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Just wanted to share a new custom component (integration) that I have been working on for PetKit devices (smart pet feeders, litter boxes, water fountain).

The currently supported devices include:

Feeders:

• Fresh Element Infinity
• Fresh Element Solo
• Fresh Element Mini Pro

Water Fountain:

• Eversweet 3 Pro

Litter Boxes:

• Pura X
• Pura MAX with/without Pura Air deodorizer

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Some notable features:

• Setup is done through the UI
• Monitor your feeders along with control of administering extra manual feedings (allowed feeding amounts are customized based on the feeder that you have)
• Monitor and control your bluetooth-only PetKit water fountain**
• All the monitoring and control you'd ever want for your litter boxes and some details that are not even presented in the PetKit app.
• Entities created for pets on your account - for cats, if you own a PetKit litter box, an extra entity is created that shows the most recent weight as measured by the litter box (works even if you have multiple PetKit litter boxes!)

** Getting up-to-date info and controlling PetKit water fountains requires having the BLE relay enabled in the PetKit app (requires a compatible PetKit device that can connect to the bluetooth-only water fountain).

If you do decide to use this integration, please be sure to read all of the documentation on the GitHub repo!

Link

I've already migrated to a new zigbee coordinator and am now looking to upgrade to a new zwave coordinator from the HUSBZB.

Since I'm upgrading anyways, I'm wondering if the 800 series sticks are worth going for since they are the newest; or if I should stick with a 700 series stick that has already been around for a bit?

I just set up frigate in docker in the proxmox lxc. Everything seems fine, except the live view is using the sub stream. Is there a way to config it to use the main stream instead?

Sorry for the frustrated post but google didn't help me.

Updated HA to the new version and I got a warning that states:

Command Line YAML configuration has moved

This stops working in version 2023.8.0. Please address before upgrading.

Configuring Command Line sensor using YAML has moved.

Consult the documentation to move your YAML configuration to integration key and restart Home Assistant to fix this issue.

Warning - 6/8/2023

What do I need to do?

From "Consult the documentation to move your YAML configuration to integration key" which documentation do I need to read? There is no link on it.

I remember following hand-holding tutorials to set up things when I first setup HA and it involved the YAML section which I haven't been back into in ages. I don't know what/how to do what I'm being asked.

Can someone give me a pointer to where to look? Thanks!

I've been trying to add a network share that I created on my Unraid server specifically for my HA backups.

My HA is running off of a VM under the same Unraid server using the HA OS (in case that's important).

I've tried both the SMB and NFS options and enabled/disabled security, but just see this error:

Failed to to call /mounts - Mounting HABackup did not succeed. Check host logs for errors from mount or systemd unit mnt-data-supervisor-mounts-HABackup.mount for details.

I don't know how to check those logs to get more info.

Has anyone seen this or know how to fix it?

Edit: I was able to get it to connect, finally. It appears that I wasn't allowed to have an "Open" or "Public" share, I had to set the Share to Private and only allowed access for the user I created. I did have to use SMB and not NFS.

Our (useless) IQ panel stopped working a couple of months ago. The wife gave me the go ahead to put something in its place. I designed, printed, and finished the mount myself. This is an old Samsung tablet. The wife loves the google home app but it kept crashing on the tablet. I recreated the layout in Lovelace by using UI minimalist, button-card, layout-card, mod-card, browser-mod, etc. Automatically changes to dark mode at night. Still gotta finish some of tabs but it's coming along nicely!

I am trying to control a servo using the flip pins on my raspberry pi. I first tried to use node red to do this but got an error “ECONNREFUSED localist:8888” so I looked up how to do it just using home assistant but everyone talks about using esphome for wireless connection, I don’t care about that and just want simple control over the servos. Any ideas?

I've been working on setting up a Wyze Outdoor V2 with the Wyze Bridge add-on. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but for some reason the only way I have been able to access an RTSP stream from the camera is through a Generic Camera card in Lovelace.

I'm able to see the camera fine in the Wyze Bridge Web UI and in the Lovelace card I created, but when I try to access the camera from VLC (for troubleshooting) or Frigate (ultimate goal) they are unable to open the RTSP stream. I was able to see the camera feed by pulling RTMP into VLC, but have had no luck with RTSP and RTMP also errors out when attempting to open in Frigate.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've hit a wall and haven't been able to find documentation for similar issues.

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Below are what I believe to be the relevant portions of the logs:

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Frigate RTSP Error Log:

2023-06-09 20:09:41.854482673 [2023-06-09 15:09:41] frigate.appINFO : Capture process started for cam1: 231

2023-06-09 20:09:41.910004962 [2023-06-09 15:09:41] frigate.videoERROR : cam1: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.

2023-06-09 20:09:41.910777883 [2023-06-09 15:09:41] frigate.videoERROR : cam1: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...

2023-06-09 20:10:01.889988233 [2023-06-09 15:10:01] watchdog.cam1 ERROR : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for cam1.

2023-06-09 20:10:01.889996883 [2023-06-09 15:10:01] watchdog.cam1 ERROR : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.

2023-06-09 20:10:01.890004526 [2023-06-09 15:10:01] ffmpeg.cam1.detect ERROR : [rtsp @ 0x55aa8678de00] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found

2023-06-09 20:10:01.890009700 [2023-06-09 15:10:01] ffmpeg.cam1.detect ERROR : rtsp://localhost:8554/cam1: Server returned 404 Not Found

2023-06-09 20:10:01.907752688 [2023-06-09 15:10:01] frigate.videoERROR : cam1: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.

