Kuna Home Assistant Integration Not Working? Find a Fix

Is Your Kuna Home Assistant Integration Not Working?

Integrating your Kuna smart lights and cameras into Home Assistant opens up a world of powerful automation possibilities, allowing your Kuna devices to interact with the rest of your smart home. However, when the integration fails, it can bring those automations to a halt. Whether you're struggling with initial setup, authentication errors, or unavailable entities, this guide is here to help.

We'll walk you through the common troubleshooting steps for the unofficial Kuna integration in Home Assistant, helping you diagnose and resolve the issues that are preventing it from working correctly.

## Common Symptoms of Integration Problems

First, let's pinpoint the specific problem you are encountering. This will help you identify the correct solution more quickly.

• Integration Fails to Load: After adding the Kuna configuration to your configuration.yaml and restarting, the integration does not appear.
• Unavailable Entities: Your Kuna devices (camera, light, sensors) appear in Home Assistant but are greyed out with a status of 'unavailable'.
• Authentication Errors: You see 'authentication failed' or 'invalid credentials' messages in the Home Assistant logs.
• No Camera Stream: The camera entity exists, but the live video stream does not load in your Lovelace dashboard.
• Delayed or No Status Updates: The state of the light or motion sensor in Home Assistant does not update when you change it in the real world or the Kuna app.
• Automations Not Triggering: Your automations that rely on the Kuna motion sensor are no longer working.

## Step-by-Step Troubleshooting Guide

As this is a custom, cloud-based integration, the troubleshooting process involves checking your configuration, network, and the state of the integration itself.

### 1. Verify Your configuration.yaml

The most common point of failure is a simple typo in your main Home Assistant configuration file.

• Check Credentials: Go to File Editor or open your configuration.yaml file. Carefully check the username (your Kuna email address) and password you have entered. It's very easy to make a mistake.
• Correct Formatting: Ensure the YAML formatting is correct, with proper indentation. It should look something like this:

  kuna:
    username: YOUR_KUNA_EMAIL
    password: YOUR_KUNA_PASSWORD
  

• Restart Home Assistant: Remember, you must restart Home Assistant after every single change to configuration.yaml. You can do this under Developer Tools > YAML > Restart.

### 2. Check Home Assistant Logs for Errors

The logs are your best friend for diagnosing integration problems.

• How to Check: Go to Settings > System > Logs in your Home Assistant UI.
• Look for Clues: Look for any entries in the log that are tagged with [custom_components.kuna] or mention 'Kuna'. Error messages like Invalid authentication point directly to a password issue, while Cannot connect to host suggests a network problem.

### 3. Ensure Network Connectivity

The Kuna integration relies on connecting to Kuna's cloud servers. Your Home Assistant instance must have a stable internet connection.

• Check Internet Access: Make sure your Home Assistant machine can access the internet.
• Firewall Rules: If you have a firewall, ensure that it is not blocking outbound traffic from your Home Assistant IP address. The integration needs to make HTTPS requests to Kuna's API.

### 4. Update the Custom Component

Since the Kuna integration is not an official one, it is likely installed via HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). It may have become outdated.

• Check HACS: Go to HACS > Integrations in your Home Assistant UI. Find the Kuna integration in the list.
• Look for Updates: If there is an update available, it will be indicated there. The developers may have released a new version to fix a bug or adapt to a change in Kuna's API. Install the update and restart Home Assistant.

### 5. Check the Status of the Kuna Service

Occasionally, the problem may not be on your end at all. Kuna's own cloud service or API may be experiencing a temporary outage.

• Check Community Forums: If you have tried everything else, check the Home Assistant Community forums or the GitHub repository for the integration. Other users will likely be reporting the issue if it's a widespread problem with the Kuna service. In this case, the only solution is to wait for the service to be restored.

By methodically working through these steps, you can diagnose the vast majority of issues with the Kuna integration and get your smart devices reconnected to your Home Assistant ecosystem.