I am very new to HA and am using the HA Green. I had my smart home running through google home before HA and everything was running pretty well. I wanted more options and customization than what google would allow me so I made the jump to HA. I don’t know anything about coding or using yaml really. I have been using the forums and youtube videos for the most part to get everything configured and set up. I somehow was able to successfully get through the whole token thing needed to integrate my google nest stuff. I simply followed the directions but don’t really know what any of meant or what i did. I have a few issues though that I can’t seem to figure out of find solutions for when i search. Any help anyone could provide would be so appreciated and help me from pulling my hair out.
I had Cree light bulbs and couldn’t find an integration for them but then found out that you can pair them to the tuya app and use that integration. Great! that worked but now HA won’t keep the location info for any of these bulbs. No idea why this is happening but it is extremely frustrating. I reassign them to a room and then, suddenly, they are no longer assigned again. It’s this way with all of them not just one or two.
I did the google nest integration and paid the $5. It seems to be working fine however, my doorbell and one nest camera do not stream on my dashboad. They show a black box until I click them and then i see the live feed. Is there a way to always see the live feed on the dashboard? I also do not have access to my nest x yale lock. I would love to get this integrated somehow in HA.
I have a Kasa camera in my house as well and see know way of getting that into HA. Does anyone know if this is possible or is this a lost cause?
What is the benefit of the HA cloud? I know it allows me to connect to my google home account but why would I want to do this? would this fix my yale lock issue? I am open to paying the money for it but the website doesn’t really explain why its a big benefit to me.
I have a Tapo hub and smart button connected to that. Is there anyway to use that smart button through HA? right now the only entities it shows are battery and connection related. not the tap, double tap and, twist features that the button supports through tapo.
Again, thanks in advance as I am learning and really enjoying it so far but am sure I bit off a bit more than i can chew.
Hi, multiple questions about multiple topics is maybe not ideal. No one can answer all hour questions, so it is best to search for topics about one specific problem, and if you cant find that, create a post. If you get answers, all types of discussions will get mingled.
For what I can answer:
I have never experienced something like this. How are you assigning rooms? I did run into a problem with bulk assigning that I sometimes inadvertently edited more than I was aware. If it is a misbehaving integration then a bug report on Github is in order. If that goes not work, template entities could help to create entities that do not get displaced, but that would be a last resort.
HA is normally not constantly streaming a.f.a.i.k. I think NVR apps are more suited for this, e.g. Frigate is often used. But I do not know if that allows for constant live feed. But I do not know very much about this.
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HA cloud gives you the ability to remotely access your home hassle free, gives you texts to speech (for voice notifications) and speech to text (voice control), easy integration with Gogle Home or similar. You could use Google Home integration for voice control. All of that you can also do yourself, with more hassle. But last but not least, you support Nabu Casa by joining, who work to make HA greater.
Buttons do often not provide entities. Instead they emit events, I suspect yours is no different. Some have device triggers you can use in automations, others just use events you can react to.
Thanks for your reply. I will try to ask things all separately next time.
I am just assigning them by clicking the device and then device settings and choosing the area they are in.
Ok, well then how would I get my doorbell camera displayed on a screen when the doorbell is rung? Is that something I could do?
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Ok cool. not sure that answers much for me. I am probably not asking my question well. I guess I am more wondering, could I use my google nest speakers to talk to HA and vise versa?
ok, I guess I will have to give yup on this then. Thank you.
for getting kasa cameras into homeassistant. might try either this:
or i believe kasa supports onvif (but you may need to go into the camera settings and enable it) and if it does, then you can use the onvif integration:
Don’t give up
Use event triggers instead and find the correct events by going to the developer tools and then the event tab.
Put * in the listen for event field and prepare to push the button.
Now start listening, press the button and stop listening.
You will now have a lot of events and you need to find the button events.
Remember that there are often multiple events, like one for press down, one or several for hold and then one for release.
You need to find them all and the figure out which one you want to react on.
