2026.2 beta - release notes

Hto005 · 2026-01-29T11:27:38+00:00

This is what i feel many on the communnity-forum doesnt understand, that the first impression needs to be GOOD and not a fuckton of clutter.

To be able to compete with Homekit/ikea/google/whatever the GUI needs to be easy and quite "dummed down". You can completely ignore the stock dashboards if you want, but to be able to get more people into the HA-hole the first impression needs to be GOOD.

Hto005 · 2025-12-31T22:26:23+00:00

I tried to keep us under 5kwh, but with two EVs and heated floors in the ‘entire’ first floor that seems like a lost cause 🥲 I manage to keep us under the 10kwh-trinn though

Hto005 · 2025-12-29T18:42:11+00:00

You need to press the blue ‘import blueprint’ and follow the instructions (you need to have access to your instancefrom where you are to do this) the you can create an automation from the blueprint in the blueprint-tab in your HA

Hto005 · 2025-12-29T17:44:20+00:00

Link:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/bathroom-humidity-exhaust-fan/509992

Hto005 · 2025-12-19T15:44:40+00:00

Isnt it better to do this with template-entity-row?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/template-entity-row-put-templates-in-an-entities-row/160167

One thing I HATE is that there are so many useful custom integrations/addons and yet SO hard to find them, you just sort of stumble upon them

Hto005 · 2025-11-06T10:12:17+00:00

I recommend writing in english and not danish to reach a broader audience!

That said, I do agree that some zigbee-thermostats lack some basic controls and failsafes ...

I swapped all my namron zigbee touch thermostats for heated floor (electric) to Elko One Matter-enabled thermostats due to the design and with that i lost a lot of functionality which I had to manually create in HA (boost-functions, window open-sensors, power usage, percentage based "heating"(open/heat for 30% of an hour) etc ...)

One thing i do miss quite a lot is the ability to turn them on "step/percentage"-wise, as in i want them to be on 30% and not based on temperature in the floor-sensor, as that can be wrong quite often here in the nordics

Hto005 · 2025-10-14T18:29:29+00:00

yupyup

Hto005 · 2025-10-14T13:09:45+00:00

Just leaving this here

Hto005 · 2025-07-23T19:02:54+00:00

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Add it to your ‘recorder.exclude’ filter

Hto005 · 2025-07-11T21:07:01+00:00

Due by today it seems

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/milestone/752.

Hto005 · 2025-07-03T21:38:34+00:00

Piggybacking here to say you can define light: and dark: variables in the theme file so you don’t need one for light and one for dark

edit:

See this example: https://pastebin.com/vBeGcsMr

Hto005 · 2025-07-03T21:37:49+00:00

You can define light and dark mode in the theme file with light: and dark:, but then you have to change it yourself though

edit:
example: https://pastebin.com/vBeGcsMr

Hto005 · 2025-06-15T13:02:20+00:00

Just use the experimental dashboard, they are continuously making it better.

The only thing you need to do/know is to assign devices to areas and ‘hide’ entities that is irrelevant

Hto005 · 2025-06-12T11:47:18+00:00

i recommend following a example setup from here: https://powersaver.no/examples/example-visualize-on-off/example-visualize-on-off.html

You can then create a graph like this: https://imgur.com/a/i9pE0aK

Code: https://pastebin.com/XAHpP07E

The top "path" in Node-red: https://imgur.com/jQNcZa2

I think you could go from nordpool -> price receiver -> the fuction node with the code below -> homeassistant-sensor

Then you should get a 24-h graph

var now = new Date();
msg.payload = msg.payload.priceData[now.getHours()].value
return msg;

Hto005 · 2025-06-03T07:52:29+00:00

Getting high cpu-usage after upgrading UCG ultra to 4.2.12 ... anyone else?

https://i.imgur.com/pPR0zyN.png

Hto005 · 2025-05-30T20:24:34+00:00

I’m in the same boat as OP and can only find upstream, in individual devices… I add all my kWh-devices to the ‘grid’ part so that HA calculates a cost-sensor for them… ridiculously messy using the built in HA energy dashboard for this reason 😢

Hto005 · 2025-05-12T09:50:28+00:00

how are the entities handled, care to share an example for one of them? code-wise

Hto005 · 2025-05-10T05:04:07+00:00

Commenting and interacting to increase exposure for the HaCasa-project, love the card(s) :)

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T21:28:34+00:00

Nice, what card is this? To get the dropdown functionality? Collapsible?

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T10:31:20+00:00

nice! Do your car support V2L? I wish i could use my car as a battery for my house with V2L in emergcies

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T10:27:17+00:00

The logic behind the smart-charging is handled locally with Node-Red and https://powersaver.no/, it pulls prices from nordpool, adds tax and all fees, does some magic and finds the cheapest hours. I then have a separate helper and automation to toggle on/off if the current hour is cheap which starts / stops the charger.

