r/homeassistant

You can display practical information from Home Assistant on LED matrix panels like this...

https://preview.redd.it/e1iqei2ciekh1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=625b326df32754829dc7e94da3d5e71db895d9cd

OR draw on it and add gifs of your dog! Haha! WLED was updated to version 16 recently, and the Pixel Forge tools are fun and easy to use even on four 64x64 HUB75 panels in a 2x2 (128x128) orientation!

https://reddit.com/link/1vt00xs/video/g43l686eiekh1/player

Also, big shout-out to u/Frenck for creating and maintaining python-wled and the WLED Home Assistant integration. Since switching from WLED-MM to WLED, we're now able to get WLED updates directly through Home Assistant, which is awesome.

My Dome Watermain shut off, just died. I need to replace it but I don’t want to do the same thing as before, strapping a device on my water main valve. I want my water main valve completely unobstructed and in a state that is dead simple to shut off. The shut off must be completely separate.

I want to plumb in a valve just down the pipe from the water main. I’d appreciate any tips, advice or recommendations on products that you have experience with.

I want to stay away from moen because I have heard that they fail after 3 years and are prone to false positives.

Reliability is my #1 concern.

Right now I’m looking at Solid motorized valves. But I don’t know the best relay to use with them etc. is this a bad idea?
what have you been using?

Any tips would be great. What issues might I run into? what don’t I know that I don’t know?

Currently building a house in the FL panhandle. Hot sun, salty air, and the exterior walls of the house are ICF with 6” reinforced concrete. The house‘s main water supply will be located outside the house. All piping is PEX-A.

So I want an in-line outdoor “smart” water shutoff valve that can withstand the elements, doesn’t rely on WiFi or cloud connection, and preferably doesn’t need AC main power (don‘t want to run a cord from the side of the house where the water main is, to the nearest ac plug on the patio around the corner). My “smart“ home will be run via HomeAssistant.

I researched Moen Flo, Phyn, Rheem, FloLogic, EcoNet Bulldog, and YoLink. I’ve narrowed it down to the Moen Flo or one of the YoLink Smart Valves (not sure which one is best).

Moen Flo

Pros:

• Micro-leak detection
• Automatic shutoff
• Insurance savings
• Integrates with HomeAssistant

Cons:

• Plastic turbine design
• Subscription paywalls
• False alerts during high use
• Requires ac power and Wi-Fi

YoLink X3 Valve Controller & 3/4” DN Series Motorized Valve

Pros:

• Long Battery Life
• Offline Reliability (Control-D2D)
• Superior Materials
• Full-Port Flow: Features zero bore reduction, meaning it causes no reduction in water flow.
• Long Range LoRa Tech
• Integrates with HomeAssistant
• Separate Controller from Valve (could also be a con)

Cons:

• Outdoor Limits: While the valve is weather-resistant (IP67), extreme environments still require careful placement to protect the controller and battery compartment over long periods.

YoLink Commercial Grade Smart Motorized Valve

Pros:

• Long Battery Life
• Offline Reliability (Control-D2D)
• Long Range LoRa Tech
• Commercial-Grade Build
• Flexible Power Options
• Integrates with HomeAssistant

Cons:

• Sold out for several months (discontinued?)
• Controller and Valve together (co 1. Moen Flo

YoLink FlowSmart All-in-One

Pros:

• No monthly fees
• Long-range LoRa tech
• Offline functionality (Control-D2D)
• Ultrasonic accuracy
• Integrates with HomeAssistant

Cons:

• Reduced volume/pressure: due to reduced inner diameter for flow monitoring.

My dome water main shut off stopped working. I have no idea how long it had been bad. Luckily on a whim I decided to test it. It failed. Was slow and couldn’t close the valve all the way. At first I thought that it might have been a bad power supply so I swapped that out. Nope same story. When I took it off I was able to tell that something was wrong mechanically. The the flat sided bolt stripped out of the part that connects to the valve handle. So it couldn’t get it to tight all the way. I was very anal making sure that the Dome was properly aligned. With the valve. I think it’s asking a lot of the small amount of metal to the side of the flat sided bolt to handle that much torque. Anyone have a good suggestion for a replacement? This time I want to put in a valve separate from the main that isn’t just tacked on.

I have many of these switches around my house I would like to replace (wifi, zigbee, zwave, doesn't matter). The right switch is a toggle for the ceiling fan light and the dimmer slide controls fan speed. The left switch controls an outlet in the room and I will be removing that functionality so open to replacing that switch or wiring it to another function.

Any suggestions on the best route? My wife will naturally be replacing all ceiling fans in the near future as well.

Hello! I have finally gotten my jailbroken Echo Spot set up comfortably with View Assist Companion App and I would like to share my configuration if anyone wants to replicate my result!

• Zoom level: 1.0
• Wake word threshold: 5.0
• Wake word: Alexa
• Wake word sound: Alexa
• Wake word engine: OpenWakeWord(onnx)

For the device itself, I downloaded the companion app from the GitHub and I logged in with a special account for the device. For this account, I set the default dashboard to be hidden and added an analog clock with the following configuration:

kiosk_mode:
  hide_header: true
views:
  - type: panel
    path: ''
    cards:
      - type: clock
        clock_style: analog
        clock_size: large
        show_seconds: true
        no_background: true
        border: false
        ticks: hour
        face_style: markers
        seconds_motion: continuous
        time_zone: America/New_York
        date_format:
          - weekday-short
          - day-numeric
        grid_options:
          columns: 12
          rows: 4
    icon: mdi:circle-double

To edit the dashboard later, use "?disable_km" in the url. The only downside I have with this device is that when I press the power button (previously the mute button), the screen can mildly flicker sometimes. That is solved with a restart, but important to look out for. So far i'm liking it, but does anyone have an easy way to change the clock hand and text colors?

u/DivergingDog built a Home Assistant integration for Harbor that was recently deployed https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/harbor/

Harbor started as a baby monitor, but we’ve been pushing it more toward a general monitoring platform.

You can use the same system for a baby, an aging parent, or someone medically fragile. We have nurses on staff who can monitor medically fragile family members (as an optional service), and the vision and word-detection AI lets you create open vocabulary alerts for whatever you care about instead of choosing from a fixed list.

A Home Assistant integration has always made sense for us, but we didn't have the expertise / HA experience internally. Community dev u/DivergingDog did all the work on the integration. We just helped where we could. Harbor is modular by design (you can add as many Cameras or Monitors as you'd like), so we wanted to be able to plug it into everything else people already have in their homes.

More entities and support coming in the 2026.9 release, and even more after that.

You can learn more about Harbor on our website.

Thanks for any interest 🙏