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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/internettingaway on 2026-01-28 21:02:30+00:00.

https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/01/28/release-20262/

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Technical_Raisin_246 on 2026-01-28 19:18:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/CyberMage256 on 2026-01-28 16:30:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/StarfishPizza on 2026-01-28 09:43:12+00:00.

Don't be me.

I decided to update last night at midnight. When it finished updating, it asked me to setup my new smart home. I panicked as I thought I'd lost all my settings and I was rushing through as it was late, so I just created a new account and started adding all my stuff back..

Two hours later and after losing the settings twice more, I'd had enough for the night so I went to bed, pissed off at myself for creating problems..

I'm lying in bed and suddenly I have a brainwave that I just need to add the file path to the configuration back into the docker container and all will be well. Did that in two minutes this morning. Don't be me, and don't do shit when you're tired. Lesson learned 🙄

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Due_Capital_9249 on 2026-01-28 03:41:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/elephant_footsteps on 2026-01-28 01:00:54+00:00.

10 years into home automation and this weekend I discovered one of the greatest tricks to generate WAF for my hobby.

We were hanging out at our friends' house. They're a married couple and we all get along well. Husband is another HA user. My wife observed some of his better HA solutions and asked when we could have those in our house. I've been authorized to purchase several new sensors and controllers (well, I mean after some other honey-dos are done).

So there it is:

1. Make IRL friends with other HA users.
2. Let your spouse/partner witness their best automations in person.
3. Profit.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/iametron on 2026-01-27 22:19:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Forward-Arm3051 on 2026-01-27 22:12:28+00:00.

So i wanted to make a integration that had the option to view all entities by device and integration and to be able to enable or disable in bulk.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

https://github.com/TheIcelandicguy/entity-manager

Entity Manager for Home Assistant

A custom HACS integration that provides a comprehensive interface to manage disabled entities across all your integrations and devices.

Features

• Organized View: Browse disabled entities by integration → device → entity
• Search: Quickly find entities, devices, or integrations
• Bulk Actions: Enable/disable multiple entities at once
• Responsive UI: Clean, modern interface that matches Home Assistant’s design
• Smart Grouping: See exactly which devices have disabled entities
• Real-time Updates: Instant feedback when enabling/disabling entities

Compatibility & Permissions

• Home Assistant 2024.1.0 or newer
• Admin user is required (panel and WebSocket commands enforce admin)
• No additional Python dependencies

Why Use Entity Manager?

If you have integrations like Shelly devices that create many diagnostic entities (power, voltage, temperature, etc.), this tool makes it easy to:

• See all disabled entities in one place
• Enable diagnostic entities for specific devices
• Bulk enable/disable entities by device or integration
• Keep your entity list clean and organized

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/storm1er on 2026-01-27 11:19:30+00:00.

I search this for a long time, didn't find it. Rest and alike are a PITA for simple tests and automations with 'fire and forget' curl calls, so I created this.

simple example:

alias: test
description: ""
triggers: []
conditions: []
actions:
  - data:
      url: https://api.github.com/zen
    response_variable: api_response
    action: simple_curl.fetch
  - action: persistent_notification.create
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: "{{ api_response.content }}"
      title: Test using simple curl
mode: single

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/denzoka on 2026-01-26 14:15:08+00:00.

Hi everyone,

We have all been there. The dashboard feels sluggish, backups take forever, or a restart hangs for five minutes. You check the processor load, and it looks fine. So what is the problem?

Usually, it is "Maintenance Debt." It is that one sensor spamming your Recorder database until it hits 15GB. It is an integration throwing 50 errors a second into your log file. It is those 50 unavailable entities from devices you unplugged months ago.

I wanted a single "North Star" metric to tell me if my system is actually healthy or just pretending to be. So I built HAGHS (Home Assistant Global Health Score).

https://preview.redd.it/xh4mlwp8cpfg1.jpg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9252aaa935daeded89543979313011571886f608

It is a standardized Template Sensor (no custom integration required) that gives your instance a score from 0 to 100 based on two pillars:

1. Hardware (40%): CPU stress tiers, RAM usage (accounting for Supervisor overhead), and Disk pressure.
2. Application Hygiene (60%): This is the important part. It tracks zombie entities, failed integrations, pending updates, and core version lag.

What is new in v2.0.0?

I just released v2.0, and it is a massive shift from passive monitoring to active hygiene.

