I’m experiencing a recurring issue with my iHost running Home Assistant OS 16.3.
Every 1–3 days, the iHost freezes: the status LED turns solid red, Home Assistant becomes completely inaccessible, and it never finishes booting again on its own. The only way to recover it is to manually restart the device, after which everything works normally until the issue happens again.
From the logs, it looks similar to an unexpected power loss or an unclean shutdown, even though the device remains powered the entire time.
I’ve tested this on two different iHost devices with the same result, so it doesn’t appear to be a hardware defect.
My setup:
Has anyone experienced the same issue or found a solution? Is there any way to prevent these freezes?
Alternatively, is it possible to connect the Tuya integration directly to eWeLink CUBE instead of using Home Assistant?
I threw my iHost away. its rubbish. you can see some of my earlier posts a year ago about iHost. it was a waste of money. buy a home assistant green, i have and its GREAT
FYI HA is now running at OS 18.2. Might be worth checking if the issue still occurs with the latest version.
You dont need a bridge to connect Sonoff devices to HA. There is an integration (Sonoff/LAN) which does this.
You dont need a bridge to connect TUYA devices to HA. There is an integration Official Tuya integration (built into HA core) but has a cloud dependency or LocalTuya (HACS custom integration) which does not.
HA automation, triggers or controls can then do all of the work as suggested by your first reply.
No additional hardware. Keep it simple
SONOFF iHost has a 32-bit architecture, and the latest compatible version of Home Assistant OS is 16.3. The main issue is that the device keeps shutting down or freezing and cannot restart the Home Assistant image on its own.
Yes. I think there is another thread on this issue
https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/28048#issuecomment-3567985148
The diagnosis from that thread shows
iHost’s hardware runs on a 32-bit ARMv7 processor, and Home Assistant dropped support for 32-bit systems as of the 2025.12 release.
So you are running this is on HA 2025.11 or older — over 9 months of unpatched firmware — and the language-picker bug you are hitting was actually fixed in 2025.12.
This isn’t a fixable log/config issue. The hardware is now off the support track permanently. The advice in that thread — and it’s blunt — is to move off the iHost entirely onto something like an N100/N150 mini PC or a Home Assistant Green,
Dave