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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iddu01linux on 2026-04-06 15:28:16+00:00.

This is my simple thank-you letter to everyone that has contributed to Home Assistant :D

I started using HomeAssistant around 2 years ago as the first step to a local only (selfhosted) life. When I first moved from HomeBridge to Home Assistant (for the Google Users in my family and for me) I was BLOWN away from how many Integrations, dashboard cards, and more were there. You can add anything, from a PS5 to a doorbell into Home Assistant, thanks to the community! Also, its open source!

I've automated only a few things with Home Assistant, but one that really stood out to me is when I automated my printer to send me a notification when the ink fell bellow 20%. That blew my mind, because there is NO other smart home setup / service that can allow a PRINTER to be added to a home app xD

Thank you to all the devs, creators, artists, and the community for making Home Assistant the best!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/GrandpaSquarepants on 2026-04-06 12:50:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/lol_alex on 2026-04-06 11:50:10+00:00.

So I read this super interesting post about a migraine prediction dashboard recently:

https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1s7gsyn/i_built_a_migraine_risk_card_that_tracks_9/

My wife and son both suffer from migraines and I agree with the OP of the linked post that seems to coincide with weather changes.

Now it seems I could just get weather data from any online service and the migraine dashboard would work, but maybe it would suit the HA approach better to have my own weather station (and get more precise data too).

What weather stations do you guys have that work with HA, are you happy with them?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DivergingDog on 2026-04-06 15:45:12+00:00.

Hi everyone!

Lash-L here (one of the main maintainers of the Roborock integration). For a long time one of the biggest asks from users was that they wanted to be able to use their vacuums completely offline. In the Roborock integration, we connect to the vacuum using local protocol, but there are two limitations that block you from being able to block the vacuum from hitting the internet.

1. Roborock forces all map related messaged to go to the cloud. This is the only cloud-required feature.
2. If the roborock vacuum cannot access Roborock's cloud, it will not allow ANY messaging. The vacuum will constantly restart its internet trying to reconnect to Roborock's cloud.

Cloud problems have been the number source of issues for Robroock in HA. They change their login flow, they more aggressively kick clients off of mqtt topics, etc. Every time that happens, things break, I have no warning and I play catch up and some users end up getting stuck with a temporarily broken product.

It's taken a long time and a lot of reverse engineering, but I made a solution that I am pretty happy with and that has been working well for me in my home.

https://github.com/Python-roborock/local_roborock_server

I am releasing this in EARLY beta. If you are technical in nature and are okay with using something that may not work 100%, I would love if you would give this a try. If you aren't super technical, I'd recommend starring the repository and coming back to it later as I will do an 'official' v1 release that should have some quirks ironed out. You can undo it in 2 minutes just by doing the wifi onboarding via the official Roborock app.

The current limitations:

• You must own a domain name

• I highly recommend you do not make the server accessible outside of your network as there is limited authentication on it

• Roborock Q7/Q5 series is not supported and may never be supported. (This adds some quirks if you own one of these devices and a supported device)

Here's a rough walkthrough of the setup:

1. You clone the repository locally
2. You run a configure script to build your config
3. You launch the docker server and clone your cloud data (i.e. your devices, your routines, rooms, etc.)
4. You go through an onboarding process on your vacuum 2-3 times
5. You manually update your HA config entry file and run a script to get access on your phone if you would like that.

The full walkthrough is here: https://python-roborock.github.io/local_roborock_server/installation/

The Ideal beta testers:

• Understand there might be bugs

• Willing to send PRs around things like documentation (This is huge! I need help from people making instructions more exact!)

• Understands things like DNS, docker, etc.

• Has about ~ 1 hour to get things setup.

• Is able to diagnose some issues themselves

This is an EARLY beta. In the future I hope to have it working as a home assistant addon that should be much easier to install, but until then I need people to test it so we can see what is working, if there is any functionality I still need to recreate, and what the pressure points are.

If you're interested in learning more about how it works, you can also check out my linkedin post or the technical writeup

Edit:

FAQ:

Q: How is this different from Valetudo?

A: Valetudo is awesome, But it is only supported on some devices, it requires taking your vacuum apart and flashing it. This requires not physical or firmware modifications and can be undone in minutes. There is a world though that this software could be a staging point for installing Valetudo on Roborock's without any disassembly, but I would leave that to the Valetudo team to figure out. We own the server stack, so theoretically we could own the firmware installation.

Q: Will Q5/Q10 be supported?

