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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/USDJPYFX on 2026-07-03 19:22:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/xtnax on 2026-07-03 16:59:42+00:00.

After reading all the posts saying “DON’T USE A SD CARD” that I totally ignored; because I know better! Well today the SD card failed, and failed massively. TBF it lasted 2.5years, so that’s a positive, I guess. PSA: get a SSD for your Raspberry Pi please to stop future heart break.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Wind_Boarder on 2026-07-03 05:09:31+00:00.

After the latest updates my HAOS ran out of disk space. It seems to be related to the containerd change introduced in HAOS 17.0

The issue is mentioned here: https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/issues/6555#issuecomment-4057850266

and here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-os-17-0-migrate-storage-driver/976711/70

By using the following suggested procedure, my HAOS system disk usage dropped from 21.7 GB to 15.4 GB

1. Settings -> System -> Backups -> Backup now (full backup)
2. Download the backup file to a local machine.
3. Open the HAOS console from Proxmox or use bare metal console (not SSH)
4. Run "ha os datadisk wipe"
5. After HA restarts fresh, restore HA by uploading the backup file saved.

Note: All HA backups will be lost with this procedure. Save them offline if you need them.

Is this going to be an ongoing issue with HAOS docker updates or has this issue been solved? I would hate to have to keep repeating this HAOS wipe and restore reset procedure every few months.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/catversary on 2026-07-03 12:57:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Comfortable-Pay-8711 on 2026-07-03 11:07:11+00:00.

Hey, I’ve been working on something to help me design Home Assistant themes for a while. It has always been a pain to refresh changes after every modification or deal with fiddly browser settings. I decided to share it for free; enjoy!

I’ve also added support for some popular custom cards, although it may not work with everything. It can also generate demo data for your entities on the fly.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Fun-League9242 on 2026-07-03 08:36:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Urvent00 on 2026-07-02 18:06:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Fatel28 on 2026-07-02 14:57:59+00:00.

Just wanted to share my setup. I have a Tapo C121 mounted on a feeder I built:

https://preview.redd.it/bv5x7vs8ytah1.png?width=434&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a4eeea785328733d95a44e1e83e5852d09d03ac

The plans for the feeder are available if anyone wants them. I have the zip file somewhere. Its just 1/2in cut by a laser and glued together pretty much. I did staple some spare roof shingles I had leftover on the top.

https://preview.redd.it/5c6ajnh5wtah1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2ecae85d95f743698ced1d892e6a2fec2019bb5

Frigate has bird detection enabled, and the mic on the camera streams to Birdnet-Go for audio detection.

I threw together a small addon to aggregate species classifications from both Frigate and Birdnet (via mqtt), so I can see analytics within HA.

https://preview.redd.it/s0btjb06ytah1.png?width=1270&format=png&auto=webp&s=70899cbdfce18cbb81c15616e13822b34b17ea80

So far its only been up for ~12 hours, but I've already got a few visitors.

Full disclosure, the addon is like 90% vibe coded. I work in IT/Development in my day-to-day job and couldn't be arsed to spend my personal time in front of a computer to build it by hand. I see enough screen every day 🙂

Its simple, was made quickly, and it works for me. If anyone else wants to use it/fork it/PR it, I'll link it below. I just hadn't seen any better ways to aggregate this data in one place, accessible via HA

https://github.com/chasem12345/HASS-Aviary/tree/main

The addon assumes you have birdnet-go and frigate with bird classification already set up. It will not classify for you. It also assumes both publish to the same MQTT server. If that MQTT server is the mosquitto addon in HA, you can just leave the server blank; it'll find it.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ElementZoom on 2026-07-03 02:49:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/coldnight3 on 2026-07-02 18:10:30+00:00.

I updated this morning and restarted HA - and bunches of other people saw the breakage I also had -- wheels.home-assistant.io is required for many plugins for version tracking. This makes HA itself internet-dependant. So, if local-only is a concern, can we get a plugin/option to mirror this site locally or do we have to go behind the curtain and make our own...

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/draxula16 on 2026-07-03 01:33:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Landcruiser82 on 2026-07-02 17:48:58+00:00.

Did anyone else have a ton of stuff break with this last update? Wondering if others are having the same experience. Thank you!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/crua9 on 2026-07-02 05:20:42+00:00.

So a quick heads up to anyone struggling getting SMTP to work, or those who had it working. They moved it over to the UI. The neat thing is, if you already had it the thing just grabs everything automatically and moves it to the UI. You will get an error on the setting page and it will let you know to remove the SMTP bit from the config then restart.

