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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/-ToxicRisk- on 2025-07-22 18:23:57+00:00.

Hi everyone, I’m starting from scratch to build a smart home with HA.

My priorities are:

• Reliability/Stability : no random disconnects, works long-term
• Security : strong encryption, low risk of hacking

Thread/Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave it’s hard to know which ones are actually solid in real life.

Thanks

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RemoteSojourner on 2025-07-22 21:03:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/missyquarry on 2025-07-22 20:44:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/criterion67 on 2025-07-22 12:54:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BrownBeard666 on 2025-07-22 07:16:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Unlikely-Tax-2700 on 2025-07-22 09:56:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jklo5020 on 2025-07-22 06:37:29+00:00.

Hi everyone!

I‘m new to Home Assistant after buying HA Green secondhand and wow…. I‘m a longtime HomeKit user and was dreading moving my setup to Home Assistant, but it was way easier than I thought.

Reset all of my Shelly relays back to stock firmware and they were pretty much auto discovered and added!

I was nervous about adding my Thread-based accessories via Matter but that couldn’t have been easier. Putting them into pairing mode and pasting the code from HomeKit and they were added instantly.

Looking forward to moving my automations with nested if/then shenanigans from HomeKit in the next couple of days!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BPEWC on 2025-07-22 04:44:41+00:00.

My spouse finally had her HA aha moment today. She usually just rolls her eyes when I talk about the cool stuff HA can do. However, the other day, she was complaining that our kids never fully close the front and back doors. I got some cheap Aqara contact sensors and created an integration to send a voice message through our Alexa devices to announce that the door is open (after 30 seconds of being open). She loved it and said "ok, that is pretty cool."

What were rhe "aha" moments that finally won over your family?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Niftyrider on 2025-07-22 07:09:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hockpunk426 on 2025-07-22 00:15:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/-ThatGingerKid- on 2025-07-21 19:50:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/SummerWhiteyFisk on 2025-07-21 18:49:49+00:00.

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3 weeks ago I purchased one of these for my laundry room, mainly for the motion sensor and needed another zigbee repeater. I now own 6 and they are freaking awesome for using with automations. I've wanted to integrate lights into automation reminders but am very anti using RGB for something big like a lamp or overhead light. I have these all around the house now which not only strengthen my zigbee network but I have integrated the following automations to run to serve as reminders:

(Have a simple button at my washer/dryer) - hit it once and it turns all of the nigtlights red for one hour (load duration) and then flips to green when the hour is up indicating that I need to rotate or take out the laundry. Double tap the button to turn all of the night lights off, or effectively "resetting" them

Yellow Lights turn on when the front door has been unlocked for > 30 min

Orange light comes on when my home server loses power (has all my shows and movies on it and is a pain to reset when I'm already laying in bed)

Blue Light comes on when a package is detected outside

Have 4 hue dials around the house, hitting the fourth button 3x's on any of them can also reset the lights so I don't always have to keep going to the laundry room whenever I want to turn one off.

These are just for starters and am looking to add more. Can very easily be triggered and are a great, passive reminder that doesn't turn your house into a lazer tag arena. Anyone have any suggestions to add?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Niftyrider on 2025-07-21 17:42:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/greb1234 on 2025-07-21 13:12:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Novajesus on 2025-07-21 10:42:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2025-07-21 09:18:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/sir3lly on 2025-07-20 21:48:00+00:00.

Finally installed HAOS in a docker on truenas scale. It was touch and go for a bit but it’s finally up and running don’t have much but feel accomplished

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/luca910 on 2025-07-21 07:18:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Capyvara on 2025-07-20 22:20:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Rude_End_3078 on 2025-07-20 19:14:52+00:00.

So far (and touch wood) everything that I've needed or wanted to automate has some existing solution that doesn't require extremely advanced approaches.

Now that's not to say everything I've done (or plan on doing) has a prebuilt solution. For example the water tank levels for my garden didn't have anything prebuilt that I could just slot in, so I had to order the sensor on Ali and then roll my own solution around that involving a Shelly Uni. And the thing is for that purpose the Shelly Uni is enough.

And it's roughly the same story for the inline temp reader in my pool. You know getting the temperature from "the pipe" and AC hardwired in. Same story had to order a temp sensor and DIYed a solution, but still that one used yet again a Shelly Uni.

Roughly the same thing with my garage door openers and sensors (magnetic reed switches) - those ones are even easier using a Shelly 1 Gen 4.

I'm a bit intimidated by the ESP32, but they are geared for IoT's so did any of you guys use them in your setup?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/terryleewhite on 2025-07-20 14:02:43+00:00.

Is there a way to get HA to update my AWAY status faster. I can go for several miles and it will still show me as HOME. It always eventually updates, but is there a way to make this happen faster or on demand? I have automations that trigger when I’m AWAY.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Apps-are-cool on 2025-07-20 17:21:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Awkward-Feeling-8580 on 2025-07-20 11:17:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Overall-Box-4643 on 2025-07-20 11:08:14+00:00.

Just got an Aqara FP2 for my large open plan space after reading tons of positive reviews here. Yeah, I knew it would be buggy but figured every smart home device is these days.

The thing is straight up not working. Forget about zones - it can't even detect basic presence/absence right in front of the sensor. Sometimes it works for a bit, then gets stuck showing the same state for hours.

I've tried removing it from both Aqara app and Apple Home, but when I go to set it up as "new" it still shows as existing somehow. Can't figure out how to properly factory reset this thing.

Haven't even gotten to connecting it to HA yet - what's the best method for that anyway?

Few questions:

• Am I missing something obvious in the setup?
• I apparently bought the older FP2 version - is the newer one actually better?
• Should I just return this and get an FP1 (at least it's Zigbee)?
• Any other recommendations for a solid presence sensor you'd for large rooms?

Really want this to work but starting to think I should return to Amazon. Any advice appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/nznady on 2025-07-20 03:43:58+00:00.

I would like to find a way to have a automation when I put into Apple Maps that I'm coming home to automatically open my garage door but not open if I drive pass my home going somewhere else so I cant use the function if I get in 100 meters of my house open my garage door.