various alternatives but, after discovering Node RED, it's not…
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What may cause error Platform not found: sensor.ping?

I am trying to setup a binary icmp sensor to see when my TV is on or off. I have added this to my configuration.yaml # Sensors sensor: #TCL - platform: ping host: 192.168.0.1 and I am getting the following error when I try to check the…
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How to monitor extra MQTT information with Home Assistant?

I am thinking out the software part of my home automation and was planning to use: MQTT as a backbone (this is a requirement as all my devices (ESPURNA based switches or my own devices) use MQTT as the communication bus) Home Assistant as the web…
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How do I use Home Assistant's Configurator with remote access?

I have: Raspberry PI 3 B+ Hassbian with Home Assistant And have created my own remote domain. Before I did that, I could easily use Configurator. But now, it just show me the Home Assistant login page in that iframe. My configuration settings for…
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Can I run Home Assistant natively on an old macbook?

I have an old macbook, that I don't use for anything. It sits on a shelf. It occurred to me that I could maybe run Home Assistant on it? But when I look at the install guide, and see they point to installing it in a vm, and I google it to see if…
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How to configure Home Assistant to get working SmartIR integration with Tasmota IR over MQTT?

Could someone help me to configure SmartIR, available on github to use with Tasmota over MQTT? I have installed the addon with HACS and have generic IR flashed with TasmotaIR (when aiming with remote control to the IR box I can see it's receiving…
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How to trigger updates to the yaml-files?

I'm a web developer with 10 years' experience who just started looking into home automation. I'm trying to figure out how to shorten the feedback loop while setting up my system. Currently, the best thing I got for updating is rebooting my Raspberry…
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Mosquitto broker stopped working in Hassio

My Mosquitto broker stopped working and I think it might have something to do with me trying to use the same Raspberry Pi to run Tuya Convert. I know Tuya Convert installs a bunch of stuff and I'm guessing one of those screwed my MQTT Broker,…
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Hassio won't connect dhcp

My home assistant setup died apparently due to a dead SD card so I downloaded the whole image, burned to a new card, and bought an RPi4 to load it up on. It seems to work fine (I can see the HASSIO CLI), but can't connect using DHCP, which is its…
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