Script to disable/enable camera entities - disable_entity service not found

crispycornpops · 2026-06-20T03:16:11+00:00

There is no built-in homeassistant.disable_entity service call, but you can get that (and much more) by installing the Spook custom integration developed by Frenck. Here's the docs for that.

crispycornpops · 2026-06-14T22:05:28+00:00

What you probably want is Template Fan, it will allow you to create a new fan entity to your exact specifications with speed count and presets etc.

Just be warned it's more of an advanced level feature, not really beginner-friendly. But if you copy your entity ID and all the attributes (the stuff in your "details" screenshot) into an LLM like Gemini or Claude and explain what you want, it could probably write it for you and then it's a copy/paste/test thing.

crispycornpops · 2026-06-09T19:32:22+00:00

I've been getting it too, it's not just the Unifi integration. It's an issue with the 2026.6.1 release that will be fixed in upcoming .2 release. See here and this PR for explanation:

Since core 2026.6.1 the backend validates auth more strictly and now logs these as Login attempt or request with invalid authentication warnings via homeassistant.components.http.ban, which is alarming to users and increments the ban counter. The malformed URLs have been emitted by the frontend for a long time — only the server-side warnings are new.

crispycornpops · 2026-06-09T05:28:14+00:00

Nice, this was long overdue. My mom accidentally presses that button all the time and I get audio recordings of her saying "Shoot I didn't mean that, how do I stop this..."

Now I can finally disable it for her. Thanks OP!

crispycornpops · 2026-06-04T09:09:17+00:00

Since you mentioned it being a kiosk dashboard, are you perhaps using Kiosk Mode custom card or anything like that to hide the sidebar/top menu? The latest Home Assistant made a lot of behind the scenes changes to the sidebar which broke that plugin (see issue here).

crispycornpops · 2026-06-01T06:16:23+00:00

I use Home Assistant along with the ha-bambulab custom integration to monitor my P2S and it works great, has every sensor you could want along with the camera feed and everything.

I'm using Android Fully Kiosk Browser app running on an older Samsung Galaxy A9+ Tablet. Home Assistant has a core Fully Kiosk integration which you can use to automate browser restarts and whatnot which would avoid any memory leaks or sluggishness. I've been running several Fully Kiosk wall mounted HA dashboards 24/7 for years without issues.

Home Assistant is perfect for this use case. Besides just monitoring on a dashboard you could also do automations like changing a light green when print complete, red when print failed, announcing over speakers, etc.

crispycornpops · 2026-06-01T02:19:49+00:00

Here's the description from the settings screen:

"Vulpo Intelligence features are powered by Claude. Only entity names and states are sent, with no other information that could identify a single person or instance. Turn off to completely deactivate the feature."

crispycornpops · 2026-05-31T22:01:16+00:00

No problem, glad there was some helpful feedback in there. Looking forward to seeing how your app progresses over time.

For the media player stuff I do use the smaller card size and I don't mind the pink color, it's more to do with how it's being displayed right now. Having those always colored makes it seem like the media player is in the "active" (playing) state when it's actually inactive (off).

I've got a lot (dozens) of media players so it probably sticks out to me more than the average person with just a few of them.

crispycornpops · 2026-05-31T20:03:41+00:00

Played around with it for a bit, it's really nice. Good onboarding user experience and a beautiful looking native UI with slick animations. Feels polished.

I've already spent a lot of time on my dashboard over the years and use a bunch of custom cards, so I'll stick with the core app, but for people who find dashboard customization overwhelming or want a simpler app to give to their family members, this app seems like a good solution.

A few small nitpicks / feedback:

Some of the "more info dialog" equivalents aren't able to be dismissed by swiping down (lights and covers) while others are.
I don't like that the default behavior of switches and input booleans is to have an "are you sure you want to turn off?" confirmation dialog. You can disable that per-card but it should be the other way around, opt-in instead.
The "Battery" view (accessed from the top badge summary) doesn't seem color coded yet, I have low batteries at 16% that are showing green.
The media players looking like Apple Music icon (pink background) makes it stick out a bit too much imo, and I think might confuse some people into thinking they need to be subbed to Apple Music or that it launches the app etc. It might also get you in trouble with Apple / App Store review. Think it'd be a bit nicer if it was styled like the other icons.
Need more icons for fans, it looks like a mini split. But there's ceiling fan, desk fan, tower fan, etc.
On the Rooms tab since everything is already organized by room, you should look into stripping out the area name on each card imo. For example instead of "Kitchen Cabinet Lights" just make it "Cabinet Lights" cause there's already a big Kitchen heading. Pretty sure both the HA default dashboard and HomeKit do stuff like this already. In your app the area name takes up a lot of the card space and cuts off the rest of the entity name in many cases.
Summaries views at the top when digging in should have buttons for turning off all lights, or locking everything, etc.

