Hi,
One of the reasons I bought NSPanel Pro was the announced Home Assistant support. It has been a year and the extension is dead (GitHub - CoolKit-Technologies/ha-addon), it supports only lights and switches and is buggy as hell (disconnects all the time). This is really dissapointing, because I would love to expose my thermostats, alarm and other devices to NSPanel Pro. I know that I can use webpage to open HA Dashboard, but it’s not as convinient and responsive as native UI. So for now this is a useless device for me with high potential to be awesome, if only someone would like to take care of the HA support.
Are there any plans to maintan that extension or add any other HA integration?
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Are you sure you read the description of NSPanel Pro correctly and with understanding? It seems that you were expecting features that nobody promised.
I’m pretty sure what I have read by the time I was pre-ordering. Here you can see official presentation of that feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lEAB_ppY5M
But that’s not the point. The fact is that there is a base extension and has been abandoned and I’m asking if there are any plans to do something with it.
It looks like the guys at Sonoff got carried away with enthusiasm and fantasy in this presentation. At the moment, something like this is not even possible within the eWeLink cloud with Zigbee bulbs from Ikea 
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Very disappointed with the Ewelink integration on HA.
It seems to me NSPro is underperforming in many of its options.
It seems like Sonoff wasted its potential - and I wasted my money
Let’s be clear: what you call “the integration” on the NSPanel Pro is, at best, a browser window showing your HA dashboard. There’s no native support, no sync, no automation integration — just a glorified webview. Calling it “integration” might be a bit generous, don’t you agree?
That said, in fairness to Sonoff/eWeLink, NSPanel Pro was originally designed for the eWeLink ecosystem, NOT Home Assistant. It’s not fair to fault them for not supporting something the product wasn’t built for. Besides, no competing panel natively supports HA either, the bar is low all around.
Still, even with that in mind, the device’s potential remains sorely underutilized. Despite sporting a touchscreen, Zigbee support, Android, and access to ADB Sonoff seems unsure what to actually do with it. There’s no sign of a clear development roadmap, and apart from that one feature (the browser), things have gone oddly quiet.
Meanwhile, it’s the community — not the manufacturer — that’s pushing the platform forward: unlocking the panel via ADB and installing custom launchers.
These aren’t revolutionary upgrades. They’re just possible. Because enthusiasts refused to let a capable device go to waste.
The real opportunity? @MichaelLearnsToCode The guys could follow in the footsteps of the recent iHost ecosystem and deliver an alternative firmware, one that allows users to switch between (or even combine) eWeLink and Home Assistant functionality. Sure, it’s technically challenging. But clearly not impossible. The community is already proving that with homemade workarounds.
So far, Sonoff has chosen not to embrace this direction. Instead, they issue stern warnings: unlocking via ADB voids your warranty. Déjà vu, anyone? That’s exactly how things started with iHost, and look where we are now. HA on iHost, special version 
@Lcdxr01 Really sorry to let you down, and @jam3 Thank you for your trust.
I fully agree that the power of NSPanel Pro has been locked. We should unleash it not only for the benefit of our customers but also for the benefit of our company.
I believe Openness and Open Source is the way to go. My team is working on an Open Source firmware for NSPanel Pro. We want to release it ASAP.
Believe me, NSPanel Pro won’t be a waste of your money. We won’t let it happen.
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I can’t wait for my nspanel pro to get a new life
Good to know. Thank you for being honest with us, the users 
BTW: Are there any plans left for the humble NSPanel (non-Pro)? Must this device, with its modest yet undeniable potential, truly spend the rest of its days as a forgotten relic - a digital Hamlet? It hangs on walls, stares blankly into rooms, as if yearning to whisper: To be smart or not to be smart, that is the question 
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I am sorry to say my team is not in charge of NSPanel, although NSPanel and NSPanel Pro seem to belong to the same product series.
I’ll bring SONOFF’s product manager who is in charge of NSPanel to this conversation, and let him to talk about the plans for NSPanel.
Thanks again for making another attempt 
As users, it’s not easy to untangle how everything works, and we understand that not all issues are within eWeLink’s control. Still, the inconsistencies across platform can be frustrating. It’s a system you’ve built, and unfortunately, we’re all navigating its limitations. That’s not ideal, and you know it.
There’s been a lot of discussion regarding NSPanel. But in practice, it doesn’t lead to meaningful change beyond fixing obvious bugs.
Thank you so much for your incredibly passionate and eloquent feedback about the NSPanel! We truly appreciate your fondness for the device and the vivid way you describe its “modest yet undeniable potential” – we hear the “digital Hamlet” in your words and understand the sentiment deeply.
We sincerely apologize that the NSPanel hasn’t fully lived up to your expectations in some aspects. Your experience matters to us.
To best address your thoughts, could you please share any specific features you feel are missing, bugs you’re encountering, or particular ways you’d like to see its potential unlocked? Concrete details help us understand and evaluate feedback most effectively.
We encourage you to submit these specific details or any other feedback directly through our official channel here:
The SonoffLan custom integration.has just updated the NSPanel Pro. Now the alarm.sensir is visible in.Home Assistant.
Great work.to the developers. I hope Sonoff will.support the developers. The integration.is one of the best with Sonoff IoT devices. It just needs a bit more updates.
