I was admiring some lovely graphs of energy use and thinking how awesome Home Assistant is today.

I first installed it to track moisture/temperature/temperature from some plant sensors, but the next thing I know I'm making a mostly non-cloud smart home.

I love how it's a real community of people just doing whatever little (or big) thing they want; learning and sharing and making and having fun.

#ilovefreesoftware #HomeAssistant

This little leak sensor with Home Assistant just saved my basement! Water was backing up in our basement and Home Assistant alerted me and within 30 seconds I was able to shut off the water.

#homeassistant #smarthome

Super cool: NetworkChuck has done a video series in which he builds a voice assistant powered by @homeassistant. Powered fully by local AI, Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech. Open Source for the win 💪

#homeassistant
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Home Assistant - COMPLETELY Local Home Automation

Teile deine Videos mit Freunden, Verwandten oder der ganzen Welt

^YouTube

After releasing the visual editor for the week-planner-card yesterday I found out it is possible to use the default entity picker field in custom cards after all. So I just release version 1.10.1, improving the visual editor with the entity picker and icon picker fields. #HomeAssistant

github.com/FamousWolf/week-pla…

It was hard to miss that we were at GitHub Universe last month with all our posts for the meet up - but we haven't told you about all the fun we had yet!

Catch up on all things Universe 2024 from Missy over on our blog: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11…

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #DIY
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Event wrap-up - GitHub Universe '24

Home Assistant had pretty huge presence at this year's GitHub Universe, and here are the highlights

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Home Assistant is set up in the house, and tomorrow the dongle for connecting to Thread will arrive, so I can hook up the rest of the devices. Today, I replaced the last smart thermostat head in my home. Feeling good 🥰

#homeassistant #smarthome

I've just released version 1.9.0 of the custom #HomeAssistant card week-planner-card. This release includes the option to combine similar events from different calendars, support for twice_daily weather forecast and additional data attributes that can be used for custom styling with card_mod.

github.com/FamousWolf/week-pla…

Didn't have time to watch this month's release party live stream? No stress, this short video will help you catch up. 😌

Slick dashboards and speedy cameras - read the full release notes for 2024.11 here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11…

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #DIY

I recently bought a pack of NFC tags to use with @homeassistant and I gotta say—I'm really happy with how they're working out.

I have the apartment problem where I have IoT bulbs everywhere, but turning on/off those bulbs means opening an app. But, now I can just tap my phone to turn on a room's lights or turn off all lights before I leave. It's nice, and was only about $10 for 30 tags.
#IoT #HomeAssistant #Automation

Just published a new blog post outlining how I setup energy and temperature monitoring for my hot tub with #ESPHome and #HomeAssistant, with a side order of 3D Printing! 🤓

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Hot Tub Monitoring with Home Assistant and ESPHome

A short blog post explaining how I replaced a proprietary wireless temperature monitor for my hot tub, with a simple ESP32 based micro-controller and a cheap bluetooth pool thermometer, all linked up with Home Assistant.

^{Jon Seager (jnsgr.uk)}

Home Assistants new view type is so much cleaner, adaptive and reactive. Very impressive update!

#HomeAssistant

I hate running to the kitchen all the time to check whether the oven has finished preheating.

So I've quickly created a @homeassistant Automation which checks the power usage of the oven. When it drops for at least 1000W, I get a notification on my mobile phone.

#homeassistant

I bought two of the RatGDO boards to work with #HomeAssistant and they have been basically flawless. Apparently they work with #HomeKit as well, you just flash different firmware.

This was to get around Chamberlain blocking Home Assistant from their APIs. I was skeptical about wiring these weird little boards to these big machines but they've been great.

Built a WiFi temperature sensor for my hot tub integrated with #HomeAssistant using #ESPHome today, my first time playing with ESP Home!

Topped off with a little 3D printed enclosure… details soon! 😎🤓

In this month's newsletter, we talk about Home Assistant and OHF collaboration partner Zigbee2MQTT both getting top spots on GitHub's 2024 wrap-up, and steps we're taking to improve the Foundation! 🙌🏻

Read on 👇🏼
newsletter.openhomefoundation.…
#HomeAssistant #OpenHome #OpenSource #Newsletter
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We are number one

Welcome to the October edition of the Open Home Foundation newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and sustainability.

^{Paulus Schoutsen (Building the Open Home)}

I just created a new Homeassistant-OS VM on my new homeserver, took a backup of my old #HomeAssistant install (running in Docker on a Raspi), uploaded that to the new one's "start from a backup" dialog and was back up and running 15 minutes later. And most of that I spent waiting for the upload, the restore, and the reboot after

That was impressively smooth - only a single thing broke (MQTT tried to connect to a broker on localhost, which I changed back to the RasPi's IP. Took me no more than a minute)

There's a couple of other services I wanna migrate, but they'll follow when I have a couple of minutes

Github? I think I rather do want to miss it, thanks.

Looking forward to the next non-Github related HomeAssistant event, though.

#GitHub #HomeAssistant

📢 Tomorrow GitHub #Universe2024 kicks off! Paulus and Frenck will be on stage during the Wednesday keynote: go.nabucasa.com/github-univers… 🙌🏻 You don't want to miss this!

Register for free today 👇🏼 to watch the event live! 😎 githubuniverse.com/#tickets

#HomeAssistant #OpenSource #SmartHome

GitHub Universe

GitHub's global developer event is back. Join the world's fair of software.

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🗣️ We're working to improve our wake word engine which "wakes" a device to listen for more commands. We'd love if you could spare a minute and lend your voice to help with our community-driven, privacy-focused voice assistant!

Read on 👇🏼 to learn how you can help:
home-assistant.io/blog/2024/10…

#HomeAssistant #OpenSource #OpenHome

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