I'm not sure. These vacuums seem like they were developed by an entirely different team than the other roborock vacuums. They do not onboard like the other ones and it will take a lot of looking to see if I can find a way to make it work. I own one as well, so it is something I'd like to do, but i'm unsure the feasibility of it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JamesWjRose on 2026-04-05 21:29:58+00:00.

I've been using Alexa for about 7 years, but Alexa+ is just SO slow. So its time to migrate.

I need to know what I need to know, a primer maybe. I'm a software dev so I can handle what needs to be done, I just want to do it right.

we have about 100 devices, mostly just a couple of manufacturers, and a small collection of Routines. We just want a quicker response time and I want to ensure that our voice commands work without 'no bitch, I didn't say that' (in fairness, her listening abilities have improved over the years)

So if I need to spend more to do it the right way I'm ok with that.

thanks for any insight

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/selch2169 on 2026-04-04 21:12:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/frenck_nl on 2026-04-05 19:15:08+00:00.

Templating is where most Home Assistant users get stuck at some point. The docs used to be one massive 1,800-line page that felt like homework. I reworked them with one goal: make them more approachable.

The new version is live on home-assistant.io right now. This is a first pass, and feedback from real people using the docs is what makes them better.

Now:

• Every template function (all 200) has its own page with examples

https://preview.redd.it/cc64g0yl8ftg1.png?width=2914&format=png&auto=webp&s=50490e1aab8565aae2c8fcc9b0df09f3a526bd85

• 14 learning pages covering concepts step by step
• 2 practical tutorials that build something you will actually use: a daily low battery notification (a real automation) and an average home temperature sensor (a real template sensor)

https://preview.redd.it/1ft52bwwaftg1.png?width=2914&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa8a73ef98646c5d096ffd6d28b7d139b4a64b41

• A searchable error messages page (paste the exact error you see into Google, land on a fix)
• Support bridges at the bottom of every page pointing to Discord, forum, , and AI helpers
• Interactive template code blocks site-wide. Hover over any function in an example to see its description; click to jump to its reference. Parameter names hover too. Works everywhere template examples appear, including templates inside YAML examples.
• A new way to show templates and their results. Clean input block, arrow, clean output block. See exactly what a template produces without running it.

https://preview.redd.it/x4f38fbk8ftg1.png?width=1692&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2b5eecba11d949083e58f68ab44a958c723d9b7

What I tried to change:

• Language a broader audience can follow, without losing precision for experienced users
• Plain language, no "advanced" or "simple" gatekeeping
• Realistic examples, not contrived ones
• Better cross-linking between reference and learning pages
• A wider goal: making Home Assistant feel more approachable. Templating is the corner that fights against that the most, so clearer docs here have broader effect. They also help AI assistants like ChatGPT or Claude give better answers when people paste template questions in.

Check it out: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/templating/

Or the function reference at: https://www.home-assistant.io/template-functions/

I would love feedback, especially from anyone who has helped others with templates. What's confusing? What's missing? Any patterns you use all the time that should be in the cookbook?

Got a great example you think would help others? Drop it in a comment or contribute it directly to the docs. Small PRs with a single extra example are very welcome.

../Frenck

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Jonathanathe on 2026-04-05 10:05:57+00:00.

Quería compartir esto porque lo acabo de ver y me parece una idea realmente buena con muchos usos posibles. Además, proporcionan los archivos gratis para que puedas imprimirlos tú mismo. Sinceramente, ideas como esta merecen reconocimiento.

Video summary: The creator built a hook with a small spring and a sensor that detects whether something is hanging on it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/warheat1990 on 2026-04-05 08:03:38+00:00.

I saw countless thread on this subreddit about how Claude with HA is magic, naturally I'm interested as well because my Dashboard sucks and I want to re-design but just didn't have the time.

But now that I've looked into it, it seems we have to give our HA admin token which means it can see all of our config including sensitive data like password, video recording, addresses, etc.

Am I crazy because why is no one asking/raise concerns about this? I looked through this subreddit, HA forum, the github and didn't find anyone talking about this except few comments here and there without any response whatsoever. Do we just have to trust or is there any way we don't have to expose sensitive stuff to the AI? Because as far as I know HA still doesn't have Role Based Access Control where we can create user with limited access.

I saw the Privacy page for ha-mcp but it's not ha-mcp that I'm worried about, it's the AI client.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/TheLarsinator on 2026-04-04 19:02:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jewellboy on 2026-04-05 12:59:44+00:00.