Indeed, it is! Sure, congratulations are in order — just not for the Sonoff developers team. The real credit goes to AlexxIT, who’s been tirelessly developing SonoffLAN for ages, with actual help from the community. Meanwhile, eWeLink/Sonoff have been… well, busy making announcements, apparently. Because when it comes to meaningful contributions, they’ve been about as present as a firmware changelog that actually matters.
Take the TRVZB issue, for example, still unresolved, still being dissected by a crowd on GitHub, while Sonoff sits quietly in the corner pretending it doesn’t exist. It’s getting a bit tiresome, honestly. You’d think after all this time they’d learn something. Spoiler: they haven’t.
@ MichaelLearnsToCode And then there’s the NSPanel Pro. Adding alarm support took forever, mostly because the manufacturer treats technical documentation like a state secret. Firmware development? Let’s just say it’s moving at the speed of a glacier, and each update brings changes so minor, you’d need a microscope to notice. Not exactly what you’d call normal.
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Yes, there’s still more work.with NS Panel Pro. The alarm.siren can onky be set in automation.as a notification sent to a media player, there is still no access to text to speech messaging through the NS Panel.
Even more needed is to remove the need to.have sensors linked to it before one could set it to work.
Nevertheless, it is great progress so far.
@jam3 @alyusuph Thank you for your interest! We have always provided an open API for NSPanel Pro, and we encourage everyone to integrate with it. The API is stable and fully functional, and both the iHost Add-on (guide link) and SonoffLAN mentioned in this thread are built on this API, which you can use as references for your integration. You can find the API documentation here: https://help.sonoff.tech/docs/NSPanel-Pro-API.
We will continue to optimize NSPanel Pro and provide timely technical support. In the past, due to certain technical constraints, there could sometimes be performance issues such as screen lag and overheating. To address this, we’re rebuilding the Launcher using Kotlin, and we expect to release the new version in late September, which will bring significant improvements in performance, ensuring smoother operation and better stability.
Looking ahead, we are committed to a more open and open-source approach, and we welcome more developers to join us on this journey. Feel free to share your experience or suggestions—we’d love to make this project even better together!
It’s encouraging to see that, despite appearances, development of the NSPanel Pro hasn’t been abandoned the way its predecessor, the original NSPanel, clearly was. Still, we’ve read countless promises on this forum that things will improve, that updates are coming, that everything will soon be wonderful. Until those changes actually materialize and make a tangible difference, I remain unconvinced.
As for openness and documentation (including API access), I hold a different view, one shared by so many users. Apparently, we have different definitions of “open.” Just look at the months-long effort by the developer behind the SonoffLAN integration and the community supporting him. A quick glance at GitHub makes it clear: they’re doing everything they can, and even that isn’t enough.
And then there’s the hardware. NSPanel Pro boasts a quad-core Rockchip PX30, 2 GB of RAM, Mali-G31 GPU, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and a touchscreen. On paper, it’s a powerhouse. In practice? The Android 8.1 Oreo interface crawls, the configuration menus freeze for seconds at a time, and the touchscreen reacts like it’s been woken from a deep nap and isn’t quite ready to face the day. Bluetooth is present, yes — and it even detects nearby devices! But what does it do with them? Nothing. It’s like watching a sports car idling in a driveway, engine purring like a cat 
, going absolutely nowhere. Impressive specs, wasted potential. But hey, at least it looks good doing it 
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The NS Panel Pro is really a sports car idling on a driveway. Lol!
Btw. Have you noticed the recent SonoffLAN updates only works.with the Sonoff Pro and not with the Sonoff Pro 120? I have both of them on.my network but the alarm and buzzer updates were updated to the Pro version only.
And this thing of its inability to link it to non-sonoff sensors suffocates it. And there’s nothing you can do with it if you have not added sensors,
And you want to use it as a speaker in the network? There is no access to AI or text to speech features.
The NS Panel.Pro.has tons snd tons of potential.
Thank you for your feedback. I believe everyone may have slightly different definitions of “open source” and “open,” but our current positioning for NSPanel Pro is to move in both of these directions. We’re also very eager to see more outstanding developers like AlexxIT integrate with our system. At the same time, we will continue exploring various ways to integrate with the Home Assistant (HA) ecosystem, making it easier for HA users to connect to our ecosystem.
If you have any specific features or capabilities you’d like to see on NSPanel Pro, please feel free to reach out to me—I’m the person in charge of NSPanel Pro. Regarding hardware capabilities, we also want to introduce features that make full use of the hardware to better serve NSPanel Pro users. You mentioned Bluetooth—could you share more details about what kind of Bluetooth functionality you’re looking for? Currently, our Bluetooth-related features include connecting to Bluetooth speakers and Sonoff remote control.
Thank you for your reply. Regarding the issue with NSPanel Pro 120 not working, we suggest that you open a ticket with SonoffLAN and check with them. SonoffLAN can then coordinate with us, which will help resolve the issue more quickly.
As for your suggestion about using the Pro as a speaker, we are also exploring some possibilities, such as integrating with HA voice and connecting to HA’s voice assistants. Could you please describe your requirements in more detail so that I can share them with our product team for evaluation? Thank you.