"The SMTP YAML configuration is being removed Warning · Reported by Home Assistant Core Integration This stops working in version 2027.1.0. Please address before upgrading. Configuring SMTP using YAML is being removed. Your existing YAML configuration has been imported into the UI automatically. Remove the smtp configuration from your configuration.yaml file and restart Home Assistant to fix this issue." 

I just did this, and tested the SMTP and it works fine.

SMTP now shows up under the device list or you can add it from that. Looking at it, if you add it from that the thing looks straight forward.

If any of the devs that works on this see this or those who approved it. THANK YOU.

A few months back I did request this, and I'm sure anyone setting it up now will have a far easier time. Again, thanks.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/jumping2020 on 2026-07-02 14:19:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/zScoreSmoke on 2026-07-02 08:22:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Tmoneyallday on 2026-07-02 01:11:27+00:00.

I’m not sure if it is something that I am doing or what but the voice assistant has been miserable. I have the Preview Edition* and it doesn’t really pick up much of what I say. Also, when I’m giving clear commands like “turn on Bed Time” for turning on an input Boolean that I gave an alias of “Bed Time” it says it doesn’t recognize anything named that. I’m certain it can’t be this bad and it has to be something that I am doing incorrectly.

Has anyone else had bad experiences? Has there been anything to improve the performance?

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Nebarik on 2026-07-02 04:35:55+00:00.

A little while back I posted here the dumbest question ever about how to get a media playing automation to even begin to work, and you guys were really nice and helpful.

After much self learning and work. I finally got the completed solution done. And it works surprisingly well, it's seamless and a very cool party trick.

I have NFC tags stuck to the underside of the CD spindle (fits like a glove). I put the CD case on a nice little bamboo phone stand (that has the NFC reader hidden behind it), and basically instantly that album starts playing on the nearby Nest Hub like magic.

I've came back so others don't have to go through what I did, sharing a few simple files (literally only 3 in the repo) and a straight forward walkthrough. I say straight forward, it does assume beginner level command line experience, or at least the ability to comprehend any errors you run into enough to ask your favourite LLM for help.

I've included both how to wire and program the NFC reader. And a script that automatically matches tag names (that you've named the album names) to the album IDs in Music Assistant, and then updates the single automation rule in Home Assistant directly. Adding new tags is as simple as scanning it, naming it, and rerunning the script.

Here's the project. Enjoy.

https://github.com/Nebarik/esp32-nfc-reader

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/derpiii on 2026-07-02 03:42:36+00:00.

You know buy once, cry once?

I did my research, and specifically went with the Aqara FP1E because with all their marketing and being 10x the price of a PIR, I thought they would be the highest quality motion device.

NOPE. OH GOD NOPE.

I have 3 of these sensors, and it has been the most flakiest, most frustrating part of my home assistant setup. It's so bad I kept on adding on more of them, then added dirt cheap, battery powered dumb PIR (Tapo's) to the mix.

And slowly over time, it's gotten to the point where only the dumb PIR's are the reliable part, and just outright removing the Aqara's has been the move.

So what's the issue? It's not the technology (mmWave is magic).

It's AQARA's BLACK BOX AI.

The sensor has an AI model that 'learns' what's motion or not. Well, problem is, It always converges on the wrong answer over time. It drifts to become nonresponsive.

And NO it is NOT a tuning (yes I've adjusted every parameter you can think of) or positioning issue - dear lord, the hundreds of hours I've spent on this.

No matter how you tune it, and how many times you reset it, it just goes wonky with ZERO insight into why. And this is something there's 0 diagnostics and you have no say into.

So if you want mmWave magic, just DIY so you:

1. have full diagnostics into how and why things fail - it's just the nature of this hobby.
2. Once you have a working setup, you can just lock that in instead of randomly being reset by firmware or some edge AI.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ashishdevasia on 2026-07-01 19:14:03+00:00.

I just released Home Assistant Proton Drive Backup, an add-on that automatically creates Home Assistant backups and keeps copies of them in Proton Drive.

It's a Proton Drive port of the excellent Home Assistant Google Drive Backup add-on by Stephen Beechen. The scheduling, retention, and generational backup logic is reused unchanged. Only the storage backend has been replaced.

Proton recently released an official CLI for Proton Drive, and I wanted to use it to get my HA backups into an end-to-end encrypted drive instead of a regular cloud one. Since there wasn't an existing add-on for that, I built one.

Repo + install instructions:

https://github.com/ashishdevasia/ha-proton-drive-backup

Feedback / bug reports are always welcome.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/xklib69 on 2026-07-01 22:42:19+00:00.

Hi everyone,

I built Notifier Hub, a custom Home Assistant integration that provides a central notification layer for automations.

