What add-ons and integrations do you have installed?

navi , 6 months ago

ESPHome, WLED, NodeRed.

dmtalon , 6 months ago

I use zigbee mqtt
Which of course integrates with mosquito broker.

But I tied in my ecowitt weather station data via mqtt into the broker so I have it in HA. I did this with weewx . There's an mqtt add-on

I also integrated my blue-iris NVR in to mqtt for motion detection, notifications for cameras.

Life360 integration to help automate things based on who's home

I use esphome and have a bunch of sensors/devices. I track whole house power utilization, I have temp sensors on my HVAC to I can watch all its performance stats.

Here's my ugly drawing that tracks inside/outside/basement temps, geothermal water loop temps, in/out furnace air temps, water heater state along with both it and the furnace realtime watts usage.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/c34851a2-71b1-4328-887b-8e0a0eadf68b.png

unknowing8343 , 6 months ago

I don't use Zigbee2MQTT, I just buy appropiate ZHA hardware to keep things simple.

Addons: qBitTorrent, VS Code, File Browser, Advanced Terminal

Integrations: Google Cloud (Text-to-Speech), Haier hOn, Samsung SmartThings, Tuya.

vzq , 6 months ago

I found Tuya to be such a massive pain in the ass that I just ended up ripping out all devices.

The main integration would just randomly stop working when my developer account expired and required an evening of frustrating clicking through poorly translated slow as molasses Chinese websites to re-enable.
Localtuya was spectacularly half baked for my devices.

Has anything changed? Is there a special secret to getting Tuya stuff to work reliably?

sylverstream , 6 months ago

I've flashes LibreTiny (fork of Esphome) on my Tuya devices, on a IR blaster and a relay. Took some time to understand how it worked, but then it worked like a charm. Now they are just esphome devices, no more Tuya stuff.

alphapuggle , 6 months ago

LocalTuya on HACS, it's a bit of a pain to setup and requires you to make a tuya dev account (free) but as far as I can tell you can delete it after, it's just to get the security keys to actually control the devices, and then issue them locally. My devices were much more responsive after doing so

zer0 , 6 months ago

The Home Assistant team publishes the analytics they collect (for those that allow it). The integrations and add-ons pages might interest you if you haven't seen them.

dom , 6 months ago

Google calendar is a lot more popular than I assumed. I tried putting it on once but it looked like a pita so I just didn't bother. Maybe I should give it a real go

Lifebandit666 , 6 months ago

I currently have it watching my calendar and setting my alarms on my phone.

If I am on Early shift in my calendar it sets alarm for 5am, late shift, it checks if the kids are off school and if they aren't it sets my alarm for 7.30am.

If I'm on holiday and so are my kids, no alarms are set.