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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ArnyminerZ on 2026-03-18 09:53:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Formal-Structure-432 on 2026-03-18 09:42:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ApolloAutomation on 2026-03-17 18:53:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/anthony-hines on 2026-03-17 15:35:04+00:00.

A while back I set up automations to monitor Zigbee link quality across all my devices. I was tracking LQI and availability state changes so I could spot devices with poor signal or ones dropping off the mesh. Across 169 Zigbee devices it generated a lot of state change events but the system handled it fine under normal conditions and I didn't think much of it.

Then something unrelated forced me to hard reboot the host. At the time I was running Zigbee2MQTT as an add-on inside HA, which means Z2M shares HA's lifecycle. When the host came back up, everything restarted at once. All 169 Zigbee devices began reconnecting to the mesh in waves, each one transitioning from unavailable to available. Every reconnection fired my availability automations, and every automation was another event landing on HA's event bus while Core was still trying to stand up. HA couldn't keep pace. The UI was barely responsive, automations were queueing faster than they could execute, and the system felt like it was drowning.

So I did what felt logical and rebooted again. Same result. The same 169 devices had to rejoin the mesh on every restart. Each reboot wasn't a recovery attempt, it was a replay of the same overload.

What made this hard to diagnose in the moment was that it didn't look like a Zigbee problem. It looked like HA was just slow to start up. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise the load was coming from the mesh reconnection hitting the automations hitting the event bus, not from Core itself.

The short-term fix was disabling the availability automations and letting HA come up clean. I've since cut LQI monitoring back to a handful of critical devices rather than the whole mesh. The overhead isn't worth it when it becomes a liability at the exact moment you need the system to recover.

The longer-term fix was moving Z2M and Mosquitto out of HA and into their own LXC containers on Proxmox. Ironically this gets me back to roughly the same resilience model I had when I was running separate Hue bridges, the mesh has its own lifecycle independent of HA. If I need to reboot the HA host now, the mesh doesn't notice. Devices stay connected, Z2M keeps running, and when HA comes back it just picks up the current state over MQTT and the recovery is clean every time.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/degeneratedVirginApe on 2026-03-17 13:40:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/AnthonyUK on 2026-03-17 08:55:49+00:00.

I know it is very early days but I'm loving Sendspin.

I had a spare Raspi3b which I installed Sendspin on it following this guide - https://github.com/Tycho-MEC/SASS

It appeared straight away in music assistant and works flawlessly. I'm using the cheapest Sabrent USB audio device (at the time) and have to say the quality is fine. It play FLACs and higher bitrate audio without an issue.

I have also seen some ESP32-C3 that can work.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Darkchamber292 on 2026-03-17 13:11:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/avz008 on 2026-03-17 10:16:05+00:00.

I’ve been exploring Home Assistant and I’m amazed by how much you can automate — lights, temperature, security, routines.

I’m curious what people are actually using it for in real life.

What’s the coolest or most useful automation you’ve set up with Home Assistant?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/AgitatedAd5221 on 2026-03-17 08:21:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/BekanntesteZiege on 2026-03-17 01:30:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/criterion67 on 2026-03-16 21:40:14+00:00.

I was a little skeptical when I first heard about it but I went ahead and installed it, and over the past couple of weeks I've been pretty amazed by what it can do.

My Home Assistant instance is over three years old and felt pretty cluttered. Claude helped me clean it up by:

• Reviewing my logs and flagging any issues that needed attention, in order of importance
• Locating and removing stale entities, including orphaned adn unused devices, helpers, and scripts
• Consolidating and removing duplicate or unused automations
• Reorganizing my labeling schema
• Review my backups as they were getting pretty large. They went from 2.7 GB to consistently under 550 MB. It also added entity exclusions for chatty devices and ran a forced purge calledrecorder.purge with repac: trueto immediately compact the database and apply the new filters
• Creating a mobile dashboard based on my tablet dashboard, but better formatted for a phone

Earlier today I had it read the release notes for the 2026.3.2 core update to check if anything affected my setup. It gave me a complete summary of everything relevant to my configuration. After I installed the update, I had it check my system health and flag any breaking changes or other issues. I've attached a couple of screenshots to give better context.

https://preview.redd.it/7qs1q5ek8hpg1.png?width=699&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b2ea29e2c31d9c4c218d6602d284538f4ed7155

https://preview.redd.it/58m1n5ek8hpg1.png?width=743&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f364c001ec2ebde72ef72d8d7ff895b16bd20f6

If anyone is interested, here's the Github repo for the MCP Server.

Edited to add a little more info.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Annadiane01 on 2026-03-16 22:01:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bieremensdorf on 2026-03-16 12:08:57+00:00.

I'm moving into a house later this year and i really want to get into HA. In my apartment right now I only use Hue and a google TV.

Right now I am looking around for presence sensors, thermostats etc.

But no matter what I find, there is always alot of negative reviews about the Brand/Products.

Found a cool sensor from aqara, too bad its shit.

Found a smart plug from eve home, too bad its shit.

etc.

I am having doubts if starting a Smart Home on this level is even a good idea, since apparently all the devices are not really reliable.

So what are devices/brands that you think are actually worth buying?

What devices did not work for you?

Edit: i plan on using mostly zigbee but Thread/Matter is also an option.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/johnkhill on 2026-03-15 20:06:22+00:00.

So I've been playing with HA for a couple years. I've got a relatively small setup, with a repurposed laptop as my server and some wifi switches and lights.

I recently installed a Zigbee coordinator and plug. The purpose is to send an in-app notifications on current changes.

I was surprised to receive the notification while away from my home network. Is this not an on-prem / local config? What cloud service could be providing the transport for the notification?

I do not have an HA Cloud account configured.

I did not register the Zigbee controller or plug with their app or cloud account.

I'm scratching my head wondering if I've got a security issue exposing my network unnecessarily.

edit: This is configured in the app settings documentation