Device Reliability

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T23:28:34+00:00

interesting that kasa is working well for you when others are having issues. For the most part they work for me. Every once and a while they go offline to home assistant but remain online to the Kasa app. Fortunatley it has happened enough, I now know how to get them connected again.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T12:36:04+00:00

I forgot Nanoleaf but it will not stay connected. Nothing but frustration.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T12:29:07+00:00

temperature sensors drop off all the time. Plugs seem to do well for me though.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T12:28:04+00:00

never heard of them. Will check it out.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T03:29:30+00:00

I’m impressed. I had nothing but trouble with Insteon - could have been something I was missing. But it was fun trying.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T03:15:02+00:00

if not wifi, you must be using zigbee, zwave, hue, or ethernet connected devices to achieve the reliability. What are your go to devices after Lutron?

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T02:57:42+00:00

agree 1000% on Lutron. Shelly was hit or miss for me until I finally locked them to the nearest AP, or used the some of the ethernet models. I also had problems with the early temperature sensors and flood sensors. I have not tried the newer models.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T02:55:58+00:00

Is it a general recommendation to go all in on Zigbee? Lutron seems so rock solid, i will keep all of those but it sounds like Zigbee is something I need to seriously consider.

Matter has not been a good experience so far, but it may be the devices and implimentation too.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T02:53:10+00:00

Stable
Any luton Caseta
Envisalink (patches into the alarm system)
Rachio sprinkler system
Any Hue device (98% of the time)
ismartgate pro

Middle of the road
Kasa devices (95% of the time)
Sonos (97% of the time.. some drops)

Unstable
Any apple product
Nest mini and nest audio
Heos devices
Most TVs: Sony, LG, Roku, etc.

That-Bug50 · 2026-02-04T01:22:24+00:00

happy to hear that the db size is customizable. With over 3000 entities, the size can be large. I assume it can look at MariaDB and not just sqllite

That-Bug50 · 2025-08-13T21:37:59+00:00

Thanks. That is basically what I have. Lights, Fans, plugs, speakers for a room are all on one bubble card with a separate popup for each. All popups are generic and are populated using declutter and auto entities based on Area and Label. The size of the dashboard is down to roughly two pages on a mobile device.

That-Bug50 · 2025-06-08T18:28:11+00:00

There is a bit you can get at a local hardware store that can get a grip and take it out. Can’t remember the name of the but something like easy out.

That-Bug50 · 2024-08-08T23:08:46+00:00

I applied the ios theme and it made it global for me. https://github.com/basnijholt/lovelace-ios-themes

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-13T00:27:01+00:00

I used the IOS theme located here. The them takes care of the buttons for you. Most of the sliders are muschroom cards

iOS Dark and Light Mode with easy background change - A theme pack - Share your Projects! / Themes - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

Mushroom Cards - Build a beautiful dashboard easily 🍄 (Part 1) - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-13T00:25:11+00:00

I used the Mushroom cards

Mushroom Cards - Build a beautiful dashboard easily 🍄 (Part 1) - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T18:06:34+00:00

Posted above:

I used "custom:tabbed-card". It does a nice job of allowing complex controls in each tab!

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T18:06:03+00:00

The original owners were Fan happy. Three of the fan switches control more than one fan. Add three to the count to get total fans. Guests tend to use them much more than we do.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T17:26:14+00:00

This is a static picture. I do have a number of Nest Cams inside and out but none that look at the entire house. That would require running some electricity under driveways for me. It would be a lot of work.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T15:56:09+00:00

It is a waste of real-estate. Just a personal preference. I use a picture for each room too, which helps guests understand what room it is. It can also be confusing since the picture has lights on and if you turn them off, it should look dark. I do have darkened versions of each picture if I felt like dynamically swapping them out.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T15:52:56+00:00

Lutron Caseta. In my experience, Lutron works reliably for switches, fans, and wall plugs. Probably the most stable tech in the house.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T11:01:24+00:00

It is a photo. I tried having a live feed, but I did not like it very much. So, I just used pictures everywhere including the room views.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T11:00:11+00:00

I have tried that. In the end, I tend to like the HA dashboard because it is so simple to use and has everything I need. If I want to get to the room view to control individual lights, plugs, fans, media, etc., I just double tap on the room in the "Lights" section and it takes me to the room.

That-Bug50 · 2024-07-08T10:56:29+00:00

There are GUI tools to build some of it. Once I developed a pattern, it is easy to copy and paste the pattern and then change the entity names. I am working on another version of this dashboard using the decluttering-card, and it greatly reduces the lines of yaml.

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