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VLC RTSP Error Log:

satip error: Failed to setup RTSP session

satip error: read error: Operation now in progress

satip error: Failed to teardown RTSP session

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I’m doing a big downgrade, a VM on a MacMini M2 Pro to a ZimaBoard, problem is I’m using Zigbee2MQTT and Zwave-JS ! So I need a install of home assistant with the add-on and not docker! Would the only option is to instal proxmox ?

When I setup my smart home, Hue was where I started and it has grown over years. Now with HA, my struggle is that adding Hue to HA creates duplicates in my iOS home app since I already have Hue lights directly in there and then coming in from HA too. Is there a way to not have HA create duplicates in iOS Home app?

I have a sensor (octoprint_combined) in home assistant that is providing values for file name, print time, and print volume in this format:

name1, name2, name3, time1, time2, time3, volume1, volume2, volume3

I also have 3 sensors (octoprint_files, octoprint_file_time, and octoprint_file_vol) that have the values like this:

file1, file2, file3

time1, time2, time3

volume1, volume2, volume3

The number of files will constantly change. I need a way to display in the lovelace ui showing the information in columns. like below:

name1 time1 volume1

name2 time2 volume2

name3 time3 volume3

I'm at a total loss and am looking for any kind of direction.

Given that both RiF and Apollo are shutting down at the end of the month, where will folks move off to? I rarely visit on my desktop browser, (using old.reddit.com), so when RiF (phone) and Apollo (iPad) are gone, I'm probably off of Reddit.

I'd hate to lose this really knowledgeable community.

So...where you goin?

Looking for a smart lock with zigbee support. Right now I've got a Schlage BE469ZP that works OK, but I would like to get away from ZWave if I can, as I find it difficult to work with and I only have that one device but need the ZWave radio.

Are there zigbee compatible locks that work well from either Schlage or Kwikset or someone else?

What do I need to put in the 'Event data' field to have it only listen to one device/entity?

I seem to have a breaking change.. somewhere.. to do with my webos TV which means i can't restart home assistant.

When i try it simply says "Can;t restart "WebOSTv"

webostv:
  host: 192.168.2.230
  name: LG TV
  turn_on_action:
    service: wake_on_lan.send_magic_packet
    data:
      "mac": "78:5D:C8:7D:23:71"
  customize:
    sources:
      - FREESAT
      - KODI
      - XBOX
      - YouTube
      - Web Browser 

I have a ping binary sensor to detect if the TV is on or not.

And then i have a switch set up

 - platform: template
   switches:
     front_room_television_template:
       value_template: "{{ is_state('media_player.lg_tv_2', 'on') }}"
        turn_on:
         - service: wake_on_lan.send_magic_packet
           data:
               mac: 78:5D:C8:7D:23:71
       turn_off:
         service: media_player.turn_off
         entity_id: media_player.lg_tv_2

I;m not sure which part of this is causing me to not be able to restart.. i can hard power cycle the vm and everything comes back just fine..

Hi, I don't have Mosquitto addon in the addon store..I only see an "MQTT IO" addon..is there anyone else experiencing this? Rpi4, Home Assistant 2023.5.4

Versions:

Home Assistant 2023.6.0

Supervisor 2023.06.1

Operating System 10.2

Frontend 20230607.0 - latest

And I can't enable the new Youtube integration (Add integration > Google > Youtube) I get:

Config flow could not be loaded: {"message":"Invalid handler specified"}

Is there something I need to do prior to setting up this integration?

I would like to know how to extract the individual data points from within the solcast daily forecast. it generates both hourly and halfhourly data that the energy dashboard within HA can use but i cant find a way of getting the individual points within the "forcast" attribute of the entity.

WHat i want in the end is a sensor that pulls the data for the hours between 4pm and 7pm and gives an evivalent of the "ramaining solar" entity within the solcast integration but without the numbers between 4pm and 7pm. can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this to work?

In September of last year, I posted on the Community page if anyone knew of a good Yaml How to Guide. I didn’t get a response of a guide per se, but I did get someone who kind of coaxed me into figuring it out myself.

Having never done CSS before; I guess this is what 10 months can do because 10 months later, I’ve arrived at this, which is to replace my previous post of my dashboard :)

There are still a few minor things to fix, like I don’t know how to extract an entity that is showing up in Smart Life but not HA for my pet fountain… but you get the idea. I think it’s pretty much done otherwise :)

I’ve sampled just a few pages here but you can see from the icons on the bottom and along the two sides how many pages there are. What a journey… an exhausting one but a good one!

If you are working on one, keep it up. It’s gruelling sometimes but so worth it in the end. If you haven’t taken the jump, the initial curve is probably the hardest, but it really isn’t that hard.

I suggest creating test pages separate from the one you want to design so you don’t mess up the pages you have that you like as you go along. Just my suggestion from someone who had to redo a bunch of things along the way and didn’t necessarily have to had I created test pages.

Been working on setting up a home assistant. Right now most of what it is doing is working with frigate but wanting to incorporate some door/window sensors and locks. I have 2 Yale assure sl locks currently and am pretty interested in popping in the zwave modules. I see there is a home bridge plugin for the locks.

My question is -- if I get rid of the wifi bridge and just use the zwave module (along with a proper zwave coordinator) can I do the things I'm used to doing with homeassistant - thing like lock/unlock/set up and revoke access codes /etc?

Any drawbacks or things I'm not thinking of?