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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/VelvetDolphin98 on 2025-08-01 06:50:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/rubinox355 on 2025-08-01 03:51:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Poolguard on 2025-08-01 00:08:31+00:00.

I don’t see this very much or I don’t know if I have ever seen it any where but…

I am looking for the bullet proof hardware, think Hue or Caseta. What never fails to work, what is 100% accurate, what is just the goat of your smart home?

What are your unsung hero automations, not the flashy ai that tells you “you have mail” or the smart dog door automations. I want the ones your wife loves or that just make your life 1 million times easier.

Please include any code, hardware model numbers or anything else people need to know to recreate what you have done!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DiaDeLosMuebles on 2025-08-01 01:39:30+00:00.

In my state, wall fixtures are part of the house and have be sold with the house. Has anybody encountered this and did you leave HA behind?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Mooisjken on 2025-07-31 12:00:27+00:00.

Recently seeing all these posts on wall tablets coming by, with each time the same suggestions: Samsung and Lenovo second hand provide the best price/quality ratio.

But why have a capable tablet at all, when most of us have more than enough computational power in our racks? Are there no technologies to connect a "dump touchscreen" in our living room to our servers in the basement?

Did some quick research and seems like HDBaseT might be onto something (which seems to be HDMI, ethernet, usb all via 1 UTP cable) , but curious whether someone has implemented this in real live, or any other similar solutions.

To me this sounds more future proof, as our dashboards keep getting more complex: a dumb screen would not be impacted by higher computational requirements, while a tablet would.

Shoot!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/usernameChosenPoorly on 2025-07-31 19:11:48+00:00.

There have been a lot of posts here lately that are pretty thinly veiled advertising. I’m not opposed to companies coming here to tell us about their new products, and as someone who has been working off and on towards designing a few devices I completely understand how hard it is to get word out about products for niche markets like this.

But I think there’s a real lack of transparency with how some of these posts are presented, and it’s only once you spend enough time here to recognize the repeats or you dig into an account’s history that it becomes obvious.

I propose we have a stickied or weekly (monthly?) thread where companies can post to let us know about their new products. Thoughts?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/VraelSix on 2025-07-31 21:18:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/missyquarry on 2025-07-31 20:07:52+00:00.

The latest Open Home Newsletter is out! This month is focused on 3 companies that made decisions that negatively affect users who prefer local control - time to toss those Rings into a volcano!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Cnirithian on 2025-07-31 15:36:29+00:00.

I got positive feedback on my dashboard, so I thought people might be interested in my automation strategy, which I think is the more interesting and important part of a smart home. I don't think I have anything too crazy, but I do take a lot of care in the reliability of my automations. If you want more details on anything, let me know.

Lights

Basic light automations, lights turn on when there is presence detected and the illuminance level is low enough, lights turn off when there is no presence detected. There are considerations for things like the tv being on or someone being in bed. I also have it set up so if the lights are toggled manually, it blocks the automation from running for a couple hours. The light brightness is all controlled through the Adaptive Lighting HACS integration.

I also got into WLED and do some fun things with that, like having the colors and effects change seasonally.

Climate

My thermostat is on heat/cool, so I have two setpoints, low and high. I have input numbers for the "base" temperatures, and then use template sensors to modify the desired temperatures. For example, the low setpoint decreases the farther away we are from the house. The high setpoint increases during my electric utility's peak hours.

The thermostat also turns off if windows are open and turns back on if they are all closed again.

Fans

Ceiling fans turn on if the room temperature is higher than the thermostat set point and if there's someone nearby (on the same floor/in the same room). The bathroom fan turns on if the bathroom door is closed (and is also affected by the shower)

Shades

I have roller blinds in a few rooms. They all go up when the sun rises and go down around sunset. The south facing ones go down during the middle of the day during summertime.

Shower

I have a humidity sensor in the bathroom and a derivative sensor in HA based off that. If it goes up enough, the shower is considered "on" until the derivative drops below zero. This dims the lights, plays an announcement over the bathroom speaker, and queues up a brief NPR news update followed by a random spotify playlist.

TV

When the TV starts playing something, the lights slowly turn off. If the TV is paused, the lights come back on at 10%, and then slowly return to full brightness if the TV is turned off.

The TV being on also blocks certain lights from turning on.

Bed

When someone's in bed during the day, nap mode gets turned on, which ungroups the bedroom speaker, lowers the shades, and turns off the light over the course of a few minutes. If someone's in bed at nighttime, sleep mode gets turned on, and if everyone who's home is in bed, the house shuts down for the night (lights off, alarm armed, etc)

Fun/Misc Stuff

• Notifications for package and mail delivery
• Morning briefing over the speaker powered by calendars, weather, ollama, and piper
• Welcome home greetings when we walk in the door
• Alerts for locks being unlocked or garage being open
• Vacuum runs overnight and then empties the dustbin in the morning

I'm happy to walk through anything or provide yaml files and to answer any other questions!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Less-Quarter-4885 on 2025-07-31 17:52:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/missyquarry on 2025-07-31 17:09:37+00:00.

