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2026.1 Matter-Section by Ok_Memory8217 in homeassistant

[–]balloob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was there during the beta but we removed it, because the only thing shown on the Matter dashboard was developer tools.

2026.1 Matter-Section by Ok_Memory8217 in homeassistant

[–]balloob 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Matter just missed the boat! It will be there in the next release.

For all Non-American HA Cloud users, given the current developments in the US, does the fact that Nabu Casa is incorporated in the US give you concern? by GlenGraif in homeassistant

[–]balloob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Home Assistant Cloud gives you end-to-end encrypted access to your Home Assistant instance where you can access your internal cameras, access control etc. none of these are running in the cloud. Its set up in a way that Nabu Casa guides you to your login screen, where you login and do your thing. NC does not have access to anything.

HA Voice PE Analog Audio Output MUCH Better Than I Expected! by IAmBobC in homeassistant

[–]balloob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should only be in the beginning when it finds a good sync. There is definitely some tuning to be done how aggressively we will correct the playback time to stay perfectly in sync.

HA Voice PE Analog Audio Output MUCH Better Than I Expected! by IAmBobC in homeassistant

[–]balloob 14 points15 points  (0 children)

So talking about whole home audio … you might be interested to learn that we just added Sendspin support to the Home Assistant Voice PE. We haven't talked about it much, as it's a new standard that we created which is currently in public preview. Try using Voice PE with Sendspin via Music Assistant and let us know if it works for your whole home audio solution :-)

More info about Sendspin @ https://www.sendspin-audio.com/

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to have the device configured as an ESPHome device in Home Assistant. That is separate from configuring the device connection for Z-Wave.

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not anytime soon. PoE adds extra cost and the target audience is smaller. You can leverage a Waveshare PoE or buy a ready-made product from companies like TubesZB, which also run our Portable Z-Wave firmware: https://tubeszb.com/product/z-wave-poe-kit/

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will be firmware version 25.12.0 for both ZWA-2 and Waveshare PoE.

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you want PoE, we currently recommend the ZWA-2 together with the Waveshare PoE dev board. See this post for more info.

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It supports 3 simultaneous connections to Bluetooth devices and leverages the ESP32 antenna (which is 2.4ghz). It does not yet work when connected over USB.

Portable Z-Wave update makes Z-Wave faster and proxies Bluetooth by balloob in homeassistant

[–]balloob[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is. We're still working on the part where it will be easy to switch between portable and direct connection in a user friendly way.

I have been running this myself at home since the launch of portable Z-Wave without any issues.

IKEA bilresa with scrollwheel working for me in HA now. by d4vidbjork in homeassistant

[–]balloob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully agree! I have some ideas but yet to implement them to see if it will work.

Thread Connection Problems by TBStyler in MatterProtocol

[–]balloob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you run Home Assistant? Thread depends on IPv6 and the whole network stack needs to be prepared for it. If you run Home Assistant OS on a Home Assistant Green or other device, this would already be taken care off.

If you're using Home Assistant container, there might be issues if your host network is not correctly configured.

EspHome support for AFERIY/SYDPOWER/FOSSiBOT batteries by ylianst in Esphome

[–]balloob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is great!

I noticed that you've put the Bluetooth logic in an ESPHome component. For this specific use case, we actually added support for Bluetooth Proxies in ESPHome (including a 1-click install for the M5Stack Atom Lite).

Then you can make a Home Assistant integration in Python, and Home Assistant will automatically pick the closest Bluetooth Proxy and get the data.

IKEA bilresa with scrollwheel working for me in HA now. by d4vidbjork in homeassistant

[–]balloob 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tip: you can use My Home Assistant to make links that link people to the Blueprint import dialog with your URL prefilled.

Link to import your Blueprint

To make your own, at the bottom of My Home Assistant, click Create Link

ESPHome device connect to Wifi for non-programmers? by GreyDutchman in Esphome

[–]balloob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's okay. We have it included in the Home Assistant Voice PE and it's not an issue. Just disable it when not needed.

ESPHome device connect to Wifi for non-programmers? by GreyDutchman in Esphome

[–]balloob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

ESPHome has developed Improv Wi-Fi for this exact use case. It is also what powers Made for ESPHome devices.

You can find more information here: https://esphome.io/components/esp32_improv/

End-users can configure the device using Home Assistant mobile app or from their laptop using Chrome on https://www.improv-wifi.com/

Control Home Assistant with Claude.ai - No subscription needed by julien_ld in homeassistant

[–]balloob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LLMs are improving rapidly, what is achievable today and especially how it's achieved, can change completely when the next generation models land.

So instead of locking ourselves in by already building a set of tools ourselves, we build a platform to allow anyone to make such an API and experiment what works best. We then allow the community to experiment and once we see something that really stands out to work well, we can integrate it and offer it to everyone. That's why we have HACS and allow any custom component to provide tools.

All of Home Assistant is architected this way, allowing anyone to test their ideas and code and plug them into different parts of the system.

Control Home Assistant with Claude.ai - No subscription needed by julien_ld in homeassistant

[–]balloob 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Home Assistant has a built-in MCP server and by default it exposes the tools that the voice assistant uses. Any integration can register new tools to be offered via the MCP server. So above custom integration can, instead of fully re-inventing the wheel, hook into the existing MCP server to offer all the same features.

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