--- title: "Chihiros" description: "Chihiros is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 167 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated November 4, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/sh1ft-w-chihiros" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/sh1ft-w-chihiros.md" last-updated: "2026-11-04" version: "1.4" --- # Chihiros > Chihiros is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 167 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated November 4, 2026. From the [repository description](https://github.com/SH1FT-W/chihiros): > Chihiros LEDs, Commander and dosing pump in Home Assistant, fully local over Bluetooth proxies: every channel, schedules, doses and counters. [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=SH1FT-W&repository=chihiros&category=integration) On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=SH1FT-W&repository=chihiros&category=integration) ## Supports - **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between. - **Found by itself**: Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it. - **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services. ### Choose a Chihiros device - **Device** - **Number of pump channels (dosing pump only)** - **Connected lamp (Commander 1 only)** ### Confirm - **Number of pump channels** - **Connected lamp** ### Change the connection - **Number of pump channels** ### After setup - **Notification service**: e.g. the Companion app of your phone (notify.mobile\_app\_…). - **Notify below**: Share of the container size. Texts from the code of [SH1FT-W/chihiros](https://github.com/SH1FT-W/chihiros). ## Entities - **Binary sensors**: Reachable - **Buttons**: Feeding light - **Fans**: Fan - **Numbers**: Red, Green, Blue, Feeding light duration, Sun cycle ramp, Acclimatization start brightness, Acclimatization duration, White, Warm white - **Selects**: Scene - **Sensors**: Firmware, Signal strength, Last contact, Daily schedule, Feeding light until, Fan speed, Temperature - **Switches**: Auto mode, Sun cycle, Acclimatization, Dosing delay - **Times**: Sun cycle earliest on, Sun cycle latest off ## Actions - **Set channels**: Set the lamp's channels directly in percent, like the sliders in the app. Channels not given stay. Fields: Red, Green, Blue, Transition, White, Warm white - **Set daily schedule**: Writes the daily schedule (auto mode) to the lamp: points with time and all channels in %. The lamp fades between them itself and runs without Home Assistant. Fields: Points, Switch to auto - **Dose**: Doses an amount once on a channel. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel, Amount - **Calibrate pump**: First start a test run with seconds and collect the liquid, then enter the measured amount. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel, Seconds, Measured amount - **Set dosing program**: Daily program: the amount at every time. The pump doses by itself. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel, Times, Amount per time, Type, Weekdays, Doses, Start (spread), Duration (spread), Number of doses (spread) - **Clear dosing program**: Clears a channel's program. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel - **Reset counters**: Resets a channel's lifetime counter in the pump. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel - **Weekday schedules**: Like the app: up to 7 settings with sunrise, sunset, ramp and weekdays. Each weekday once. Replaces a point schedule and switches auto on. Fields: Settings - **Send raw commands (diagnostics)**: Sends commands verbatim to the device and returns its notifications. For troubleshooting only. Fields: Device, Commands, Wait - **Set container level**: Sets how much is in the container right now (e.g. only partly filled). Counting continues from here. Fields: Dosing pump, Channel, Amount ## Troubleshooting - **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report. ## From the README > Chihiros LED lamps and the Chihiros dosing pump in Home Assistant. > > Steady over Bluetooth proxies, no app, no cloud. > > - Every channel of the lamp from 0 to 100 % as a slider and with chihiros.set\_channels, like in the app. > - One light per lamp: brightness (white and two-channel lamps, the mix is kept), RGB or RGBW, with real transitions; switching on without values brings back the last mix. > - Auto mode: the lamp plays its stored daily schedule by itself, even without Home Assistant. > - Write a daily schedule (chihiros.set\_auto\_curve): points with time and channel levels, the lamp fades between them. > - Weekday schedules (chihiros.set\_weekday\_schedule): up to 7 settings with sunrise, sunset, ramp and weekdays, like in the app. Lite controllers only know one setting for every day. > - Scenes like in the app (RGB lamps): red plants, green, Buce, fish, shrimp, all, or back to the schedule. > - Feeding light: a button makes the light bright for 1 to 120 minutes and then returns to the previous state. > - Sun cycle: a schedule after the real sunrise and sunset, limited to "earliest on" and "latest off", recalculated every night. > - Acclimatization: a new tank starts dimmed (10 to 100 %) and reaches full brightness after 1 to 12 weeks. > - After a power cut Home Assistant sets the clock and, in manual mode, the colour again. > - WRGB VIVID III: fan with speed (25 to 100 %) or automatic by temperature, fan speed and temperature sensors. From the README of [SH1FT-W/chihiros](https://github.com/SH1FT-W/chihiros#readme), [Apache License 2.0](https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html). Shortened. ## At a glance - Kind: Marketplace integration - Category: [Climate](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/climate.md) - Number: 167 installs sharing analytics; 1 GitHub stars - Connection: Works locally - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older) - Latest version: 26.11.1, last updated November 4, 2026 - Domain: `chihiros` - Source: - Issues: - Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/be595e5937ba29c0.webp (from SH1FT-W/chihiros's README) In Vulpo: Light card, Quick Toggle card, Fan card, Button card, Apple Watch, Control Center Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-11-04. 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