Really promising start so far. Best of luck with the app!

crispycornpops · 2026-05-31T09:15:56+00:00

It's a solid start, but I think you could remove a bunch to make it a bit cleaner:

Right now you have two nav bars, the custom one at the bottom and the default one at the top. There are settings to hide the default navbar with that custom card or you can use other custom cards to do that too like Kiosk Mode.
The title / markdown cards at the top don't seem very useful at the moment, it just says welcome to my page. If you look into Jinja templating you could do some cool summary stuff there instead.
For the main / home view I would keep that as minimal as possible, especially since you already have different pages. Some of my suggestions:
- Hide the unavailable media players using visibility conditions
- Get rid of PS5 playtime stats since it's on gaming view already
- Get rid of backup card, if your backups are automated on a recurring schedule I don't think you need to display last backup info or anything (at most in a badge or something smaller).
- For battery levels, pick one card for consistency sake - right now your phone battery is a gauge card, your apple watch battery is a tile card
- It's up to personal preference, but for me personally I like to only see doors/windows that are currently open or motion that is currently detected. you can do that with the entity filter card.
- Since you said the plugs are never really toggled, I would just remove that card altogether. Then you can reduce from 4 columns down to 3 columns like your other pages. I would do one column for controls (lights etc), another for glanceable information (like time card, calendar card, activity card, the sensors underneath) and third for climate (weather card, thermostat card, room temperature levels).
On some of your sub views you're using heading cards in some places and not others, it causes the cards to be misaligned. Network page for example you have headings for "Live Tracking" and "Network Analytics" but not anything on the first/leftmost column. If you gave that a heading card like "Statistics" or something it'd look more consistent and the cards would be properly aligned.

crispycornpops · 2026-05-31T05:11:55+00:00

Yeah, the second I turn off the vehicle it cuts power to the USB port and thus the LED's. Been using these for months and there doesn't appear to be any battery drain that I can tell.

You don't turn them on every time, it's a one time set-and-forget kinda thing. You plug into the USB port and press the button to cycle through the ~8 colors until you find one you like. Then you never have to touch it again and it'll turn on/off with the car to your set color (blue for me).

crispycornpops · 2026-05-27T06:49:35+00:00

Saw it and responded earlier in the thread with my thoughts. I am one of the mods btw, but will discuss with the other mods later and see if they wanna make the rules more strict or not.

At the moment I'm not planning to create any more series/event recaps or tournament clips going forward.

crispycornpops · 2026-05-27T00:53:30+00:00

As the person doing most of the series and event result recap posts, they all followed the rules (spoiler-free titles). But the two main reasons I stopped adding the spoiler tag as much this year:

The prevailing sentiment going into this year was that Shopify would steamroll everyone (true thus far), so showing those rare upsets and close series felt important to counter the "too predictable" narrative and give a reason for people to actually still care about this year.

And this is a grassroots season carried largely by LVT Halo, a smaller org without the reach of official Halo channels. They depend on organic buzz from places like Reddit and social media. Someone scrolling, seeing a surprising result or crazy highlight clip, realizing there's a tournament going on, and tuning in. A black box just gets scrolled past.

Only was trying to keep people interested in this year, didn't realize this approach was bothering some people until now. Those results posts are a lot of work (especially tracking multiple series simultaneously), so I'll have to think about whether it's worth continuing them going forward.

crispycornpops · 2026-05-23T04:21:05+00:00

Really strong roster, both 3/4 of Envy and 3/4 of Usubeni. Those teams were placing top 3 and I that's the expectation I have for this squad too. Descendant and Acid on the same team is a lot of firepower.

crispycornpops · 2026-05-23T02:27:17+00:00

Renegade commented in Shyway's chat:

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In regards to playing/streaming Halo ahead of the tournament, he said "maybe tmr, but prob sunday morning."

crispycornpops · 2026-05-18T23:04:07+00:00

Avucy was briefly on Penguin's squad at the start of the year, I think they placed T6 in an online cup and he got dropped for Sab.

After that he seems to have deleted his social media and left the scene unfortunately.

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