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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Successful-Peak-6524 on 2026-03-07 12:13:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/No_Hornet5229 on 2026-03-07 17:12:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RedikhetDev on 2026-03-07 15:25:54+00:00.

I suppose iam not the only person who has automated a lot of things at home and the housemate/partner is absolutely a nitwit regarding IT stuff. Now when i am getting a bit older i keep thinking what would happen if I am sudenly not there anymore. My partner has no clue and thing will fail at a certain point in time. Essential things like switching on a light might be a problem for example. Do you have a contingency plan and are do you prepared for this? Or is this just a futile problem?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/HBX-100 on 2026-03-07 12:10:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MangoScango on 2026-03-06 22:07:22+00:00.

I recently discovered Actual Budget, a self-hosted budgeting tool that supports automatic bank sync, and have fallen in love. Naturally the next step was to integrate it into homeassistant so that I could easily keep tabs on my budget and automate some routine tasks.

While there is a custom integration for Actual, I found it to be kind of lacking and development has stalled. I considered briefly picking up the mantle, but found that everything that I wanted to do could be done without the burden of maintaining a custom integration, using the built in rest_command integration and template sensors.

If you use Actual, check it out. I have examples for setting up basic cards to display your budget and recent transactions. There are also a few automatons to automatically trigger bank syncs, send common notifications, and import transactions automatically from an email inbox. That last one is my personal favorite, because it allows your budget to update in realtime automatically, so you immediately see the impact of that Taco Bell order.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/hometechgeek on 2026-03-07 11:02:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/biggerthanjohncarew on 2026-03-07 10:30:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/greasedupbeefcake on 2026-03-07 02:49:20+00:00.

My partner just requested her first HA automation, finally. Liberation after a long struggle of her hating our Home Assistant setup for not being perfect (it's one long beta experiment right?).

Anyway the job was to stop her from having to get up in the middle of the night to turn off the ceiling fan above our bed (hot at night but cold in morning).

Shelly 1PMGEN4 installed in-line with the ceiling fan control switch.

Now the fan turns off automatically in the morning (checks bedroom temp sensor every 15 mins between 3am and 8am) and we also have a Sonoff smart button on the bedhead for manual control.

We made it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Chanw11 on 2026-03-06 23:19:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/baconwrappedbitcoin on 2026-03-06 20:17:43+00:00.

I wanted a way to track what's in my wine racks without a spreadsheet, so I built a custom HA integration for it. Figured I'd share since there wasn't really anything out there like this.

You get a visual grid of your wine racks with color-coded bottles, label thumbnails, and Drink/Hold/Past Peak badges. Stats bar at the top shows bottle count, capacity, and total value.

The part I'm most happy with is the label scanning. You take a photo of a wine label and Google Gemini identifies the wine, gives you a full sommelier-style breakdown (vintage, region, grape, drink window, estimated price, critic rating estimates), and then auto-pulls ratings and market pricing from Vivino in the background. One scan does everything.

There's also batch buttons to run AI analysis or Vivino refresh across your whole cellar at once, which is handy when you first add a bunch of bottles.

Other stuff:

Drag and drop to rearrange bottles on desktop, long-press to move on mobile Half-star rating widget and tasting notes Barcode scanning via camera Search and filter by type, name, winery, region Configurable rack layouts with named storage zones HA sensors for automations (bottle count, capacity, etc.) It's a HACS custom repo, free Gemini API key for the AI features, everything runs locally except the Gemini and Vivino calls.

GitHub: https://github.com/BaconWappedBitcoin/ha-wine-cellar

Open to feedback or feature ideas.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/No_Teaching_4383 on 2026-03-06 19:10:07+00:00.

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, my Home Assistant instance has accumulated a lot of "cruft" over the years. Old Zigbee bulbs I replaced, ESPHome nodes I renamed, or battery devices that died months ago.

They leave behind those annoying unavailable or unknown entities that clutter up the registry. Finding them is annoying, but deleting them from the Entity Registry one by one is a nightmare.

So, I built Unavailable Devices Report.

It does two things:

1. The Report: It creates a sensor that generates a clean Markdown report (grouped by Device) of everything that is currently offline or broken. You can put this directly on your "Maintenance" dashboard.
2. The Purge (The Killer Feature): It includes a service (unavailable_devices_report.remove_items) that can take that list and permanently delete those ghost entities from the registry in bulk.

