A New, Smarter Universal Remote - The remote for [Dillan Stock]’s TV broke, so he built a remote. Not just as a repl... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/06/a-new-smarter-universal-remote/ #wirelesshacks #homeassistant #homehacks #smarthome #remote #esp32

With each new update Home Assistant is becoming a less useful solution. I appreciate all the hard work of developers. At the same time the frequent changes and corresponding need to tweak my system have become a detriment, not a benefit. #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SoftwareUpdates

Looking for a home-server solution. For now I am using old x86_64 PC, which is consuming avg ~20W running VMs. Though to be offgrid I need to decrease it, without cutting much features.

My idea is to use ARM SBC to host HAOS, with another ARM SBC with Wake on LAN, which will run desired containers when needed (now that VM is usually running in idle)

What do you think? Maybe some SBC recommendations?
#linux #selfHosted #homeLab #HomeAssistant #kvm #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting

Anyone know of a #homeAssistant compatible energy monitor plug/socket that isn't also a relay?

I want to monitor the power of something I never want to turn off...

(Edit to spell "home assistant" correctly)

It's quite straightforward to analyze TypeScript and JavaScript projects for the external apis they use. It's also a language that can "easily" sandbox execution contexts.

There are many ways to obfuscate things and occasionally libraries use valid but iffy patterns that make analysis hard, but most are scannable.

So why can't I see if this HomeAssistant HACS widget is relatively safe and doesn't do more than it should? I wonder if HA has some sort of sandboxing

Habe meinen 3D-Drucker (indirekt) gepimpt in Kombi mit Home Assistant und einer WLED

Während des Drucks zeigt nun ein vioetter Fortschrittsbalken an, wie weit er ist, Wenn er fertig ist gibt es einen grünen Countdown der nach 15 Mins den Strom abstellt (wenn ich dann noch was weiteres Drucken will muss ich nur auf dem Drucker aufs Touchdisplay drücken) und im Feherfall gibt es eine Wechselanimation

I always prefer #HomeAssistant helpers to creating the equivalent in YAML as I like the way they guide you through creating them and that they give previews and associate with a device in many cases.
I just wish there was a way to go into YAML mode to be able to copy/paste/share easily.

Oproepje voor de Home Assistant community!

Onze meetup in Utrecht zat razendsnel vol. Daarom zoeken we een locatie waar we op 24 mei met 150+ mensen terechtkunnen.

Zaal, theater, techhub of bedrijfsruimte
Drankje erbij kunnen doen = pluspunt
Event info: https://lu.ma/e2wyv8k0
Tips welkom via reply of DM!

#HomeAssistant #Utrecht #Meetup @homeassistant
https://lu.ma/e2wyv8k0

#SwitchBot wants to attract #HomeAssistant users by supporting their platform directly. I tested the latest integration, and here are my thoughts:
https://notenoughtech.com/featured/switchbot-in-home-assistant/

Simple light automation question

https://lemmy.world/post/29196993

#Glück muss man haben....

Zuerst stirbt eine #Festplatte in meinem #NAS. Zum Glück #RaidZ2. Ersatz bestellt, kommt morgen, dann etwas Zeit fürs wieder reinrechnen und es ist wieder gut.

Heute stirbt doch glatt mein lokaler Mini-PC und nimmt meine Home-Automatisierung und mein #pihole mit sich (und noch ein paar Dienste, aber die merkt man nicht so stark). DNS geht ja noch recht einfach umzubiegen (anderes Ziel in den DHCP Server eintragen, zack tun die Clients wieder).
#Homeassistant nervt viel dagegen viel mehr, wenn das weg ist. Das ist der Nachteil an einer Automatisierung, die was zentrales braucht. Wenn das weg ist, dann Mist.
(Weswegen im Hausbau dann auch #knx genommen wird, und nur "hübsche Extras" mit so nem Zentral Dings daherkommen werden.)

Nungut, hab ja noch nen Laptop. Also kommt die VM vom HA dann dadrauf. Muss nur erstmal die Daten dahinkriegen. Kostet Zeit, aber ist machbar.

Aber es nervt. Ich hatte anderes vor heute.

Hacked the firmware on a #geekmagic smallTV and got #esphome #homeassistant running on it - wrote new software that serves up quotes from #therules by #sistercoritakent and#johncage #obliquestrategies by #peterschmidt and #brianeno and rules from the notes on the studio walls of my partner to make special birthday present for her - ‘mouseTV - 192 inspirations by artists for artists’

This weekend I've mostly been working on my #HomeAssistant Install.

With the proposed deprecation of Core, I've decided to finally move from core to home assistant OS https://community.home-assistant.io/t/feedback-requested-deprecating-core-supervised-i386-armhf-armv7/

Honestly, it feel short of the advertised backup-restore-done.

My config dates back about 7-8 years

- MySQL databases, which was absolutely essential when I first installed, aren't really all that supported. I decided to dump the history, but needed to edit the config to get it to boot 1/?

What happens when you spend more time and effort than is probably reasonable to ensmarten an otherwise-resolutely dumb heating system: https://trashpanda.cc/blog/20250430-ensmartening-a-heating-system/