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Smart Home / Home Automation using Home Assistant Primarily

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Roku Integration ECP Command Not Allowed

I noticed that my roku integrations in home assistant weren’t functioning. They were instead throwing an error that “ECP command not allowed in Limited mode”. Luckily this is a pretty easy thing to fix in Roku settings.

The Error I Encountered

Additional options were added to Settings > System > Advanced System Settings > Control by mobile apps > Network access. This is now defaulted to “Limited mode” which disables the access the integration needs. Putting this setting into “Permissive” or “Enabled” will fix the issue.

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Assigning Unique IDs to Template Helpers

I ran into an odd issue while trying to use a template sensor, home assistant gave me an error that I needed to have a unique id in order to use the sensor. Luckily, this is surprisingly simple to add.

It really is just a one line addition to the yaml for the sensor to add a unique ID. You can also use an online generator to create the ID to make sure conflicts are avoided. 

- sensor:
    unique_id: asdf
    name: a_to_b

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Moving a View between two Home Assistant Dashboards

I decided to reorganize my home assistant dashboards which culminated in adding a new dashboard and moving a number of views from other dashboards to it. What I didn’t realize was that this wasn’t as easy as going into the UI and hitting copy on the view, though it wasn’t hard to do in the end (basically one more step and then hitting copy).

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Cura and ESP COM Ports

While attempting to debug a problematic ESP32 recently, I needed to connect to it via the COM port from my PC in order to get more logging from the unit. In attempting to do this, I ran into a very peculiar interaction. I couldn’t connect to the ESP COM port while CURA was open. I guess it was attempting to connect to a 3d printer on the port? Whatever the cause, it was a rather annoying encounter. Once I closed it out, I was able to connect and get the logging I needed.