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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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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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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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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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Check Home Assistant health

My Home Assistant (RPi4) keeps crashing. I'm not sure why, but I need to keep it running. My first plan was to task another computer on the network (I have many...) to ping the HA RPi4 every minute or so and cycle power on the HA server if the ping…
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Can I push data from Home Assistant to a webpage?

I've just started to set up a home assistant instance, and I'm thinking that I'd like a way to publish some of the data in a 'read-only' sort of sense to a cloud-hosted web page. Obviously, I could just open a port to my LAN, or sign up for Home…
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Dev version of ESPHOME missing libraries?

My ESPHOME (DEV edition 1.14.0) installation on my Home Assistant Lovelace setup (RPi) is showing spurious apparently CSS-related stuff on the main screen. On the log, I see the following: Any idea what I can do about this?
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How to control what actions are available for a device in Home Assistant?

How can I control what actions are available for a device in Home Assistant? I need activate the "brightness_move" action, but it does not seem to be available. The device is a Nordtronic dimmer, and I get this error message: Message malformed: …
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Homeassistant Timezone Sync

My raspi knows when EDT (Eastern US Daylight Time) is active, HypriotOS/armv7: pirate@black-pearl in ~ $ date Thu Oct 17 10:27:27 EDT 2019 the docker container for homeassistant knows when EDT is active, root@black-pearl:/# date Thu Oct 17 10:28:54…
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Where can I find the default configuration of Home Assistant?

I decided I should start version controlling my Home Assistant configuration, and want to commit the unedited config first to see what changes I already made. Can I find a complete copy unedited of the config folder (and other relevant files if any)…
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Posting data from a sensor into home assistant?

I see that home assistant supports making requests to a RESTful sensor (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/sensor.rest/). Is there a way to do the reverse? I.e. have a sensor initiate a rest POST into home assistant? I realize data can be…
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