I have to give up at this point, I have wasted so much time chasing issues to find no solutions. I moved from another hub: Hubitat. It worked great for many years with all these same devices in the same environment. Anyway TL;DR: HA + ZHA is a nightmare. I'd avoid it if you value your sanity. /END

January 23, 2026 - 01:23 UTC

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This is my exact experiance with HA, it works half the time, which is much more frustrating than working none of the time. I honestly now only use it for a Find My - but my daughters phone just wont report location anymore for no reason.
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Gosh, that sounds horrible. I also use Hubitat but instead of fully migrating, I just connected it to my HA VM. The integration for HA works pretty transparently once it's configured and all devices enabled just show up!
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Yeah I have it connected, as I still have lingering Z-Wave things on Hubitat. Sadly the zigbee radio on my Hubitat died, which prompted this move. I figured it should move to something more flexible if I make the move. I just never expected Zigbee to be such a huge issue.
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It is a little annoying having to add a device to one system and then configure it in another, but it seems like it's well worth the trade off going by your experience here
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I’ve been using Home Assistant for years but only for the singular purpose of bridging stuff to HomeKit, which is the only home automation platform that actually reliably works.
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i've been testing HomeKit as well recently with HomeBridge on an RPi 3, and yeah it's definitely among the better systems

will have to make or find an alternative though, they're afaik fully dropping support for old iPads as hubs soon and i don't quite like it enough to drop 110€ on a HomePod
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