Since so many of us come here to vent or find solutions to problems, I figured I'd make a post about how seamless things are actually going in my home assistant setup right now. I've been using HA for about five years and I currently have 70 zwave devices, 40 zigbee devices,10 matter over thread devices (Ikea), several wifi devices, a dozen Bluetooth devices (Switchbot )and plenty of other devices added via various integrations. With few exceptions, all my devices have required very little hair pulling to get running and it's all humming along nicely. I only have a few complex automations, I'm not a heavy fancy dashboard guy but I do occasionally use Google to control the system by voice (which is usually my only recurring issue). I just added in a few more Ikea matter devices this morning and things went so well, I thought it'd be nice to see a post like this. Huuuuuge thanks to the folks at home assistant for this awesome platform as well as everyone in this group and so many others for all the support. This is my favorite hobby😁

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/shadow13499 on 2026-04-05 03:27:07+00:00.

I just set up this ZWave smart lock from Phillips.

https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/philips-800-series-z-wave-long-range-doorlock?_pos=1&_sid=3d5181565&_ss=r

It's actually really fantastic. There's no app, you don't have to sign up for anything, it's all local and works perfectly with Home Assistant.

I swapped out my old Yale Lock with this model. What a breath of fresh air. I just love the fact that I didn't need a damn app and have to give my email/phone number to sign up for something I don't need.

One of the things I am missing is being able to remotely add users (or maybe I just haven't figured that out yet). The setup for fingerprints and guest codes has to be done at the lock.

All in all, I'm super happy with it and just the fact that I no longer have to rely on Yale's crappy app and service.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/moddroid94 on 2026-04-05 00:15:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/seriousthrillissues on 2026-04-04 22:54:18+00:00.

Replacing furnace filters based on the calendar is dumb, changing them when they need to be changed is what we want to do.

Since I can't leave well enough alone and I want to wring every drop of data out of this house, I overengineered an HVAC health monitor using ESPHome and Home Assistant in the same spirit as my mimic wall.

Under the hood, we are running an ESP32, three Sensirion differential pressure sensors on an I2C multiplexer, and three Dallas 1-wire temp sensors. And because we like flashy stuff, I built some custom LED bar graphs out of WS2812B rings.

Here is what the rig is actually watching:

• Total External Static Pressure (TESP): Basically monitoring the supply side so I know if too many vents are closed and the blower is choking.
• Filter Pressure Drop: Measuring the exact pressure difference before and after the return filter. No more guessing, I know exactly how clogged things are.
• Coil Pressure Drop: Watching the pressure across the heat exchanger and coils to catch things like frozen coils before they become an expensive problem.
• Delta T: Reading the exact temperature of the air entering the system versus the air leaving it.

I take all those raw numbers and math the holy hell out of them. The ESP32 does LED things and then blasts the whole package over to Home Assistant for logging and alerts.

It is completely unnecessary, totally overbuilt, and it works perfectly.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/crash893b on 2026-04-04 20:00:55+00:00.

I’m looking for a simple plug-in device for a car (mine, my spouse’s, or my child’s) that can capture basic data like fuel level and mileage when the vehicle comes within range of my home.

The goal is to be able to track things like maintenance needs or know if the car is running on empty before I leave for work.

I don’t need continuous tracking or detailed telemetry—just basic information when the car is in the driveway or garage (i.e., within range of the house).

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/The_Unwashed_Masses on 2026-04-04 15:36:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Gamester17 on 2026-04-04 07:27:41+00:00.

https://www.music-assistant.io/blog/

I knew that the Music Assistent project had its own subreddit but missed that it also has its own blog with announcements now only being posted there and no longer on Home Assistant’s blog.

https://www.reddit.com/r/musicassistant/

Oh, and Music Assistant has their own YouTube channel as well which users might not know about.

It is just me or is Open Home Foundation not advertising these facts as well as they should to cross-post and spread news between projects.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Analytix-Energy on 2026-04-04 11:20:54+00:00.

I posted about Ticker here a few weeks back when v1.3.0 shipped. This is an update for anyone who saw that, plus an introduction for anyone who didn't.

Full disclosure: I am an engineer with 20+ years of software development as a hobby and 10+ years in smart home tinkering. As a proof of concept I decided to give AI-assisted development a go to address something I never got around to: notifications in Home Assistant. The design, architecture, and decisions are mine. AI enables me to work on something I would never have time for otherwise.

