This sounds like you’ll need to do a balance operation. Try this first and see if it helps:

btrfs balance start -dusage=0 -musage=0 /

If not you can increase the number to 5 or 10. This operation reallocates chunks on the disk and ensures they’re filled - check https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Balance.html for details.

Check out this device. I have several and they work well. Zigbee temperature sensor in a cabled probe.

Without looking at it it’s probably making a unique request to a resource on a NextDNS subdomain and watching where the request comes from. Like pulling an image from (unique _string).check.nextdns.com. This requires nothing special on the client, it’s making a standard request, and as part of that it needs to do a DNS lookup.

If the source of the and your IP are similar then it’s likely the same network, otherwise it can correlate the source with known resolvers.

I use HASS.agent to help manage my Windows desktop and expose various sensors to HA. It can suspend or hibernate the system. It does use MQTT as its connectivity plane.

You get easy access to their addons with a VM (aka HAOS). You can do the same thing yourself but you have to do it all (creating the containers, configuring them, figuring out how to connect them to HA/your network/etc., updating them as needed) - whereas with HAOS it generally just works. If you want that control great but go in with that understanding.

I do this with my desktop - I work from home so it’s really nice to have my PC ready by the time I get down to it. There’s a workday integration too, set your typical schedule and it’ll be true when it’s a workday - with a motion sensor as the trigger as my start time varies if I have meetings In the morning.

This is one of the first things I set up with HA for fun but the convenience is really nice.

From a Linux command line it would be the command called arp, you need to add a static arp entry. I don’t know how that works on sense, but on Linux it would be something like arp -s IP MAC

Maybe there’s a module in opnsense to help. The way I’ve done this before is using a machine connected to the same network at my target to wake up by logging into that machine and issuing the wake command.

WoL packets are usually sent to the ip broadcast address for the network as they’re not ip based. I don’t know if this would ever work well across networks. Can you do send the wol packet from the opnsense router instead? Does it work then?

If you’re sending it to the IP of the server, it likely works soon after your turn the machine off because the ARP entry hasn’t timed out yet, but once it times out it won’t work anymore. The router doesn’t know how to get to the machine. You may be able to add a static arp mapping to get it to work long term.

Yes, based on my migration from a Raspberry Pi to a mini x86 pc. A full backup contains a complete snapshot of that moment and all your configuration, history, and all add-ons and their data. I think HACS came across too, though I can easily be misremembering.

The restore looked like it tried to do everything but my large database add on (PostgreSQL) gave it grief so I ended up restoring components separately. The backups did work overall though, and after a few reboots everything worked.

The add-on store that’s managed and updated via the supervisor. It does the same thing as your setup, but integrates into HA nicer (automatic connectivity to HA for the containers, when they need it). If you’re happy with how your setup works then there’s no compelling reason to switch.

Iirc that’s where they start ERs yes - it’s easier to see, vote, and comment on them there compared to GitHub. It’s also the source for the month of WTF where it seemed like a lot of the easier ERs get addressed.

Not according to the integration documentation: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/recorder/

The recorder integration only supports: domains, entities, events, and entity globs right now. I think that’s a good idea though, should check or create an enhancement request!

First thing - exclude recording of the devices. My method was to use a glob so I name devices/entity IDs specifically and they don’t get recorded (in my case I used f_ as in “filtered” so devices become like “F Source Presence”), but you can add specific entities or use your own glob. In configuration.yaml I have this:

recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.excluded_entity_1
    # AND/OR this (then of course rename entities as needed)
    entity_globs:
      # exclude all sensor entities that start with f_
      - sensor.f_*

Then I created templates for my presence sensors, that just copy the state so I get history (yaml here, but can do through UI now too in the Helpers section, the import part is the template in the state key below):

template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: Real presence
        unique_id: my_presence
        state: >-
          {{ states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence}}
        availability: >-
          {{
            not (
              states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence') == 'unknown' or
              states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence') == 'unavailable'
            )
          }}
        device_class: presence

You could also use a statistics sensor to get a moving average for numeric values and get history from them too (and reduce the noise by reducing the precision and having a larger time window). This is also available through the UI - Helpers.

I’m curious too. As I understand it (and based on my observations after playing with it), it doesn’t change how often they send data to the controller, but instead changes how often the controller passes the data on. It doesn’t help the network, just the MQTT/Home Assistant side, but it can mean they flood the database less, if they’re tracking a value (like temperature). If they’re following a state (open or close) then I find they would miss the important messages and just not work well.

In my case I’ve found a few Tuya devices that seem like they have bad firmware and flood the zigbee network - human presence sensors and co/voc/climate sensors. I experimented with denouncing them, but I still ended up retiring most of those devices as they degraded my network performance and other devices couldn’t communicate very well. If it actually prevented the devices from flooding the network it would make a lot more sense to use.

I still have database filters to not record the main entities (for the mmWave presence sensors that I’m still using) and instead use a template on them to record their state as I found my database grew in size very quickly otherwise.

Yes, the packet passes through routers at each stage and they direct the packet to the ‘closest’ path based on its destination, until the final router has the destination on its network. This can happen a few times (for something in your ISP network), or 10-30+ times for something further away.

I’m using project boxes from Amazon, like these: https://a.co/d/4R4Dtv5 before I had a 3d printer to make something bespoke. Some of the boxes have the ESP board glued down, some it’s loose. It works well enough and doesn’t look too bad. I still use them now as it’s easier to throw everything into a box instead of designing something specific to the project.

Then to link the entities together into a device you need to mimic the auto discovery, or you just have two split entities.

I suppose you could create a template entity with the battery as an attribute to see it in the details view, but you still need the entities with the raw data. I’d be more inclined to create the device with auto discovery, seems like a cleaner way to go.

Zigbee2mqtt should do device auto discovery by default (it did for me and I didn’t have to do anything). Maybe you’ve turned something off? The alternative I can think of is to manually create and maintain device auto discovery records like https://stevessmarthomeguide.com/adding-an-mqtt-device-to-home-assistant/ shows (for example).

Try searching for your automation.entity_id - like in my case it’s something like automation.notify_washer_done (the original entity id of my automation, found via the developer - states tab). Then if I search using that in my YAML I’d see entity_id: automation.notify_washer_done, and add the context to see the full service call:

service: automation.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: automation.notify_washer_done
data: {}

Assuming it’s an automation or script your should find it in the related .yaml file and can scroll up to see the actual automation or script source.

Turned off or Turned on is the disable or enable action. If it’s changed by something in HA it should show what the trigger was too (like a user or other automation).

Here’s an example - it shows the automations that enabled our disabled this automation, and their trigger.

To prevent the automation from being changed you can rename it, that should break anything automatic that’s changing it. You can also try to chase down what’s changing it from logs (once renamed you should start seeing errors in your HA log file), or by searching for the entity_id in your yaml configuration files.