• Database Monitoring: HAGHS now natively monitors your home-assistant_v2.db size. If it grows over 1GB, you get a penalty. If it hits 2.5GB, you get a critical deduction. This immediately tells you if your Recorder settings need tuning.
• Log File Monitoring: It now watches your log file size. A huge log file usually means silent error loops that destroy SD cards and slow down I/O.
• Deep Label Support: No more complex regex configuration. If you have a tablet that sleeps or a battery device that goes unavailable, just tag the Device with a "haghs_ignore" label in the UI. HAGHS automatically whitelists all entities belonging to that device.
• Core Age Penalty: If your Core version lags behind by more than 2 months, the score drops significantly.

Why use this?

It gamifies system maintenance. My goal was to get a perfect 100, which forced me to finally clean up my Recorder excludes and fix those broken integrations I was ignoring. My system is noticeably snappier now.

How to get it

It is just a YAML package you drop into your templates.

You can find the code and the new v2.0 instructions here: https://github.com/D-N91/home-assistant-global-health-score

Let me know what your score is. If you get a 100 on the first try, I honestly do not believe you!

Cheers.

Roadmap / HACS Support I hear you — copying YAML code for every version update is very 2020. I am currently looking into packaging HAGHS for HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). The goal is to let you update to v2.1 or v3.0 with a single click in the future. I will keep this thread updated once that is ready!

AI Disclosure Just to be transparent: While the architectural concept and the logic behind HAGHS are entirely my own, I utilized AI to assist with optimizing the Jinja2 code structure and formatting the documentation. It served as a very capable technical assistant for this project.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Red_Leopard52 on 2026-01-26 18:02:36+00:00.

I have recently got myself a Home Assistant Green, and have set up the basics like motion sensor for lights, smart switches and whatnot. I'm now looking for ways to go from these simple items to something that really improves home life.

Interested to hear what people's most useful integrations have been for a little inspiration for my next steps in Home Assistant life!

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Substantial_Tale_405 on 2026-01-26 10:26:13+00:00.

Me: I want to build a highly available Home Assistant setup

Wife: Absolutely not.

Me: It increases reliability.

Wife: Does it increase happiness?

Me: I’ll add LEDs and mount it in a wall-mounted glass display case and make it beautiful! I promise

Wife: …go on.

Challenge accepted.

Result: A high-availability Home Assistant setup - engineered for uptime, designed for living spaces.

With so many automations keeping everything running, automatic failover became essential in case of a hardware failure.

• All mini PCs run Proxmox, providing a clean and reliable virtualization layer
• Home Assistant runs in a dedicated virtual machine
• Dual-network setup for performance and stability:
  • Gbit LAN for the host OS (Proxmox)
  • Gbit LAN for Ceph and shared storage
• Wall-mounted glass display case with ambient LEDs — designed to blend into the living space
• Connected to a UPS for protection during power outages
• For worst-case scenarios and maintenance work, an additional fourth node runs inside my NAS as an emergency fallback.

Is it overpowered? Absolutely. But it was a lot of fun to build - and it works flawlessly.

The tablet will feature a Home Assistant status monitor, providing instant access to all critical system information when needed.

Pictures:

https://ibb.co/35hqb3f2

https://ibb.co/V0rbDYwy

https://ibb.co/S7tnMT4V

https://ibb.co/svXm5hcX

https://ibb.co/QFThYz6R

Edit: Thank you very much for the overwhelmingly positive response. I honestly didn’t expect that. Thanks! I’ll try to answer all questions as best as I can. If something gets lost, feel free to send me a PM.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/HonkersTim on 2026-01-26 15:16:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/thuranga on 2026-01-26 09:49:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/swpete on 2026-01-25 23:31:02+00:00.

So I followed the various videos from u/markwatttech to take an Amazon Echo Show 5 (gen 1), wipe the device and install lineageOS and then add View Assist to use the local HA assist.

It was fairly simple to do and the nice thing is the View Assist comes with blueprints already to help with commands like "What is the weather" or "Play/start X playlist".

One of my biggest issues with the Home Assistant Voice Preview and local Assist in general is having to create/program scripts for simple things like the weather.

What all are you using for those sort of scripts/commands/blueprints for the local LLM and are there any blueprints out there already that I can use my other Home Assistant Voice Previews and just kind of plug and play and allow for a better weather response, music start response other than "unable to answer" or "it is 60 degrees outside" (more elaborate weather report is what I'm looking for)

And for those who haven't seen the video or heard of View Assist: https://youtu.be/jN0_geF1Ur8

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/JasASmiths on 2026-01-26 00:58:00+00:00.

For those that are using the Watchman integration, don’t update to v0.8.1 as it’s causing huge CPU usage making the system inaccessible.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/universalequation on 2026-01-25 15:53:28+00:00.