Home Assistant

Four integrations for devices Home Assistant did not support — written because I wanted them in my own house and on my own tank.

I earn nothing from these — but they help a lot of people. All four are open source and install through HACS as a custom repository. Wherever possible they talk to the device locally. And they say what they cannot do: where something is read-only, or where only a single device has been tested so far, it says so.

Aquarium lighting

ATI Straton Flex

v0.19.2

Brings ATI Straton Flex lights in. The integration talks to the light's own web interface on your network — no detour through a manufacturer's service.

The program panel of the ATI Straton integration with the day curve — The program panel: the day curve with its support points, axes and the marker for the current time.

Connection state, warning and danger flags, device type, firmware and uptime
Estimated power draw in watts, using the formula from the web interface
Values per section and per active program group
Its own sidebar panel: the day curve drawn with time and intensity axes, the support points, a marker for the current time, and the colour spectrum channels

Deliberately read-only: it changes neither the light program nor demo mode, Wi-Fi, firmware or credentials.

Auf GitHub HACS · custom repository

Aquarium water testing

Reef Kinetics ReefBot

v0.16.7

Brings the ReefBot automatic water tester into Home Assistant — the readings, the state of the machine, and the ability to start a test without opening the manufacturer's app.

The ReefBot panel with readings, vial carousel and levels — The ReefBot panel: the latest readings, the vial carousel and the levels.

Readings such as alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, nitrate and phosphate as sensors — ready for history, graphs and automations
One button per configured test to start it
Levels for the vials, RODI water and waste
A sidebar panel that redraws the machine — vial carousel, chamber, syringe and levels instead of a wall of sensors
Detects by itself whether a ReefBot V2 with eight or a ReefBot Lab with twelve vials is connected

Read-only by default; every write action is a button you press yourself. Credentials are used once for a token and never stored in plain text. The panel does not talk to the manufacturer's service, only to Home Assistant.

Auf GitHub HACS · custom repository

Aquarium pumps

JEBAO MDC

v0.4.9

Controls JEBAO MDC flow pumps on your own network, with no cloud in between. The pumps are discovered by themselves.

The calibration wizard of the JEBAO integration — The calibration wizard — the pump runs live at the value you set.

Discovery over UDP, state over TCP — both local
Speed as an ordinary fan percentage, so it works with everything Home Assistant already offers for that
Feeding pause as its own controls
A calibration panel

Explicitly experimental: tested against exactly one MDC-5000 so far. If you have a different model, start carefully.

Auf GitHub HACS · custom repository

Infrared and radio

Broadlink Code Manager

v0.2.5

Brings order to the infrared and radio commands you have learned through the Broadlink integration. They otherwise sit invisibly in an internal file, and there is no list to pick them from anywhere — so learned commands are easy to lose track of.

The inventory of learned Broadlink commands — The inventory: remote, device, command — with send, YAML and delete on every row.

An inventory grouped by remote, device and command
Send a command to check it still works
Learn a new command, with on-screen instructions
Delete single commands or a whole device
Copy a ready-made YAML snippet, export a remote as JSON
Search and filter across every command

It only reads the internal file and never writes to it; every action goes through the Broadlink integration's official services. It does not replace that integration, it complements it. Needs Home Assistant 2024.7 or newer.

Auf GitHub HACS · custom repository