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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Brownard_GH on 2026-02-28 21:44:06+00:00.

Hi all, I released an initial version of my app, Ava, a couple of months ago (original post) and have just released v0.5.0. Inspired by the great work being done on Linux Voice Assistant I set out to create an equivalent implementation that could run natively on Android with minimal configuration and no need for additional Home Assistant integration.

Its a native android app that integrates with Home Assistant using the ESPHome API (the same as used by the Voice PE) to give you a fully featured and fully integrated voice assistant without the need for anything extra to be installed on the Home Assistant side, including

• on device wake word support using microWakeWord models
• announcements
• conversations
• timers
• media playback

There is a fork of my app (https://github.com/knoop7/Ava) that has integrated lots of additional dashboard related features, but my intention has always been to keep my app narrowly focused on the voice side as a background service and otherwise stay out of your way so you can continue to use your existing dashboards, etc.

Since the initial release, there have been a number of improvements, notably

• Custom wake word support - its now possible to use custom wake words supported by microWakeWord
• Multiple wake words - select up to two different wake words and associated pipelines (this is the limit currently imposed by Home Assistant's ESPHome integration)
• Improvements to timer handling
• Customisable wake and timer sounds
• General improvements around responsiveness, pipeline handling and bug fixes.

Getting started:

• Ensure you have a working assist pipeline in Home Assistant, see here for further information.
• Install and run the app
• Click Start to start the voice satellite service, it will continue to run in the background until manually stopped
• Add the Android device to Home Assistant as an ESPHome device, either through auto-discovery or by manually adding using the device's IP and port (default 6053) in the ESPHome integration (detailed instructions here). It should then be detected as a voice satellite and Home Assistant should guide you through the rest of the setup process.

Requires Android 8 or above.

Check it out on GitHub here https://github.com/brownard/Ava

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TheProffalken on 2026-02-28 08:17:09+00:00.

At the moment I've got https://www.tindie.com/products/electrolama/zzh-cc2652r-multiprotocol-rf-stick/ as my coordinator with Zigbee2MQTT running in Docker.

It's been rock-solid up until about a month ago when I started to see devices dropping off the network.

I've got 44 devices, most of which are wired lightswitches/sockets or Aquara sensors.

I'm wondering if I buy the ZBT-2 as a replacement for my ageing ZZH and place it somewhere more central in the house (I'm assuming it doesn't need a direct USB connection to HA? That's not clear from the website!), giving me both a useful indicator light *and* the option to migrate to Matter in future (I've seen it can't do both at the same time, that's fine, these sensors/switches are going to need to be replaced at some point, some of them are nearly 8 years old!).

Those of you who have already migrated to the ZBT-2 from an existing setup - did you need to do anything major? My big concern is that I'm going to lose most of a day re-pairing all the devices in order to get them to work, so I want to make sure it's worth it!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Few_Peak_9966 on 2026-02-27 21:39:24+00:00.

Stupid things lead to revelations. I'm not sure if the use case....but:

I temporarily disconnected my Apollo MSR-2 and put it back. It was slower to respond afterwards. Then i started to notice the light in the bathroom would turn on when I was in the utility room. 2 days later, i noticed i had faced the MSR-2 facing the wall towards the utility room rather than the open bathroom. Flipped it around and all is well.

So...4-6' on the other side of an interior wall and movement triggered my mmWave RADAR.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/punxaphil on 2026-02-27 11:52:19+00:00.

Release v10 is out!

Sonos Card (multi section layout example)

Link to release and changelog

Get it on HACS 😃

This release includes major changes:

1. Nested YAML configuration - Section-specific options are now organized under their respective section keys. Also includes improved UI Editor.
2. New Media Browser section - Browse media and favorites in a unified interface.
3. Music Assistant support - Added option to use the Music Assistant integration/platform

⚠️ Configuration Migration Required

All section-specific configuration options now live under nested section keys (player, mediaBrowser, groups, grouping, volumes, queue).

More info in https://github.com/punxaphil/custom-sonos-card/blob/main/BREAKING_CHANGES.md.

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Improved queue

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/schnitzel-kuh on 2026-02-26 22:56:52+00:00.

Just to preface im a data engineer and can usually figure problems out myself, but the matter documentation with home assistant is really not good and I only found one forum post about this issue. I have some switchbot thermostats connected to a hub mini which is matter enabled. When I want to add the matter integration on my home assistant, it asks me for a URL, the default option ist ws://localhost:5580/ws . If I click submit it says connection failed (obviously). What is this URL? What should be running at that target? Do I need a separate matter server or something? I couldnt find any information about this... How can I set this up? Its not mentioned anywhere on the help page about matter on the home assistant page when I click on the help button.

I have genuinely no idea what I even need to search for since there is no other context, I try to add the matter integration and it asks for this random URL with no explanation of what it should be. I tried just putting the address of the HA server but thatt didnt work either

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/-suspicious-badger on 2026-02-26 18:12:34+00:00.

Hi. I’m reasonably confident with HA and networking, and I don’t mind dabbling with Yaml when a UI configuration isn’t available. But Frigate is just too much. It’s so complex and confusing, and instructions are not helping me much.

Is there an alternative that doesn’t need a masters degree in software engineering to get up and running?

I already have Scrypted setup to feed HomeKit, works great. I was looking for something with great Ai detection and searching.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Popular_Turnover_401 on 2026-02-26 20:52:16+00:00.