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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/anonym9173 on 2026-07-16 07:02:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/luix333 on 2026-07-16 02:51:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Specialist-Neat2777 on 2026-07-15 20:06:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/wivaca2 on 2026-07-15 18:25:28+00:00.

I'm in a house built in 1998 that has hard-wired smoke alarms with 9V battery backup.

While installing new backup batteries recently I realized that some of them are now making pretty weak noises when I push the test button: Like "won't wake you up" quiet. They're also not wired into an alarm system, just a stand-alone smoke alarms interconnected by what appears to be 110V wiring, so if they did go off while we're not home, I'd never know about it.

Bottom line is they're due for a replacement. I'd like to get new ones that are either hardwired or not and work together as an independent system from HA, yet also communicate with HA, but I want some that DO NOT need a phone app to setup and of course no ongoing cloud, either.

I see some Zigbee ones, but can I just enroll them like any other Zigbee device? Looking for someone who can point me at some that meet my criteria of not needing an app for setup and I can just do it right in HA.

I also have ZWave and a SLZB-MR1 that does the Zigbee and Thread, but have nothing going on Thread.

Another question I have is when these mesh with each other, are they also using any other Zigbee non-smoke detector devices as their mesh?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/davidgrayPhotography on 2026-07-15 23:35:54+00:00.

A few months ago I watched The Stock Pot's video on hiding sensors in plain sight around the house. His project was for real plants and involved 3D printing, waterproofing and other such things. I'm lazy, so I wanted a setup like his, but with no effort.

While at Ikea, I found a VÅRDTRÄD plant pot. It's got an opaque top but a removeable transparent bottom with a channel in the back where you would normally pour water. The channel is big enough to fit a GLEDOPTO LED strip and controller and there's two holes in the bottom where you can feed the LED strip through. Plug in the strip, throw a fake plant in the top, add to Home Assistant, and you've got an RGB status light that you can place anywhere in the home and get notified when things go wrong.

It's not perfect (I just shoved a short length of the strip in there, so there's dark spots that could be fixed by making a proper circle), but it's a great way to be notified of stuff around the house in a way that can be controlled by Home Assistant.

You could also place a mmWave presence and / or temperature / humidity sensor inside, as it's just a plastic pot with some decent airflow, providing your fake plant doesn't cover up too much.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/red66stang on 2026-07-16 00:00:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iUnstable0 on 2026-07-15 21:35:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bmengineer on 2026-07-15 18:33:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Wnemn on 2026-07-15 11:51:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MaterialIndividual71 on 2026-07-15 06:54:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Glittering_Oven5424 on 2026-07-15 03:16:11+00:00.

I've run HA for close to a year. I made tons of yard automations on it. The rain sensor tied to my drain pump works better than anything else I set up.

If heavy rain hits the sensor triggers the pump right away. It clears standing water off the yard fast so runoff won't soak the wiring and pool gear around the pool edge. The pump shuts off automatically once the rain dies down too.

I used to rush out mid storm just to check pooling water. No more running outside to babysit it these days. Curious what other handy yard automations y'all have set up in HA.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/cameraman92 on 2026-07-14 22:16:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/joncording on 2026-07-14 18:26:35+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CurlyDude2020 on 2026-07-14 12:54:58+00:00.

hi!

I've recently redone my little homelab and wanted to try HA-OS over the docker equivalent

as such this (plus the fact I'm moving) gave me the perfect excuse to restart home assistant from the ground up and fix some things I wished I had from the start

such as better organisation by grouping automations, assigning devices to their correct rooms, reworking all my older automations now that I'm much more competent at doing it

so if you were restarting your home assistant, what would be the first thing you add? I've heard some people have a go to automation, some people setup helpers such as a "sleep mode" Boolean to run systems differently in the night

so I just want a list of your favourites so I can add them to my ever growing list of things to add to make my home as smart as it can be

thanks in advance :D

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Tehes on 2026-07-14 14:06:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/No-Bake-3154 on 2026-07-14 02:26:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/chicknlil25 on 2026-07-13 22:40:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TheOriginalOnee on 2026-07-13 17:11:28+00:00.

I’ve been using Gemma 4 12B directly for speech recognition on 16G VRAM and it’s surprisingly fast and accurate across multiple languages. That means you don’t necessarily need to keep a separate Whisper (or other STT) model in VRAM.

Bonus: Since it’s multimodal anyway, you can also use the same model for vision tasks like analyzing security camera snapshots.

So instead of running:

• LLM

• STT (Whisper)

• Vision model

…you can often get away with just Gemma 4 for all three. On limited GPUs, that’s a pretty nice VRAM and maintenance win.

Curious if anyone else has switched to this setup and how it’s working for you.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DerAtrox on 2026-07-13 19:18:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/doctorkb on 2026-07-13 20:41:17+00:00.

I *accidentally* discovered the Alert integration this weekend, thanks to Gemini helping with a few automation migrations from Node-RED. I've been using Home Assistant heavily for over two and a half years... this sort of discovery has become extremely rare for me.

This integration is part of the Core (since 0.38), yet is used by only 0.56% of installations and has no UI interface -- nor even a "quick reload" to just reload its YAML.

Yet... it solves SO MUCH of what many of us are using HA for with repeating, but silenceable notifications for important home situations.

So, my questions: WTH has this integration both

1. not received developer love to implement in the UI, and
2. not been as well marketed as, say, the Automation functionality?

(yes, I know that point 1 results in point 2, but other than that).

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/helphunting on 2026-07-13 20:27:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/dijano on 2026-07-13 18:14:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/evrydayNormal_guy on 2026-07-13 11:37:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/OddOkra on 2026-07-13 04:12:00+00:00.

Does this sub have mods who can ban/delete the huge swaths of AI slop posts this sub seems to be getting? Every day there’s multiple posts of someone’s vibe coded slop with “pro” features. They didn’t write the code, (probably) can’t read the code and in case of an iOS or Android app, try to build “pro” features that cost money for something they prompted an AI model for. It’s one thing to post your slop and say “here is my slop that works, y’all can try it out too if you need it” and another to come in here acting like you’re a seasoned software dev team dropping the hottest app of 2026.

AI is making people think they’re smarter but the reality is, it’s making them dumber.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Equivalent_Sun2305 on 2026-07-12 14:20:49+00:00.