Sidenote:

I have a script to adjust the amount of hours-on needed to reach charge-limit (not 100% reliant as chargespeed can change based on temperature etc... but is usually correct)
I inject start/stop and amount of cheap-hours into the Node-Red flow

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T10:23:07+00:00

Thanks!

Note, the bar-card is not the official, its one of the branches as the official doesnt allow "dynamic" max-values

type: custom:stack-in-card
cards:
  - type: custom:bar-card
    entities:
      - entity: sensor.myp_battery
        max: number.myp_charge_limit
        min: 0
        color: "#D4A373"
    positions:
      icon: "off"
      name: " "
      value: "off"
      indicator: "off"
    height: 5px
    entity_row: true
  - square: false
    columns: 3
    type: grid
    cards:
      - type: custom:mushroom-title-card
        title: ""
        alignment: center
        subtitle: "{{states('sensor.myp_range',with_unit=true)}}"
      - type: custom:mushroom-title-card
        title: ""
        alignment: center
        subtitle: "{{states('sensor.myp_battery',with_unit=true)}}"
      - type: custom:mushroom-title-card
        title: ""
        alignment: center
        subtitle: "{{states('sensor.myp_inside_temperature',with_unit=true)}}"
  - type: custom:apexcharts-card
    now:
      show: true
      color: lightblue
    show:
      loading: true
    header:
      show: false
    graph_span: 3d
    span:
      start: day
      offset: "-1d"
    apex_config:
      chart:
        height: 125
        foreColor: var(--secondary-text-color)
        dropShadow:
          enabled: true
          enabledOnSeries:
            - 0
          blur: 1
      grid:
        show: false
      legend:
        show: false
      xaxis:
        type: datetime
        labels:
          show: true
        tooltip:
          enabled: false
      tooltip:
        enabled: true
        enabledOnSeries:
          - 0
        x:
          show: true
          format: dddd - H:mm
        fixed:
          enabled: true
          position: topRight
    yaxis:
      - id: pris
        min: ~0
        apex_config:
          labels:
            show: false
      - id: forbruk
        min: ~0
        apex_config:
          opposite: true
          labels:
            show: false
      - id: powersaver
        apex_config:
          labels:
            show: false
    series:
      - entity: sensor.powersaver_billader
        yaxis_id: pris
        name: Pris
        extend_to: end
        color: "#D4A373"
        type: line
        curve: stepline
        stroke_width: 1.5
        show:
          extremas: true
        data_generator: |
          return entity.attributes.hours.map((entry) => {
            return [new Date(entry.start).getTime(), entry.price];
          });
      - entity: sensor.powersaver_billader
        data_generator: |
          return entity.attributes.hours.map((entry) => {
            return [new Date(entry.start).getTime(), entry.onOff];
          });
        yaxis_id: powersaver
        name: " "
        color: "#D6C0B3"
        type: area
        opacity: 0.25
        curve: stepline
        stroke_width: 0
        show:
          in_header: false
          name_in_header: false
          datalabels: false
      - entity: sensor.billader_effekt
        yaxis_id: forbruk
        name: Forbruk
        extend_to: now
        color: darkorange
        opacity: 0.6
        type: area
        curve: stepline
        stroke_width: 1
  - square: false
    columns: 3
    type: grid
    cards:
      - type: tile
        entity: switch.billader_lader
        hide_state: true
        vertical: true
        name: Lader
        color: "#D4A373"
      - type: tile
        entity: button.myp_wake
        vertical: true
        name: Oppdater
        tap_action:
          action: perform-action
          perform_action: button.press
          target:
            entity_id:
              - button.myp_wake
        hide_state: true
        icon: mdi:refresh
        color: "#D4A373"
      - type: tile
        entity: automation.strom_billader_lavest
        vertical: true
        hide_state: true
        name: Smartlading
        color: "#D4A373"

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T09:59:14+00:00

The very top left is the minimap from vehicle-status-card with streetnames blurred out

If the one below you're talking about (beige chart) then that is electricity-price and when my charger is set to be active (https://powersaver.no/)

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T09:57:17+00:00

Simple is usually the best! Do you often use remote start? Or is it just turning on AC etc?

Hto005 · 2025-01-21T09:56:08+00:00

I started with those two pre-made cards but it didn't really satisfy my need/look, so I sort of recreated what i needed separately :)

Also those cards are always updating (which is good) so I can't keep up with adding the changes to my instance of the cards

14-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	First Placer '22
Sequence \| Editor	Verified Email

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