We have a BIG announcement to share with you all! Join us on YouTube, August 13th @ 12:00PM Pacific / 3:00PM Eastern / 21:00 CEST, to see why Z-Wave isn't dead. 😌

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/plasma2002 on 2025-07-31 15:45:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/SuperSmudge90 on 2025-07-31 13:33:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/csfolmer on 2025-07-31 09:36:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Improve_Ghost on 2025-07-31 05:04:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElevationMediaLLC on 2025-07-31 04:02:12+00:00.

Hi r/HomeAssistant !

This video is something that I've been working on for over 12 months, shortly after my elderly mother who lives alone lost her balance for a moment one day last summer and took a fall in her home. She wasn't injured, there was no need to get her to a hospital - but it really got me thinking. I had just returned from an international business trip mere hours before, and so she was able to get a hold of us - but part of me worried about what if I'd been in the air when it happened, or still on my business trip which was +12 time zones ahead? So I started planning what I would do with Home Assistant to help "keep an eye on her" 24x7 as best I could, but without being intrusive about it.

Note -- we did also get her a proper "Life Alert" kind of system and she has a pendant ... but that's not guaranteed to catch every scenario one can think of. And yes, we have had the talk about assisted living, but ... she doesn't want to go, and I get it. So I want to empower her to be as safe as possible. And I've documented what I've done for her in this video (because now I am having to build a second system for my elderly father who lives in a different state, and also is fiercely independent and proud and doesn't want help).

I'm not a rockstar YouTuber (yet?) so go easy on the production quality :) but if this is helpful for anyone you know I hope you'll share it. In a nutshell, for HA gurus - I have simple sensors that are basically invisible to Mom's day-to-day living, and activation of each one kicks off countdown timer(s) with the intention that the timers should never run down to zero. If they run down to zero, I get a critical alert on my phone which will bust through sleep mode, vibrate only, etc.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/macbag on 2025-07-31 08:56:30+00:00.

This might be an obvious question, but I’ve lived all my life without AC and just installed one. Now I’m trying to automate it with HA and realizing it's not so simple. Now when I am at home I make a lot of manual (HA or remote control) clicks turning it on and off and I'd like to automate the process, to turn off it when needed and off when not.

At first, I thought I’d just go by inside temperature. But turns out how I feel depends a lot on humidity too, and sometimes even at 24°C I feel hot, other times not.

It’s not really about the outside temperature either even when it drops to +15°C in the evening, it can still feel hot and stuffy inside.

I'm in Northern Europe if that matters. Split ac, one on each floor (i have like open plan house). Grid

So… how do you decide when to turn the AC on or off? What logic do you use? I feel like I’m missing a good “feels too warm now” rule.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/AdSoft2266 on 2025-07-31 08:24:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Junior-Ad-4909 on 2025-07-31 05:17:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/max-mendes on 2025-07-31 00:10:34+00:00.

Had a random thought during lunch: what if I could press a key and instantly open my security cameras in fullscreen? 🤔

So I built a simple Electron app in JavaScript. It opens any URL in a fullscreen window and toggles it on/off when I press the "Home" key.

I’m using it to open a Home Assistant dashboard in kiosk mode — just one card showing all my live security cams.

The app runs in the background, starts silently with Windows, and stays in the system tray.

Vibe-coded the whole thing in less than half an hour.

Thinking of putting the code on GitHub — anyone interested?

Edit: I’ve just uploaded the full code to my GitHub repository. It’s a vibe-coded project so there might be some rough edges or bugs. Feel free to open issues or suggest improvements if you have ideas!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/teetow on 2025-07-30 19:02:40+00:00.

(Darren and I have since fixed it)

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/droans on 2025-07-30 16:11:05+00:00.

Hi!

I would like to share with you a little card I've been slowly working on over the past couple months - the Music Assistant Queue Card

https://preview.redd.it/m2ezzq7zb1gf1.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e4033db7dd100583e35db38afcec1124d8ba681

IMPORTANT:

This card relies upon another custom integration I created: droans/mass_queue as the Music Assistant integration is currently limited on what you can do and doesn't support altering the player queues. This custom integration is NOT included in HACS by default but can be added.

Features:

• Select any song in queue
• Move songs up, down, or next
• Remove items from queue
• Automatically hides when queue has no items or is otherwise inactive
• Header title can be set by the user
• Card can be set to be expanded or collapsed by default

Installation and configuration instructions are in the Readme file. I'll be happy to answer any other questions that you have.

I am rather new at JS coding. I am more than happy to accept contributions I've tried to optimize this to the best of my abilities but I'm sure there are still improvements to be made

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/IamMountainDewd on 2025-07-30 18:23:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/angrycatmeowmeow on 2025-07-30 15:40:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zy0n on 2025-07-30 15:03:15+00:00.

First of all, I hope this does not come across as spam, and if the mods have any issue's with this post I will happily take it down :bow:

Hey Folks!

My name is Cian (pronounced like Keen*), I've just started a Youtube channel I think some folks here might be interested in. I've been using homeassistant for a few years myself, but only now as I own my home and have some time to tinker, I've started building some little ESP32/Pico powered devices for a number of things around the house.

First up in the series (linked) is building a smart IR controller from scratch. This is my also my first time doing any video editing or any sort, so I hope you like it! There's plenty more ideas I have in the pipeline :)