The most helpful Redditor chiming in when someone says an integration/hardware isn’t working:
https://redd.it/18qrkuo
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Local Voice Assistance with Wake Word in Home Assistant! Bye Bye Google Home and Alexa! New Tutorial.
https://www.smarthomejunkie.net/local-voice-assistance-with-wake-word-in-home-assistant-bye-bye-google-home-and-alexa/
https://redd.it/18lafz9
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Getting closer to completely de-googling my home for local HA voice control!
https://redd.it/18huht6
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I created a CSS clock for Lovelace dashboards.
https://redd.it/18aoqed
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Integration levels of TV brands - which brand integrates the best with HA?
Hi all,
I'm looking to buy a new TV and would like to properly integrate it with HA. Currently I have an old Samsung TV and an Apple TV (latest I plan to keep using, also for remote access).
My question is: what TV brand do you have, which of the features does the integration provide and how satisfied are you with it?
The features I'm most interested in and for which I'd like to know if they are supported:
* feature 1: turning TV off
* feature 2: turning TV on (not Wake on LAN)
* feature 3: setting volume level
* feature 4: setting physical input (HDMI 1/2/3)
* feature 5: setting virtual input (Netflix app / Plex app)
If I get a lot of answers, I will edit this post and add a table with the results for future reference as well.
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Thanks in advance for your advice / input!
https://redd.it/183q3cy
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Deterring unwanted visitors snooping around the house
Living in a small detatched house with neighbors and streets on all sides in the city. We have had several instances of unlocked bikes and skateboards being stolen from the backyard or the carport, and also mail stolen from mailbox. We also have an outdoor shed and an expensive electrical bike that is locked outside, and both of these I am worried could be next.
I was wondering if any of you had any ideas on strategies to make my house less attractive to petty theft. Obviously locking everything is priority 1.
Currently running HA and have a zigbee network that extends to around my house with outdoor lightbulbs acting as zigbee routers.
Thinking about some combination of wired IP-cameras, and zigbee PIRs and vibration sensors. I was thinking of avoiding frigate and the like, but I could maybe wire up a system where lights go to 100% brigthness and pictures are taken in response to detected movement, opening of doors and/or vibration, and hopefully this would deter a casual opportunist? Maybe events could be sent to my phone when we are away from the house and I could maybe even trigger a siren if anyone sketchy was snooping around?
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https://redd.it/17zpcux
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Home Assistant is the 2nd most active open-source project in the world according to GitHub’s 2023 Octoverse report
https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-ai/#the-state-of-open-source
https://redd.it/17rgju0
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2023.11 To-do: Add release title
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/01/release-202311/
https://redd.it/17lhn0u
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I love Home Assistant
My internet went out at some point last night, but I didn't notice until my "I'm awake" automation had run successfully, and I'd gone to the kitchen for coffee. The coffee maker was on, but no radio was streaming. I restarted the media player without success, then it occurred to me to check...no internet. My house is smarter than I am, but no internet is barely a blip in my morning routine because almost everything is local.
https://redd.it/17hkddg
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HA new logo as a lamp in IKEA
https://redd.it/17a23gq
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2023.10: New looks and more tile card features!
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/10/04/release-202310/
https://redd.it/16zu3ct
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Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
https://redd.it/16u9m2i
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10 years Home Assistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/17/10-years-home-assistant/
https://redd.it/16lclrr
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2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/06/release-20239/
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https://redd.it/16bsh1y
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Bubble Card is out! It's a new card collection for Home Assistant that allows you to create animated pop-ups. It also includes cards for controlling entities (with more to come), separators to divide content into categories, and a footer for opening pop-ups. More info in comments.
https://redd.it/163o6i0
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What's the point of people on this sub discouraging others from trying to automate more things?
I was surprised to see a bunch of the responses on https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/d4zZeAWz8Z basically saying "what's the point, don't automate it".
Why are we discouraging experimentation in a hobby field?