Ticker is a notification routing integration that lets you write automations without thinking about who has which phone, who's home, or what time it is. One ticker.notify call, and Ticker handles delivery based on per-person category subscriptions, zone rules, and conditions. It sits on top of the notify platform, but is not intended as a replacement for it. Although Telegram, Alexa, and Google Home still need their own notify service, Ticker can route to them like any other device or user (including persistent and TTS notifications).

**The features that make it worth using**

* Deliver notifications to persons (each with their own personal subscription page) or devices such as smart TV, TTS-enabled media players, etc. Anything that has a native 'notify' action in Home Assistant can be added and configured as a recipient.

* Per-recipient subscriptions: always, never, or conditional. Conditions support zone rules (when home, away, on arrival), time windows, entity state checks, and full AND/OR grouping with up to two nesting levels.

* Zone-aware queuing. On-arrival mode queues notifications while someone is away and flushes when they get home -- no automation logic required.

* Notification history in a user panel. Each person sees their own log with inline camera images. Useful for catching what fired while you were asleep.

* Action buttons with lifecycle tracking. Ticker injects actionable buttons, listens for the companion app response, logs it, and can trigger workflows from the tap.

* Critical notification abstraction. One flag: 'critical: true' translates to the right iOS or Android payload per device. Automation authors write it once.

* Migration wizard. Ticker scans your existing notify.mobile_app_* calls and converts them inline or copies the YAML. No manual hunting.

**v1.5.0**

A new admin tab that allows you to manage all notification calls in automations and scripts in one place, re-usable action sets, easy-to-do routing where a notification tap lands in the app, and many more useful additions.

Repo: https://github.com/analytix-energy-solutions/ticker

Community post: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ticker-smart-notification-management-for-home-assistant/992834

Install via HACS custom repository.

Feedback and ideas are very welcome. Ticker is being actively developed and your experiences and ideas help make this more useful for others!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Top_Humor_5296 on 2026-04-04 11:10:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/StatisticianHot9415 on 2026-04-04 05:01:44+00:00.

Problem:

Me and a friend watch movies together remotely on a regular basis using my Emby server. We like to keep the movies in sync so we can react to it as needed.

Emby does not have a native way to keep them in sync without manual intervention on both sides.

Solution:

1. Connect Emby to Home Assistant.
2. Create an automation with triggers when either tv is playing or paused.
3. Create a boolon input to only allow this automation to run if turned on (that way when we are watching separate things we don't interfere with each other).
4. Create 2 action blocks from the triggers above
5. If playing on either TV and one pauses, it pauses both TVs.
6. If paused on either TV and one plays, both TVs play.

Just wanted to share because even though it is a simple automation compaired to my other ones, I am happy it works well.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Ok_Smell_7329 on 2026-04-04 10:24:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MatejBos on 2026-04-04 08:11:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Taggytech on 2026-04-03 14:54:32+00:00.

Not complex setups, just small automations that quietly run in the background and actually make a difference.

Curious what people ended up using daily.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jumping2020 on 2026-04-03 12:29:19+00:00.

Main features deployed in the last three months:

• UI configuration,
• officially available on HACS,
• improved in DND,
• it prevents audio overlapping by playing messages sequentially
• with some resume TTS functionality

Previous post: New custom component: Universal Notifier

I'm working on: User requests - Summary

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/RedDeer38 on 2026-04-03 07:13:59+00:00.

Hey guys,

it's been a couple of months i entered the HA rabbit hole and I successfully moved everything from google home, except the Nest speakers.

I have a couple in the house, created a group so I can listen the radio or music everywhere using Music Assistant.

the thing is, i'm not a fan of the whole chromecast situation. it shows up on my android phone (even when I'm casting a simple dashboard), and control is poor.

I bought a first Sonos bar sound and I love the integration with HA/MA. so smooth, simple. So i bought also a Sonos Era 100 for the bedroom to add/transfer music seemless between rooms.

But it is a bit pricy if I want to upgrade every room. I don't need a Sonos amp to listen the radio in the Shower (where I have a cheap Google nest mini). Any recommendations for a cheaper wifi speaker ?

• Needs to pair with MA so I can use it along my Sonos speakers

• no DIY (i'm already buying so much for sensors and stuff, no budget or time for all the soldering and stuff)

• i don't require excellent audio (i will still buy some Sonos for the important rooms).

Maybe this is a unicorn and I'm asking too much, in that case, i'll wait and buy Sonos for every room.

thanks !