Features:

• Device-Centric: It doesn't just list entities; it groups them by the physical device so you know exactly which piece of hardware is acting up.
• Custom Exclusions: You can ignore specific entities (like that one printer that is always offline) via the UI options.
• Safety First: The purge service is manual-only. It won't delete anything unless you tell it to (and I included an example automation in the docs to ask for confirmation first).

https://preview.redd.it/gchbs2nd4hng1.png?width=730&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c516c3b894394a8810dc69d30dd3330d35343ca

Links:

• GitHub:https://github.com/VilniusTechnology/ha-unavailable-devices-report
• HACS: Search for "Unavailable Devices Report" (Custom Repository required until default merge).

I’d love to hear what you think or if there are other "maintenance" chores you hate that could be automated!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zolti24 on 2026-03-06 21:22:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/GeeHiAmyGee on 2026-03-06 19:03:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/frenck_nl on 2026-03-06 09:34:36+00:00.

Hey r/homeassistant!

I've just opened 2 new roles in my department at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on Home Assistant. I'm looking for people who are as passionate about this project as our community is.

I'll be real with you: this is the best job in the world. Working on open source full-time, for a non-profit, building the biggest smart home platform on the planet, available to everyone. You get to make a difference every single day. It changed my life. This is your chance to change yours, and help change the lives of millions of people.

🖥️ Frontend Engineer

Home Assistant's frontend isn't your average web app. It's a real-time progressive web application managing hundreds of live data points over WebSockets, built with TypeScript, Lit, and Web Components. If you've ever built custom cards or dashboard components and thought "I wish I could do this full-time"... well, now you can. Come work with me.

🔐 Security Engineer

Home Assistant is one of the biggest open-source projects on GitHub by contributor count. With that scale comes real security responsibility, and I want someone dedicated to owning it.

Oh, we're also on the lookout for a Partner Manager if that's more your thing.

All the details and application links: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

If this isn't for you but you know someone who'd be great, please share this post. Finding the right people for these roles matters a lot to me.

../Frenck

Lead, Home Assistant

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/tweezybbaby1 on 2026-03-06 04:46:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DasYossif on 2026-03-06 09:53:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Taggytech on 2026-03-06 07:21:48+00:00.

I’m always curious what automations people actually end up using every day.

When you first start with Home Assistant you tend to automate everything just because you can. But after some time only a few automations really become part of your daily routine.

What’s one automation you built that you genuinely can’t live without anymore?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/m1xminus on 2026-03-05 19:37:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Strange-Priority329 on 2026-03-05 22:27:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jamesmcginnis on 2026-03-05 12:16:16+00:00.

I've been working on a custom media player card and wanted to share it with you all. It's designed to feel native and polished on iPhone dashboards.

What it does:

Apple-inspired dark theme with fully customisable accent colours.

Toggle between a full expanded view with album art and a compact mini player.

Auto-switches to whichever device starts playing.

Full media controls — play/pause, skip, shuffle, repeat, and seek.

Volume slider or +/− buttons, with optional routing to a separate volume entity.

Mute toggle — tap the volume badge to instantly mute/unmute (doesn’t work with some older devices).

Built-in Apple TV remote with directional pad, Back, Home, Apps and Power.

Music Assistant integration — auto-detected, with a full library browser (Playlists, Artists, Albums, Tracks, Radio, Favourites, Search).

Album artwork with smart fallback icons.

Full visual editor — no YAML required.

Drag-and-drop entity reordering in the editor, works on mobile too.

Happy to answer any questions, and open to suggestions.

The Music Assistant mini browser was inspired by and adapted from the work of jianyu-li — thanks for the excellent MA mini browser.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BackHerniation on 2026-03-05 19:06:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ImNezz on 2026-03-05 18:54:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/missyquarry on 2026-03-05 16:38:31+00:00.

If you missed the 2026.3 release party, the Open Home Foundation is hiring! We're looking for a:

• Partnership Manager (residency in Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia or New Zealand)
• Frontend Engineer (European residency)
• Security Engineer (European residency)

If any of these sound like a good fit for you, we'd love to hear from you - send us your application today! Not quite a fit for these roles? Watch our jobs page for new openings, there may be one for you in the future. 😌

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/seriousthrillissues on 2026-03-04 21:55:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Technical_Raisin_246 on 2026-03-05 13:24:36+00:00.