Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

hilt_ctn said:
Working through my back catalogue of ESP32 projects that I absolutely have to build but have no practical use for ( a man must have a hobby ). Behold ! A working version of this Reddit post.

When this post first showed I gave it a crack. But the code supplied by the Reddit user just didn't work ( both myself and Muttley tried ). Admittedly I made use of ChatGPT to get this right as these lambda's are well beyond my coding grasp . That said it still took a while of relentless hammering as the AI just couldn't get it to do what I wanted it to ( as ESPHome goes, code that the free AI supplies is often outdated, causes issues or just doesn't work ). But my quest to avoid Christmas cheer was more powerful than simply giving up !

I too only had a NeoPixel ring on hand. I'm sure you can imagine the effect is the same as the original post if it were a straight line LED ( I'd prefer the latter as it's much more effective ).

  • The number LED's lit increases or decreases depending on the battery SOC. To further assist with that visual, the LED's change colour from red to orange to green depending on battery SOC ( one can make this a lot more granular or varied. This is still a first pass ).
  • The LED's change speed depending on the charge/discharge rate. Not too big a difference as it would be distracting, but noticeable nonetheless.
  • The LED's change direction on whether the battery is charging/discharging.
If you would like the code, hit me up.

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You would probably get it right faster with Claude than with chatgtp. At least my experience in majority coding cases

None the less, really cool project
 
shout out to @SmartPad

I ordered a zigbee plug from the store yesterday and it got delivered today.
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I just happend to see his posts on converting to tasmota https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...be-flashed-with-tasmota.1075323/post-33566801 and saw he is also selling zigbee plugs
 
So it looks like Efergy has collapsed - haven't had a power reading for weeks now - the portal on their site no longer exists... now need an alternative. anyone using anything that isn't mindblowingly expensive/can use the existing efergy hardware and can integrate into HA?
 
mrb13676 said:
So it looks like Efergy has collapsed - haven't had a power reading for weeks now - the portal on their site no longer exists... now need an alternative. anyone using anything that isn't mindblowingly expensive/can use the existing efergy hardware and can integrate into HA?
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I did see a way to use Efergy locally a while ago but I couldn't get the cert to work in newer versions of Java so I eventually gave up.

Sonoff has a clamp available: https://eiferer.co.za/products/sono...yp6AbtE4qseEUtOCTSYTb4S48U88mavBoCYGAQAvD_BwE

There is others as well these days.
 
mrb13676 said:
So it looks like Efergy has collapsed - haven't had a power reading for weeks now - the portal on their site no longer exists... now need an alternative. anyone using anything that isn't mindblowingly expensive/can use the existing efergy hardware and can integrate into HA?
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Its been a bit on and off the last few days but still working for me.
 
Morning folks...

Anybody ever have a situation where 1 of your cards on your dashboard just goes missing?
Its strange, I am not sure when it disappeared, but i know it was there the weekend because i used a button on the card to switch off 1 of my machines (via HASS AGENT) but last night when i tried to use that same button, i noticed that card was no longer on my dashboard?

The only thing that would've changed since then was the 2025 core update i finally ran on Tuesday.
 
Joka69 said:
Morning folks...

Anybody ever have a situation where 1 of your cards on your dashboard just goes missing?
Its strange, I am not sure when it disappeared, but i know it was there the weekend because i used a button on the card to switch off 1 of my machines (via HASS AGENT) but last night when i tried to use that same button, i noticed that card was no longer on my dashboard?

The only thing that would've changed since then was the 2025 core update i finally ran on Tuesday.
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Is it gone from the edit screen too?
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Is it gone from the edit screen too?
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Yup, 1st thing i checked yesterday, thought maybe i enabled some kind of conditional visibility like i have for some of my cards or users. Its just gone? And my user is the only admin user that has the ability to remove cards, and i would never have removed it myself, because its "My Office" card. Just strange. Ill have to create it again.
 
Joka69 said:
Morning folks...

Anybody ever have a situation where 1 of your cards on your dashboard just goes missing?
Its strange, I am not sure when it disappeared, but i know it was there the weekend because i used a button on the card to switch off 1 of my machines (via HASS AGENT) but last night when i tried to use that same button, i noticed that card was no longer on my dashboard?

The only thing that would've changed since then was the 2025 core update i finally ran on Tuesday.
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Who else have access to your home assistant ui? With edit permissions.
 
Tinuva said:
Who else have access to your home assistant ui? With edit permissions.
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Nobody. I only have 2 users, 1 for MQ and HASS and my main. Both have edit permissions, and i doubt my HASS user can remove a card on its own.

Logs are too messy to drill down.
 
I have once or twice forgotten an open Edit window for days, then inadvertently clicking done on it - and loosing what ever changes I'd made since that window was open and clicking done.
 
xrapidx said:
I have once or twice forgotten an open Edit window for days, then inadvertently clicking done on it - and loosing what ever changes I'd made since that window was open and clicking done.
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Happened to me just today when i was fiddling my my Solar card.
 
Joka69 said:
Morning folks...

Anybody ever have a situation where 1 of your cards on your dashboard just goes missing?
Its strange, I am not sure when it disappeared, but i know it was there the weekend because i used a button on the card to switch off 1 of my machines (via HASS AGENT) but last night when i tried to use that same button, i noticed that card was no longer on my dashboard?

The only thing that would've changed since then was the 2025 core update i finally ran on Tuesday.
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Hi, just in case you have not found the problem. Happened to me after the 2025 core update as well. I found that my HACS had also dissappeared and the missing card was a custom card. I just re-installed HACS and everything was back to normal.
 
I bought two Reolink camera's to replace my shitty chinese ones (high failure rate).

What is the best way to get them into Home-assistant? Trying the reolink integration, but - seems to be quite inconsistent. Is RTSP better?
 
xrapidx said:
I bought two Reolink camera's to replace my shitty chinese ones (high failure rate).

What is the best way to get them into Home-assistant? Trying the reolink integration, but - seems to be quite inconsistent. Is RTSP better?
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Was using BlueIris previously but now just using the official integration
 
Joe_Moer said:
Hi, just in case you have not found the problem. Happened to me after the 2025 core update as well. I found that my HACS had also dissappeared and the missing card was a custom card. I just re-installed HACS and everything was back to normal.
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Thanks a lot, but my HACS hadn't disappeared.

I tried re-downloading it nonetheless (as well as all the custom cards I have), but no luck.

I'll recreate the missing card today.
 
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