Home Assistant Automations

Any compatibility issues with 2025.1?

TakeDuo said:

Any compatibility issues with 2025.1?

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Not that I’ve noticed

Cornell said:

I ran into the same issues. I mostly just care about not having to wait for the door to open/close. I want it to close before I'm out of sight, and open before I'm in my driveway. So, I'm trying a couple of things to alleviate it. I made 2 more zones, each with different radii. I made a "leaving home" zone with a very small radius, one that only covers my house. When the Lucid leaves this zone, it'll close the door. I then made an "entering home" zone, which is much much larger, I think around 75 meters (just large enough that it doesn't hit the next street over from me). When the Lucid enters this zone, the garage door will open. I've only tested this a couple of times, but so far, the door activates sooner on both occasions. The other thing I'm doing is I'm checking the gear position, so the door will only activate if the gear position of the Lucid is not in "Park".

If this still doesn't give me the timing I want, my next try will be to use my iOS phone's location, which I'm thinking updates more frequently. I would still use the gear position check, that way the garage door should only open/close if I'm in the car, not just walking down the street.

If anyone else has any suggestions as to better mitigate this timing issue, please let us know!

But otherwise, I'm super happy with the HA and Lucid integration. Huge thanks to the developers and everyone's comments on this thread!

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Use HA Companion App for location reporting (location permission, accuracy, background refresh and update sources turned on in the app with iOS using precise location) and together with zones. The app updates in near real time with very good accuracy.

I think I'm going to end up down this rabbit hole myself. I've been using Homebridge for last 1 year, but been tempted by home assistant a lot. Just did not want to take the time to change everything over if not doing a major increase in function. However with the lucid interface, I think I may change that...

TOJ_Air said:

I think I'm going to end up down this rabbit hole myself. I've been using Homebridge for last 1 year, but been tempted by home assistant a lot. Just did not want to take the time to change everything over if not doing a major increase in function. However with the lucid interface, I think I may change that...

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I had doubts too, but the change from the pretty-capable Hubitat was well worth it. Home Assistant Green has been superb, and the steep part of its learning curve was over with in two or three afternoons.

I'm slowly looking to go down the Home Assistant rabbit hole. I'm thinking of leveraging my Synology NAS to avoid having to buy additional equipment. Anyone here use the NAS route and willing to be support for me

TOJ_Air said:

I think I'm going to end up down this rabbit hole myself. I've been using Homebridge for last 1 year, but been tempted by home assistant a lot. Just did not want to take the time to change everything over if not doing a major increase in function. However with the lucid interface, I think I may change that...

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You can integrate Homebridge into Home Assistant and check that functionality out. If that doesn't work well enough, but you like Home Assistant, you could then do the heavy lift of a full migration.

As per the link below, all you need to do to get Homebridge on both Home Assistant and Apple Home is to remove the Homebridge from Apple Home. Home Assistant will then automatically find the Homebridge controller and add everything it can from it. You then use the HomeKit Bridge to pass Homebridge back to Apple Home.

MacBain00 said:

I'm slowly looking to go down the Home Assistant rabbit hole. I'm thinking of leveraging my Synology NAS to avoid having to buy additional equipment. Anyone here use the NAS route and willing to be support for me

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When I first started with HA, I used a Synology NAS with a connected an Aeotec ZWave controller. I moved to a RPi with the same ZWave controller and offer the following thoughts.

Depending on the connectivity protocols of your devices and the associated controller, you may still need or want to add some hardware in order to locally control the devices. Generally, wireless devices communicate by Zigbee (2.4 GHz), WiFi (2.4 GHz), Bluetooth (2.4 GHz) or Z-Wave (908 MHz). Home Assistant will recognize and integrate with many existing controllers that you have like Smartthings, Hubitat, Homebridge and Apple Home but some of that control may be internet based rather than local. So, you may end up adding a zigbee, Zwave or other controller dongle.

Second, HA is updated about 5x per month. I found updates in Docker in Synology to be too manual. Updates on a dedicated HAOS device are simple including built in backup and restore. You will also need to maintain the other controllers.

Third, Home Assistant Add-Ons, which are a bunch of Docker containers configured for HA with some user input, are not available. I use Add-ons on my RPi-based HA instance to run AdGuard, ZWave controller, MQTT broker, Matter controller, SSH and samba to HA, Studio Code Server and a proxy server among other things. The ZWave controller and MQTT services are central to the operation of the my smart home, and installation and management of Add-Ons through HA is easy. The blend of function and management ease is superior to HA on Docker IMO.

Finally, HA should be run 24x7, but I shut down my NAS from 11 PM to 5 AM daily to reduce consumption. My Synology consumes about 3.3A versus the RPi at ~600 mA.

MacBain00 said:

I'm slowly looking to go down the Home Assistant rabbit hole. I'm thinking of leveraging my Synology NAS to avoid having to buy additional equipment. Anyone here use the NAS route and willing to be support for me

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That’s what I do. You can run it on docker on your synology. The only caveat is that any home assistant “addons” (a specific term, not integrations) will not exist, so you’ll have to set those up as separate docker containers. For example, if you wanted to run esphome; with an HA green or similar, you just tap a button. With docker, you’d have to set up a separate container and make sure they could talk to each other. Which is fine, just an additional step.

borski said:

That’s what I do. You can run it on docker on your synology. The only caveat is that any home assistant “addons” (a specific term, not integrations) will not exist, so you’ll have to set those up as separate docker containers. For example, if you wanted to run esphome; with an HA green or similar, you just tap a button. With docker, you’d have to set up a separate container and make sure they could talk to each other. Which is fine, just an additional step.

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makes sense. thanks for that. My networking skills are so rusty, this seems like a good project to really get my brain to do the laps again.

This is SO cool, thanks for all the work on this! Ended up deploying an HAOS virtual machine. Getting the Lucid integrated into it was quite easy. I've got it tied to my RATGDO so the garage door opens when I turn onto my street, and the hall light comes on if it's dark out. Also neat to see a breakdown of exactly how much of my utility bill goes towards keeping my Air charged.