Home Assistant

Storage Link publishes itself to Home Assistant via MQTT Discovery: HA creates the entities on its own — temperature and humidity from the SHT31 sensor, effect selection, color and LED strip control buttons. The portal is not needed for this, everything goes through your MQTT broker.

Below: enabling the integration, verification and a ready-made card layout, so that the device looks tidy rather than a list of entities.

Sensor readings and LED strip control in a single block.

Note

The device will not appear in Settings → Devices & services → Discovered: this is MQTT Discovery, not UPnP/zeroconf. The MQTT integration in Home Assistant must be added in advance.

What you need

1. An MQTT broker: the Mosquitto broker add-on in Home Assistant or any broker on your network.
2. The MQTT integration added in Home Assistant, pointing to that broker.
3. Storage Link on the network and Online on the portal.

Step 1. Enable the integration on the device

Open the device at portal.idryer.org and find the Integrations → Home Assistant block.

Field	What to enter
Host	the broker address on your network, for example 192.168.1.27
Port	the broker port, usually 1883
Username / Password	broker credentials, if it requires them
Discovery prefix	homeassistant, unless you changed it in the HA settings
Enabled	the checkbox — otherwise the device will not connect to the broker

The settings go straight to the device over the local network — the portal does not store them.

The broker address, port and the "Enabled" flag — everything the device needs.

Step 2. Find the device in Home Assistant

Settings → Devices & services → the MQTT card → in the Services section expand the broker node. iDryer devices are listed under serial numbers of the form DEVICE_*.

Devices under the broker node; the Storage shows its entity count.

Open the device: HA already shows the readings and the LED strip controls.

Step 3. Build the card

HA lays the entities out on its own, and the result is a long list. The ready-made layout puts the readings on top and the LED strip control in a separate block.

1. Settings → Dashboards → Add dashboard → an empty dashboard, open it.
2. Top right corner → the pencil (Edit) → the "⋮" menu → Raw configuration editor.
3. Paste the contents below and save.

The layout is designed for a dashboard of type sections.

title: iDryer
views:
- title: Devices
  path: devices
  type: sections
  max_columns: 4
  sections:
  - type: grid
    background: true
    cards:
    - type: heading
      heading: Storage Link
      heading_style: title
      icon: mdi:package-variant-closed
      badges:
      - type: entity
        entity: sensor.storage_mode
        show_icon: false
        show_state: true
        color: primary
    - type: tile
      entity: sensor.storage_temperature
      name: Temperature
      visibility:
      - condition: state
        entity: sensor.storage_temperature
        state_not:
        - unknown
        - unavailable
    - type: tile
      entity: sensor.storage_humidity
      name: Humidity
      visibility:
      - condition: state
        entity: sensor.storage_humidity
        state_not:
        - unknown
        - unavailable
    - type: heading
      heading: LED strip
      heading_style: subtitle
    - type: tile
      entity: select.storage_turn_on_effect
      name: Effect
      features:
      - type: select-options
      features_position: bottom
    - type: tile
      entity: text.storage_turn_on_color
      name: Color
      icon: mdi:palette
    - type: tile
      entity: button.storage_turn_on
      name: Turn on
      icon: mdi:led-strip-variant
      hide_state: true
      tap_action: &id001
        action: perform-action
        perform_action: button.press
        target:
          entity_id: button.storage_turn_on
      icon_tap_action: *id001
    - type: tile
      entity: button.storage_turn_off
      name: Turn off
      icon: mdi:led-strip-variant-off
      hide_state: true
      tap_action: &id002
        action: perform-action
        perform_action: button.press
        target:
          entity_id: button.storage_turn_off
      icon_tap_action: *id002

The same layout in the dashboard configuration editor.

The color is set as a string in the Color field — a six-digit HEX without the hash, for example FF8800. The animation is picked from a list that the device publishes itself: older Storage firmware has fewer options.

If the entity names do not match

The layout is designed for standard identifiers of the form sensor.storage_temperature. If the card shows "Entity not found", look up your own: Settings → Devices & services → MQTT → your device → the entity list — and replace the prefix in the layout with yours.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	What to check
The device did not appear in HA	On the portal the Home Assistant integration has the "Enabled" checkbox set, the broker address and port are correct. The device must be Online.
It appeared, but there is no temperature or humidity	The SHT31 sensor is not connected or does not respond: without the sensor the device does not publish these entities.
The buttons do not work	Check that the broker allows publishing to the idryer/# topics and that the device log has no authorization errors.
Ghost entities with the value Unknown	Retained messages from an earlier firmware are left over. Clear them: mosquitto_pub -h <broker> -t 'homeassistant/<...>/config' -n -r.