Don't get me wrong, when you see something dangerous call it out, but wow the discouraging responses for a low pressure filtered tap in the kitchen at someone's home...
I'm going to guess this is a hobby for the most of us, and we're already fielding questions around automating trivially useful things like lights from friends and family, so maybe scale down the words of discouragement of fellow tinkerers, and keep it fun!
https://redd.it/18ohx4n
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I might have went a bit too crazy :)
Now, everything in our new house is automated.
* 24 shelly devices
* 18 EPS home devices
* 24 tasmota devices
* 1 WLED device
* 24 bluetooth devices
* 35 zigbee devices
* 10 MQTT devices
* 4 cameras
* 2 EV chargers
* vacuum cleaner
* ... lots more ...
I think I went a bit crazy, but now HomeAssistant can show its full potential.
How many devices do you have on your HA instance?
https://redd.it/18ixvjm
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2023.12: Welcome home!
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/06/release-202312/
https://redd.it/18cawhw
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I made a dumb GDO smart
https://redd.it/184gsfl
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Shelly Black Friday pricing is now live
Hi everybody!
Shelly's Black Friday pricing is live:
https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop#unfiltered
On the most popular products, the discount is 30% or 50% off.
Plus 1/1PM, Pro 1/1PM/2/2PM, Plus Plug US, Plus Dimmer Wall Switch, HT, all have excellent stock and inventory should last through the sale.
However, Dimmer 2, RGBW2, Plus 1/1PM Mini, Pro 3EM, 3EM, Plus 2PM, Plus i4/i4DC, Plus Add On, Plus HT, Flood, Motion 2, TRV, and Shelly BLU products are available in very limited stock, and some might not last through today.
EDIT: Please note, the inventory in the US (where I work) is different than Europe, ymmv
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https://redd.it/17zr7zq
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I kicked myQ out of my house for good.
https://redd.it/17z2p2a
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Removal of MyQ integration in Home Assistant 2023.12
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/
https://redd.it/17pd6od
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My try to create a 3D Floorplan
https://redd.it/17hlkrh
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Security audits of Home Assistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/10/19/security-audits-of-home-assistant/
https://redd.it/17bp76w
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Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/10/12/year-of-the-voice-chapter-4-wakewords/
https://redd.it/176hz85
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Hoobs tiktok 😂
https://redd.it/16wtv78
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What's the most impactful change you've made to your Home Assistant environment in the past month?
I like hearing what others are doing rather than seeing suggestions from the same content creators.
https://redd.it/16pp3zx
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Why the hell didn't I do this sooner?
Been using Hassio for a year or two, love it.
Previously was running it on an Oracle VM on a Windows server.
Few weeks ago I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre from eBay, nothing crazy. 8gb ram, 4 core CPU etc.
Installed Proxmox and had it running HA in MINUTES and restored to exactly how it was previously.
Holy shit it's bullet proof! Why didn't I do this sooner!?!
For anyone out there using HA and on the fence about getting dedicated hardware, DO IT NOW.
https://redd.it/16kvxfr
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Wife Not Detected as "At Home"
I have a weirdness going on. HA has shut off all of the lights in the house several times when I am away but my wife is at home. Here are the details:
She and I both have Pixel phones with the latest version of Android. We both have the latest version of the HA app installed. Sometimes when we come home together, HA logs that my phone is "detected at home" and then I am logged "detected at home" but my wife's phone is not detected at home.
When that happens, if I leave the house, HA thinks that we are both "away" and runs my "all off" script to turn off all of the lights.
My wife then takes her phone out of her pocket. HA logs that her phone is "detected at home" and then she is "detected at home." Finally, it logs that she turns on lights using the HA app.
What is going on here? I have checked the Android permissions for the HA apps on both phones. I have everything set up identically.
https://redd.it/16613p8
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I started an open source database of all available matter devices
https://github.com/matterdatabase/matterdatabase
https://redd.it/15z51ax
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