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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/anarchyx34 on 2025-03-16 00:27:06+00:00.
Last night I used HA in a somewhat unconventional way. I was about an hour from home and was going to end up going home very late. Usually my cat gets wet food in the evening, but I figured no problem I'll just give him a snack from his Tuya-powered feeder. It's not directly connected to HA (except for via the Tuya cloud integration) so I just use the SmartLife app when I need to manually feed.
Of course, tonight of all nights it wasn't working. It tries to connect and then reports that it's offline. WTF. I log into HA and see in the Tuya integration that the feeder is going online and unavailable every 4 seconds. Something is wrong with it and it probably needs a reboot. Well how the hell am I going to do that?
The only way inside my network from outside that I could think of is through the HA terminal. So I used that (on my iPad no less) to SSH into my router, where I had to find the DHCP lease table in order to figure out what the feeder's IP address is, and from there I was able to telnet into the feeder (SSH inception at this point) and type "reboot".
It worked and my cat didn't go hungry.