Weird Home Assistant Scripts Bug

I ran into a weird Home Assistant scripts issue when I upgraded to 2023.11 from 2023.06 (I know, but I didn’t need the new features and had higher priority stuff to deal with) last week. After the update, when I went to add or edit a script, I started seeing 500s. After some messing around, I eventually moved the couple scripts I had from scripts.yaml as inline scripts in configuration.yaml, restarted, and when I went to edit them, HA offered to migrate them into scripts.yaml. Annoyingly, then when I went to create a new script, HA didn’t return 500s, but the new script didn’t show up in the script list either. I could see it in scripts.yaml, though, and configuration.yaml had the expected script: !include scripts.yaml line in it. ...

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 174 words · Me

Fix Securifi Peanut issue with zigbee2mqtt

Securifi Peanut plugs have issues with zigbee2mqtt. I have several Securifi Peanut Zigbee switches. Overall, they’re nice little smart plugs and make good Zigbee routers to strengthen your Zigbee mesh, but they have one annoying issue - zigbee2mqtt doesn’t recognize them perfectly, though there’s a simple fix that I’m going to document here. ...

October 6, 2022 · 2 min · 238 words · Me