Repo: https://github.com/rafaalbelda/notifier_hub

It exposes one main service, notifier_hub.send, and can route messages through:

• Home Assistant persistent notifications
• notify.* services
• Alexa Media Player TTS / announce / push
• Google / Cast TTS
• Phone calls through ha-sip
• Dashboard-triggered messages

It also includes:

• Presence-aware routing with person.*
• Speech only when someone is home
• Do not disturb mode
• Guest mode
• Priority messages
• Auto Volume by time period
• Optional Lovelace dashboard
• Compact Lovelace card examples

Example:

yaml action: notifier_hub.send data: title: "Door" message: "The front door has been opened" notify: true alexa: true

It can be installed through HACS as a custom repository: https://github.com/rafaalbelda/notifier_hub

Category: Integration

Feedback, testing, bug reports and ideas are welcome.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Fragrant-Coast5355 on 2026-07-01 16:45:56+00:00.

Full docs for Ambience. Github Repo: https://clintongormley.github.io/ambience/

It all started with me wanting automations to fade my lights on and off, but for the lights to react immediately when switched on at the wall. (Most Shelly relays that I have don't support the transition parameter in the light.turn_on action.)

That resulted in Fado Light Fader. (Read more here)

Then, I wanted to make my automations more sophisticated, taking into account conditions like the time of day, the weather, whether somebody was asleep in the bedroom next to the bathroom I'm entering, etc.

Things got complicated quickly...

Home Assistant scenes let you define the state that you want to achieve, but not how to achieve it (meaning I couldn't use Fado to fade my lights). They're also verbose and difficult to read. Automations are amazingly powerful, but they are similarly verbose, complicated, and can be difficult to debug, especially when they're big and complex.

Also, they're trigger based. "Turn on the lights when somebody walks into the room", but what happens if the weather changes while somebody is already in the room?

Ambience is different.

Think about the scenes you want to implement, and under what conditions each scene should match:

| Conditions | Device state | |

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| | Watch movie on projector | Lights fade off, except side-table lights at 10% | | The room is vacant for at least 1 minute. | Lights fade off | | The room is occupied during the day, when it is sunny | Lights fade to 60% | | The room is occupied during the day, when it is cloudy | Lights fade to 70% | | The room is occupied during the nighttime | Lights fade to 25% |

These scenes form a scene group, a collection of conditions and actions relating to devices in the same area (Lounge) and of the same category (Lights). The scenes are automatically sorted by priority and specificity (with manual overrides supported), and a list of relevant triggers are automatically extracted from the conditions. When any trigger fires, the conditions for each scene are evaluated scene by scene. The first scene that matches wins.

Two important points:

• There can only be one winner, so you never have the problem of automations fighting with each other.
• If the conditions for scene 1 fail to match, then you don't need to retest those same conditions for scene 2. So if "the room is vacant" is false in the first scene, then we can assume that the room is occupied for the other scenes.

This makes it possible to build sophisticated logic using quite small, understandable building blocks. Here's what the above scene group looks like:

Scenes to handle lighting in the lounge

And you can expand them to see all of the details, but still in a summarised form which makes them easy to read and to compare with each other.

Details of the "Watch projector" scene

Tracing

The details of the five most recent executions can be viewed to determine which scene won and why the other scenes failed to match.

Trace view explaining why a particular scene won

Simulator

You can even use the simulator to change the current conditions (e.g. time or weather) to see if your conditions are working as you expected.

Simulate conditions to understand how scenes win

Pause Button

And sometimes you just want to stop automations and take control of the room you're in. Ambience creates a switch for each room which can be added to dashboards or exposed to voice assistants, so "Hey Google, turn off Ambience" is enough to pause your automations until you turn them back on, or until a configurable timer elapses.

Pause button pressed on the Lounge scenes in Ambience

Ambience is a custom integration available via HACS. I'd love you to try it out and if you have any good ideas for ways to make it better, please open an issue on https://clintongormley.github.io/ambience/

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Schmootato on 2026-07-01 12:18:24+00:00.

About to move into a new home and am taking the opportunity to fully divest from the Google home based set up we’ve had and dive into HA.

Given I’m starting fully from scratch I’m curious what more experienced folks wish they did from day one.

I already have a synology NAS set up for media and I’m going back and forth between whether it’s better to piggyback on that or to get dedicated hardware. V much appreciate any thoughts from people who have been in the same situation.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/DazzlingStudy2669 on 2026-07-01 12:59:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/yannynuar on 2026-07-01 12:42:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/theCube__ on 2026-07-01 02:54:52+00:00.