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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Jealous_Mechanic2225 on 2026-07-28 08:33:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/machinetranslator on 2026-07-27 23:52:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bwente on 2026-07-27 22:00:36+00:00.

tldr; Failed drive to fully restored in a few hours, and most of that was Amazon shipping. 10/10, would panic less again.

Woke up to a dead Home Assistant last night. SSD in my Beelink S12 failed sometime after midnight, connected a monitor and got dumped straight into the UEFI shell, "No mapping found." Drive wasn't detected at the hardware level at all, so no amount of shell poking was bringing it back.

Here's the part that made it painless:

• 8:00am: ordered a new NVMe stick off Amazon
• 1:45pm: delivered
• 2:30pm: flashed the latest HAOS image, restored from a backup sitting on my Samba share

Then I just refreshed the browser tab I'd left open from the day before, and there it was, right where I left it. Didn't even have to log back in.

The whole thing was a non-event purely because I keep the last 5 backups on a separate box instead of on the machine itself. Push them somewhere off the device and set it to automatic.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Ia_nuge on 2026-07-27 19:14:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Impressive_Brush_859 on 2026-07-27 11:52:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Fun-League9242 on 2026-07-27 10:39:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/chickensh1t on 2026-07-26 21:31:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Xpucu on 2026-07-27 04:07:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/saveMyselfFromTheYou on 2026-07-26 21:34:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TheSoapyJew on 2026-07-26 19:54:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FancyMan_ on 2026-07-26 13:56:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/NorthWOntario on 2026-07-26 16:28:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Unusual-Phase-5094 on 2026-07-26 15:50:27+00:00.

I’d love to track not only my water usage but the pressure.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/z4nsei on 2026-07-26 11:31:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Secret-Raspberry-937 on 2026-07-26 11:52:45+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iPol_85 on 2026-07-26 04:08:40+00:00.

Hey guys and girls!!

I’m very excited to start this journey, finally had the time to install Home Assistant in a Lenovo Thinkcenter and trying the first steps!

My goal it’s to expose some lights and sensors that are not available in HomeKit (like Shelly) so I can continue to use the Apple app BUT harness the power of Home Assistant to create some usefull automations.

I wanted to thank this community because I have learned a lot by reading these past months.

I’ve just created a small dashboard to show server status and cpu, now it’s time to integrate HUE bridge and dongle for starting with zigbee.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/agent462 on 2026-07-26 00:41:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/leonardo_c on 2026-07-25 11:23:20+00:00.

Philips (Signify) released the Skylight this June, a big "artificial window" ceiling panel. It ships with no smart connectivity whatsoever: no Hue, no Zigbee, no Matter, no app. Just a proprietary remote. For that price that felt ridiculous, so I took it apart.

Turns out it speaks Bluetooth SIG Mesh. I wrote a small mesh stack in Python, provisioned a Raspberry Pi as a node in the lamp's network, and bridged it to HA over MQTT.

Working: on/off from HA, so it's in my automations. Here it is triggered by a motion sensor: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbLMPRmtqbh/

Not working (yet): brightness, colour and the presets. Those go through a proprietary Telink vendor model and I haven't cracked the opcode. All SIG models are bound but only on/off actually drives the LEDs and I think it needs a firmware dump off the Telink chip.

Repo: https://github.com/l-carta/skylight-remote

Happy to help if anyone else has one of these.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FancyMan_ on 2026-07-25 08:41:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Gamester17 on 2026-07-25 08:00:15+00:00.

OHF a preview edition of the initial user interface to the community-powered smart device database is now publicly accessible

https://device-database-preview.openhomefoundation.org/

The idea is that it will someday become like the Wikipedia of devices for smart home automation, with all infrastructure for it developed in the public

https://github.com/OHF-Device-Database

It is also not meant to be exclusive to Home Assistant but will also be useful to other projects and even to competing home automation software

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Ok-Supermarket-6681 on 2026-07-25 05:46:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/lowie_987 on 2026-07-24 22:07:45+00:00.

I use a lot of zigbee for lighting in my house. I noticed that as you add more lights to the group, they start responding to commands in an asynchronous manner. This becomes a problem when using something like a push dimmer that sends lots of updates in a short time.

I noticed that Philips Hue doesn’t seem to have this problem. Their lights change colour all at the same time. I always thought it was part of their secret sauce which is what you pay them so much for.

It turns out I was wrong. Today I noticed the groups setting in my zigbee controller. It turns out when you group then via this, all lights listen to the same zigbee message instead of having to be individually told what to do. Upon setting this up all my synchronisation problems were resolved and dimming works better than ever.

I’m sure most people already know about this but I wanted to share this in case someone else has the same issue I had.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/crua9 on 2026-07-24 20:04:28+00:00.

I live with my parents due to a disability. And over the years I used this stuff more and more for my disability but also a mix of lazy and cool factor.

Anyways, I see others post these really cool dashboards. Far more than what I have. I look at mine where I made it for functional over looks. Where it shows weather, lights, batteries, etc on their own tabs. But something I notice is I'm literally the only one who uses it. I've tried to show my parents and sister's kids how to use it. But while they will sit there and entertain me basically. They just won't.

Like the only thing I seen them use is the weather. But it's more, the tablet on the fridge sees someone is in front of it, so it goes from screensaver to home assistant. And it shows up by default. I never see them really tap or do anything or ask me about anything when it comes to it.

Like they use the voice commands which is ok. But given things that we don't want for voice commands. They end up telling me to do it.

I wonder how many on here end up finding themselves in the same position where they are the only ones who ended up using the dashboard.